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Aghassi, left you a comment on feeds, but I guess you haven't seen it. Wæ only a 5 for Battle Royale? Can you explain? I have the movie on my list & I'm looking forward to watching it. Everyone's said it's pretty good ... well, except you, dongsæng. What gives? Did all the blood make you queasy? :D

Bimba, I just read your review of Can You Hear My Heart & I totally agree with it! I would have clicked 'helpful' if you had seen the entire show (it's just a policy I have not to vote 'helpful' on reviews that are not based on full dramas). Anyway, everything you said is true. I don't understand all these 10s. I can barely stand the characters. Like you the only ones I really like are the chæbol mother & the grandmother. Everyone else just gets on my nerves. I hate the female lead. I usually love bromance, but I hate the bromance here. I'm really trying to like this drama, but 20 eps in I feel like I want to drop the damn thing.

Edinaa, my weekend wasn't bad. It was pretty much like every other weekend. I spent my time watching drama ... to the neglect of my ahjussi, housework, normal work, friends, shopping etc. That's the life of an addict, I guess.

Sorry to hear Golden Empire was a disappointment. I can't remember if I asked you this question before, but I wonder what exactly about it didn't work for you?

I watched the first ep yesterday. It's too soon to form an opinion. I'm going to finish up Can You Hear My Heart and get back to it. It's proven to be a bit of a challenge watching more than one drama at a time. I don't have the discipline or the attention span.

CYHMH is not exactly what I expected it to be. I feel like I want to drop it, but it's likely I'll watch it to the end.

We agree on Joo Won.
The potential is there, but there's no doubt he's overrated.

Did you decide on what to watch next?
I saw the first ep of Golden Empire yesterday. Too early to form any opinions, but Go Soo ... wow! I found his character to be intense and riveting. Aside from the fact that he's gorgeous, he's a total scene stealer. I couldn't take my eyes off of him.

Otherwise, I'm labouring through Can You Hear My Heart. If I'm honest, I feel like I want to drop this drama. But I won't, I can't drop anything once I start it. The characters are really annoying me, esp the female lead. I hate these kind of innocent, wide-eyed country bumpkin type of female lead who is scandalized by a mere hug ... ugh!
I'll try to quickly finish it up & concentrate on GE. Hopefully, that will be a better drama experience.

Why Sæ went a bit crazy at the end? Because the writer is on crack. She always messes up the endings in her dramas. The female lead in Aishiteru also went off her head at the last minute & so did the heroine in Tatta Hitotsu no Koi. Sigh ...

As for other sexy movies you can watch ... well, how about finishing up Sweet Room? That's pretty sexy. Then follow that up with Five Senses of Eros.

Then there are these movies.

Sexy:
For laughs & sizzle, Petty Romance & My P.S. Partner.
Must watch romantic dramas, Always, Season of Good Rain & Happily Ever After. Ok, Happily Ever After being Japanese isn't THAT sexy, but it's good, trust me. The romance isn't a little offbeat, but will warm your heart & the ending is puuuuurfect! :)

Really sexy:
Sweet Sex & Love, Changing Partners, Never Forever
I thought all of them were pretty good.

Try those first & then come back for more! :-)
Now that you're a fan of Narimiya if you watch something good with him let me know! :p

From your list:

Petty romance (very funny!)
Chilling Romance (cute)
Always (sweet & romantic)

I also recommend:
In Another Country (black comedy about cultural miscommunication)
My P.S Partner
How To Use Men with Secret Tips

Hello 4winkay, I don't think we've chatted in a very long time, maybe not even since we became friends. How are things? Watching anything interesting at the moment? I see you've added Golden Empire. I intend to watch this as well, and have seen the first ep. Should be interesting to see if it's as good to me as it has been for everyone else.

