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Why was this better than a Hollywood love story?

posted 18 years ago by ma407
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Please Continue my list

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1. Beautiful woman in the lead (Jessica Parker, Julia Roberts...... NOT PRETTY

2. Sweet story that is not KORNY. (Meg Ryan on top of Empire State = Korny)

3. Real people in real situations. "Can Once In A Lifetime Happen Twice" - that is the tagline from Serendipity. John Cusack is more like a ghost not a person. He bumps into women he knew when he was 11, 12, 13, 14 years old in years 91,92,93.. get my point?

any more witty comparisons? Feel free to bash hollywood and praise Korean cinema

[–] fificremefarben 18 years ago

4. virtually unknown actors (to us westerners anyway), we know all the big hollywood stars...so the fat that we've never seen these actors/actresses before makes it seem a bit more realistic and "normal".

5. I'm not totally up on korean culture, but I like to think that it has something sweet to do with the story. Like, the tradition of arranged meetings and marriages ( Ji-hae and Tae-su), made the story a bit more heartbreaking because of the odds that were facing the the mother and her lover from the parents etc.

[–] funkymunkyxD 18 years ago

6) i think it has a sort of innocence to it that hollywood can't make. in almost all korean movies, the most you get is a kiss and barely one at that (a kiss on the cheek, a hug, etc) where as hollywood movies, you have a huge makeout scene or a love scene. i have no problem with either types but i think the korean movies have that cute child-like crush sense to it that hollywood movies cant portray.

[–] Yellowman88 18 years ago

So true So true funky munky

[–] cemo9 17 years ago

korean culture always use drama in this reason like these movies is very good and very emotional

[–] Desertman84 15 years ago

The Classic is a lot better than The Notebook,A Walk To Remember and Titanic combined!!!!

[–] Desertman84 15 years ago

7)There are no nudity scenes to show how much two people are in love compared to Hollywood romantic movies wherein a sex scene is somewhat always a requisite.

[–] g_monte 13 years ago

8) The cliches, tedium and sap were all brought to us in Korean.

[–] Hollastar 13 years ago

Guess you never heard of a weeaboo.

[–] overseer-3 13 years ago

Since gmoody's number 8 wasn't any good I will continue with a new number 8:

8) It had excellent writing, written for an audience with IQ's higher than 120. lol

[–] fluffset 7 years ago

9) The lover will run in the rain!

THRILLER IS MY FOOD!