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By Philippine standards, a very successful family comedy not only about the mother of the Luz family and her three sons - Oscar is a hidden gay, at least at the beginning (he has a girlfriend but also a secret beautiful lover), Orson is gay after CO (such a squeaky aunt) and the youngest Orwell still he doesn't know exactly where his sexuality will go. In addition, Luz's younger (and handsome) boyfriend, Gerry, is also in the family. On the eye, the image of the Happy Family suddenly receives an unexpected blow, with which Luz has to fight and the end is certain. For those who know Pinoy movies, I recommend this one for a good mood...

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The handsome Filipino Johnron Taňada in the role of Rico owns a cafe called Kape Barako, which has few customers, almost none, and the bank loan repayment deadline is approaching, otherwise the business will be closed. Rico tries to keep the business going, even by selling his body, and gradually learns how to perform erotica with men. His employees start to secretly mix their sperm into the coffee, the excellent coffee becomes famous in a wide area and the business begins to turn into a gay bar willy-nilly. Let yourself be surprised how it all turns out. She's actually such a Filipino fool, you could say, but anyone interested in Pinoy movies can't throw this cute, naive puzzle in the trash. Maybe in time someone will find a better copy of this movie..

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Two nice Filipino actors Coco Martin and Paolo Rivero, whom we know from other Pinoy movies listed here on GT (Masahista, Jay, Walang Kawala, Little Boy Big Boy, Bayaw, my favorite Heavenly Touch and maybe others, I can't remember them all), they managed the whole movie in two. Sad movie. Nicely played...

Decide to meet fate just the two of them? Both have already decided to look socially "tolerable" for relationships with women, but true love is here, between them. Neither of them belong to the Filipino poor, JP has a shop and William is moving to Australia. Or that JP would move in with him?

The film is originally 75 minutes long. The copy on YT is "only" 60 minutes long - did the hand of the censor intervene? But I rate the original film and the actors. Where the full 75 min is is a mystery to me, but if you watch other copies and not the shortened one on YT, these lines contain the cut scenes. But it's more about the beauty of the male body, erotically, don't expect any porn, which adds even more value to the film.

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"Sherwin, I'm your partner..." Paolo tells his love towards the end of the film.

You need to get under the skin of those Pinoy films first, get rid of only your narrow European perspective and take and perceive them as they are. And this one of them is among the comprehensively high-quality ...

Paolo is a young indie film director who would like to marry Sherwin, who is a lawyer and they have been living together for some time. Both will also attend the wedding of Sherwin's younger sister Mary Jane. Of course, I won't reveal how it all turns out, I'll just lament that I fully understand that translators don't flock to Pinoy movies. They are often not good quality copies, or they are not available separately, preferably English subtitles

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My favorite movie the overflowing chemistry of the mainleads make me watch everyday

Saimori Miyo was the unfortunate child of a loveless, arranged marriage. After her mother died, her father brought in his lover and her own daughter, Kaya. From then on, Miyo's life was reduced to that of a mere servant. Even worse, while Kaya inherited the family's psychic abilities, Miyo had none—she was truly the daughter with no merit. After years of being treated like dirt, Miyo has learned to keep her head down, hide her pain, and obey every order. So, it comes as no surprise that she is arranged to be married to Kudo Kiyoka, a military captain rumored to be so cruel that he has driven away every one of his potential wives so far. From a painful upbringing to a painful marriage, that's the future that awaits Miyo—or so she thinks. Contrary to her expectations, her new husband is actually kind-hearted. What really awaits Miyo is a blissful, everlasting marriage full of happiness!

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"Which elementary school did you go to?"

The Night of the Undead had zero zombies in it if that’s what you are looking for. Without giving away any plot points, the title refers to a dark night with aliens and humans who all seemed very difficult to kill. The movie was far more comedic than frightening.

So Hee is living a great life. She resides in a huge apartment and has a gorgeous husband who cooks her breakfast every morning. When Man Gil’s late nights at work and disturbing text messages pique her curiosity, she goes to The Mystery Research Lab. Broccoli, the man in charge of the shabby agency, follows her husband and brings back a disturbing report. Man Gil is not only a philandering husband, he’s also an alien. When her loving hubby attempts to murder her, So Hee calls upon Broccoli and her friends Sera and Yang Sun to help her put a permanent stop to his lethal ways. Killing a murderous alien was harder than it looked as he was nigh on indestructible. He also had his own crew of indestructo buddies. The Korean version of Men in Black were also hunting down the unbreakable Choi Man Gil. It might take a combination of the Earthly forces and a bizarre feline concoction to save the planet.

The film ran too long, it would have benefited from a 90 minutes running time. Some comic schticks were beaten dry of any humor from situations. Having said that there were genuinely funny moments. If you were needing something suspenseful, look elsewhere. Due to the comedic nature of the film, the grim happenings couldn’t be taken too seriously. The story had serious plot holes and implausible elements which were difficult to overcome. This was also one of those films that only had enough money to pay for the rights to one song---Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy played several times.

