GUYS, we are giving the all-time favorite TAIWAN movie “MONGA” a RUN for its MONEY!
Try ME! I can be TARZAN, try me!
WE love LOLLIPOPS!
WE are rehearsing the HIP HOP dance steps ….
Let’s SHARE this finger-licking SAUSAGE. It’s succulent …..and YUMMY!
LOVE is all AROUND …..
FILM DIRECTOR + the ever-horny YOUNG CAST
WE are SPLITTING you apart UPSIDE-DOWN!
LIFE poses UNENDING CHALLENGES.
I will START from the TOP and MOVE DOWNWARDS …..
YOU are KIDDING me that YOU WANT SEX NOW?
I don’t MIND being CRUCIFIED for SEX (drool).
So MUCH for SEX, but WE are still VIRGINS …..
WE have had all the FUN, so let’s BREAK UP now.
NOW I realize I still LOVE YOU and WANT you BACK!
“YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE “
(那些年，我們一起追的女孩)
TAIWAN PRESS REVIEW
For THOSE who THINK they can STAY forever YOUNG.
And are in DISDAIN of the ELDERLY.
(Part 1 of 2)
I say, man, don’t kid me.
This morning you are preening right in front of the mirror, basking in the glory of your youth.
You are young, you are handsome, and that’s swell.
Consider yourself a Godsend since you are well-endowed in fortune and kind.
A grim reminder here – time and tide wait for no man.
In everyone’s life there’s a youth – and in his finality there is an old age.
Life moves in circles and soon your time will come when gravity takes its toll and your skin starts to sag.
“YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE” sinks in this deep glaring warning:
You can only be young once.
Youth knows no repeat, no permanence.
And beauty will not last.
You may well fester when you’ve gotten this silicone job done on your nose, or work on having double eyelids to enhance your fading looks.
You may pile on layer upon layer of the ” beautiful always” cream SK2 before you retire for the night.
It won’t work. You may delay the aging process, but you cannot erase what nature has in store for you. There’s no proven elixir of youth.
Long ago, you had laughed in apparent disdain at an old man on your way to school.
Today, you are one? Hah.
The Chinese believe that if you behave badly during your youth, the day will come when retribution claims you.
They say what goes around comes around.
And for all the bad deeds, you will eventually get your just deserts.
Amen.
SHOULDN’T you be USING an ANTI-DANDRUFF SHAMPOO?
STOP playing HARD to GET, OK?
NEXT to licking LOLLIPOPS, I relish HOT DOGS!
We SHOULDN’T have been NAUGHTY …..
HOW about watching PORN after SCHOOL?
He’s AIN’T heavy, he’s my BROTHER!
Don’t CRY. We can always DO it AGAIN …..
“YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE”
(那些年，我們一起追的女孩)
TAIWAN PRESS REVIEW.
It’s GREAT to be YOUNG!
(Part 2 of 2).
In life, there will be lessons we learn that will leave indelible imprints in our minds.
Such as good things are transient, are momentary, they never last.
So treasure love when it’s around.
Maybe for now, the element is staring at you in the face.
But it’s like a car, parked at your door, when the time comes, it revs up and roars off.
Weep not when love dies.
People do fall out of love.
TIME WILL HEAL MOST EVERYTHING, but memories cannot be erased.
“YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE” is director GIDDENS’ maiden effort, adapting from his own very successful semi-autobiographical novel.
Now – the moment you sink knee-deep into the story, you’ll really have to exercise logic to discern what’s true and what’s not. It’s pure common sense.
The protagonist Ko Ching-Teng (Giddens’ real name, played by Ko Chen-Tung 柯震東), and his obnoxious chill-mates come with the most ridiculous sex-pointing-at-you nicknames: Boner, Cock, Groin and A-Ho.
They are the dare-devils of Ching-Cheng High, a backwater school in Changhua, central-west Taiwan and it’s right here where our story begins.
These five incorrigible brats are spending too much time striving to bowl over pretty classmate Shen Chia Yi (沈佳宜), played by Michelle Chen (陳妍希).
You are beckoned to hop aboard this roller-coaster journey that will take you through the nostalgic storms of 1990s. It’s back again to the formative high school days and the university life where you, once upon a time, swotted furiously for examinations.
