Just watched 2 movies on Ch 5 and Ch U: Die Another Day and Demi Haunted.
Let me begin with James Bonds 20th Omega watch first. He used different kinds of watch as one of his gadgets, and each time, the watch serves different purposes. This time round, the watch can blow up something. (To those who have watched it before, think of Zao's expensive acne.)
If the watch cannot do the trick, Jinx's Sony Ericsson mobile phone can be the next alternative. Just plug a pin from the watch into a block of explosives/connect the mobile phone on a block of explosives and viola, you can blow up something.
What else? Loads of CGI effects, where it turns the 20th James Bond franchise into a hit and a boo. Hit for the box office sales, where ticket sellers constantly hear the tills ringing. Boo for the review, where it seems to be super artificial.
What else? Critics marks Halle Berry's downfall after the Oscars from Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan calls it quits after his previous 3 007 series, Madonna made a special apperance as a lesbo fencing teacher, South Koreans are unhappy with it due to political issues... All of this factors trys to pull Die Another Day down.
Now, Brosnan passed the baton to Daniel Craig in Casion Royale, the upcoming 007 franchise, with Cecile De France as (the next Bond Girl) ?
At least Halle Berry do have a set of worthy figure in this film.
As for Demi Haunted, it was a 2002 production featuring Eason Chan and Joey Yung as two Cantonese opera troop actors/actress. The difference was: he is a human being and she is a ghost. Joey plays an actress who played the male role in Catonese opera. She falls in love with a rich man's son (Nicholas Tse took such pathetic role, where he becomes a sidekick aka an extra.) and broke the taboo of playing the female role, for the sake for him. He promised to watch her performance as a lady, but he did not show up. A freak accident took place and her face was sliced into 1/2. She died, and so does her spirit turns into half.
She reincarnated three times, first as a rooster, second as an Italian who sings soprano, and Eason was her third. She wants him to fufill her wishes by finishing the unfinished performance.
All i can say was: it was too ridiculous to see hip hop mixed into Cantonese opera. It was so freaking lame and dumb that (those cheesy dialogues were blended in too), unsurprisingly, it is a flop back in 2002. This is just one of the film where it leads to the downfall of HK film industry.
Unsurprisingly, when Paul (a friend of Tash) metioned in his blog that the director of Himalayan Singh should be executed for directing such a dumb show. Yeah, in deed. It is dumb to see a HK productiuon that trys to be the next Bollywood film, where everyone dressed up as Indians. Cecilia Cheung even claimed that ladies from HK will go for saris after watching Singh. I bet she dumped her saris aside after seeing the downfall of Singh.
If that's not dumb enough, both Nicholas and Cecilia become the leading cast of The Promise, the upcoming swordfighting film by China arthouse director, Chen Kaige. Together with Hiroku Sanada, Liu Ye and Jang Don Guan, it was labelled LOTR -Lord of the Rings of China. Apparently, Chen will be clashing with the man who put LOTR on world map this week: Peter Jackson and King Kong.
After watching the trailers of two films (Promise and King Kong), my verdict: i would rather see a gorilla create havoc on the streets of Manhattan (or LA?) than to see Cecilia becoming a human kite and allows Jang to fly her.
To Jang and Chen: go fly a kite. A human being can never be as light as a kite. To Chen: you are good in directing Farewell my Concubine and Temptress Moon, but don't allow your failure in Killing Me Softly to put you into a big mistake. Isn't Zhang Yimou a very good example? To Jang: go back and complete your military service.