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Death at a Funeral (2007)
Bravo, Bravo
Just like the movie said, we are living in "a world of chaos and questions". One simple funeral exposed the ugliness and true beauty of beings. We live without questioning until we encounter an incident that gives us a chance to think, to understand and to seek the true us inside us.
When I started to watch this movie, I was expecting some boring redundancies like many other British movies; I even put my hand on the FF button. However I stopped. I was wrong AGAIN. All those small details pictured a funny yet meaningful story. Not only it brought us laughters, more importantly, it gave us a chance to watch ourselves in the movie. Ever single person from Simon to Peter, represents one of us, crazy, selfish, busy, faithless but with a golden heart hidden deep inside.
Someday we will all die just like "dad". But what we will be remembered as who we are, not for bad behaviors but for good deeds. Because we know there are "Daniels" at our funerals.
Feng kuang de shi tou (2006)
The rebirth of Chinese comedy
Due to many reasons such as censorship, financial problems etc. Chinese movie industry has been at the bottom of food chain for decades. Only few people can make money from movie industry without the help of government. Later, many directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen kaige turn to make all those blockbuster movies with high volume of investment. However, it does not seems to be a good way to keep Chinese movies alive. Empty plots, awkward performance of good-looking actors and actresses could not save movies. They are rip off money from people once, twice but never thrice.
Crazy Stone was born under the circumstance that Chinese people are so disappointed by those movies made by zhang Yimou and Chen kaige that they only spend few us dollars buying illegal DVD copies on streets rather than going to movie cinemas. The enriched plot, excellent performances of unknown actors and hilarious story save the last hope of this country's movies. The movie is produced by famous Hongkong actor Andy Lau's company with very little investment, however, it does not bother the quality at all. In fact, the quality is I believe as one of the best in Chinese movie history.
All those black humors in the movies deserve to be mentioned. However, people who have not lived in China for years could not understand why it's funny, or even worse, it kills interests of people who get used to the vision effects of Hollywood productions or the romance and depressions of European movies.
In a conclusion, this movie is highly recommended for people who are living in China and would like to learn about this country. Hopefully, you will enjoy and understand it.
Chaos (2005)
The worst one of Statham
This movie is the worst one of Statham. It doesn't even make too much sense.
The worst part of this movie is the actors and actresses. I cannot believe why they hire a bunch of people to do this. Their acting is so fake.
The drama could be better, but it seems to be really low-quality.
The music is terrible. It makes this bad movie even worse.
It tries to copy Heat, but they couldn't do it. Heat is a master piece of Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Their acting are the best. Jason Statham never let me down, but this time is an exception.
I wouldn't suggest spent 20 bucks on going to cinema to watch this movie. It does not worth it.
Wu ji (2005)
definitely one of the worst movie in history
definitely one of the worst movies in history. not only you cannot understand it, but also the stupid director tried his best to be an ARTIST. millions of investment was wasted on hiring good-looking actors and actresses, building scenes. but I doubt they finished the story in one day.
It just make no sense. I really wish the director can see this, so he will give up his career in the future.
Besides, the actors and actresses cannot speak Chinese well. This is ludicrous. It is a Chinese movie, but people have to bear the Japanese Chinese and Korean Chinese.
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
a meaningful movie in a funny way
If u want to laugh hard, then this movie is the one you are looking for. If u want to think deep, this is also the right one. It simply bring you the essence of those reports from industrial research agencies full of craps. Think about this way, whenever you say something to people, then you are facing the question of:" There is no physical evidence to prove there is connection between the results and the reasons". And continue with "If you cannot prove me wrong then I m right." Of course we cannot retort since we are not those nerds who spent entire life in lab proving smoking can cause lung cancer. If we think this way, there is nothing right existing in this world. so this movie is telling you a story of how the industry uses different tool to conduct your way of thinking.Good movie~ It make fun of media, tobacco, alcohol, weapon industry.