I realized now that I forgot to answer your question about Golden Empire. My plan was to have a go at this this weekend, but too many distractions led to me watching only the first episode. It's really too early to say how I feel about it. Only thing I can say for sure is that Go Soo is gorgeous! His character gives off a really intense & riveting vibe. I think I'm going to like him in this role a great deal. So fingers crossed heading into the next episodes, but I'm watching Can You Hear My Heart simultaneously and I find juggling 2 shows at once to be a bit difficult. I don't know how you guys do it! :-)

So you watched Last Love several times just to ogle Shohei did you! Haha ... welcome to the club! :-)

I see on feeds that you gave Orange Days a perfect 10. See, I told you you'd love it! The show is a classic! ;)

As for other Sweet Room like hotness. Well, I have plenty of sexy movie recs if that's what you're looking for. If you're looking for sexy movie recs featuring Shohei (shoot I've totally forgotten the actor's name!) I'm afraid I can't help you. I believe I checked after becoming enamoured with him in OD, but didn't find a lot in his filmography that appealed unfortunately. You have to be prepared that this can happen quite often. That you find a actor you love & the roles on his list are unwatchable! :(

So you're in a slump, huh. Not good.
What genres, if any, do you normally enjoy?

Ha Ji Won, Kim Ha-neul & a few others are actresses who simply rub me the wrong way every time I see them on screen. They get the voice right, more or less, but on every other point below I give them a fail rate. I'll never understand why they're so popular. On the other hand there are actresses (like Kim Nam Joo for eg) who I like everything about how they act, but the characters they tend to play are very annoying. I really hated her character in Unexpected You.

As for Kim Nam Gil, I never said I disliked him. I said he's one of those actors that I DO like, but the roles he chooses to play ... ugh. Either he plays these tragic characters who always die in the end or he's exploring his sexuality in LBGT themed films that are not my cup of tea. Just about the only role I really liked him in was as Tæ-san in Lovers.

When it comes to how I choose shows I have a different approach. It's a given that if I like an actor I'll stalk his list, but I won't watch anything that doesn't sound good to me just because he or she is in it. Well, it can happen, but rarely. On the other hand I'll watch any drama or movie that catches my interest with its synopsis or trailer or whatever. It doesn't matter which genre it's in or if I know the cast or not. If I like how it sounds I'll watch it.

I'm not much of manga/anime fan so I think I'll pass on Skip Beat all together. It sounds like a cute story, but if the couple takes more than half the show to get together I'm jumping ship. Not for me.

A few months ago I seriously considered watching Queen of the Game for the sake of Jung Min Joo (think that's his name). I've seen a few of his movies & I like him, he's really handsome so I thought I need to watch more of his dramas. But a friend of mine talked me out of it ... for more or less the same reason you mentioned, plus the fact that it's quite melo according to her.

Usually when I dislike an actor/actress it's more because of how they go about the process of acting. Everything from facial expressions (very important) & mannerisms to tone of voice & how they play off their co-stars.

Tone of voice & facial expressions are very important to me. I find that many Asian actors, esp young female ones, have a tendency to exaggerate emotions. They also don't know how to control their voices. Many of them are too high-pitched & squeaky and it gets on my last nerve. You really have to wonder what sort of acting training they got. The voice is one of the actors most important tools; if you turn your audience off with annoying intonation, it's kind of shooting yourself in the foot. That said, this is only half an actor's fault as they work under directors whose job is to coach the actor away from overacting.

Pleased to see there's some diversity in the cast!

I thought about it some more & I actually didn't watch it on either of those sites. I downloaded it. I can't remember where from, but if you have an asiatorrent account I'm sure you can find it there.

Oh dear, I can't remember. It was either on YouTube or dramacrazy before it closed down. Sorry I can't be of more help.

By the way, thx for the rec of New World. Got it on the list! :-)

As for dramas I'm watching: Can You Hear My Heart & Golden Empire. Have you seen these? If so, what did you think?

Awesome, let me know what you think of it then. :)
I'm watching a drama right now, but feel the mood for a movie coming on. Any good recs?

Thx for the request!
What are you watching right now?
I see you've added Sweet Sex & Love. A good movie about relationships. I hope you're old enough to watch it though! :-)

That's good to hear!
But you're on ep 4 already?! It's either that good or you're speed watching. I started ep 1 & Go Soo is just a vision! Wow! Can't wait to see where this goes, but of course I'm watching CYHMH as well.

Can't remember.

Thx for the rec. Alone in Love is on my list & I do plan to get to it soon.

A little disappointed with CYHMH, yes, but maybe it will improve later. I'm about to start Golden Empire alongside it.