What are your thoughts on Korean dramas?
Over the past couple of months, I have watched several Korean series such as Monster, Train, Signal and others. Do you watch such series and what is your opinion about them?The game of squid, We are all dead (about zombies at school) is generally top, every episode is a breeze. Koreans also have a lot of interesting feature films, especially from the early 2000s.
Watched the aforementioned "Squid Game" and "We're All Dead" as well as some other Korean/Japanese/Chinese movies and series ala dramas. The idea is not bad, and the execution in general, too, but the most important thing that repels in all Asian (not only Korean) series is terrible, just incredibly terrible acting. Well, Asians don't know how to play, they just don't know how. Any image is too exaggerated by them and because of this you directly feel that they are replaying, and it becomes painful to look at it over time and it is impossible to take the story seriously anymore. In "The Squid Game" the most illustrative examples are a bandit and that hysterical woman who first hobnobbed with him, and then he "threw" her and she - in the literal sense - threw him off at the very end. The man is just a 100% cliché of all Asian gangsters in films / games (as if he got out of the Yakuza game series), the woman is a typical Asian "crazy". These fake facial expressions, excessively evoking unnatural postures and gestures, constant screaming too loud (after all, if the character does not constantly scream at the top of his lungs, he apparently cannot be regarded as "bad"). "We're All Dead" is another scourge of all Asian movies/dramas etc. - narration from the perspective of schoolchildren and, again, bad acting. Especially moments when something terrible seems to happen to a person (according to the plot, there was often the death of parents and her contemplation) and either he / she picturesquely threw herself into the arms of another schoolboy, or one tear flowed down his cheek - and then not real) tear (favorite trick in such works) or immediately unnatural simulated sobs began. In general, everything in their films / series is at a high level, except for the most important thing - actors and acting. And if in "The Squid Game" there was one character who was really well played (this is the same not quite simple grandfather), then in "We are all dead" there is not a single really developed character at all who would also be well played , IMHO.
So all these series, again, IMHO, at one time, and then after them you usually spit for a long time.
Disgusting acting by Asians is mostly present in TV series/movies based on comics and for young people. It seems that there is a clear order from the Ministry of Culture, they say we are filming for morons, grimace, as it is drawn here, otherwise they will not understand! Because you can take a film for sane people and there will be no antics. It's just the rule if a movie is based on comics => it's complete shit with violent psychos instead of actors. It looks especially wild when a couple of normal ones come across among them, the contrast is simply deadly between one or two sane supporting characters and a circus of freaks.