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This is a horror film, disguised as a romance.
This felt disturbing to watch, from the church setting, the subtle music, the cinematography and self-harm depictions, there was no time to breathe in between and actually feel happy for the romantic moments.Never once in my lifetime have I ever thought it as wrong for a girl to enter a relationship with another girl, but this film just gave me that feeling firsthand, and I hate that feeling. Is this what real lesbian girls have to go through in a religious household? Just the thought of it makes me sick to my stomach. I physically could not get myself to watch the ending to this film, because I already saw what it was leading to.
The main girls aren't at fault for anything, they did absolutely nothing wrong. I feel so bad for both of them! Their one comfort and escape (their relationship) is seen as problematic by their parents and the church.
The film itself was done really well, I think it probably did exactly what it intended to. To explore a disturbing reality and bring more attention to this issue. But now I'm conflicted if I should recommend this film, as much as I love it for bringing my attention to the issue, I don't like how disturbed it left me.
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This is like a Spinoff, but even failed as a spinoff of ORV
Do NOT watch, it’s horrible at trying to represent ORV. Even if you’re ignorant because you’re a fan of the actors or just unaware of what this monstrosity did wrong, it doesn’t completely justify watching or defending this THING. There’s so much wrong with this that I might implode just listing it all here. But just know that this “movie” botched so many deep themes of ORV by censoring them out and/or doing a complete 180 of what ORV is conveying.Was this review helpful to you?
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Utterly Disappointing
As I leave my review here I'm still thinking that 1 star review is such a waste If there is a 0 star review then that's what I'm picking!
Why this LA is disappointing I have 49/51 of reason to say this is disappointing but let me just state the 11 things why this is trash LA.
1. The background of the story - what do you mean kdj wants to save the world this guy doesn't give a quack about others, he just wants to reach the end of the scenario with his companions.
2. The Title - what prophecy disappointment is this? This guy is not a prophet he does not care about others and do not share his knowledge about TWSA that he read I don't see any prophecy in the ORV manwha or Novel mayber you're talking about lee seolhwa but kdj what a jk.
3. The Guns - IT'S A FREAKING HISTORY RELATED MANWHA ABOUT YOUR HISTORICAL CONSTELLATIONS?! Maybe Gong Pildu uses machine guns etc but the others are using swords specially Lee Jihye and Yjh. Just what the heck
4. YJH attire and hair style - Yjh has a black long trench coat with leather shoes and beneath this long coat is a black shirt with this unique design of white buckle in the middle that almost looks like a priest uniform, but the LA has this dusty and dirty looking costumes like he was rolling in the dust and dirt all the time. He also has short black slightly curly hair, but the YJH LA looks like he is out of the salon after a rebond. And his freaking using gun just wtquack 😭 what's wrong with you?!!!
5. Pildu is a grandpa now - really LA? What the heck Pildu is a Middle age man like a fat gangster not like this old man he looks like a grandpa not a mister or an uncle.
6. Lee Gilyoung - has this fearless look and always ready, not this kid that looks like he needed his mom all the time
7. Bihyung looks like a labubu - what the quack did you do to our dokkaibei you make him looks like a labubu with cape😭 our Bihyung has this scary look but cute and fluffy and he wears a looks like a rug clothes and his a freaking white not this blue labubu flying labubu with a cape. Just wtquack I'm really shocked is your budget this tight?
8. Yoo sang-ah doesn't heal - she doesn't heal she kills
9. Jung Heewon using a Dagger instead of a sword - really a Dagger? What is this solo leveling? She's a freaking sword user not a dagger!!!! And coins instead of blood that's where the hype came from and you just take it all.
10. Lee hyunsung - I just don't see him the big brown bear look the LA version doesn't come close to the Manwha version he looks like he can crash you with his palm without second thought while the manwha and novel is such a big sweet bear.
11. KIM DOKJA - Kim dokja is shorter than yjh, his body is slender and skinny because he was severely malnutritious when he was a kid, not this bulky guy in LA, kdj did not shout like that when yjh choked him and throw him to feed to the monster infact his even smiling to get on yjh nerves
This is really disappointing I can write more but I should stop now! Pls don't watch this.
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do NOT watch
Read the novel. Live action is terrible and absolutely butchers the core themes and characters.Read the novel instead. Read the novel instead. Read the novel instead. Read the novel instead. Read the novel instead. Read the novel instead. Read the novel instead. Read the novel. Live action is terrible and absolutely butchers the core themes and characters.
