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AV with training wheels

I can't really explain why I watched this. Between episodes of Racket Boys and My Holo Love, neither of which I adore, I started browsing random crap on MDL and found, well, about as random crap as random crap gets. I've no idea if it's been subbed in English pero lo encontró con subtítulos en español and that's good enough for me.

Since it does say "ecchi" in the listed prequel title, it's a bit of yeah well, what was I expecting and why was I not paying attention. My only excuse is that My Holo Love really numbs the mind and I was side-watching sports on another screen. But mostly I think it was because the 6.2 rating felt like a challenge.

So it's less about the plot and more about the fact that it features two women in their 20s who look very nice in lingerie and a handsome guy who takes his shirt off maybe twice. I used the fast forward button a lot since most of the dialogue featured their friends giving the couple of virgins, and then beginners, bad sex advice, and most of the sex was in the dark or behind an aquarium. Much of the discussion about the lead couple's sex life took place between the office, nomikai, and the yoga studio as a matter of public interest.

Assuming that I was looking for something light and dumb to watch between episodes of something else, I was right on the money. The only thing lighter than the, uh, action was the plot. It's not that you expect to "read these things for the articles" but this is thin.

Should you watch it? Well, unless you have a thing for live action adaptations of manga with ladies whose measurements were intended to get every man's attention in a crowded room, probably not. No, make that definitely not. Or even good God, no!

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Close Encounters with the 3rd Kind °7.7° °VG°

He'll /try/ his /best/ to be faithful to her, he says. “There's only 2 kinds of men: Those who cheat and those who want to,” he qualifies, just so she knows how noble he is and how very, very difficult it will be to follow through on this intention. That's one prospective boyfriend's pitch for her affections. Zixin is looking for the “3rd kind”.

DGBMH is a 2011 125-minute Hong Kong release that is rated 91 on AWiki. It's an engaging and tasty little morsel that decries the concept of false-choices in relationships. Don't only follow your heart - give a listen to your head as well.

So far, Zixin hasn't used her head enough. “Here, take my seat,” Zixin says to the pregnant lady on the bus. When their eyes meet, they realize who they are; who /SHE/ is. Zixin is the ex. Preggers is the current gf of Zixin's ex-bf. Mr. Ex catches up with them on the bus. When he sees Zixin, his mouth starts flapping: ‘Hold onto my liquor and my other items, and take care of my frog. I will pick them up soon…’ Zixin's ex has no shame. She should have known that already, long before she ever shacked up with him.

Preggers has a meltdown.

Ex asks ZIXIN to leave the bus. His gf is too upset, and /she's/ pregnant, afterall…

After storming off of the bus, Zixin almost gets run over. A bum just manages to snatch her out of the way, saving her life. So she's still alive (physically), but Zixin is not living her best life right about now.

S'all gud, though. At work she's window-flirting with the hottie-in-a-suit across the road. He's been waving, putting up flowers made of post-its, doing magic tricks, and today he asked her out - all by way of sign language from the office building across the way. They are finally gonna meet for coffee.

What Zixin doesn't realize is that the woman in the office under her has also been signaling to hottie dude. Which one of them has he been asking out?

On the way for coffee, Zixin runs into her savior-bum. As a way of ‘Thank you’ she offers to give him all the stuff her ex-bf left at her place. Frog n’ all. This leads to an epic date. It's not a date, officially… But it /IS/ a date. It happens a couple nights later. He approaches her with a wad of cash. Apparently, he sold most of the stuff. He says she can't take the money home. They have to spend it. First, he takes her for a haircut. (‘How long have you had that hairdo?” Did /he/ like your hair long?) Next, it's: “Do you have to wear dark clothes at work?” New wardrobe! Then it's good food. Zixin learns that this bum is an award winning architect who has been trying to dig out of a pile of life's rubble with a shot glass.

