Two Weddings and a Funeral

On April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2012, Baek Jae Ho, Choi Il Hwa, Comedy, Gay Character, Gay Relationship, Jang Se Hyun, Jo Wan Ki, Jung Ae Yun, Jung In Ki, Kim Dong Yoon, Kim Joon Bum, Lee Seung Jun, Lesbian Character, LGBT+, Married Couple, Min Kyung Ok, Park Jung Pyo, Romance, Ryu Hyun Kyung, Shin Hye Jung, Song Yong Jin, Yoo Yeon SeokLeave a comment

Movie Summary

A gay man, Min Soo and a lesbian, Hyo Jin are both promising doctors at a general hospital. The colleagues agree to marry so Hyo Jin can legally adopt a child with her lover of ten years Seo Yeong, and Min Soo can please his parents while maintaining his closeted lifestyle. While secretly living with their respective partners, who move in next door, Min Soo and Hyo Jin appear to be a happy, “normal” couple. They enjoy all the benefits afforded to heterosexual couples and are also able to ward off public scrutiny and parental disapproval. However, Min Soo’s intrusive parents begin to get a bit too involved with the couple’s life, threatening their scheme. (Source)

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Two Weddings And a Funeral is just the movie to enjoy if you like comedy and to have a sober plot/theme. The film held my attention from beginning to end. It shows to the western audience what the LGBT+ community sometimes has to do to satisfied their parents or get them off their backs about getting married. It shows how the LGBT+ community comes together as a family. I like how it had characters from both the gay and lesbian sides were acing as a family. I believe, like most of the time, when you have any movie with the LGBT+ community in it, they focus on one letter. But that doesn’t mean we got a lot of screen time from the lesbian couple; the main focus was the central gay couple. It still makes me smile to think about how the couple that got married acted more playful and cared with each other. The cast was wondrous with showing the emotions that the audience needs to feel. I will say that the actors/actresses weren’t the best at some moments, but they still got feelings for the scene. This film had several important messages throughout the whole thing. One of the biggest ones was that you couldn’t run away from your problems and face them. How they played out the main characters facing their issues of being outing was realist, sometimes something terrible has to happen to give you that push to make you suck it up and face it no matter the effects it will have on your life and others. The other theme or lesson based on the famous saying if you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they’re yours. The saying showed wholesomely once you understand where the character is coming from because of their past. The film is just something you can watch and learn from to apply to your life. Would you watch it again? I think most likely, yeah, because it made me laugh and smile most of the time. It just gave me that feeling of longing for a comfortable place to belong. Also, the ending is the best; it what I think how some straight people think a gay wedding goes. 2 out of 5 stars

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Bite Fight

On March 12, 2021May 14, 2020 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2 out of 5 stars, 2016, Chen Lu, China, Fantasy, Gay Character, Interspecies Romance, Mystery, No Actors Names Available, No Actresses Names Available, Romance, Supernatural, Vampire, Yuan Xin, Zhao Xu DongLeave a comment

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After being in an intense bar fight, Ai Fei gets bitten by Thomas, a vampire, to save his life. Ai Fei is then confined in Thomas’ home as he will slowly start to turn into a vampire over the next 3 months. While Thomas goes on the search for the ‘Vampire Bible’, so he is able to obtain a power to fix something that happened in the past. Unfortunately, he has to avoid demon hunters. At first, Ai Fei wanted to leave Thomas’ house. But over time they start to feel something for each other. But will Ai Fei be able to cope if he finds out what Thomas did in the past? (Source)

