So many stories badly blended...
I love romances.I even try to endure the absurd length of this show, the boring pace and shallow characters.
So… here I go…
STORY – the premise could lead to a great story… Lots of stories badly condensed in a show. Maybe some could be developed or not even included… Maybe there will be a time without movie actors or singers… Really try hard to like the idea of that couple or even imagining 5 years of silent dinner…
Most of the characters are envolved in a masochist relationship, fighting to see who suffers more to protect others…
ACTING
Choi Sang Eun (Park Min Young) – I like her shows. I think this one is one of the worst I saw from her, specially because of the story and her character…
Jung Ji Ho (Go Kyung Pyo) – lacking any social skills became a judge. His love for Sang-Eun is sweet, he even showed power and competence taking care of her…With him I learn that in Korea a broken arm leads to spending days in the Hospital…
His team was good entertainment…
Kim Jae Young (Kang Hae Jin) – of course, the actor. Very likable. A little naïve with his feelings and actions that put all in risk. His team was ok.
Lee Joo Bin (Jung Ji Eun) – a good alpinist, climbing the ladder of the rich and powerful… thought that her end would be different.
Jin Kyung (Yoo Mi Ho) – Badass woman. Mixed feelings about her. Deserves most of the interest in the drama for me. Could her story be more explored…
MUSIC – I do not follow much k-pop and that kind of music. Some are great, but in this show, I cannot remember any…
REWATCH VALUE – maybe one or two scenes, but I doubt. In every aspect in a show, I can recall better shows than this.
OVERALL – sometimes I had to watch in 1,5x because it was a little boring, especially the boomerang story in the second half. I enjoyed enough not to think that I completely wasted my time.
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The awesome idea could be better developed
It started in a good way. The idea of this drama is very interesting, but it lacks depth.STORY - Destiny as a name randomly written on the skin is an interesting story. The problem is that it was not treated as such, just a premise to a love story.
CAST - I think they did a great job. Good acting for me, even with characters that we still do not know nothing...
MUSIC - I do not recall any of the songs, so it wasn't memorable.
REWATCH - even if it's a short drama, knowing the ending is a killer for me. The characters, the side stories, etc are not good, so i will never watch this again.
OVERALL - a nice short drama to spend some time. And that is all. Do not understand the confusion about the gender...
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Feel good with a right ending
Good story.STORY - nice story about a lawyer that is killed by mistake in heaven and, to return to her rightful place, has to take the place of the mother and wife in a family. She has to endure a completely different life, but in the end, she understands that love and be loved is the best thing she can have.
ACTING - good. All is done with competence
MUSIC - Did not pay attention to the OST
REWATCH - if I stumble with this I can watch it again. However, it will not be in my rewatch list!
OVERALL - good story. If you like light feel good and a little comedy this is good to watch. The ending is good, because I have in my mind the follow up...
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Wish i could travel back before watching this...
I even think i rewatch this, that how so forgettable this was for me.Traveling in time burning photos it is ok. Everyone doing that it is strange. The plot has lots of holes and incongruences…
STORY – a suicide that can be prevent traveling to the past. Changing the past will lead to bad karma…
Seo Joon travels to prevent her long-time friend from all kinds of bad things (from hurting her knee to falling the stairs). Ten years ago, he is find dead, presumably suicide.
Ha Rin loved him for so long and she still misses him after a decade. With nine photos from his camera, she reads a note where he confess his love for her. She, strangely, burn one of the photos and find herself in the past.
Then the story goes from trying to save him, changing the past what tuning the consequences…
SPOILERS – murder and not suicide, so… who is the killer, the villain?
The friends were ok, I guess. However, all of them could be the suspect…
The villain is so boring, one-dimensional and a psycho.
ACTING – I do not follow the k-pop and drama thing. I do not know the actors and their lives. I just did not like the acting, but it was not awful.
MUSIC – forgettable. It was not my thing.
REWATCH – no, never again!
OVERALL – the premise is interesting. The plot could be great, but it is not. The characters and their stories are boring, with lots of incoherence. The changes in the future are minimal.
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Too tired to think about it...Did i enjoy at least some?
I feel like Peeping Tom, desiring to see the end of this.Tooooooo long!