It’s rare for a sismance to take center stage in a movie, but So Hee, Sera, and Yang Sun banded together despite their differences in the past. And any woman would be lucky to have a friend willing to take a cleaver to her psychotic alien husband bent on exterminating humans and taking over the world. Night of the Undead may have been a deeply flawed film but it had some entertaining moments.

10/20/23

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Fairly entertaining, insanely ridiculous.

Did I have fun? Kind of. Did it take me 4 hours to finish it? Yes. Did I feel bad about being bored while watching all the kids dying? No. And that all kind of sums up all the problems I had with the movie.

Personally, I’m the person who needs some kind of explanation for the events happening, otherwise I cannot connect to what I see on the screen and I get bored. And we got exactly zero explanations in Battle Royale. What was the goal of the law? What was supposed to be the positive effect it has? What was the motivation make it happen? We don’t know and I honestly cannot think of a truly logical one myself that would make sense in any universe. So the movie ends up with being just… kids killing themselves and each other. And that’s kind of boring.

That said, there were two aspects I did enjoy:

My favorite part of the movie was for sure everyone taking their sweet time dying after being shot 4868374587439 times. They do need to give their final monologues after all.

Jokes aside, one thing I truly liked is how the kids are accused of basically the collapse of moral standards and crumbling society, but as the movie progresses, we see many flashbacks of all the adults who failed the same kids that are blamed now. Great way to showcase how youth is often blamed the negative consequences of adults’ actions and decisions - still relevant 23 years after the movie was made. It’s not the kids that ruined the society, it’s the society that failed the kids.

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Tartom, hogy az egyik, ha nem legjobb thriller, amit valaha láttam.

Most néztem meg másodszor és tartom a 10/10-es pontszámot. Pedig kicsit féltem tőle az újrázás előtt. Rég láttam már, és emlékeztem, hogy a végén néhány dolog nem volt teljesen “világos” számomra, de ettől még akkor is járt neki a maximum értékelés. Most meg bátran állítom, hogy kár volt izgulni. Még jobban tetszik. Ennyire impulzív, hatásos és tökös filmet rég nem láttam. Nagyon rég.

Kezdjük azzal, hogy tényleg elég okos a szkript, mármint remekül van felépítve a film, miközben elvitathatatlan, hogy nincsenek benne még talán apró logikai bukfencek sem, igazából mindennek megvan a maga kis saját miértje, még ha ez a néhány dolog csak utalások formájában is szerepel a filmben. Tényleg olyan ez a film, hogy több oldalon keresztül lehetne részletezni az erényeit, akár képkockáról képkockára elemezve azokat. Mert tényleg ennyire feszesen és jól összerakott. Aztán menjünk csak tovább; nem csak a sztori jó, nézzétek meg a képeket, azt, hogy milyen remek soundtracket tolnak egyes jelenetek alá, miközben oda, ahova nem kell, nem tesznek semmit. Tényleg hibátlan. Némelyiket még Hans Zimmer is megirigyelhette egyébként, pláne, hogy ez a film 2008-as ugye… Ki lehetne persze a filmet kezdeni, hogy mennyire eredeti, mennyire (nem) mély, de kár volna; mert működik; ha kell, akkor meg tud lepni, szinte végig a székbe tud szegezni, és ember legyen a talpán aki kitalálja mi is fog történni ebben a két órában. A keleti filmekből rémlő kapkodás, habitus itt is előjön bizonyos helyzetekben, de szerintem meglehetősen visszafogott formában, és a helyzet komolyságát tekintve ez a fajta hozzáállás érthető is lehet.

A főszereplők maximális átéléssel (és szerencsére tehetséggel) hozzák azt, amit kell. Nekem egyikük kifejezetten a kedvenc figuráim közé emelkedett. A jelenetek minden szinten rendben vannak; az akciók kimondottan ultra-realisztikusak (apróság, de nézd, hogy fáradnak), miközben a körítés is nagyon meghatározó; a helyszínek egy része tényleg totálisan eltalált. Legyen szó akár a díszletekről, akár az esős, szűk utcákról. Mocskos egy film, amely megtekintése után nem engedi el az embert. Én pedig a hasonló stílusú filmekben kifejezetten pont ez a fajta kendőzetlen, magabiztos filmkészítést díjazom.

Bátran nézze meg mindenki aki még nem látta. Aztán újfent itt is kiemelném, hogy meglepő mennyire ismeretlen ezeken a nyugati filmes oldalakon ez a remekmű, imdb-n mindössze 58 ezer ratinget kapott, pedig gyanítom, ha ez amerikai lenne eredetileg, top 100 lenne legalább imdb-n, több százezernyi értékeléssel… Egyébként igen, láttam én is az Oldboyt, de nálam Hong-jin Na rendezése magabiztosan veri Chan-wook Park munkáját. Ez van.

