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Fun with Filters until it ain't...
This drama was more fun than I thought it would be. As it took the face/bodyswap trope and did it really well. For once without making me feel any secound hand embarrassment instead it had me laughing so hard I almost peed a little... As the silly was not so silley and the lead actresses (both) in this drama where really really good at all but making us believe the female lead was ugly? seriously? in what world could Landy Li be considered anything but gorgeous? Her beauty is however topped by her character in this is so very fun to watch, charming, lovable, super hero a little Do Bong Soon type of strong girl meets supernatural kindness.Her best friend is just as sweet and fun, their friendship was way more interesting than their interactions with the men in this drama.
While there is a slightly episodic element to this drama (another thing I rather avoid), the episodic elements did not distract me to much from the main story to make me loose interest. Mostly thanks to the girls acting, dynamics and ways of clearly lying to others face done well. They actually do this without becoming pathetic... or annoying.
HOWEVER!
This drama has waaaay to many episodes for the story they are trying to tell, our male lead is sweet sometimes but honestly dude can not take no for an answer and is just a little bit to obsessed to be able to fully capture my heart or make me want to ship him with the female lead or any character at all.
As with may other c-drams this too gets to be a bit to preachy and where we could have had a story about being happily single they had to go with the good old cliches... Taking this truly amazing character and dragging her to the manipulative arms of a second couple male lead.... Predictable, depressing and so not very progressive at all...
That said the laughs I had, the dynamics between the family, the girls and filters make me up the score to an 8 as it is indeed a filters done wall and a blast to watch at times. Just mind the never ending episode count and moral showers during those last episodes. Heck just stop watching once the female leads bracelet is exposed. There really is not much worth watching left to see past that point.
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Friendship
This is a story about love, life and friendship that goes beyond pretty much all... Way stronger than any romance.The leads have great chemistry and dynamics there is this slightly crazy playfulness around them there to lighten up some pretty serious issues. While some of the narrative is a bit cringy for my taste I really loved watching the interact in this movie. Both leads have great presence throughout the movie and while one exhibits this crazy broken charm the other has a more calm, muscular embrace type of charm the type ot offer stability in ones chaotic world.. The type of dynamics where they complete each other. Both with beautiful smiles, gazes and I guess a sense of awareness. An environment where it is okay to make mistakes, okay to be one self and where it is okay to show intimacy without any awkwardness, fear or misunderstanding.
A decent story brought to life by two talented actors (and a bunch of other people)
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Chaos Love
Time can be confusing, good, evil can also be confusing and well this drama takes all of these slightly confusing stuff and mix them together in a combination of 5 dramas in one.While I admit some parts of the story here more interesting then others and they should probably have gone for 25 episodes instead of 40 there is just something about this female lead that makes me want to up the score. She is 80% playful and fun and 20% a bit to naive self sacrificing.
Our male lead also has several interesting personalities, is fun to watch most of the time too.
The rest of the. cast do their job pretty well adding to the chaos and burring the lines between the good, the bad, the demons and the divine.
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An interesting approach to death
I think I am a little bit to atheist for this movie... I also grew up in religious settings making this slightly trigger my "oh god no" reflex so I feel like I should start this review with some kind of disclaimer, apology...Basically this is a movie that takes on the idea of gods plan with a slightly new approach while staying true to the self sacrifice... The pain and suffering you feel now are all part of gods plan that will lead others to greatness...
What I liked about this was the female leads acting as well as how they show how not all mens fragile egos can affect them negatively as well as lead them to making bad, really, really bad choices where they at the end of the day really can not blame anyone but themselves.
I also liked the guy playing lodz, such a sweety who did a really great job portraying what one could perceive as the so called lord but also some type of psychopath. Basically teaching us that we should all die so that others can shine.
So cheers to death
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Is it Love? or is it just an addiction?
So this is a story about the extremely impulsive chef, who pretty much forgets all decency to cling on to the object of his obsession and the person, who forgot about herself and became that object... until she finally realised being that object is not really good for her.However as addcitions go, once tempted it is a little bit to easy to relapse...
Either that or it is a story about true love, second chances, holding on no matter what.... Love will find a way... What once was broken can be fixed.
