Venus and Mars (싸움/Ssaum2007)

Starring:
Kyung-gu Sol - Sang-min
Tae-hee Kim - Jin-na
Supporting Cast
Su-kyeong Jeon - Hwang-mi
Tae-hwa Seo - Tae-hwa
Jae-rok Kim
Ha-ryong Lim
Won-yeong Jang

Arguing about everything. This is mostly how Ji-na and Sang-min spend their time together. But they decide to overcome their clashing characters and vow for forever love. However, their vow is short-lived and their life of “happily ever-after” seems to be an unattainable fairy tale. Sang-min is the nation’s number one indifferent husband. Although unintended, he always seems to aggravate Ji-na. Ji-na is his wife. After putting up with Sang-min’s distasteful attitude, she has become a scrawny, tense, and violent wife. While their grudges against one another are still left unhandled, they decide to split up. They clash on every issue and a psychological warfare begins. What began as verbal fights lead on to physical fight and they fight as if they are going to kill each other. There’s no room for patience and understanding to these two ex-lovers. They enter a merciless face-off. A fight leads on to another then another and the cycle continues.

LOL! I shouldn't laugh at this movie because it was a such a serious topic but I have to hand it to the director.....he did an excellent job. Taking serious issues in a marriage and bringing them down to the basics then making them laugh out loud funny.

Ahh! Being married myself, we have some of those same issues but have never fought that loudly or angrily before. But in a whole I had to agree with each of them on some points, their marriage was doomed but yet if you love someone enough, I think, those points can be worked out.

This movie reminded me of War of the Roses. LOL! But a whole lot funnier. Poor Sang-min, I think he went through 3 cars!!! I have to agree with his friend though. He definitely had some kind of disorder......OCD or bi-polar disorder. It was hard for me to agree with him when his actions were a little "weird". Jin-na, well, was too bossy. That irritated me a bit but yet not. I know in a personal way......sometimes you have to be boss if nobody else will.

I highly recommend this movie. Other than the marriage issues, this movie was hilariously funny. A lot of us will see ourselves in some of those situations and think "Damn, was I like that?" LOL!

I Wish I Had a Wife (Nado anaega isseosseumyeon johgessda, 나도 아내가 있었으면 좋겠다-2000)

Starring:
Kyung-gu Sol ... Kim Bong-soo
Do-yeon Jeon ... Jung Won-ju
Hee-kyung Jin
Kwang-leol Jeon
Jung-Hee Moon
Tae-hwa Seo
Ban-ya Choi

Bong-soo has been working as manager of a small bank in an apartment complex for three years. During three years there -- no, for 23 years if you count his school days -- he has never been late.

However, he purposely decides to skip work one day. There is only one reason. Inside a subway train that has suddenly stopped on his way to work, everyone around him reaches for their cell phones to call someone. At that moment, he realized that he does not have a single person to call.

He doesn't know that inside the educational centre across the street from the bank where he works, a 27-year-old woman Won-ju is looking at him, nourishing a small love.

Bong-soo and Won-ju run into each other every day, at the Ramen restaurant, at the bank, at the bus station...

Various trivial incidents occur, but Bong-soo still does not truly recognize Won-ju's presence.

This will be a simple review. This movie didn't really contain any hotties so no pictures either.

This story was simple, slow, and a little bit apathetic. To some degree it reminded me of the Korean drama Soulmate. Both Bong-soo and Won-ju crossed paths so many times, but Bong-soo showed know inclination towards Won-ju. Poor Won-ju. It's always the woman who starts noticing...especially when paths cross a few times. Eventually she started liking then falling in love with Bong-soo. It took the whole movie before he realized that there was something between them.

This movie isn't for everyone. It is slow moving with lots of visuals and no talking. Don't expect a lot of emotion. It was kind of bland but I liked it. Okay, okay, okay...it was more of a girl movie than anything else. For mature audiences, meaning I don't see a teen or young adult liking this movie much. More of a grown-up thing..........