Il Mare & The Lake House

[dachinchilla]

Long story short, I had free time today because I took the day off for my medical check-up. This left my afternoon free to do things like watch Il Mare: the Korean movie off which The Lake House as based on. It would be grossly unfair to compare the two, because the Korean one claims ownership of the original story, while the Hollywood version has

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[liviapenn]

I was just surfing by on friendsfriends and decided to read this entry because I hadn't heard that The Lake House was based on a foreign film, and now I'm so glad I did! TLH sounded kind of boring to me, but now that I know there are car accidents and nearly averted death, I'm much more interested. (I love "Frequency" even though it's utterly cheesy, for instance.) I'm so shallow. *G*

[dachinchilla]

Hee! You want shallow? I only decided to watch The Lake House because Keanu and Sandra are so pretty together. I only vaguely knew that there was time-travel involved, but not any of the details, so that just turned out to be a big bonus for me. Romance + time travel = a very happy me.

Frequency was actually much more believable when it came to altering timeline, because for each thing that they changed, son-Caviezel (argh, can't remember his name) remembers both the original timeline and the altered timeline, so the original timeline didn't just magically disappear. The Lake House mostly uses the time-travel as an excuse for the romance, but I don't think it's any more ridiculous than what went on in Back to the Future Part II. XD

[drquinzel]

You watched Frequency! I liked tht movie and was disappointed when others didn't get it.

[dachinchilla]

But Frequency is one of the most straightforward time travel movies! O_o

[bella_azzurri]

O.M.G.

YOU DORK.

[dachinchilla]

IT'S TRUE.

[snx8]

*squeeeeeee*

I was just wondering about Il Mare myself!! Sounds pretty damn sad though..

But yea watched Lake House yesterday. They are so pretty. *heart* I wac clutching Tan near the end though. "Say it ain't so!!" Although I kinda guessed it was happening.

And omg if you find fanfic you have to let me know yes?

[dachinchilla]

Yes! Keanu and Sandra are on-screen OTP! Both times after I watched the movie I just had to watch Speed again.

You can watch Il Mare over on youtube, in case you're curious. Though I have to warn you, I thought the Lake House was slow, but Il Mare is even slower. There's also barely any supporting characters in Il Mare, it's really all about the guy and girl.

Although I want fanfic, I'm kinda scared to look for it. Romantic movies don't bring out the best writers, yanno?

[snx8]

hmm..nah i think I'll pass on the Korean version. If anything i'd probably like to watch Lake House again though..

Although I want fanfic, I'm kinda scared to look for it. Romantic movies don't bring out the best writers, yanno?

*nod nod nod*

[friskylamb]

But Il Mare was soooooo sweet!! And finding out little adorable quirks about the house like the doggie prints and stuff... I'm too cheap to watch Lake House in cinema tho... might wait to download! hehehe

[dachinchilla]

The Lake House is sweet too! They've adapted it quite closely to the Korean version (doggie prints still there!) it's only in the last one-third that they change stuff.

[leila_nile]

Frequency made me cry.

Also, much <3 for your awesome timeline XD