I hadn't watched any of the Flower Boy dramas mainly because I felt they were aimed at a younger age range. However someone recommended this to me and I gave it a go and I rather enjoyed it. I liked the warm and lighthearted feeling of the story and how the negative feelings which are very common at that age slowly became positive thanks to good friends and lots of happy smiles and laughter. The love stories here are also uplifting as it is interesting to see how completely different people can slowly learn to help and complement each other.
A great, great movie and most of all a fantastic performance by Song Joong Ki. It must not be easy to play the part of a wolf and he did so perfectly well and at the same time showed in an authentic way that he was human. The ending was heartbreaking and leaves the viewer with a sense of longing. Everything about this movie was good so I am giving it a 10 and looking forward to SKJ's future projects.
I enjoyed this romcom immensely. It's funny how whenever I have low expectations for a drama I always get the opposite result. This is a very pleasant, lighthearted story with a strong female lead (my favourite kind)who faces many preconceptions of the Korean society concerning single mums and also has wonderful male friends and partners who help her to do so. It's a good and refreshing story about friendship, love and perseverance that I heartly recommend.
I feel so lucky that I came across this great sageuk masterpiece. It has so many poetic and delicate moments and succeeds in conveying the feeling of what painting and art in general are all about. There are also different 'levels' of love depicted in this story and everyone's acting is absolutely superb. Some scenes were like paintings themselves and really on the whole it is really worth a watch and I heartly recommend this...I was also a little bit disappointed by the ending as I was expecting something different, but this doesn't take away the beauty of the story.
I had high expectations for this drama after seeing some excellent sageuks before this one. Unfortunately I wasn't…
Hi Lala, I appreciate your point of view but we can agree to disagree as she could have proven her love to him all the same without following him everywhere he went...In any case I didn't mean that she was actually 'stalking' Seung Yong but her always appearing behind his back was pretty annoying for me.
I agree with lettucelove's comment that the first episodes of this drama were like pulling teeth for me. Indeed this lasted for the first 9 episodes as the silly and superficial personality of the lead actress was really quite a lot to bear. Luckily in the second half the story takes a more serious and convincing turn and it becomes involving until the end. Recently I have come across a few drama plots where the lead femal characters are constantly running after the male character which I find rather humiliating. I couldn't rate this more than 7 because I didn't enjoy the first episodes.
Great article! It was very interesting for me to read a male point of view as I thought they were almost non-existent as drama viewers (so I was biased too). Anyway here goes:
1. Female.
2. I think so, somehow it seems it is more expected by society to be mostly females who watch Asian and South American dramas.
3. Yes mostly at females because there is a very high percentage of plots involving love themes. However I noticed that most Japanese dramas recently seem to be targeted towards a mixed audience.
4. 5 males!
5. The cast lineup doesn't affect me much unless one of my favourite actors is in the drama. Which obviously attracts me more to want to watch it.
6. no as recently I watched dramas with my favourite actors which I rated with lower marks because the plots were not too good.
7. yes, definitely romantic comedies and lately some action stories.
8. no.
After having watched 43 episodes of this drama I decided to drop it. The first 10/15 episodes for me were not enjoyable (and I had been tempted to drop it even then) but I endured hoping that the plot would improve, which it did for a while, only to become unbearable again on the 43rd episode (with a lot of predictable angst to come on the next ones).
On the whole the acting was good and some twists and turns of the story were enjoyable but I found that some characters were way too dramatic and reacted with over the top unnecessary hysterical shouting and crying in many instances.
Joo Won is really good in this drama as always but I prefer to see him in dramas like Bridal Mask and 7th Grade Civil Servant.
This is a nice and easygoing story. I had never seen Choi Si Won before and liked his acting here whereas I had seen Chae Rim in Dal Ja's Spring and I think she was good in this drama too. Both the little girls here are adorable and all in all it is a heartwarming story worth watching.
1. Female.
2. I think so, somehow it seems it is more expected by society to be mostly females who watch Asian and South American dramas.
3. Yes mostly at females because there is a very high percentage of plots involving love themes. However I noticed that most Japanese dramas recently seem to be targeted towards a mixed audience.
4. 5 males!
5. The cast lineup doesn't affect me much unless one of my favourite actors is in the drama. Which obviously attracts me more to want to watch it.
6. no as recently I watched dramas with my favourite actors which I rated with lower marks because the plots were not too good.
7. yes, definitely romantic comedies and lately some action stories.
8. no.
On the whole the acting was good and some twists and turns of the story were enjoyable but I found that some characters were way too dramatic and reacted with over the top unnecessary hysterical shouting and crying in many instances.
Joo Won is really good in this drama as always but I prefer to see him in dramas like Bridal Mask and 7th Grade Civil Servant.