doramas and Hogfather

[meganbmoore]

While I wait to get a new infusion of doramas(soooon, I hope, soooooooon)  I've decided to give some of the dramas I tried but didn't immediately click(but that I still have) a second chance.  I tosses(figuratively) the ones that strightup rubbed me the wrong way or had something I really disliked, and am left with:

cdrama:

Guts of Man
Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth

jdrama:

Antique Cake Store
Boku Dake no Madonna
Densha Otoko
Fugoh Keiji
Kougen E Irasshai
Nanisama
Oh OkuSay Hello to Blackjack
Slow Dance
Teppan Shoujo Akane

Anyone have opinions to offer up on any of the above?

Also, Amazon sent my DVDs overnight.  As they didn't charge me for overnight shipping, I have no issues with that.  My Tin Man DVDs had a painful trailer for some horror movie, but also one for The Hogfather from the Pratchett series, which looked like it could be decent.  Anyone seen that?

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Guts of Man?????????

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Sequel to 'Scent of Man' perhaps? A more in-depth exploration of the same story?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You know, i thought you were being 100% flippant when I first read this, then I remember that there IS something called "Scent of Man" out there, though I can't recall if it's a movie or a kdrama. ("Guts of Man" I got back when I was grabbing every period drama I can find, but have since realized that I really dislike the main actor...he's one of those who just can't act, but unlike so many of them, he has no charm or natural likability to compensate.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

calixa referenced it. I just remembered because the name seemed so bizarre.

Is it just me or do Taiwanese/Chinese dramas generally have a higher proportion of actors who are good-looking but can't act well, as compared to jdramas and kdramas, where many of these guys might be hot, but they can also all act very well.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've noticed that. Probably contributes to my inability to get into TW dramas the way others do. (Most TVB and mainland dramas actually do have pretty decent-or better-acting, they just also have the not so good ones. For example, Ron Ng, the guy in question here, tends to be the bad apple among good ones in his dramas...except they pair him off with Leila Tong a lot...Leila's one of those who plays off her costars, so she's good with a decent axtor, but flat with a bad one.)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much I can to see that one. Almost as much as I want to see the one about the Korean vampires from Romania.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I assume we're meant to get "courage of man" equivalents.

I have pain of crotch!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

That's so much less exciting that what I was imagining.