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This is obviously the inspiration for the series My Secret Hotel. Jin Yi Han was also starred in that. Strange, I totally cannot remember how that thing ended. She didn't end up with Namgoong Min so she and her ex must have gotten back together? I'll have to go look that up now! Anyway, this was good. Some may not like the messy relationships going on here, but I appreciated the reality of it. Feelings do linger. It's too bad they gave into them if he was going to stay with his (very irritating and immature) child bride. I see a bad ending to that marriage!!! It's very obvious the 2 of them messed up their marriage and there was enough fault to go around for sure. Lack of communication, immaturity, insecurity...3 huge destructive emotions that can and did destroy a marriage.
An absolutely, sweet, funny, sad little drama. I always appreciate seeing Lee Joon perform and he is certainly different in this performance. Nice pilot for a series.
Good. The script was a bit too melo and she isn't a favorite of mine. But Bae Soo Bin can do no wrong in my eyes. That guy can wring water from a desert.
But I said before you could probably go on indefinitely. I know there are others, but my old head won't dredge them out right now. The pool is deep with these tiny thespians and their abilities amaze.
Watched this on Viki but it's also on Gooddrama. Wow! Loved it....have to say that first of all.
However, this show was definitely not without its problems. HUGE lapses of logic, direction or editing problems that created a choppy and sometimes WTH? continuity in the show, some cheesy horror cliche's that would have been better off left behind and an ending that was predictable, so not shocking, but so rushed and incoherent it was actually kinda embarrassingly bad.
Even so, I am toying with giving it one of my precious 9's because I enjoyed the heck out of it!! But will probably settle for an 8 or 8.5. The writer on this was also the script writer for Goong/Princess Hours and Marry Me, Mary. The directors have done several shows I loved or at least liked....My Princess, I Do I Do, Couple or Trouble, Can You Hear My Heart, Arang and the Magistrate, Hwajung (and When a Man Loves...so there is that!) :(
Bad stuff aside I found the show very addictive. This may have a lot to do with my Lee
Seo Jin obsession, but honestly I found all the psycho babble in this highly entertaining. Took me back to my college days. Because this thing is LOADED with psycho babble, religious babble, anti death penalty babble and all the kdrama cliche loaded anti revenge babble we have all grown to know and love/hate. Now that may sound like I'm putting it down, but honestly, I loved it. I thought they mingled all of that into the story very well. The major problem is that this thing should have been longer from the start. It was painfully obvious they chopped out entire sections of the story onto the cutting room floor to fit it into its allotted time. You could catch up, but you spent a lot of your time doing that. (I'm back again saying bad things!!! ) The acting was great for me. Everyone fit their parts and did well. LSJ excelled and was the emotional and passionate center to the show. The cliche horror type possession scenes and bugging eyes for first timer Lim Ju-Eun were above her level and I kinda cringed, but she did really well with the rest of the show. There was palpable chemistry between her and LSJ....but the guy could have chemistry with a May Pole! I'm glad I gave it a chance and for 10 episodes it was FAST to watch. And another old one off my list! An 8 for now...I may up it a bit later??
Watched on Dramanice. Not at all what I expected based on the publicity. Based on the publicity I thought it would be something much darker in tone. The entire movie plays very 'tongue in cheek'. No need to get stressed by it. Sit back and enjoy since it never loses it's slightly comedic overtones. The fight/car chase/ action scenes are superb! I wonder if anyone was seriously hurt in this? I was actually prepared for YAI's character to be much darker than this. He was bad enough to be sure, but nothing more than the best of the bad guys I've seen in dozens of movies in this genre. Not to take anything away from it, but it wasn't nearly as dark and sinister as the press had led me to believe. 8/10 for me. An enjoyable watch for sure, but nothing all that new as far as the script was concerned. My props to the stunt men, action coordinators, and set people. SUPERB job, especially in that final action packed melee!! The movie was worth every minute for that and all the other great action scenes.
The YT video gives a great partial explanation of this movie (see comments below my comment), but the comments on that YT video add much more info and much more confusion.
First, for me this is a straight out Horror genre movie, my least favorite genre. However, I'm a big Walking Dead fan so there's that!!! So my first instinct in a movie like this is to dislike it just because I find this kind of thing too ott. But Walking Dead opened my eyes to well done horror and this movie is certainly more than just a low budget horror flick! :) It is extremely well done. There isn't a part of it that doesn't excel...production, script, acting, directing. All of it just amazingly well done. That doesn't eliminate my distaste for horror as a genre, but this movie certainly elevates the genre into an entirely different level. The complexity of the story was engrossing, the acting pulled me in and gripped my attention and emotions, the production and set designs immersed me into a world I was unfamiliar with, made me afraid, and left me fascinated and curious.
I think a lot of my confusion about the story in this comes from my ignorance of cultural and religious customs and stories. Many of the things going on in this movie are probably familiar to people who grew up with knowledge of such things as shamans and their rituals and with superstitions that are commonplace to their culture, but unknown to outsiders like me. So people like me lose a lot while watching the movie as a result. A bird in the soy sauce? It means it's contaminated and spoiled so throw it out. But it's obvious there was a deeper significance to these people. There were tons of things going on that I missed out on (see the comments on that YT video for examples).
