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Nae Nampyeongwa Gyeolhonhaejweo (2024)
Is it like the WEBTOON...?
The short answer is yes, the long answer is no.
The WEBTOON of "Marry My Husband" has a combined total of 69 episodes including the spins offs. Fitting 58 episodes of the main story into just 16 TV episodes obviously isn't going to do the story full justice, but I'll give this series a 10 anyway.
The main difference is the pacing, as you could expect. I felt like a lot of the plot points were miss timed, or that they were shortened or lengthened compared to the webcomic. I'll be comparing most of this show to the comic... since that's what it was based on.
From my memory, Eun-ho didn't have as much of a significant plot as he did in the show. He ran a cafe, not a restaurant, then left the country for a while and wasn't seen in the comic until near the end. Ji-Hyuk also didn't really interfere with Ji-won's plans and life after returning to 2013, he trusted her enough to know what was going to happen to handle a lot of the issues herself-this Ji-Hyuk in the show is much more overbearing. Yu-ra, from what I recall, was not as big of a plot point as she was made out in the show. I don't believe she came back as a vengeful ex-fiancé, if I'm remembering right she and Ji-won ended up on good terms; but I could be miss-remembering. She also doesn't kill Ji-won's mom, I do believe that Ji-Hyuk paid Ji-won's mom not to bother her again. Ji-hyuk didn't die in a car accident, in the webcomic he was so distraught after Ji-won's death-which I believe he whitenesses-that he ended up taking his own life; Min-hwan's death later ends up mirroring that, Min-hwan takes Ji-hyuk's fate. Ji-won doesn't change immediately like in the show, it was gradual and she wasn't as instantly opposed to Sumin; she had her head on straight and was more into playing the long game. She was better at concealing her emotions. Also in the webcomic the taxi driver, Ji-won's dad, gives her a candy not money, and Ji-hyuk never got that weird heart tattoo. Miss Yang's plot was accurate if not a little looked over, she had a lot more going on that she did in the show.
Separating the show from the webcomic however, it was great! I loved it. But you do need to think of them as two separate entities. Unlike some book to movie adaptations, say Harry Potter or Lord of The Rings, which try to stay as accurate as possible to the story, this is not. It's good, it's just not an accurate comparison. I personally always enjoy the book more when it comes to BTM adaptations, but that's because you can build so much more character and world into the story with the time allotted. You can't do that with a show. This show does really good with taking the plot points and molding them into what they needed to be a TV show, this story could have only been a TV show, a movie wouldn't have done it justice.
I really enjoyed it, thee really isn't anything I would change except for Ji-hyuk's death. He didn't seem desperate enough in the show, which is what I think the comic did really well. Ji-hyuk's emotions were more deeply explored in the webcomic, in the show he felt very flat or one note. His entire personality was Ji-won, whether she wanted him to or not, and I think that's unfair to both characters.
Sumin's end could have been dealt with better, for some reason I feel like she broke out of prison at one point, but I could be mixing my comics together. This is such a common trope in WEBTOON that it's hard to keep them straight, "There Must Be a Happy Ending" is another comic very, very similar to this one. But out of all the webcomics like this that I've read I'm glad that it was this one that was made into a show. It's gotten so much love and I'm glad the author had gotten their flowers.
If you're trying to get into K-Dramas, or maybe want to get into webcomics, this is a good start. I hope they come out with more webcomic to move adaptations. "True Beauty" is another one, but that story was never as good as this, so I didn't watch is all the way through. I'm just pleased to see that webcomics are getting more recognition!
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
I'm Left Asking...
What did I just watch?
Spoilers ahead, so be warned.
This movie wasn't inherently bad, it wasn't good and I'd most likely never watch it again, but for brain-rot it did exceptionally well at putting me to sleep the first time I watched it.
I'm going to start from the beginning and work my through every bad decision this movie made.
The very beginning we're introduced to our main cast of characters; Batman, Dick Grayson, Alfred, "Sanjay Tawde", and Kai Li. The Penguins is also introduced, but not a villain-which is fine because it's been done before-but instead as a scientist (I think). We meet Kirk Langstrom, who is an "important" part of the movie, but it would have been exactly the same with out him.
Bruce Wayne, who has been away from Gotham for about 20 years (from what he said), is exploring the arctic to try and figure out why Cobblepot and Langstrom went missing. It's discovered that Oswald lost his mind and joined a heard of mutant penguins, which no one seems the least bit concerned about, and Kirk has been turned into a version of Mister Freeze and is trying to free a Cthulhu type creature from an ice cave. (The creature in the ice cave is never brought up again.)
