FrothyMix

I'm there with ya! :D

Seems to me fluffybun would be totally on board with the Chinese "ban." After all, he//she only wants to see romantic eye-glances and maybe a stolen air-kiss between the guys in BL anyway, which is what Chinese BL is all about, am I right?

What is it about guy-on-guy hotness on screen that bothers you? There are only about a hundred million films and series out there in the world that feature hot/sexy/explicit/sexy-time heterosexual love scenes; your statement in your earlier comment above that people only want such scenes in BLs is one of the most ridiculous comments I've read on these pages, where there are thousands of ridiculous comments.

Yes, the BL audience wants to see gay-on-gay hotness in BL stories because, you know, THEY ARE GUY-ON-GUY, GAY-ON-GAY STORIES AND ROMANCES. It would be weird to expect to see anything else. This trendy accusation of "fetishizing" gay people in BLs is utter nonsense. I am a gay male and I enjoy seeing gay love scenes too, the more creatively and hotly filmed the better.

My guess, amateur psychologist that I am, is that YOU are uncomfortable with gay sex on some level, so when you see it onscreen you have icky feels. But instead of asking yourself why that is, you lash out at the fujoshis, without whom THERE WOULD BE NO BL INDUSTRY FOR US TO ENJOY. Fujoshis rock!

Please share with the class what drugs you are taking so that we can avoid them.

This was showing great promise until it went and got all supernatural/hocus-pocus on us. The two leads are hot af, Anan especially is beautiful and their chemistry is off the charts. It felt like a normal BL comedy/drama for about half the time and then it all went to shit with the ghost stuff, which was poorly written, badly acted and downright cheesy.

The female medium/witch and her little, adorable munchkin sidekick were hilarious at the beginning too. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to try to make this a horror/thriller. It never goes well on such a tight budget and with actors not up to it. I laughed out loud when the mom was possessed and did a stereotypical evil-person laugh. Wow. Really bad.

And the two dudes were living together like lovers before there was any sign they'd even kissed, let a lone did the nasty. And what was up with Anan's neon lime-green sweater get-up at the house toward the end. Shoot the wardrobe person while you're at it.

The two leads need to be given a new script, new story, new director to do a non-supernatural BL. It could be legendary.

More bullshit. It's clear in my comment above that I am one of those being labeled as a "hater." So your bad twice.

Your comment is a load of bullshit. I like Gun and kept hoping he'd improve, and I liked looking at Boat. And I made all of this clear in my comments. That you don't like it and wasted your time on this obtuse couple of paragraphs is your problem, not mine. "emotionally-decorated 'criticism'..." lol How long did it take to think that one up? lol

What a painfully beautiful film. Layer upon layer upon layer. The person I disliked the most was the father of the young bridegroom, whose thinking had been so twisted by guilt that he actually believed an innocent, unborn child somehow had no right to exist because of what its father had done before it was conceived. wtf? His grief and guilt and mangled idea of justice had become a kind of arrogance.

I think this is the most powerful film I have ever seen on the themes of guilt, forgiveness, redemption, atonement, judgment, sociopathy, etc. Wow.

I don't see "sociopath" as a black and white thing. Shades of gray, like everything else. And yeah, having your mom do what Suzuki's mom did to him would put you in the darker shades, but no one is necessarily irredeemable and there's no reason they should have to be considered so. Redemption however, and forgiveness, do not mean there is no punishment. And these two have been/will be punishing themselves for the rest of their lives. Which is why I find that last statement of the film so outrageously powerful. Each through the other has found a way to keep on living and perhaps, in that living, there will be opportunities to balance the scales.

Well, that didn't take long. As much as I enjoyed Yusuke in "Tumble," this thing is awful. I'm out.

I am totally and only here for the actor Yamamoto Yusuke, who I stumbled across in the uproarious non-BL but very gay-friendly series "Tumble" last week. He owns that movie, with help from a good supporting cast, and his over-the-top Mick Jagger/David Bowie/Michael Jackson characterization of a juvenile delinquent-turned-men's gymnastics athlete is a glorious thing. Can't wait to see what he does here. I just happened to somehow recognize him in the publicity couplet on the poster.

