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Full House (풀하우스) August 27, 2008

Posted by mxm1295 in Dramas, Korean Dramas.
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Full House is a Korean drama starring the signer/actor Rain (Lee Young Jae) and Song Hye Gyo (Han Ji Eun).  This 2004 drama is a remake of the manhwa of the same title.  It was an instant hit and there have been rumors of a sequel.  It premiered from July 2004 to September 2004 with 16 episodes.

Main Cast:

Bi (Rain) as Lee Young Jae
Song Hye Gyo as Han Ji Eun
Han Eun Jung as Kang Hye Won
Kim Sung Soo as Yoo Min Hyuk

Synopsis: Han Ji Eun is a naive writer who got swindled out of everything she owned including her house by her best friends. Stranded in China, She managed to borrow money from an actor Lee Young Jae to return to Korea. On her return, she found out that her house was bought by Lee Young Jae. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she entered in a contract marriage with Young Jae for one year. In spite of losing all, Ji Eun manages to be cheerful and takes things in strike and the business relationship between the two becomes personal as they start to rely and care for each other.

Review: Everyone loves Full House.  EVERYONE! “What’s your favorite drama?”…”Full House.” Of course, everyone loves Full House.  I, on the other hand, LIKED it.  I did not love it, it is not my favorite, but it was decent.  This is another Rain/Bi drama and he was okay.  I don’t know what I like him better as, either the bad ass or the immature actor.  Song Hye Gyo was just glowing in this drama.  I like her look and as I understand it, she is still popular in South Korea, which is great.  Her performance in this drama was great.

Full House is cute.  No other word to describe it.  That can either be bad or good, depending on how it is executed.  I think this was on the okay/moderate side.  There were a lot of cute moments.  I especially like the one where Young Jae is trying to cheer Ji Eun up and he sings the “Gom Se Mari” (The Three Bears) song.  He does the American version of it and I just died laughing, it was funny and cute all at the same time.  But there were some overally cute moments that kinda made me sick, I can’t think of too many, but if you watch it or have watched it, you will know what I mean.

But I have to say for a 2004 drama, I thought that had the editing process down.  There is one scene where the two (Young Jae and Ji Eun) are arguing and the camera is going back and forth between the two.  Ji Eun’s back is to the kitchen/other half of the house and Young Jae’s back is to a window.  At one point when the camera comes to him, you can see in the window a man look into the window, then realize they are taping, and quickly jump out of the shot.  It was so blatantly obvious what happened, it kinda made me mad.  If I was the editor I would check for that type of thing, even they were crunched for time.  Unbelievable.

Overall, the story developed nicely as well as the characters, that were all very well-rounded and developed.  You might as well check it out if you haven’t already because I guarantee anyone that you ask will have seen and probably say it is their favorite.  Okay, that is an exaggeration.  But it is a good drama and I would watch it, especially if you like Rain.  Here are the links and enjoy!

MySoju-http://www.mysoju.com/full-house/
aznV.TV-http://aznv.tv/?p=d53

A Love to Kill (이 죽일놈의 사랑) August 19, 2008

Posted by mxm1295 in Dramas, Korean Dramas.
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A Love to Kill is a Korean drama starring Bi/Rain/Jeong Ji Hoon (Kang Bok Gu) and Shin Mina (Cha Eun Seok). This drama aired from the end of October 2005 to the middle of December 2005 with 16 episodes.

Main Cast:

Bi as Kang Bok Gu
Shin Min Ah as Cha Eun Seok
Kim Sa Rang as Han Da Jung
Lee Ki Woo as Kim Joon Sung

Synopsis: In A Love to Kill, Bi (Rain or Jeong Ji Hoon) plays a tough guy as the role of a K-1 Fighter, Kang Bok Gu. Bok Gu is a character who is dynamic in nature and grew up in a foster home. He falls in love with a woman whom he should not love. It was because of the woman, his emotionally-wounded brother fell off from the rooftop and became a human vegetable. So, his love is forbidden and inevitably tragic.

The woman is Cha Eun Seok (Shin Mina) who is a TV talent and movie actor. It was not that she jilted his brother on purpose, but upon a basis of misunderstanding, his hatred toward Cha Eun Seok grows more and more burning.

By becoming Cha Eun Seok’s private bodyguard, Bok Gu keeps concretely practicing his revenge upon her. He only desires ‘to bring his brother’s woman to her knees.’ He is gradually taking Cha Eun Seok to destruction, while he feels his love toward her growing deeper and deeper in his heart.

Bok Gu is a cold guy character without any special concern for woman. Martial art of hand-to-hand fighting was just kind of his escape he choose from the shock of a spinster’s death whom he loved from a distance.

(credit: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/A_Love_to_Kill)

Review: Well, I downloaded this drama from some website 2 years ago and I had planned to watch it before anything else, but I watched it gradually over the summer. Anyway, I downloaded it mainly because of the main star, Rain (Bi, Jeong Ji Hoon), because I heard he was a good entertainment star, and I was like “why not?”. So, I downloaded all 16 and I had all intentions of putting them on a DVD, but that didn’t work out. ANYWAY, I came into watching it with an open mind, hoping it would be good. I was a little disappointed.

It might have been that I was expecting something more, but the acting was not up to par. It wasn’t horrible, but it something that you would’ve expected from a soap opera; average. It was an OK performance for all the actors. I don’t think it helped that the plot wasn’t that great either. I thought it was very cheesy at times and got very tired with it after a while.

And I hated the ending. It just kind of stopped. It was going so well, then it stopped. I was not impressed to say the least. It shows a weakness in the plot when they end things without the problem being finished. I would have been happier if things had developed more between Bok Gu and Eun Seok, but they didn’t. And I wish they had gone more in depth about Bok Gu’s hate for Cha Eun Seok; I wish they had made that more prominent. Because the way I saw it, he really didn’t hate her enough to kill her. He thought about it when opportunities struck, but he showed more compassion than I thought he would. And most times, it was to save his ass from being discovered.

I am not saying that this was just an awful drama to watch. It wasn’t. But it had a lot of things that I would have fixed. Overall it was okay, nothing special. I would say, if you really like Rain, you should watch it. So here are the links, and enjoy!

YouTube-http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F38C183590330E8A
MySoju-http://www.mysoju.com/a-love-to-kill/
aznV.TV-http://aznv.tv/?p=d86