he tried smoking for real in the behind-the-scenes lol! and i don't think it's just gmmtv who does this, most…
Oh, OK. Ugh, yeah it's a problem. The producers/directors don't trust the acting and writing to move the audience, so they attempt to do so with constant and annoying musical cues.
Well, maybe this series is just not your cup of tea. Sorry to say, but I suggest you to drop this series, it is…
You sound a little snide with this comment ("your precious time") but I'll ignore that. Yes, perhaps it isn't my cup of tea. Bad acting, bad direction, overwrought, pounding background music and other problems common to Thai BLs are not something I enjoy. So yeah, definitely, if I make it thru the rest of ep. 1 and still see no hope, I'll for sure drop it.
I Told Sunset About You is at the top of my Top 30 Best BL Series, Ranked list. It continues to amaze me that it and I Promised You the Moon came out of the same country as shows like Last Twilight.
I admire your bravery to dis Sea's acting after watching half an episode. I suggest you watch the whole series…
Thanks, I appreciate your compliment. Is there some reason a person would have to be "brave" to diss an actor's acting in the scenes the person has viewed? His acting, in two crucial, introductory scenes, was embarrassing. That's 15 crucial, introductory minutes of bad acting.
Viewers shouldn't have to sit through ANY lame acting with the hope that maybe by episode 3 things will improve. It is the actor's job to set the tone and convey the story convincingly from the first second they appear onscreen. Sea hasn't done that.
I suggest you consider raising your standards. Or are you the guy's sister or agent or something?
he tried smoking for real in the behind-the-scenes lol! and i don't think it's just gmmtv who does this, most…
Gosh, he'd be much better off just choosing to not have the character be a smoker. Not many things look sillier than a non-smoker pretending to smoke in a live-action show.
What are you talking about when you say it's not "just gmmtv who does this?" What is "this?" The smoking?
Well, halfway through episode 1. I need to take a break. All the overwhelming background music, the bad acting, and that thing Thai BL actors do where everyone pauses two seconds between lines has me stressed. I need to take a Klonopin next time before trying to finish this.
Day's mom is beautiful and seems to be able to act. Mark, Day's older brother, has gotten hotter and seems to be able to act as well. How this Sea guy got that role is beyond me at this point. The badminton scene and the interview scene were excruciatingly bad, primarily because of him. The character's extreme and immediate, smartass/hostile tone with Mhok seemed to come out of nowhere. If we're to think his attitude is a result of bitterness at his predicament, he's not doing a good job of conveying that. He just seems like a jerk.
What is up with GMMTV productions and their constant, overbearingly bombastic background music? The loud, sci-fi thriller-like music every time anyone says anything the least bit pensive, is as annoying as it is hilarious. Or is it the tinky-rink rom-com music we hear whenever we're supposed to think something is cute or sweet or charming or giggly? Christ, it's exhausting. Just act out the scene and stop cueing the audience with music to every emotion you think it's supposed to feel.
And Jimmy, please, if you want your character to be a smoker, learn how to actually smoke so you don't look silly and awkward when handling and sucking on your cigs. I laughed out loud in his first scene when he pulled a cig out of its pack with his mouth and it looked so contrived. Then he pretended to inhale without inhaling and puffed a cloud of smoke out of his mouth. lol If your character is a smoker, then you have to actually, really, for real, SMOKE.
He needs to watch lots of Korean Yakuza flicks. Those guys know how to light and smoke a cig...for real.
Did Jimmy have a nose job at some point? His schnoz just doesn't look natural. Asking for a friend...
Awful, terrible, embarrassingly bad. The creature is so ridiculously fake-looking I couldn't believe it was seriously being presented as a horrifying monster. lol When it went ga-lumping across the lawn squishing people, I laughed. Bae Doo Na is a horrible, one-note actor who would be schlepping pizzas somewhere if she weren't the daughter of famous Koreans.
A lot of BLs explore all those themes, and have been doing so for years.
Curious: Are you currently enrolled in college somewhere, or did you recently graduate? Your definition of a "queer movie" sounds like a quote from the pages of a "Queer Studies" textbook.
I find the now-common use of the word "queer" as offensive as it is trendy. It's the equivalent of renaming Black Studies "Ni**er Studies.
