lol Please pound sand, Knetz. You seem to have a personal vendetta against using the word "racist" in accordance with its definition. I suggest you look over the dictionary for the first time and determine whether or not you are a brainless Knetz.
Do ALL Koreans feel a connection to their own history? Do ALL Koreans feel exactly the same way about their country's history? Do ALL Koreans have the same perspective on their history? Are there NO Koreans who are more interested in contemporary politics/culture/etc. than what fucking crown someone is wearing in a Kdrama? Are there NO Koreans who don't give a shit about any of those things? Are there NO Koreans who don't give a shit about your Knetz BS?
You used "Koreans" as if all Koreans are 100% the same, a monolithic block, everyone like everyone else. That's racist. :)
Knetz are not "interchangeable" with fans, you dolt. MOST fans are not Knetz. Knetz are Killer obsessives, afforded attention far out of proportion to their numbers because they scream the loudest and say the most appalling, potentially damaging things.
Just as not all fans are Knetz, not all Koreans are Knetz. Not even close. Knetz are a tiny subset of the Korean population. Knetz ARE psychos, and as you seem to be presenting yourself as one of them, anything you say about anything is irrelevant.
Episode 7: What a dull, meandering, seemingly pointless story. I keep waiting for something to happen, or for a character to assert themselves in some way. But, apparently, interesting things are not allowed in this screenplay.
One MC delivers a soliloquy on how important a beautiful house has been to the other MC's life, and I think, "Oh, cool, other MC will maybe stand up to his brother and save the house from destruction!" Nope. Other MC stays in the house a week longer, then goes running off somewhere to have a fake mustache and chin beard glued to his face while keeping MC on a string as per usual.
Out of the blue, a side character suddenly becomes VERY important to MC. I hoped for MC to have an affair, for something interesting to occur! Nope. I knew from the moment they began to chat on the roof that something awful was going to happen to that guy. Bingo! Such clunky, obvious BL-style writing. The writers seem to think they have fresh, fascinating observations to make about the human condition, all delivered via voice-over, of course. The writers are mistaken.
A shy student suddenly appears in the story, paying strangely intense attention to MC, and I hope for a scandalous student-teacher affair. Nope. That would be interesting.
MC breaks down (tearlessly) and makes profound admission of weakness. Four second later he has recovered and is asking for sex from other MC. Nope. That would be interesting, thus not allowed.
Only three more hate-watch eps to go. I keep hoping for this show's redemption, because in the first three episodes, I bonded with the MCs and thought things would happen. Nope. That would be interesting.
to be honest this a korean thing, international people need to stay out of this. Not our business.
Oh bullshit. By your logic, international fans should not watch Korean shows or movies, and forget about Kpop. After all, it's not our business.
How about Korea's status as #1 worldwide in celebrity suicides as well as suicides among the general population? How about Korea's status as the #1 country in alcoholism and alcohol abuse?
As soon as Korea accepts my time and attention to their creative content, I become an audience member. As an audience member, it is appropriate for me to notice and comment on any damn thing I want to about Korea's movies, dramas, music, culture, laws, society, whatever.
I'm American. International people certainly don't hold back in criticizing every facet of American culture/society/politics/whatever, and I'm glad they do.
It felt more like a "please don’t hate us" response. And even though they took the blame as if they…
It is always this way. By taking these stupid accusations seriously, actors, crew, and director need to tell Knetz to fuck the fuck off with their lame bullshit.
Yes, I read up on it online. "Frustrating and gory" are why I want to watch it. :D I like movies that challenge me, even if eventually things go too far in either the confusing/frustrating, or gore departments and I drop out. I dropped out of the successful, popular Korean film, "I Saw the Devil," for that reason. Gore for gore's sake is not my thing.
I have been watching the silly/horny BL, "Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami," which stars the lead of this film. I like what he's doing in that show and was intrigued to check out a film that sounds like the opposite of "Fukami." :)
nope, this was the movie Colony with Ji Chang-wook at Cannes 😉
This part:
"the audience sat through 2 hours and 40 minutes in complete silence and spontaneously applauded at least three action sequences mid screening before the credits even rolled."
FL is as dull an actress as I've seen. ML is not far behind. Sex scenes were nearly raunchy/explicit enough to justify watching everything else. Not even any real nudity, which is too bad, because the ML naked might have made up for some of the problems I mentioned. Terrible script.
Why do so many Thai films feature actors taking huge pauses between lines to each other? Just listening to them nearly drove me to slumber.
The bones of this story could be a hot sex thriller in the hands of a better filmmaker, maybe someone out of KO/JP/TW/HK.
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Please pound sand, Knetz.
You seem to have a personal vendetta against using the word "racist" in accordance with its definition.
