Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants Movie Sets Certain Box Office Records in First Days But Slowing Rapidly in Tickets Sold

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• I wonder where you get your information from because multiple points you’ve made are simply NOT true. I’ll break it down for you.
  Point 1: “Mostly negative reviews.” This is simply not true. I’ve been staying up to date with this. And Legend of the Condor Heroes has been receiving majorly rave reviews from passerby’s and even from renowned literary scholars especially those who are experts in Jin Yong’s novels. Passerby’s have been lamenting for days that any positive review they’ve made about The Condor Heroes has been bombarded by water armies not only insulting the film but Tsui Hark as well. So for you to say the black water armies have been cleared only 1 day later is unfounded.
  Point 2. Box office
  How do you expect the box office to improve when The Condor Heroes has been taken OUT of small theatres and only given 1 showing late at night in major cinemas. Since the 29th it has been forced out of theatres with its screens now down to a measly 5% while its competitors have 20% - 30% screens. I think it’s extremely unfair that you haven’t even bothered to mention this. The Condor Heroes is already facing extreme suppression and doesn’t need so called media to pile on with half-truths and misinformation.

• mmmh, said you want to shade black armies, but you are posting exactly what black army are spreading.
  Feedback between the audience is really good, but paid black armies is attacking everyone who reviews well, just a run around xhs and dy and you can see so many complaints because anyone has been attacked. Do you think this is fair?
  Also i would like to raise a point of discussion: why capitals are so invested into such strong black and forcing public opinion?
  After all they are already suppressing the movie with ridiculous numbers of shows. No movie can survive with 6/5% of screenings in it airing days, so why the suppression is so hard?
  Anyway, despite the suppression, tsui hark and xiao zhan are bringing the movie into new box office records into wuxia cinema.
  Wuxia has never been easy genre in mainland, no one expected huge bo, even Crouching Tiger was cold in mainland.
  So i do think it would better be objective and not fall into the black pr suppression tricks

  • Sorry for the double comment, i don’t know why it was posted twice

• mmmh, said you want to shade black armies, but you are posting exactly what black army are spreading.
  Feedback between the audience is really good, but paid black armies is attacking everyone who reviews well, just a run around xhs and dy and you can see so many complaints because anyone has been attacked. Do you think this is fair?
  Also i would like to raise a point of discussion: why capitals are so invested into such strong black and forcing public opinion?
  After all they are already suppressing the movie with ridiculous numbers of shows. No movie can survive with 6/5% of screenings in it airing days, so why the suppression is so hard?
  Anyway, despite the suppression, tsui hark and xiao zhan are bringing the movie into new box office records into wuxia cinema.
  Wuxia has never been easy genre in mainland, no one expected huge bo, even Crouching Tiger was cold in mainland.
  So i do think it would better be objective and not fall into the black pr suppression tricks

• How is a movie supposed to get box office numbers if it’s basically banned from being shown in most cinema chains?
  It’s been a problem in Chinese cinema for a while and the hype around Legends of Condor Heroes has made it even more obvious to everyone. Every once in a while a bunch of movies gang up against a project that doesn’t own cinemas or isn’t to pay up for reserving showing and squeeze them out of a the schedule completely. The number of showings determines box office and you can guess what happens when the production company of a movie literally owns cinema chains or gives them “deposits” to reserve showings.
  For someone who reports on Chinese entertainment, you should be more informed on the topic and these issues. Chinese cinema has bad reputation and has sucked for a long time now precisely because of this vicious cycle of productions paying and /or owning cinemas => only letting their movies be shown . They are effectively forcing people to watch what they want them to watch. By simultaneously holding cinemas hostage cause cinema owners are struggling to stay afloat in the streaming era and are more than ready to accept abovementioned “deposits”. That’s why you never hear about these prefabricated “box office hits” outside of China and that’s why the leading actors never really get any benefits or public recognition from their supposed highest grossing hits.
  Something similar is happening in Chinese drama land too. Every drama is a hit, every drama breaks records these days. And international fans blindly eat this up and genuinely believe their favourite actors are recognised by the public in China. Partially, thanks to the same came of lazy journalism demonstrated in this article and article authors who have no idea what they are talking about and how the industry they are reporting on works.
  Also, I have only seen rave reviews from Jin Yong, Tsui Hark and wuxia fans. They honestly should just let this movie air internationally, far away from the deteriorating Chinese movie industry.

