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9/10 overall, very similar in principle to Battle Royale (worth a viewing if you haven't seen it). Please only watch with original VA and subs, the voiceover is fucking awful.
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Battle Royale (film) - Wikipedia
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Ishad
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This show made me wonder if personal debt really was a big issue in Korea. Holy fuck:
www.reuters.com
South Korea's youth debt binge shows no sign of slowing as rate hike looms
When South Korea announced new lending curbs last month, Joe Park, a 34-year-old grocery chain purchasing manager, scrambled to borrow more money before the tighter rules took effect.
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stupidmonkey
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Felt like they dubbed the voices because I was thinking there's no way they could be delivering lines that badly.
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Lanx
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no, thats just how white ppl are "supposed" to sound in asian films
remember this is a korean series for koreans, and to koreans, thats how white ppl sound
i think i recognize the 69 white guy as the defacto "fat white guy" in some films
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No surprise they've got a real estate bubble. Jesus.This show made me wonder if personal debt really was a big issue in Korea. Holy fuck:
South Korea's youth debt binge shows no sign of slowing as rate hike looms
When South Korea announced new lending curbs last month, Joe Park, a 34-year-old grocery chain purchasing manager, scrambled to borrow more money before the tighter rules took effect.
stupidmonkey
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yea i assume these white ppl have their niche,
Geoffrey Giuliano - IMDb
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Looks like he was in Kate and some other Asian films.
i mean for hong kongs films, for 20years, they have the same 3 white police captains for like 400films lulz
I was talking about this show with my wife with my kids in the room. My 9 year old son pipes up and says, "Oh, my classmate is in that show!" I assume it's BS because, you know, kids, but then some quick googling shows that, yes, his classmate did the English VO for the daughter character. Small world.
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I'm only about a 5/10 on this one. Alice in Borderlands was much more my speed for this somewhat related genre show.
The main, personal, complaint was that this was just too mean and sad. Not that it was violent or had a little blood or whatever. But just the slow burn and watching everyone die, get killed, kill each other, watch each other die. It was just too heavy. Again this is a very individual taste thing and nothing really to do with the quality of the show. As a show it was pretty cool. I do wish the games were a little more involved or intricate and allowed for flexibility.
Another complaint is that once you pull back the curtain on this type of thing it gets too convoluted. I mean, even more convoluted than the premise is to begin with. Seeing all the minions interacting behind the scenes and all that stuff. I would rather it were confined more to just the players and their back stories. There was enough there without the other things.
I was ready to jump right in to Alice Season 2 b/c it was fantastical / sci-fi enough to engage me. This was like watching 9 episodes of torture porn with zero happiness.
Will watch a Season 2 if it exists which it will after half the planet watches Season 1.
The main, personal, complaint was that this was just too mean and sad. Not that it was violent or had a little blood or whatever. But just the slow burn and watching everyone die, get killed, kill each other, watch each other die. It was just too heavy. Again this is a very individual taste thing and nothing really to do with the quality of the show. As a show it was pretty cool. I do wish the games were a little more involved or intricate and allowed for flexibility.
Another complaint is that once you pull back the curtain on this type of thing it gets too convoluted. I mean, even more convoluted than the premise is to begin with. Seeing all the minions interacting behind the scenes and all that stuff. I would rather it were confined more to just the players and their back stories. There was enough there without the other things.
I was ready to jump right in to Alice Season 2 b/c it was fantastical / sci-fi enough to engage me. This was like watching 9 episodes of torture porn with zero happiness.
Will watch a Season 2 if it exists which it will after half the planet watches Season 1.
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