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Depressing yet brilliant but really, really boring
This movie is a really feel bad, loose hope for society kind of movie. Yet is extremely depressing not only is the subject depressing but also the atmosphere the colors, the plot everything is just so very very sad and will actually make you mad.This movie shows several aspects to breaking down individuals with mental illness through lack of help, lack of understanding and having to deal with some pretty strong prejudges facing society and loved ones. It is truly painful to watch yet has some dark humor that made me laugh between the oooh so depressing scenes. Showing both the the lack of support from institutions, difficulties in finding work and being pointed out as a psycho who is dangerous by more or less everyone around him. Having people afraid of him warning their children to stay away from him. In all this the voice of reason comes from a kid who thinks we should change the surroundings instead of the person, I truly loved that kid.
The entertainment value of this drama is probably worth one star or two at most since it is truly boring 90% of the time, But the dark humor, the message, the acting the lack of sugarcoating and the way this is done is worth 10 stars so I settled on 8. But be were you are in for some truly boring scenens and probably this years (ok 2017s) feel bad movie of the year with a dash of madness... Its a mad world and damn that world will make you mad.
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As exiting as a Omok game
I think it was as exiting as an omok game is in real life, mostly boring but with some fun moments... (but actually I would not know, having never played). To be honest I chose this for the watch challenge,would probably not have continued watching it if it where not for it being less than an hour long and my lack of interest in bordgames.The main character is actually pretty sweet and lovable, her interaction with the kid is great and they both exhibit pretty good acting skills as well (you may recognize the kid from Sky castle). There are some jokes that are funny, especially the way they cover up swearing (yes I am childish and enjoy seeing smileys instead of swear words).
The side characters are mostly annoying, and have this low forced humor about them that may cater to others taste just not mine. I can not really put my finger around what makes this show mostly boring. Seeing the acting is mostly pretty good, the story not bad and two of the main characters actually being lovable,... I guess you will have to watch it to find out or just skip it because honestly it is not even worth that hour.
Seeing this is the first review for this show/movie... others may just as well have felt that it was to insignificant to review... and if you love Omok, I´m sorry if I offended you , I may have liked this more if I knew anything about omok... I should know more about it after watching this (it even has tutorials) but no my mind is completely blank.
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Allot of goo and sweetness surrounded by stalking and predictability
This drama is sweet but has so many stalkers in it that one may want to rename it to "Stalking scenery". The stalking here is portrayed as some kind of miss placed affection but not att all called out. The drama does however have a good balance of gooey romance, action and conflicts in it with the added bonus of the scenes inside the computer game, that add both action and sweetness to the drama.The dramas douse however not come with anything a person who has seen c-dramas before has not seen before but it is well executed. The plot is extremely predictable.I'm not saying it as a bad thing. predictable can be fun and entertaining too. If I had a BINGO chart with c-drama tropes this drama would hit BINGO on several lines. It was actually pretty funny to watch as the predictable trope came along i really just wanted to tick a box or shout BINGO but had neither the Bingo chart or a list but you who have not seen it, I strongly recommend you try.
The music is pretty good, there is one song that keeps on playing over and over again while other songs only come on once or twice. It would have been nice to hear the other songs more and the first song a bit less. The looks the leads exchange in the beginning of the drama are so intense it reaches out thru the screen, but be were that once the tension between the leads is gone, the chemistry slowly follows. Which leaves us with the Lin Yis extreme charm and cuteness to hold up ones interest, and well it did the job for me.
When entering a C-drama I'm always prepared for the male lead to force himself on the female lead. And have almost developed a scale of between full on disrespect and rape 1 to 10 respectful and consensual relationship. This guy scores a 9 seeing he douse cross the line a little bit once but makes up for it later on and is over all very respectful towards the female lead. I am however not really thrilled over how the female leads interest for physical intimacy is portrayed. A little bit to much of the guy is expected to want it all the time while the girl is not supposed to admit to wanting it though she probably is just as interested just puts me off. Writers please lets start writing healthy consensual relationships with or without physical intimacy where both parts are equally interested in whatever they may be interested in.