  • Sorry for all the typos, the website is not very convenient to use. My point is if you are going to post about Chinese box office, you should at least have some understanding about how it works and be able to do basic research. It makes me uncomfortable that as a reader I know more about the topic than someone with a platform

  • Finally someone spitting the real facts! So many artists are suffering of this since years!
    No wondering there is the so called winter in cent and their entertainment is tanking hard, it’s a snake who beats its own tail

  • The movie is just not selling, it's not being supressed lol

    • If you bother to look at the data, it IS being suppressed. This movie has higher numbers of tickets bought, but it gets lower number of screening time slots than other movies with lower numbers of tickets bought. And worse, it's given more time slots at ungodly hours like 9am and past midnight while other movies get more prime time slots in afternoons and evenings.

    • 5% of screenings, all shows at 9 am or after 10pm, but it’s not suppressed 🤣
      Sure dude

• FYI, the movie is being suppressed in China. How to explain why LOCH percentage of screenings when down from 16% on the first day of the CNY to the current 5- 6%, even when the movie has the highest or second highest attendance rate out of the 6 movies for the first 3 days. Compared that against the 25-30% screenings for the other 3 movies when their attendance rates are lower than loch. It’s not that tickets sales are slowing down but that the general public aren’t even given the screen times to buy loch tickets as the only show times available are early in the morning or late at night. I’m not going to go in details about how the other movies locking up the screen times and force loch out with their petty tricks to suppress the movie. Otherwise, why is loch doing so well in Honk Kong, with the highest attendance rate and more screens times added?

  Also, the movie is being maliciously downrated on Douban, where anyone can submit a review. The movie has high ratings on Maoyan and Tao Piao Piao, the two Chinese online movie ticket platforms that sells tickets and only those that bought the tickets can review the movie. I also recommend you look at the real reviews on XHS and Douyin, where the real passerby’s are and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive for loch, where they show long lines and full houses of people for loch screenings. The loch theaters are packed with different genre: young kids, seniors, Jin Yong fans, martial arts fans, lots of men. Go on xhs and douyin if you don’t believe.

  • I have seen many people being viciously attacked because their positive reviews on the movie or even some have directly the reviews taken down from the platforms
    They literally don’t want audience have tastes and opinions, just feed audience with their pre made products (which are always the same) just to make money
    It’s scaring and disgusting

    • Exactly. They are employing the same black tactics that they had used when his first movie, Jade Dynasty 1, won the Mid-Autumn box office back in 2019, earning the production company a profit of 20x its original budget and saving Xinli from bankruptcy. They are so scared of his box office potential, especially since Loch is a national IP (Jin Yong and wuxia)with a well known international acclaimed director Tsui Hark.

• You said before that the film is filled with black water army spreading falsehoods about The Legend of the Condor Heroes and that you wanted to wait for the watered reviews to clear out. And now only a day later you’re saying that everyone’s acting was mid except the new actress??? So THEE Tony Leung Ka-Fai is now a mid actor??? lol. I won’t even bother to argue about Xiao Zhan’s acting because that man has never disappointed. Also, I think it’s funny that you immediately believed all the copy and paste negative reviews and decided to run with it. At the very least you should watch the movie yourself before making such claims.

• This is another clickbait with biased information. AND IT WORKS! See people who have never commented (or even visited the site) took it. LOL.

  People either love XZ or hate him, perhaps due to 227. Online reviews about this movie are divided and polarized as usual regarding whatever about XZ. CCP propaganda aside, I'd like to see the movie myself to say anything about the moive.

  I also read news about how this LOCH adaptation got very low shares of show time at theaters nationwide in China. That definitely contributed to lower ticket sales compared with other movies obtaining higher shares of show time. It's once again a case proving that doing business in China including C-ent has much to do with backing and strong connection with the authority. This is unfortunate for the LOCH producers, the actors, and the crew. Who would expect much effort and hard work would be discounted by factors other than the product itself? China is not relying on capitalism to thrive. Therefore, there are many factors behind the success of a business that doesn't depend solely on quality of products. Movie industry isn't an exception either. Regarding show time arrangement at Chinese theaters, nothing much can be done about that. Sign and SMH. XZ fans and LOCH producers can only hope for word by mouth to draw audience to fill out the seats for the movie.

