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Throwback Thursday: Thai Lakorn Kiss Me Thrills us With Kisses and Chemistry (September 2015)

Throwback Thursday: Thai Lakorn Kiss Me Thrills us With Kisses and Chemistry (September 2015)

Out of all the adaptations of Playful Kiss, there is one that stands above the others. Mostly because the leading man isn’t an emotionless jerk and the leading lady isn’t the dimmest thing to walk the earth. Add on the fact that Aom and Mike D’angelo have insane chemistry and it creates the best adaptation of this story that you are going to get.

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Oh Baby I - Mike D’Angelo

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And yet, for all its narrative clunkiness, and despite a disappointing back half that’s too heavily Skype-y, Unfriended remains perhaps the most singular and audacious visual experience I’ve had this year. It showed me things I’ve never seen onscreen before, except insofar as I see them on another screen every single day. (I watched the film on my computer, via VLC, which was incredibly disorienting; it was often hard to tell where Blaire’s screen ended and my own screen began.) It dazzled me with quick wit—not spoken in dialogue, but embodied by Blaire’s Cursor, which at times exhibits something like an actual personality. It moved at a pace that I could readily follow, and that allowed me to glimpse fun details, without allowing the story to bog down. Somebody had to make the decisions that achieved those ends, and presumably that person was Gabriadze. That his work doesn’t match my mental image of film directing is irrelevant. That image was never terribly accurate to begin with, and it’s becoming less accurate every year, in all kinds of ways. I’m glad a movie came along that was able to shatter it, at least to some degree.

— Mike D’Angelo, Oscilloscope Laboratories