Movie Marathon

Yesterday a few of us left work at about 6.45pm to have a movie marathon. We started off with this movie called "Men in White" directed by this director called Kelvin Tong who was apparently a top Singapore horror film director who directed "The Maid".

Anyway, this movie deserved to be talked about because it was easily one of the top lousiest movie I have ever seen in my life. Ya, it was that bad. Let me tell you a bit more about the plot so that if you ever find yourself at the cinema wondering what movie to watch, you'd avoid this movie like a plague.

Being a human in Singapore is tough. Being a ghost is even tougher. This story revolves around five cowardly and clueless Singaporean ghosts: a badminton player (Shaun Chen), a gangster girl (Ling Lee), a housewife (Alice Lim) and two hip-hop rappers (Ben Yeung & Xavier Teo), Men In White tells of their misadventures as they stumble through the bizarre rules of ghost-hood. Trouble arrives in the form of a photographer ghost (David Aw) who joins out motley crew of undead and instigates them to wreak havoc on unsuspecting humans. The living fights back and our ghosts find themselves on the run and embarking unwittingly on a hilarious quest to strike fear into hearts of Singaporeans - a tribe more afraid of losing, failing and breaking rules than ghosts. (Source: Oh Genki Movies)

So why does the movie deserve a NEGATIVE 5 star rating?

• There was at least 3 music videos in the movie where the ghosts rapped in English, Mndarin, Cantonese and Hakka. I mean... wtf??? Ghosts rapping and singing in multilingual???
• Non-stop invisible "lausai" - apparently ghosts can only eat rotten mandarin oranges and roasted pork day in day out. If they ever eat anything else like steam boat, satay etc, they'll "lausai" like mad buuuuuuut, ghosts have invisible "lausai" where in the movie, the camera zoomed into a clean toilet bowl!
• Repeated actions over and over again like how one of the ghosts called Ah Leng will kidnap unknown strangers from the street when he finds them "starring" at him. Then how the rest of the ghosts will put on their masks to apologize to the victim in Hakka - and really, when I say repetitive, it really is repetitive i.e. the same dialogs, actions and scenes.
• Lousy casts... None of the guys are gals featured were good looking... they are worst than your average Joe on the street...
  
  

But the next movie that we watched was called "200 Pounds Beauty". Now THIS movie is totally different from the first one... This movie deserves a POSITIVE 10 star rating! And the reasons are simple:

• Super cute lead actor and super pretty lead actress
• Superb soundtracks
• Simple plot

Hanna is a lip sync vocalist for Ammy, the famous Korean pop singer. Though Hanna is always ignored due to her appearance, she has always been a bright and happy girl until Ammy humiliated her in front of Sang-jun, the one she secretly admired. Finally, she made a life-changing decision: to have a major cosmetic surgery.

• Check out the videos I downloaded from YouTube and tell me the guy ain't cute... hehehehe... Here's the song Hanna sang at the audition with her previous music producer but as "Jenny":
  
  
  
  
• And her first public appearance as a singer: