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THIS ADAPTATION SHOULDN'T EXIST

You didn’t adapt ORV. You just used its name.

From the moment they announced the cast, it was already giving POPULARITY over accuracy. Jisoo as Lee Jihye? Lee Minho as Junghyook? Be serious. Did they even read the novel? Jihye is one of the most uniquely written characters in ORV—“We added the gun because Lee Jihye js not interesting enough” my ass. She didn’t need the gun, Jisoo does. She had her sword because she’s literally the incarnation of the Martial General. They didn’t give her a gun because of plot, they did it because Jisoo couldn’t handle the stunts. Don’t reduce a whole character just because your idol can’t swing two swords.

And Bihyung. My fluffy brown-clothed dokkaebi 🥺. They turned him into a Labubu-looking creature. You really took the most beloved chaos creature in ORV and made him unrecognizable. I actually cried when I saw him. That was NOT my lovable bihyung.

But the worst part? This. The plot. The core of ORV is how much Dokja LOVED the novel. He lived, suffered, and D!ED because of that story. And the author? They wrote it for HIM! “This novel is just for that one reader.” That line DEFINES the whole thing. TLS123/Han Sooyoung shaped the plot to fit what Dokja needed—she literally created entire characters for him (Hayoung??). So to have her say “write it yourself”?? That’s not just OOC. That’s erasure. That's disrespect.

This isn’t a reinterpretation. It’s not a creative twist. It’s straight-up bowdlerization. A shallow, fame-chasing rewrite of something deeply personal to us, fragments. YOU CANNOT BE CALLED A FRAGMENT IF YOU WATCH THE LA. Don’t watch it.

[This is a review from a member of our ORV GROUP PAGE; I sent this here for more people to know.]

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THIS ADAPTATION MAKES US FEEL LIKE DYING

LIKE WDYM KIM DOKJA HATES TWSA?! WDYM THE AUTHOR TOLD HIM TO WRITE HIS OWN STORY?! KIM DOKJA LOVES TWSA SO MUCH SINCE IT WAS A NOVEL THAT SAVED HIS LIFE WHEN HE IS SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION. HIS MOTHER WAS IN JAIL FOR TAKING THE BLAME OF KILLING HIS DAD SINCE THE REAL ONE WHO KILLED KIM DOKJA'S DAD IS NONE OTHER THAN KIM DOKJA!! THIS LEADS KIM DOKJA TO HAVE TRAUMA AND SHORT AMNESIA MAKING HIM HAVE NO CLEAR MEMORY OF THAT CRIME AT ALL, AND TO EASE THE STRESS AND PAIN HE GREW UP READING TWSA THROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL TO THE DAY HE GOT HIS JOB. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST HATED THING FOR US ORV FANS, BECAUSE CHANGING ONE THING MAKES EVERYTHING HAVE NO SENSE AT ALL. SECOND OF ALL WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY GLORIOUS BIHYUNG?! WHAT IS THAT MONSTER LOOKING LABUBU FLOATING IN THE AIR?! BIHYUNG IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HORNS WITH FLUFFY PLUSH TOY LIKE BODY. THE BIHYUNG WE KNOW IS SOMEONE THAT YOU WOULD LIKELY TO HUG BECAUSE OF HOW CUTE HE LOOKS. NOT THAT MONSTER LOOKING THING. YEAH THEY ARE MONSTERS BUT THEY LOOK LIKE A CUTIE STUFF TOY. ADD MORE THAT THEY ARE USING GUNS?! IN ORV PEOPLE WHO USE GUNS ARE EXTRAS. SINCE MOST CHARACTERS WAS GIVEN WEAPONS BY THEIR CONSTELLATIONS THAT IS EITHER SWORDS AND ETC. NO MAIN CHARACTER IN ORV USES GUNS! BECAUSE THEY ARE FIGHTING THICK SCALED MONSTERS IN LAND AND WATER!! THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FLEXIBLE TO KILL THE MONSTERS MORE EASILY. THEY DON'T USE GUNS!!! AND WHAT ABOUT THAT SHIT I HEARD THAT YOO JOONGHYUK IS NOT A PROTAGONIST?! HE IS AND WILL EVER BE THE PROTAGONIST OF ORV AND TWSA. KIM DOKJA IS THE ANOMALY OF THE STORY WHICH MAKES BOTH OF THEM THE MAIN CHARACTERS WITH OTHER IMPORTANT CHARACTERS!!! DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE WAY THEY FILMED THE MOVIE!!! IT LOOKS LIKE AN AVERAGE VARIETY TV SHOW!! AND DID YOU KNOW THAT THEY CASTED FAMOUS PEOPLE JUST TO MONEY-GRAB?! THEY DIDN'T EVEN CARE ABOUT WHAT THE OG READERS FEEL AT HOW MUCH THEY BUTCHERED OUR FAVORITE NOVEL AND MANHWA

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I thought Korea was going backwards while watching this movie

I was going to give it 0.5 stars, but cannot be given here. I'm actually a fan of one of the actors, and also a fan of ORV. But seriously? You've made the entire cast almost hateable because their acting is so stiff. Let's leave Lee Minho alone because he has had a long career here. But the rest? You gave the women unnecessary and disgusting aegyo. It would be terrible if this movie were to exist. I hope the production team is not that arrogant and does not let their biases and opinions appear in this film. You want to defeat Demon Slayer? Marvel? Or what? Very bad. Absolutely disgusting. Honestly, Marvel didn't give Captain America a magic glove like you did to Hyunsung. And bastard, Tanjiro doesn't use a gun when fighting. And is Jisoo too lazy to run? What's with that teleportation skill? You want to imitate Flash or what, damn director?

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An Abysmal Disjointed Mess of a Beloved Classic

I am still in utter disbelief of what I just watched on screen for this beloved classic. The movie was a complete disjointed mess. If you are familiar w/ the story and other adaptions you will be incredibly disappointed, bored and even frustratingly annoyed. If you are not familiar with this story you will be utterly lost and confused. For a 2 hour movie, I skipped thru a lot. It was so boring an unengaging.

THE GOOD (its hard to even pull out anything good)
- The they kept the iconic theme song from the 1980s adaption
- Hua Jun (Mongolian Princess) this was a more complex, strong, interesting version of this character compared to previous adaptations of her being a whiny wimp

THE BAD (soooo many to list)
- Storyline and pacing was so rushed and disjointed. Left so many plot holes as to why certain characters are important or related.
- Zero character development, resulting in lack of emotional connection to any one character, even the main lead couple.
- Both ML and FL were utterly miscast. Zero chemistry. Neither one of them could truly portray the iconic characters of the slow-witted, adorable, loyal and freakishly strong Guo Jin or the cute, charismatic, cunning and witty Huang Rong.
- They just boiled it down to Ouyang Feng (West Poison) being the lead antagonist, whereas other adaptions had so many nuanced antagonists. And they made Ouyang Feng out to be some odd comic book character - his look, his acting, etc.

Overall an atrocious adaptation of a beloved class. What a complete waste of time.

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How does one even objectively review such a movie?

We are dropped into mid-conversation an injured high school student is having with a christian father about his “love quarrel”. And yet that conversation isn’t just between these two characters; that conversation, playing out throughout this movie, is between this movie and the audience.

“Why is it a sin to love someone?”

“So you can like girls, but I can't like boys? Is your love bigger than the love I give? Tell me. What's the difference between your love and mine? Tell me the difference!”

“Help me go to hell then. I'd rather go to hell now. Don't all homosexuals deserve to go to hell? Maybe more people would understand me in hell.”

With this conversation alone, the movie critiques society, religion, and our heteronormative understanding of “love”.

Set in the 80s, every time Birdy and JiaHan are alone, you too start worrying for their safety, hoping for their happiness, and mourning their love. Just like they don’t dare say their feelings out loud, the movie too, for quite a while, doesn’t explicity announce them as more than friends. But you, as a viewer, notice it so easily.

“When I looked at her (him), she (he) was already looking at me too.”

“If what you give me is the same as what you give to others, then I don't want it.”

You notice, as they themselves come to terms with their feelings, and then decide to hurt each other in order to protect each other. And oh, it is devestating.

And then, you smile as you hear them tell each other “wanan” at the very end of the movie, again and again, because “good night” (晚安/wanan) would never mean the same again.

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Boring at Lv999

It's been awhile since I read the original manga, but I swear it was a lot more charming and sweet than the live-action made it out to be. It's a shame because I feel like the main couple visually matched their manga counterparts really well, and I was excited to see what Ryuto would do with his character since I enjoyed him as the younger man in Nagatan to Aoto, but in my opinion, this movie put all its energy into the visuals and saved nothing for the actual story, which I found to be the case in most of this director's other projects that I've watched, especially Jack O'Frost and Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto. I feel like one of the most difficult aspects of movie adaptations is that you have to make the most out of a limited runtime, so tell me why we wasted time watching Tsubaki's glasses fall dramatically to the floor and her and Yamada getting pelted by the rain when they weren't even the main couple?? A lot of the shots are strangely framed and linger too long on unnecessary things, too, like the closeup of Akane's foot as Yamada was helping her put on her shoe.

Above all, the romance just has no build-up and is devoid of chemistry. I thought Tsubaki's confession to him was way more romantic than anything Yamada and Akane got up to, and even that was just standard shojo fare. All Akane did was get belligerently drunk (twice!) and constantly rely on Yamada to help her - what reason does he possibly have to fall in love with her?? The gaming aspects aren't well-utilized, and the characters have no substance, not to mention there are too many of them that have little to no impact to the story. Like, I'm always glad to see Maeda Oshiro on my screen and I'm glad he's getting his bag, but what was he there for????

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Movie just made to "compete" against Solo Leveling's anime

As someone who read the novel, and was, in a way, saved by it, Orv holds a pretty important place in my life, which makes this live adaptation even more disappointing.

While at the very beginning, I was really disappointed when I saw who was going to act as Yoo Joonghyuk, one of the main protagonists, in this live adaptation, it seems like he is actually the best actor out of them all ?

Not only has the director butchered, spit, stomped, shat, burned the original story, but he took everything that made Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint so iconic and important in the eyes of the readers, and just swapped it out for some generic, stupid, male-main lead of any random isekai, and didn't even bother to try to do something decent with it. The main actors don't seem to understand even the most superficial things about their own characters. I'm not going to delve into how the use of gun is also going against what the author, SingSong, wrote in the novel, but damn the CGI was utterly trash too, but the script sounds AI made and has a few plot holes too, which makes the whole movie unbearable to watch.

Here's a few examples:

-Kim Dokja was a lonely reader who kept living for THIRTEEN YEARS just to be able to see the ending, even though TWS was literally the most boring novel in the world, so much that KDJ was the last and sole reader of the novel. It's explicitly written a the beginning of the novel that he was disappointed that the novel was ending but he was really grateful to the author tls123, and was very polite to them. SO WHY WOULD HE READ THE NOVEL FOR 13Y IF IT'S JUST TO TELL THE AUTHOR THAT IT WAS ASS. It doesn't seem like Kdj appreciated the novel at all ?

-Kim Dokja was, again, a very lonely guy who didn't have any friends, and he basically hated life smh. Anyway, he's not someone that really looked forward to living, and is a morally (very) gray character, which made him a lot more relatable that the typical mc. Why would he start to want to save the world ? Out of pure compassion ?? Compassion he doesn't have ??????

-KDJ has a few skills that are extremely important to the plot but they don't seem to exist (like omniscient readers viewpoint, yk the name of the WHOLE STORY)

-The name of the movie doesn't make any sense since kdj says he ISN'T a prophet in the novel

-Kdj straight up lies by saying he's a prophet (which he isn't btw, he's just a READER) FACED WITH A LIE DETECTOR

-Constellations weirdly enough don't exist so the whole plot can't actually be called an adaptation ?

-Butchered the characters of JHW, YSH and everyone basically.

-KDJ trying to save the character he hated the most in TWS and that he killed in the original novel lmfao ?

-Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk whole interactions, of a reader and his favorite protagonist, being weird, unnatural, unnecessarily homophobic (they're not gay, but you can feel that they REALLY wanted Kdj to be "straight")

-Missed the whole central point of the story of friendship

While the movie had an enormous budget, the results are more than disappointing, be it from the directing, the acting, the CGI and everything from start to end. The movie can only leave the readers upset after watching the movie, and the non-readers confused, about the plot.