Or maybe it is both?
A thing this movie does pretty well is show that love is not always enough, and that there is indeed a love that brings both down when it should be making you stronger and better.
I am not relally sure if they ever get to showing love at all or if we just get to witness a bunch of people with obsession... But somehow these people seem to call it love.
That said, it kept my attention, leads and friends in this are mostly charming, the kisses are decent and the food and scenery is lovely.
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Dr, just take his soul already...
this is one of those dramas that had me roling my eyes over and over again...The Dr. male lead is a childish little kod (both young and not as young), lacks all sense of responsibility, is impulsive, has awful mimics and needs a lesson or ten in acting. The most impressive part about his guy was his healing ability as there was not a single sign of previous illness or operation. His skin was as smooth as it gets.
The Grim Reaper on the other hand had a scar, no where one would would predict, but stil I did spot one. This guy can act, has geeat mimics. IS such a sweaty and probably one of the reason s I did not drop it. The two do share some pretty decent phisical moments and more of a eat the fish than dead fish type of kisses.
The Dr.female best friend, the other grim reaper and the nurse where also top characters, fun to watch, sweet, human (ok not all human) loving, fun.
The rest of the cast was ok I guess.
The plot was under developed, full of holes and while I did appreciate the idea of a person who has a recycled organ portrayed as a person I just couldn't care less about the plot whatever that plot was other then the ocational roll of eyes it just dod not get to me at all.
Nothing I recommend, but if you do watch it you could just skip most of the scenes with the dr. male lead and go for the rest.
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Li Hun Hou Jia Gei Qian Fu Ta Shang Si
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Trash
Reading the description of this series you know this is going to be bad.And indeed this series delivers as it is so bad, it is entertaining, but oh so bad. the dialog is awful, the lighting hideous, the sound and subs where also terrible.
The leads where actually not so bad... And the kid was actually both cute and a better actor than most of the adults.
But oh the lighting, the running in the dark, watersplash, watching this you find yourself wondering how bad it will get, can it get any worse?
And well the answer is yes it can.
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Preachy Paths and Ideals
This is a story about an overly protective and competative dude with some kind of big brother complex who keeps on protecting people who do not want to be protected leaving them with deep grounded inferiority complexes....In a display of choices... teaching us to avoid shortcuts as justice and the clear conscious will lead to glory not only for one self but for the motherland... Praise camaraderie. When one door closes another will open so there are plenty of ways to serve your country by being an antrepanewer... also power corrupts so stay away from power... At times making me fear that if I keep watching I may loose all affections towards Xiao Zhan.
It starts off kind of cute, a bit to many fights and oops I stabbed a guy scenes here and there... but by the middle I honestly started to get annoyed by every single character in the drama. Then the drama took a turn and got slighlty more interesting yet still kept me wondering why they keep trusting people as well as seem to ignore the wife beater in front of them...
But I made it till the end and got to see 3 seconds of a sweet moment between the leads.... Some more protect our country and mistakes made, forgivenes given... mistakes made again.
That said there are some moments that are enjoyable and the idea of found family and surviving hardships is kind of sweet so I settled for a kind 6,5.
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Choices
This is essentially a story about choices and consciousness.A slightly different less dramatic more realistic portrayal of the path towards fatherhood, where does the sea begin, when does fatherhood begin and what is the right thing to do?
A display of choices, some tougher than others, as life is indeed complicated. Self sacrifice vs. compromise and at the end of the day what is truly best for the child?
While the drama does have some moments that have me questioning the agenda of the drama, some moments pf cringe,, as well as some small issues here and there, the over all feel to this drama is that it is a good story and pretty much as far from mainstream storytelling as it gets. A story that considers several voices, angels and truly digs deep in to the concept of parenthood and the right to choose. Well portrayed, well casted the type of story that will have you feel stuff, click on that next episode button and wish them all the best.
Making me accept the parts that had me wondering as a portrayal of life..
There are few drmas with as many self aware, lovely characters in this are lovely, especially the fathers (even the so called bad fathers) and the kid.
A drama that is defiantly worth more attention, and worthy of any slice of life drama lovers time.