Bruce Wayne and crew takes a frozen Kirk Langstrom back to Gotham because apparently Gotham is the epicenter for some demon ritual to free the actual Cthulhu
Monster, because the one in the ice wasn't good enough (?). They leave "Tawde" (this worlds Jason Todd) on the ship with Mister Freeze-which everyone and their blind mother could tell you was a bad idea-and go off to Wayne Manor. In Wayne Manor they find a dead man, who has about as much significance to this story as Mister Freeze does, but yet they felt the need to add him. With the dead guy is an invitation to Oliver Queen's residence, because of course he lives in Gotham in this universe, the invite is about 20 years expired, /I think/ (?), but they go anyway.
Oliver Queen is a drunk, but the reason for this is that his father-Henry Queen-killed Bruce's parents, which is dumb but not necessarily as insignificant due to the info bomb they drop on us later. Bruce, Dick, and Kai Li stay at Oli's house, even though Alfred had been slaving away at Wayne Manor to get it ready for their first night back in Gotham. Bruce's first night back in Gotham-after 20 years-is spent as Batman, which doesn't make a lot of sense if you're trying to keep your identity a secret but what do I know.
One would think that if Bruce Wayne comes back to Gotham, then you see a man dressed up as a bat "avenging" the city, that most logical people would put 2 'n' 2 together, but I guess not.
Batman visits a crime scene, I guess it's the office of the dead man in his house, and finds more clues that fall back onto the clues Cobblepot left in the beginning of the movie. All of these have to do with the demon that "someone" is trying to raise, for some reason. It's never really clear why they're doing what they do.
Bruce then fights a monster that Thalia Al Ghul-because if it's demons and resurrection, it's got to be the Al Ghuls-let's loose, and it's obviously a demon. And if there's demons, there is Etrigan. He is also here for whatever reason, fights the demon so Batman can get away, and all is well.
Until...
Kai Li and Grayson have been with Oliver Queen, but something goes wrong and they're somehow alerted to the fact that Sanjay is in trouble. (Idk, they don't have phones, I don't remember how they find out.) They head over to the now froze harbor and Grayson goes to save Jay, but ends up dead too (even though he had a gun, but maybe it was karma because Batman's rule is "Do Not Kill" "Don't Use Guns"). Which sucks.
I thought for sure that both Grayson and Jay were going to be resurrected after Batman found the Lazarus Pit, but nothing happens with that actually. Like Batman falls into the pit and they nothing happens with it after that, it's just a plot armor device. His wounds aren't even healed. It's crazy.
Kai Li has more of a reaction to Jay and Grayson's death than Bruce or Alfred do, although it's hard to tell if Bruce even cared that they're dead at all. He's so unfeeling towards Kai Li with her grief and what happened, and it's lowkey very Un-Batman-like. This version of Batman is so- unlikeable. He's totally not they type of Batman I would want saving my city, which is probably why he got turned into a mutant bat later.
Harvey Dent is also in this movie, and he's elected mayor. He get's poisoned by Poison Ivy, who isn't a person but a demon summoned by Ra's Al Ghul. She poisons Harvey and his second half, after he's turned into Two Face, is used to created a portal to another dimension closer to hell so Ra's can properly summon the demon (?).
I'm so confused.
Batman has his own ritual with Oracle, who is also here and wheelchair-bound, and in Arkham Asylum, because why not add more fuel to this dumpster fire.
She summons Bruce's dad, who then tells him that he was one of the first British Colonizers, along with Cobblepot, Langstrom, and Henry Queen. They all built Gotham and are over, like, 300 years old or something like that. They started to go crazy because they made a deal with the devil to save Little Gotham, or Pre Gotham, or First Gotham, or whatever. Gotham was saved, but at what cost, so on and so forth.
Thomas tells Bruce that he has to become one with the bats to save Gotham, which is crazy because I'm pretty sure Superman also exists in this universe. But, like, I just want to know where he is, because I'm pretty sure they show him and Louis Lane after fire EXPLODES from the sewers of Gotham. Like, why wasn't he going anything to help?
So useless. Anyways.
Oliver is dead by this point too. He killed Poison Ivy and sacrificed himself out of religious guilt. Batman takes his "sacred" arrows and uses them to kill demon versions of Oliver, Grayson, and Jay. It's a weird scene because he acts like he's feeling guilt for their deaths, but like, he isn't at the same time. It's a thing- the whole last act of the movie is like one big acid trip.
Bruce goes back to fight Ra's and Thalia, and wins, as one does. Etrigan is still here as Cthulhu is breaching the portal to earth, Etrigan tells Bruce to flee. Bruce is now The Man Bat, no longer human, simply creature. Which is so weird and I don't like it. Like, if Batman can't take down a demon from hell by himself, then is he even Batman to begin with? It's all so muddled at this point of the movie.
