The Omona lovefest continues with a Finding Mr. Destiny giveaway courtesy of @5PointsPictures!

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

FINDING MR. DESTINY (2010)
Directed by Chang You-jeong
Starring: Gong Yoo (One of Omona's faves), Lim Soo Jung (I'm A Cyborg But That's OK)
Synopsis: Ji woo (Lim Soo Jung) reluctantly finds her first love with Gi Joon (Gong Yoo) who opens up a First Love Agency after he gets fired from his job so that her dad gets off her case about not getting married. Lighthearted hilarity ensues!

The rules are simple. I'll be posting a review and comment with your thoughts, related  etc for a chance to receive (1) grand prize pack: A copy of Finding Mr. Destiny on DVD + poster + postcard. There will be 3 runner up prizes: a poster and a postcard for each. Winners will be selected randomly.

OKAY SO WHERE DO I BEGIN?????

Ji Woo (LSJ) is a director for a musical. Gi Joon (GY) got fired from a travel agency and instead built a "First Love Agency." Ji Woo rejected a proposal from a handsome pilot oppa she had been seeing. Her father is desperate and upset that she might never find love at this rate because she is still in love with a man she met one time in India, Kim Jong Wook. Even though Ji Woo is reluctant, she and Gi Joon begin their search. Well, why is she reluctant? Ji Woo firmly believes in fate and has a peculiar aversion to endings and this entire quest to find KJW goes against it. This film also explores the importance of first loves: should we really place an importance? Is your first love really your first love?

I went in thinking that this is going to be another movie with a flighty, delicate female lead and a dickhole male lead but I was pleasantly surprised. Ji Woo isn't your typical "save me from myself" character. While she has convictions, it doesn't cripple her to the point of being stubborn. The only other movie I saw with Lim Soo Jung was I'm A Cyborg But That's OK so it was lovely to see her as a woman with some baggage (don't we all???) without turning her into a helpless MPDG. And Gi Joon is... well if you've seen Gong Yoo in Coffee Prince and Big then he plays somewhat the same character but there is a bit of nuance here; he's a klutzy neat freak and is not your typical "strong" male perfect asshole oppa. What I'm saying here is that Gong Yoo is so fricking handsome and handles the character with grace and poise that he doesn't turn him into some kind of parody.

My only complaint about this movie is that in the flashback scenes, Kim Jong Wook was played by... Gong Yoo. It's such a glaring issue that I don't even mind spoiling that part so you don't go through the movie like I did, expecting a much different outcome. I guess my only explanation for it is that while Ji Woo tells Gi Joon of her travels in India with this handsome oppa he could only imagine himself since we don't know what KJW looks like, because he knows that we all know he thinks he's a handsome oppahe's right.

Finding Mr. Destiny is a really lighthearted movie that nearly melted my cold black heart. These two characters together and the relationship that develops was fun to watch and this movie doesn't take itself seriously, and that's always a plus for me if I'm going to be watching a romantic comedy.

I give it four and a half heartshaped lollipops out of five!

Now go comment!!! Tell me about your first loves!!!

Comments

[flumes.livejournal.com]

i want 2 c this now ;w; rly badly lim soo jung looks rly cute and yea the dude's alright (hes cute 2)

oh and i've never been in love idek what that is 2bh im 2 young 2 b shackled down also im not approachable and introverted and i dont trust most ppl im waiting for the right person 2 sweep me off my feet u no

[iftheshoefits88.livejournal.com]

do you have netflix? its on there if you wanna watch it

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

I find the film kind of boring even to my standard (though I actually like boring movies in general).

Watched it 2 years ago with my sis and I didn't exactly remember how it went. I think there was a twist in the end but not exactly remember it. >.>

[uledy.livejournal.com]

gong YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Anyway...

First love? I've never been in love -_______-

There are people that I've really been into, but no one that I loved. BUT, if you're talking about puppy love, then it'd totally be this girl in high school. We were really good friends. She was so quirky and beautiful and brilliant and just wonderful to be around. I was really into her, but I didn't know how she felt about me. I never said anything to her and then I left the state to go to college, she stayed and did drugs...I have no idea where she is or what she's doing, but I still think about her from time to time T^T

[x3raindropsx3.livejournal.com]

omg I've been meaning to watch this movie!

haven't been in love either. womp womp anytime a cute guy showed interest i ran the other way because ugh anxieties. i'm going to change that this year though :3

My novel

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the movie. Well I enjoy anything with Gong Yoo. Except Big.
I agree it was weird to have her first love played by Gong Yoo too.

