that being said, this didn't make me feel like i "got my bang for the buck..." it's was meeh, as remembered everything and it (ironically) was rewatching something i'd seen, so nothing new or riveting let alone butterfly inducing this time around, which can be seen as a plus or a minus depending on the viewer - it left me passive. (yeah the hinted proposal was cute, but was waiting/more curious to see the parents reacting and that came to not ).
will say enjoyed seeing Tine, and think after watching countless drama's, rewatching the edited footage emphasized how good of an actor he is - cause watching this - it was evident that i loved his character not only cause the actor is good-looking, sweet and charming. but cause he Can act. and cause of that, his character was not only more relatable, but likeable.
this was fine for a one off - wish the majority wasn't the past and there was more of a plot to this movie, then the little we got at the end. that didn't amount to anything other then a vague "happily ever after".
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Concrete Jungle is an obscure Hong Kong kung fu flick and rightly so. Even for a martial arts movie it lacked a coherent story. Worse yet, the movie has not been taken care of and is in terrible shape. CJ looked like someone took the movie reel and dragged it behind The White Truck of Doom, taped it back together with masking tape, spilled coffee on it, added white subtitles on an often gray background and then just for grins cut both sides of the film causing 1/3 of the subtitles to not be seen. The scenes shot at night were almost completely dark with green wavy lines running through them. The dialogue and music were also garbled. If you can get past the visual and audio defects, you'll find the storyline defects just as bad.
Not being able to see all of the action and read all of the subtitles did prove a challenge. There's a reason I couldn't find a synopsis on any site. To sum it up-Lo Lieh's character Chen, was driving at night when he saw a woman, Yu Shih, being assaulted and stopped to help. He ended up in a fight against Michael Chan (never given a name except Villain that I could tell) and his goons. Lo Lieh battles them off, killing one in the process. The woman refuses to go to the police because she doesn't want to upset her fiancé. Later the police inspector questions Chen, telling him if it was really self-defense, he needs to provide a witness or he may be prosecuted for murder. After that Michael Chan takes every opportunity to stalk or attack Yu Shih. Inexplicably, she always manages to escape. I say inexplicably because she runs like a two-year-old who hasn't figured out how to use her arms and legs and is just about as clever as a two-year-old. When Chan isn't terrorizing Yu Shih, he and his men attack Chen at every opportunity. This villain has a very full schedule. Even though Chen is constantly having to fight the bad guys whether at work or walking down the street, he never stops to try and figure out what is going on and how to stop it. It's like he's on a conveyor belt of fights he can't get off of. Chen is rapidly seduced by a beautiful woman, a danger sign he can't see, which brings the thrust of the plot finally to the forefront. Most of the movie involves fighting, running-lots of running to nowhere, and shots of Chen driving his car around town. The writer and director had no idea how to connect scenes and even less about character development or story logic.
It's a martial arts movie so I must comment on the fighting. Most of it was rudimentary at best, some fights were better than others.
The only positive thing about this movie for me was Lo Lieh. Even in this horrible mess of a movie he had screen presence. The actors did the best they could with the abysmal dialogue and ridiculous plot.
Unless you are trying to watch all of the movies from this golden kung fu era or all of Lo Lieh's movies, I'd suggest you avoid this chunk of concrete.
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something unexpected from koreans, but well executed
When i first saw its trailer, i was like strucked by the topic they took and considering it was just a 2 hour film, they nailed many things. Character development is op and acting was awesome too, sometimes the expressions felt a bit pale but its ignorable. The story was surprisingly good and just dont ask about the main fl and ml, both were just totally invested into their roles. Other than that if you want to watch something interesting and are not disturbed/hate the topic then you will totally like it (Note: Not a family movie.)Was this review helpful to you?
I didn't think I'd ever love a movie this much
Absolutely beautiful. From the beautiful themes to the acting to the wonderful soundtrack to the almost ridiculous, yet heartwarming humor, it is a perfect movie for me in every aspect.I've never cried, laughed and smiled this much watching a movie.
It's the kind of movie that makes you glad to be human and alive.
