Monday, August 27, 2007

My New Crave for Gay Movies

I was reading the blogs of oboids where I knew about this movie titled: Formula 17. This is a fairytale story about a naive countryman Chou T'ien-Tsai goes to Taipei to meet an internet friend face-to-face. Being a romantic, and believing in 'true love' (he even has a book called Love Is A Kind Of Faith), he is sorely disappointed when his friend suggests they have sex with no love. T'ien instead goes to a bar and runs into his ex-classmate Yu, and in the process meets the 'Number One Playboy' Bai Tie Nan, who is notorious for one night stands. T'ien very quickly develops a liking towards Bai.

After the night at the bar and becoming roommates to Yu, T'ien gets a job as a pool attendant, and has a lot of run-ins with Bai, who seems to like T'ien mutually. Scenes with Bai and his psychologist show that Bai has a problem kissing people. After advice to practice kissing a mirror, and then a dummy (both of which fail to help him), he resorts to trying to kiss his longtime friend, but can't bring himself to do it.

One night, T'ien shows up at Bai's doorstep and they end up sleeping together consensually. True to his nature, Bai disappears the next day, leaving his friend to turn up at his house and explain that 'he hopes you don't misunderstand'. T'ien is very hurt, and not knowing the entire story about Bai's intimacy issues he leaves a message that 'this kind of misunderstanding won't happen again'.

T'ien prepares to leave his roommate's dwelling and return to his own home. In the meantime, T'ien's friends corner Bai, who admits that he hurt the person he loves. After a silent prayer for a second chance, he sees T'ien heading up an escalator. His first attempt to apologise fails, and T'ien literally runs away. He nearly gets run down by a scooter, but Bai intercepts and they make up.

The whole movie was really funny and touching. How I wish that someday it will happen to me (feeler me hahahaha!)After that I was craving to get a copy of that movie in DVD (cuz its in mandarin and i'm not chinese that I can understang every word they're saying). I don't care if its original or not as long as I can have a copy of it. I looked everywhere from different video shops of SM mall and Ayala... still didn't found it. So searched on the internet to see if anyone's selling it. Well there were lots... sad thing is that all of their DVDs of Formula 17 are Region 1. Aaaarrrrgggg....!

Then I decided to give up. If I vere decide to watch the movie again, I'll just have to watch it in crunchyroll.com .... hahaiiiiii.

9 comments:

Turismoboi said...

i love formula 17

its a nice movie

fyi u can go to dailymotion.com they have a nice copy of it there

u can even download it plus they have english subtitles

and fyi he came to taipei yes because he wants to meet his chatmate but also because he hasnt seen his friend for years

the ex classmate he met in the bar

also try eating out nice un

sa crunchyroll naman meorn dung movie gogo boys ang title search mo ok din un!


and tnx for dropping by my blog and reading almos everything from the start i promise ill do the same

i love u na hehehe!

Admin said...

Hindi ko alam ang formula 17...

Haha! Try kong panoorin sabi mo kasi maganda...


Mukha nga namang maganda...



Nag comment lang talaga ako sa iyo para iinvite ka sa isang adventure! Okey lang ba?

chase / chubz said...

really? maganda ba xa?
i saw that too in oboids blog.
but wers oboids now?
parang he's gone awol
hehe

ice_codey said...

@turismoboi: talaga? cge try ko watch the movie again sa site na binigay mo. i've seen go go go g-boys rin. nice movie din cya. sad thing is that naging bakla yung isang guy dahil sa bestfrend nya. bwahahahaha... btw tnx sa pag-add mo sa kin sa frendster mo.

@richard lionheart: yeah u shud try watching it. its really a nice, funny, cute movie. try mo i-view sa site na binigay ni turismo boi. and tnx for droppin by hehehehe.

@chase: yes u shud see the movie. its very hilarious as in!

Turismoboi said...

ice meron din me vcd nyang formula17

sbhn mo lang kung gusto mo hiramin

burn ko tapos padala ko sayo hehehe!

ice_codey said...

talaga cj?!!! wow nice mo naman. i love u na din. hehehehe probblema lang is that i'm from cebu eh... pano ba yan? huhuhuhu

The Rainmaker said...

Gay cowboy movie. What was that called?

ice_codey said...

@daniel ted: huh?

THE GRIPEN said...

^^ I guess the guy was referring to Brokeback mpuntain haha!

Ice sa you tube ko napanood yung Formula seires it was cut into several 9minute sets...Maganda nga siya...