yah! im honest..! around 1/4 of the movie consists of this eerie, high pitch "hehehehe" supposedly made by the 'ghost' ... hahaha so after me n my sis watched the movie, all i had to say on the way home was "hehehehe" and i was feeling nauseous due to the lousy handling of the camera at the end. I had to stuff my face with popcorn in order to prevent myself from puking! hahahaha well,its not that bad lah...but its quite bad..lol! but dont fret, the camera starts to get out of control only at the end... so for those who are planning on watching the movie..u may still go n watch without bringing your sea-sick pills..LOL just kidding.
well, i think i m gonna blog about the entire movie...and it will contain some spoilers...so if you don't think its worth it to spend RM9 on watching the movie...do read on! hehe!
i was lucky enough to get my hands on RM5 tickets thanks to my friend. to be honest,i won't spend my hard-earned RM9 on this movie if not for this complimentary ticket.
if you ask my friends...they would tell you i've been pretty excited over watching this movie for the past few days...but, i can tell you its not the same kind of excitement as i always feel when im going to watch movies like harry potter or lord of the rings,no. i was pretty curious on how the entire movie would turn up to be like. and like i've said, it is a history in making...so i just want to make sure that i can tell my grandchildren nxt time that I've watched Sarawak's first ever movie.. on the BIG SCREEN! heh...
ok..enough with the cock talk...now lets get on to the movie...
the movie was mainly acted out by 4 main actors and actresses. the 2 actresses being our ex local beauty pageants... they r Sanny Lu, a Miss Sarawak of 2002 and Renai Mattu, our Miss Tourism International 2004. The other 2 guys, are Smyth Wong as Nick and Dominic Morris as JJ. All 4 being members of a final year project team.
Sanny Lu - shes quite a beauty :)
Renai Mattu - potential actress
Smyth Wong - i think hes quite cute 'x'!
JJ - do keep a look out for him at Star Cineplex!! you migh c him sweeping the corridors 'x'!!!
the first scene shown was some sort of a prologue giving viewers some explanation on the story.here's what they have to say....well i didnt actually copy down the story word by word in the cinema so this is as close as i could get:
"the story begins in 1942"
"his parents were both killed by the japanese"
"he was left alone and he fled to a cave to hide"
"armed with only a mask and a red loin cloth,he would run out at night to look for food"
"one night,he was not so lucky"
"the villagers caught him"
"the next day,he died.the villagers put his remains in a 'tempayan' and placed it in his cave"
"they thought that would stop the little red thief"
"however!!!!![music heighthens], one nite...they found his mask"
"...the legend continues....."
hahahah not bad huh? i actually surprised myself as i typed these out. amazing i could still remember those words..hahahaha! well, i think it was a pretty good introduction, at least it didnt leave us clueless about the entire story.
the next scene shows Sanny,the chinese guy and the err..native guy at a local arts museum shooting antique looking masks. when it first started, the first thing that i noticed was.....their lips do not sync with the speech!! my goodness....its really quite obvious. its like the movie was acted out in another language and the speech that we heard was embedded into the scenes after the shooting. hmm...not very good there bjarne (Bjarne Wong is the director of the movie,just in case you dont know) :P it actually reminds me of a home made movie done by my coursemates few years ago...HAHAHA
one part of the movie which really tickles me is where JJ works part time at Star Cineplex!! the exact same cineplex in which we were watchin the movie..hahahaha..that scene's a classic!
next......the camera starts shooting Sanny at her really huge house, doing her research and so on n so on..its pretty boring..*yawn* until the heading "Sanny doing research at her college" came out!
woo i immediately sat up straight n opened my eyes wide @@
hahahaha that's cos, i've heard that my alma mater .. my oh so beautiful college was in one of the scenes in the movie...hahhahaha. the scenes shot there all are very much crap scenes... 'x'
it was showing err..sanny,lisa and the other 2 guys ..walking around the college. but the weird thing is...there were no students AT ALL. the whole college was just occupied by those 4 actors and actresses and their err..professor..who looks like someone they dragged in from the road. come to think of it...he looks like the guy selling burger outside my college gates.............hmmmm...the professor was talking to Sanny and Lisa with the fish market type of english. it was like:
Prof Crap: eh! Sanny you don 4get to submit your assignment ahhh..or i will fail u ah!!