This is actually my all time favorite movie and every time I feel life gets me down, I rewatch it and every single time, I love it perhaps even more than the last.
The way the story inspires you to live and never give up in an almost hopeful, simple, but innocent way just makes me tear up even thinking about it.
I am not one to say a movie is perfect easily, but it would be a crime to not call this one. It's imperfections just make it that much more beautiful.
There's just so much earnestness and heart in this movie and it really shines through.
I'll always be grateful for the comfort this movie had provided and will continue to provide me in my worst days.
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Only worth your time if you want to see Ji Li doing a fantastic job of crossdressing.
Never have I ever seen a movie I wanted to give 10 stars for the actor for willing to do all that, and minus stars (if it was possible) for everything else. As a movie it was absolute crap, terribly made, horrible characters, crude storytelling..... it maybe had a little bit of heart, which made it possible for me to sit throughout it all, in addition to Ji Li. That's about it.It opened up the discussion about at least 5 social issues but never really followed through with any or provided satisfying conclusions. Heck, it didn’t even have a proper ending.
It was simply a cheap movie made with intention of getting some views via some bad gender jokes and other nonsense, so do not go into it expecting anything further.
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Kind of a Repeat
I was so looking forward for this to come out, and I was a little disappointed, in the sense that they basically recapped the to series and narrated the movie, I had expected a much more understanding of the things between them, and see how they grew from where there were to was happened.Nevertheless Bright and Win still extremely hot and considering I am watching them in the ongoing F4 you can see such a difference in there characters etc ...
So there is not much to say for this review, I do suggest watching the series instead though. The ending for me was awesome, still trying to figure out if that was a marriage proposal or a life long commitment (thinking)
The movie obviously is focused on telling the story of Tine and Sarawat, and how they ended up a couple, with all the highs and lows. For that reason, the side couples just… get together without much explanation in the movie. Since, as I mentioned before, the target audience knows everything about how Man/Type and Mil/Phukong ended up together, that’s not a problem. I really liked the final song.
The movie receives extra points for the cute baby and puppy at the end.
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WOW What A Topic !!!!!
Let just start with the subject of the movie was very surprising but the story was great. The 2 main leads are great the way they meet and start agreeing on helping each other, if you want to call it that. I did like how they were supported with each other and share there feelings. I love the leading female character was strong and took charge and that she was the master dominating him. The chemistry was magnificent. Is a subject not to many talk about but you know is happening. The editing and direction was great. The actors performance was a 10. It kept you smiling and a little giggles and embarrass in front of male friends. Love it.Was this review helpful to you?
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I never been SOOOOOOO FRUSTATED!!!
This is a 2016 Japanese movie about Dora and associates running a badger game scheme to extort victims out of money. One day though, their target looks like an ordinary guy, but he turns out to be a yakuza.The Yakuza hired Zebra, a company that works to give revenge for those who got unfortunate.
What I love is, this movie should be turned into drama instead. It can talk about the clients per episode, The premise is kinda similar to Jigoku Shoujo but way darker. If Jigoku Shoujo makes the sinner suffer to pay for their crime alone by taking them to hell, but the victim also has to pay for their grudge...., this one committed to never kills their target, but make sure they'll suffer tremendous pain for the rest of their life.
I love the scenes where Aka burned a penis of a rapist and another scene where Dora tattooed an idol's whole face and upper body coz he makes one of his juniors lose his ability to sing.
I'll talk about what I hate..., how messy this movie is.
The company that works in the darkness, like Zebra (if it really exists), for them, trust will be everything. I'm confused enough on why the Yakuza pays for Zebra service while he is supposed to have all of the resources to do this kind of dirty work.
My confusion falls even deeper coz Zebra betray the Yakuza (YKZ) coz they consider Dora can be a great collector. Zebra not only betray YKZ, but also prepared him tied up in a room for Dora to beat him up to death.... This also means that Zebra already planned to betray YKZ, right? BUT FOR WHAT PURPOSE!!!
Zebra is the most unprofessional low-quality company, lol. It sells its client information, even each member selling each other's personal information... the boss indeed has no skills in managing his HR.
