Instant reaction, before reading the comments of others below:
Absolutely terrible. This was watching/listening to writer/director Tran Anh Hung cinematically masturbate for over 120 minutes without producing a money shot:
I'll spare you the watch with a plot summary:
ML's "best friend" offs himself in high school and ML never indicates one centimeter of sorrow or anguish.
Seriously crazy-ass bitches be drawn one after the other to this blander-than-bland dude who lacks a discernible personality and also seems to not possess a spine. One of them appears to be in the fifth grade. He "falls in love" with two of them because he likes crazy-ass bitches with major psycho-sexual boundary issues. In turn, each asks him to diddle them, also for no apparent reason as he is not hot or charming, and he complies.
One crazy-ass bitch goes to a supposed mountain psych treatment/retreat of some kind, but there are no doctors, nurses or therapists and just one other crazy-ass bitch who plays a guitar and is in a Lesbian relationship with the first crazy-ass bitch. Various people kill themselves, others show up at the bland guy's place demanding bereavement sex. With his magic Wand of Healing, he grants treatment and release.
There is LOTS of pounding, soaring orchestral music to distract us from the bizarre but also boring plot. There is LOTS of beautiful, majestic scenery which the characters stand around on looking perplexed. There is an exterior, snow-fallen blowjob. At one crucial point, the ML becomes a cave-bound hermit, mourning the woman who never exhibited once ounce of loveability but whom he was nevertheless head over heels for.
You know any movie that does what this one does in the first ten minutes to Kora Kengo, is garbage.
I took two breaks to keep myself alert and awake. I was fascinated by this epically masturbatory train wreck. Oh, and despite some fake sex being had, the actor's naughty bits were always discreetly shielded from view by strategically placed sheets, blankets, etc.
Great CGI and acting. Terrible plotting and scripting.
I respect Korean cinema in general for its ability to superbly inject the human element into so many of its films which is what makes them better than what comes out of Hollywood. But the writers and director here went WAY overboard in this regard, to a factor of about 100. What should have been a fascinating, exciting, thrilling portrayal of a Korean Space Agency Series of Highly Unfortunate Events, was interrupted over and over by boatloads of schmaltz.
Doh Kyun Soo did a tremendous job here; he's one of my favorite young Asian actors. BUT...I was particularly excited to see this film because two of his fellow Korean actors, and also faves of mine, Kim Rae Won and Lee Yi Kyung were on the cast list. But...weil, you know. What a freaking waste!
The Moon is both really good and really bad, but I'm glad I watched it so a 7/10 from me.
HH is giving nepo baby vibes based on the teaser... and I really don't like the overly keen, overly naive, overly…
I fear Korea and Taiwan are beginning to copy the Thai blueprint for turning out utter crap that I drop in the first couple episodes. It's sad, actually, as there have been a number of BLs from both countries that are among my favorites.
The production companies figure the nine year-old girl BL-watching fluff-lovers eat up this kind of shit, and they're not wrong. So the rest of us get screwed.
Who are HH's nepo-parents? They must have great genes; his bio pic is pretty stunning.
Akira, let's just face it, is a cowardly dick. And the near-miss, almost-kisses were old about 25 times ago. Kusakawa Takuya's remarkable beauty is the ONLY reason to watch this thing, but his character is the pits.
Out at 42:36. This movie is a joke. Yoon Kye Sang as Poong San is very good, and very hot.
The woman he rescued from NK is annoying as f**k. She says she's some kind of former NK commando trainee and then spends the entire time he is rescuing her squealing and squeaking and acting like a seven-year-old girl having a tantrum. They're sneaking across perhaps the most dangerous border in the world and she's yelling out loud at him and acting like some damsel in distress, demanding she be treated like a "lady." And yet somehow no guards from NK or SK hear her carrying on like a banshee from hell. omg...so f**king stupid.
There is NO way this hot, studly man of action would fall in love with her over the course of the three hours she was nothing but a pain in the ass. And then for all his trouble, she SLAPS him!
Kim Ki Duk is BEYOND overrated as a writer AND a director. And the director of this thing should have been banned from the industry after this shit-show.
