monstersnroses

This movie was breathtakingly good. I can't even describe it. I wasn't a fan of the ending, but that didn't detract from the fact that this is excellent cinema.

LOL same!

The casting, acting, dialogue, soundtrack, and especially the cinematography were excellent. The writing was on point, as all the characters have a believable POV. There was such incredible attention to little details, and well-placed symbolism. Lots of kilig throughout the first half of the drama that just grabs you immediately from episode one. Chemistry that leaps off the screen. Tons of angst. I think the last half is a little bit more subdued and painful than the first half, and I didn't like the "slap an ending on it" ending. But overall, I am stunned at the quality of this drama. I'm not sure it would hold up to rewatches just because of how the back half is a lot of pain with not a lot of reward and that ending didn't truly satisfy. But for a one-time watch, this is a truly amazing drama.

Okay I came back to it, and just finished. This is a steaming pile of you know what. The ONLY good thing about this show is that the ML and FL are drop dead gorgeous. FL has a completely beautiful smile.

Every single person in this absolutely tedious drama makes one bad decision after another. They're all in a contest to see who can be the biggest martyr. There's nothing but pain, pained dialogue, tears, awkwardness, injustice, cruelty and toxic games. The only other drama I've ever seen that even comes close to being this bad is 'Blood'. There is no humor in it to speak of. Like NONE. No action. Bad bad musical score. I would have been better off watching kakafukaka on repeat for 2 weeks straight while drinking ipecac and scotch with my eyelids taped open. Kind of not joking. I want a refund. I hope whoever is responsible for this terrible drama marries a wife who eats eggs and farts on him in bed every night for the rest of his life.


And that's my review.

This drama is 25% jaw dropping eye candy (ML), 25% just why, 25% plot-drag, and 25% drivel.

This drama was fairly good. Everyone's acting is incredibly good here. There is some good kilig moments and one or two spicy kiss scenes. The pacing was a bit slow, but tolerable. The only issue I had was with the ending. The ending itself was really really good, but my issue was that ML and FL have like no kiss scenes for like the last 5 episodes or so. It left me at the end a little bit disappointed. But other than that, everything was awesome. There's some humor in it but not too much, and the little jokes they crack are lol-funny. I really liked that aspect of it too. The characters are believable if you give them a few episodes to grow on you. The things the FL says and does I can relate to in a way that makes her character realistic.

This drama isn't over the top entertainment and passion, it has more of a chill vibe to it. But if you want to just chill out and watch a decently good kdrama, I'd recc this one.

I dropped this because the FL just martyred herself for NO REASON by staying with her birth mother. Then the mother who raised her left the country? It was so unrealistic, way too implausible. I can't identify with the characters at all.

There's no bias, I don't like the drama, I don't think FL is that good of an actress. I can try to explain what might have contributed to the fact that I think she's not that good, but I don't have anything against thin people who act well.

The idea that I must be biased because I don't agree with your opinion is ludicrous and juvenile.

Hmmm I'd say with at least weight lifting fairy she was a BIT better. This might seem like a really brutal take, but I think she's not eating well in RL. She has this kind of glassed over look in her eyes and I know some people are naturally thin like that, but she has a 'vacant' kind of air about her to me. I had no idea she was a model. It might not be anorexia per se, but just chronic undernourishment from the pressures she may face in her line of work.

I suspect (just my personal suspicion) that she doesn't have enough healthy energy to experience a large deep range of emotion in RL to draw from when she acts. It's widely known in nutrition-related professional fields that people who are undereating can have markedly lower - uhh "passions" let me just say, trying to put it delicately. It's my professional background that makes me suspect this - it falls into a certain pattern that's hard to ignore and just set aside my suspicions. To me she gives off this Eugenia Cooney vibe. I know that's a little bit harsh, but I'm just being honest about what I see. I hope I'm wrong.

Anyway, that's why I think her acting performances are kind of a little bit colorless. But maybe it's just that the director had them all under a lot of pressure. Or heck, I guess it could be a bit of both. I really don't know. To me she just doesn't seem totally alert and quick-minded like someone would if they were getting proper nutrition.

I still don't see her as stellar, even with other directors. But sure, I'd say that maybe the director stressed her into giving a particularly bad performance. None of the acting is 'the best you can be', so suspecting the director to me also seems totally valid.

I was gonna leave a little review in comments, but you already said what I was going to say. My only difference of opinion is that it IS slow... but I did not find it excruciatingly slow, and I thought the soundtrack sort of elevated the show (it would have been more boring without it). This is the kind of drama where everything builds slowly and unswervingly up to a final conclusion . You are basically investing every hour of your time toward the ending, and so it better be good, because why else would you watch?

And that ending was kind of half-assed. On top of that, I watched this under the assumption that it was at least somewhat of a romance. In the first 6 or so episodes, there is a TON of chemistry. But turns out that was just the carrot on the stick to get you to keep watching, because there isn't any romance after that point. It's basically awful.