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Bite Fight is a movie that centers on vampires and love. I will warn that this movie is tough to find due to copyright complaints. I could only watch the cut version, and the cut part is still somewhere float on the internet. I think the only real way to find the cut scenes is to look at fanvids. This movie has an excellent plot summary and trailers, but when you finally watch the video, you see how badly made it was. This movie, I think, would do an excellent job of being remade. You can tell that the budget was small. I don’t know since this took during the year that China did it Gay banned if it just got piece together at the last moment or it lost its budget for the boy love themes. I just have a feeling that the trailer came out before the ban, and the crew had an ” Oh Shit ” moment when the ban got enforced. I will say this is not the best of the best. The acting is particularly terrible at parts, and the CGI is something you expected in the 20 century. However, having all this downward spiral of issues, it kept my attention. I wish this got remade to fix the problems that it had. It really could even go as a short tv series too if they pushed it. I think because it had plotted the kept your attention, and the plot summary is unique at the time, it does an excellent job of being a good movie. Would I watch it again? If I could find all the uncut and better clarity of this movie, oh yeah. The plot just had me, or I am still living my supernatural boy love for these kinds of TV series and films.

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Secretly, Greatly

On December 25, 2020November 25, 2019 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2013, 3 out of 5 stars, Action, Bromance, Choi Woo Shik, Comedy, Drama, Go Chang Seok, Hidden Identity, Hong Kyung In, Hong Tae Ui, Kang Eun Tak, Kim Soo Hyun, Kim Sung Kyun, Lee Chae Young, Lee Gyoo Seop, Lee Hyun Woo, Lee Jae Woo, Lee Jung Hoon, Lee Yeon Kyung, Park Eun Bin, Park Hye Sook, Park Jung Gi, Park Ki Woong, Son Hyun Joo, South Korea, Spy, Sung Yoo Bin, Tragedy, Uhm Tae Goo, Won Hyun Joon, Yoon Ji WookLeave a comment

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A group of spies called the 5446 Corps were trained by North Korean elite special forces since their youth, ostensibly towards the lofty goal of unifying Korea. They are ambitiously dispatched to South Korea, where each disguises himself as a fool, an aspiring singer, and a high school student. Passing boring time without receiving any orders from the North, they gradually get used to life as ordinary neighbors in a small town until one day, their mundane lives are turned upside down when a “secret and great” mission is suddenly assigned to them. (Source)

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Secretly, Greatly a movie that took me for a surprise. I love the soundtrack that producers use for the film in fight scenes throughout the whole thing. I will say there is a little bit of bromance if you read between the lines. How I found this movie was a bl or bromance compilation video. I love how the actors portray their characters. I didn’t expect the ending to make me weep. The end is guessable, but I think as audience members we hope for the opposite. I won’t tell you if the tears were happy or sad tears. I will say I expected a whole different movie from the summary, but I’m satisfied with it. I feel like how they portray the three main characters having a brotherly bond play with the audience’s emotions. I enjoyed that the main focus was that they all had someone close to their hearts that they would rebel their whole country. Would I watch it again? I don’t think I would personally, however, I would watch it if I were showing someone who has never seen it or if it was on a streaming series available in my country.

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The King and the Clown

On December 11, 2020November 25, 2019 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2005, 3 out of 5 stars, Bisexual Character, Consent, Death, Drama, Gay Character, historical, Jang Hang Sun, Joseon Dynasty, Jung Dae Yong, Jung Jin-young, Jung Suk Yong, Kam Woo-sung, Kang Eun Jin, Kang Sung Yun, Kim Dong Gyu, Lee Joon-gi, Lee Seung-hun, Moon Jung Soo, Palace, Park Young Soo, Royalty, Seo Seung Won, South Korea, Yoo Hae-jin, Yoon So JungLeave a comment

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At the height of the 16th-century Chosun Dynasty, a pair of rural male actors – boisterous, macho Jang Seng and quiet, feminine Gong Gil – travels to Seoul and team up with a struggling acting troupe. When their irreverent show, complete with enough bawdy humor and gender-bending to make a contemporary audience blush, mocks the famously hedonistic king, they get more than they bargained for. After being promptly arrested, they’re given a chance to spare themselves if they can make the king laugh. To everyone’s surprise, the ecstatic monarch loves the show and names the actors official court jesters, giving them more extravagant food and shelter than they’d ever imagined. But the king’s attentiveness to Gong Gil makes it quickly apparent that humour isn’t the only thing motivating his generosity. The king’s mistress, the country’s ministers and Jang Seng soon grow suspicious, and jealousy and anger spring from all sides. (Source)