WHY does Poong San never speak? No indication of that, but I'm certainly not going to watch the remaining 75 minutes to find out.
lol Sorry, had to laugh when I saw your comment. To me, "180 Degrees..." is one of the most pretentious and tedious…
Oh no...it was "180 Degrees...," this I know for sure because I was excited by the first ep and a half, then it started going to shit and by #4 I was out. As for a 1/10, yeah, I figure anything so bad that I run screaming away from it is a 1/10 to me. I already explained why I thought it was a joke so I won't bore you with a repeat.
This series is fantastic so far. Haven't seen such a great atmosphere and cinematography since "180 degrees longitude...".…
lol Sorry, had to laugh when I saw your comment. To me, "180 Degrees..." is one of the most pretentious and tedious BL series to ever come out of Thailand. Which is saying a lot, because MANY pretentious and tedious BLs have come out of Thailand, especially of late. Endless scenes of those two dudes talking and talking and then talking some more...something would almost happen but not quite, and then there was more talking and talking and talking...etc. The writer/director was in love with his own script and no one had the balls to tell him he was boring the shit out of people.
It was filmed in black and white to make sure to let us know it was a "serious" drama. lol
I remember at first, I thought it was going to be good, but about three eps in it began to stall...just awful. Then I dropped it and gave it a 1/10. Glad you're enjoying it though.
No romantic couple on Earth kisses by putting their lips in contact and then remaining entirely motionless for…
lol Funny...I don't smell anything here. Must be because my sinus cavities have rotted already too. Oh, gotta go...there's a big shred of rotted flesh I need to pull off my ass. Meanwhile, you get out there today and enjoy being in your gay man prime, OK?
Do most gay men in their prime spend their precious, fabulous gay time on the Internet railing away at some ancient gay geezer about bad gay kisses in BL series? Just wondering with my rotting, old brain...
No romantic couple on Earth kisses by putting their lips in contact and then remaining entirely motionless for…
I know, your reply was so deep in fact, that it entirely changed my world view. I now understand that even a "literal" GAY MAN can lack any semblance of wit or creativity. I had thought that even the least of us were somewhat groovy. I was wrong.
You should stop trying to insult me. You're not good at it. "Karen?" lol How original.
No romantic couple on Earth kisses by putting their lips in contact and then remaining entirely motionless for…
First of all, you've got me confused with another commenter who likes actual, real kisses between male romantic partners. He's the one who used the term "queer washing" but I completely agree with him on that.
"...and calling it homophobia just because they did not kiss the way you wanted them to?" No, they did not kiss the way ANYBODY who is any good at kissing goes about it.
Thus, it's sensible to conclude that you, a "literal GAY MAN (improper use of the word 'literal')" are a really bad kisser.
I said NOTHING about opening mouths, though that would help. I complained they did not even freaking MOVE once their lips connected. They sat there like statues; I thought the video was buffering, it was laughable.
You seem the type that is thankful for any gay crumbs that fall your way from the big straight, grownups' table. That's fine for you. More power to you. I don't like crumbs.
Finally, I never said it was NOT "fine for someone else to like the way they did it." Nice attempt at misdirection though. This type of statement is the usual, desperate plea of commenters here who haven't a leg to stand on regarding their position. "It's OK for me to say dog poop tastes good! I don't have to not like it just because you don't...quit saying I have to not like it..." waaaaaah...
Please refrain from putting words in my fingers. Thank you.
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Instant reaction, before reading the comments of others below:
Absolutely terrible. This was watching/listening to writer/director Tran Anh Hung cinematically masturbate for over 120 minutes without producing a money shot:
I'll spare you the watch with a plot summary:
ML's "best friend" offs himself in high school and ML never indicates one centimeter of sorrow or anguish.
Seriously crazy-ass bitches be drawn one after the other to this blander-than-bland dude who lacks a discernible personality and also seems to not possess a spine. One of them appears to be in the fifth grade. He "falls in love" with two of them because he likes crazy-ass bitches with major psycho-sexual boundary issues. In turn, each asks him to diddle them, also for no apparent reason as he is not hot or charming, and he complies.
One crazy-ass bitch goes to a supposed mountain psych treatment/retreat of some kind, but there are no doctors, nurses or therapists and just one other crazy-ass bitch who plays a guitar and is in a Lesbian relationship with the first crazy-ass bitch. Various people kill themselves, others show up at the bland guy's place demanding bereavement sex. With his magic Wand of Healing, he grants treatment and release.
