Kim Nam Gil as one of your long lasting foreign fans who absolutely adores you, since your debut. Thank you for…
You have no idea why he withdrew. Likely because he just didn't want the hassle of dealing with people like you.
He played the closeted gay, engaged to a woman, lover of a male prostitute in my second fave film of all time, "No Regret." I assume you're aware of that. So in your tiny universe, does that mean he APPROVES/SANCTIONS/PROMOTES/CONDONES gay men getting engaged to women, then falling in love with and f**king male hustlers?
Idea: The entire Korean entertainment industry, in all forms, media, whatever; and all the artists, producers, staff, crew, of all kinds anywhere, should draw up a unified statement consisting of one sentence: "WE APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE." All signing parties would be legally obligated to provide no other response to complaints of any kind.
Every movie, drama, painting, song, dance, whatever would attach a link to this statement online.
Episodes 6-8: Unbelievable, how I've gone from eye-rolling the first ep to completely engrossed, teary-eyed, and gut-laughing at this thing. Perhaps more so than any BL I've seen before.
Just excellent acting from Sean, SP, the assistant, the parents, freaking everyone. I'm even happy to see an honest-to-god evil fiance' show up. :)
Funniest line of the show: The assistant: "Prettier than me?" lol I think I woke the neighbors with my reaction to that one. :)
Episode 5: Man, this show sneaks up on my emotions over and over. The cute, clueless, harmless Yakuza boy is killing it. lol Loved it when, after his pathetic attempt to ambush the assistant in the parking lot, he flipped him off and ran away. hahaha Also love how all the boys are coming to the assistant's yard for his milkshake. :D SP's shoulders are as wide as he is tall.
The KinnPorsche silliness can be annoying but there is much to like here. I have laughed out loud numerous times. I have teared up several times, almost all for different reasons, which means the feels are coming from all directions: The developing MC relationship, the parents' care for their son, their care for each other, Sean's valid loneliness issues, and SP's combo of tenderness/vulnerability/toughness. A lot to like here.
Prior to episode 4, I was fantasizing a four-way with Sean, SP, and the assistant. However, now that's become a five-way with the cute, drunken, little Yakuza wannabe. :D
Good god, sometimes SP appears to be seven feet tall, as when he was carrying Sean on his shoulders. I checked actor Kim Yun's height out of curiosity; he's just six feet tall (I'm American, so that isn't unusual) but he towers over his fellow actors. I'm so used to Asian films, and to seeing Asian actors only in relation to one another, that I forget the difference in average height from East to West. lol I'll take a 4-foot Asian hottie over a 6-foot white guy any day, but it's funny how my perspective has changed in the four years I've been immersed in Asian cinema and series.
Recently, I watched a Korean flick with a lot of American characters and was shocked to see one of my fave Asian film actors, who I'd come to think of as roughly six feet tall, standing a head shorter than the Americans. :)
I don't think I've ever gone so quickly from rolling my eyes at a show in the first ep to oohing and aahing and laughing my ass off in the second. lol
I wet myself a little every time Sean says anything in English. He is charming af. I like that he talks like a douche but is so obviously not one. Defense mechanism developed during a lifetime of being the "useless second generation?" :D SP's height also causes moisture formation. The assistant has me wearing diapers. I have a thing for strong noses. The CEO assistant who wants SP but also lives at his house but is not his sister or cousin...that arrangement has me going "hmmm...."
Episode 1: Two things had me initially thinking I'd end up dropping this: 1. The overbearingly obnoxious, Thai BL-style OST with its never-ending melodramatic (think KinnPorsche) action movie music and its tinkling, cutesy (it's time to laugh everyone!) music underscoring every move intended to be amusing, and its schmaltzy music underlying each allegedly tender moment. Hey director, how about letting the script and the action speak for itself and stop cueing us to every emotion you want us to feel? 2. The everybody-is-gay from the beginning, living in an everybody-loves-gays candy-colored world thing.
