B.T.S. (Better Than Sex)

April. 12,2002      
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A web of connected stories on adventure, sex, and love in Taiwan, including a 17 y.o. boy with a porn obsession, three hoodlums, and a self-righteous police officer.

Leon Dai as  Mad Cop
Michael Wong as  
Sheng Chen as  
Wei-min Ying as  
Phoebe Huang as  
Jen-Ya Wu as  
MC Hotdog as  

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Reviews

Redwarmin
2002/04/12

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

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Crwthod
2002/04/13

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

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Beystiman
2002/04/14

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

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Siflutter
2002/04/15

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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cheese_cake
2002/04/16

the movie is about different people and their unrelated stories, although they all cross paths eventually. the movie is set in Taipei, Taiwan. one group is a Japanese TV show looking for teenage delinquents in Taipei. another group is a boy with an obsession with porn and the high school girl who has a crush on him. the last and funniest group is a gang of three wannabe gangsters who run around on tricked out scooters. there's Taiwanese rap (very good), unrequited love, wickedness and other hi jinks. the movie is very funny. all the actors act very well and the story is believable overall. the director mocks youth and it's angst and yet realizes it is very true for young people in such a fast paced world. true love is one of the motto's and wickedness is punished in the end. overall, this is a feel good movie, about enjoying life and it's pleasures and being good people. i found this glimpse of Taiwan fascinating and hope they make more movies like this. go see it, it's good!

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joeshoe89
2002/04/17

A truly off the wall comedy about a 17 year old Chinese guy who because of his very large penis as a 10 year old boy decides to take an obsessive interest in porn (it doesn't appear hard core and he starts with comics). He is befriended by a book store owner who gets him the girlie magazines (mostly naked beautiful Asian girls)that leads him to believe that he doesn't need a girlfriend. There is a motorcycle gang of three teenagers who find a "magic" samurai sword that make them orgasm when they hold it (it seems more like they're urinating but maybe this is a Chinese thing). The angry motorcycle cop who is after the gang drives into the bookstore and runs over the owner killing him. The guy who is porn obsessed inherits a key to a lock to a secret apartment that a woman lives in that is the wife of the boss of two Japanese girls who are doing a TV show on Taiwan teenage delinquency. The girls "catch" (they put what looks like tennis racquets with nets on them over the girls heads) two "punk" girls one of whom had a crush on the porn obsessed guy when they were in school together. She caught him looking at porn and saying he didn't need a girlfriend which broke her heart and she went "punk" and armed herself with a taser and goes on a robbery spree to get money to go to Japan to see a "boy" band the Tomato Brothers (2 guys with plastic tomato heads). If all this sounds weirdly interesting to you then find this movie and watch it. While there is no actual sex there is a lot of talk about it and some mild nudity. In the end the guy discovers that true love is better then sex and holding your true love's hand makes you either pee like crazy or orgasm which ever Chinese people see it as. There's even some Chinese "rapping" by a Hotdog rapper. Well worth finding and watching.

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shammuk
2002/04/18

If you have seen enough Taiwanese films you will be pleasantly surprised by this one. This is an attempt by the director to save Taiwan's film industry from its overly artsy and unprofitable film environment. Taiwan's film industry have been on a downward slope ever since Taiwan's new wave of directors started making political and avant-garde films. Even though those films won awards at major festivals it fails to bring in profits in its native country. However, this film is an attempt to break free from that type of environment and an attempt to gain audiences interests once more. It was quite an success in Taiwan which actually brought in box office numbers. The film did not make any profit, but it did earn enough to balance out its film budget, which was a first ever since the Taiwan's new wave of films. The director of photography of this film is very well known among the Asian commercial industry. Thus, enabling this film to have a totally different look from past Taiwanese films. The film was well shot and did a good job on color correction making the quality more Hollywood like. The only downside about this film was that I thought the characters wasn't very well developed. The separate stories were also connected in a way which looked overly pretentious. However, the wacky story lines and weird plots makes up for that imperfection.

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SciBry
2002/04/19

"Better Than Sex" is a fun comedy about the differences between sex and love. There's alot of off-the-wall stuff, like one character's unusually long member, a blade that brings its handlers to orgasm, and a cameo from a famous asian rap group. You should expect some dirty humor and graphicness, but it's used intelligently.The movie's strengths are its humor and the messages it has about sex. You can easily relate to the characters and their lives. Young adults and up will enjoy the message about the importance of love (and people!!!) in one's sex-life.The movie is structured in a way similar to "Amores Perros" Many different stories collide through a few central events. You get to see the perspectives of each of the main characters through flashbacks, etc. The movies uses slow-motion and other editing effects at just the right time.I saw "Better Than Sex" at an Asian film festival my school held. It's from Taiwan and is apparently hard to track down. I would guess your best bet is your local China Town. If you stumble upon this movie, gather your friends around and enjoy.

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