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serious skills to make the perfectly good novel to an abomination
No matter how much effort you put in the process, if they deliberately fucked the first process which is the writing, then everything would turn into a waste. They're not even short on money so I dont get why the la ended up like that. Were they given a tight pre-prod schedule? Not given enough time to write and brainstorm everything? Not given enough time to read the whole original novel? Or not given enough freedom by the executive producers to make the la as close to the original as possible to cater to a wider audience for money? Either way, that doesn't change the fact that they fucked this up big time and they wasted a lot of money to create this abomination. Bad writing is always a huge turn off in a film no matter how good the visual is, but damn, even the cinematography is bad I couldn't stand watching the whole thing. This is obviously created to farm money from the actors fans, not for film enthusiasts nor novel fans. HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED TO WATCH. JUST PIRATE IT IF YOU'RE CURIOUS.Was this review helpful to you?
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It cant be called ORV LA
How it can be an adaption when it changes nearly the whole plot?!?!?Some people say we're overreacting, but honestly, I think the director just has skill issues. The original work was written in their own language, so I can't tell if they're deliberately distorting the content or if they truly just don't get it. Some of the changed plot points even involve their own country's history. Watching the movie, it looks like the director hasn't even read it once.
Even fanfics wouldn't dare to write stuff like this, seriously 🙏. No shame at all, just riding on the novel's millions of reads and then easily spitting all over someone else's hard work. So proud of yourselves, huh?
p/s: To those "LA fans", you guys don't even have the right to call us 'toxic,' especially when you haven't read a single chapter of the novel, know nothing about the original work, and only support this sh!tty piece because of actors you like, just SYBAU 🥀🥀🥀
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Mission Impossible with Chinese Characteristics
Small-time official Li Shan De must fulfil a deadly mission: transport fresh lychees from Lingnan to Chang'an. Deadly, because this is the emperor's order and should he fail - which looks likely - the consequence is almost certain death for him and his family.But old mate Li Shan De is a math guy. He is determined to see this mission through as far as he can and puts his skills, and newly found friends, to the test.
The Lychee Road follows a typical Mission Impossible template, both in terms of characters and plot. This does limit the film's scope because it plays it safe the entire time. However, it does execute the template and its clichés rather well, making it a fun and satisfying watch once you've resigned yourself to the film's genre conventions. The emotional pull is on the weaker side, but comedic moments help lift the whole thing.
Try watch this on the big screen if you can. There's some great colour grading and well composed landscape shots that benefit from a large screen.
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If butchering a story was an art, this would be the masterpiece.
I was completely disappointed watching this nonsense of a movie that claims to be based on Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. It has almost nothing in common with the novel we love. Honestly, I wouldn’t even have known this was supposed to be an ORV's live action if not for the characters’ names and SingSong-nim’s name being mentioned. The director and some of the cast didn’t even have basic respect for the original story or our author-nim (let alone us readers). If they did, this movie wouldn’t have turned out the way it did.So, with all due respect, please don’t make another one.
And to those who’ve only seen the movie, I hope you understand why we are being like this and please don’t judge Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint based on this adaptation. The novel (and even the manhwa) is a beautiful story that deserves to be experienced properly. I genuinely hope you’ll give the original a chance instead of relying on... whatever this was.
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this is absolutely painful to watch
It’s changed every single thing from the original novels, ignorant and misogyny director—absolutely not worth the time. I was so exited when I know about the casts but now I feel so bad for them and every reader, this is very disrespect to the source material or anyone. Sorry for my bad English, I actually didn’t write long review in this language but i dislike this movie with my passion.Was this review helpful to you?
Ts is ass
The story is totally different from the novel. Why make a live action of it when you’re gonna change the whole plot anyways?? Might as well drop it. I can’t find a single good thing to say about this live action. At first, I was excited for a live action but man, I’m 100% disappointed. Like fym kdj’s a bully? He was the one who was bullied. And fym his fav is heewon 💔 I hope this movie will flopWas this review helpful to you?
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME TO WATCH IT!
Better to take down this shit, borrowing popular novel and manhwa only to milking money from the fans and TOTALLY RUINING the story, TOTALLY WRECKED the plot and FULLY TRASHING the importance of the hardwork of author and those fans who makes this novel and manhwa POPULAR before it gets 'ADAPTED'. It gets adapted cz of that novel and manhwa fans who makes this story popular, but those wench out of nowhere pretending to 'ADAPTING' but make their own story borrowing the title, even the actors didn't touch that novel to deepen their character is such a fuckazz move. What a TRASH.Was this review helpful to you?
