Please Note:

One * = Didn't like it, Don't recommend. Two ** = Typical. Worth seeing at least once. Three *** = I enjoyed it! Worth seeing more then once.
Four **** = It's great! Add it to your all-time favorites list! Five ***** = Epic! Highly Recommended. A totally memorable drama/film.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Flower Boy Next Door

Flower Boy Next Door/ My Neighbor Flower Boy/ The Pretty Boy Next Door/ My Flower Boy Neighbor/ 이웃집 꽃미남/ Yiootjib Kkotminam *** (Korean)
16 episodes

Yoon Shi Yoon as Enrique Geum
A fun-loving and enjoyable romantic comedy. Ahh, I want the hat!! Favorite characters: Enrique, hippo, and Watanabe. Favorite scenes: Watanabi's 'escalator' ride and Enrique's panda dash.

Dok Mi, having shut herself away in her apartment, spends an idle moment peeping at the neighbor across from her window, and sees her crush quickly prepping to leave, thinking the fellow's poor dog just got crowned with a hot tea kettle, she races over, only to be caught by the guy's friend and somewhat unexpected new roomy. Enrique, a gamer and game creator, is fresh from Brazil, and thinking to play cupid between a girl he liked and his friend. Realizing Dok Mi has been spying on the apartment, He rushes over to confront her, and gets into a bit of difficulty with the girl's neighbors who are curious as to why he is banging on her door. Then along comes pain from the past for the shut-in editor, in the form of a rather snooty 'high-class' girl who has an unrelenting crush on one of her neighbors, Jin Rak. The struggling webtooner, though, has a long-time crush on Dok Mi. With Enrique in the way of the status quo and destabilizing quiet lives with his exuberance (and stalking fans)... quite the upheaval is quickly underway for all concerned.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Love of South and North

Love of South and North/ Love Impossible/ 남남북녀/ Namnam buknyeo *\ (Korean)
Movie 108 mins
Zo In-Sung as Kim Chul-Soo
Kim Sa-Rang as Oh Young-Hee
A number of ehhs in this one. I guess it was alright for a basic plot n delivery.. all within a movie's too-short time limit. It wasn't horrible, nor was it memorable to any degree. There is a bit of hormonal vulgarity in this movie.

Son of a s.Korean bigwig is a dyed-in-the-wool playboy. One day, his teacher gives him an ultimatum, go on the excavation colab between north and south, or completely fail to graduate. Being as his dad is likely to moiderize him for failing, he chooses to take on the excavation. There he meets the girl of his dreams, daughter of a n.Korean bigwig.. and after quite a bit of pursuing and realization, love blossoms between them. But how can love in such a situation hope to survive?


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