As always, the drama had so many unnecessary moments and a rushed ending…
Pitiful characters, most of them…
I don’t know and don’t pay any attention to who is or are the writers. But I think this was written buy a woman for sure. I will not talk about female friendship, but male friendship, especially that where they considered themselves as brothers, will not have that kind of behaviour (like Jun Woo did with Jung Sun). Maintaining friendship and girl????
STORY - a couple that love eachother (but just one of them knows that) break up. I can't describe the plot, don't know if there is one.
It starts with some adults that writes about others behaving immaturely or with ignorance... Writers, businessman and a Chef.
I prefer the concept of Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover!...
Jun Woo seems a bright and conniving successful business man. How can he supposed to think that he could win Hyun Soo heart by destroying their relationship??? Could he? Could she fall in love for a man that tries to destroy her bf like that??
The story around scripts and dramas and writers wasn’t engaging to me. Maybe if we could see some of the development of the stories they wrote.
So, in the end, it all ends in the relation of Hyun Soo and Jung Sun. And that’s it. They were separated for 5 years, when he made a call and she didn’t answer. Was she supposed to know that he was traveling that day? No! So, WTF??? He loved her so much and went away with a call when going to the airport???
The other romantic relationships didn’t exist, except in concept (we know they were there) …
ACTING - The acting was nice. I like and have seen some works of most of them and I enjoy their performance.
MUSIC – don’t remember, so I think it was ok, but forgettable to me
REWATCH – no.! There are so many better dramas and I don’t remember any interesting scene to revisit.
OVERALL – very long, with a weak story and a boring plot. I like some of the dialogues, that part was good, especially between the ML and FL. If there is another romantic drama to see… maybe you can skip this. Or give it a try, the first episodes are not bad.
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Short but uninteresting drama
Well, the sinopsis deceived me a little.I did not liked it and did not understand what the director wanted to share with the viewers.
STORY - boring, a first love in school that last some years and...
ACTING - they did the job. With the shallow personality showed here there was not much to do
MUSIC - can't remember
REWATCH - never, there is not a story to rewatch...
OVERALL - a waste of almost 40 minutes of nothing...
Can not find a reason to watch this, but the good reviews that I read are a mystery to me...
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The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
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Amazing action scenes
I liked it!It is not a surprising story and there are some movies with similar plot.
Protecting someone, revenge, misleading, etc.
The characters are interesting, the plot ok.
STORY – the story is not unique, but I liked it. I found myself waiting to see what would happen next.
ACTING – I think most of the characters did a very good job and the fighting scenes are amazing.
MUSIC – I do not recall it well, so I think it did the job, but without being amazing.
REWATCH –the action scenes for sure, because I already know the outcome.
OVERALL – very entertaining and I really that if you are looking for an action movie with lots of good scenes without resembling a marvel movie, you should try this!
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Poderia ser mas não foi...
Na maioria dos casos, creio que os dramas são extremamente longos. Aqui dá-se o caso oposto, muita coisa pendente por explicar, desenvolvimento muito deficiente, quer dos personagens, quer do romance e história...Poderia ser mas...
HISTÓRIA - confusa e não ganhou com o anacronismo das cenas. Ficou muito vazia de conteúdo.
ATUAÇÃO - nada de relevante. Nenhuma performance extraordinária. Apenas suficiente.
MÚSICA - apesar do que tenho lido, nenhuma me agradou particularmente, bem tornou a história ou as cenas melhores
REVER - nunca, com tanta coisa boa por aí...
NO GERAL - a ideia da história é interessante. Poderia dar mesmo algo mais curioso e bem feito, até mais longo. Assim, parece uma manta de retalhos, algo partido e mal colado. Não aconselho a não ser para quem vê os dramas pelos seus atores preferidos, o que não é o meu caso.
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A drama similar to WH SECRETARY KIM, but not as good
It was ok, i enjoyed watching...STORY - the positive reasons of the drama are others than the plot.The story is similar to other dramas. Side stories not very interesting...
And hard working girl and a rich good man meet and...
CAST- good job of the main actors.
MUSIC - i liked one song. Do not remember the others...
REWATCH - do not think so.... Maybe one or two scenes. I prefer rewatching better dramas with similar plots.
OVERALL - i enjoyed watching. Did not liked the end very much, especially the job decisions of the FL. Did not enjoy the unemployed golfer husband... Or the story of ML's Mother and the take smiles...
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At last a good rom/com that just want us to enjoy...
