Well...I think that there are better romance films to watch. Real ones not like this that is a bit of everything ending up saying nothing. It is not pure romance and it is not real life commentary, or comedy.... TBH I don' t know what the heck is supposed to be. Pointless film.
The plot of this film is stupid. The final twist doesn't stand by any imaginable or other way and spoiled completely this film. If for one thing judges can't choose the cases. But even if it happens ( one in a trillion) as in this particular case the judge had every reason to quit before the trial and testify as the defendant's alibi. Instead she accepted the case and went on with the trial just for the sake of wasting her time... or what...? Now what sort of elementary school allows pupils to use super glue??!!
No the contrary. I' m big fun of the gerne but this one was silly in it's execution. The CGI were so raw straight out from the image manipulation programs that looked completely amateurish and cringy. Full of lazy special effects on a film that its plot relies on these effects. When I started laughing with the fakeness of the parasites then there was no way to take this series seriously. It was like someone was distorting the film frames with his finger. I have watched a lot of scifi series and films ànd I have higher expectations from the CGI FX team. I didn' t even bother to rate it. I was off in the first 15 minutes.
How how....lol It is cringe worthy starting with the CGI that I find them completely silly. Even the promotion poster is like someone was finger playing on an image manipulation app. I didn't manage to warch not even 15 minutes of the first episode that is the reason why I didn' t even record it on my watchlist.
I never understood the hype with Goblin. I only though the Reaper and Sunny's story was interesting everything…
It was awful if you took it seriously. If you warched it as a surreal festive ( Christmas like, fairy tale) comedy drama had some really good hunor and some great improvisation scenes by the actors. That was the part I liked the most. That the actors had fun while they were filming it something that it was visible on every scene.
I' ve got bored and not particularly interested for Jian's fate because the plot didn' t make that much sense…
First things first: Jinman got into all that dispute with Bale just because he suddenly had moral inhibitions about Bale's killing attrocities as a mercenary? Was Jinman any better? They were both killers for hire. Then Bale got into all that trouble and expences, because firearms cost you know, to kill Jinman's niece in Jinman's " fortress"....why bother to do that and not set up an accident at a later unsuspectful time? Jian aside the fact that she has some serious survival insticts, is an unlikable character and as it turns out she looks like quite dumb too. I find it hard to believe that she had not figured out that her uncle wasn' t just a mere hose seller, that her parents were murdered, that something else was going on. She was already eye witness of several murders and even if she didn' t understand their full impact as a young child she should have done so later on as an adult. What was that pretentious thing with the shopping mall's codes...? What would made professional killers protect their supplier who was a mere retailer and not a manufacturer after all. Not to mention that none of them showed up to protect him or his niece. Only the cleaners showed up at the end. And talking about whole sales and retail how would Jian be able to take on the business without having any clue about the manufacturers? Where would she get the weapons to sell them to her customers? The last time we saw Jinman he was dead at a morgue. Did he had a twin brother or something to fake his death or what? And why bother to fake his death? Such kind of questions and plot holes made me to lost my interest and I've finished this drama half hearted just because it was short and it had a good production. A 7 out of 10 for the good cinematography and the exoensive production but this drama is by no means the masterpiece that the reviews claim that is. The plot is not interesting and the FL character unlikable.
I' ve got bored and not particularly interested for Jian's fate because the plot didn' t make that much sense and the reasons are below in the spoiler comment.
I just don't understand how nowadays those entertainment agencies still don't seem to run a full background check…
It is not netizen's job to judge and cancel people based on rumours or anyone' s anonymous accusations and the entertainment agencies are not Police Departments ot intelligence agencies to have to do full background checking to the actors, singers etc they want to hire. The S.K media culture is toxic.
This is such an odd comment to make. If you like Shogun, just say that.Michael Mann only directed the pilot episode,…
Shogun is one of the same on regard Hollywood politics if not worst. They totally destroyed the plot in this adaptation by altering the main characters. I' dropped it btw.
This second season is absolutely horrendous. It diverges from the book quite a bit, Michael mann's influence is…
This series' plot were not based on the book because the book doesn' t have any particular plot. It is just stories that describe Aldestein's career in Japan and why he finally left. But the plot and the characters of the series are not that much related with the book. Are inspired by the characters mentioned in the book. I will agree though about the Hollywood woke politics that were injected in this season and are unrelated with the story plot of the series. Completely unrelated. But there is always the skip option. I' m not bothering to watch them. I just skip these scenes because I strongly believe that we watch films and dramas in order to get entertained and not indoctrinated. If I wanted to get indoctrinated there is always the original "good" old Stalinist Soviet cinema after all! Why bother with the cheap immitations??!!