  I hope some oversea streaming services would purchase LOCH cus XZ has a large international fanbase. Reddit Cdrama hasn't been that friendly to XZ. Some fans created the other subreddit:Cdramafan. Immediately the latter diverted (?) much traffic from Cdrama subreddit to Cdramafan subreddit and people have have been freely fangirls XZ over Cdramafan non stop with even more comments. LOL. As much as Koala doesn't like XZ, nobody should dismiss his popularity and international fame that still top all the C celebs.

  • @raydrop there is no official budget number. Anyone can make up a rumor. So unless the official comes out with that number you claim, everything is speculation. Based on the genre, 150-200m makes more sense. But I’ll wait for the official announcement like everyone else.

    • Sorry. I replied to the wrong person.

    • Hahaha. That's why I didn't even bother to reply. It's fine.

• Movies have to make 3 times the budget to break even and see a profit, especially if it’s released during a popular holiday period. So this movie making anything less than 1 billion rmb is considered a loss.

  • No one knows the budget yet but if we go based on the genre, it it probably cost around 150-200m rmb to make. So it needs 450-600m to make a profit. If we go by the lower range it already made profit and if we go by the upper range it’s right on track.

    • The rumored budget is actually 400 million. Add another 100 million for marketing during the holiday period. That’s 500 million, and that’s a conservative estimate. This movie would need 1.5 billion rmb to start seeing profit.

    • @raydrop

      Your is pure speculations, no one knows the budgets of the movies in the spring festivals, there are no official news about. So you can say 400, i can say 1000, other can say 50, the fact is no one knows

      Here looks like everyone has their hands in the pockets of China Film lol while in reality china film already made money selling rights for foreign distributors and their promo was basically for free (gov owned corporation and they used only gov medias for promo)
      These are just facts, what is in their pockets it’s known only by them

  • @raydrop There has been no official announcement about the budget. I’ve looked everywhere and have been unable to find a reliable source. According to movie insiders, Condor Heroes is already making a profit so the 500m budget is impossible.

    • Are these movie insiders in the room with us right now?

    • @Ricky @Movies If you google 射雕英雄传：侠之大者 budget, it lists 500 rmb. The Wiki page says 500. This Sohu article says over 400 rmb. Add in Spring Festival marketing costs. Production can't be as low as 150-200. Hope that helps.

      https://m.sohu.com/a/852861885_122066681/?pvid=000115_3w_a

  • Lolll. The wiki article can be edited by anyone and the soho article got their number from Douban which is another unreliable site. Unless China Film Group comes out and says the budget your guesses are unfounded. Idk why you’re so worried about the budget. You’re welcome to wait for the official announcement like the rest of us though.

    • Yikes this movie is definitely losing money then. Thanks for the link @jmho.

    • 😂😂😂 Before the showing: My idol is so powerful! He's in a BIG budget movie by the best director ever!!! Now: It's just a low cost production....

      All that CGI because there's no hand to hand combat in a martial arts movie must have been free. I applaud your consistent ostrich approach to logic.

• Why is the movie suppressed? Is there always a conspiracy theory whenever a movie expecting to fo amazing did just ok? So this was suppressed but nezha wasn't? I don't get it.

  • It's not suppressed. It's a simple supply and demand. Tickets weren't selling, so theaters alloted fewer showings and more to movies that can earn them profits. Cinemas are businesses, owned by real people, needing to make money to support their families. Conspiracy isn't going to pay their electricity bills.

    Loch has 6% screenings, Operation Dragon 6%, Boonie Bears 8.5%, and Feng Shen 10.9 %. Boonie Bears only has 2-3 % more screenings than Loch and less than Feng Shen, but it was able to overtake both and rose from 5th place to 3rd place. Therefore, screening allotment isn't a cause of poor ticket sale, but a result of people not wanting to go.

    Currently Loch is 5th out of 6 for sales. If a theater is empty, or if fans buy multiple tickets just to boost numbers, there are no people to buy from the concession stands, no money to keep the theater open. So theaters do what makes sense.

    • Stats as of 14:21 on 2/2 (5th day of showings).

    • Yawn 🥱 keep trying. Even one of the cinema, 星光影院, on Douyin came out to explain about the back door deals behind Spring Festival movie schedule:

      Google translate: Yes, let me explain to you that the Chinese cinema chain has given a 25% screening schedule, but this is just a suggestion. Direct-operated stores will be required to schedule 25%, but franchise stores will consider net profit more. The scheduling of the Spring Festival is actually a battle of capital. Almost all distributors have given a scheduling fee that is higher than the box office output. We chose two films to cooperate with, so we compressed the scheduling space of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. It is too inconvenient to tell you too much. This is probably the situation. I hope that one day in the future, theaters and audiences can choose what films to schedule.”