The kill count at this point is as follows; Bruce (because he's now Man Bat and a monster, no longer human), Dick, "Jay", Cobblepot, Langstrom, Oliver Queen, Thalia, Poison Ivy, Harvey Dent, Ra's Al Ghul, Etrigan, unnamed demon, and a whole bunch of civilians. Pretty much no one is left alive except for Kai Li, whose existence is pointless, and Alfred. (Alfred's always been the MVP though.)
With all this in mind, if you still want to watch this movie, go for it. Was it bad... not production wise. Voice acting was fine, animation was clean, etc.
Was the story bad... yeah, it was pretty rough. It was rushed, confusing, and not anything that most casual Batman fans would be aware of. Gotham By Gaslight is in the same vein/umbrella category as this movie, and that movie was better story wise. If you want to watch a "steampunk" 1920s Batman film, I suggest Gotham By Gaslight instead. I thought this movie was going to be a sequel to GBG, but it's not, it stands alone and it should continue to stay that way. I don't think a prequel of any kind would be able to save this absolute mess of a movie.
It was fun, sort of, to be able to go "Oh, that's how they tied that character in the story," or "Oh, that's where that character comes from" or "Oh, that's sort of interesting way of reimagining that character" but other than that all the characters where flat and no connection was made to them.
I wasn't upset that Grayson and "Tawde" died, I saw "Tawde's" death coming from miles away because that's the main point of his character in pretty much every Batman adaptation he's in. I was sad that Grayson died mostly because he didn't deserve/need to. It was pointless and mostly just for shock factor, considering that is this worlds Grayson had been Robin, he probably wouldn't have died so easily. But you could see their deaths coming, even though both of them were off screen.
Oracle was done "ok" at best. I don't understand why they gave her a fake voice box, or why she's in Arkham for having visions... okay maybe I understand why she's in Arkham, but it's still a rather strange choice to make.
Alfred was a GOAT.
Bruce in this story was unlikeable.
Oliver Queen didn't need to be here.
Harvey Dent, Cobblepot, and Langstrom were all useless characters with no depth. There was no real explanation for why Cobblepot and Langstrom went crazy.
There wasn't much about Commissioner Gordon, or the crooked cops that were working for him, even though he doesn't know it (I don't think).
Nothing about Tai Li, where she came from, why she's there, her family, back ground, anything. We got nothing. We had more background for Thomas Wayne, who is dead, then the living characters who were there the entire movie.
All that to say, I didn't hate it. I can never truly hate any movie. I can be disgusted with them, dislike them, but I've never found a movie I hated. Never found a movie I DNFed. This wasn't bad, but I'd probably never watch it again unless forced, and even then I probably wouldn't hate sitting through it again.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Fun! but...
Now, honestly, I liked this SHAZAM movie maybe more than the first. The costumes are cool, and I like how they used Mary's child actor as her adult hero now that she's an actual adult; I am wondering if they plan on doing that with the other hero's as well, which might be difficult because Zachary Levi /is/ Shazam.
The Daughters of Atlas were interesting characters and they were played well by their actors, the sisters' powers are really interesting, especially Anne's; who would have been so OP. Anne's giving Dr Strange level of control with the way she can (I forget the correct terminology) "tear the city apart and put it back together." The final fight was cool, and I do enjoy the middle sister's (don't remember her name) power of chaos; I would have enjoyed to see more of that. I also think that it would have been, maybe, scarier if they were dealing with her power to turn people into, essentially, mindless zombies. She could have easily taken over the world that way, behind everyone's backs, then was like, "surprise! I control the world now," and /everyone/ from both sides would have had to fight her together.
I liked the hero-family dynamic and how, even if it's not out right stated, Billy's trauma from being abandoned is portrayed in the way he attempts to keep the kids together; even if at the end he's the only one left standing. I liked the acting by the adult heroes as well as the kids, even if sometimes it was cringe worthy. The CGI was better in this movie for sure, this movie over all just felt cleaner and more high quality compared to the first, even though that first SHAZAM movie will always have a solid place in my heart.
But...
The end where Wonder Woman shows up out of nowhere threw me off. She's mentioned a lot throughout this movie, sure, but she just spawns like some wild Pokémon, then she disappears again after some banter with Shazam. There was no plot point of when she was contacted, why, how she got there, how she /knows/ she can bring magic back to the staff. There's just a lot of plot holes in the final scenes that don't make sense, which felt rushed, and could have been done way better. I /like/ that she was there though, it sets up a good jumping point for another sequel, but the scene could have been done better.
It's in this same scene that Billy dies and is brought back to life, which wasn't impactful because everyone and their mother knows you can't kill off the main character if you plan on making more movies about them. This also could have been done better; Rosa had less emotion that Freddy after learning that Billy was dead, even though she asked to see him one last time before the fight, knowing he might die, she just wasn't giving what she needed to give to make me believe she was actually distraught. And the fact that Billy is brought back to life not even five minutes later, there's no emotion behind it, it's just for shock factor.
What should have happened was that they burry him, go home and start rebuilding their house, /then/ Wonder Woman is contacted by The Wizard, she and The Wizard then go together-separate from the family-back to Anne's world, they bring magic back to the staff, Anne feels her powers come back all the way in Philly, WW and The Wizard don't expect Billy to wake up so they turn to leave, Billy explodes from the earth, everyone's surprised, they rush him home to see him family, everyone gets their powers back; and scene. I'm no film maker, but I feel like a more drawn out scene, where everyone is shown to have accepted Billy's death, would have been more impactful for when he finally comes back.
I don't know how I feel about Freddy's relationship with Anne, while it's cute and I'm glad he found someone he likes, she's also /way/ older than him, as Rosa states later, and she inadvertently was trying to kill him and his entire family. While she does have a change of heart, it still doesn't feel like the basis for a healthy relationship. They have /completely/ different life experiences, childhoods, ethics, morals, one is a god the other is human, Anne knows nothing about living on earth, she might not even be able to stay on earth full time, depending on what her home realm needs from her. It's rocky at best.
There's an issue for me that I noticed in the first movie as well, that the adult heroes-most noticeably Zachary Levi-don't act anything like their child counterparts. I noticed this a lot in /this/ film in particular where Zach acts a lot in the way that he did in the first movie; ie 14y/o Billy. In this movie Billy is almost 18 and Asher Angel portrays the character more grown up than Zachary Levi does. "Child" Billy is more put together than the adult Shazam, which in certain instances I found mildly off putting. It did feel like they were two completely different people, and if they had the ability to act side-by-side, the different would be /extremely/ notice able.
Finally, the movie just felt stretched when it probably didn't need to be. Don't get me wrong I love two hour movies, and this one wasn't difficult at all to sit through, but there are certain scenes, different gags, that just felt too much, too over used, and made the movie feel wayyy longer than it actually was. They could have cut down on the witty banter, the jokes, and added more information about the Daughters of Atlas, about /why/ the gods had their powers taken away, added more of the research not just for the characters but for the watchers as well. At the end of the movie I still don't remember the Sister's names, only Anne's and her's is a nickname, and that's because they didn't give a large enough portion to the depth of the Sister's characters. We know their motivations, but if we had a flashback or more than just the simple "this is what father wants" it would have given them more depth and motivation for wanting to destroy the entire planet. There was a lot that wasn't fleshed out that could have been.
TLDR; It's a good movie I would watch again, but the end was rushed and could have been fleshed out better if they added 20 more minutes and made this movie 2.5 hours instead of 2.1. There was a lot that I want this movie to add, but it just didn't. It had meat, but a very disappointing amount of it; some meat no substance.
But, because I need to find every little detail of lore and/or paid sponsorships, I'm going to watch this again and probably update this review after.
Smallville: Zero (2002)
Flash warning
This was a very good episode! All I can say is that anyone with epilepsy should beware of the beginning of the episode, there's a lot of flashing and pulsing lights. Other than that, enjoy!
Bait (2012)
Once you get past the horrid CGI it's a descent movie :)
Like I said in the heading, once you get past the awful CGI, even for 2012, the movie itself was decent and had a nice plot and acting. While there were some parts that didn't make sense or made me mad because, "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?" Or "STOP FALLING OFF THE SHELF!" Or "DON'T DO THAT!" etc, it was decent. There was a lot of gore but most of it was CGI or practical so even though it's rated R for gore it's honestly about as bad as Criminal Minds of Walking Dead. The other part of the R rating was the swearing, F bombs etc, but most people are numb enough to that type of language so that wasn't really that bad either. I did get anxious at some parts so if you want a comedy with romantic and horror undertones, this is the show for you!! :)
Criminal Minds: Lauren (2011)
I wonder...
Matthew Gray Gubler directed this episode and it's one of the highest rated for this season. I'm not sure if it's just me but I'm wondering if the fangirls have something to do with it. I was slightly upset with the "end" of Agent Prentiss, but good things neepver really end, so maybe we'll see her again soon.