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Movies Reviews 2000 Space Cowboys This is a really funny show. I found myself laughing hard, and the characters even though they are really old, they still exudes sex appeal. I like the part where Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones get spun round at such high acceleration. I would properly have screamed my voice hoarse and spilled my guts out. Another part, where this old man was as blind as a bat, managed to say all the letters on the eye chart out without a mistake. "I may be blind, but I have a fantastic memory." Something like that… It's almost laugh-a-minute show, except towards the end, it was so poignant. They added the part where Tommy Lee Jones's character had cancer, so that we won't feel so bad that he had to be left behind on the moon, because of some stupid asshole on the flight made the space shuttle malfunction. Perhaps, that was why they added that his wife had passed away. Since I haven't watched Armageddon, I don't know what happened exactly, but perhaps it is a parody. Not so sure about this. Anyway, this is a good one. Gossip I found the show a bit short, and towards the end, it seems a bit unlikely and too rushed. They should build it up to a higher climax. The main character started a vicious gossip that escalates to unthinkable consequences. As they reveal the link between the gossiper and the victim, it opens up old wounds. The tempo of the show is quite ok though. Quite exciting, though it can be better. I am attracted to all the wall posters, where this guy just scanned everything onto the computer and created art out of it. He has this really big proffessional printer and can print really big posters. I would love to get my hands on this machine. But the plot or the gossip is quite juvenile. In a place where you don't kick a big fuss out of who is sleeping with who, it seems quite unlikely that people will spread the gossip and maul it into pieces and make a big fuss. After all, it is none of their business. I would think the escalation of the gossip is a bit too much. Summer Holidays A show starring Sammi Cheng and Richie Ren. Girl get dumped by boyfriend who was double-timing her, fired by boss because he snatched the deal from her, lost a lot of money in the stock market, found out that her island has a buyer. Off she flies to Malaysia and meets Boy, who is basically a beach bum and owns half the island. She coninves to get him to sell his part but he refuses. This is a light-hearted comedy, but I still found some parts quite touching. Ah-Niu is quite comical, and I think he should pursue this line further. I think the beach is nice. I hate Tay Ping Hui's voice in the show. It is voiced by the voice of Stephen Chow in his movies and it is really irritating. Keeping the Faith Haven't watch a movie that is so funny and hilarious for a long time. The different religion issue in the show was so familar. Edward Norton is a good actor. Ever since Primal Fear and Fight Club, he has certainly won over many fans. Jenna Elfman is good too. The part where she spys on Cassonova at the opposite block is quite funny. The amorous couple were always on each other. There was another part where Jenna Elfman put her V3688 on vibration mode on her thigh. Ben Stiller, from There's something about Mary is the Jewish rabbi while Edward Norton is a Catholic priest. Check out this movie. U-571 This show is about WWII and submarines. There was German in the show and I could actually understand quite a lot. Thanks to my trip to Germany. The only problem was some of the German not very accurate. I'm curious about who Jon Bon Jovi was in the movie. My friend only mentioned it after the show and I have no impression of him. Turn out he was heavily edited out after censors in US found that his decapitated body too gruesome. Matthew Mahagony was quite handsome but he should leave his cap on. Look better that way. I knew straight from the start the guy who got married and had to report for duty straight away would die and he did. It was pretty fast pace and exciting, but the plot is quite predictable. The only sad part is that the Russian nuclear sub that sank seems too close to this show. Erin Brochovich This show is about Brochovich. She went on her own crusade after discovering a public utilities firm had used radioactive chromium in the water. People started falling sick to various types of cancer and illnesses. I am totally grossed out by the dead frog in the well. I wonder why Julia Roberts wore clothes that showed her bra and not just the bra strap. Her feminine charms worked. Since this is based on a real person, I admire the courage of the woman. A touching story. Julia Roberts won Best Actress in the Oscars. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon This is a martial arts show with a difference. For once, we see people with fantastic qing gong. Even those on our normal martial arts staple had to pause and do somersaults in the air to gain momentum. This is a bit like the Demi Gods, Semi Devils where Xu Zhu could bounce up into the air. Zhang Ziyi is quite pretty and acted out her role well. The Mandarin in the movie was atrocious and you can hear so many different accents when they are supposed to be from the same village or town. If their qing gong was so good, the girl could have just bounced to the place to get the antidote for Chow Yuen Fatt. If the green sabre was so important and so sharp, why didn’t all the weapons of Michelle Yeoh break earlier? As we know, only diamond is that strong. And if Michelle Yeoh was hurt, why didn’t her arm get chop off? I always hate it when the girls dressed up as guys and nobody recognise them. This happened in the teahouse where all the pugilists came and fought with Zhang Ziyi. I think the guy who acted as her lover was quite stylo, if only he bathed. I