No way this thing got me running my phone to make an acc here just to write a bad review
Listen, idk any much about orv, I'm gonna confess that, but even I who haven't read both novel and manhwa know that this live acting is straigh up the inventor of trash.I know the basics in orv:
1. KDJ LOVES YJH. He's his favourite, causing the famous "I am Yoo Joonghyuk" line, but to think that they would make KDJ love ANOTHER CHARACTER???
2. KDJ DOESN'T DESPISE TWSA. He read that damn novel for 13 years, you think someone who despises a novel would read it for 13 years? Heck I couldn't even stand a day if I'm reading a novel I despise. How did i know he read TWSA despite jot reading the novel or manhwa? SIMPLE SEARCHING ON GOOGLE YOUR RETARDED MFING BASTARDS, ARE YOU THAT LAZY TO SEARCH WHETHER KDJ ADORES OR DESPISES TWSA?!!?!!???
3. YOO SANGAH AS THE MFING HEALER, AKA JUST A SUPPORT. Listen, I usually only know three characters from orv but I did my research. HOW DID AN ASSASSIN END UP AS A HEALER???? How did someone with a role like that get nerfed as a support?? I did my research, I read things about Yoo Sangah, and HER becoming a healer? A female character who fought for her rights, to become independent and escape the stereotypical female human the men make them to be . A complete bullshit. As a woman myself, them reducing Yoo Sangah's role as healer, a role mostly given to females because they're only used as a support, this is enough for me to be ticked of.
4. Bihyung.... Do I really have to tell this...? It's so fking obvious that there will be a lot of hate on Bihyung's design. They made Bihyunh look like a labubu, and as someone who never liked our understand the hype in labubu, I despise his design, like, we're ate the white fluffy fur?? Why do they have to nerf Bihyung and turn his fur like a monkey's fur💔
This love action just gave me more motivation to read the novel and the manhwa instead of watching that thing that you couldn't even call a live action and associate it with orv
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Loving Freely Isn't for Everyone
Journey to the Shore is one of the most painfully realistic portrayals of internalized homophobia, societal pressure, and the silent tragedy that queer youth face in conservative Korean society.Sang Beom is a boy who’s already been burned by homophobic bullying in his previous school, and now, even though he finds love again in Minha, he’s terrified to be outed. Minha, on the other hand, doesn't try to hide—he doesn’t care what others think, but that doesn’t mean he’s not hurting. In fact, he’s been hurting for a long time. The scars on his wrist say it all.
They both keep hurting each other unknowingly. Minha clings to Sang Beom like he’s his last strand of life. Sang Beom loves him too, but he’s suffocating under the pressure of fear and guilt. On their 100th day, when Minha is beaten and Sang Beom finally breaks down crying, the shift is devastating. That moment was heartbreaking—Minha realized he wasn’t just hurting himself anymore… he was hurting the only person he loved.
The film doesn’t point fingers. There are no villains here. Just pain, repression, love, and confusion. It ends in silence, and you're left to guess: did Minha die by suicide? All signs seem to say yes. But nothing is confirmed. That’s what makes it even more haunting.
Technically, the film is low-budget, but it doesn't matter. The acting is phenomenal. Everything—the shaky camera work, the mundane school setting, the rawness—feels intentional. This film didn’t need polish. It needed truth. And it gave us that.
This movie will leave you hollow, and that’s its strength. It lingers.
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THE REASON why novel fans hate this adaption
The story was changed drastically. This is a disrespect towards the og novel. In the novel Dokja never hated the novel. It was his salvation. His reason to live. But they changed the script that said Dokja hated the ending. He never wanted to save the world. He wanted to reach a certain ending. Dokja never saved Kim Namwoo. Kim Namwoo d1ed in the train. Dokja wasn't the bully rather he was bullied. He was lonely so he searched for ways to survive then he found the novel named "Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse". Lee Jihye was never so mature. She was a playful hot headed high schooler. Every character in the novel had painful past but they made them ruthless k1llers. They shouldn't called it an adaption. They could say it was inspired. That's not the only reason. The vfx was done poorly. Action scene were a total disaster. Acting was so stiff.Was this review helpful to you?
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