Jay Chou Live @ the Shrine (LA)

Jay Chou makes another U.S. appearance and holds a concert this time at the Los Angeles Shrine auditorium. Performing for a total of 2.5 hours, Jay rocked the shrine and put on probably the best chinese concert in the U.S. Singing all of his hit songs from all 6 albums, while keeping the crowd entertained with some little skits (A piano duel with a young and very talented kid). I have to say that this concert ranked as the best concert I've been to. A sold out concert, (probably the 3rd time any chinese singer was able to accomplish, the first was maybe his first U.S. concert in Las Vegas (MGM) two years ago, and the 2nd was probably Alan Tam and Hacken lee concert at MGM Las Vegas ). Opening with "In the name of the Father" (First track on his fourth album titled "ye hui mei" - his mother's name), and continues with many songs from the fourth album, then mixes a bit from the rest of his hits and his fifth album. I got the cheap seats, ($40 bucks, I couldn't afford the higher prices) ticket prices were up to $300 for VIP. He's headed for Connecticut for his 2nd U.S. appearance this year, which is also sold out....




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2009 Lost Memories

Before i take on the much overdue, yet daunting task of reviewing The House of Flying Dagger, Hero and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (all in one post), allow me to continue the sequence of asian movie bashing. :D

(i had a professor in college who once wrote in my paper "why write about something you didn't like?")

2009 Lost Memories is not a bad movie... it's downright terrible. i'll spare you the storyline since you can google it. the only redeeming part of the movie is the opening act, when it catches the viewers attention by delivering an action-packed shootout sequence reminiscent of a good Rambo/Lethal Weapon scene: no matter how many rounds of ammo the bad guys pump, they'll never hit the hero. the movie goes downhill from there with convoluted scenes and concludes with some bizarre paranormal activities, like time travel. some critics have called 2009 an "invigorating sci-fi film," i call it absurdity at its finest.

2009 Lost Memories had potential to be a great movie, especially with ideas such as nationalism and identity. however, those elements were never expanded in the film. instead, it succumbed to sensational action scenes and far-fetched plots. 2009 was a complete let down. perhaps babibleu described it best in 2 words: "stupid movie."

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Throw Down....unbelievable bad too!!

I couldn't believe how many bad films came out in the same year in HK. Here's another film you shouldn't watch and probably shouldn't buy it either. Here's another film with a decent cast (Aaron Kwok and Louis Koo, with upcoming star Cherrie Ying). The Story is about some Judo guys wanting to take on one another. There are so many missing holes in this movie, so many crappy editing and just a bad story line. It almost feels like they ran out of money and just decided to put together what they had. Only decent thing is the background music. (No I'm not talking about that awful song the lamer guy sings in the film either...)


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Twins Effect 2 - HK film - Unbelievable bad...

Don't watch it. I was going to browse for some pictures to add to this post, but then I decided it wasn't even worth my time. I'm taking the time to comment on this film so that everyone out there doesn't suffer the same two hours of torture of this really bad film. First of all, Twins effect 2 is suppose to be the sequel to Twins effect 1 (makes sense doesn't it?). Well the story is completely different, the characters are different, I think the only thing that is similar in anyway is the cast of actors. By the way, the twins effect is really the effect of the twins (a girl duo of Gillian chung and Charlene choi, yeah they're not even twins...lame huh)
This film had a major all star cast and did not even come close to any of its hype. As cute as the twins are, they cannot sing or act....the film also stars jaycee chan (Jackie chan's kid), and many guest appearances of other actors (Jacky Chan, Donnie Yuen, Tony Leung ka fai, edison chen, etc). So I've already mention that the acting is bad, I forgot to mention that the setting is crappy, the outfits are so-so, special effects are terrible. Even the camera view is crappy. There's one scene where the twins fight each other on a bridge, and the camera decides to go around them in circles...twice...for no reason, nothing special beneath them, nothing special above them....so I guess that was more of a time killer...oh on a last note the martial arts in the film is totally lame, only one scene was worth watching at all, and that was the fight between Jackie and Donnie (which was a good 7-10 minutes)....


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I can't believe how any of those people could even consider the film good....

A Tale of Two Sisters

Since it's October, I figure I'd start with a horror/thriller film. I don't have much time right now, so I'll just post two pictures....Finally got a chance to add to this post. Well I have to say that this thriller/horror film is one of the best ones I've seen. It's unbelievably beautiful. Sounds wierd huh? I've watched this film several times (partly because there were some things that I didn't catch, partly because I enjoy the film). The actresses were so great in the film. All three were amazing...and I have to say the music works so well with the rest of the film. (I ended up ordering the OST...from Yesasia.com). I just realized I've talked nothing about the film itself -- well keeping it short, It's a tale of two sisters, who finally goes home and meets their step mother...

Start of another blog...

Just to kick off things, this idea is meant for those of us who have so much free time that we'll do reviews on asian media --- the idea came up from 3 of us (Krystal, Robert, me). Robert doesn't know Krystal, nor does Krystal know Robert...but hey that'll make it interesting to see all points of views (I'm sure we'll all meet someday)...maybe I should've called this the Krystal.vs.Robert.vs.Luc Blog. oh well, anyway I hope we get a lot of people's opinions up on this one - Reviews of their favorite/hated films/singers/songs/models/pictures....