Even by forgetting the misogyny that's hidden in the LA, the directing team made Kim Dokja (a lonely and pitiful reader who only wanted to discover the epilogue of his favorite story) a writer. By doing that, they entirely missed the whole point of the story, that was thought and written for the readers, for them to be able to relate to the main character.

I'm not going to keep trashing the story because my review is in fact very long, but I'll say, the story left me in tears, not because of how good or sad it was, but because of disappointment and anger.
The utter lack of respect from the directing team is truly maddening, and I hope, I really hope that SingSong-nim isn't too disappointed by this.
Because it can be felt that this LA was made just to compete the anime of Solo Leveling, made with money in mind and not the audience.

Thank you a lot for taking the time to read this, and please DON'T watch the live adaptation of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, it's a waste of time.

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I'm ORV fan

Bruh wdym Lee Jihye holding gun, Yoo Joonghyuk not grabbing Kim Dokja by the neck, Kim Dokja hating on WOS, Kim Dokja is not a reader, Kim Dokja hating on Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja writing the epilogue himself, Jung Heewon is the main character, no Biyoo, Yoo SangAh is a healer, Lee SooKyung relying on Kim Dokja, Kim Dokja is ordinary, Bihyung is labubu or Doraemon, Kim Dokja saving Kim Namwoon, no deus ex machina, Kim Dokja killing a kid back when he was bullied, no Broken Faith but a core instead ❓ 这部电影像是狗做出的一样，人不会这么做。T sẽ ở dưới gầm giường ông nào sửa nát nguyên tác ~MỗI đÊm~ 🤡 hãy tận hưởng đc ải chỉa suốt đời nhé bro

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Touching story, worth to watch ⚠️ contain spoiler

It’s my first time writing a review because no one seems to does it, and this movie truly deserves more attention. I started watching for Karry Wang, but the young actor did a great job too. Both of them convey their emotions beautifully, especially Karry Wang—his eyes say everything, and he delivers a subtle yet impactful performance. Definitely worth a watch.

Life is hard, and some people really have no choice but to live the way Ma Liang does (though it’s not an excuse to do it anyway, and I appreciate that this movie doesn’t try to whitewash it but simply shows why he has to live like that). Ma Liang is trapped in a cycle of poverty, doing illegal jobs to survive, yet he still protects the small kindness in his heart. I love how, even while walking such a thorny road, he never wants Xuanxuan to follow the same path as him. Their relationship starts from a place of caution but gradually grows into something deeply tender. Even when the world gives him nothing, Ma Liang still chooses to give warmth to the little kid, who slowly finds his way into Ma Liang’s heart. Ma Liang himself never found a good adult to rely on, but he surely knows how to be one.

Their acting is so good that it feels natural watching their simple daily life. So simple, yet so genuine and filled with unspoken trust between them. Although some parts of the movie move at a slower pace, it never affected my view enough to lower my rating because the overall story is so beautiful, and every quiet moment matters. Even the supporting character gang, despite their limited screen time, have well-written relationships that add depth to the story.



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⚠️ Below here are some touching moment that I love. It contains spoilers, so beware:

The part when Ma Liang sings a lullaby to Xuanxuan is so sad; his voice genuinely broke my heart. And it’s the first time seeing him so vulnerable. He has to act as an older brother here, but the truth is he’s also a teenager that not much older than Xuanxuan and have to live such a hard life.

And the last scene—god, the last scene—must have been a very hard decision for Ma Liang, but he still chose to do it for Xuanxuan’s sake. The scene where he crouches down to tie Xuanxuan’s shoes at school is so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same times, because Ma Liang still smiling gently, giving the boy the freedom he deserves, even if he’s about to cut off his own freedom. Like I said before, Karry Wang’s eyes truly say everything.

Love this story, super beautiful.

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not worth the watch even as a standalone movie.

From the beginning we knew that they would screw up the adaptation and won't be faithful to the original novel. But they didn't even try to make it look or sound good.

The script? Terrible.
The graphics? Cheap.
The plot/story? It's all over the place.
The acting? Awkward.

Even as a standalone movie they didn't bother to even try to explain the story's universe/setting. It will be so damn confusing to anyone who watches it.

If you wanted a cool action movie, atleast do it properly. This is just a poorly executed nonsense. Wouldn't recommend at all. If you are actually interested maybe give the original novel a try cause this story is one of the best fiction ever.

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