She walks Into work the next day with a spring in her step. She's flowing. Everyone & everything else stops. Zixin is a totally new person, overnight. She's officially a hottie. (Never underestimate the power of a good hairdo, and don't neglect your physical self & health). Things go lopsided when half of her firm loses their jobs in the aftermath of the Lehman Bros 2008 collapse. Their new boss is someone from across the street.

Daniel Wu (Go Away Mr. Tumor!, New Police Story) plays Kevin Fong. He was a brilliant architect. Now he's a drunk. Louis Koo Anita (The Road Less Traveled) portrays Zhang Shen Ran. He's a red blooded man, and he likes women. Zixin is extremely attracted to him, but must ask him, based on his description of the two kinds of men, will he become a Martian after they marry? Gao Yuan Yuan (The Qin Empire, City of Life and Death) is the girl, Cheng Zixin. They were all upstaged by Froggy, though.

At the helm we have a team. Wai Ka Fai (Looking Back in Anger, Fat Choi Spirit) is screenwriter/director. Johnnie To, of Running Out of Time, co-directed, and there's two more screenwriters: Ryker Chan (Blind Detective) & Jevons Au (Distinction).

The theme is choosing the right one, not the one you /want/ to be the right one. The right one will naturally have a positive effect on us. The confidence that stems from a positive love relationship will always spur us on to better things. Zixin already did change the right one. And he changed her. And that was all without trying. The wrong one was never going to change.

I used to say that one shouldn't marry unless one feels s/he can't live without the other person. That is not untrue, but it's not a good enough litmus test. Marry the person who feels most like home. That's what you'll be trying to build with the person - a home.

〰🖍 IMHO

📣7.9 📝7 🎭8 💓6.5 🦋4 🎨6 🎵/🔊6.8 🔚7.3 🤗7 ▪ 🌞4.8 ⚡2 😅3 😭2 😱1 😯2 🤢0 🤔5 💤0


AAge15+ sexual content
Language: @$$h0le

Rated TV-PG-13: Parents Cautioned

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Hm... Where should I even begin this...

Story about Archaeological expert Professor Chen who discovered a jade pendant. Since he discovered this jade pendant, he started having dream about a girl and a general.

In this dream, the girl [Meng Yun(MY)] is running from a man (Huduna). Later we find out that Huduna is a king who wants to married MY. Huduna wanted to merried MY not only because she's pretty, but because MY also hold the key to greater treasure that been kept by Great Shaman.

In the real world, Professor Chen also try to discovered this treasure. But of course not because he wants to keep it for himself, but to give it to the country and to learn about this missing history. So how the treasure hunt ends...?

That's pretty much the story without giving anymore spoiler. Now what I like and don't.

What I like:
+ Great landscape. Especially in the end
+ Good acting skill. Jackie chan movie never disappointed me with their character acting skill and combat scene.

What I don't:
- Quite boring story. This basically remake of myth with a little different story.
- The joke on the AI generated face. They try to make Jackie Chan younger but this one of the the bad results of the failed CGI. From the comment, the younger general is played by Zheng Ye Cheng. Such unfortunates for Zheng Ye Cheng.

Overall just watch if you're the fans of the actor/ess played here

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Not horror, just, interesting.

if youre looking for a horror bl, this is not your place to be searching. Genuinely enjoyed the cast and how much feel they put into everything. Jumpscares do make you jump but personally it was generally comedic. Gore,gore gore! had to rewatch the second death a few times, cannot be more hilarious. It's a quick watch and is worth it. Story is captivating enough to pull you in. Slightly cliché but you'll just have to put up with it. a few scenes were uncomfortable enough to make you flinch and want to shut your eyes closed. Definitely not for the faint of heart. Not many characters and easy to follow. Murderer's weapon of choice is brutal!

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so wholesome

i really love the wholesomeness, that i got from this. like maybe it’s just me but most of it felt so genuine, like not scripted.they way it seemed so down to earth was what got me. and not like Thai drama(no shade, I still love Thai dramas) I love how it didn’t need like love scenes or anything like that because of house wholeness and genuine it was. it also felt really relatable as well, like i have no complaints about it as well. I haven’t been into Korean dramas since i usually watch Thai drama, but this really gave me better thoughts to get into Korean drama. I just hope i can find more like this. i just hope their would be a second movie or even a series! I hope people can agree with me:)

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Pedazo de capítulo de Dora la exploradora.

