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review on Love in Disguise 恋爱通告
Sep 2nd
You know, i actually feel quite weird and out of the box when i was attending Wang Lee Hom The 18 Martial Arts Press Conference 2 weekends back. The reason being for i haven watch this movie back then and when the press were asking some questions, i don’t really get the full picture.
Anyways, i just watched it yesterday night and i like it quite a lot!
With Wang Lee Hom 王力宏 himself as the main actor on a character which is very very similar with himself in real life – A talented superstar, he appeared in a concert scene at the start of the movie. As far as i know, the fans were his real fans in real life and they all gathered for the film in making just to watch Lee Hom performing and according to news reports, the concert scenes were as good as Lee Hom’s actual concerts in real life.
From lightings to staging with dancers and different costumes.
One thing i find it weird in the concert is the fans were TOO organized which make the concert don’t look like a concert, that’s if you notice.
Chen Han Dian 陈汉典 is actually one of the reason i wanted to watch this movie as well. I’ve been a regular viewer of Kang Xi 康熙来了 (A Taiwan Variety/Entertainment show) and he’s been made fun of quite frequently on the show being said making friends with Lee Hom and action already & etc, making fun of him in a funny way of course.
Thanks to Chen Han Dian 陈汉典, this movie had a little bit more humor in it and of course, i didn’t expect that humor part to come from Lee Hom 王力宏 as well, he’s that kinda cool cool smile smile guy and i thought that’s all. Not bad!
How can i miss out Liu Yi Fei 刘亦菲!! Knew her existence a few years back but didn’t really get to see her act much as i’m not that interested in films/dramas from China but i’ve listened to her album before(A lot of times some more) and that was how i started liking her.
and so, it’s actually a simple story of a superstar realizing that he wants to live an ordinary life thanks to this random passer by girl who appeared out of no where where they eventually fell in love. The type of ordinary girl whom can be find anywhere, she don’t fancy mainstream music and her interest is more towards the classical ones.
The acting was quite okay and the storyline was a simple love story so nothing much could possible go wrong with that.
Quite nice i thought. Not TOO slow like how other Taiwan movies, just nice for me actually and i really salute Lee Hom for completing both his 18 Martial Arts Album and this movie on a same time frame where he emphasizes/promotes China Classical Music on both paths.
Just thought that there were a bit too much imaginary scenes, would prefer less of it but that’s just my personal preference and oh actually, the audio editing could be better as well.
Nonetheless, i think that this is a good film from the first time director Wang Lee Hom 王力宏!
My Rating for this movie is 7.5/10
*Thanks to Sony Music Malaysia for the tickets!
review on The Stool Pigeon 线人
Aug 29th
The Stool Pigeon 线人 is a quality Hong Kong Movie. That’s what i was thinking when i finish watching this movie. 1 hour and 50 minutes is quite a long time i must say but it was worth the ticket price.
Featuring Nicholas Tse 谢霆锋 and Nick Cheung 张家辉, both of which are talented award winning actors were somehow a boast for this movie i think. They are good at what they’re doing and in this movie itself they played their character pretty good as well.
Kwai Lun Mei 桂綸鎂 on the other hand was good at handling her role. Never did i imagine that she could take such role and i was actually impressed.
In this movie Nicholas is an informant reporting to Nick who plays a cop and in between the complications in their world, there were some other elements which supports the character showing a slightly different side of them.
In the world of an informant, nobody can be trusted and most of these people will end up in a very very sad state and this single point have been displayed through various movies especially by the Hong Kong movie industry in the past 10 years. Same goes to this movie.
What i like about this movie is they’ve got a good script & storyline along with the strong cast that made this movie entertaining for me, a complete storyline. But i must say that not many people would like this kind of film as there were quite a few scenes that were slow and draggy, scenes that further explains the characteristic of a person in the movie with a few flashbacks and such.
