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Reviews
Almost Friends (2016)
Not a romantic comedy
When you consider the female lead gets pregnant by not the male lead and then proceeds to kill her unborn child and then her life is portrayed as now having a hopeful future... well what can I say? The ending of this movie was good nightmare material. This is the second film I've seen recently where the main female lead in a so-called "romantic comedy" does such an evil thing (Say You Will). I'm glad it ended the way it did, because the male lead is better off staying out of a relationship with a woman who would be willing to kill his unborn child if she so desired. I shouldn't have to say this, but in romantic comedies, we want to see flawed but relatable and redeemable people. The female lead character was not so.
Dramaworld (2016)
Season 2 ruined by misplaced injection of feminism and emasculated male main characters
Loved season 1. But the writing in season 2 has gone downhill fast. Whenever writers run out of ideas they inject politics as plot filler which is exactly what the writers did for season 2. And when feminism is added, logic is removed. Why can two average female characters beat up a handful of gangsters? Per the writers, "just because (female power or something.. who knows?)". For example, one line of dialogue about how Clair is not from dramaworld, so she has more control over the physics of dramaworld would have made that more logical. Not to mention, it's not heroic in the least to beat someone up for insulting or disrespecting you. It's childish. Somehow Park Joon is no longer masculine at all. How about Evan? Has the actor who plays him ever worked outside a day in his life? There's not a tough bone in his body. It's hard to relate to a character that seems to have had such an easy life that he could be so soft and feminine. Which reminds me again of the illogical nature of the story - why would a mob boss choose such a weak person to join his family? Answer: they wouldn't. Stories don't have to match the real world but they have to be explainable within the logic of the newly created world. In dramaworld, do gangsters prefer to have weak and useless gang members?