Musings of the Obsessive Kind
She's a mite whimsical in the brainpan.
Musings of the Obsessive KindShe's a mite whimsical in the brainpan. |
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| Mar. 9th, 2009 @ 10:55 am Monday Drama Hotness... | |||
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Current Mood:
1. I am totally watching Boys Over Flowers ep 18. I am completely over the J-quadrupled angst-fest but the emo in this ep sounds cracktastic and I am so in it for Yi Jung/Ga Eul.  chipper2. Ep 4 of To Get Her (I am in the middle of it) is as wonderful and pitch perfect as the first three. It's been a long time since I adored all the main characters so and the slightly delicately whimsical tone is perfect. I love this drama too much for words, honest. Also, Momo/Mars is so my new huge OTP. For one, I love that they are figuring out they like each other early on. I hate it when the characters have emotional maturity and self-knowledge of turnips. 3. A SUBBING GROUP HAS PICKED UP ILJIMAE. I will be able to watch in HQ dls and not little streaming windows. And keep it. !!!!!!!! 4. I have started the Chinese drama Men and Legends starring Dylan Kuo and Peter Ho.  It's set in 1920s China and the two leads are eventual BFFs who are students of two different famous kung fu masters who end up fighting the Japanese.  There are OTPs (Dylan is adorable with his), cool clothes, martial arts, and much hotness. I can't say I care for Peter's character too much yet - bratty but good-natured tricksters are usually not my thing, but he is hot in it, and Dylan is both super super hot and plays a type of character I really like - serious and naive (even innocent) and worshipping the ground his OTP walks on. Me wants! I'll have pretty caps at some point, if I can cap my DVDs.  I have no idea if the drama is good (I have seen too little to judge yet) but it's certainly very pretty! ( Lots of pretty pretty behind the cut ) | |||
| Aug. 15th, 2008 @ 01:21 am Yup, still on a wuxia kick... | |||
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Current Mood:
chipper EEEE! Got my hands on the English-subbed version of Da Ren Wu (Big Shot or Hero, I have seen it translated both ways), last year's wuxia drama starring Nicholas Tse and Angelica Lee. It's based on a novel I've never read and the plot sounds so delicious: Naïve, young Tian Si Si (Angelica), the apple of her father’s eye and the sole heir to her family’s riches, believes that she is in love with the great romantic hero, Qin Ge of the Meteor Clan. She dreams of traveling the martial arts world, actually meeting Qin Ge and having adventures just like many of the stories that she has read and heard. From childhood, she has been betrothed to the younger son of General Yang, Yang Fan (Nic), whom she despises. Handsome, melancholy, talented Yang Fan has been on a mission for his father to secretly investigate the Meteor Clan whose upright reputation and strength has been rising in the martial arts world to rival that of Shaolin and Wudang. He comes back injured and somewhat changed, troubled with memory loss after an investigation. He marries Tian Si Si as his father ordered, but Tian Si Si has other plans for her life and runs away at the first opportunity. She quickly becomes entangled in plots and counter plots as she discovers the real world. Both Yang Fan and Qin Ge are ordered to go after her. All is not what it seems as the Meteor Clan and its members, rivals and government agents are at work behind the scenes. Seriously, how many ways do I love the premise? * Couple falling in love after marriage? Check. Though seeing your arranged match is Nicholas Tse it's not really a hardship * Cooky heroine * Angst and funniness * Love triangle * Nic Tse as the lead (if Handsome Siblings was all about him, it would be such a huge fave). I mean, he doesn't even need to act, he can just stand there and I'll ogle him. Look at the cute MV for the OTP (with hints of a triangle): I think I fell for it about the time he let her (she is possessed) stab him through the shoulder. I am so predictable! I have also got Men and Legends (Dylan Kuo and Peter Ho, does it really need a plot?) and Fairy from Wonderland (finally. I want to see Hu Ge write on the walls in blood). But all this shall not sate me! I need Legend of Condor Heroes and I can't find any subs except for Vietnamese yet. I need! Please!!! I mean, look. I want this now:  OK, will distract self with another favorite wuxia OTP (Flower/Orchid from Handsome Siblings. Angsty assassins and common-sense fighter girls ftw). | |||
| Aug. 13th, 2007 @ 02:12 pm Largey about Stardust | |||
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Current Mood:
I have been very bad about replying to flister posts lately, my apologies. I do read every single post on my flist that is not a comm post. *note to self. be better about replying* contentAnyway, we went to see two movies this weekend: The Simpsons Movie and Stardust. I loved both. Though if I never see another set of trailers as bad as the ones before TSM, I'll be a happy woman. People are annoyed at Tom Cruise for being a crazy scientologist, but my beef with him is his movie Jerry McGuire giving prominence to Cuba Gooding Jr., thus leading to movies like Daddy Day Camp. The Simpsons Movie was hilarious. I don't remember last time I laughed so hard in the theater. And I've seen about three Simpsons eps total, in my life. And now, Spiderpig song is stuck in my head... Stardust was simply lovely. It was a fairy tale for grown-ups, something that is very rare in Hollywood, though there are a number of lovely Russian movies in this genre. It was scary and funny and moving and colorful. Also, great cast and casting. Much as all the side characters were amazing and attention-grabbing, the two protagonists, Tristan the shopboy on a quest (Charlie Cox) and Yvaine the falling star (Claire Danes), never got lost in the shuffle. Also, (because it's me and I am bound to be shallow at regular intervals) Charlie Cox is hot once he learns to swashbuckle.  The story is about a 19th century English young man, Tristan, who crosses into the faerie realm of Stormhold, to bring back a fallen star in order to win the heart of the girl he is infatuated with. But when he finds her, the fallen star is actually a beautiful, lost (and snarky) young woman named Yvaine. And a number of unsavory individuals are after her, including a witch who wants to eat her still beating heart to restore her youth and a murderous royal family who want to settle the right of succession. The whole thing is, on some level, like one of those Grimm fairytales. The original versions, with toes being cut off and eyes plucked out by pidgeons, not the Disneyfied versions. The faerie realm of Stormhold really is a wondrous place: a place full of wonders, some of which you might even survive. ( Some stills from the movie. Not spoilery ) ( Brief spoilery comment ) Oh, and another awesome thing: the Chinese period martial arts drama Men and Legends, starring Peter Ho and Dylan Kuo (as ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} calledinvain pointed out correctly, the Asian Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom) is coming subbed to DVD on Aug 31. Yay. | |||