Great show for me.I will not write a long review, because this is a light and joyful drama without complexity.
STORY – it is good, simple, without unnecessary plots or scenes. We have 2 couples, family, friends and work. There are good funny moments.
ACTING – amazing acting, especially crazy Shin Ha Ri alter ego.
MUSIC – I don’t recall it and, for me, that means that it wasn’t mind blowing, but did the job.
REWATCH – why not, particularly some scenes, romantic or funny. The whole show? Guess not, but it is not a waste of time.
OVERALL – I love it and the time spent was well worth it. The only thing that I don’t like is the ending. I just don’t understand this trend of not closing the stories. Some shows are plain, simple and good, but deliver open endings or unclose endings that does not make sense. In some show they guide us, unnecessarily for me, through flashbacks like we were too ignorant to not understand what is happening. But then, they want us to deliver a n independent, philosophical open or unclose ending. WTF? Why? Is it such a bad thing for a rom/com to have marriage scenes, scenes of after the gathering?
Rom/com’s are made for our dreams and desires. Not for complex plots…
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Am I the Only One with Butterflies? Season 2
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Certainly, there are butterflies indeed!
Well, i am a man who likes women. This is my line of thought and feel… If i said something wrong, please excuse and clarify me!STORY - i really like the story, the pace, the way Jung Ah deals with her innermost thoughts and feelings. It is a love story, or maybe more of a crush between Jung ah and her boss Lee Ji Won. Manager Lee is awesome, a wonderful boss and a beautiful person. I was rooting for them, having the feeling that maybe Manager Lee also likes Jung Ah.
Their relation is amazing, very warm with butterflies in one of them and something different, I guess, on the other…
CAST / ACTING – I think they made a wonderful job! Despite there are 4 to 5 characters, this drama is all about Jung Ah and Manager Lee. There relation is fluffy, sweet, responsible and mature. MUSIC – did not pay attention so I really do not know.
REWATCH – Certainly I will watch it if I have the chance. It is beautiful, short and it made me feel happy. I hope I can watch it with someone at my side and share the feelings.
OVERALL – short, beautiful, love the way the story goes … If you like a beautiful story of office romance you should watch it too. The acting, the simplicity, the rhythm and the story are worth of your time.
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10 stars? Did i miss part of my brain?!
I don't understand the movie, I don't understand some comments, such as the movie being special, that their chemistry was excellent, giving butterflies, etc.How is it possible to break up and drift apart for such stupid reasons... It doesn't make any sense, only with a lobotomy, whether from writers or actors.
The editing is terrible, we don't understand the accident that enclosed it.
In the final scenes, why does she runs away and where is she going?!?!
And what a ridiculous end is that? She hears his name and goes after him?!?!
How crazy. Honestly, I don't understand the ratings being so high, especially the 10!!!!
As the lyrics of "Total Recall" by The Sound say (great song!)...
"Oh there must be a hole in your memory
But I can see
I can see, a distant victory
A time when you will be with me"
Maybe they should have tuned this song...
I will NEVER see this movie again, just as a way to get revenge on my neurons...
Não entendo o filme, não percebo alguns comentários, como por ecemplo o filme ser especial, que a química dos dois era excelente, etc.
Como é possível terminar e se distanciarem por motivos tão estúpidos... Não faz sentido nenhum, só mesmo com uma lobotomia, quer dos escritores, quer dos atores.
A edição é péssima, não entendemos o acidente que enclausurou.
Nas cenas finais, ela foge porquê e para onde?!?!
E que fim ridículo é aquele? Ela ouve o seu nome e sai atrás dele?!?!
Que loucura. Sinceramente, não entendo as classificações tão boas, especialmente os 10!!!!
Como diz a letra de "Total Recall" do grupo The Sound (excelente canção!)...
"Oh there must be a hole in your memory
But I can see
I can see, a distant victory
A time when you will be with me"
Talvez devessem ter sintonizado esta música...
NUNCA reverei este filme, só mesmo como forma de me vingar dos meus neurónios...
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Cute story but boring and confused
Well, i love happy endings and romance and that kept me going...PLOT - not very interesting but maybe it portrait the preconceptions of a society based in hold and unffair values. The murders were unnecessary for me and very boring. Like they want to give some suspense and mystery...didn't work for me... The murder was as awful as that part of the plot. And how can anyone tried to help Heung Shik, when they know (or supposed to acknowledge) that he knew about his father's homicides...