"The problem with Japanese dramas and films is how long it takes to get subbed if this's ever done." I do agree…
I agree about wiishing to know more languages but then again....how many of them. I already speak fluently three but none of them Asian and I can' t turn my self into the ultimate polyglot just in order to watch a series... Anyway. The list of adapted manga is great but also probaly impossible to watch any of them upon their release. As I've said previously there are series that are half subbed for decades! Watching a whole series and not having a subbed final episode is tragicomic and a bit sadistic too! lol
The problem with Japanese dramas and films is how long it takes to get subbed if this's ever done. And some times they are half subbed. I would appreciate f.e if someone could provide subs for the last episode of Galilleo series. It is uploaded on dramacool from 2007 FGS! and nobody bothered to provide subs for the last episode!
HA HA Very average appearance :DDDDOther than that I agree with you, of course;-)
Yes very average and that is for his advantage as very handsome actors are actually unable to allow themselves to act well because that can ruin their looks. If you doubt then show me an/ any objectivelly handsome actor, (not only Asian) that is good on acting. An actor that has great looks and he can also persuasively play any character. The majority of good looking actors typecast themselves playing the ....handsome guys. Good or villain but still looking good and cool etc. None of them dares to spoil his image. Something that is not the case of Takuya Kimura who has average appearance but he is IMHO one of the greatest actors of his generation and unfortunately not that well known for his acting skills in the Western film industry. He is the Japanese Al Pacino to bring an example. This style of actor.
Despite a lot of part from the book is "fictionalized" to fit into the drama, but please take a note that his…
Thank you for the link to your blog. I' ve read the book as I mentioned in my review for the first season and I wouldn' t say that the situations he describes - aside of how accurate they might be from a journalistic point of view- look unrealistic or impossible. The point of tbe book are not the characters not even the events true or fictional. It' s the dealings and doings of all these people. Japanese mafia, politicians, Police and the Press which are as it seems so entangled with each other that you can't deal with any of them without dealing indirectly with the others as well. The series now is a very free adaptation of the book, because Aldestein didn' t bother to mention or develop any of the characters that he had dealings with. That is the reason why I wrote in my review that the series' writer/s got the best of the source material because they developed some of these characters. The journalists, the hostess, the yakuza members and so on. There are no main characters or any particular plot in the book, just stories. Now how accurate is the source material , if the characters names are the real ones or he speaks about real yakuza mobsters is something that doesn' t change that much the main plot and the point of the book and the series. Unless this is not the case, I mean Yakuza was not and is not part of the Japanese society and it doesn' t control the politicians, and the economy, and the Press is not controlled by any of them, and the policemen are not bribrd etc. etc. etc.
An adaptation never depicts accurately its original source. The original is always better, because it's impossible…
That is a good question. What was the purpose of this remake? Just to add the scenes that they were missing from the previous series hoping that the viewers have read the book and watched that series? Because that is what I get from this remake. There is no reason to show who Blackthorne is because we saw it at the previous series. There is no reason to show the dancing scene because the cultural exchanges are probably uninmportant and we saw it at the other adaptation. There is no reason to show the Jesuit implication because that was covered at the previous time. And there is no reason to show and explain what is the deal with the black ship for the same reason. I can' t help wondering what someone unrelated with the book and the first adaptation is going to understand as a first time viewer of this particularadaptation about the political, cultural and social background of feudal Japan and its interactions with the Elisabetan explorers and colonists....About their attitudes. Not that much....
I was very clear on what was rude in your comment. It is rude to comment on someone else' s replies without quoting directly the person you are talking about. It is a basic rule of internet netiquette.
An adaptation never depicts accurately its original source. The original is always better, because it's impossible…
The first series have already done so. I can' t see why a remake based on the same book with higher budget and the CGI advancements had to ommit the two thirds of this book and downgrade the main POV character. Aside that it is rude to comment my posts without quoting me. Are you always so rude when you participate in public discussions?
Now what sort of elementary school allows pupils to use super glue??!!
It was like someone was distorting the film frames with his finger.
