"I think I realized that I hate people who cheat."Another typical, clueless MDLer comment. You have no idea how…
Hi Tish! Did someone ask for your original opinion above? I'm pretty sure not. It's better to just ignore yourself. lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll :D
"I think I realized that I hate people who cheat."Another typical, clueless MDLer comment. You have no idea how…
What makes you think I'm "bothered?" Why are you so "bothered" by a complete stranger's reply to your op? I'm pretty sure replies to comments posted by complete strangers are common, on MDL and everywhere else on the Internet.
I think you should relax your sphincter too! hahahahahahahaha oh plss
I still think it's a matter of censorship. they just don't wanna show intimacy which is such a bummer 😕
My understanding is that this show was not submitted to the Chinese censors because it has been distributed only OUTSIDE China. Had it been subject to homo-hating Chinese censors, the tiny smooches we got would have been cut. Please let me know if I'm wrong.
That's exactly what I thought. Boys, or rather people of that age in general, would have sex in every corner of…
My understanding is that this show was not submitted to the Chinese censors because it has been distributed only OUTSIDE China. Had it been subject to homo-hating Chinese censors, the tiny smooches we got would have been cut.
Have you read the webtoon, and the chapter in question ?It doesn't "confront/adress" any issues, in this case…
Yes, as I wrote above, I have done my research.
By "it," are you referring to the "controversial" (what in Korea is NOT "controversial? Manufactured controversies relentlessly flogged by media and netizens, are a big part of why so many Korean actors/entertainers end up killing themselves.) chapter 125 or the webtoon as a whole?
Let me summarize the situation in question in "Get Schooled:" A bully who considers himself the only "pure Korean" in the school, harasses a Korean-Ethiopian student as a "half-blood." Other students join in with racist comments and insults. The Korean-Ethiopian retaliates by harassing the Korean bully with derogatory, insulting, racially-based comments and actions. A classic case of the oppressed oppressing others in response. Yeah...so what? This is how fictional storytelling works
LOTS of racists use caricaturish imagery to insult their targets, such as monkey gestures, pulling their eyes up with their fingers to make "slant-eyes," etc. That's what racists do. They also call people "n****r," "chink," "Jap," "cracker," "wetback," "raghead," and a thousand other derogatory names all over the world; it's not just in Korea. You know that, right?
Are you arguing that the behaviors I mention above are not repugnant on their face, and don't make the characters who exhibit them look like the moronic racists they are? Are you arguing that the portrayal of these characters and their repulsive behaviors in GS is attractive to the average reader, and inspires readers to emulate their ways to look good too? Are you arguing that the best way to combat racism is to HIDE it?
When I viewed Chapter 125, I was revolted by the actions and words of the racist students, weren't you? Newsflash: We are SUPPOSED TO BE revolted. That is the point. If you don't understand that, you should not be reading anything other than perhaps the blandest children's books you can find.
As to your objections to the artist's depiction of the Korean-Ethiopian student's facial features...you do know this is a CARTOON, right? After seeing the artwork, I'm wondering why you see an illustration of a character with brown skin, thicker lips, and tightly curled hair as an automatically negative thing. Your reaction to what you see there seems a little...racist to me.
You know, I've long wondered why Asian characters in Manhwas and Mangas are depicted with far more European-looking features than Asian ones. They generally have no skin pigmentation at all, with the exception of red to show blushing or embarrassment, or in the case of female characters, to make them look like overly made-up street walkers. The erasure of the Asian characters' racial characteristics seems pretty...racist to me. Have you complained about that?
I laughed when I read your claim that the scenes in the Manhwa in question are a declaration that the few Korean-Black people in Korea are "constantly" harassing "pure-blood" Koreans. Where in the Manhwa is that assertion made? We see ONE Korean-Black student doing this, and he does it to the "pure-blood" Korean bully who harasses him. Get it?
And surely you're not asserting that there is no racism against the few Black or half-Black people living in Korea! If so, you are willfully ignorant. Lots of South Koreans are racist toward even those among them who are half-Chinese or half-Japanese, let alone full-blooded Chinese or Japanese people. Korea is such a monoracial/monoethnic/monocultural society that racism against those who don't fit the mold is a given and has been for centuries.