Jong Suk was 12 and mentally ill when what happened, happened. Subsequently, he entered a psychotic, long-term…
I will ask again: What would be accomplished by exposing someone for killing someone else 25 years earlier, when they were 12 and mentally ill? I will state again: The cop who killed Cheolie had BLOCKED his own memory of doing so. He had lived 25 years not "knowing" what he had done, therefore he was not "hiding" anything. He wasn't aware of it.
Exposing him after his death wouldn't bring Cheolie back, it wouldn't satisfy his mother-she already knew about the person who killed him, she just didn't know his name. He is DEAD. He chose to fall to his death with his high school friend, to "go see Cheolie." What more do you want? To piss on his grave?
You sound like a lot of MDLers who use black-and-white reasoning as a destined-to-fail method of dealing with a universe made of a billion shades of gray.
Wow. Very powerful film.BUT...there is such a huge, gaping plot hole, that is so stupid and idiotic and moronic…
Plot hole: In the real world, after ONE night time murder of a woman in the rain, all women and everyone else would have been warned publicly, over and over again, to NEVER go out at night under any circumstances, even if it's not raining, and if you HAVE to do so, have at least one other person with you, preferably a man you trust.
But in this film, after FOUR murders, we STILL had women walking around at night, along dark paths, FUCKING ALONE, for god's sake, more or less waiting to be murdered, but nobody seemed to think this was a problem.
And then, near the end, when the one cop's wife was out walking alone at night, stupidly, and she passed a schoolgirl who was also being a moron, and we saw a male figure was watching both of them, the director had them walk ever-so-slowly, as if in slow motion for his tracking shots from the perspective of the killer, when in reality if they HAD been so dumb as to be doing that, they would have been running to get home or wherever they were headed.
But it seems the police/mayor/regional authorities/NO ONE had put out any kind of warning about this.
Another infuriating element was near the end when the cops chased the little retarded guy onto the train tracks and he was killed. Why weren't they charged with second-degree murder or at least manslaughter? But his death was almost a throw-away.
I get that this is under the military dictatorship and that cops did what they wanted to a large degree, but especially regarding the guy who ended up losing a leg, he was so egregiously awful, sadistic, and just plain dumb, he would have been fired. And yet, even after he beat up the LAST guy they were trying to pin the murders on and subsequently started a fight and tore up a restaurant, there he was after all of that, STILL with a job with the police. Give me a break.
BUT...there is such a huge, gaping plot hole, that is so stupid and idiotic and moronic that there is no way I can overlook it. It's going to take this movie from a rating of 8/10, which is what I would have given it had that hole been fixed, to a 6/10 and I feel I'm being generous at that. I will put the plot hole under a spoiler tag reply to this comment.
I never expected, when I started watching this, that the strongest feeling I'd come away from it with is my hatred for every single cop except the older sergeant. The first two cops were sadistic, lazy, corrupt bastards from the beginning, but even the cop from Seoul turned into a douchebag by the film's end. Why is it so hard to accept you have to PROVE that people are guilty with, you know...evidence and shit like that?
I've had enough interactions with cops here in the U.S. to know that this mentality is not inaccurate. Primarily, they do not hesitate to cut corners, plant evidence, assume the worst of innocent people, on and on...so for me, this film rang very true to real life.
What I like most about this film is that to a great degree, it humanized these bastards enough so that they weren't cardboard cut-out, evil cliches. All except for the one who ends up getting what he deserves in the hospital near the end. No sympathy for that asshole, whatsoever. I also liked the odd, quirky bits of humor that showed up here and there until near the end.
OK, 6/10 due to a massive, stupid plot hole that could have been fixed. Otherwise, it would have been an 8/10. All acting is tremendous.
After that kiss Sahara should be suspended. Even though it wasn't intentional and per the synopsis nothing maybe…
Good god, pull that broom handle out of your ass.
The cops would laugh their own asses off if you made that idiotic call, btw. Toki is well past the age of consent in Japan. If there were to be any problem at all, it would be one of a student/teacher situation, which is an administrative issue, not a legal one. And then there's the fact that the teacher slipped and the kiss was an accident. Christ.
omg, I can't believe that in 2023 psycho, Church Lady prudes like you are still around.
Please don't watch any more of this show unless you remove that broom handle, though I suspect it's rather permanently fixed in place and has been there a very long time.
Wow, what a HUGE breath of delightfully fresh air this show is! It's fluff/cotton candy/unicorns and rainbows as only the Japanese could do it...with just a hint of sexual perv going on. I love this show.