Seven things made me change my mind: 1. The hotness/sexiness of the assistant. 2. The beauty and vibe of Sean. 3. The gentle/kickass vibe of Shao Peng. 4. The tallness of Shao Peng. 5. The sweetness, support, and hilarious interaction of SP's parents. 6. The height difference between SP and his dad. 7. Sean's intriguing bisexual (?) leanings and his amusing, smart-ass, entitled personality. I get the feeling he's in on the joke regarding his entitledness. 8. That last scene, which was intriguingly...odd/sexy. Why did SP ring the doorbell, then next second was in the shower, then next second was in the living room with Sean leering at him? Is he there as for a job interview as a caretaker or a call boy? Why did he take a shower at all? I'm not complaining either way, but...oh well, on to ep. 2 where hopefully I'll get an answer to that.
they are apologizing bcus of one part where she was signing & it froze having her middle finger up. literally…
It's actually a deliberate joke originating from the source material, which I'm guessing you found amusing, no? Don't you feel condescended to by faux concerned viewers pretending to be offended on your behalf? I'm bald and see/hear bald jokes all the time. I do this thing called laughing.
I have deaf family members and i get the criticism. Korea has a long standing record of not being respectful of…
No. Your comment implies that deaf people do not have a sense of humor and are hyper-sensitive to the thing we call a "JOKE." I'd be willing to bet any deaf person watching this show laughed their ass off at the middle finger visual gag. I'd also be willing to bet you don't have any deaf family members.
It's not a "culture telling you something is offensive or can be seen that way..." it's a few busy-body netizens desparate to feel they have power. You're probably one of them.
If everything potentially "offensive" were removed from fiction, there would be no fiction. Are you not offended by murder, rape, kidnapping, war, theft, beheadings, genocide, lying, adultery, dictatorship, child abuse, sex trafficking, or a thousand other vile things that are featured in live-action fiction of all kinds? Apparently not. Thus, I can conclude that a show portraying a vicious rape, but which showed in the middle of it a perpetrator mistakenly signing the middle finger to another perp, would be OK with you except for the middle finger part.
It's the MIDDLE FINGER ON PURPOSE. It's called a "joke," and it's right out of the source material. Why didn't the producers say "It's in the source material, get a life, and STFU?"
When are Korean broadcasters, movie-makers, production houses, actors, and idols going to learn to stop apologizing for every little freaking thing two or three twits online complain about to make themselves feel "seen?"
I'm wondering if the complainers are even deaf, because I'm pretty sure deaf people also have this thing called A SENSE OF HUMOR. These kind of delicate flower reactions are condescending af.
It may seem a stretch but it's not, to say that this is just another tendril of the unhealthy netizen/entertainment/fan/puritan/celebrity psychosis in Korean society that leads to celebrity suicides. Every little f**king thing is leaped upon as an excuse to bitch and moan and put on the pretense of being offended from an imagined perch of righteous superiority. Seriously f**k off with these people.
The Korean Suicide Machine took out Lee Sun Kyun not quite a year ago, claimed another younger actor a couple of months ago, has been working overtime to kill off Yoo Ah In for going on two years, and has geared up to destroy Jung Woo Sung just in the last couple of weeks. Over the last 30 years it has claimed dozens of Korean entertainers. Since there's no chance of netizens growing up, the entertainment industry needs to stop feeding the beast with these stupid apologies.
I mean, what were they supposed to do? The drama is based on a novel. The scene where FL is interpreting for the…
It's Korea. You apologize for your apology, after making the first apology a second time, all in response to three or four hyperactive Netizens in comments.
TVer calls the series in English -- Minors: We are immature and proceeding awkwardlyWhich is a title that makes…
hahahaha...that's hilarious, but kind of accurate too. It would fit the show even better if it were more of a slapstick comedy. :) With slight adjustments this could also be the title of my current life:
"Senior: I am immature and proceeding awkwardly anyway."
I've come to regard this trilogy as quite an enjoyable ride. I just finished watching all three installments in order. I watched the first two almost four years ago when I had recently discovered the wonderful universe of Asian gay cinema, BL, and mainstream Asian cinema.
I now know that four years ago I was nowhere near ready to appreciate this sort of thing. lol I'm American and while I had watched many European and Spanish-language films, Hollywood fare was 90% of my film-watching experience. Now, I rarely watch American films at all. I am entirely an Asian cinephile and BL addict, with my fave stuff coming out of Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in that order, generally speaking.
My perspective and tastes in film and dramas have changed and grown immensely in four years.