    • And loch is stable and happy by the way. Go check out their second roadshow in Wuhan today. The movie is doing well even with very limited screenings. Otherwise, why four black hot searches on Weibo today against loch after their wuhan roadshow. Why are the competitors still so pressed even after forcing them to singe digit screens? Because loch is still getting good word of mouth, good review.

    • FYI, loch is produced by China Film Group, which is state owned, therefore won’t participate in paying and locking up “reserved” screen times. So loch will definitely make a profit even with its limited screenings compared to the other movies.

    • @Moocy There are over 12000 movie theaters in China. For comparison, the US has about 2000. I also saw videos on XHS from movie theater owners complaining that Loch doesn't fill their seats.

      Chinese people are practical. If a product sells, they sell it. If one doesn't, they don't. Currently, Loch isn't making them money. People want money. It's not complicated. Nezha is at 3 billion right now, projected to be possible 6 BILLION. Loch is 500 million, projected 600 million.

      "Capital" is your boogeyman enemy. Tsui Hark is one of the most successful filmmakers but "Capital" is against him? Against Jin Yong? Operation Dragon, which was a hit in Part 1, also has 5-6 % screenings, are they also suppressed? Loch is advertised as a nationalist film, but "Capital" is against that theme? Word of mouth is spread amongst friends and WeChat, does Capital control that?

      BTW, by the end of today, Operation Dragon, who had the same screenings, sold more than Loch in the daily data.

    • @Jmho lol did you look at the screen times for loch? It’s either 9 am or 9-10 pm. No other daytime/golden hour slots for loch. Of course they schedule plenty of midnight slots between 00:00- 06:00. Who watches movies in the middle of the night? Don’t bring your bullshit lies here spread by antis on xhs, weibo and douyin. You are parroting exactly the same black lies the antis are trying to spread. Go look at the golden hour ratio for loch. It’s the lowest for all the movies.

      You think Jin Yong and TH aren’t immune to capital suppression? Go look up Zhang Yimou, the most prolific and successful mainland Chinese director, having to beg for more screen times for his Sniper movie. He didn’t get them and his movie was suppressed. Loch is being promoted as a national movie but how is that going to help the movie get more screen times when the theater had already made deals with other movies locking up the screen times. Why on the first day some of the cinemas suddenly change screenings from loch to other movies and refunded their tickets, why is the screen playing loch only malfunction black screens but is fine for other movies?

      You and they can try to spread the movie tickets aren’t selling when they are going out of their way to sabotaged the movie by spreading lies about low attendance when it’s the highest attendance rate at the beginning before they started playing their dirty tricks

    • @jmho explain to me how loch with the highest presale for the CNY not only got only 16% of the screen slots but keeps losing massive screen slots day after day even with strong word of mouth and high attendance rate? Some of the other movies have lower attendance rate than loch but either only loses a little screen times or gains more screen times while loch keeps declining? Why is loch getting massive attacks from antis?

      https://x.com/luiz_fernando_j/status/1884267775931166779?s=61&t=GcaJrScWh6jPv86QqJqIig

      https://x.com/luiz_fernando_j/status/1884649125620445259?s=61&t=GcaJrScWh6jPv86QqJqIig

      https://x.com/luiz_fernando_j/status/1885017627594035466?s=61&t=GcaJrScWh6jPv86QqJqIig

    • @Moocy 16% is basic math. 100 divided by 6 movies. Pre-sales mean nothing when on the day sales don't fill seats. The high pre-sale indicates fan's enthusiasm, but having passerbys is much more important. It's being called a fan movie.

      Why wouldn't a theater want to make money????? None of your links make any sense of that. All of Chinese social media are laughing at fans blaming capital suppression. Now there's even negative sales because fans refund tickets at the last minute then buy the next day to inflate sales. Theaters have figured out their plots. They raised the prices on the less desirable seats (edges, front) because they know fans will buy those, saving the middle seats (which should be more expensive) for passerbys. It's very sad.

      The more fans whine about being the victim, the more derision and scrutiny they get. Social media are now calling out that all 3 of his dramas in 2023 did not meet expectations. The memes are spreading. People are off during CNY and have nothing to do. Don't become a BJT Spring Mountain controversy. Fans should stop making excuses, stop trying to game the box office, own up that this wasn't as good as they hoped for, lay low, and wait till the next opportunity.