Many Chinese are wary of Japanese and Koreans, Japanese are wary of Koreans and Chinese, and Koreans are wary of Chinese and Japanese. This is not news. Good god, ethnically identical NORTH Koreans have a hard time being embraced by South Korean society. Have you complained about that?
All of that said, even IF there is no push-back to racist behavior shown in a fictional work of art within the work itself...so what? Don't read it. Don't buy it. Write comments and articles against it as you are doing. BUT you have no right to prevent others from seeing what you object to just because you object to it, and are too blinded by reactionary thought processes to recognize the lessons it teaches.
Even if there is NO true meaning at all, you have no right to demand its removal from the public sphere. The NINETY-NINE MILLION people who have read the Manhwa don't need your protection from racist images; they are free to see/read the work and perhaps take messages from it you're too eager to be offended to learn.
I applaud KMY for taking over this role after KNT got cold feet. Good for him. I've long admired KMY as an actor and human being. Now I admire him more. I look forward to seeing this adaptation, though as I've said, I hope its hard-hitting messages aren't watered down in cowardly reaction to censorious netizens such as you.
Why are you dragging Kim Nam Gil for dropping the drama? It was a smart move. He's an amazing actor with good…
You seem to be confusing the actor with the character he was playing in "No Regret," which was the point of my question in reply to the brain-dead "good morals" comment above it.
The CHARACTER'S morals are in question, not the actor's, just as an actor who takes part in a webtoon adaptation depicting scenes of racist images, actions, and behaviors is not a racist. In this case, it sounds as though in the role for which he was cast, KNG's character would not have acted out any of the aforementioned behaviors, though other actors/characters would have.
Your statement of "concern" above is a bit silly. Of course, you're "concerned," that's your reaction to the behavior. Are you not "concerned" when an actor portrays a character who commits murder, rape, arson, kidnapping, torture, theft, or any other of a thousand negative human actions? is it only racist and sexual infidelity that "concerns" you? Of course not.
However, the depiction of negative human behaviors in drama and art of all kinds is what gives drama its conflict and depth, as it has since plays were first written and enacted thousands of years ago, depicting murder, incest, adultery, and all manner of horrendous activities. If there is no darkness to lend contrast, and all we see is the light, art of all kinds would be...boring and meaningless.
But apparently, that's what you and a few thousand attention-seeking, self-righteous netizens want to see onscreen; nice characters enacting nice behaviors and experiencing nice outcomes. No one would bother watching such pablum.
NO REGRET restored, remastered: https://b4watch.com/movies/no-regret/ For English subs, click on the first "Watch Full" bar below the screen. Enjoy.
What would Korean entertainment media write about without all these manufactured "controversies" that amount to nothing? If this webtoon is as freaky as it sounds, I hope the director/writers don't drain all the juice out of it in the adaptation.
I just did a little research on "Get Schooled." It's the same old, censor-happy, busy-bodies attempting to shut down anything that takes them out of their comfort zone. Guess what? Art exists to challenge us and take us out of our comfort zones.
Please tell me how one confronts/addresses racism/homophobia/xenophobia/murder/kidnapping/adultery/rape/torture/authoritarianism/etc. without DEPICTING the behaviors and speech that flow from those things? Answer: It can't be done.
So, the answer, as always, is if you don't like what you're seeing, watching, viewing, hearing, STOP seeing, watching, viewing, hearing it and leave the rest of us alone.
It's telling the webtoon has been pulled from the web only in North America because we have a high concentration of delicate flowers.
Finally, the webtoon has 99M views. The Tik Tok video getting all the attention was made by some American girl who is unable to articulate her objections and thus uses head bobs, facial contortions, eye-rolls and smirks instead, and has 22,000 views. Who cares what these people say? NINETY-NINE MILLION VIEWS.
There is a HUGE audience for the series being made from this toon and I hope the producers don't flush the life out of it on screen. I applaud KMY for taking over this role. I've long thought highly of him as an actor and human being; now I feel more so that way. I am eager to see the adaptation and I hope it is as fearless as its source material.
Why are you dragging Kim Nam Gil for dropping the drama? It was a smart move. He's an amazing actor with good…
"...good morals." lol
Was Kim Nam Gil having "good morals" when he was cheating on his fiancee with a dude, butt-f**king that dude in the a** repeatedly, then dumping the dude he was butt-f**king to go ahead and marry the fiancee he had been cheating on with the dude he was butt-f**king, in my second-favorite movie of all time, "No Regret?"