Dora really has a very messy character. He is a man who is cruel enough to break a man's finger one by one and killed him with bare hands... He's not even asking about his friend's well-being, including Aya, after they got tortured, but doesn't have the heart to kill Aya, a woman who betrayed him.
Then the story moves into a scene where the company told Dora that the one who hired them to "destroy" Dora is not YKZ, but Aya.... for AGAIN an unclear reason... and AGAIN, Zebra betrayed its client by leaking their information to their target... how... "professional" this company is....
I lost my respect for Dora, and this movie when it creates a situation where Zebra has Aya's face destroyed, by who's order? Again unclear, let's say they do it for Dora..., though Dora never asks for it... Dora then "sells" a woman named Amikawa, to a stalker, just to make the stalker help him to kill Aya and stop her pain. Amikawa has a family with a comatose son and Dora drugs her and makes the stalker rape her in front of her husband, Koji, which leads her to kill herself...
I'm in confusion... If he only has his heart for Aya? Is he a psychopath? Dora even ignorantly said he never expect the woman will kill herself. HOW IN A WORLD?!!!! You drugged and raped a woman in front of her husband and excuse that you never expect she'll kill herself? This Dora doesn't even have common sense. Is he even have something called a brain?
So, what's in the movie about? Is it about Dora who gets betrayed by his own coworker? Then the movie is better to focus on his effort to chase for Aya.
Is it want to show Dora's journey to become a heartless person? Why? He is heartless already. He's even a bully.
After his wife's funeral, Koji seeks Dora then beats him up. At the end of the movie, the Zebra's boss said "Don't be defeated, learn the meaning of hopelessness" which then Dora made it happen by killing Amikawa's son and said "I have successfully collected"... Do I have to remind the writer who messed this up first? Koji is supposed to be the one who got his revenge. Dora is a low total low-functioning sociopath!
And what happened to the company's mission to "never do any murder?". I also wonder why Zebra never gives any penalty to Dora for making them lose their Doctor, also to Aka for selling Dora's information to Koji..., but hey, as I said above, the boss is way too unprofessional that all his people are just as unprofessional as he is.
Don't get me wrong, I love the psychopathy and sociopathy genres. The Silence of the Lambs, Old Boy (extremely genius), Basic Instinct, Saw... I love SMART WRITING about them. I love to see how twisted their minds are like in Criminal Minds, also the cool though it's unreal like Dexter.
This kind of idiotic, totally hate it
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Jasmine is my hero!
The ending of this film has to make this one of the most realistic war films I've seen. It shows the horror & brutality of war in a 'simple' scene showing civilian casualties. I suppose this film could be seen as propaganda but as China was the underdog in this scenario I think it would have been very moving & filled me with patriotism at the time. The final scene is extremely moving & very interesting historically & technologically.This is the only feature-length silent film I've seen so far that I would consider watching again - although it isn't completely silent as it was dubbed with a few songs & some sound effects.
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Many red flags with a quite creep guy vs. a sweet guy who just wants to have confidence while cute
Shortly said:Momose is forcing himself onto this Yashiro, multiple times. Trying to blackmail and manipulate him into getting his own desires fulfilled.
First, when they met he got very close and insisted on talking and out in public even, where anyone with a secret like this would get very startled, eh didn’t consider Yashiro at any point really.
And he kept forcing himself onto him even later in the school and then ended up taking advantage of the situation of other people coming near them to kiss him,
bc Yashiro wouldn’t dare to do anything to get exposed dressed up in a girl’s uniform.
He later when at his home, forces himself over and over until he gets a rib on him unable to get away, forcing himself onto him with rape attempt,
even when he says stops multiple times he doesn’t listen at all, but only seems completely blinded by his own desires.
And only stops when he starts crying out loud and begs saying he is scared over and over. Which normally in irl this would most likely leave a trauma scar on someone experiencing a situation like that.
Momose is a very creepy and scary person, there were so many red flags and crossed lines in this movie.
