Sunday, August 19, 2007
881 on 188
|1:51 AM|
by Daniel Ang
Singapore’s 'bad boy' filmmaker Royston Tan just loves number, from 15, 4:30 and now the Getai (Chinese 7th month stage show) inspired 881.
Here are 8 reasons to watch and 1 reason not to watch 881:
1. 1st musical movie from Singapore, filmed on a $1 million dollar budget with $100,000 spent on its elaborate costumes inspired from Japanese geishas to Thai princesses.
2. Two Singaporean (by right, one Malaysian) Papayas Yeo Yann Yann and Mindee Ong, very underrated by local audience, but able to act, dance, sing and cry like a turn of a tap.
3. Third full length feature by talented Royston Tan. We should support local talents, right?
4. Four other cast including Getai veteran Liu Ling Ling, the very silent Qi Yu Wu (the male version of a vase)and VJs May and Choy who brings the most laughs with their ridiculous pronunciation of ang-moh accented Mandarin and Hokkien. Nothing can be funnier than their tribute to Madonna, durian-boobs style.
5. Five star rating from several film critics. They can’t be wrong, can they?
6. Sixth family member which is Qi Yu Wu’s cock. Don’t think dirty! Everybody appreciates a little bit of Hokkien cock jokes.
7. Seventh month getai razzle-dazzle of entertainment, song and dance MTV-styled.
8. You will get more than 8 songs from familiar Hokkien tunes, to new compositions such as the very popular "One Man One Half" by Eric Huang and Xiao Han.
And that 1 reason would be the lack of emotional depth. The film somewhat reminded me of Royston’s Cut, full of dance sequences, crowd, costume changes, and music which is more stylish than intense.
Release Date: 9th August 2007 (National Day! so local lol=p)
Language: Mandarin
Running Time: 110 mins
LOL cute movie with lots of hokkien and i seriously nid the subtitles=pp till nw still quite confused. is the xian gu fake?=pp
todae finally got bak my LG choco after sendin it to service for mths?=p miss my choco=pp den went for the last round of fireworks for national day. every firework display is different and shortlived. will never get to see enuff....
Viewing spot.
finally finished watching the vineyard man. been draggin for few mths! lol the ending is simply sweet.. 
goin to move on to watch One litre of tears. suddenly saw the title again online. watched first 3 epi at fren's house last yr.. a real touching jap drama.
This dorama is about a girl who was diagnosed with a disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration when she was 15 years old, and was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25 years old.
The plot is based on the true story of a Japanese girl named Kito Aya, who had the same disease. She kept writing in her diary to remember her experiences until she could no longer hold a pen. Aya simply wished to live until the end of her life, and the purpose of writing in the diary was to remind herself to not give up. She shed tears many times, at the same time encompassed by the rich love and support from her family, friends, and boyfriend. Her diary “1 Litre of Tears” was published after her death, because of its inspiring and courageous message of, “Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.” So far, over 18,000,000 copies of her diary have been sold.
http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/2006/01/01/1-litre-of-tears/
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