On top of that, because it’s a movie about the informant world, it’s one film which is quite dark if you know what i mean. It’s a movie that won’t make you relax and go hehe haha, so i’d figure out that some people will say no to such movie.
Some quality display i thought though. Definitely not a crappy movie. =)
*Oh btw, this movie is quite violent, with quite a lot of blood.
My Rating for this movie is 7.5/10
Sharereview on Step Up 3D
Aug 25th
The fact that i did not watch this movie in 3D but because the movie title includes the word 3D so don’t get me wrong, this movie review is base on the 3rd movie of Step Up series watched in 2D.
Alright so i didn’t watch the first 2 movies and i have no idea on how was it but base on this movie alone, i won’t say that it’s awesomely great. The cast sure can dance no doubt but it’s a movie and it requires some level of acting, most of them aren’t good at it when it comes to acting.
Then again, the storyline was pretty predictable. Of course, the film uses a safe mode approach with the standard friendship, betrayals, love and rivalry stuffs in it. I mean like if it’s the first one then it’s still acceptable, but this is the 3rd Step Up film, it should be better.
The dance moves were amazing, with good choreography and arrangements. There were quite a lot of dance scenes as well, enough to make you happy going out of the cinemas if your main objective is on the battles alone and not the storyline.
Wished i could watch this movie in 3D though. Sigh.
*Thanks to Kel Li for the tickets!
My Rating for this movie is 5.5/10
Sharereview on Grown Ups
Aug 21st
Grown Ups is a movie with an easy going story featuring the happenings (funny in most scenes) surrounding 5 friends who grew up together where they were reunited due to the death of the coach who leaded them to a basketball champion title during their younger days.
Along with the family members, the 5 of them attended the funeral of their coach with a series of entertain-able jokes/scenes. Nothing much to hoo-haa about though, just laughters from time to time.
Time were spent together at a vacation house where they did stupid stuffs. Some were too stupid to laugh at.
Basically, it’s a plain movie and if you’re those kind of people who somehow won’t get the jokes being shared in the movie, you’ll think that this is a boring one. It’s not that kinda action packed movies nor it will twist your mind like inception.
If you ask me, i would just say it’s an OKAY film only. Perhaps if you’re a big fan of Adam Sandler then you can head to the cinemas then.
My Rating for this movie is 5.5/10
*thanks to Nuffnang for the ticket
No tax rebate for ‘Ice Kacang Puppy Love’ 初恋红豆冰
Aug 15th
Updated 24 August 2010
No tax rebate for ‘Ice Kacang Puppy Love’
LOCALLY-PRODUCED Chinese movie Ice Kacang Puppy Love, which was a box-office hit after raking in RM4mil, will not enjoy entertainment tax rebate as it has been classified as a foreign movie, China Press reported.
The movie, directed by Tan Kheng Seong or popularly known as Ah Niu who made his name in Taiwan with his pop songs, does not meet the criteria for a 20% rebate as less than 60% of the movie script was in Bahasa Malaysia.
The cast of the movie included other Malaysians who had made it big overseas like Lee Sinje, Victor Wang, Gary Chaw and Fish Leong.
The newspaper quoted Federation of Chinese Associations of Malaysia president Tan Sri Pheng Yin Huah as saying that the Treasury Department should waive the tax.
“This movie did not only receive impressive box office in Malaysia but also good reviews from Taiwan and other countries.
“The authorities should appreciate the movie rather than penalise it,” he said.
Ah Niu, who shot to fame in Taiwan with his hit song Look over here, girl across the street, directed and produced his maiden movie under his newly set up film production company Very Good Pictures.
The movie was based on his childhood in Penang, and Ah Niu played a secondary school student who was secretly in love with a school mate, played by Lee.
Wang, Chaw and Leong play the pair’s childhood friends.
Source : The Star
If you know and understand Mandarin, watch this video below.
If not, let me tell you what was being said in the video above.
