RobertBobert

All this is too far from the original concept. This was a story about a ghost tape killing people, not avant-garde science fiction about the end of the world.

I don’t think the subsequent films and books went too much into science fiction.

You're talking about a movie where they added a backstory with a sea demon to a techno-thriller. The original Ring was more or less the last conceptually consistent film in the franchise, which is a bit of a shame.

That's the charm of J-Horror. Visually, it's much simpler than Western horror films, but the way these films are conceptually brilliantly made makes you actually feel discomfort instead of just "oh, that was gross/violent."

So, American Ring is actually a remake of two Japanese films?

The tag list includes LGBTQ for some reason, but I haven't found any mention of it elsewhere.

But the whole production was Japanese-Korean?

I usually ignore all these similar disputes. Take the Hobbit trilogy. Years later, half of the main male cast came out as queer men, and only one of them you could consider fitting the stereotype of gay men. And even so, Lee turned out to be more straight than a number of other "manly" actors (judging by the interview, he is a typical bisexual who does not want to be pushed into the framework of straight or gay labels).

I liked them at the time when they were basically the KPOP version of X Japan. Especially the Dragon. But then I got more into Kara, Hyuna and a few other girl groups before hitting a phase where I barely listened to music at all. Yes, all three ended up getting into some scandals.

Maybe it's a cultural difference, but I think Asian media is still going through its 80s, if you know what I mean. It’s not that I particularly like Western media, but at least Rolling Stone or Variety won’t spin someone’s adultery or drugs as if the person killed someone. Remember how the Western media described how Timothée Chalamet cheated on his girlfriend. Although perhaps we have simply become more cynical.

I used to be pretty much into the KPOP scene, but eventually I realized that I quickly get tired of people who unironically think that by saying “good group” instead of “great and amazing” I’m insulting guys, or that a girl group’s medical themed music video is supposedly “demeaning.” female medical workers." Not to mention the stans who convinced me that I should protect my favorite idols in everything, even in the case of objective mistakes (I was a Big Bang fan, you get it), otherwise I would become a poser and betray them. Now I just listen to a few bands, but don't read much about them, since one of them has already broken up due to a scandal.

I'd be glad to help if so. I had no doubt about the technical advancement of South Korean life, but I also liked that the cinematography and direction were almost at the Hollywood level, not to mention the special effects. Great advertising for South Korean media.

You reminded me of a popular meme about the inflated ratings of yuri on manga resources, when even a new manga with untranslated chapters that no one had read received a number of maximum ratings in advance. Honestly, I never understood why people who take numbers so seriously agree so easily to such dirty methods. For example, I remember how people who previously used bots while watching online concerts of one boy group (I won’t name it so as not to cause controversy) subsequently boasted about these numbers as OBJECTIVE proof of their popularity.

Daetgeulbudae - A journalist is restoring his good name by communicating with former trolls who slandered him.
Simin Deokhui - A ruined woman gathers her allies to fight phone scammers.
Drive - Criminal kidnaps internet celebrity to blackmail her
Taget - a maniac is engaged in online bullying of a girl who exposed his fraud on the local Amazon.

I'm not here to argue about drugs per se, especially when it comes to practices in different countries. But I really don’t like it when a society in a fairly developed first world country allows itself such moral panic and witch hunts.

Especially when a person’s innocence has been proven even in the simplest matters, but the crowd continues to hunt him down like an animal, just having tasted blood. Let me guess, this is one of the biggest reasons why there have been so many dramas and films about the toxic environment in South Korean media and internet lately? Just in the last couple of years I have seen films about troll farms, scammers at online flea markets, telephone scams, etc.

Can anyone tell me why some resources list Japanese and Korean web series like this as American? Because of this, I didn't even try to look for Tokyo Vice and Pachinko here.

I am afraid that it is better to shorten the description of suicide, as this may be perceived as expanding information about methods of suicide.

But to return to the subject, although I accept the idea of ​​reputation, I absolutely refuse to accept the attempts of the mob to assume the right to persecute and condemn. As has already been proven with Western cancel culture, many cases of this have nothing to do with justice, but are in fact a mixture of lynching and unhealthy delusions of grandeur, formed on the illusion of control over famous people's lives and behavior. It is enough to remember how people deliberately provoked celebrities on social networks or dug into their posts many years ago in order to deliberately find at least something to justify the bullying.

To be honest, I had not heard anything about this case before your post. I thought he was committing some terrible violent crime or publicly expressing very hot and controversial ideas, but it turns out that someone was just orchestrating a public hounding of him over his (alleged) drug use.

I condemn drug use myself, but the idea that you would drive someone to suicide because of their alleged drug use seems crazy to me. Especially in such a public format. Especially if, as the article in the English Wikipedia implies, he was actually framed for the sake of blackmail and the police had no evidence other than a denunciation. Asia does seem to be experiencing a moral panic over drugs in recent years. For example, I remember one manga that actually openly declared SUGGESTING to take drugs as a much worse crime than rape or sexual abuse, which in turn the author portrayed as simply "risky behavior."

And none of the celebrities and influencers criticize this publicly?

Giving a show a low rating because of bias towards an actor's actions in their personal life is one of the strangest things I've ever heard.

Considering the tragedies of many very successful wrestlers, I don't think wrestling is an industry where you can complain about the favorable conditions for men.

In my country it was shown in cinemas. But if you need legal streaming, then Google says that it seems to be distributed by prime video. https://www.primevideo.com/servicerestricted#:~:text=Prime%20Video%3A%20Nicky%20Larson%3A%20Le%20Parfum%20De%20Cupidon

So it's sort of like the more "daring" doramas on pay TV, which are at least expectedly less restrictive of the creative vision of the showrunners?