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Ssa-i-bo-geu-ji-man-gwen-chan-a (2006)
More than OK.
Saibogujiman kwenchana is just not OK, it's really good movie, though it's not like there is much happening during film, movie basically tells us tale of woman who has mental illness and thinks that she's cyborg, in mental home there's man who fells for her and helps her with her problem. Though there might not be much happening in movie this is just one of those movies that are really nice to watch. I tend to often get a bit bored or annoyed when watching films and those things didn't happen here. I also liked setting, mental illness seems to make always interesting story, if I'd write movie I might go with that too. Directing, production and acting are all solid here from what I understand of them. I liked Especially woman in main role, she did such a nice job here :).
So is there something that could have been done even better? I really can't come up any major problems that would be found here. One might argue that there should be some cool climax in this movie, but I thought it was good in a way it was, even the ending was done so nicely that wouldn't really add anything to there either. Still in the end maybe that cool climax just might have made this one 10/10 movie, now it's "only" worth of 9/10.
Batterî (2007)
Fails to even pitch it straight...
I had high expectations when starting to watch this movie, since I really like Japanese drama series and movies not to mention sports theme is always cool. Sadly this movie wasn't even close fulfilling my expectations and really just left me annoyed. So what went wrong here then? Well, I think movie just lacks some important things to reach level of actually good sports movies. main character is just one annoying brat who doesn't have enough respect for other people, when he is having hard time I really don't feel it for him at all. And it's not only that I can't feel for main character, movie actually doesn't stir up my emotions at all in a good way until in its very end. Plot is also just damn weak, simple, not original at all and not good enough to make it up, it's actually just plain boring and unbelievably unimaginative piece of crap. Plot still actually had some potential since it was a bit different for a sports movie, but somehow they were able to mess it up almost completely... It's just that things happening in movie and how those things are happening aren't really interesting enough, some parts are actually even pretty horrible. Obviously this movie was also made for whole family to watch (not that it would be kids movie) and that might actually be the reason why they ended up making such a horrible mistakes. Not that it would be sufficient reason for what they've ended up doing here...
Despite it flaws movie still actually got some goods, The way movie ends actually has pretty nice feel in it, acting is mostly fine and production and direction aren't too shabby either. It is also nice that this was really baseball movie, story is actually about promising player, so movie is not just using baseball theme as and stepping stone to make a movie that's a bit different. And As already mentioned above basic idea isn't really that bad, just poorly executed. It was also at least a bit different from those normal sports movies where some team goes for success after first being just bunch of idiots who can't even play properly which ever sport movie happens to be about. I also kinda get it what they were going for here, but in the end movie just couldn't make it, often line between movie making it and not making is thin and that might have been case here too, if story just had been a bit nicer to watch, movie just might have been decent, but things being like this flaws are just too deep...
Taeyangeul ssamkyeora (2009)
Great drama with some action
Swallow the sun (also known as "Taeyangeul Ssamkyeora" and "All in 2" though I don't think it has too much to do with first "all in" but maybe there is something similar besides same director and writer???) is easily one of the best TV-series I've seen so far, though I'm fan of Asian cinema I hadn't seen any Korean drama series (a lot of Japanese though) before this, but after watching this on I might have to look for some more :).
I was pretty much blown away by this series, why? Firstly acting here is superb, Ji Sung (or Ji Seong) in main role plays orphan who wants to make his way up from scum to success and live a better life. I can't understand why isn't he amazingly popular actor already, his acting was really convincing and he is also good looking fellow, which probably ain't bad thing when it comes to becoming popular either. Also gotta mention Sung Yu Ri (or Seong Yoo ri), who also makes marvelous role here as a girl with a dream and is just damn beautiful too. Rest of the cast also does great job, if I'd had to mention someone else besides ones above, it gotta be Jun Kwang Ryul (or Jeon Gwang Ryeol), who makes great role as bitter and heartless old man. As story goes on motives and ambitions of characters change, so it isn't just some simple story about thug who isn't happy with his life and wants money and success.
Secondly plot is really nice and complex and there's some action in it too, it's really not basic romance drama. Thirdly Characters are also likable, drama really kept me interested all ~25 hours and music played in drama are also just brilliant. "TRAX + Air" really has made awesome job with two of their songs that played during series. So why not 10/10 then? I still felt it could have been even better and there is also some better series out there.
13 game sayawng (2006)
Pretty damn bad
To be honest I think that this is easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen, one of those movies I just can't stand, and I just can't get over it that it's actually gotten some awards. Problem is simply that I just do not like a plot of this movie at all. It's just might be partially because this happens to be a movie with Horrible a bit game show/reality show alike "there's a game, where you can win money doing something stupid or disgusting" type of a idiotic plot which I find really boring and frustrating. But even so this type of plot itself is not enough to make movie almost completely unwatchable for me if movie can somehow make itself interesting enough. So yes, I also found movie otherwise completely uninteresting and so complete waste of my time.
Obviously I completely hated this movie. But, to be fair plenty of people have liked it, so since plot doesn't seem to be problem for other people and actually besides the horrible plot movie was well made, and acting work, directing etc. was not really bad at all I won't give this movie ultimate judgement in form of 1/10 review despite my hate towards it...