Hummm my first love. My only love basically. We got together when I was 14 and he was 16. Dated for 7 years. Broke up last year. Not even because we didn't love each other or a fight or something like that. I left for a year to live in the US and we broke up half way through that year. Dated around a bit but we quickly started hooking up after I got back and not long after we were like old times. Except he graduated high school and I had 2 years left. Then he left to England for his studies. We stayed together all this time. Then, he came back, got an apartment, asked me to move in with him. I was 19 then (him 22) and I'd never lived on my own and I just didn't want to move out of my parents' to move in with him right away. We broke up but kept in touch as ~friends several times but because we did love each other and didn't really fight or anything we always got back together. Finally last year he got a job opportunity in England and we tried it for like 3 months until we agreed we should just give up now. Just cut all ties this time (as much as possible since we have the same friends).
I was so heartbroken I lost my best friend, confident and bf at the same time but also kind of relieved? Like, Oof I can move on now. (Except I can't really).
But a few months later my mom passed away, he learned about it and of course was there for me and was amazing and UGH I love him. But we didn't get back together.
Tbh I'm "over" him as much as I think I'll ever be. And I just can't get back into the "dating" life. I've never properly dated and it scares me. There have been guys and girls showing interest but it just feels so weird and awkward and foreign. Like I shouldn't. Idk Idk.
I am going to end up as a cat lady and they will eat me once I die alone in my apartment.

THERE! That was my stupid first love/only love story.
Woo I wrote a novel lool.

Re: My novel

[uledy.livejournal.com]

oh my.

*big bear hug*

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

Rofl if yours is too long..

Is that something that's still going on then? Nevermind I didn't see the "Until"

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

Omg these stories y'all are posting :(

[cocodile.livejournal.com]

I will happily disclose my embarassing first love story for a chance to stare at Gong Yoo (some more).

Followed an upperclassmen around like a chick for a full year, and then found out that he was gay at his graduation party. OOPS, haha. I don't regret a thing though, he was super nice to me even though I'm sure I was ...VERY obvious. His group of friends even got used to me being around and didn't mind including me in plans, so it was a fun school year. I REGRET NOTHING.

Yes, very nice story, warms the cockles of my heart~ ....But I would very much like to stare at Gong Yoo (some more). Happy Valentine's Day, Omona. <3

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

Lol that's actually how I ended up dating my ex. I bumped into him and he was gorgeous and taller than me (not that easy to find, especially not in high school) so I was obviously in love. I actually ripped his schedule from his class' notebook (it's a French thing I'm not sure how to explain). So I knew all his classes, where and when they were.. I never approached him though, I just wanted to be able to see him lool, that's not how we got together.
But see, it wan work! If the dude's not gay of course. And I never told him how much of a stalker I was. Just that when I happened to see him I followed him around a bit, not that I went full on stalker.

Lmao I'm over sharing all over this post. I'll go now.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

finding mr destiny is such an awesome movie.

and i never really had a relationship, so all my love/crush stories are one sided. my first love was in my teens, i think i was 14/15, and he was one of my friends and one of my brother's best friends. i had feelings for him for a really long time, but i always was super shy and never did anything about it. until i finally started to take the courage to do something.

i was such a shy and reserved person back then (and i still kinda am) that i had never ever told my feelings towards him to anyone else, not even my best friend, i was the only person who knew my heart (which was pretty lonely). so i decided that before i told him my feelings, i would tell my best friend that i liked someone and ask for her help. so i called her to my house because i had something to tell her, and she said that she also had something new to tell me, when she arrived i was so nervous i told her to say whatever she had to say first and she did.

she told me that she had been liking the guy i liked (not that she knew anything about that) and that he had asked her to be his girlfriend that same day, and that they just had their first kiss. thank god she spoke first or i would want to die even more. so i just held back my tears, said i was happy for her, hugged her and was the good friend, listening everything she had to say, all the little details, i never told her or him my feelings. that night i cried so hard, the worst part was so see them together holding hands, kissing, doing cutesy stuff in front of me all the time, it is like they were rubbing it to my face, not that they knew. i pretty much cried every night for two months because of that (oh teen love), and it took me a while to get over him. [/end of sad and silly story]

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

Awww That's really sad though :C How long ago was it?

[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

It was kindergarten, his name was Karl, he spoke with a lisp and had speech therapy during kindergarten hours, I thought it was cute. We played his house once, he had a Nintendo classic system with Ninja Gaiden in his room. He had a trick pack of gum where one of the pieces would slide out part way but not completely. I don't remember what happened after that. I think he wanted to make other friends, or he moved, or he became interested in other girls. I'm not sure how he felt about me, but it probably wasn't anything like how I felt for him. He wasn't there in first grade the following year. A quick Facebook search has only people who are too old to be him or are in other countries.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

omg i love this entire comment

[istalkalert.livejournal.com]

Ohh this movie sounds interesting!