Ah Niu 阿牛 陈庆祥 is a MALAYSIAN singer/actor and recently became a director with his movie 初恋红豆冰 Ice Kacang Puppy Love. A local movie production featuring heritage sites from Penang talking about a simple love story with a whole cast of MALAYSIAN born artists.
From the video above, the host actually ask Ah Niu 阿牛 that did he managed to settle his debts which he replied NOT YET.
Alright, for your information, Ah Niu 阿牛 have spent all his savings on making this movie happening, he placed a lot of effort in it to fulfill his dreams of directing as well as sharing the background of where he grew up - PENANG, MALAYSIA and he had to even borrow money to get this movie up in the last stage of production. Thus resulting in him in debts.
Now, this LOCALLY made movie production 初恋红豆冰 Ice Kacang Puppy Love is categorized as A NON LOCAL MOVIE/FOREIGN MOVIE by Malaysian Government as what Ah Niu 阿牛 the director have said in the video above. Why? because the language used in the film is Mandarin.
Only local production films using “Bahasa Melayu” can be categorized as MALAYSIAN made films.
Thus with that reason, the Malaysian Government can get 20% profitfrom total gross as tax.
Eh since when we have such stupid government policy? Does the policy/rule really exist?
I mean like, if yes, then a MALAYSIAN working so hard to make a LOCAL MALAYSIAN FILM and even promoted a few places in PENANG, MALAYSIA end up having the film categorized as a NON-MALAYSIA FILM/OVERSEA FILM and have to “buta-buta” give 20% to the MALAYSIAN Government, Woots!!
How is it that our local movie industry is going to grow if that’s the case?
Do we plan to have our movies making it big with such policies?
No wonder nobody is really willing to go on with local movie productions that uses English/Mandarin/Tamil in it.
*No i’m not condemning the Malays, i’m against the stupid policy that’s all.
*shakes head*
Sharereview on The Last Airbender
Aug 4th
Seriously, i was a bit tad disappointed when i step out of the cinema last night watching this very movie The Last Airbender. The trailer shows that this movie looks pretty interesting and all, maybe i had higher hopes for a more entertaining movie then.
Basically it’s like a movie for children but with quite eye popping graphics in it that is mainly related to the 4 elements, Water Earth Fire & Air. Avatar : The Last Airbender is actually an American animation series that was aired on Nickelodeon for 3 seasons and this movie came from there.
That kind of fantasy movie that involves an ultimate Saviour saving the world and the process of doing so. This movie should take a more mature approach that would attract a larger audience and not just those kids watching Nickelodeon channels.
The storyline was quite normal only with nothing to Wow about.
The one sole thing that’s nice about this movie is the graphic effects and there were quite a lot of scenes with such effects in it. NO i didn’t watch this movie in 3D so i wonder will my movie experience with The Last Airbender differ if i did so.
I don’t dislike this movie but just that i placed too much hope i guessed after watching the trailer in the past few months. It’s still quite a watchable movie where some of you might love such fantasy movie.
If you happen to watch this movie in 3D then do share with me what you think about it please! =)
Oh and this one is just part 1 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender trilogy. Hope that the 2nd one will be better then!
My Rating for this movie is 5.5/10
*thanks to United International Pictures Malaysia for the tickets!
The Truth on the movie Inception by Christopher Nolan
Jul 30th
As much as i want to head to the cinema to watch this very movie for the second time, i can’t seem to find to time to do so. Just an hour go, i saw this tweet from Gareth/Shaolintiger that leads to this forum topic which is related to the movie Inception.
Went on and read 7 pages of forum postings and found some interesting interpretation.
It was fun reading debates and discussions which contained stuffs i’ve previously read somewhere else with some extra information on the movie itself. Regardless of what is the real thing and what is right and wrong, i’m pretty sure with 1 single thing that Christopher Nolan is definitely a genius.
Now if you ask me what do i think and what ending would i interpret, i would say that i don’t give a strawberry about what’s true or not true already. It’ll be endless but hey read this below, the interesting interpretation i mentioned.