wonder how they can really survive in the desert. I think the scenes where they fought and rode horses were a bit too long. The ending was just as weird. Maybe Lee Ang should make it shorter. Needing You Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng acted in this show and they are my favourite HK stars. I think Andy Lau should get a nicer haircut. The part where Sammi Cheng went on a shopping spree and bought and bought was quite interesting. The only thing was, her family needed money to buy a new house, and her pay did not seem that high and yet, she had no problems with her credit card bills. Sammi Cheng kept showing her blank face and she already dressed very well. I don’t see why Andy Lau needed to teach her how to dress. I think his tips on how to get a guy’s attention quite useful. *grin* The other guy who acted as the young multi-millionaire was quite natural. Actually I think he and Sammi Cheng made a better match. The part where Andy Lau couldn’t ride a bike was actually a laugh on Full Throttle where he played hellrider. Then the last part where he managed to get a bike express to get him to the pier was so stupid. Yet, the beauty of the show was that two people could actually connect and think the same things and finally get together. This is a real romantic show and it was like a pillar of support to me during that time. Me, Myself and Irene This is a dumb show. Stupid jokes. Gross stuff. But I laughed. Jim Carrey changed from Mr Good Guy to Mr Bad Guy and stringed Irene along. The cow part was sick and so stupid. How can you put so many bullets through it and it won’t die? Another part was the cola machine. Jim Carrey actually ripped the entire thing apart. “Where did all the food go to?” Jim Carrey asked his sons and well, we could see where it went to a few years later. I am scared of that. All the fats won’t show up until you are middle-aged. Gone in 60s This show was very boring. While I admire all the cars, it seemed to lack a plot. They have to steal 50 cars. How interesting can it get? I prefer new sports cars rather than all the vintage cars that are really expensive. Didn’t realise the girl in the show was Angeline Jolie. She was just a minor character, next to Nicholas Cage and all the cars. Maybe this is what girls hate. Losing out to a car. The only way to counter that is to get your own car. Better than the guy’s. The part where Cage smashed his Mustang was such a shock. Did they really do that to a vintage car? But then again, movie producers have all the money in the world. Bicentennial Man This is one show that made me cry and cry. Imagine living for so many years (centuries) and see the love ones die, even if you have no feelings. As an Isaac Asimov fan, I particularly enjoyed all the robot rules. It’s like finding a favourite book on the big movie screen, after you have imagined it while reading. Robin Williams is fantastic. See him transform from a robot without facial expressions to one fully-fledged human. The female robot was very cute. From karaoke queen to dancing queen, she was the one who provided comic relief. Many people dreamt of having a house by the sea and Robin Williams did that in the show. There were many philosophical issues touched on, such as immortality, humanity and so on. Tokyo Raiders This is a cool show. The fighting was so slick, unlike The Avengers. Tony Leung, Kelly Chen and Cheng E-Kin were acting quite well, but basically they were just running from one place to another. My personal favourite was the Japanese Yukuza or whatever. He embodies all the manliness you can find in a man, even with his disgusting nose problem. All the fighting with the umbrellas and skate scooter was just straight from the comic book. And it’s believable. If only my house is so fantastically designed. The Bachelor Would you get married to someone you don’t laugh at all, sleep with and have children for at least 10 years? No. Would you do that for 100 million bucks? I don’t know. I can’t answer that. But that was what the show was about. Chris O’Donell had to marry someone in 24 hours or something like that. His girlfriend rejected his proposal, thinking he was not sincere enough and then left the town for work. Faced with a dilemma, he had to ring up all his ex-es and proposed to them. I think if you had broken up with someone, it was for a reason. Why try again? One woman was so close to marrying him when she heard that she had to have children and chickened out. Another was so upset that she set the shop on fire. And imagine when 1000 women who wants to marry him turn up at the church, scaring him out of his wits. What I can’t stand is his girlfriend decided to marry him, even though he had been proposing to other women and seriously thought about getting married to them. 100 million bucks was a lousy excuse. Running Out of Time This is the movie where Andy Lau won the Hong Kong’s Best Actor Award. He was portrayed as a man who was dying of cancer and just wanted to take revenge on someone whom double-crossed his father. And the great lengths he went to. He stole some stuff, pretended to have bombs, and still managed to sneak away from the building undetected. Lau Qing Yun (I can’t remember his dialect name) was equally good as the cop who was after his heels. Andy Lau went through a woman’s disguise and as an old man. The make up was great. There are a few poignant moments, such the girl who helped him to escape fell in love with him, but he couldn’t offer her anything as his time was running out. The discovery of that was so heart wrenching. The only unbelievable part was the amount of blood that was coughed out by Andy Lau. It’s too much. The pace was very fast, and at times the MTV slow-mo style was tastefully done. I watched this show at least 3 times and I never failed to cry.
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