The Shortest Distance Is Round trilogy is cheesy/sexy/hot/tender/kinky/weird/violent in all the ways I didn't know I was missing before four years ago. It runs the gamut from bad acting to incredibly hot sex to bad dialogue to great acting to tender, moving intimacy...it's all here and I love it. :)
For what it is, and it doesn't try to be anything other than that, this is a 9/10 for me.
STRONGBERRY is the best. This one makes little sense and is often badly acted, but who cares? It's often funny too. We won't bother to discuss the special effects, such as they are. :D
It's worth the watch just for the hot sex scene and nice butt shots. That aside, it's also worth the watch as a means of appreciating how much better and better Strongberry's product has gotten over the last three years.
Many of my top 30 fave short films are Strongberry content.
7/10 for the cute boys and hot butts. I was especially warm for the evil, curse-casting friend of the group. I wanted someone to hook up with the bar owner too. :) Also, the yoga instructor is a lead in Strongberry's short film "Some More." Check it out.
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He played the closeted gay, engaged to a woman, lover of a male prostitute in my second fave film of all time, "No Regret." I assume you're aware of that. So in your tiny universe, does that mean he APPROVES/SANCTIONS/PROMOTES/CONDONES gay men getting engaged to women, then falling in love with and f**king male hustlers?
Are you on drugs?
Every movie, drama, painting, song, dance, whatever would attach a link to this statement online.
The end.
Unbelievable, how I've gone from eye-rolling the first ep to completely engrossed, teary-eyed, and gut-laughing at this thing. Perhaps more so than any BL I've seen before.
Just excellent acting from Sean, SP, the assistant, the parents, freaking everyone.
I'm even happy to see an honest-to-god evil fiance' show up. :)
Funniest line of the show: The assistant: "Prettier than me?" lol I think I woke the neighbors with my reaction to that one. :)
Man, this show sneaks up on my emotions over and over.
The cute, clueless, harmless Yakuza boy is killing it. lol Loved it when, after his pathetic attempt to ambush the assistant in the parking lot, he flipped him off and ran away. hahaha
Also love how all the boys are coming to the assistant's yard for his milkshake. :D
SP's shoulders are as wide as he is tall.
The KinnPorsche silliness can be annoying but there is much to like here.
I have laughed out loud numerous times.
I have teared up several times, almost all for different reasons, which means the feels are coming from all directions: The developing MC relationship, the parents' care for their son, their care for each other, Sean's valid loneliness issues, and SP's combo of tenderness/vulnerability/toughness. A lot to like here.
Prior to episode 4, I was fantasizing a four-way with Sean, SP, and the assistant. However, now that's become a five-way with the cute, drunken, little Yakuza wannabe. :D
Good god, sometimes SP appears to be seven feet tall, as when he was carrying Sean on his shoulders. I checked actor Kim Yun's height out of curiosity; he's just six feet tall (I'm American, so that isn't unusual) but he towers over his fellow actors. I'm so used to Asian films, and to seeing Asian actors only in relation to one another, that I forget the difference in average height from East to West. lol I'll take a 4-foot Asian hottie over a 6-foot white guy any day, but it's funny how my perspective has changed in the four years I've been immersed in Asian cinema and series.
Recently, I watched a Korean flick with a lot of American characters and was shocked to see one of my fave Asian film actors, who I'd come to think of as roughly six feet tall, standing a head shorter than the Americans. :)
Onward!
I don't think I've ever gone so quickly from rolling my eyes at a show in the first ep to oohing and aahing and laughing my ass off in the second. lol
I wet myself a little every time Sean says anything in English. He is charming af. I like that he talks like a douche but is so obviously not one. Defense mechanism developed during a lifetime of being the "useless second generation?" :D
SP's height also causes moisture formation.
The assistant has me wearing diapers. I have a thing for strong noses.
The CEO assistant who wants SP but also lives at his house but is not his sister or cousin...that arrangement has me going "hmmm...."
Two things had me initially thinking I'd end up dropping this:
1. The overbearingly obnoxious, Thai BL-style OST with its never-ending melodramatic (think KinnPorsche) action movie music and its tinkling, cutesy (it's time to laugh everyone!) music underscoring every move intended to be amusing, and its schmaltzy music underlying each allegedly tender moment. Hey director, how about letting the script and the action speak for itself and stop cueing us to every emotion you want us to feel?