There is LOTS of pounding, soaring orchestral music to distract us from the bizarre but also boring plot. There is LOTS of beautiful, majestic scenery which the characters stand around on looking perplexed. There is an exterior, snow-fallen blowjob. At one crucial point, the ML becomes a cave-bound hermit, mourning the woman who never exhibited once ounce of loveability but whom he was nevertheless head over heels for.
You know any movie that does what this one does in the first ten minutes to Kora Kengo, is garbage.
I took two breaks to keep myself alert and awake. I was fascinated by this epically masturbatory train wreck. Oh, and despite some fake sex being had, the actor's naughty bits were always discreetly shielded from view by strategically placed sheets, blankets, etc.
Horrible.
2/10 and the 2 is for Kora Kengo.
But what's with wearing the living room window drapes as pants?
I respect Korean cinema in general for its ability to superbly inject the human element into so many of its films which is what makes them better than what comes out of Hollywood. But the writers and director here went WAY overboard in this regard, to a factor of about 100. What should have been a fascinating, exciting, thrilling portrayal of a Korean Space Agency Series of Highly Unfortunate Events, was interrupted over and over by boatloads of schmaltz.
Doh Kyun Soo did a tremendous job here; he's one of my favorite young Asian actors. BUT...I was particularly excited to see this film because two of his fellow Korean actors, and also faves of mine, Kim Rae Won and Lee Yi Kyung were on the cast list. But...weil, you know. What a freaking waste!
The Moon is both really good and really bad, but I'm glad I watched it so a 7/10 from me.
Straight-up asking someone for sex is pretty much the opposite of rape. Good god.
The production companies figure the nine year-old girl BL-watching fluff-lovers eat up this kind of shit, and they're not wrong. So the rest of us get screwed.
Who are HH's nepo-parents? They must have great genes; his bio pic is pretty stunning.
Akira, let's just face it, is a cowardly dick. And the near-miss, almost-kisses were old about 25 times ago. Kusakawa Takuya's remarkable beauty is the ONLY reason to watch this thing, but his character is the pits.
The woman he rescued from NK is annoying as f**k. She says she's some kind of former NK commando trainee and then spends the entire time he is rescuing her squealing and squeaking and acting like a seven-year-old girl having a tantrum. They're sneaking across perhaps the most dangerous border in the world and she's yelling out loud at him and acting like some damsel in distress, demanding she be treated like a "lady." And yet somehow no guards from NK or SK hear her carrying on like a banshee from hell. omg...so f**king stupid.
There is NO way this hot, studly man of action would fall in love with her over the course of the three hours she was nothing but a pain in the ass. And then for all his trouble, she SLAPS him!
Kim Ki Duk is BEYOND overrated as a writer AND a director. And the director of this thing should have been banned from the industry after this shit-show.
WHY does Poong San never speak? No indication of that, but I'm certainly not going to watch the remaining 75 minutes to find out.
Terrible.
Dropped.
1/10
It was filmed in black and white to make sure to let us know it was a "serious" drama. lol
I remember at first, I thought it was going to be good, but about three eps in it began to stall...just awful. Then I dropped it and gave it a 1/10. Glad you're enjoying it though.
Do most gay men in their prime spend their precious, fabulous gay time on the Internet railing away at some ancient gay geezer about bad gay kisses in BL series? Just wondering with my rotting, old brain...
"...plugging in a giant zucchini in your ass until you moan so loudly that even here in Asia we can hear it."
hmmm...perhaps I should report you to the mods.
You should stop trying to insult me. You're not good at it. "Karen?" lol How original.
"...and calling it homophobia just because they did not kiss the way you wanted them to?" No, they did not kiss the way ANYBODY who is any good at kissing goes about it.
Thus, it's sensible to conclude that you, a "literal GAY MAN (improper use of the word 'literal')" are a really bad kisser.
I said NOTHING about opening mouths, though that would help. I complained they did not even freaking MOVE once their lips connected. They sat there like statues; I thought the video was buffering, it was laughable.
You seem the type that is thankful for any gay crumbs that fall your way from the big straight, grownups' table. That's fine for you. More power to you. I don't like crumbs.
Finally, I never said it was NOT "fine for someone else to like the way they did it." Nice attempt at misdirection though. This type of statement is the usual, desperate plea of commenters here who haven't a leg to stand on regarding their position. "It's OK for me to say dog poop tastes good! I don't have to not like it just because you don't...quit saying I have to not like it..." waaaaaah...
Please refrain from putting words in my fingers. Thank you.