Read only if you’ve watch the movie yah!
Basically… the whole movie was, from scene one, about the team conning Cobb into retirement, because they had become aware that his subconscious was jeopardizing their work — and potentially their lives. He simply couldn’t be trusted to keep working, but they knew he would never stop until he was reunited with his kids — something that was all but impossible, as he couldn’t enter the States and – from the sounds of the unhappy grandmother on the phone – she blamed Cobb for Mal(her daughter)’s death, and wasn’t letting them leave the States, either. So… Miles(Michael Caine) and the team (including Saito and Ariadne) created an alternative answer.
From the very beginning, it was set up to ultimately retire Cobb into a dream that brought him peace, and one he could believe was real, be it real or not. The whole story with Saito vs. Fischer was simply a setup that required Cobb to return to his limbo to confront his guilt over the death of his wife, because he would never believe any reality in which she was still haunting him(making her memory his totem?).
The only force that could commit him to face his wife was the chance of seeing his kids again, so the whole idea was to pit the two realities against each other, and gamble that he’d sacrifice the right one in favor of the other.
The whole plan kicked into gear by making him go to Mombasa, where he met with Eames and was then conveniently chased right into the car of Saito, who was in Mombasa to “protect his investment”… pretty nifty timing, eh? Eames shows up, and just so happens to know a guy who makes experimental elixirs(Yusuf)… oh, and also just happens to have his own dream farm in his basement, heh. Once there, Cobb tries out the elixir, sees brief flashes of his wife and then wakes up, flustered. Cut to him washing his face in a sink, and then goes to spin the top to verify reality — only the top falls off of the counter, onto the floor, and before he can pick it up, he’s distracted.
Reality was never confirmed from this point forward throughout the entire movie.
He was unknowingly corralled to Mombasa to be sent to the dream farm by his very own team, where he could live in the dream of his/their choosing indefinitely(I mean, sure, we were told that they only dream for about 40 hours at a time, but who’s to say that wasn’t a lie, and that it wasn’t just a retirement home for thieves?). Opposition(the Mombasa chase, shrugged off as Cobol agents) was even staged to make it realistic to Cobb, because – just as it played out with Fischer – Cobb had to believe he was in control the whole time. It had to be his choices that got him there for him to really believe it.
So… from there, the dream within a dream within a dream was all an elaborate setup to get Cobb to confront himself. I’m also assuming that Ariadne wasn’t the architect, but was placed there by his Dad and the team to be his guide — the true architect being Lucas Haas’ character, the original team’s architect that was tied up and dragged away at the beginning(as Cobb said himself, it’s not a good idea to bring the architect inside, so he was conveniently removed from the picture to work behind the scenes).
Once he entered limbo, confronted the memory of his wife, saved Saito and returned home… that was all still a dream, but one he could finally believe wholeheartedly; one he had achieved.
His friends, his dad… everyone he knew realized that he would never stop trying to get back home – something he could never do in real life – so they created this as his retirement gift; a reality where he could come to terms with his past and live in peace with the future he always wanted.
Did the top fall over? Probably. I’m assuming that the totems have no special powers; they only reflect the owner’s subconscious belief. If the owner truly believe he or she is in reality – body, mind and soul – the totem will reflect that accordingly… whether it’s true or not. What might be more telling is… he walked away from it completely. It didn’t really matter anymore.
I would totally buy this version of interpretation of the movie Inception but oh i read on another person’s reply in the same forum topic stating that Fischer & Ariadne are actually Cobb’s grown up kids. LOL.
Good imagination huh?
Christopher Nolan did a good, no, a GREAT job in incepting the various thoughts in people’s mind all over the world. If every director does stuff like what he is doing, the world would definitely change in a faster pace! Facebook will be substituted next month then.
Haha. I WANT TO WATCH INCEPTION AGAIN!
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