literally this! I dislike how many of them have been so disappointing in the sense that they have nearly zero…
Bingo! What's weird is that early on, they were banging away, shown having hot sex, but as they move (supposedly) deeper into the relationship, the sex has not intensified; it has dwindled to nothing. When they say goodbye for the evening or whatever, it's like "oh well, sure, see ya maybe...maybe not...whatever..."
Episode 5: This gets more boring with every episode. There is no energy in the story or characters. Shizuka is passive-aggressive af, but in a slow-motion, dull way. He even smokes slowly, as a Sloth would do. The romance takes a back seat to the family drama, but the family drama is nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before, and it's boring, as well.
I seriously love many slow-paced, leisurely films and dramas, but I guess only when the stories they tell are interesting, which this is not.
Episode 5: This was more entertaining with the pervy, unrestrained lust and attendant silliness. Now, it's veering into relationship city, and I fear boredom ahead. I was a little bored with this episode.
And, coming next week, a pedestrian/car incident. Now, THAT'S original.
Second watch:Wow, traumatized all over again.I first watched when TPOT was brand-new and gave it a 9/10.I'm going…
When Thongkam comes back to the house and sees the piece of paper grandma had signed, turning over the house and land to Mo, already fucking framed and hanging on the wall, why didn't he just take it down and burn the piece of paper? Mo was outside burning grandma's wheelchair and unable to stop him.
Immediately after that, why did Thongkam turn all that money he had just collected over to her, especially knowing she had just killed grandma? Why not take the money and the boyfriend and get the hell out of there? Seemed really odd that he would at that point meekly turn over the money to that psycho bitch.
I first watched when TPOT was brand-new and gave it a 9/10. I'm going to bump that up a half-point. That last third is flat-out operatic in wild-ass dramatic shit-flinging, in all the very best ways.
Terrific acting across the board, especially from Jeff Satur and the FL.
I have a couple of questions about choices that Satur's character made, which I am leaving under the spoiler below. If anyone stumbles across them and can help me out, I'd be appreciative.
One caveat: The FL's collagen lips were distracting af. She's a terrific actress, and I can't imagine anyone doing what she did better, but that character does NOT go down to the village general store and have her lips injected. Incongruities like that really bug me.
I had high expectations for this since I watched the trailer and the poster is amazing, but this has confusing…
You didn't think the secondary kiss, following the initial dead fish/mannequin smooch, during which there was actual lip/mouth movement, was fairly impressive for this type of JP flick?
Took more than 30 minutes to get going, but once it did, it was pretty damn good. :)
Feels more like a BL drama than a film, and maybe it would have been better to present it that way. I suppose part of the reason the first part felt slow was that I was expecting it to get up to speed at a film's pace, but this took its time. As silly as the plot was, there are moments of true angst and quite a few intentional LOLs.
I feel bad for the lead's tall, long-haired bestie, who carries a torch for him. "Why aren't I good enough...?" :(
At least four incredibly handsome actors in the mix, wow. Takamatsu Aloha is a rare Asian man who can pull off a bleach-blonde dye job, but I've yet to see one who doesn't look his most stunning in his natural, often jet-black hair.
Speaking of which, and just because it came to mind, these are the hottest Asian men by country, rated 1-6.
Korean Japanese Taiwanese Thai Hong Kong China
It's subjective, of course, but seven years of obsessive Asian film/drama-watching has led me to this conclusion. It's also a little silly, because Korea, China, and Japan are estimated to share 99.9% of their DNA in common. Still, I swear I can tell the difference... :P
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That may be so, and I think you're right, but that aspect is very poorly portrayed.
What's weird is that early on, they were banging away, shown having hot sex, but as they move (supposedly) deeper into the relationship, the sex has not intensified; it has dwindled to nothing.
When they say goodbye for the evening or whatever, it's like "oh well, sure, see ya maybe...maybe not...whatever..."
This gets more boring with every episode.
There is no energy in the story or characters.
Shizuka is passive-aggressive af, but in a slow-motion, dull way.
He even smokes slowly, as a Sloth would do.
The romance takes a back seat to the family drama, but the family drama is nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before, and it's boring, as well.
I seriously love many slow-paced, leisurely films and dramas, but I guess only when the stories they tell are interesting, which this is not.
I had trouble staying awake through this episode.
This was more entertaining with the pervy, unrestrained lust and attendant silliness.
Now, it's veering into relationship city, and I fear boredom ahead.
I was a little bored with this episode.
And, coming next week, a pedestrian/car incident. Now, THAT'S original.
I meant that it feels more like a BL drama than a BL movie.
Have you seen "Happy of the End?"
https://mydramalist.com/775551-happy-of-the-end
Why do movies/dramas about "yanki" need to be filmed "more often" if they are already often filmed?
Immediately after that, why did Thongkam turn all that money he had just collected over to her, especially knowing she had just killed grandma? Why not take the money and the boyfriend and get the hell out of there? Seemed really odd that he would at that point meekly turn over the money to that psycho bitch.
Wow, traumatized all over again.
I first watched when TPOT was brand-new and gave it a 9/10.
I'm going to bump that up a half-point.
That last third is flat-out operatic in wild-ass dramatic shit-flinging, in all the very best ways.
Terrific acting across the board, especially from Jeff Satur and the FL.
I have a couple of questions about choices that Satur's character made, which I am leaving under the spoiler below. If anyone stumbles across them and can help me out, I'd be appreciative.
One caveat: The FL's collagen lips were distracting af. She's a terrific actress, and I can't imagine anyone doing what she did better, but that character does NOT go down to the village general store and have her lips injected. Incongruities like that really bug me.
9.5/10
What a sweet hottie.
Feels more like a BL drama than a film, and maybe it would have been better to present it that way. I suppose part of the reason the first part felt slow was that I was expecting it to get up to speed at a film's pace, but this took its time. As silly as the plot was, there are moments of true angst and quite a few intentional LOLs.
I feel bad for the lead's tall, long-haired bestie, who carries a torch for him.
"Why aren't I good enough...?" :(
At least four incredibly handsome actors in the mix, wow.
Takamatsu Aloha is a rare Asian man who can pull off a bleach-blonde dye job, but I've yet to see one who doesn't look his most stunning in his natural, often jet-black hair.
Speaking of which, and just because it came to mind, these are the hottest Asian men by country, rated 1-6.
Korean
Japanese
Taiwanese
Thai
Hong Kong
China
It's subjective, of course, but seven years of obsessive Asian film/drama-watching has led me to this conclusion. It's also a little silly, because Korea, China, and Japan are estimated to share 99.9% of their DNA in common.
Still, I swear I can tell the difference... :P
8/10