She's got the look. She has a great personality but the acting prowess isn't there currently which also seems to correlate with her not being featured as prominently in film roles compared to other young stars from the Philippines.
Slow, methodical and a poor main lead to rally behind really brings the quality of the story down. It's pretty much teenage melodrama with an art feel to it. Not my cup of tea. I didn't like Ayutas character at all, he just seemed very selfish in his decisions.
So for me, when I'm starting a drama, I give them a fair shake and start their rating at a 7. Whether or not they stay there by the time I finish depends on a multitude of possibilities gathered from how the story is portrayed and I often find that the last batch of episodes can influence the final rating. Does it end well? Is there some sort of takeaway from the story---all become factors in the final rating. You could for example have a great drama that had a strong 12 episodes to start off but the last 6 go off the rails and send the final rating into the dumps. It doesn't happen a lot but it does happen. I also give memorable dramas a second viewing if I feel there was something I missed at first and may even re-rate the drama higher or lower, depending of course.
Movies are a completely different ballgame. Usually by watching the first twenty minutes I can tell if it's going to be somewhat unique or just more of the same cliche.
Really surprising news from outta nowhere. I had just upped with them for another year so I'll be getting that refund hopefully but something about the whole thing just seems off. There was very little mention of why they had to shut down. Maybe they weren't making any money but that seems improbable after being in service for over eight years. Maybe it had to do with licensing which plays a big part for content providers, needing to have all the content in one place. I would guess that the future licensing that networks dolled out, got a little too expensive for DF to handle. While I am sad to see it go, I hope other on demand options such as Netflix gain a bigger platform and following of Asian Drama.
I can only imagine the looks in the audience after watching the premiere and say out loud, "DID THEY REALLY JUST DO THAT?" I will say they took a unique approach on how to end it unlike other action movies so be prepared for that.
Solid start. Great middle. Floundering finish. Might've been just a tad too long. Cut this to 32 and it would've been just right. I liked the main leads at the beginning but not so much at the end. The second leads helped a lot though and even the kids played their part well.
I did shed a tear but that's all. The movie was good but nothing you haven't seen before especially with time travel mixed in. It wasn't too memorable either which makes it hard to consider a rewatch.
I just felt the writer didn't show enough empathetic characteristics that would make me root for the ml. These are the types of guys girls or even people should stay far away from, there is no mysterious or dark side. There is only lies and talk. That's all the guy could do. Talk with no action and when they don't get what they want, they cut and run. A leech never learns.
I was just thinking how heartbreaking that last year for Hase-kun would've been.
The old boyfriend did have his gripes but if you couldn't stick with her when she got sick then what gives you the right to come back when she's better and that's regardless of if he didn't know at the time. What was stopping him from finding out? If he truly cared he would've found out himself.
Other than that, good movie to watch once. Fifty first dates in Japan.
Once I saw the episode called, “Goodbye, First Love.”
I knew.
Even with JH's mad dash to the concert which would cheapen it in my opinion, I knew that Taek was the guy but this is where I feel a second female lead or maybe a new female character introduced at or near the end, would've done so much because poor JH gets hung out to dry.
Taek was fine, they built him up with no discernible flaws and was worthy of being DS's forever love but the misdirection that was so brilliantly orchestrated made me kept thinking well what about JH? What had he done to deserve such a lonely fate? I can only hope he met someone in Sancheon and fell in love with a woman that he truly deserved.
What a joy to watch. Some very funny moments. Took about a week because there really wasn't much fast-forwarding going on and there weren't enough hours in the day. I still can't believe pagers were an actual thing. The time jumps especially at the end were so abrupt that it takes away from the overall series but it's happened in previous Reply series as well.
I still do prefer 1997 just because it's a little more relatable personally but they sorta even out story-wise. I preferred the more reunion-like ending that 97 had, instead of the one minute glimpses into the future that primarily focused on DS.
I don't think there will be another reply series as this completes the trilogy and is the send off of the story and while it ends on a down note, it makes 88 the most memorable in my opinion because it didn't end in a cliché type of way.
Movies are a completely different ballgame. Usually by watching the first twenty minutes I can tell if it's going to be somewhat unique or just more of the same cliche.
The movie was good but nothing you haven't seen before especially with time travel mixed in. It wasn't too memorable either which makes it hard to consider a rewatch.
The old boyfriend did have his gripes but if you couldn't stick with her when she got sick then what gives you the right to come back when she's better and that's regardless of if he didn't know at the time. What was stopping him from finding out? If he truly cared he would've found out himself.
Other than that, good movie to watch once. Fifty first dates in Japan.
I knew.
Even with JH's mad dash to the concert which would cheapen it in my opinion, I knew that Taek was the guy but this is where I feel a second female lead or maybe a new female character introduced at or near the end, would've done so much because poor JH gets hung out to dry.
Taek was fine, they built him up with no discernible flaws and was worthy of being DS's forever love but the misdirection that was so brilliantly orchestrated made me kept thinking well what about JH? What had he done to deserve such a lonely fate? I can only hope he met someone in Sancheon and fell in love with a woman that he truly deserved.
What a joy to watch. Some very funny moments. Took about a week because there really wasn't much fast-forwarding going on and there weren't enough hours in the day. I still can't believe pagers were an actual thing. The time jumps especially at the end were so abrupt that it takes away from the overall series but it's happened in previous Reply series as well.
I still do prefer 1997 just because it's a little more relatable personally but they sorta even out story-wise. I preferred the more reunion-like ending that 97 had, instead of the one minute glimpses into the future that primarily focused on DS.
I don't think there will be another reply series as this completes the trilogy and is the send off of the story and while it ends on a down note, it makes 88 the most memorable in my opinion because it didn't end in a cliché type of way.
Should be at least Top 20.