Episode 10: ugh. It was coming along so well, too...
It's unfortunate to see so many ancient BL tropes raise their hideous heads late in the game.
It's unfortunate to see so many endless filler scenes of the side couple acting cutesy/flirty. Speaking of which, in general, I have nothing against age-gap relationships. What creeps me out about this one is that Liu is every bit the adult man but his love interest has the maturity and affect of a child. I assume he's of age, but he comes off as11 years old. The problem is their personality difference. Not believable, unless we find out in the finale that Liu is a pedo who figures since he can't HAVE an 11-year-old and stay out of prison, the next best thing is to have a legal-aged teenager who ACTS like an 11-year-old.
The lack of indicated physical intimacy between the MC is a problem, in that it compromises the believability of their relationship. Two guys that age would be going at it every chance they get. Before the army of MDL prudes swoops in, this does NOT mean we have to SEE actual "NC (lol)" sex scenes between these guys; but it would lend great credibility if it were simply INDICATED that they were doing the deed. Without that element, this treads too closely to the sexless, fluff & unicorns vibe so many MDL LIttle Girls like to see.
This was mostly a yawner episode. Fingers crossed for next week.
A film with a wild twist at the end, but it didn't work for me. Instead of reacting like, "OH...that's what was going on..." I thought, "wait, the writers/director deliberately scammed me with no tell-tale clues along the way as to what was actually going on. NONE."
First we had the overweight guy, then he disappeared completely and we had the slender guy only from then on. It's not like all the pieces came together at the end for a massive "AH-HA" moment, because there were no pieces in the first place. It was all an opaque misdirection by the storytellers.
Oh well...whatever. Matsudo Shota is one of the best JP actors alive, and he looks fine af here, so there's that. And I have to say that Murita Kanro as the overweight guy was excellent too. This may be the first time I've found myself getting hot for a guy with his body type, but there it is. I did. :P Beneath that layer of chub is a handsome face. Some of the best acting in the flick came from him. When Mayuko told him on the phone what she told him early on, watching his face and eyes as he heard those words brought me to tears. It was paper towel time again, which I did not expect.
OK, so...I was not bored or watching the clock during this watch; always a good sign, but the ending was a rip-off for me, so 6/10.
Damn, sorry to hear that. Not surprised it got pulled down, though. Here's another link to the film: https://b4watch.com/movies/no-regret/ I don't think it's the remastered print, but the picture is far better than the fuzzy, 360p version I watched the first three times. I love this movie. :) Enjoy!
Wow, I hate that this is one of LSK's last three films. He deserves a much greater final legacy than this absurdity. "Sleep" was a letdown too.
In 2024, you can no longer get away with CGI that lame. The dogs look fake in several ways. I'd go on about this, but I'm dropping out at about 25 minutes. When people started running instead of simply getting into cars and locking the doors, it was over for me. That was the nail in the coffin. I don't care for action films during which I am asked to repeatedly ignore incredibly stupid decisions; this time hundreds of people making the same stupid choice at the same time.
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Why are you so "bothered" by a complete stranger's reply to your op? I'm pretty sure replies to comments posted by complete strangers are common, on MDL and everywhere else on the Internet.
I think you should relax your sphincter too! hahahahahahahaha oh plss
By "it," are you referring to the "controversial" (what in Korea is NOT "controversial? Manufactured controversies relentlessly flogged by media and netizens, are a big part of why so many Korean actors/entertainers end up killing themselves.) chapter 125 or the webtoon as a whole?
Let me summarize the situation in question in "Get Schooled:" A bully who considers himself the only "pure Korean" in the school, harasses a Korean-Ethiopian student as a "half-blood." Other students join in with racist comments and insults. The Korean-Ethiopian retaliates by harassing the Korean bully with derogatory, insulting, racially-based comments and actions. A classic case of the oppressed oppressing others in response. Yeah...so what? This is how fictional storytelling works
LOTS of racists use caricaturish imagery to insult their targets, such as monkey gestures, pulling their eyes up with their fingers to make "slant-eyes," etc. That's what racists do. They also call people "n****r," "chink," "Jap," "cracker," "wetback," "raghead," and a thousand other derogatory names all over the world; it's not just in Korea. You know that, right?