      If you really want to get a pulse on what netizens think of Loch, go to Douban, Rednote, Douyin. X gives you fan filtered rosy glasses view. I am done with this conversation. Spinning in circles is pointless. Businesses want to make money. Loch wasn't making money for them. It's that simple. No conspiracies.

    • @Jmho i for being too harsh in my previous posts. Anyways I’m done arguing against antis rhetoric. I’m going to peace out ✌️.

    • @Jmho *I apologize for being too harsh in my previous posts.

    • Let’s put on our thinking caps. There is no universe in which the movie LEADING the pre-sales box office should have its screens cut down to less than half in just 3 days. So if you’re going based on Supply and Demand your analysis couldn’t be more wrong. Operation Dragon has made LESS than Condor Heroes but has more screens. Where is the demand in that? Since the 29th, NeZha and Condor Heroes were the only two films with higher gross over screens. But Condor Heroes is the only movie whose screens were drastically cut day after day. Movie Insiders have been discussing Condor Heroes suppression since the get-go. No offense but their words and their analysis holds more weight.

    • @Jmho I take back my apology as your recent comment didn’t show up until I made that post. I thought I was being too harsh but nope, you’re basically a XZ anti and hater, parroting the same black lies about him that his antis have been spreading. You can keep applying the same Western logic to the Chinese film industry, stay as ignorant as you wish and pretend that XZ and loch is flopping. I do have accounts on weibo, xhs and douyin. I don’t visit the cesspool that is Douban as you well know it’s an anti hunting ground for black materials and for fandoms to start fights. Even cnetz know Douban ratings are unreliable as it’s a battle ground for antis. I’m surprised that you remained as naive about the Chinese entertainment industry after having visited all four Chinese platforms yourself. Or maybe you’re just pretending.

      I only quoted those Twitter links here because I don’t know if weibo links will work here. I’m also quite familiar with the Chinese online apps maoyan and taopiaopiao. I know what the pulse of the netizens is in China. I also read about the harassment of good reviews of loch on weibo, xhs and douyin and denigrating those reviewers to only fans reviews. Here you are repeating the same black lies about the movie.

      You also really outed yourself as anti when you said all 3 of xz’s dramas didn’t meet expectations. How many times has The Youth Memories rerun on satellite tv, more than 34 reruns at last count, the last rerun on cctv1 as recently as last week? Sunshine by my side is also the same, with half the reruns of TYM but it also made Xinli a lot of money and is more than profitable. The Longest Promise was suppressed by Tencent but it went out of the circle with passersby and was used extensively by different official media to promote tourism. Did you fav accomplish all this too? Nope, your fav is probably still making idol dramas that international fans here love.

      Keep believing in your lies and spreading your lies but I’m done with you too.

    • @Jmho

      THANK YOU FOR BEING A VOICE OF REASON!

      Most of the posts defending LOCH's box office numbers are basically about: record breaking presales, limited number theaters, "blackarmies" attack against positive reviews -- insinuating a systematic "suppression" against the movie, which I found quite laughable. Like yours and a few other posts mentioned here, it's just how the market works. Regardless of Tsui Hark's big name or Xiao Zhan being the biggest liulang, capitals naturally will go backing movies that they consider will be most profitable. Blockbusters will definitely attract more theaters for showtime allocations. Presales can only do so much for box office numbers (how much is the percentage of presales contributing to the total number?), but word of mouth and the actual sales are the key. LOCH movie's presales number probably got quite a boost from Xiao Zhan's industry friends (Yang Zi's bought out tickets in 9 theatres for example) in addition to his fans, perhaps also Tsui Hark's friends & colleagues, Jin Yong's fans, etc. But again, first impression & word of mouth matter more.

      I'm not surprised at all that Nezha 2 has been topping the chart and on its way to breaking its own record. It's a beloved IP, and it's a FAMILY movie, which is a surefire way to rake more money during the lunar new year holidays. Same goes for Detective Chinatown, though it's a distant second. Even Creation of the Gods, a massive hit in 2023, struggles to compete with those two. I've said in the previous post that Xiao Zhan's fans should celebrate that LOCH movie is able to compete with 3 big IPs, and still even makes it to Top 5, and I stand by it.