well thats that...the next scene shows Sanny rummaging around in her dad's library....there was no explanation on what Sanny's dad was...and where was he until the very end of the movie..hmmhhmhm.. Sanny found an old old map...to God knows where...and she decides to do her research on the place shown in the map.
nexttt.........the 4 friends were in a 4 wheel drive with car plate number QKL7777..hahahah! they were goin somewhere farrrrrrrrrrr...thats all i know.
they then reached a long house...and this Sanny keeps on saying "this is not rite....this isnt rite!"
God knows what's not rite....then Lisa says ..BLAH BLAH BLAH.. and Nick says BLAH BLAH BLAH and JJ says ARGHHHHHH..and blah bla..
oh boy...im getting tired typing the whole story out...ok i change my mind..i wont include any REAL spoilers here.. i will just tell you what i think of the entire movie..KHIK...
well...to be honest... i think Renai Mattu was the best actress among the 4 of them. She spoke good english and she was pretty lively. Not like the other 3,they were errrrrrrrrrr...quite rigid. its quite funny come to think of it..hehe. however, she has huge thighs and she was wearing this really short skirt...mmmmmm not very appealing Renai.
but there was this scene where she was bathing in a river................OOOOOOOOOOOOO..and she was naked...WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..i nearly spit out my 7up when that scene came out.
Renai's HOT HOT scene..woooooooooooooo
haiyaa no lah!!.. u think this is a porn movie meh??? heheh..gotcha! *wink* ;)
but she was quite sexy la...hehe
however, Renai wasnt the best performer in the entire movie....actually, i think the person who acted BEST was the old native witch doctor in the long house.HAHAHAHAHA...yeaaaa! im honest!! altho , he didn't speak a word of english,nor mandarin...but he was veryyyyy natural. i wonder if hes brad pitt in a disguise...hmmmmm...
the little red ghost who kept on appearing and then disapear again with the high pitch "hehehheheh". i think i can make a better red ghost
OH! the speech in the movie consisted of a mixture of mandarin,english,iban and bm. yeap thats about it. so its good in the sense that it protrays sarawak correctly. we really do listen to a mixture of these few languages in our everyday lives. and the scenes shot in the long house was quite nice. it was really scenic!
i felt a little ashamed that being a sarawakian myself...i've yet to c all these places.
the movie isnt all that bad....well...if a movie manage to startle me 2/3 times...then ..umm..its not that bad rite? although i wasnt that impressed by the movie...we can't compare the legend of the red curse with hollywood movies that we r so accustomed to watch. hey! come on... those movies were filmed with advanced technologies and by professional actors and actresses....of cos they r incomparable.
Sanny taking a break during production. I think shes really pretty :))))) at least she made a good impression of us sarawakian ladies..ahem...
Bjarne Wong - nice pic! ;)
credit goes to Bjarne Wong for having the guts and the determination to come out with our first ever movie. not everyone would have done that. me for one, woulndt like to fork out my own RM1 mil to produce a movie where you have to distribute discounted tickets just to attract people to come and watch your movie...hahaahah
all i have to say is....watch it if you feel curious on how the entire movie 'feels' like...but dont complain...that's all i have to say..haha
when the movie finished...i heard some wise guy saying "AIYERRR....pu hao kan de!!!" meaning....AIYERRR... not nice one!!! no comments!!! 'x' i think they should try making a movie of their own...lets see what they can produce.
footnote: for those who r interested...feel free to visit http://www.thelegendoftheredcurse.com. photos in this post was taken from this site.
2 comments:
though many years old, this movie was still by far the worst movie (locally or internationally) I've ever sat through.
where can i see this movie? is it on youtube?
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