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May 18, 2024, 08:10:28 PM  | The Beast & the Beauty (2005/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia
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Stars:
SeungBum Ryoo as DongGun Goo
MinA Shin as Hae-Ju Jang
KangWoo Kim as JuneHa Tak
KilKang An as DoSik Choi
YoungSook Lee as JaeJu's Mother
Extras:
- Photo Gallery
- Scene Access
My Thoughts:
A nice romantic comedy. A guy who isn't the best looking guy learns, that his blind girlfriend will get her eyesight back. Ashamed by his appearance, and because he described himself as handsome to her, he is hiding from her now. Added to that an old handsome school friend of his has entered the girlfriends life. South Korea seems to be a nice source to get some charming romantic comedies. I have watched and enjoyed a few so far. I even ordered a few more recently.
Rating:
(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 9th, 2010)
Member's Reviews
The Men Who Stare at Goats, a review by Tom
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Stars:
George Clooney as Lyn Cassady
Ewan McGregor as Bob Wilton
Jeff Bridges as Bill Django
Kevin Spacey as Larry Hooper
Stephen Lang as Brigadier General Dean Hopgood
Plot:
In this comedic look at real life evetns that are almost too bizarre to believe, reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) teams up with Lyn Cassidy (George Clooney) and discovers an experimental top-secret wing of the U.S. military. Here soldiers are trained to change the ways wars are fought through New Age psychic powers by passing through walls, reading the enemy's thoughts and even killing a goat by simply staring at it.
Inspired by Jon Ronson's non-fiction best-seller of the same name, this is an eye-opening and hilarious story of the government's attempts to harness soldier's paranormal abilities in order to combat its enemies.
Extras:
- BD-Live
- Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurettes
- Photo Gallery
- Production Notes
- Scene Access
- Wendecover
My Thoughts:
I saw this movie last year at the cinema. I enjoyed it. But this movie's absurd humor is not for anyone. The people I watched it with last night were bored by it.Rating:
(From Tom's Random Reviews on February 6th, 2011)
Member's TV Reviews
Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison, a review by Tom
10. Doubt
L and Light play tennis and try to size up each other. Light tries to find a way to get onto the investigation team without rising the suspicion that he might be Kira. But L beats him in this regard and plainly tells him that he suspects him, but wants him on the team nonetheless. If he isn't Kira, he would be a great help on the investigation. If he is Kira, he might trip up and reveal himself.
Light's father has a conversation with the chief of the police, where the chief wants to know the identity of L and Light's father refuses to tell him.
Light's father gets an heart attack but it turns out to be only fatigue.
At the end a television studio gets some tapes which are asked to be played on the air.
This episode covers the manga chapters 20-22. Essentially the same things happen except that the manga elaborates more.
In the movies, the tennis match was replaced by a chess game where both size up each other. The heart attack of the father probably inspired the ending of the second movie. The way that Light gets on the team is also much different. Essentially the whole ending of the first movie is an elaborate plan by Light to defuse the suspicion from him by letting his girlfriend be killed by Kira. He also uses it as reasoning to get on the team to "find" the killer of his girlfriend. L reveals to Light non-verbally that he suspects him being Kira by eating a special brand of chips in front of him. The same kind of chips Light used to hide the Death Note while writing down names while he was being survaillanced.
Also in the movies Light's father visits the chief of police and also a television studio gets tapes to play.
(From Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison on January 17th, 2012)