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Save Yourselves! (2020)
This film abuses the viewer -- avoid any reviews rated above 1
First off I'm going to say it: the actors are ugly. Must have worked for free or were the family of the director. And their characters are too stupid to be anything above 80 I.Q., and they're so clueless we want the monsters to kill them quickly and PAINFULLY. DO YOU WANT TO BE ANGRY? Nah, you don't want to be that angry. Avoid this like Covid 19. Anyone who rates this film over 1 is obviously bribed.
The King: Youngwonui Gunjoo (2020)
After five episodes it just keeps getting better.
I'm a real person in America -- not a bot or paid-for reviewer. I meant every one of the ten stars I'm giving the series -- so far.
This series just is knocking me over. I sure hope this continues.
I actually check the time while watching only to be "sad" that the end of the episode is WAY TOO CLOSE NOW. This begins at the five minute mark. Heh.
I love kdramas, but whoa, this one steps it up. The richness of possible plots allures when two whole dimensions are to be explored. Talk about doubling down on kdrama's well known standard dynamics -- two versions fully sussed.
The personality of the King is so well written and the actor nails it.
The "BABE" is just perfect. Not a "doll face" sweetie pie, but a mature AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN worthy of a King. She snarks at the King and melts our heart with her innocence. Nice.
If possible, don't view the series until it has all been streamed so that you can binge on the entire set going without food and water and sometimes even oxygen when you hold your breath during the viewing.
12 Episodes in, I'm still can't wait for the next episode. To help me suffer less I've watched all the episodes twice. But it wasn't enough. Am now on a two day binge -- doing the whole series from scratch to today, and HOO WEE did I learn a lot more. I see now I should have BEEN EVEN MORE APPRECIATIVE. This thing's got great writing . . . and everything else. Most kdramas have about four to ten relationships that need to be resolved to a higher clarity, and this makes for some hard slogging to "keep all subplots fresh so that the viewer always knows who thinks what about whom," but The King's writing effortlessly keep us updated -- we don't have to "study." And the writer has to keep us hep about each character TWICE! It's quite a mastery of juggling. At this point in the series, I have zero idea of how it will end. So many possibilities! And THEY GOTTA JUST GOTTA START RIGHT NOW ON NEXT SEASON. This is a winner.
Series wrap-up IT'S A TOTAL WINNER. So good, I watched the series from the first episodes THREE TIMES because I couldn't stand waiting for the next episode.
Ga-lyeo-jin si-gan (2016)
Unreal time gimmick and unreal reactions of supposedly normal people.
It just is so hard to see how ALL WRITERS IN HISTORY so badly write what children will do. The sheer stupidity of the adults who fail to be thorough and the besmirching of children everywhere with these characters illogical stunted emotionalism.
It forces the viewer to scream inside one's skull -- TELL THEM THAT. TELL THEM THIS. Take them there. Show them. Etc. Frustration level in this film reached red-line.
I rate it a seven because of production values, but the script is bad and the ending was not twisty as much as it was more of the same stupidity of supposed children characters.
Writers are kid haters? WTH?
Byeol-e-seo on geu-dae (2013)
Twenty One Hours of sweet sad bitter joyful tears.
This series owned me. Flat out had me at "hello" and kept building on me with each episode.. So well acted by all. Bigtime laughs peppers the tears and the dire moments. Magic is delivered.
I refused to complain about tid-bits in a production that thrilled my nervous system with such a strong love story in a sea of power mad agendas. I'm sure others can give this less than ALL STARS. But, hey, the actors were all stars, so why not?
The biggest problem is NO SEQUEL.
This series knows how to love faces. So many close-ups that should have had me looking for skin bumps and ear hair instead had me involved in ten second long emotions being obviously processed -- like I said, good acting.
Start the series. See if you can quit after a few episodes.
I'm 75 years old, retired white married guy -- not a push over, but I kept getting serious binge dynamics. Saw all 21 episodes in three days. Be warned. Clear your calendar.
(I posted this exact review -- mistakenly -- for another similarly titled series, but this is the TV series I saw.)
My Love from the Star (2017)
It's 21 hours of happy sad sweet bitter tears.
This series owned me. Flat out had me at "hello" and kept building on me with each episode.. So well acted by all. Bigtime laughs peppers the tears and the dire moments. Magic is delivered.
I refused to complain about tid-bits in a production that thrilled my nervous system with such a strong love story in a sea of power mad agendas. I'm sure others can give this less than ALL STARS. But, hey, the actors were all stars, so why not?
The biggest problem is NO SEQUEL.
This series knows how to love faces. So many close-ups that should have had me looking for skin bumps and ear hair instead had me involved in ten second long emotions being obviously processed -- like I said, good acting.
Start the series. See if you can quit after a few episodes.
I'm 75 years old, retired white married guy -- not a push over, but I kept getting serious binge dynamics. Saw all 21 episodes in three days. Be warned. Clear your calendar.
A Christmas Love Story (2019)
It's a vanity film with some good singing
But ugh. I cringed again and again. None of the chemistry worked. I would give it one star except for the last ten minutes. It DID get my tears flowing, yep, but it was a very long slog of a film to see before the tissues came out.
Great production values and all that art, of course. It's not low budget,and that helps, but soooooooooooooooo cringy.
My opinion is practiced. I've seen at least 25 Christmas films in the last month. I wanted this film to work.
Smoke Signals (1998)
Deepest Knowledge, Greatest Heart, and Beyond
I just saw Smoke Signals again yesterday on the Fourth of July. I'm hoping that my intent to see it on the 4th every year from now on is realized. This film is as good as any scripture, and it has the deepest knowledge of reality possible. It gives us silence first, poetry second, and a soaring spirit always.
I'm wondering if anyone else has this view of the film.
Obviously the film is loved by millions, but I wonder: "Is the film merely an affair of the heart to most in the audience? How many see, that intellectually, the film is as valid for its philosophical depth?" It reaches not only into the marrow of the indigenous bone but shows us all to have the same spiritual core. The message is not "I am indigenous, hear me roar, see my pride, feel my soul, know my journey." It is "We are. Our story is. Everything is sacred. There is no other. The loudest laugh is a silence shared across a table after a knock."
Obviously I'm dangerously bonkers from a narcotic obsession with this film's encapsulation of the Way of all paths.