I have watched a lot of scifi series and films ànd I have higher expectations from the CGI FX team.
I didn' t even bother to rate it. I was off in the first 15 minutes.
Then Bale got into all that trouble and expences, because firearms cost you know, to kill Jinman's niece in Jinman's " fortress"....why bother to do that and not set up an accident at a later unsuspectful time?
Jian aside the fact that she has some serious survival insticts, is an unlikable character and as it turns out she looks like quite dumb too. I find it hard to believe that she had not figured out that her uncle wasn' t just a mere hose seller, that her parents were murdered, that something else was going on. She was already eye witness of several murders and even if she didn' t understand their full impact as a young child she should have done so later on as an adult.
What was that pretentious thing with the shopping mall's codes...?
What would made professional killers protect their supplier who was a mere retailer and not a manufacturer after all. Not to mention that none of them showed up to protect him or his niece. Only the cleaners showed up at the end.
And talking about whole sales and retail how would Jian be able to take on the business without having any clue about the manufacturers? Where would she get the weapons to sell them to her customers?
The last time we saw Jinman he was dead at a morgue.
Did he had a twin brother or something to fake his death or what? And why bother to fake his death?
Such kind of questions and plot holes made me to lost my interest and I've finished this drama half hearted just because it was short and it had a good production.
A 7 out of 10 for the good cinematography and the exoensive production but this drama is by no means the masterpiece that the reviews claim that is. The plot is not interesting and the FL character unlikable.
The S.K media culture is toxic.
They totally destroyed the plot in this adaptation by altering the main characters.
I' dropped it btw.
I will agree though about the Hollywood woke politics that were injected in this season and are unrelated with the story plot of the series. Completely unrelated.
But there is always the skip option.
I' m not bothering to watch them. I just skip these scenes because I strongly believe that we watch films and dramas in order to get entertained and not indoctrinated.
If I wanted to get indoctrinated there is always the original "good" old Stalinist Soviet cinema after all! Why bother with the cheap immitations??!!
Anyway. The list of adapted manga is great but also probaly impossible to watch any of them upon their release. As I've said previously there are series that are half subbed for decades! Watching a whole series and not having a subbed final episode is tragicomic and a bit sadistic too! lol
If you doubt then show me an/ any objectivelly handsome actor, (not only Asian) that is good on acting. An actor that has great looks and he can also persuasively play any character. The majority of good looking actors typecast themselves playing the ....handsome guys. Good or villain but still looking good and cool etc.
None of them dares to spoil his image.
Something that is not the case of Takuya Kimura who has average appearance but he is IMHO one of the greatest actors of his generation and unfortunately not that well known for his acting skills in the Western film industry.
He is the Japanese Al Pacino to bring an example. This style of actor.
Painfull Love by Lee Seung Chul
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I' ve read the book as I mentioned in my review for the first season and I wouldn' t say that the situations he describes - aside of how accurate they might be from a journalistic point of view- look unrealistic or impossible.
The point of tbe book are not the characters not even the events true or fictional. It' s the dealings and doings of all these people. Japanese mafia, politicians, Police and the Press which are as it seems so entangled with each other that you can't deal with any of them without dealing indirectly with the others as well.
The series now is a very free adaptation of the book, because Aldestein didn' t bother to mention or develop any of the characters that he had dealings with.
That is the reason why I wrote in my review that the series' writer/s got the best of the source material because they developed some of these characters. The journalists, the hostess, the yakuza members and so on. There are no main characters or any particular plot in the book, just stories.
Now how accurate is the source material , if the characters names are the real ones or he speaks about real yakuza mobsters is something that doesn' t change that much the main plot and the point of the book and the series.
Unless this is not the case, I mean Yakuza was not and is not part of the Japanese society and it doesn' t control the politicians, and the economy, and the Press is not controlled by any of them, and the policemen are not bribrd etc. etc. etc.
I can' t help wondering what someone unrelated with the book and the first adaptation is going to understand as a first time viewer of this particularadaptation about the political, cultural and social background of feudal Japan and its interactions with the Elisabetan explorers and colonists....About their attitudes. Not that much....
I was very clear on what was rude in your comment. It is rude to comment on someone else' s replies without quoting directly the person you are talking about. It is a basic rule of internet netiquette.
Greetings to you too.
Aside that it is rude to comment my posts without quoting me.
Are you always so rude when you participate in public discussions?