Oh lord, my first love... it was a horrible experience. I fell in love with a manwhore. He basically played me. And I was stupid enough to fall for him, even though all my friends warned me about him. At least he only really played with my feelings. But I loss my first kiss to him. He turned me into a pervert, too... But at least I was able to learn from the experience! Haha...

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

oh god i hate those kinds of people -_- the world doesn't ever run out of cowardly dudes who can't own up to their feelings.

[pivotandsway.livejournal.com]

i tried to watch this a few weeks ago and found it really frustrating so i quit rly early on. my first love was a boy named pj. we were in preschool. he had red hair and always shared his snack. it was an epic love story until he moved away. the ghost of him lingers...

[flumes.livejournal.com]

ask tswift 2 write a song abt it

I FORGOT TO MENTION

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

There's also three runner up prize packs! they get a poster+postcard. i guess i should add it to the post.

[fairwells.livejournal.com]

I'll watch this on netflix. Sounds good =)

My first love was in the third grade. It was puppy love. Everyone thought he was a doctor because he wasn't in the honors class and he had a stutter. In High School he bloomed into this gorgeous baseball jock and got over his stutter. I know how to pick them. Sadly nothing ever came of our third grade puppy love. But dudes, he was so friggin hot! lol

[murderistx.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen this yet. I usually watch most mellow/rom-com films but I dont know why because I almost always end up finding it boring or cliche.

Aw man, first love. I seriously don't know who I consider my first love. I remember having a serious crush on the tallest guy in my kindergarten. He picked me up bridal style for god knows what. And back then, I had that terrible bowl/mushroom cut that all the kpop stars be rockin' so I really wondered why he picked me up.

[allegsiseu.livejournal.com]

love doesn't exist tho

[kris-kt.livejournal.com]

I've seen this and is a weird, wtf movie .... but Gong Yoo is awesome ~

[istalkalert.livejournal.com]

haha is it really that weird?

[uledy.livejournal.com]

oh, I just realized, did you write this op? if so, thanks for your hard work =^___^=

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

yes, thank you :)

[elementalranger.livejournal.com]

i don't ever think i've been in ~love~.

tbh i feel like I don't even know what love feels like. Infatuation, yes. Love? I dunno.

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

love is hard to distinguish sometimes but i think it comes when you're with a person you really like and you just want them to succeed and be happy and if they're happy with someone else then it's okay. i know that sounds like it came straight out of a drama but i believe in that fur sure (i've lived it a couple of times, it hurts tho but you just gotta keep it moving u know)

[10135.livejournal.com]

I saw this movie, it's very cute :3 As far as love stories and first loves go though, I guess you can say I dabbled in it. It wasn't mutual though. I was young at the time. I'd say 15-16 when it first started. The guy was who I considered my best friend at the time, so that made everything elevated. I loved him. It took me a few years to get completely over it. Nothing ever happened with it and I'm glad, in a way, I was young and naive! The reason I thought it was love was because I was willing to stay in this town I live in for him. I was willing to drop anything to do something for him. I was able to say that I loved him with no doubt in my heart~ So glad it's over though.

[dori-liv.livejournal.com]

This film sounds nice, I'd like to watch it.
It's good to hear it doesn't take it's self too seriously because that can really ruin a film for me sometimes.
'Is your first love really your first love? - interesting question

My first 'love'...i fell for a friends ex in school. Yeah, bad times :(

[istalkalert.livejournal.com]

Awww why was it such a bad time? :(

[yoongjay91.livejournal.com]

aww reading everyone's first love story make me sad. *hugs everyone*

well, my first love was simple. we were friends and i liked him since preschool. we went to the same school for years. he's that typical bad boy type, not playboy though, just the boy everyone in school would know for being naughty and causing problems.

i liked him for years and it was until the end of our highschool that i decided to confess. but i guess after so many years, the feelings fades and i was confessing to let it all go. he said he didnt deserve me(typical rejection safe answer) and i dont mind.

it feels good.

[istalkalert.livejournal.com]

awwwww, at least you got your feelings out there. but wow you liked him for awhile! :O

[ireland22.livejournal.com]

This movie looks fantastic!
Can't wait to see it

[diligentsesame.livejournal.com]

When I first heard of this movie I was so excited for it, seeing as how it was Gong Yoo's return to acting post-army also! I also quite like Lim Soo Jung. This movie did not disappoint when I got to watch it, although I can't really relate to finding love I can relate to the feeling of The One That Got Away~