The side characters in this drama where mid annoying for most parts and did not really bring much to the table so I decided to skip the side couples scenens mostly since I figured life is to short for stalkers as well as mildly annoying side characters, I recommend you do the same, it ups the enjoyment by quite a bit ;)
All in all a pretty ok drama to watch, allot of sweet gooey (more intense then fluffy) scenens, a very sweet male lead and a pretty decent female lead for most parts with an okay story line. If you are in it for the sweet gooey parts this is definitely worth watching but if you want something with substance do look elsewhere.
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Slow, a tad frustrating but realish and surrounded by sweetness
Another hard to rate drama, entertainment wise it was not very entertaining, the pace is slow not the stories pace but the way they talk, the way they film and the way it goes just takes forever....The story itself is a bit different and though we may see some well known cliches they most definitely do not follow the regular pattern. to be honest I would have liked the ending more if they ended it 5 minutes earlier than what they did but that is just a matter of preferences. I did like how they talk about fate coincidences and show different sides to holding on to something. When s it an obsession, when is it a habit and when is passion, dreams, love... yes the drama shows the whole pallet and a whole lot of different healthy and less healthy relationships. So all in all worth watching but just not that entertaining .
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Potentially good story ruined by bad acting
I cam for Park Bo Young and the story but left because of the others acting. I was cureus about PBYs first role in a drama (acording to the listing here on MDL), for bein her first role and oly being 16 she did do a really good . But most of the rest of the cast just did not have the talant to pull of this story. PArk Bo Young stand out here as the ones with most potential and skill which of course you can see by the amount of credits poth have after competing this drama.This is such a shame, I thought I could forgive bad lighting and that I did not mind bad acting as well as the story is good, this drama taught me an interesting lesson a bout myself (that I do cara abot the acting) and where my limits go for continuing to watch or drop even if the story seems good.
So to sum it up if you want to test your limit for how much bad acting you can over look this is the perfect place to do it, and to see how many episodes you can watch befor you guive up. Other wise I would say you should probably not bother.
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Song Joong Ki rocks but the rest is meeh
I used to be a cereal binger, thinking there is no drama I can not binge until I met Vincenzo who truly made me question my identity as a full on die hard binger. At first I thought there was something wrong with me, had I hit a slump? Having worked really hard to avoid spoilers I actually managed to be surprised by some of the twits so I could not blame spoilers for this feeling. Was it the length of the episodens? No not really, I have seen worse, so how come I could not manage to binge this drama that I had been anticipating for months? I felt conflicted since I at least thought I was enjoying the drama and did not think it was bad.I have given this allot of thought (okej not allot but some thought) and come up with several explanations:
1. It did not live up to the hype.
2. Some parts are actually boring
3. Some of the acting is pretty mediocre
4. It has several annoying characters, who just prolong the episodes without actually adding anything.
5.The characters that are annoying most of time have each moments that are brilliant resulting in confusion, do I like this character or do I wish it gone...
All of this makes it it tiering to watch.
So what did I like about this drama enough to give it an 8?
Well
1.Song Joong Ki character
2.Song Joong Ki, acting
3. Soong Joong Ki, styling
4. The pigeon
5. Song Joong Kis interaction with the pigeon
Where all grat!!!
6. The main story is actually pretty good it is just dragged out a bit to long but it is actually really interesting.
7.The cinematography is utterly gorgeous.
8.Song Joong Ki with a flower in his hair
9. Song Joong Ki with on a white horse
10. Song Joong Ki with a polo shirt
11. Amazing explosions!
12. Interesting ways to kill people
13. Fire and lighters
14. Great use of phones and umbrellas
15. Truck of doom, with or without a make over
16. Some parts where actually funny
17. Character development, every singel character changed in some way or another not bad for a drama with ALLOT of characters
So some parts where great, some part where bad and some part where just meeh... Actually not bad to incorporate all this in to one drama (a very long drama). So to be honest it didn't get me up on my toes, it didn't make me cry it did not really make me feel any thing else than love for Song Joong Ki so in short it was simply meeh
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