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This movie is beautiful trash.

Because the director told them to do so in both cases. He thinks it's cool and he's showing off. The wind is to indicate passions and wildness absent from the acting/direction.

So what did you think of this adaptation?

Because the movie is terrible. The book is a different thing than the movie.

SPOILERS:

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.

Good show. Unique. A gentle dom/sub thing...I like it.

But what's with wearing the living room window drapes as pants?

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.

Quit watering down the meaning of the used-to-be-powerful word "rape."

Straight-up asking someone for sex is pretty much the opposite of rape. Good god.

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.

Maybe it just felt that way because the plot, acting and direction were so drab. The show poster is black and white.

Wow. This show is just horribly written.

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.

Terrible.
Dropped.
1/10

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.

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.

Yep.

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...

Good, glad to have annoyed you. Ummm...if you smell something "stinky," try checking your diaper.

lol...snort...wow, you and Alexia above are two of the scariest nerds I've seen around here.

I've done that. Felt great. Do you always laugh at your own jokes to make sure people know they're funny?

"...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.

Whereas, with each of your replies here the membership sees ever more clearly how brilliant and sensible you are, I know. It really is remarkable.