Hachimura Rintaro has the potential to be a major star, and I don't mean just in BL. He is stunningly handsome, exceedingly gifted as an actor, and has charisma/screen presence to spare. We see him here as a thrillingly hilarious comedic actor, but I've no doubt he kills it in dramatic roles as well.
I knew before I saw him in her costume, that Rintaro would be the most beautiful Snow White there ever was. :)
The supporting cast is tremendous also. And so many small details, like having Todo Shinji actually know how to play basketball and make a convincing shot from ten feet, make a great difference in the overall feel of the series.
The plot is racing right along, which is great. We got Toki almost confessing, to him finding out he was going to play Snow White, to the show going on and all the attendant hilarity/drama of that spastic kiss to Toki's reaction, all in one episode. This degree of plot movement would eat up three one-hour episodes of a Thai production of the same story. :)
Can you give a few reasons why you thought it was terrible? I'm geniunely curious because I've seen a million…
Cool. I do hope you enjoy your watch of this show. I have always liked New as an actor. He has a positive, gently charismatic air about him. To me, he just wasn't a good choice for this particular role.
Enjoying this watch a lot, but have to stop at 1:24:00 cause it's so damn late, so will finish tomorrow.
I love this film. The low-key comedic elements sprinkled throughout, against the backdrop of an investigation of brutal rapes/murders, gives it a truly unique atmosphere.
One thing: Once there'd been one or two killings, why in the would ANYONE, let alone women, be out walking anywhere alone at night in the rain? The cops never appeared to issue a public warning about the rain/song/red clothing thing.
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I Told Sunset About You is at the top of my Top 30 Best BL Series, Ranked list. It continues to amaze me that it and I Promised You the Moon came out of the same country as shows like Last Twilight.
Viewers shouldn't have to sit through ANY lame acting with the hope that maybe by episode 3 things will improve. It is the actor's job to set the tone and convey the story convincingly from the first second they appear onscreen. Sea hasn't done that.
I suggest you consider raising your standards. Or are you the guy's sister or agent or something?
What are you talking about when you say it's not "just gmmtv who does this?" What is "this?" The smoking?
Day's mom is beautiful and seems to be able to act. Mark, Day's older brother, has gotten hotter and seems to be able to act as well. How this Sea guy got that role is beyond me at this point. The badminton scene and the interview scene were excruciatingly bad, primarily because of him. The character's extreme and immediate, smartass/hostile tone with Mhok seemed to come out of nowhere. If we're to think his attitude is a result of bitterness at his predicament, he's not doing a good job of conveying that. He just seems like a jerk.
And Jimmy, please, if you want your character to be a smoker, learn how to actually smoke so you don't look silly and awkward when handling and sucking on your cigs. I laughed out loud in his first scene when he pulled a cig out of its pack with his mouth and it looked so contrived. Then he pretended to inhale without inhaling and puffed a cloud of smoke out of his mouth. lol If your character is a smoker, then you have to actually, really, for real, SMOKE.
He needs to watch lots of Korean Yakuza flicks. Those guys know how to light and smoke a cig...for real.
Did Jimmy have a nose job at some point? His schnoz just doesn't look natural. Asking for a friend...
I think the direction is off.
Dropped.
The creature is so ridiculously fake-looking I couldn't believe it was seriously being presented as a horrifying monster. lol When it went ga-lumping across the lawn squishing people, I laughed.
Bae Doo Na is a horrible, one-note actor who would be schlepping pizzas somewhere if she weren't the daughter of famous Koreans.
4/10
Curious: Are you currently enrolled in college somewhere, or did you recently graduate? Your definition of a "queer movie" sounds like a quote from the pages of a "Queer Studies" textbook.
I find the now-common use of the word "queer" as offensive as it is trendy. It's the equivalent of renaming Black Studies "Ni**er Studies.
Exposing him after his death wouldn't bring Cheolie back, it wouldn't satisfy his mother-she already knew about the person who killed him, she just didn't know his name. He is DEAD. He chose to fall to his death with his high school friend, to "go see Cheolie." What more do you want? To piss on his grave?
You sound like a lot of MDLers who use black-and-white reasoning as a destined-to-fail method of dealing with a universe made of a billion shades of gray.