I think all the actors were well cast and did a good job. Jang Hyuk was incredible, but they didn't give him a whole lot of depth or range to his character.

Way to keep it classy, friend.

Because anyone who doesn't share your opinion clearly has lesser knowledge than you, right? You don't need to bully other commenters just to share a differing opinion.

It doesn't.

That was a badass haircut.

I went on a c-drama bender, and I just got burned over and over by these silly annoying cringe and/or cracked-out dramas and I got sick of it. Some of the Wuxia is good, but that's about it.

I love a good Taiwanese drama, but the c-dramas are not of the same caliber at all. At least not the ones I've seen.

Same. Every episodes I said to myself "why am I still watching this?" all the way to the last episode. Why is the rating so high? I gave it a 6.

I was not a fan of this drama. The FL doesn't have any convincing emotions. Leads have no chemistry at all. Plot started off firing on all cylinders and then got draggier and draggier until by the 14th episode I was thinking "come onnnnnn lets go", the pacing got so slow it was just tedious and agonizing.

By two thirds of the way through the drama, they give up trying to create any romance between the ML and FL at all, and just move along with the rest of the plot.If I had to direct that FL, I'd probably give up too. She's incredibly beautiful, and that's about it.

ML does an all right acting job, but he wasn't given a whole lot to work with. There's just this weird vibe to everyone's acting performance, as if there's a ton of people just staring at them off camera, and they feel like they're being watched... or like they all just had a fight before filming... I don't know something just seems 'off' about the whole thing and I can't put my finger on what.

There are three side couples. Only one of them has chemistry to speak of. There are lots and lots of flashbacks, which I don't really like. Nobody is really giving an epic performance here, and the dialogue is uninspired. It's not even very funny.

The good parts about this drama to me: aesthetics are very pop and very candy-like and pleasing to the eye, production quality was good, plot had a lot of side plots, and they all fall like dominoes so in the later episodes, they wrap up one side plot, then another and another. You get a good sense of resolution.

Also (not that it's a bad thing or anything) is it just me or does it seem to anyone else like they were very loosely basing the ML character off of Lee Dong Wook?

The pace was just a touch on the slow side, but it's easy to binge it and holds your attention pretty well all the way through. Aesthetics were nice, soundtrack was really on point. The kilig moments and kiss scenes were very sparse, but well placed and moderately spicy. FL was easy to watch, ML is sort of "love it or hate it".

The actual dynamics of the main characters were realistic. I can identify with several of the situations they all found themselves in, and the way the scenes are played out are pretty true to life. Some people are not going to like the ML because he's jerkish and overbearing. Others will understand the attraction his character has.

The plot is very streamlined, and focused. The side stories are just short entertaining interludes that don't try to drag you away from the meat of the plot. The plot moves steadily forward with not a lot of surprises, but it is somehow very satisfying that way.

The last episode actually had some spicy parts, which is kind of rare for a kdrama. I gave it an 8 because even though it wasn't the kind of drama that sticks out in your mind as spectacular... it didn't put you through a whole bunch of frustration and agony, it was smooth and seamless and something that satisfies you as you watch it.

Tried to watch. Finished 2 episodes and just cannot stand the FL for even a minute longer. People seem to like this drama, so I might try picking it back up again later idk. But watching that FL is like slow torture.

This drama is really hard to describe, but I enjoyed it enough to give it an 8.5

pros: soundtrack elevated the drama, and was never intrusive (which I find very rare in kdrama). Plenty of kisses and skinship. Some kisses are tame while others are spicier, but all are GOOD. There is chemistry between the leads. Production, writing and direction had an artistic quality to them, like they weren't trying to make 'just another kdrama', it was much more sophisticated than most kdramas. Light touches of kinkiness and angst. Characters are well thought out, and exercise a very refreshing level of honesty. Also a marked lack of dragginess through most of the show.

cons: 2ML syndrome is bad with this one, ending -while ok- was a bit lackluster, the 2ML/2FL side-story had just about zero chemistry and didn't hold my interest, and the re-watch value for me will be a little bit affected by the fact that the backdrops and aesthetic sense of the show was very focused on neutral tones and natural materials (lots of beige, gray, tan, lots of books, wood, sweaters, streets, soft hairstyles, natural lighting, etc). It was also sort of running counter to what viewers usually expect because a lot of the spicier scenes and romantic plot points are laid out at the start of the drama, and it slowly fades as the show progresses. So you won't get a romantic buildup, it's more of like a love-adventure with various twists and turns.

I agree with you here. Her Private Life was very good also, but less exciting. Those HPL kiss scenes were total scorchers, but overall there are parts of HPL that drag out and the intensity is a bit lacking. The plot of Crazy Love is better and better executed. I'd still recc either of them to anyone, they're both good. But I'd recc Crazy Love more enthusiastically.