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I had always meant to watch this, but due to work and other things, I always put it off. After a while, and a weekend with nothing to do, I found myself sitting at my computer bored. After looking through my dramalist for a movie to watch, this was at the top of my list. Without much of a thought, I instantly put it on. All I have to say is, I don't regret it.

The actors are amazing and are able to portray their characters well. Even the minor roles do their job extremely well and put loads of emotion and humor in their roles. Joo Jin Mo does a great job portraying Sang Jun, an agent whose first priority is his job rather than his love life. Kim Ah Joong plays the female lead who undergoes surgery to get the one she loves, but in the end, the surgery plays an even greater role in her life and makes her re-evaluate her goals. For their great acting, I gave them a ten. Casting did a magnificent job in choosing the actors and I can't imagine anyone better. Everyone on set had great chemistry.

The music was fantastic. You may recognize Blondie's "Maria", which was done extremely well, and boy, does Kim Ah Joong have lungs! She can sing! The rest of the music is great and may make you want to download onto you're mp3!

Rewatch value is definitely a ten. At first, I was going to put a nine, but the day after I watched this movie, I had to watch it again, just because it's that great. For a movie to do that, it deserves a ten.

Overall, the movie is a 10. Watch this movie, don't regret it, and love every bit of it. If you're looking for a movie with a good message, great music, great script, great directing, and great cinematography, I HIGHLY recommend checking this movie out!

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Drama, you have made a mess of my life for the past week. You've made a Yoo In Na & Ji Hyun Woo fan out of me. The story was awesome. Although the time-skipping part has became cliche' over the first half of 2012, you're the first drama to pull it off amazingly. I was captivated from start to finish, the plot was pulling my heart in every way possible and I loved every second of it. It's the type of drama that makes you care & worry endlessly for the sake of the characters. The chemistry between the cast was outstanding. (Hell, Yoo In Na & Ji Hyun Woo had so much chemistry, they're dating now!) I guess the director knew what he was doing casting them as the lead. They're all so adorable & you can't help but even love the baddies. The music was extremely awesome as well. One of the first drama OSTs I actually sat through and listened to, especially if you know Korean/Look up the translation to the songs, they're all so meaningful and tie in perfectly with the drama itself. I'd watch this drama over a million times if I could, there wasn't one part that didn't have my full attention. One of the best I've seen this year, and now one of my newly favorites.

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I like it a lot and I was really addicted to it that I can't watch other stuffs than this but it annoyed me in the end. I could have given this funny sitcom a perfect 10 if not for the last 10 minutes of the show. I feel cheated. Really.. I even want to avoid the future works of the writers and PDs of this show.

So I heard that the PD was more inclined with Jihoon/Sekyung loveline and the writer was more to Jihoon/Jung Eum. That explains why we seen alot of good romance development of Ji/JE. To be honest, at the early episodes of this show I was more to Ji/Se then Junhyuk/Jung Eum. But as soon as Jihoon interacts with Jung Eum, I can see their chemistry very well and their love story was more believable than the Sekyung and Jihoon. Sekyung love for Jihoon can be classified as one sided love and so Junhyuk love for Sekyung. As for Jung Eum and Jihoon, their story is well developed that I really find the ending ridiculous! Like as if the writers/Pds are newbie. Arggg.. In short, the ending don't make any sense no matter how hard I think about it. The ending of this sitcom for me is the worst ending in all the korean dramas that I have ever seen and senseless to the bones.

All the characters are clear except Jihoon. It could be nice if the writer make the ending in Jihoon's POV since his character is very vague than that nonsense ending. There are several times in this sitcom when I thought of him as a "player" since I think he clearly enjoys/loves JE but there are times he cares for Sekyung though not in a romantic way. If only they let the ending be on Jihoon's perspective then I can accept whatever and whoever he choose in the end coz that will explain what IS inside his mind since we only see him in Sekyung's and Jung Eum's perspective.


I personally love the character Jung Eum played. She is closed to reality and very endearing. At first I liked Sekyung but she seems too pitiful and really contrast to JE's character.

Also, this is actually the third time that I seen Yoon Shi Yoon in a drama and heard that this was his debut onscreen acting. He is such an actor and very good looking too.


Overall, this sitcom is a must watch but I recommend that you guys avoid the last episode. I should have listened to the other reviewer of this show then I'll be less angry and disappointed.

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This drama is hard to review because it started out amazing, but then crashed and burned later on.

Despite the flaws of the story, the acting was absolutely superb by all involved. They made you feel for the different characters. Moon Geun Young especially did an amazing job, and she is a very versatile actress. The father/step-father was one of my favorite parts of the drama as well. Taecyeon also did surprisingly well in his role, and I found myself rooting for Jung Woo instead of Ki Hoon.

The drama probably would have been better if there were fewer episodes. Toward the middle and end, the show really started to drag on, and unnecessary events always seemed to be happening, and many events seemed to repeat themselves. I actually had to stop watching for a while after the time skip because it was so hard for me to get back into the story.

I liked most of the music in the drama and I'd definitely say that it added to the feel.

There is probably no way I would watch the drama in full again, but I wouldn't mind watching parts of the beginning over, or parts with Jung Woo and Eun Jo.

Overall, the show started out great and promising, but the plot soon got tired and old, and though the acting was amazing, it wasn't quite enough to completely save the drama.

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'If you could freeze time and you weren't dying, what would you do?'

This was a very subtle, yet, in my opinion, a most important central piece for this movie.

