Ah, licenses.

I gots me a license. =O

Okay, 'nuff of that nonsense. What else.

Uhm. I dunno. I saw the American version of My Sassy Girl, and it was good enough that I'd actually come on here and type out that it was good enough for me to come on here to type out. Fun times. Movie reviews? Oh noez! Well too bad, you're getting one. So, while it might lack the "sass" of the original, that's completely understandable. The original movie was targeted at a Korean audience, and as such, scenes like meeting the thugs in jail or getting beat up by the parents and what not make total sense, and are very funny. But if we try to translate that into an American flick, it wouldn't work out because the mentality is different. So how do we do it? We keep the premise the same, but we change the situations they interact in, but lead it towards the same basic conclusion. Did it work? Yes, yes it did.

Similarly, the American remake of Il Mare (The Lakehouse, as we all have come to know it) was terrible. Well, no. That's not true. I liked the movie, but they CHANGED THE ENDING. And that totally, totally ruined it for me. I saw it coming too. Sigh. This would be a good example of an American remake of a Korean film that did not work. They changed too much, and in doing so they create a movie that works "decently" on its own, but to people who have seen the Korean one and are expecting who knows what from the American one, well, they'll be disappointed. On the other hand, I could take the approach that they're two separate movies, and I shouldn't be comparing them to one another, but everyone does that anyway.

But speaking from a POV of a "How good is this movie based on no prior knowledge of anything else?" I'd still say the ending would have been better if they kept it the same as the original. I put it this way because I wouldn't want to ruin it for people who have not yet seen it. I could say,

But with My Sassy Girl, well, the core elements are there. We have a girl who bosses this nice guy around, and he likes her. Etc. etc. Good stuff. Very cute. And speaking from a "Let's not compare movies?" POV, it's very good. I liked it.

Okay, okay, enough of that.

Uhm. I guess that's all. There's work tomorrow. Oh work. How fickle you are.

Actually, I guess there's more. To life. My life, I mean. I'm getting that urge to move. I've got it in my head that maybe I don't like sticking to one place for so long. Maybe it'd be nice to move to a new area, see who I meet, where I can get a job at, that kind of thing. Where the wind takes me. Maybe Washington isn't my kind of place.

THEN AGAIN, who'm I to say where I can and cannot live. I suppose I'll have to stick around here for a bit after all.