Are you arguing that the behaviors I mention above are not repugnant on their face, and don't make the characters who exhibit them look like the moronic racists they are? Are you arguing that the portrayal of these characters and their repulsive behaviors in GS is attractive to the average reader, and inspires readers to emulate their ways to look good too? Are you arguing that the best way to combat racism is to HIDE it?
When I viewed Chapter 125, I was revolted by the actions and words of the racist students, weren't you? Newsflash: We are SUPPOSED TO BE revolted. That is the point. If you don't understand that, you should not be reading anything other than perhaps the blandest children's books you can find.
As to your objections to the artist's depiction of the Korean-Ethiopian student's facial features...you do know this is a CARTOON, right? After seeing the artwork, I'm wondering why you see an illustration of a character with brown skin, thicker lips, and tightly curled hair as an automatically negative thing. Your reaction to what you see there seems a little...racist to me.
You know, I've long wondered why Asian characters in Manhwas and Mangas are depicted with far more European-looking features than Asian ones. They generally have no skin pigmentation at all, with the exception of red to show blushing or embarrassment, or in the case of female characters, to make them look like overly made-up street walkers. The erasure of the Asian characters' racial characteristics seems pretty...racist to me. Have you complained about that?
I laughed when I read your claim that the scenes in the Manhwa in question are a declaration that the few Korean-Black people in Korea are "constantly" harassing "pure-blood" Koreans. Where in the Manhwa is that assertion made? We see ONE Korean-Black student doing this, and he does it to the "pure-blood" Korean bully who harasses him. Get it?
And surely you're not asserting that there is no racism against the few Black or half-Black people living in Korea! If so, you are willfully ignorant. Lots of South Koreans are racist toward even those among them who are half-Chinese or half-Japanese, let alone full-blooded Chinese or Japanese people. Korea is such a monoracial/monoethnic/monocultural society that racism against those who don't fit the mold is a given and has been for centuries.
Many Chinese are wary of Japanese and Koreans, Japanese are wary of Koreans and Chinese, and Koreans are wary of Chinese and Japanese. This is not news. Good god, ethnically identical NORTH Koreans have a hard time being embraced by South Korean society. Have you complained about that?
All of that said, even IF there is no push-back to racist behavior shown in a fictional work of art within the work itself...so what? Don't read it. Don't buy it. Write comments and articles against it as you are doing. BUT you have no right to prevent others from seeing what you object to just because you object to it, and are too blinded by reactionary thought processes to recognize the lessons it teaches.
Even if there is NO true meaning at all, you have no right to demand its removal from the public sphere. The NINETY-NINE MILLION people who have read the Manhwa don't need your protection from racist images; they are free to see/read the work and perhaps take messages from it you're too eager to be offended to learn.
I applaud KMY for taking over this role after KNT got cold feet. Good for him. I've long admired KMY as an actor and human being. Now I admire him more. I look forward to seeing this adaptation, though as I've said, I hope its hard-hitting messages aren't watered down in cowardly reaction to censorious netizens such as you.
The CHARACTER'S morals are in question, not the actor's, just as an actor who takes part in a webtoon adaptation depicting scenes of racist images, actions, and behaviors is not a racist. In this case, it sounds as though in the role for which he was cast, KNG's character would not have acted out any of the aforementioned behaviors, though other actors/characters would have.
Your statement of "concern" above is a bit silly. Of course, you're "concerned," that's your reaction to the behavior. Are you not "concerned" when an actor portrays a character who commits murder, rape, arson, kidnapping, torture, theft, or any other of a thousand negative human actions? is it only racist and sexual infidelity that "concerns" you? Of course not.
However, the depiction of negative human behaviors in drama and art of all kinds is what gives drama its conflict and depth, as it has since plays were first written and enacted thousands of years ago, depicting murder, incest, adultery, and all manner of horrendous activities. If there is no darkness to lend contrast, and all we see is the light, art of all kinds would be...boring and meaningless.
But apparently, that's what you and a few thousand attention-seeking, self-righteous netizens want to see onscreen; nice characters enacting nice behaviors and experiencing nice outcomes. No one would bother watching such pablum.