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Surprisingly Good

Watched this in: iQIYI
[ X] As paid subscriber
[ ] Free
I consider this as
[ ] Excellent
[X ] Great
[ ] Good
[ ] Just Okay
[ ] My Mother taught me to be quiet rather than say anything bad.

As for recommendation:
[ ] Highly Recommended/Worth the Subscription Payment
[ X ] Add to your watch list
[ ] Watch if you need something to watch while waiting for a good one to release and can be seen for free.
[ ] Do not waste your time

What I like about this entire series:
[X ] Production sets/Props used; attention to detail is evident
[ X ] Wardrobes fitting scenes wellp
[X ] Artists portrayal of individual roles are good
[ ] Theme Music: opening credit, closing credit
[ X ] Story and good way it was written for the screen
[X ] DIRECTOR'S creative vision and imagination translating the script into a visual form.
[ ] Awesome CGI
[ X ] Fight Choreographies are beautiful and synchronized.

What personally didn't work for me
[ ] Lead Actor's Role portrayal
[ ] Lead Actress Role Portrayal
[ ] Story
[ ] Costumes Used
[ ] Set Designs
[ ] Script Lines could have been better
[ ] Too many, too much corny & cliche scenes
[ X ] COUPLE of scenes that do not make sense at all. Inconsistencies. Daughter of Imprisoned Lord talked excitedly about her loot before mentioning her father being imprisoned.
[ ] Too many fillers (useless scenes) to fill time.
[ ] The Director's work here can be described as "someone who got paid first, and did the bare minimum with didn't care attitude.

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Korea's oldest surviving Kaiju movie

Space Monster Wangmagwi is the oldest surviving Korean Kaiju film. It also boasts one of the largest cast of extras for any film coming in around 160,000. The Koreans put their own stamp on a rampaging monster tearing up a capital city while the military watches powerlessly genre.

Bride-to-be Ahn Hee and pilot Jeong Hwan are celebrating the eve of their long-awaited wedding when Jeong Hwan is called back to his base. What everyone is about to find out is that aliens are orbiting the Earth and have unleashed a monster in their quest to conquer the planet. Even with people running around screaming and abandoning her wedding day, Ahn Hee dresses for her event, even having her hair done until the stylist scurries away. When she realizes no one is coming, not even the groom, she and her mother decide to leave as the monster slowly approaches them. Each one took turns falling down over and over again, in order to give the ugliest Kaiju in Kaiju history time to catch up. Ahn Hee is grabbed by the monster a la Fay Wray in King Kong style. A young street boy named Squirrel, who has stolen food and a knife from a deserted house decides to run up the monster instead of running away. The boy takes matters into his own hands and does more good in thwarting the aliens’ objectives than the military and civilian forces combined.

Space Monster Wangmagwi was quintessentially Korean. Instead of focusing on a handful of characters directly involved with stopping a monster, SPW had a series of vignettes that had nothing to do with saving the world. Some of the things you would never see in a Japanese Kaiju film included—a long pooping scenario, several instances of theft, child birthing, and two idiots betting about different things during the catastrophe and wagering everything including one man’s wife. There were also copious amounts of tears.

The building miniatures were exquisite as was the rubble, looking far more believable than some of the cardboard towns Toho was using at this time. I thought at first they were using forced perspective or some other film magic and then the monster would lean against one of the buildings or start tearing it down. Very impressive work. Too bad they didn’t put the same care into the monster suit. I didn’t think anything could top the moth-eaten Kong suit in King Kong vs Godzilla (1962), then Wangmagwi said, “Hold my beer.” The costume looked like a flight suit covered in cow dung, I hate to be crude but that’s the first thought that came to my mind. Wangmagwi also seemed to forget that he was holding a human in one hand when he was beating on buildings. The Gamma aliens weren’t much better, they wore what appeared to be dented gold buckets on their heads. And when the spaceship was flying the wires showed as it wobbled. The science was bizarre. Due to different gravity from the home world, the monster grew 500 times his size when dumped on Earth. Setting aside the absurdity of that “science,” wouldn’t the aliens have become gigantic as well, making settling the planet awkward?

My favorite part of the movie would usually be my least favorite. There have been many Gamera movies where I hoped the giant turtle would snack on an annoying child. Squirrel may have been cocky but he was cleverly proactive. The precocious thief’s actions, and not the military, saved the day. His maneuvers also pointed out how slow-witted the aliens were. The aliens only fear of the military was that they would trash the neighborhood and leave the planet uninhabitable for the conquerors.

I enjoyed having the chance to watch this film that was largely unavailable for decades. I might not have relished the poop and wife betting comedy, but I was happy to see this piece of Korea’s Kaiju film history.

10/19/23

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