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The King and the Clown is a shocking masterpiece that takes a moment to process. This movie would not make in today’s world for the fact that the comedy style for the acts in dirty and sarcastic. The actors and actresses are what make you feel what the character is going through. The two main clowns/characters had a bond that is just something people wish for in their lives, the close friendship of that make you feel like they are brothers. However, they are not brothers by blood but by choice, which is why I’m glad that the two main characters are not romantically involved with each other. You do have to read between the lines for the boy love scenes in the movie because they show the bare minimum. I identify that the background of the king is something you would read in a history book. The king’s character is someone who had thing force or taken away from him that causes the person who he is today. He is out of control at scenes which make you fear him, but he pulls you back in with the soft unseen side of him that makes you feel sorry for him. The main two characters have moments too that make you feel for them. I won’t say what, for I fear to spoil it for anyone who wants to see it. But I can give you a hint with a sentence. As much as we don’t want to make sacrifices, someone one will have for things we need to live and express ourselves. The ending was not what I expected at all. The end is all from how the audience has seen it. Would I watch it again? I feel like it something I would watch again one or two more times but not something worth bingeing over and over again.

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Dark Blue and Moonlight

On August 12, 2020November 22, 2019 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2017, 3 out of 5 stars, Aric Chen, Charles Lin, Drama, Gay Character, Gay Relationship, Infidelity, Love Triangle, Romance, Taiwan, Ting Xuan Huang, Ting Yun Wang, Yan Ze Lu, Zhan Ya HanLeave a comment

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Yan Fei is a young marketing director and Hai Qing dreams of studying art.
Yan Fei has a boyfriend, Jimmy. Hai Qing is still single.
When Hai Qing spots Yan Fei at a local swimming pool, he secretly takes a picture of the pretty young man.
Through a series of unfortunate events, the two end up talking to each other and Yan Fei decides to give Hai Qing his number, hoping they would meet again—the chemistry between them is instantaneous.
But as chance or fate would have it, Hai Qing drops his phone in the swimming pool and he never gets the chance to call Yan Fei.
Not long after, Hai Qing meets Ping Jun and the two start dating.
However, this is only the beginning.

Hai Qing can’t forget Yan Fei. And Yan Fei can’t forget him either. (Source)

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Dark Blue and Moonlight is just a roller coaster ride. It shows infinity and destiny that play in a relationship. The leading character/pair you are going to either hate or love. I think this show is more realize too how the world works. It shows the what-ifs of life. I will say I like the characters Yan Fei and Ping Jun. Yan Fei notices his relationship didn’t have the love and passion that they did before, so he broke up. Ping Jun is just another story. I feel like most viewers love him because he is a likable character. The acting was average, but the kisses and sex scenes were intense then I have seen in other BL series/movies. The central theme in this if you have to let them go and if they genuinely love you, they will come back. If you end at episode 12, you will have an open ending. However, they have made 3 or 4 additional episodes that take place three years later. Would you watch it again? Mostly not because it is a languid pace at the beginning. I started to struggle with watching this.

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Method

On July 24, 2020November 22, 2019 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2017, 4 out of 5 stars, Actor, Age Gap, Drama, Gay Character, Gay Relationship, Infidelity, Jealousy, Jo Yoon Dam, Kang Min Ji, Kim Beom Joon, Kim Seo Yeon, Lee Min Woong, Love Triangle, Obsession, Oh Seung Hoon, Park Sang Hoon, Park Sang Mi, Park Sung Woong, Psychological, Romance, Ryu Tae Ho, South Korea, Stage Play In Movie, Unhealthy Relationship, Yoon Seung AhLeave a comment

Movie Summary

A veteran actor and an idol are starring together in a play called ‘Unchain’.
In the play, their characters become involved in a relationship and as they rehearse, the distance between reality and fiction starts to get blurry… (Source)

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Method is up to the audience on what they think is happening. It is hard to tell what is real and what is acting in the movie. The acting is impressive and something that needs more attention. Method is the type of film where you have to see it several times and still not know what the exact point of view that the writers are trying to get to the audience. I would read the comments on MyDramaList after watching it. The plot discussed, and you can hear the different point of views that the audience saw. Would you watch it again? Yeah, I like to see if I can notice anything I didn’t notice the first time watching this.