En cualquier peli del tiempo, no alterar el pasado porque sino se ve gravemente perjudicado el futuro. Esta película, a la primera de cambio , oye que me voy a dejar a mi hija en el pasado , ¿que podría salir mal?.
En cada viaje se dejaba a alguien madre mía, que señora. O sea , en un momento para buscar a su padre, deja a su hija en el pasado, en el presente la madre por las alteraciones del tiempo se muere , pero oye hay que buscar en el futuro los anillos dañados. DI QUE SÍ, premio a la madre del año.
Está película la vi porque salía War y no me ha decepcionado su actuación, ganas de verle en más proyectos. Sobretodo me ha encantado, que su historia fuera la que estuviera relacionada con la política (me voy a informar más de la masacre de los estudiantes porque no lo conocía. Tampoco sabía nada de la inestabilidad política de Tailandia en sentido de todos los golpes de estado que han tenido).
Mira que yo no soy de películas de ciencia ficción, pero oye esta no ha estado mal. Eso sí , yo pensaba que al, poner lo de la máquina del tiempo bien como que todo se pondría bien , en el sentido vale Kong se muere con sus amigos, pero ¿el Ithi se queda en ese mundo del futuro con los chavales? ¿o la señora de la prehistoria, muere por unos zombies caníbales (zombies que no he entendido nada , o sea como es que existen unos zombies en la prehistoria. -no le voy a sacar punta a eso porque sinceramente no procede-)?.
También se me ha hecho un poco raro, que Stella viaje tanto el tiempo, donde pasa el tiempo (valga la redundancia) tan lento y que a la vuelta esté viva la madre. No era eso de 1 año en el tiempo presente son 1 día o min (no me acuerdo) en lo de la Taklee genesis?. Eso creo que ha hecho, perder la gracia un poco y el sentido a toda la historia del espacio tiempo.

Última cosilla, los malditos estadounidenses siempre tocando las narices y jugando allá donde vayan. Me refiero al padre de Stella o en todas las masacres futuras y pasada siempre en el altavoz decían que si el gobierno de EEUU.

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not a fluffy BL

Overall: centered on an established couple and it was not a fluffy type plot. I watched this 22 min short movie on Flying Penguin's YouTube channel with membership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p81bh_UQUow&t=584s&ab_channel=%EB%82%A0%EC%9C%BC%EB%8A%94%ED%8E%AD%EA%B7%84flyingpenguin

What I Liked
- good kissing/intimacy
- camerawork with going wider and making the guy look smaller

Room For Improvement
- too dim, needed more light on actors' faces
- they didn't translate texts
- perhaps in part due to the non-translated texts, I wasn't 100% sure what was going on

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jungkook te amo

me encantó de comienzo a fin, la verdad no tengo mucho que decir pero esta cosa me pide rellenar 500 carácteres, idk

yo amo cualquier cosa que haga jungkook, muy subjetiva no soy que digamos pero lo recomiendo 100% chicas se lo tienen que ver él es el mismo siempre pero el documental te hace sentir un poco más cerca de todo lo que fue haciendo estos meses llenos de preparación de su álbum antes de tomar rumbo a cumplir el sm. sinceramente es muy admirable, un gran artista pero sobre todo una gran persona.

merece todo el apoyo !! lo volvería a ver mil quinientas veces pq es asi de buena es, nada más, fin

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An unsettling watch

This movie has a run time of almost 3 1/2 HOURS! Yup, you heard right. A movie this long better be a masterpiece to make up for it's length and A Tender Place is no masterpiece. I wasn't bored but I wasn't moved either.

