was so ridiculously bad i dunno where to start.

1. art direction was atrocious

- disgusting set - who the hell used neon pink during the tang dynasty era? and don't tell me they did it cos they wanted to be different. its just disgustingly hideous 
and gaudy.

- stupid choice of wardrobe for the women. they must have had to have lots of break between ( Read more... )

and so i went to watch battle of wits yesterday.

it was, disappointing.

well, firstly it was disappointing because i had no time to finish up my bento set in the cinema before the movie began.

and then it was disappointing because cinematographically it wasn't that exciting.

sure, the battle scenes were quite grand, but that's about it.

nothing that ( Read more... )

oldboy is the prequel to korean revenge horror flick sympathyforladyvengeance. i didn't like ladyvengeance (boring :O) so i had to be dragged to watch oldboy. i was pleasantly surprised. i liked the violence in oldboy. (warning:spoilers) in the final climax of ladyvengeance, when the family members went in onebyone (pairbypair) to whack the ( Read more... )

a yakuza horror flick indeed. i liked it very much. made me laugh out loud. wild hilarious wacky off the top ideas. some of the imagery and scenes read to me as purely male sexual gratification. then again, maybe there's some deeper meaning that i don't know about yet. (warning:spoilers) but hey, an old woman who spends her nights squeezing milk ( Read more... )

was pretty boring actually. but hsuchi was pretty darn hot as a gothrockchick though, in the third, last, and least boring story of the three stories. i was a bit disturbed by the non-chronological arrangement of the three times (eras) for one. the first story was of old times, then the second story of even older times, and the third story of the ( Read more... )

i watched election.one. on dvd on my laptop and fell asleep halfway. i was dragged to watch election.two. and i actually enjoyed it very much. i liked the violence very much indeed. (warning:spoilers). i liked the part when louiskoo shredded the dead guy into minced meat and fed it to each dog locked up individually with each of his rival's main ( Read more... )

at first watch, it reminded me a lot of ladridibiciclette (bicyclethief-neorealism) which was such a pain and torture to watch, that i was so tempted to stop the dvd the moment i detected the semblance. but i'm glad i pushed on. about half an hour into the film, beijingbicycle diverged from ladridibiciclette and i was so thankful for that. although ( Read more... )

i don't know what else i can say about this wongkarwaifilm that has not been said yet already, except perhaps that i've been too late and too slow in watching it. i liked it. i liked the plot and the characters. i particularly liked the line from the femme fatale who wore a raincoat and shades at the same time. i quote loosely from the subtitles "i ( Read more... )

love story is about everything all at the same time. it's got elements of the two most popular movie genres - horror and romance. and it amalgamates other different forms of art in one film - literature (the protagonist is a writer) and theatre (there is a play within the film). my favourite character in the film was actually the cantonese speaking ( Read more... )