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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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Feel Good To Say Goodbye (Thai)

By Golu
This is your standard BL movie. If you've seen a lot of BL movies or shows, then you won't find nothing great or even different about this one. IT is simply ordinary. The actors are new, I would suppose, but they did a decent job. The film is almost 2 hours long , which honestly it did not need to because some scenes are stretched being reasoning, just for the sake of it and honestly it is very monotonous.

Ask and his girlfriend are headed out for a holiday to an island. On their way there, they meet Chai. Turns out that Aek and Chai used to be schoolmates and in fact roommates in school. The trip decide to hang out together and one night Aek and Chai are alone and they remember their school days. The entire film is then in flashback. Chai is a new student in school who ends up being Aek's roommate. Both of them are into sports. Very soon they becomes great friends, taking care of each other, eating, laughing, playing together and all is well. Secretly Chai has a crush on Aek who has no idea. One of Aek's friend really lusts after Chai and wants him bad. One day when he tries to force himself on Chai, Ask comes and saves Chai but this incident leaves Chai shaken. Ask promises to take really good care of him. They hang out even more than before and before you know, the two friends become intense lovers. They are both extremely happy. But as school term comes to an end, the dup part ways without our ill feelings or drama, just that nature of the situation. Back to present, the duo spend one more night together (for old times sake, I suppose) and sleep together. But Chai realizes that Aek has found love of his life and so he leaves him a letter wishing him luck with his girlfriend and he also needs to move on.

First of al, this movie needs editing. This 2 hour film, can easily be trimmed by 30 minutes. There are long drawn out scenes of games being played, the two guys hanging out, or eating together and these stretch out scenes really do not add any value. I get they wanted to make the whole situation clear but it was just a bit too much. You could understand their bond / love, their way of dealing and how things went in much less time. Also it didn't help that the background music was quite annoying. Coming to actors, I think they did a decent job, but honestly a thin subject like this would have been good as a short film. There is not much drama here to keep interest of the audience glued to their screen. This is likely just supposed to be feel good film, which is what it is> Maybe if I saw this film 10 years, when it actually came out, my views would have been different, but even since the BL situation exploded recently, stuff like this no longer ages well. (3.5/10)
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