The Beast and the Beauty/He Was Cool/Seducing Mr. Perfect

Posted on December 2, 2007

Since medyo nabore ako kagabi, I’ve watched three Korean movies straight.

The Beast and the Beauty – I watched this kasi recommended ni Joanna, maganda daw yung story. Nakakaaliw naman siya infairness, kahit kapatid ko na bihira pa sa patak ng ulan na samahan akong manood ng mga movies na iba ang lenggwahe at puno ng subtitles ay pinanood din ito. Naturally base pa lang sa title alam niyo na how the story goes. Sabi ni Joanna cute daw yung prosecutor dito and chaka naman yung bidang guy kaya naman umpisa pa lang kay prosecutor guy na ako (di ko pa siya nakikita nun), pero sa totoo lang mas gusto ko si Dong Gun (si beast), mas okay siya kaysa kay prosecutor, nakakatouch yung mga efforts niya for Hae Joo. BTW, I think Hae Joo is played by the girl who stars in A Love To Kill (opposite Rain).

He Was Cool – I really enjoyed this one. Kahit na medyo cliché and gasgas na yung story line ayos pa din. Medyo typical na talaga yung story kasi parang ala Meteor Garden, Hana Yori Dango siya. May badboy na nainlove sa isang ordinary girl blah blah. Pero sobrang nagustuhan ko talaga siya, iba pa rin yung kilig na naidulot niya, maganda talaga. Puno ng mga sweet moments. Nakakatawa pa. Ji Eun Sung (bad boy) was played by Johnny, yung nasa Endless Love 1. Unang impression ko nung pinapanood ito is sana iba na lang yung guy for the role, kasi parang di talaga bagay sa kanya, pero nung lumaon ayos na rin. As for the girl, medyo familiar yung mukha niya (siya ba yung bida sa Attic Cat?).

Seducing Mr. Perfect – Daniel Henney. The reason I’ve watched this is because of him. Siya yung isa pang guy na nagstar sa Kim Sam Soon. Nung nakita ko na siya yung bida, go na! watch na. Nakakatuwa yung story, walang boring parts at ang ganda ng set nila, I was wondering nga kung sa Korea pa ba ito shinoot. The thing is puro English ang sinasabi ni Daniel all throughout, I was thinking, nagkakaintindihan kaya talaga sila, nakakaintindi ba talaga ng Korean si Daniel or what, kasi sa KSS di din siya nag Ko-korean. Over all, must see pa din ang movie na ito, that’s all I can say.

Generalizations after watching these movies:

Mga di mawawalang scenes sa Korean movies and series:

♦ Lead actors showing off their body

♦ Karaoke singing

♦ Inuman time

♦ Nalasing si girl and then binuhat siya ni guy

♦ Almost all of the time ay CEO or mayaman si bidang guy

The Classic

Posted on October 29, 2007

Is it possible for someone to fall in love at a movie? That’s exactly what I was thinking after watching The Classic.

Watching this movie is not originally on my plan. I was watching America’s Next Top Model and I’m on the next to the last episode, when it came to the season finale, I’ve found out that the dvd didn’t contain the finale. So I was scanning through my dvd’s and I’ve decided to watch a movie, and The Classic struck my attention, not that it’s pretty, at first I wasn’t enthusiastic to watch this, but since I’ve read in a forum that it’s good, I decided to try.

Before watching it, I have my mind set that the setting would be from the 70’s (as in old), so when the film started rolling, I told myself that “prepare to be bored”. However a music that I was so into came into the picture, CANON in D is playing, and you know what, I so so so so love canon, and that started my interest in the film. Then the name of the actors/actress began to appear at the screen, and this name completely aroused my attention – JO IN SUNG (Memories of Bali). OMG, as in o-m-g. JIS is like one of my ultimate crushes, and I wasn’t really expecting that he will be one of the lead in this movie. Hooray, I was in for a trip. Haha.

Okay, the story is very good. There’s sort of two stories in it, one is about the past, and another is about the present. Sobrang nakakakilig, especially yung story dun sa present, I was blushing, and I told myself, asan ang puso ko? nasan na ang puso ko? At that point, I knew that I am totally in love with the movie. It’s perfect, plus, there are no boring parts. There are twists and I so love them, they made me think, and all the while I was wondering, how the hell did that happened? So what I did is I replayed it a few minutes before, and I get it. It’s so sweet. My favorite korean movie ever.

Rating: 9.9/10