2. The everybody-is-gay from the beginning, living in an everybody-loves-gays candy-colored world thing.
Seven things made me change my mind:
1. The hotness/sexiness of the assistant.
2. The beauty and vibe of Sean.
3. The gentle/kickass vibe of Shao Peng.
4. The tallness of Shao Peng.
5. The sweetness, support, and hilarious interaction of SP's parents.
6. The height difference between SP and his dad.
7. Sean's intriguing bisexual (?) leanings and his amusing, smart-ass, entitled personality. I get
the feeling he's in on the joke regarding his entitledness.
8. That last scene, which was intriguingly...odd/sexy. Why did SP ring the doorbell, then next second was in the shower, then next second was in the living room with Sean leering at him? Is he there as for a job interview as a caretaker or a call boy? Why did he take a shower at all? I'm not complaining either way, but...oh well, on to ep. 2 where hopefully I'll get an answer to that.
It's not a "culture telling you something is offensive or can be seen that way..." it's a few busy-body netizens desparate to feel they have power. You're probably one of them.
If everything potentially "offensive" were removed from fiction, there would be no fiction. Are you not offended by murder, rape, kidnapping, war, theft, beheadings, genocide, lying, adultery, dictatorship, child abuse, sex trafficking, or a thousand other vile things that are featured in live-action fiction of all kinds? Apparently not. Thus, I can conclude that a show portraying a vicious rape, but which showed in the middle of it a perpetrator mistakenly signing the middle finger to another perp, would be OK with you except for the middle finger part.
My god, get a grip.
When are Korean broadcasters, movie-makers, production houses, actors, and idols going to learn to stop apologizing for every little freaking thing two or three twits online complain about to make themselves feel "seen?"
I'm wondering if the complainers are even deaf, because I'm pretty sure deaf people also have this thing called A SENSE OF HUMOR. These kind of delicate flower reactions are condescending af.
It may seem a stretch but it's not, to say that this is just another tendril of the unhealthy netizen/entertainment/fan/puritan/celebrity psychosis in Korean society that leads to celebrity suicides. Every little f**king thing is leaped upon as an excuse to bitch and moan and put on the pretense of being offended from an imagined perch of righteous superiority. Seriously f**k off with these people.
The Korean Suicide Machine took out Lee Sun Kyun not quite a year ago, claimed another younger actor a couple of months ago, has been working overtime to kill off Yoo Ah In for going on two years, and has geared up to destroy Jung Woo Sung just in the last couple of weeks. Over the last 30 years it has claimed dozens of Korean entertainers. Since there's no chance of netizens growing up, the entertainment industry needs to stop feeding the beast with these stupid apologies.
"Senior: I am immature and proceeding awkwardly anyway."
I now know that four years ago I was nowhere near ready to appreciate this sort of thing. lol I'm American and while I had watched many European and Spanish-language films, Hollywood fare was 90% of my film-watching experience. Now, I rarely watch American films at all. I am entirely an Asian cinephile and BL addict, with my fave stuff coming out of Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in that order, generally speaking.
My perspective and tastes in film and dramas have changed and grown immensely in four years.
The Shortest Distance Is Round trilogy is cheesy/sexy/hot/tender/kinky/weird/violent in all the ways I didn't know I was missing before four years ago. It runs the gamut from bad acting to incredibly hot sex to bad dialogue to great acting to tender, moving intimacy...it's all here and I love it. :)
For what it is, and it doesn't try to be anything other than that, this is a 9/10 for me.
This one makes little sense and is often badly acted, but who cares? It's often funny too. We won't bother to discuss the special effects, such as they are. :D
It's worth the watch just for the hot sex scene and nice butt shots. That aside, it's also worth the watch as a means of appreciating how much better and better Strongberry's product has gotten over the last three years.
Many of my top 30 fave short films are Strongberry content.
7/10 for the cute boys and hot butts. I was especially warm for the evil, curse-casting friend of the group. I wanted someone to hook up with the bar owner too. :) Also, the yoga instructor is a lead in Strongberry's short film "Some More." Check it out.