Who likes hot Asian gay? Don’t fake it: you’re just like those 16-year-old boys too scared to download porn who just go to torrent pages and look at the GIF ads.
I found out about this movie while on study abroad when I was supposed to be “learning Chinese” but mostly I was “buying bootleg media” and “accidentally stumbling into back rooms filled to the gills of pornography emblazoned with bad English.” My friend Aki introduced me to Formula 17 in her boiling hot, air-condition-less dorm room on her Mac — because nothing helps with suffocating heat than hot, Taiwanese boys making out. It was a weird movie, not because of the content (please, I watched a movie, much to my disgrace, called “The Da Vinci Load,” shut up, don’t judge me) but rather by the fact that it was popular — in Taiwan — and it’s about gay boys.
Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t anything like the subtle, rending drama and realism of Lan Yu, which DO NOT GO SEE!!!! because I totally cried for like THREE WEEKS!!!!!, this movie is kind of retarded. So really, Formula 17 is to gay cinema as Stargate: Atlantis is to scifi (stop with the hackles, let’s all be honest with ourselves) — but it’s a God damn good time. With tons of eye-candy.
And! You can see it here — keep in mind, you will have to register with crunchyroll.com, but as an alternative to downloading enormous files in order to see Asian crack dramas of your choice? It’s so worth it.
Uh, hi. You don’t know me, but I came for the new Connerverse and saw this post. So I just have to say, I saw this movie at the Philly Film Fest a few years ago with, oh, about 30 people in a 200? 300? seat theater. So I’m completely ecstatic that someone else (in America, although apparently still Asian) has seen it too. And liked it! I mean, I felt kinda dirty afterwards, what with picking this movie out of all the quality options at the festival. But it was a good dirty, like dry rubbing a nice piece of steak and then really wanting to pat someone on the back kinda feeling. BTW, the SGA comparison - spot on. So….yeah. I’ll go back to lurking and studying my brain slices now.
I havta say, I saw this movie the first time two years ago, and fell in love with it.Although when I saw it I saw it with subtitles off a DVD at a friends house, when one nght we dug into her Asian film collection
I’m not Asian, nor was she, but we’re both sort of fanatics. The movie is hysterical, adorable…and to me, made little sense.
When I saw it, I sort of thought of it as an Asian Queer as Folk.
But yeah, I second the motion with the SGA comparison.
I think that website is going be a problem for me in coming days. Its gravitational pull seems to be very strong.
I did download that movie, but then my HD fried and never had a chance to see it. alsdjaldsalk.
Thanks for the link to that site, BTW. I have a nagging feeling I’ll get lots of stuff from there, but I’ll try NOT to get sucked into all those (very tempting) dramas you mentioned in one of your earlier posts. Eh!
That is currently my favourite movie EVER in the history of Ever, which says much about my standards when a happy gay asian film beats out epics like LOTR or POTC or, the mind stimulating films that titillate my intellect. Formula 17 owns my heart. I even wrote fic for it. It always makes me intensely happy when someone else is dragged into the vortex of love.
nice job ………… thanks