Showing posts with label Jung Da Bin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jung Da Bin. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2011

Manny

Rating: Not Rated

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 16
Cast:Byun Jung Soo, Choi Jung Yoon, Suh Ji Suk, Jung Da Bin, Goo Seung Hyun

"Tall, with a perfect figure and his qualifications as an Ivy League graduate, Kim Yi Han is Seoul's top male nanny. He is employed by Seo Do Young as a live-in nanny to look after her two young children, Eun Bi and Jung Min."

 I watched thirteen episodes, and I really wanted to enjoy it as the plotline had such a good appeal, but I just couldn't finish the last few episodes.  Who knows, maybe one day I'll finish it and write more to this review, but I just couldn't go through with it.  Truthfully, after the first ten episodes, it became kind of annoying.  I didn't like any of the characters (except for the children), and it kind of forgot about the comedy completely after a while.  Although it's supposed to be a romantic comedy about a Manny, it slowly became a show about Janice's workplace.  I mean, it is good to have rounded characters and all, but there is a limit to how much you can show about a character the viewer doesn't even like.

Monday, June 13, 2011

She is Nineteen

Rating: ***.5

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Episodes: 16
Cast: Jung Da Bin, Kim Jae Won, Kim Min Hee, Seo Ji Hye, Yoo Kye Sang

"This series is about a 19 year old girl, Yoo Min who was being abandoned after the death of her mother. She lives alone with her adopted brother, Kang-Pyo. She accidentally meets Seung-Jae, the younger brother of Min-Jae. By chance, Yoo Min actually had a crush with Min-Jae, a doctor who treats her brother illness for a long time. To fight off his mother demand, Min Jae gets in an engagement contract with Yoo Min and they all end up living at Min-Jae's house. Unexpectedly, Yoo Min and Seung-Jae are going to the same high school. From there, Seung-Jae secretly loves Yoo Min. On the other hand, Yoo Min's father who got amnesia from a car accident is looking for her again after 15 years old she had been abandoned by her neighbors. The conflict comes when the people who living in Min Jae's house are actually related to Yoo Min's abandonment. They are the neighbors who stole the inheritance and abandoned her when she was four year old."

 This drama is one of those dramas that you watch when you're bored.  I mean, it's not bad, but it's not a drama that you'd watch over and over again.  The genre states that it's comedy, but I have to disagree.  Although it has a few cute moments, it is definitely a drama.  You might be asking why I look down on this drama.  Well, the fact is simple.  A television series is a marathon, not a sprint.  Writers that choose to use all their tricks in the first few episodes end up losing half of their viewership in the middle of the drama because it starts to lag.  When a drama starts out hilarious, viewers tend to think that the pattern will continue.  However, in this drama, the hilarity eventually disappears altogether and never comes back.  It's a fine drama for when you have nothing else to do, but it gets really slow toward the end.

The first thing I have to pick on is the music.  What in the world is up with the background music?  Can't they find anything else?  They'll show an extremely sad scene, yet they'll have upbeat classical music to it.  The classical music is that one song that dramas add to scenes were something just happened or something is in the works.  It's fine to use the music for most of the drama, but sometimes it just didn't work.  Also, they really only had two musical selections.  It got kind of annoying by the end of the series.











Although there's nothing wrong with the series itself, I have to pick on an actor.  It has nothing to do with the drama, but Kim Jae Won has the hugest smile I've ever seen.  It almost reminds me of Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece lol.  Whenever he smiles, his mouth takes up like a quarter of his face XD

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

He Was Cool



Rating: (Not Rated)
MOVIE!

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Jung Da Bin, Jung Joon Ha, Kim Bo Yun, Lee Ki Woo, Song Seung Hun

"Clever high school girl Ye Won falls into an unlikely relationship with the wealthy and arrogant Eun Seong. The king of the school, Eun Seong is quick with the fist and insufferably rude, but Ye Won realises that beneath his tough exterior, he is struggling to overcome the shadows of his past. Based on Guiyeoni's novel. "