Made me feel disgusted bc Yashiro should never have apologized and asked for forgiveness for changing his mind later on, as he says he does
-Everyone is allowed to change their mind doing anywhere and anytime before and in a situation.
I honestly can’t believe Yashio would actually let a horrible selfish guy like this back into his life…
What I otherwise got out of this movie…was that Yoshiro didn’t believe he was cute? But really wanted to and that is kinda what Momose could give him,
To make him believe that he was. And all of him not just only when he dressed up. Which no one else knew of but Momose.
It honestly seemed like Yoshiro just wanted to feel pretty and confident.
While Momose had a deep fetish…? Or that he just got an eye-opener up for Yoshiro looking cute, which he liked very much?
I am not sure what to say about this part...but
there seems to be hinting that Yashiro is transgender, or maybe just a crossdresser or something else in terms of non-normative gender? just too bad we didn't get a more clear answer on that i think, as it seems kind of half-like done. But perhaps that is the meaning of the story that it was more about the two of them?
But it is nice to get that genre in there as we don't get to see that so often in movies.
Not sure what good there even is to say about this movie??
uh, the actors looked good, the acting was good, the music was ok.
Oh and yes, that they otherwise portrayed the two guys who otherwise don't seem to be gay, but fell for one another, so it is not your typical portrayed type of gay, which is really nice to see in a movie!
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Poderia ser bem maior.
Já começo dizendo que o filme em si é curto mas é bom. Acredito que esse filme era para ser tipo os short-filmes que assistimos no youtube e não me arrependo de assistir.Eu assisti até os making of que é o resto do filme por que foi bem interessante.
Foi ótimo ver dois atores enormes como os principais trabalhando em um short filme LGBTQIA+, mesmo que seja antigo foi algo que é bom para representividade da comunidade do meio dos doramas.
Eu por exemplo fiquei sabendo agora, como fã do Je Hoon que ele fez um filme BL e corri para vê, é gostei bastante.
E vamos falar, né? Que beijos, hein! Normalmente, quando assisto dramas ou filmes BLs coreanos, os beijos são mais "fracos" e secos. Esses foram espetaculares.
Não sei se é um filme independente, mas acredito que seja por isso é curto e não tão bem desenvolvido.
Eu iria adorar assistir mais sobre como a mãe deles reagiram a saber sobre a sexualidade deles, por que a primeira, me desculpem, foi engraçada o modo que aconteceu.
É um curto romance BL bem leve e com humor que eu aproveitei bastante assistindo.
Achei bem fofo, na verdade.
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Safe, Sane and Consensual. Thank you dramaland!
So, I must admit that I was super duper nervous that the concept of consent would be glossed over or simply ignored in this movie. BUT! My! What a pleasant surprise it was to see a movie where they actually followed healthy BDSM etiquettes (safe, sane and consensual).It was a ride to watch this movie and every time a new play scene would be shown, I could hear all those conservative walls shattering over the world. Love and Leashes will hopefully open doors for more movies that explore BDSM. Unfortunately people are familiar only with 50 shades and that is just a red flag and a map on what NOT to do in bdsm. But in this movie we get a new perspective and I was so surprised to see some topics touched upon that made me think deeply like how people of the BDSM community react when their partners reject who they are. How their mental health is impacted and how they become vary of future relationships.
It was also scary to see how 'fakes' tried to use the safe environment of BDSM to rape women and was another insight to what the play is absolutely NOT about. Too many people consider BDSM to be something perverted, but it's just adult play. In fact it has more consent involved than your average tv shows where we see sexual violence normalized and romantisised.
In love and leashes, instead we see two grown adult, financially independent and emotionally stable, engage in activities that make them both happy. The submissive male maintains his consent and says no clearly when he doesn't want to date. The dom.... aahhh watching the female lead was an experience that made me ecstatic! What acting! Her steady gaze made me shiver! We see her do her research and acts as a very responsible dom. In the last play before their contract expires, she stops the play when she realises that it's not something she's able to carry out and that was such a beautiful moment of vulnerability to be shown from a dominant. Because at the end of the day, aren't they also humans? Behind the control, behind the steady gaze, there is a person who is also effected by emotions.