But, the problem is the lack of consistency of most of the characters, like a strong and powerfull Dong Baek that is always crying or a group of women (that behave in a stupid, traditional and very hurtful way with an orfan and single mother) that treated her like family in the end.
CHARACTERS -
Dong Baek is a strong and independent beautiful woman that should be portrait like that. She raised her kid alone, she is an entrepreneur and lots of guts. She manage to stay positive and a beautiful soul that helps everyone.
Yong Shik was sillier than i want him to be. He was annoying sometimes and i think he could be a positive, supporting and free spirit boyfriend without being, sometimes, portrait as a silly and dumb guy.
Jong Ryul family was boring and i can't understand why he says that he was very imature and young with 27 years old, when she, who was kept invisible by Jong, abandoned him. He was selfish, self centered, even more when he wanted to take his son from her mother. His wife Jessica and their marriage was laughable.
Hyang Mi was an interesting woman, made cold and pragmatic by the hardships she endured. Wish there was a better development of her character and that she wasn't portrait like she was in the relationship with her stupid brother. Liked her relationship with Dong Baek.
Gyu Tae and his wife Ja Young had some strange chemistry but it kind of worked. He was funny and delusional but a nice person, i guess, and she was a strong and alpha female wife.
Duk Soon was a character that i don't understand. She suffer almost the same as Dong Baek and still treats her like venom or a disease.
Pil Goo is as selfish as a 8 year boy should be. He is strong and protective towards his mother. He seems like an adult sometimes with, of course, behavior of a ignorant child as he should be! Like it!
Jung Sook was Dong Baek mother who abandoned her. Her past is like a mystery (don't know why there is a "daughter" that appear and then disappear). She goes to say goodbye but ends up redeeming herself. Fortunately i had a happy childhood so i can't say if her relationship with her daughter makes sense...
ACTING - despite some of the characters weren't interesting for me, i thing the actors and actresses made a very good job. Most of them, anyway.
OST - don't remember so it was not very good for me.
REWATCHABLE - No, never. I was rooting for Baek and Shik but his silliness and her cry made the romance fade away for me and seemed like it was more of supporting than romantic feelings...
SUMMING UP - i think i watched too many kdramas to like this one as much as i wanted. Far better dramas than this one for me, even though i think Gong Hyo Jin, Oh Jung Se or Kim Sun Young are very good at acting...
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There is something wrong in my understanding of japanese love
Just finished the drama.STORY - The story could be interesting to me, but the glue that sticks it all is so uninteresting… And that glue is Ito. A man that does not care at all for his lovers. And 4 lovers that do not have any self-esteem. Or maybe there is something quite different in Japanese ways of loving.
I like strong women characters, and in this drama, they are all the opposite.
ACTING – good acting for the most part, even if the characters are not very interesting…
MUSIC – there was a song that I enjoy very much.
REWATCH – will not watch again since I did not like it very much.
OVERALL – do not know what to say. The end is absurd to me. Knock Knock, it’s ITO?!?!?!!?!?!?!
I rate this regarding my feelings watching this. Nothing special about the production, so I stick to the plot.
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A japanese "Clockwork Orange"?
The movie is a little weird and i love out-of-the-box movies. The gang of the pantie’s "ninjas", the cult of the zero church (zero must symbolizes the number of synapses of the members), even the question of faith and lust, misandry, and so on…The almost 4 hours does not matter, the story can carry on with different layers…
STORY – lots of intertwined stories in one.
ACTING – I think it was the best of the movie. Wonderful!
MUSIC – not bad but will not remain in my mind except one or two.
REWATCH – some of the crazy and funny scenes yes!
OVERALL - I do not know what to expect because humans can be worse than people think, and reality is more creative than fiction. So maybe the characters could behave like they did. But that is not as important to the movie. The ending is ok, especially the last scene.
But, reading the reviews and watching the movie after… I was trying to discover the masterpiece that was mentioned and all the accolades that were written. I could not find any…
Do not know if a comparison is due, but Clockwork Orange is much much better in addressing some of the themes of this movie and the atmosphere.
Funny, interesting but noooooooooooo, not a masterpiece nor a 10 star!!!
I do not mind when someone gives 10 stars to a show, but do not use technical terms of words like masterpiece. It is not true, mainly in Japanese filmography that is amazing!
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