Clearly, Asia is where it's at if you like your men wounded while shirtless

[dangermousie]

A new teaser for IRIS is out (thank you to clairiere for the heads-up):

October 14 cannot come soon enough.

Also, Is that Lee Byung Hun getting tortured? Ummmmm. Thank you, TPTB! But I bet it doesn't top Lobbyist on h/c scale (that was the only time I went 'enough is enough writer, your id is showing.')

Why do I not have a Lee Byung Hun icon btw?

As as we are on the topic of dangerous shirtless men, here is eye-popping poster for the upcoming Bollywood flick Kurbaan, featuring the stars (and real-life couple) Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Click to enlarge.



Taken from wasabi_girl1.

Comments

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

What happened to Saif? He used to be so cute! :(

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I still like him - must be his sexy chest :P

[sinclair-furie.livejournal.com]

Oh. I liked him better when he was skinny and cute and boy-next-door like :)

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Mmmm Lee Byung-hun.

I'm watching him in a movie I bought for like 3 dollars from Korea - from 1999, pretty sweet movie where he plays a teacher in a village and a girl in his class crushes on him - and it's making me consider watching some of the dramas he's done. I looked at your tags of some drama names I recognized. Would you say either All In or Beautiful Days are worth watching? (I'm going to assume he probably hasn't done a romantic comedy type drama but I could handle a bit of angst for the eyecandy. I kind of melted against my seat when seeing him in The Good The Bad the Weird.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I like both BD and AI but don't know if either is your thing

BD is your classic korean melodrama (but with a happy ending!) He is an icy rich records producer from a very dysfunctional family (his father is a murderer, his mother is dead, his stepmother was daddy's mistress whom he married when mom was barely cold, his stepbro is a self-absorbed emo twit. The only one he cares for is his troubled young sister - it's awesome). She is a plucky orphan who is an artist and is very caring, steady and maternal, which is what he needs badly. I adore it, but it's all emo delicious melodrama.

I can't complain when I get this:



All In has horrific Engrish (his is pretty decent, actually, though) and the gambling/business subplot sort of lost me, but the love story is great (he is an ex-convict, she is a former nun! He went to jail for accidentally murdering someone who was abusing her family! Eleventy!) and all the women characters are awesome. Plus, he and Song Hye Kyo have ridiculous chemistry, one of the best I've ever seen (apparently they became a couple during filming).

Oh, and this is the cutest scene in the Universe:



More here (http://dangermousie.livejournal.com/1367475.html#cutid1)

Happy Together is supposed to be cute (and co-stars Song Seung Heon, omg) but I haven't seen it.

You might also like the movie Addicted. Summary here (http://dangermousie.livejournal.com/767067.html).

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I may stick to watching him in movies because I seem to be so ADD with kdramas nowadays and neither of those sound like my thing so I would probably hang in there for like 4-5 episodes and then stop watching. Though I have been interested in City Hall since some people on Bollywhat fangirled it. And Iris definitely looks promising..

[clairiere.livejournal.com]

I'm watching him in a movie I bought for like 3 dollars from Korea - from 1999, pretty sweet movie where he plays a teacher in a village and a girl in his class crushes on him

Oh I know that one, Harmonium in My Memory, with the lovely Jeon Do-Yeon. Wow, that feels like a lifetime ago...

[fivil.livejournal.com]

My laptop's DVD player just crapped out on me so no spoilers, I haven't finished watching yet. Still, really enjoying it. It's sweet and understated and I can't wait to see how it ends..

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

ASKAHKAASHL IS IT OCTOBER YET?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know!!!!

[prismatic-star.livejournal.com]

Whoa.. risqué poster. I dunno how the indian public will react to that... come on, if they get peeved over Richard Gere's kissing Shilpa Shetty on the lips, who knows how they'll be.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I bet Saif and Kareena do more than kiss in rl lol :)

But yeah, I bet this film is going to be controversial.

[clairiere.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure he gets tortured (that'd be a given), but the man @0:13-14 mark looks like JJH to me and I'm betting that part (0:12-14) is some sort of endurance training for HyunJoon & SaWoo. Btw, really not feeling JJH's slicked back hair look in the close-up shot (why, IRIS crew people, why?).

I've also read the woman @0:27 is actually Yu Min/Fueki Yuko (and not KTH as I thought--clearly I have problems remembering KTH's features), who's been cast as a Japanese agent.

October 14 cannot come soon enough.

How did people/you wait months for this? Almost wish I didn't get sucked into fangirl-ing. And really don't know how I'm going to stay unspoiled...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure he gets tortured (that'd be a given),

LOL. Indeed, what would a kdrama be without it (I think someone is also getting mistreated near the end, too, intercut with KSY).

I have been going insane for IRIS ever since I've heard it- it's torture (even if not of the shirtless variety) to wait!

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

I'm defo going to check IRIS out. It looks like it hits my plot kinks.

As for Kurbaan, that poster...yowza

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

IRIS, please be good.

And poster? OMG!

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

But I bet it doesn't top Lobbyist on h/c scale

Who knows, it just might. UGH! I winced a lot during the time that I was watching Lobbyist.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The scene where she digs out the bullet? YIKES.