At the end, all I can say is that this movie was sweet, sensual, funny, crazy and overall a great watch! Watching the female lead find her inner dom (who was just lingering behind that steady gaze, waiting to pounce out) and watching the male lead heal from his past and learning so much about BDSM in general.. well now you know which movie to recommend to people if they are curious or want to watch something different and yet romantic at the same time.
PS The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the dog cafe since these places use breed dogs who come from breeders. And the very act of breeding any animal is r*pe since an animal isn't capable of consenting to humans. I know it looks very beautiful on the outside, but for every pup we see, a mother is locked inside a breeding facility where she is just used as a baby machine. Consent after all is not just for humans and while rape happens in the wild, humans know it's wrong, so we must not do it to anyone else.
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A Fun and Entertaining Movie to Pass the Time
Showing you the daily life of a family so desperate for money they are willingly hurting themselves to get insurrance money and become professional scammers, Just Do It! is a fun and nice movie to watch when you're not sure what you want to watch and you don't want something too serious. The introduction scene already shows you what the movie will all be about : a blind man who can in fact see the money bill in front of him ? A passerby stealing it to buy a lottery ticket? The movie invites you into a world of "Scam or be Scammed".The story went straight to the point and developped rather quickly (which is rare for a korean film) which I appreciated: they knew the subject was fine but not that fine to warrant a 2h long film. The characters alternate between being so desperate you understand where they may be coming and being pathetically ridiculous at times (which also is the point, I think). But they were quite nice, not much over-acting if at all and convincing performances overall.
The comedy did not hit me all the time I must say (they really had something with peeing, I do not see it, what was up with that) but overall it was still fun most of the times. The soundtrack was quite nice, good taste in the music department to choose some nice songs I like.
I also had fun trying to spot a young Jeon Seok Ho but sadly to no avail: maybe next time!
Overall, Just Do It! is nothing exceptionnal but does have these early 2000s vibes I like and if you have nothing better to do, it's good to pass the time and not think too much about it. Some interesting scenes here and there as well if you like to analyse films but nothing too big.
The only way to know if you'll like it is to...... Just Watch It!
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Zanzan, good to see you again
I admit, Zhu Zanjin is the only reason I watched the movie for. The dramas he is in aren't airing, the last thing he was in was "Miss the Dragon" which as fun as syphilis (but he was hot in his role). I went in without watching ultimate note or the original series.I think the movie had potential. It was fun, I liked the action scenes (may I say ZZJ looks so good and manly while fighting even when cross dressing). I think the plot is interesting too. There is one bod problem with the movie that makes it a kinda good movie instead of a great movie- it is too short. Fast pacing isn't a bad thing, but I feel the story and charcters weren't flashed enough. The short run time does make it rushed rather than fast paced plot. I wish they added more scenes and run time. I would gladly watch more scenes with ZZJ! and the others too. As someone who doesn't know the general story, I didn't feel like I needed a background, so it's a shame that the movie is short. Even without ZZJ, this movie could be much bigger.
Do I recommend it only because of ZZJ? Actually no, I it was a pleasent surprise and it is only one hour long, but at least it was a fun time. If it were longer than I would still enjoy it and feel the story progress in a much natural manner. Heck, if you're a fan of any of the actors I think you would enjoy this movie.
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First of all, what a wonderfully fresh take on relationships between consenting adults. The attitude of 'Sure, why not? Could be a lot of fun' that infuses the whole movie is a welcome change. Instead of dragging on for hours and hours whether or not they should be in a relationship, they actually date.... and try things out. I also like that there is an exploration of the consequences in the realm of the everyday (no serial killers!).
Second, the acting here is great. The main characters and side characters are distinctive, and the male and female leads have a great mix of comedic timing and more serious feelings. They also treat the material with respect - people who engage in BDSM are people just like anyone else, and you truly believe the characters are enjoying themselves.
The music didn't register, some scenes will stick in my head for a long time. Highly recommend if you'd like a more mature exploration of dating and relationships. The 2 hrs flew by.
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