But in this film, after FOUR murders, we STILL had women walking around at night, along dark paths, FUCKING ALONE, for god's sake, more or less waiting to be murdered, but nobody seemed to think this was a problem.
And then, near the end, when the one cop's wife was out walking alone at night, stupidly, and she passed a schoolgirl who was also being a moron, and we saw a male figure was watching both of them, the director had them walk ever-so-slowly, as if in slow motion for his tracking shots from the perspective of the killer, when in reality if they HAD been so dumb as to be doing that, they would have been running to get home or wherever they were headed.
But it seems the police/mayor/regional authorities/NO ONE had put out any kind of warning about this.
Another infuriating element was near the end when the cops chased the little retarded guy onto the train tracks and he was killed. Why weren't they charged with second-degree murder or at least manslaughter? But his death was almost a throw-away.
I get that this is under the military dictatorship and that cops did what they wanted to a large degree, but especially regarding the guy who ended up losing a leg, he was so egregiously awful, sadistic, and just plain dumb, he would have been fired. And yet, even after he beat up the LAST guy they were trying to pin the murders on and subsequently started a fight and tore up a restaurant, there he was after all of that, STILL with a job with the police. Give me a break.
BUT...there is such a huge, gaping plot hole, that is so stupid and idiotic and moronic that there is no way I can overlook it. It's going to take this movie from a rating of 8/10, which is what I would have given it had that hole been fixed, to a 6/10 and I feel I'm being generous at that. I will put the plot hole under a spoiler tag reply to this comment.
I never expected, when I started watching this, that the strongest feeling I'd come away from it with is my hatred for every single cop except the older sergeant. The first two cops were sadistic, lazy, corrupt bastards from the beginning, but even the cop from Seoul turned into a douchebag by the film's end. Why is it so hard to accept you have to PROVE that people are guilty with, you know...evidence and shit like that?
I've had enough interactions with cops here in the U.S. to know that this mentality is not inaccurate. Primarily, they do not hesitate to cut corners, plant evidence, assume the worst of innocent people, on and on...so for me, this film rang very true to real life.
What I like most about this film is that to a great degree, it humanized these bastards enough so that they weren't cardboard cut-out, evil cliches. All except for the one who ends up getting what he deserves in the hospital near the end. No sympathy for that asshole, whatsoever. I also liked the odd, quirky bits of humor that showed up here and there until near the end.
OK, 6/10 due to a massive, stupid plot hole that could have been fixed. Otherwise, it would have been an 8/10. All acting is tremendous.
The cops would laugh their own asses off if you made that idiotic call, btw. Toki is well past the age of consent in Japan. If there were to be any problem at all, it would be one of a student/teacher situation, which is an administrative issue, not a legal one. And then there's the fact that the teacher slipped and the kiss was an accident. Christ.
omg, I can't believe that in 2023 psycho, Church Lady prudes like you are still around.
Please don't watch any more of this show unless you remove that broom handle, though I suspect it's rather permanently fixed in place and has been there a very long time.
Hachimura Rintaro has the potential to be a major star, and I don't mean just in BL. He is stunningly handsome, exceedingly gifted as an actor, and has charisma/screen presence to spare. We see him here as a thrillingly hilarious comedic actor, but I've no doubt he kills it in dramatic roles as well.
I knew before I saw him in her costume, that Rintaro would be the most beautiful Snow White there ever was. :)
The supporting cast is tremendous also. And so many small details, like having Todo Shinji actually know how to play basketball and make a convincing shot from ten feet, make a great difference in the overall feel of the series.
The plot is racing right along, which is great. We got Toki almost confessing, to him finding out he was going to play Snow White, to the show going on and all the attendant hilarity/drama of that spastic kiss to Toki's reaction, all in one episode. This degree of plot movement would eat up three one-hour episodes of a Thai production of the same story. :)
Bravo! Can't wait for next Friday.
https://mydramalist.com/list/3rWQjk74
I have always liked New as an actor. He has a positive, gently charismatic air about him. To me, he just wasn't a good choice for this particular role.
I love this film. The low-key comedic elements sprinkled throughout, against the backdrop of an investigation of brutal rapes/murders, gives it a truly unique atmosphere.
One thing: Once there'd been one or two killings, why in the would ANYONE, let alone women, be out walking anywhere alone at night in the rain? The cops never appeared to issue a public warning about the rain/song/red clothing thing.