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This was fine
This is one of those stories that I feel like I have seen before but done better. Bubbly crowd pleaser meets mr ambitious... while I really did enjoy both bubbly and ambishus as well as some of the side characters I could ot really connect with this making me feel ok this was fine.Fine is good enough, fine is not bad, fine is still highly bingable but it is also something that just did not captivate me enough to keep my attention, making me check stuff on my phone followed by rewinding a bit just to think oh, I didn't miss anything spectacular, actually I did see this just thought it mite have been more... oh well back to watching. I am sure i am still missing something that would make this stand out, but I just didn't find it.
That said I am old, I have a cold so I am probably not the target audience anyway...
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Sweet n slightly emotional
This drama has a bunch of things I have seen before, maybe not this exact combination, and maybe not the usual clicehs of rich spoiled brat meets poor hotel receptionist in a foreign country. However I would be lying if I said I was surprised by any of the twist the lied a head.That said the chemistry was good, the acting fine the side character few but lovely and the scenery was pretty all in all giving me give or take 110 minutes of entertainment and emotions.
Defiantly time well spent, in my case int the passenger seat of a car, but I am sure it would be just as well spent time on the couch or in bed.
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Hard to write about
This is a movie that is hard to rate and hard to review, leaving me without words for the first time since I started writing reviews.One could think that that should stop me from writing a review, and it almost did but that alone makes it worthy of a review.
So what can I say, the movie has a pretty decent approach to puppy love at the twilight moments of teens lives. Combining art, youth, and lots and lots of Garberas colorful moments in the hospital gray... Showing people with terminal illnesses with drams, wishes and I guess more than just people waiting for a cure... With lots of moments of color and fun.
As well as shows the value of normalsy... So I guess I did manage to find some words in the end.
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Cute
This is one of those dramas that you start watching and before you know it you are smiling from ear to ear.... Something happens and boom you have binged it and it is already over.The main couple is awkwerdly cute, the supporting characters are so adorable you may find yourself wanting to open a home for abandoned kids or i case you had horrible parants wish you would have gotten to grow up there...
There is some drama and moments of come on, but over all this is an easy watch that will make you feel all warm inside.
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BStay by the kids side... as he is not really capable of taking care of himself.
This is the story of the little boy that was timid, scared, childish and all things annoying who got entangled with mr ice face, smart, fun, caring, hard working and interesting and somehow got the dude to fall in live...Is the damzal in distrss syndrom, was the cold guy just looking for any kind of affection or was it it really true love=
I honestly do not know, but there is not one single scenen in this that explains whay mr cold male lead melts...
That said the peole around them are fun, the kisses are more the type I will devouer you than dead fish and there is both lack of chapstick and scenes where it looks like the leads visited a lip gloss factory...
An okay watch for the other characters just mind the annoying main lead.
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Here we meet a bunch of immature possessive men and satellites
This is another one of those dramas with great potential brought down by praise China and low expectations, or is it something else for men... To the men out there reading this, I believe you can control you impulses, fists and lips! You can do it! Yes you can!Seriously if I where a man I would be offended by how they portrya even the so called good guys/ male lead as immature, impulsive extremely insecure and immature along side being another male god. To be clear the actor did an amazing job with what he got and there are moments of fluff, fireworks and what not. Toxic, and I counted at least 3 times the guy pretty much forced aggressive (some would say passionate) kisses as a show of possessiveness/act of jealousy on our female lead..
which brings us to our female lead on the other hand is really cool, kind, smart awesome, and while she does actually seem to react to the male leads behaviour she also shows us how easy it is to get trapped by this. So had this been a thriller type drama with say 15 episodes this would have mede an easy 10.
Unfortunately it is supposed to be a romance, and while I did enjoy some moments between our couples, as well as the occasional flirting and buttoned down shirt.The never endin praise china, aggressiveness, lack of communication and endless self sacrifice ruined the romance and had me spinning pokestops to stay awake.
That said characters are fun, friendships sweet and the actors are good at their job, all keeping this from getting a lower score and helping me stick with it till the end.
P:S the professor was the only character on this show that I fully juist found annoying and did not ad a single thing to the plot.
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