不知道票房如何,但若照一般人的反應來說(亦不是死硬派徐克狂熱份子),沒有可能大收。我提議它可以在太空館re-run,畢竟這套電影的最大功能,莫過於教人珍惜地球資源,以及欣賞海底美景。除了是一套保育電影,小朋友在太空館看,更能教育下一代保護地球。電影中的愛情部份,亦適合幼稚園的程度,簡直如童話故事。片末二人在水底游泳,寓意永恆美滿的愛情,我卻只看到兩條扁魷魚,恕難代入。…
進場看《電光滾石》的,不外乎兩種粉絲:一是Martin Scorsese的影迷,二是The Rolling Stones的樂迷,但相信兩者均會對電影失望。前者會覺得大師淪為演唱會紀錄者,後者會覺得和我家的演唱會DVD差不多,我為何要到電影院看。音樂揚起,當The Rolling Stones唱出心水歌曲時,觀眾必然會陶醉,像筆者一聽到As tears go by,聽得人神魂顛倒,但也只是顛倒了三秒,便會問自己為什麼要坐在戲院看。難道對這套電影的期望,就僅限於在一個電影院內重現一個live? As tears go by前後還有不知多少首「完整版」的歌曲 — —…
音樂電影一向「先聲奪人」,電影未上,原聲大碟已成行成市,加上現在youtube發達,以電影片段輯成的音樂錄像,總能讓人先睹為快。相信《一奏傾情》也是這樣被香港人接觸,尤其當它於Sundance及奧斯卡早已光芒四射。其實,男主角Glen Hansard在此片嬴得奧斯卡最佳原創歌曲前,已成功得到女主角Marketa Irglova的芳心 (在戲裡反而失敗了,無法跟愛人走在一起),並與她推出《The Swell Season》大碟(他也沒想到歌曲會大紅,現在反被人質疑「原創」的資格)。令這套電影本身出現很多「來得太早」的錯位意味。[youtube…
Woody Allen的《倫敦三步曲》或《迷失三步曲》來到最後一部。他也說過,這個系列是關於命運。若說《迷失決勝分》是講運氣、《遇上塔羅牌殺手》是講贖罪,那《迷失愛與罪》就是講良心。在命運擺佈裡,我們存在多少選擇…
Big Brother is Watching You. But this is not 1984, it is 2009 and Big Brother has become big sister, namely Aria, a super computer in control of every public connection, including traffic lights, cameras, mobile phones, gates — even the slightest vibrations that can be translated into sounds. She has been…
Batman: The Dark Knight友人說,小丑萬能,最好寫。班馬容易,殺人容易,脅持人質容易,偷DNA都無問題。但對我而言,最超於凡人還是他那套另類及獨道的價值觀,雖然帶著瘋狂,但也非沒有道理。「Outcasts」從來都附屬著救世的希望…
天水圍日與夜 The Way We Are (2008)
We know every film to a certain extent reflects reality but how much do they really? It has been long till I see one. Ann Hui’s The Way We Are brings us to Tin Shui Wai, after the town frequently appearing on newspaper headlines, earning a…
One of the sets in The Anderson Project is a peep show apartment. Stick in a token, and get a private room of adult videos. Somehow we all need this kind of sensation, just as we need fairytale for adults, somwhere away from life, and into it. If you still see adult video to be nothing…