I suggest you look over the dictionary for the first time and determine whether or not you are a brainless Knetz.
Do ALL Koreans feel exactly the same way about their country's history?
Do ALL Koreans have the same perspective on their history?
Are there NO Koreans who are more interested in contemporary politics/culture/etc. than what fucking crown someone is wearing in a Kdrama?
Are there NO Koreans who don't give a shit about any of those things?
Are there NO Koreans who don't give a shit about your Knetz BS?
You used "Koreans" as if all Koreans are 100% the same, a monolithic block, everyone like everyone else. That's racist. :)
Knetz are not "interchangeable" with fans, you dolt. MOST fans are not Knetz. Knetz are Killer obsessives, afforded attention far out of proportion to their numbers because they scream the loudest and say the most appalling, potentially damaging things.
Just as not all fans are Knetz, not all Koreans are Knetz. Not even close. Knetz are a tiny subset of the Korean population. Knetz ARE psychos, and as you seem to be presenting yourself as one of them, anything you say about anything is irrelevant.
What a dull, meandering, seemingly pointless story.
I keep waiting for something to happen, or for a character to assert themselves in some way.
But, apparently, interesting things are not allowed in this screenplay.
One MC delivers a soliloquy on how important a beautiful house has been to the other MC's life, and I think, "Oh, cool, other MC will maybe stand up to his brother and save the house from destruction!"
Nope. Other MC stays in the house a week longer, then goes running off somewhere to have a fake mustache and chin beard glued to his face while keeping MC on a string as per usual.
Out of the blue, a side character suddenly becomes VERY important to MC.
I hoped for MC to have an affair, for something interesting to occur!
Nope.
I knew from the moment they began to chat on the roof that something awful was going to happen to that guy. Bingo!
Such clunky, obvious BL-style writing. The writers seem to think they have fresh, fascinating observations to make about the human condition, all delivered via voice-over, of course.
The writers are mistaken.
A shy student suddenly appears in the story, paying strangely intense attention to MC, and I hope for a scandalous student-teacher affair.
Nope.
That would be interesting.
MC breaks down (tearlessly) and makes profound admission of weakness.
Four second later he has recovered and is asking for sex from other MC.
Nope.
That would be interesting, thus not allowed.
Only three more hate-watch eps to go.
I keep hoping for this show's redemption, because in the first three episodes, I bonded with the MCs and thought things would happen.
Nope.
That would be interesting.
By your logic, international fans should not watch Korean shows or movies, and forget about Kpop.
After all, it's not our business.
How about Korea's status as #1 worldwide in celebrity suicides as well as suicides among the general population?
How about Korea's status as the #1 country in alcoholism and alcohol abuse?
As soon as Korea accepts my time and attention to their creative content, I become an audience member. As an audience member, it is appropriate for me to notice and comment on any damn thing I want to about Korea's movies, dramas, music, culture, laws, society, whatever.
I'm American. International people certainly don't hold back in criticizing every facet of American culture/society/politics/whatever, and I'm glad they do.
By taking these stupid accusations seriously, actors, crew, and director need to tell Knetz to fuck the fuck off with their lame bullshit.
As I see more of his films, he keeps moving up my fave actors list.
His range is extraordinary.
I only recently saw "The King's Warden," and was happy to see he won the Baeksang for it.
He deserved it.
"Frustrating and gory" are why I want to watch it. :D
I like movies that challenge me, even if eventually things go too far in either the confusing/frustrating, or gore departments and I drop out.
I dropped out of the successful, popular Korean film, "I Saw the Devil," for that reason. Gore for gore's sake is not my thing.
I have been watching the silly/horny BL, "Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami," which stars the lead of this film. I like what he's doing in that show and was intrigued to check out a film that sounds like the opposite of "Fukami." :)
I was just trying to be informative. :)
gregoreuo1: "*6 to 10 Minutes: This is the festival average for a well-received film."
You: "I...don’t think the applause is that significant."
Me: LOL
If, as I am beginning to suspect, you are on the "Hope" marketing/PR team, you should be fired. :D
"the audience sat through 2 hours and 40 minutes in complete silence and spontaneously applauded at least three action sequences mid screening before the credits even rolled."
How do you know this? What is the source?
FL is as dull an actress as I've seen.
ML is not far behind.
Sex scenes were nearly raunchy/explicit enough to justify watching everything else.
Not even any real nudity, which is too bad, because the ML naked might have made up for some of the problems I mentioned.
Terrible script.
Why do so many Thai films feature actors taking huge pauses between lines to each other? Just listening to them nearly drove me to slumber.
The bones of this story could be a hot sex thriller in the hands of a better filmmaker, maybe someone out of KO/JP/TW/HK.
4/10
I do appreciate it, though.