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Water Boyy The Movie

On July 10, 2020November 22, 2019 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2 out of 5 stars, 2015, Beam Papangkorn Lerkcharoempoj, Best Kan Srivalwit, Cheating, Gale Nungira Hanwutinanon, Jennie Panhan, Kitwiriya Natcharee, Maharavidejakorn Sita, Mean Phiravich Attachitsataporn, Most Witsarut, Nappon Gomarachun, New Thitipoom Techaapaikhun, Ngern Anupart Luangsodsai, Thailand, Win Kittiphong LerganjanoiLeave a comment

Movie Summary

At a high school in Hua Hin, Nam is a talented swimmer, but he barely practices. A hot and handsome young man with an athletic body, Nam likes to party and has a lot of girlfriends. Everyone is jealous of him and everyone knows that he watches porn every day as if it’s his sleeping pill. His father is the swimming coach and often has fought with Nam.
Then one day, Muek, a young swimmer who was forced by his father to come to Hua Hin for 3 months, becomes Nam’s new roommate. They have to live, sleep, eat, practice together. Meanwhile, Muek’s girlfriend, Nune, a rising actress, wants to surprise him at the dorm and, to her delight, Nam allows her to stay there.
In this love competition, Nam, Muek, and Nune. Who will eventually be the last man standing and fighting for Love? (Source)

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Water Boyy The Movie was exaggerated to me by everyone. I thought this movie was okay. I guess it been one of the worst one I have seen. I felt that the film is drawn out and it doesn’t end in what I think is a happy moment. I believed that the production team was drawing the ending out for no valid reason other than views. I would still recommend the movie for people who are watching the series or want to see it. I think because I heard multiple good things about the movie I just expected more. I would not watch this again. However, I haven’t seen the series yet, so I might need to know the series. I have heard good and bad about the series. I can say that my favorite part was with the swim team.

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HIStory: Obsessed

On February 12, 2020November 22, 2019 By randomfanreviewsIn 15+ - Teens 15 or older, 2017, 4 out of 5 stars, Charles Lee, Clark Kent Syndrome, Clingy Male Lead, Confusion, Consent, Gay Character, Gay Relationship, He Bernard, High School To College, Obsession, Romance, Secret Crush, Steamy Kiss, Strong Male Lead, Taiwan, Teddy Ren, Time Travel, Weak Male Lead, Web Series, Yee ChenLeave a comment

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Another part of the HIStory web series follows the story of Shao Yi Chen, a man who dies in an accident involving his boyfriend, Jiang Jing Teng. Shao Yi Chen is reborn and sent back 9 years. To save his future self he avoids Jiang Jing Teng and avoids his feelings for him. Problem is Shao Yi Chen has loved Jiang Jiang Teng for a long time and has written about him in his diary. While destroying the diary, Jiang Jing Teng discovers a few pages. Causing Jiang Jing Teng to become curious about Shao Yi Chen. Will he resist the love of the handsome man Jiang Jing Teng and save his future self, or will he fall for the same man twice and risk his life? (Source)

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Okay, I am going to be upfront with everyone. If you have any terrible experience with rape, consent, or stalker-like obsession with someone, DO NOT WATCH THIS!!!!! HIStory: Obsessed has the key components to cause someone who has been through that situation to have a panic attack. I know that the writers, producers, and directors were trying to play this off like they were destined to be together. The story is a beautiful theme. It just hits on the line on consent and nonconsent. I appreciate the work that when to the series. Still, I would be careful about watching this if you don’t like or can’t stand those themes. The acting is incredible and realistic that it made me cry. I warn but still, encourage people to watch this. Would you watch it again? Most likely. I enjoyed the facts of destined love. This series is where love is never changing.

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