Ryuzaki

maybe i just wanted to see my fav story being told in this medium that even after seeing all the changes, i actually had a tinker of hope for this project being somehow good but ig that's too much.

as for how they were gonna fit the whole story into 1 film, when the project was announced, i believe they said they were gonna do like 5 films, which even then 1 film would have to adapt 100+ chapters of the webnovel to finish the storyline in 5 films. so i don't know how accurate that might've been. and i guess even the future 4 films depend on the success of this film.

for series such as solo leveling or orv, they're pretty much very hard to adapt in live action format ngl and since orv is supposed to be the precedent for such series, being the first of its kind to be adapted into live action and probably the best story at that sub-genre too, the future for solo leveling doesn't look that good to me at least for now.

so, these seem to be the early reviews for the film by the critics:
https://x.com/AnonAuthor_K/status/1945509806778753303

from what i understood, it mostly seems like the cgi is pretty bad, it doesn't set up the world that well for people who're not familiar with the source material (webnovel or manhwa), and for those that are familiar with the source material, they seem to have expressed their disappointment to the changes made to the elements of the storyline. there are more details in the reviews, so if you wanna know more just read those, i only highlighted the basic things

p.s. the poster isn't me, i just found their tweet

Well, we got Doraemon in live action before GTA 6

had the same thoughts as you, and i don't think such a story has been adapted into live action format before, so it'll be a first one for the kdrama audience too.

Reverse harem to be exact but same thing. I was talking about the plot since I've read the first season of the manhwa, so I know how things are going to unfold. That's why I was talking about the plot being wild in that sense.

well, the plot is kinda like that too.

I just laughed at Bihyung's design, looks more like Finn from Adventure Time than a dokkaebi from ORV.

fair enough, you can have your own opinion about it, i was just stating the fact, not asking you to dislike it or anything

that's a drama original dynamic, they had a different past in the manhwa, more like sworn enemies than childhood friends

It was supposed to be Na Baek Jin, but they basically discarded that final scene and removed his tattoos in Class 2.

more than go away, they condensed it way too much, almost like a bread with no jam (weird analogy, i know)

I think they meant Geum Seong Je and not O Beom Seok but I might be wrong. As far as Season 3 is concerned, it will be a drama original if it ever gets made as the original story within the manhwa is finished.

Even at the cram school Gray went to, I don't remember any significant intervention by the teachers. Also, the parents don't even exist in there to the point that it has become a running joke among the manhwa readers.

i'm amazed at how you even came to realize it, i just looked at it and they do have a resemblance but it's hard to spot.

Hisoka? Who are you comparing him to? Baekjin or Seongjae?

nope, this is the end.

If I were to compare it to other manhwa within this same genre, this is probably the most grounded manhwa out of them, alongside maybe Shark and Dokgo. Try reading Lookism if you ever wanna see how ungrounded* something can be, it's a really good manhwa even with most of it being way too unrealistic.

As far as the ending for Donald is concerned, it was unsatisfactory within the manhwa too, so I'm not that pissed about it anymore. I kinda expected it to be like that, although the change was weird.

they restrict the possession of a firearm by a civilian, but there're bound to be loopholes, no country's law is perfect.

probably because of South Korean laws

just so you know, they nerfed that character a lot, he's supposed to be able to do a lot more than that, both in terms of mental and physical capabilities