He Fei is certainly cute, I like naked male flesh and the ocean is beautiful but this is rapidly shaping up to be one of the dullest, dumbest flicks I've seen in a while. Last night I watched "Endless Summer." This would be at a 180 degree opposite level of quality.

It takes a lot of work to make all of the above seem...boring and cheesy, but Scud has done it!

omg. Seriously, wtf? THIS is true love all at once in several directions. Fuck "romance." But yeah, if you want hearts and flowers, this is not a movie for you.

I cried like a baby just from the massive level of feels...they filled up my insides and spilled out my eyes. That happens a lot. :D

I'm one of those people who believe if a dude can do it with another dude he's got to have a little gay in him, and in this case, a little is all Shane needs because he loves Jonathan SO deeply and completely to begin with. If ever a three way relationship could work, it might be this one.

Believe me, I wanted to hate Carrie, but I really couldn't. Don't forget, she held Shane off for a while by telling him to get into college first and then she'd consider being his GF, and he did that. Yes, she knew Jonathan loved Shane but she also knew Shane was straight. I suppose she could have made Shane wait even longer, so that she could tell Jonathan first what was evolving between she and Shane before they actually got together. But we don't get to know that part of the story. I just didn't get the vibe that Carrie went after Shane deliberately just to hurt Jonathan and I don't think she did it uncaringly either. I think it just happened.

But I love your movie's ending above...I imagine it the same way.

I waited a year and a half to watch this for a second time because the first time through I ugly-cried so hard through so much of it that I was physically exhausted by movie's end. And an emotional wreck too, of course. I was just discovering the rich plentitude of Asian gay cinema and this was one of the first I watched. Didn't even know what BL was yet. But this flick grabbed me by the guts and twisted me hard...I watch all movies I like at least twice but I've been holding off on this one because I wanted to be ready to go through that ringer again. And I was tonight. But I watched it on Dailymotion like an idiot. I have known for a while that that once-humble channel has become a zombie nightmare of pop-in and interruption ads, but I didn't know it's now as bad as it is. I feel like they cut some parts out of the movie too...there seemed to be depth missing that I recalled, though I don't know why if you are going to add all those fucking ads you need to cut anything out.

Anyway...now I see below it's about to be added to Netflix. God, I wish I'd known. I would have waited.

Some crucial elements seemed in a different order, which is probably just my faulty memory, but there is one thing in particular for which I want to re-watch this again, as I will on Netflix.

Even though I'm gay and identified strongly with Jonathan, having hidden many of my childhood and adult crushes during my years in the closet. But it was the character of Shane who broke me. A straight man who loves another man, his best friend who happens to be gay, with such complete, fervent sincerity and tenderness that he is willing to try to learn how to return the romantic love his friend feels for him. THAT is a kind of true love I have not seen in a movie before or since this one. I seemed to recall a period of time during the film during which Shane struggled with the knowledge that Jonathan loved him romantically and didn't know what to do about it...but it wasn't that way this time around and again, maybe it's me but maybe it's Dailymotion.

The scene where the heartbroken Shane, having just been told by Jonathan that he was ordered to be his friend, that he never wanted to be, and facing the possible loss of his most beloved person on the face of the earth, rode as the passenger on the motorbike back from the hospital with Jonathan steering....and slowly laid his head down to rest on Jonathan's shoulder. THAT is one of the simplest, most moving declarations/admissions of affection/love I ever seen, onscreen or off. Shane very simply loves his friend with all his heart and can't imagine a life without him. God, how I cried the first time I saw that.

Part of me would love to see a sequel to this but part of me thinks it could be a limp disaster too. Sequels are always a roll of the dice, more often than not a bad idea. In the case of Jonathan, Shane and Carrie, I actually think they might be able to make a three-way, longterm relationship work, I just don't know. I could never do that, but I believe there are people who can and maybe with Shane in the middle loving one man and one woman, the competition factor would be lower than if his partners were of the same sex. And Jonathan and Carrie have a strong history too.

I love this movie so much. It is one of my all-time faves of any genre from any country. And I'm going to do whatever I can to avoid watching ANYTHING on Dailymotion again. Ugh. What an awful experience.

Really, really terrible. But it's OK because it's "supposed to be light and fluffy" or...something.

Could you message me what kind of drugs you're on?

Relatives of the actors and director.