I'd say I would 'like' to watch it again to try to decipher more info, see all that I missed out on. I wish I had done my usual research first before watching this movie so I could have looked for all the hints I missed out on. But, I won't watch it again because the basic facts remain that with horror genre I am not happy when I'm done watching it. It is TOO dark and TOO fatalistic. Still I am tempted to give this one of my precious 9's. But I will settle for an 8 or 8.5 and maybe change it later.
I can't still figure out what the hell it happend.
Thanks for this link. The comments are even more revealing and create even more confusion/questions about this movie. Both the video and the comments are very enlightening though.
I absolutely agree with you on Kim Sae Ron. They are moving her ( or she is moving) far too quickly into an adult. It is disturbing and was sort of the icing on the cake for me dropping Mirror. I couldn't attach to that show anyway, so it's not all my discomfort with the concept of her as a partner for YSY...no matter how young he looks or acts. She is a marvelous talent. I hope they don't burn her out.
Another great selection of young actors..though I have no idea how you are going to stop, there are so many! I am so impressed with Na Da Reum. He blew me away in Dragons, I cannot forget him even with all the other superb performances in that drama. He definitely not only held his own, but stood out. And you have to see him in Memory. He gave an Outstanding performance there also. He has a depth of emotion in those eyes of his! And I definitely remember Cha Sang Woo in Tree also. I've seen him in other shows, but he didn't leave a memory for me like he did in that one. I also remember Kim Hyang Gi's remarkable performance in Hearty Paws. She was barely 6 years old and stole every scene she was in! HOW do you get a 5 or 6 year old to express those emotions like she did? I was in awe.
Still trying to work up my courage to watch The Crucible. Not sure I will be able to face it.
I have 32 Specials (including Drama Festivals) under my belt and feel like I have only touched the tip of the iceberg. So many 8, 8.5, 9, and 9.5's in there! White Christmas come up as a drama in MDL. It is my only 10 (you know how stingy I am with my 10's). Sirius is also listed as a drama and is also one of my favorites. I wish MDL would fix that so I feel better about myself where my Specials total is concerned!!! ;) Wiki has a page with all the Drama Specials listed. It made me very depressed. :( I hope there is internet in heaven. Or wherever I end up, because no way do I have time to see all the stuff I need to see before I die. :( I wish Korean tv would embrace the idea of a few re-runs each season and cut back on the new stuff so I could make some attempts at getting caught up!!!
9.5 = Pitch Black Darkness, When I was the Prettiest.
9 = Happy Rose Day, The Reason I'm Getting Married, Land of Rain, Me and Mom and Dad and Grandma and Anna, Haneuljae's Murder
And has anyone mentioned Splash Splash Love???
Oh yes...I see they have!! ;) sorry, couldn't resist. When you need to feel happy, watch it. In other words, watch it daily.
Brutal, Bloody, Brilliant. It is unremittingly agonizing to watch. I don't do well with stories about child abuse and this movie touches on some very graphic violence to children. The acting by the 2 leads was, as everyone is saying, the best part of it. They both were amazing. And Bo Gum's smaller, but emotionally pivotal part, was pure Bo Gum. He nails every character he plays. 9 for great performances.
In 'some' ways, this wasn't AS difficult to watch as I dreaded. I've seen some pretty horrific stuff and, on the Kmovie scale of horrific this is only about a 7.5 for most of the movie. It deals with an unremittingly dark and twisted segment of society and it is demoralizing as all hell to know that people like this actually exist in our world. When you see things like this, you start to think really dark thoughts about how much you wish you could have the power of striking evil people dead.
very excited for this reunion. NO chemistry at all with him and Ha Na in Unkind Women...very uncomfortable watching them. She was terrific in High School King, but SIG can have chemistry with a light pole!!!! ;) But what a dud she was in Women. I adored KSE with him in WGM...so depressed when their time ended and so wished for them to continue and so disappointed when (yet again) my imagination got away from me! :) Crossing fingers they can play those parts again...a lot of us will be very happy.
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So agree. Seriously over rated drama. Stupid ending, but the irritants throughout the second half of the drama were overwhelming. I just loved it starting out, but it completely fell apart as the episodes went on...and that ending!
Good movie. Loved the filming technique. In the hands of a less skilled director and editor this could have been a confusing mess, but I never felt confused. Very well written and directed. Very entertaining also. The movie flew by...always a good sign!
Watched on Amazon, free with Prime. I found it lackluster. Character development was minimal to criminal. Having great leads like Cha and Han in this did it no favor, not that they weren't great as always, I just really didn't get attached to either of them because I never felt any connection! Maybe it was my mood. The story was good, if not new, but how it was put together was so hodge podge feeling. Here's a scene, there's a scene, no background except for a few sentences of explanation. I don't know. This is the genre I am usually loving...NOT loving this at all.
adorable lovely funny romance.
As did this one in Two Weeks. http://mydramalist.com/people/5393-lee-chae-mi
But I said before you could probably go on indefinitely. I know there are others, but my old head won't dredge them out right now. The pool is deep with these tiny thespians and their abilities amaze.
