THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM

I can't believe I haven't posted about this movie but I guess I have really been very busy all these weeks until today when I am down with flu and can find some time to do some posting.

Huang and Fan

Starring Fan Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo, the movie started promising but slowly degraded into mayhem because it was so badly scripted that even guest star Cecilia Yip and Tsui Hark as artistic director could not save it. 

The plot was a complete mess with the interwoven storyline that couldn't quite decide whether it wants to be a love story, wuxia period drama etc. The characters were largely superficially portrayed without any depth, hence you don't feel anything towards them even when they were killed off in the battles. Even the love between Fan and Huang was unconvincing and it was unbelievable how the wolf-raised Lian Nishang could just fall hopelessly in love with Zhuo Yihang so easily and again out of love with her hair turned white just as easily for purely dramatic effect.

The previous 1980's version with the late Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin Chinghsia is still the classic.

A bambi eyed Fan

Vincent Zhao was the villain this time round

春娇与志明 (LOVE IN THE BUFF)

Today's weather - sunny

This is a sequel to the original movie "Love in the Puff" which I did not catch, so I do not know what happened between the two leads Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung previously. But I guess it doesn't affect new viewers like me because it can be seen as an independent movie on its own.


It started off by showing how a girl seemed to be cursed because her three previous boyfriends were killed one after another in freak accidents related to cooking. For a moment, I thought I was in the wrong cinema until the two leads appeared.


The movie tells the tale of the two, who faced some relationship problems, broke up in Hong Kong and  went to Beijing separately to work. When they met in Beijing again sometime later, the sparks between them were re-ignited. By then, the younger Shawn had a new mainland girlfriend of one year and Miriam was trying to start afresh with a nice, attentive and warm guy who came to her rescue in an incident.




It was a rather sad and poignant movie that explored the past and present relationships of the two characters, and how they fought hard to rekindle their past relationship but yet could not overlook the annoying flaws or let go of their new relationships. They were in a dilemma as they weighed whether to listen to their hearts to go back to their old flames or to listen to their heads to move on with their new found ones. Eventually, they each came to their final decision to stuck it out together. Despite each other's imperfections, they were perfect for each other as a couple.


For me, the interesting and even comedic parts came in the form of brief cameos by Ekin Cheng, Linda Wong, Huang Xiaoming and the laughter and vomit inducing cross-dressing video of Shawn Yue emulating Linda Wong's MTV hit song "Don't Ask Who I Am", which I  attached below.