The story of the movie isn't innovative in any way, it has a predictable central plot, but it brings some unique surprises while it reaches its ending.
I wouldn't have loved it so much if the story didn't twist so interestingly towards the last half an hour. I would have just thought that the movie was nice, but yet another typical, self-sacrificing love from one of the leads towards the other's happiness. And if it were so, then Sweet November would have been the more plausible story for me... but it turned out that the story was beyond that and it made me give this movie a special place in my heart.
Now, what really made this movie such a big hit for me were the actors... I mean, oh my God, the acting was among the best I've experienced, I was absolutely sucked in and I absolutely lived their pain, love and happiness alongside the two. Seldom do I fall in love with both male and female leads in a movie, so allow me to be excited :).
Time to go deeper into the movie!
I have to say that I really enjoyed how the story had, along the line of the plot, scattered interesting visual images that would fixate into my mind and give new meaning to the movie:

The numbers that would suddenly appear before his eyes every time he would waver as to giving up his love, to further enforce that time was running out for him were very interesting, especially when his career goes on the line for him excessively playing Cat Girl's song and his boss threatening his job, the shirt with 88 written on it suddenly popped before his eyes in order to assure him he was doing the right thing.

Also, when she returns from her date a little drunk and she sneaks in his bed, he feels really comfortable, but he gets up an leaves her after he sees 20x on the little pin-board next to his bed, reminding him of his days left.

Another nice image was that of him letting time pass again in the photo studio, when he decides to start on of the clocks, that is the moment when he knows time cannot stop and his love won't find fulfillment.

The cactus he chose as a gift for her is quite unique in its symbolism also: that species of gymnocalicium is a hybrid cactus, the colored top has no chlorophyll, so it needs to be put on top of another cactus, a green one, in order to get food and survive. That is, for me, the nature of their relationship, a symbioses, where one cannot survive without the other, neither can it let any ham come to the other, as the pain would be felt by them both.

Shall I answer the question from the beginning of my review? It's not a spoiler per say, but it will reveal, if you think hard about it, the ending of the movie, so I'd advise you to stop reading, if you don't want to get a glimpse of how the story id finished.
*** When time freezes, they could reveal the storm of feelings that boils in their hearts... Only when time freezes and everyone around them stops, will they be free to love one another, just like to birds flying towards the sky ***

Hope you enjoyed my review, have a great time watching the movie !

P.S.: Did anyone else got creeped out by the doctor after you saw in the ending he was a bit of a stalker?

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I came across of this movie accidentally on TV. Since it's rare to watch Korean movies on TV i thought i would give it a try. i was watching it with my parent and thought they're not fond of Korean movies they said they really liked it.
Plot was interesting and acting was superb. My jaw dropped when i saw that sex scenes. Koreans always have problems with kissing scenes and man to man scenes done with such a high quality was really surprising.
Everything in this movie was unique. Story, acting, music, even fight scenes... everything was done well.
I really liked the movie and i would recommend it to those who aren't against of watching man to man scenes but love interesting and original movies.

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Even though it's taken a year for me to finish, that by no means diminishes how I feel about Coffee Prince. I picked this drama up after You're Beautiful because I've always enjoyed gender benders.

Coffee Prince did not disappoint at all. The story took me on an emotional rollercoaster just like it takes its characters. The romance is beautiful and I love how it was handled--that issues weren't glossed over, but solved and thought through, just like in real life.

I can't say enough about the cast. They are amazing; all the pairings have great chemistry, both female/male romance and the friendships. Each character plays off the other; without one, the dominoes of this drama would possibly fall. I've fallen in love with this cast and hope that they act together sometime in the future.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Coffee Prince, and it will always have a special place in my heart. I will certainly rewatch this again and again. :D

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This may sound bizarre, but I can't say this was an outstanding drama, but I enjoyed it immensely. I appreciated that every character fit their role; it was as if they were hand-picked and match perfectly and throughout the drama, they remained true to that character. What actually drew me to this drama were the family conflicts. It just reminds of an old saying, "Sometimes family can be your worst enemy". "Three Brothers" took that concept and ran with it. The sibling rivalry between the adult brothers is precipitated by their own mother, as was the daughter-in-laws. Stubborn, oblivious, and conniving spouses only added to the drama. I loved this drama because I could relate to craziness that involved this family, and connecting, families. "Three Brothers" is a must see and an eye opener for domestic relations.

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it's not fair that this drama isn't so famous, because it was great!! I really really really loved it!!
When i watched the first episode i thought it was going to be just like almost any other drama out there, girl meets super rich and handsome boy, they fight and fall in love. But this drama isn't like that!! It's about three different couples, who all have their own problems. It's about growing up and love!! It is very realistic!

The actors were also great!! They showed alot of emotions, there were also some kids who played in the drama , and they were awesome!! One kid (meeju) was so cute i had to cry .. Hehe

This drama is light-hearted and fun to watch, but it isn't an immature story, it also makes you think about and it makes you cry till your eyes are red and puffy...

Ooh and one thing i was very pleased about was that no-one died or got ill in this drama, because of personal reasons i don't like dramas where someone gets ill and dies..

I think that this drama isn't that known because it's about married couples and pregnancies, but don't let that get in your way to not watch this drama. Because it's finally something different, and close to real life!! If you think this drama isn't for you to watch because your not married and a bit to young to do so, you still have to watch it!! I'm also not married andnot thinking about it because i'm a bit to young , but i still thought it was great!!!

So please consider watching this drama because it certainly won't let you down!!
Thank you for reading!! And i'm sorry for some mistakes in my english grammar!!

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