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Never Forget Your Enemy (Korean Series)

By Golu
Let's just cut right to it, this show was painfully boring. There, I said it. A story built around partial amnesia has real potential, but between the choppy scene structure and random flashbacks thrown in constantly, the whole plot ends up feeling more tangled than it needed to be. The romance doesn't fare much better either, it's written so poorly that I never really found myself invested in this couple. Both leads come across stiff on screen and deliver their lines in a really awkward way. The show runs 8 episodes, each somewhere around 30 to 35 minutes. Hanuel, a 29 year old language teacher, wakes up after an accident only to realize his memory stops at age 19. It turns out he'd been in another accident back then too, which is why his memories cut off at that point. He has zero recollection of the fact that he's currently living with his childhood friend Saebyeok, who's now a huge celebrity. That makes the whole situation even harder for Hanuel to wrap his ...
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Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy

By Golu

Seriously!! Weren't the first two films torturous enough, that someone had the god awful idea of making the third film in the series. God help us. Following the pattern of the lead man daydreaming about naked men in their full glory, this film is just slightly better than its predecessors.

21-year-old Wylie is visiting his freshly divorced dad, who is enjoying walking around naked in the home and dating new girls and proudly announcing them to his embarrassed son. While his father is out, he finds the video blogs of Clayton and is soon questioning his own sexuality. Turns out Wylie has a crush on his room mate Greg. He invites Greg along with couple of other friends over for some R&R. For two straight nights, Wylie gets Greg drunk so he can have his way with him but something stops him feeling not right. When the secret is revealed, greg is shocked initially but he talks to Wylie that he should just have talked to him rather than doing silly stuff like that. thankfully the father is also very supportive of the son being gay.

So thankfully the story had a little more meat than the first two films. I got over with Wylie imagining all his friends naked in full glory, but I liked the scenes when Wylie with a trembling hand tries to touch Greg but is also aware that this is not the right thing to do. the dad's over enthusiasm was annoying with all the sex talk trying to be all cool. And however cool you are, i don't think you will walk around naked in front of your son. The way Greg, as a friend, handles the whole situation was nice to see. Straight men being totally comfortable with gay guy as their closest friend is something that started to be shown more and that was nice. Acting wise, the actors here did much better job than the previous 2 films. There is actually a script and people trying to do something about it. But that doesn't make it a good film by any means. (2.5/10)

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