However, this show was definitely not without its problems. HUGE lapses of logic, direction or editing problems that created a choppy and sometimes WTH? continuity in the show, some cheesy horror cliche's that would have been better off left behind and an ending that was predictable, so not shocking, but so rushed and incoherent it was actually kinda embarrassingly bad.
Even so, I am toying with giving it one of my precious 9's because I enjoyed the heck out of it!! But will probably settle for an 8 or 8.5. The writer on this was also the script writer for Goong/Princess Hours and Marry Me, Mary. The directors have done several shows I loved or at least liked....My Princess, I Do I Do, Couple or Trouble, Can You Hear My Heart, Arang and the Magistrate, Hwajung (and When a Man Loves...so there is that!) :(
Bad stuff aside I found the show very addictive. This may have a lot to do with my Lee
Seo Jin obsession, but honestly I found all the psycho babble in this highly entertaining. Took me back to my college days. Because this thing is LOADED with psycho babble, religious babble, anti death penalty babble and all the kdrama cliche loaded anti revenge babble we have all grown to know and love/hate. Now that may sound like I'm putting it down, but honestly, I loved it. I thought they mingled all of that into the story very well. The major problem is that this thing should have been longer from the start. It was painfully obvious they chopped out entire sections of the story onto the cutting room floor to fit it into its allotted time. You could catch up, but you spent a lot of your time doing that. (I'm back again saying bad things!!! ) The acting was great for me. Everyone fit their parts and did well. LSJ excelled and was the emotional and passionate center to the show. The cliche horror type possession scenes and bugging eyes for first timer Lim Ju-Eun were above her level and I kinda cringed, but she did really well with the rest of the show. There was palpable chemistry between her and LSJ....but the guy could have chemistry with a May Pole! I'm glad I gave it a chance and for 10 episodes it was FAST to watch. And another old one off my list! An 8 for now...I may up it a bit later??
First, for me this is a straight out Horror genre movie, my least favorite genre. However, I'm a big Walking Dead fan so there's that!!! So my first instinct in a movie like this is to dislike it just because I find this kind of thing too ott. But Walking Dead opened my eyes to well done horror and this movie is certainly more than just a low budget horror flick! :) It is extremely well done. There isn't a part of it that doesn't excel...production, script, acting, directing. All of it just amazingly well done. That doesn't eliminate my distaste for horror as a genre, but this movie certainly elevates the genre into an entirely different level. The complexity of the story was engrossing, the acting pulled me in and gripped my attention and emotions, the production and set designs immersed me into a world I was unfamiliar with, made me afraid, and left me fascinated and curious.
I think a lot of my confusion about the story in this comes from my ignorance of cultural and religious customs and stories. Many of the things going on in this movie are probably familiar to people who grew up with knowledge of such things as shamans and their rituals and with superstitions that are commonplace to their culture, but unknown to outsiders like me. So people like me lose a lot while watching the movie as a result. A bird in the soy sauce? It means it's contaminated and spoiled so throw it out. But it's obvious there was a deeper significance to these people. There were tons of things going on that I missed out on (see the comments on that YT video for examples).
I'd say I would 'like' to watch it again to try to decipher more info, see all that I missed out on. I wish I had done my usual research first before watching this movie so I could have looked for all the hints I missed out on. But, I won't watch it again because the basic facts remain that with horror genre I am not happy when I'm done watching it. It is TOO dark and TOO fatalistic. Still I am tempted to give this one of my precious 9's. But I will settle for an 8 or 8.5 and maybe change it later.
Another great selection of young actors..though I have no idea how you are going to stop, there are so many! I am so impressed with Na Da Reum. He blew me away in Dragons, I cannot forget him even with all the other superb performances in that drama. He definitely not only held his own, but stood out. And you have to see him in Memory. He gave an Outstanding performance there also. He has a depth of emotion in those eyes of his! And I definitely remember Cha Sang Woo in Tree also. I've seen him in other shows, but he didn't leave a memory for me like he did in that one. I also remember Kim Hyang Gi's remarkable performance in Hearty Paws. She was barely 6 years old and stole every scene she was in! HOW do you get a 5 or 6 year old to express those emotions like she did? I was in awe.
Still trying to work up my courage to watch The Crucible. Not sure I will be able to face it.
9.5 = Pitch Black Darkness, When I was the Prettiest.
9 = Happy Rose Day, The Reason I'm Getting Married, Land of Rain, Me and Mom and Dad and Grandma and Anna, Haneuljae's Murder
And has anyone mentioned Splash Splash Love???
Oh yes...I see they have!! ;) sorry, couldn't resist. When you need to feel happy, watch it. In other words, watch it daily.
In 'some' ways, this wasn't AS difficult to watch as I dreaded. I've seen some pretty horrific stuff and, on the Kmovie scale of horrific this is only about a 7.5 for most of the movie. It deals with an unremittingly dark and twisted segment of society and it is demoralizing as all hell to know that people like this actually exist in our world. When you see things like this, you start to think really dark thoughts about how much you wish you could have the power of striking evil people dead.