Each stopover will be painted with a tracking phase – to exemplify the level of the love relationship between Giddens and Shen Chia Yi.
It’s puppy love to start off with, and everyone must realize that the path of true love never will run smooth.
The university period depicts separation blues where the pair leaves their hometown. They endeavor to maintain a long-distance relationship which predictably, will crack under adolescent strains.
Reality bites deep, bringing along the expected demise that is bundled with unexpected challenges.
Adulthood expounds major turning points and decisions. Gone are the hazy dazy carefree days of summer. Career decisions are made, though not always for the better.
The film ponders, peaks and develops each character thoroughly, with a subtle hint of how Giddens’ career as a writer takes shape.
Giddens is currently a popular and well-sought after writer in Taiwan.
“YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE” is his first foray into feature film making and is a ground breaking one too. It has smashed all previous box-office records set by former Taiwanese block-busters.
GIDDENS, though he may not admit it, has an uncanny foresight for smelling where the money is, too.
He will not stop at spectacular success in the movie ratings and takings. He’s an opportunist who loses no time in rushing the printing of a follow-up book called “The Making of the Apple-of-my-Eye Film: Somewhere, Sometime and Some way” packaged with a promotional DVD. It’s selling at double the price of the original novel.
Take a cue from this shrewd businessman as it’s obvious that he knows the value of a pink dollar.
He also crosses marketing frontiers to take a hilarious swipe at the gay community and is evident at his promoting raunchy homo-eroticism throughout the movie.
There are latent banter taking an indignant dig at raging pubescent hormones, the erect phallus, notwithstanding the graphic depiction of the gang’s masturbation scene in the classroom whenever the teacher’s back is turned.
We are also rewarded with silly showings of male legs cramping within the small university shower cubicle doing “you-know-what” to incite laughter.
And yeah, the male protagonist and his dad are practicing nudists in their own home for whatever reasons.
Plus the treatment of kissing straight men is a light matter here.
Sometimes, too much of a good thing kills, but not so in this case.
There are enough valid reasons to seduce the gay community to flock to the cinema to patronize the film.
Clearly GIDDENS is winning everybody’s heart and mind, including the support of the gay populace.
So there!
“YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYES” has a well-selected cast, a profound screenplay, a brilliant cinematographer and a wacko tempo.
This Reviewer finds the script witty, wicked, wise and probing.
It may be just another poignant adolescent love story, but it is by no means less powerful or stirring.
It will titillate you, move you and instill in you a pang of nostalgia of long gone years.
The late STEVE JOBS once said:
Your time on earth is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
I am sure that GIDDENS the writer/director must have a mind of his own when he boldly hammed artistic erotica to an otherwise vintage coming-of-age movie.
Under his transforming eyes, the most ordinary become engrossing subjects.
You’d wish for a feature film that will strike a deep chord in your heart.
This one does, so don’t miss it.
SURELY, A MUST-WATCH!
LISTEN to the ORIGINAL title song from “YOU ARE THE APPLEOF MY EYE” that’s creating beautiful memories:
Nay, I’d not even go this far to say I am a fan of HUGH JACKMAN, even though much has been reported that this Australian actor carefully selects his roles.
Nor would I bestow myself the dubious honor of being in a boxing arena as a spectator, cheering fighting robots.
But the reality is: these are facts assembled here in this clunky tale of competitive robotic fights amid an irresponsible father who’s seeking redemption over the custody of his long lost son.
And you bet, it’s one helluva of an enthralling, mesmerizing, keeping-you-on-edge movie, fresh from the oven of DISNEY.
Which says a lot about wholesome family entertainment with a heart.
HUGH plays Charlie Kenton, a down-on-his-luck robot fight promoter in REAL STEEL. His character Charlie is forever on the run, because he takes on bad risks he cannot accomplish, and is in severe financial straits.
The happening? Some time in 2020s. Charlie is an underdog ex-boxer now turns robot fight promoter.
Along with his live-in girl friend Bailey (EVANGELINE LILLY), she is the one woman who stands by him and believes in him when the whole world don’t. Her father was his coach, Charlie has consistently been trying to acquire fight robots with little success.
Luck has never been his calling card.