    • Why are these replies so butthurt at you for providing data. Instead of attacking you they should go buy some tickets so that their screenings won’t decrease even more.

    • You're a rock, Jmho. Thanks for providing stats and all, and just being a sane person here amid all the delusional XZ fans.

    • @lenje
      I’m just back online today and I was about to believe all these suppression theory. But when you said the opponents are nezha, detective chinatown, and creation of gods… that suppression theory is overthrown for me. All three works you mentioned have always done well and have good word-of-mouth, not to mention they’re all sequel. And at the same time, legend of condor heroes is a story that has been made so many times it’s hard to squeeze some uniqueness out of it

    • @snow, where did @jmho provide stat? LOL. Here's an actuary to provide free service to examine her data? But where did she show the stat? LOL.

  • Capitalism
    Other companies bought and locked all the screenings around 2 months before the release. This is the reason why nezha has so much screenings. This operation also requires a lot of money and it’s happening since years, not just this year. This year is just more vocal as issue because it involves a popular movie

    • @jhmo
      You are just a jobless hater who likes to bark lies online 🤣

      First of all, yes also operation red sea 2 is suppressed and wasn’t able to have a good space into broadcasting, but because the movie hasn’t received good reviews from the industry, isn’t suffering any black pr and their screening are rising a bit not (still a ridiculous 5/6 %) and yes today did more than loch because it had more screenings! The heavy suppression brought loch to have the less screenings in between all the 6 movies.
      Also many movie this year are not doing well at all.
      Loch sold many rights to foreign companies and spent zero for promo, so the arguments about doing 3x of budget have no sense (especially because no one knows the real costs of these movies..i heard rs2 costed 1b which is simply a bs)

      Saying that xiao zhan’s 3 dramas in 2023 is a giant lie that just unmask you as a brainwashed hater
      - the youth memories - highest success of Xixi company, many mainstream recognition, only drama (of 3) surpassing 30k on tencent, highest cvb in the last years during
      university exams period , still on rerun after 2 years
      - the longest promise - was suppressed, but officially registered by tencent as the more profitable drama for 2023
      - SunshineByMySide - even if the reception was milder (compared to the other 2) it’s officially reported into Xinli yearly reports as the drama which brought highest earnings to the company in 2023

      So, i suggest you to use your time to check some real facts instead that waste all of your time spitting lies online as a stup1d hater you are

    • @Momo666 Sure, I am a jobless hater. Maybe that's why I understand money is important and needed to pay my bills and that movie theaters are businesses. They aren't charity. They sell what people will buy. As for his dramas, I need to go look for jobs so I don't have time explain the data to you. These 400+ replies will have to do. Whether you agree with it or not, it's now the general impression of him. https://www.douban.com/group/topic/317930446/?_spm_id=MTY4NzMwODgz&_i=8438908y1xnngD,8552737y1xnngD

      Please Google the definition of "Capitalism". You get brownie points for identifying that this is the reason why Loch isn't being sold, but it's not what you think. Nezha fills the house with all those screenings.

      BTW, presenting data and logic is too much for you to handle without resorting to insults, I suggest you stay off of Chinese social media sites. It's not looking good for XZ. Again, the more fans cry conspiracy, the more the mocking backlash. Have a good day.

  • @jmho Thank you for an unbiased and reasonable take.

    • @Jmho, kudos to you for admitting being idle (jobless)! Perhaps you've spent too much time inflating negativity about LOCH. That's why you have trouble landing a job. Employers would be turned off knowing you're more passionate about online gossips and rumors than serious work. LOL.

• I haven't seen it yet, but the cast looks horrible. China cinema is too much into baby-looking faces, or shall I say "faggot-looking?" Regardless, I haven't seen anything worth watching coming out of China. Either it has no movie critics, or it has awful taste in entertainment. Meanwhile, South Korea has been amazing the world with its dramas like Crash Landing On You, Hometown Cha Cha, etc. Yet, their population is a tiny fraction of that of China. Go figure.

  • I assume English is not your first language. Non-native speakers tend to lack a sense of obscenity/propriety when expressing themselves in English. "F.t - looking", that you wrote, is an obscene and hurtful thing to say.

  • Please seek counseling. Your homophobia shows deep self hatred. I wish you better mental health in the new year.

  • Wow! This is very offensive! Were you brought up to be like this or are you still a minor, not knowing how a mature adult should behave online? LOL.

  • SMH. So sad to see posts like this.