NO REGRET restored, remastered: https://b4watch.com/movies/no-regret/
For English subs, click on the first "Watch Full" bar below the screen.
Enjoy.
I just did a little research on "Get Schooled." It's the same old, censor-happy, busy-bodies attempting to shut down anything that takes them out of their comfort zone. Guess what? Art exists to challenge us and take us out of our comfort zones.
Please tell me how one confronts/addresses racism/homophobia/xenophobia/murder/kidnapping/adultery/rape/torture/authoritarianism/etc. without DEPICTING the behaviors and speech that flow from those things? Answer: It can't be done.
So, the answer, as always, is if you don't like what you're seeing, watching, viewing, hearing, STOP seeing, watching, viewing, hearing it and leave the rest of us alone.
It's telling the webtoon has been pulled from the web only in North America because we have a high concentration of delicate flowers.
Finally, the webtoon has 99M views. The Tik Tok video getting all the attention was made by some American girl who is unable to articulate her objections and thus uses head bobs, facial contortions, eye-rolls and smirks instead, and has 22,000 views. Who cares what these people say? NINETY-NINE MILLION VIEWS.
There is a HUGE audience for the series being made from this toon and I hope the producers don't flush the life out of it on screen. I applaud KMY for taking over this role. I've long thought highly of him as an actor and human being; now I feel more so that way. I am eager to see the adaptation and I hope it is as fearless as its source material.
Was Kim Nam Gil having "good morals" when he was cheating on his fiancee with a dude, butt-f**king that dude in the a** repeatedly, then dumping the dude he was butt-f**king to go ahead and marry the fiancee he had been cheating on with the dude he was butt-f**king, in my second-favorite movie of all time, "No Regret?"
Just asking.
ugh. It was coming along so well, too...
It's unfortunate to see so many ancient BL tropes raise their hideous heads late in the game.
It's unfortunate to see so many endless filler scenes of the side couple acting cutesy/flirty. Speaking of which, in general, I have nothing against age-gap relationships. What creeps me out about this one is that Liu is every bit the adult man but his love interest has the maturity and affect of a child. I assume he's of age, but he comes off as11 years old. The problem is their personality difference. Not believable, unless we find out in the finale that Liu is a pedo who figures since he can't HAVE an 11-year-old and stay out of prison, the next best thing is to have a legal-aged teenager who ACTS like an 11-year-old.
The lack of indicated physical intimacy between the MC is a problem, in that it compromises the believability of their relationship. Two guys that age would be going at it every chance they get. Before the army of MDL prudes swoops in, this does NOT mean we have to SEE actual "NC (lol)" sex scenes between these guys; but it would lend great credibility if it were simply INDICATED that they were doing the deed. Without that element, this treads too closely to the sexless, fluff & unicorns vibe so many MDL LIttle Girls like to see.
This was mostly a yawner episode. Fingers crossed for next week.
First we had the overweight guy, then he disappeared completely and we had the slender guy only from then on. It's not like all the pieces came together at the end for a massive "AH-HA" moment, because there were no pieces in the first place. It was all an opaque misdirection by the storytellers.
Oh well...whatever. Matsudo Shota is one of the best JP actors alive, and he looks fine af here, so there's that. And I have to say that Murita Kanro as the overweight guy was excellent too. This may be the first time I've found myself getting hot for a guy with his body type, but there it is. I did. :P Beneath that layer of chub is a handsome face. Some of the best acting in the flick came from him. When Mayuko told him on the phone what she told him early on, watching his face and eyes as he heard those words brought me to tears. It was paper towel time again, which I did not expect.
OK, so...I was not bored or watching the clock during this watch; always a good sign, but the ending was a rip-off for me, so 6/10.
Here's another link to the film: https://b4watch.com/movies/no-regret/
I don't think it's the remastered print, but the picture is far better than the fuzzy, 360p version I watched the first three times. I love this movie. :)
Enjoy!
In 2024, you can no longer get away with CGI that lame. The dogs look fake in several ways.
I'd go on about this, but I'm dropping out at about 25 minutes. When people started running instead of simply getting into cars and locking the doors, it was over for me. That was the nail in the coffin. I don't care for action films during which I am asked to repeatedly ignore incredibly stupid decisions; this time hundreds of people making the same stupid choice at the same time.
Dropped.