Now he has first, to reckon with a rude shock from the unexpected arrival of an 11-year-old son Max (DAKOTA GOYO) from a past relationship. The moment Charlie sees Max, he’s ever eager to transfer the right of custody to the boy’s aunt and her rich husband for a sum, simply because he needs money to buy robotic parts.
It is much later that his computer whiz son sees the potential in one discarded robot that’s in a badly twisted wreck and needs to be remodeled. He called it Atom.
The ultra-stylized special effects that propel the robot fighting are awesome.
The robots are humongous, powerful and fun. You can almost discern that they are “thinking” robots, each with his own own personality and in the case of some, heart.
“REAL STEEL” narrates a futuristic clunky tale with a rollicking heart, some soul and lots of action.
Superb acting from HUGH JACKMAN, DAKOTA GOYO and EVANGELINE LILLY takes this movie way to the top.
There’s a wonderful, magnetic chemistry between Charlie, the screen father and his teenage son Max, with plenty of emotive scenes that will surely sear your tear ducts.
Notwithstanding a magnificent sound track that will charm you.
It is, without doubt, one of the best cinematic offerings for the pre-Christmas season.
And hey presto, the Film director SHAWN LEVY sees bigger things lining up, such as a big screen franchise.
It goes for the obvious that romantic comedies are spreading themselves thin these days, in order to wean a broad based appeal.
Just by casting cute actors looking coy and spouting lovey-dovey lines just won’t add up.
The 60s era of squeaky-clean angelic gals-next-door with the bubbly innocence of DORIS DAY and SANDRA DEE had long been flushed down the toilet bowl.
The modern man prefers broads, or so we are led to think in this movie.
We are embracing the 21st century, the techno age of easy sex.
A rom-com is never complete, unless you ham it up with generous doses of premarital sex and “oh-yeah!” coital humpings.
I am saying this for anyone who loves horse riding.
Check the porn sites if you still have doubts.
“WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?” hits home a dirty question that reeks of fornication.
What if someone out there is pestering to keep in touch for whatever reasons?
You wanna give or not?
We’ve here a raunchy, female-driven feature with a carefree script that will enthrall you with provoking lines pertaining to the female vagina, the sexual libido and the doggie-rear-entry position.
Oh, for fuck’s sake …..
You dig this?
Yeah, everything is based on Karyn Bosnak’s naughty novel “20 Times a Lady”. Must say that Karyn is some lady.
“WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?” pretends to be a romantic romp but is really a shield for unbecoming sexual content and coarse language.
ANNA FARIS stars as Ally, a wide-eyed non-virgin who’s not been lucky in the love department. She wonders whether one of the guys she has written off in the past could have been her soulmate.
The premise here is that, for each woman, there is a magical number when it comes to love — if you haven’t found Mr. Right by the time you’ve slept with 20 guys, you’re unlikely to. (lol).
So Ally concocts a desperate idea. She attempts to track all her ex-bed mates down, giving each a second chance and trying to fix past mistakes along the way.
Colin (CHRIS EVANS) plays a sexy, hunky, struggling musician with a string of one-night stands. He loves fornicative sex and one-night stands and he lives right across the hall from Ally. Very convenient.
He is also a nudist who retrieves his morning paper in the buff, with just a teeny-weeny towel to cover his privates. Yeah, he’s engorgingly big!
Naturally he and Ally will meet – because the scriptwriters demand so.
The two sex fiends soon develop a barter arrangement — he’ll help track down her exes if he can utilize her apartment to flee from the love-stricken female tarts he has seduced and bedded the night before.
Now, as time goes by, the two unlike opposites find a mutual sexual attraction and fall in love.
“Don’t touch me, no sex ….” at first, but …….. go guess – but there’s no reward for arriving at a brainless, simple answer.
This movie, directed by MARK MYLOD skates the thin line between the romantic and risque, and no one would ever notice, if not for the affable chemistry of ANNA FARIS and CHRIS EVANS.
The film director tries an emotional twist at the end.
The attempt may be sincere, yet it appears to be ineffective and prosaic.
There’s a quote from American author ROBERT FULGHUM whereby he says: “When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love – true love.”
That’s aptly describing the two preposterous leads Ally and Colin.
If, for want of nothing better to do after work, go catch this goofy movie.
Who knows, when the credits roll, you may get cheesy and tickled all over.