To sum it up, the movie was filled with every possible scenario of what could have happened to FL's missing daughter. It became tedious real quick. And no answers are ever given. The story ends open ended and you never find out what happened to the missing girl. I hate when movies do this! It's just lazy writing.

Also, FL is a horrible mother and dare I say person. So it makes it hard to care for her grieving. She has an affair for 2 yrs with a client of her husband. And in the throws of passion, with her lover, she blurts out that she would leave her kids for him. Now this woman said this and was having sex while her husband, her lover's wife, and all of their kids are upstairs asleep. She said this knowing someone was lurking outside the door and could hear her. Like what??? Plus, later FL kept pressuring ML to sleep with her and inevitably forced ML to perform a sexual act to her while he was on his death bed and in severe pain from stomach cancer. In my country they'd call that sexual assault. I was disgusted. The only positive about this movie is the acting from the main leads. They were amazing in their roles.

I give this a generous 6.5/10

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SO WEIRD

NO BECAUSE 4 FOUUUURRR HOURS ... THIS IS A MASTERPIECE everything is so weird, its 4 hours that keep you hooked bc one thing happens after another in the strangest way and you just be there in front of the screen 😯😯😯😯 . Its been a while since i saw it, so the order of events may be messed up, but the wlw was 👏🏻 its cool the fact that the movie handles matters with comedy(but in a mature way yk?), the mix of genres, the characters.... one thing i love about asian movies is exactly that, all the unpredictable things that leave us speechless . this is cinema

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Beautiful Love Makes a Beautiful Life °7.4° °VG°

Alert!

Beautiful girl.

Alone.

DRUNK.

Black slinky dress and red platform shoes.

/Someone/ should look out for her.

She stumbles onto Fang, but another dude arrives to assist her, so Fang walks away. But Fang made an impression, so while he's walking home, she's ba-aack! And she jumps on /his/ back.

“I'll buy you coffee sometime,” was how the night ended. They soon run into eachother a couple more times. Yes, she remembers him; she wasn't /that/ drunk. She gives him her card and makes more promises about future coffee. Next, she sees him in the grocery store and /demands/ his help in making dumplings. He complies. When her sig-other comes home, however, she acts like Fang's the plumber.

Ouch.

She seems to think she's a cat that can sit on anyone's lap and be loved. Look at how cute she is, afterall! Due to the success of the dumplings, she's now in the habit of calling Fang for all kinds of help. We soon learn that her sig-other has a much /more significant/ other of his own. She's going to need lots of help.

ABL is a 2011 124-minute release that is rated 92 on AWiki. It is a beautiful story, and it is completely different from a typical Chinese modern-day feature. That's probably because it's a collaboration with Hong Kong. It feels like we're watching real people from a camera in the corner of the room.

Liu Ye (First Night Nerves) plays ML Fang Zhengdong. He lives with his brother, who has communication struggles and needs looking after. Fang seems to be a natural nurturer. Shu Qi (Good Autumn, Mommy) portrays FL Li Peiru. Everyone in her life is selfish. Once she meets Fang, she just keeps comin back round to him because he is something entirely strange and new. It's mutual. They are obviously drawn to eachother. Over time, a bond forms and continues to get stronger. In the beginning, it's him helping her, but she gets a chance to return the favor.

ABL is just lovely. It is a romance that would please more than romance-junkies. These are two lonely people, and as opposite personalities, they each handle loneliness in their own ways. As a policeman, Fang handles it in an orderly manner by keeping his head down and fulfilling responsibilities. Li acts out in a disorderly fashion. She's often drunk and disorderly. One cop took notice, and 2 lonely lives became one beautiful life together.


〰🖍 IMHO

📣7.6 📝7.4 🎭8 💓7 🦋5.5 🎨6.5 🎵/🔊7.2 🔚8 🤗8 ▪ 🌞6.5 ⚡3.5 😅2 😭4 😱2 😯3 🤢3.5 🤔4.5 💤0


Age 13+ adult situations and mild sexual content

Rated TV-PG-13: Parents Cautioned

Re-📺? Would

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