Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Salon, Sepet Vs.....

……..the rest of the Malay scenes. What are the rest of the Malay Scenes? Well, it definitely not including Layar Lara, Spinning Gasing and a few countable films, but for the rest of them, the scenes included movies that were worthless to watch.

Yeah, yeah, shout all you want, you fans of Sembilu 1, 2, 3, I don’t care what you have in your mind, your heart or your mouth, the movies were just…suck.

I have never watched any of the movies before, well, maybe a bit of it, but knowing the plot, it doesn’t matter anyway. I mean, wasn’t it obviously stupid for the couple whose relationship not approved by the girl’s brother to wait for seven years while the brother served his sentences in prison? Get married la during that time you buffoon. The parents approved what? Moreover, why the brother holds such a grudge anyway? It just doesn’t make sense, the plots are too weak and I’ve never heard of those stupid things before in my life.

The actors and actresses? Commercial based. You know, I was really frustrated about KL Menjerit, the sequel or prequel, I’m not sure. I really like the first one, although the cinematic, the sound are not that good, but the plot and the actors were okay, at least, they can act. Then came Erra Fazira. Well, I knew her personally, but this is business, nothing personal. I hate her act; the only thing that she could make that seems real was her tears, that’s all. Accompanied by a weak plot makes it worse.

It’s bugging me to think how in the world would someone watched Anak Mami or Gila2 Pengantin, it just, doesn’t make sense. Soal Hati was okay la, Afdlin saves a lot there. But the rest? Hmm…. still remembered when The Phantom Menace was out on the first day. Almost everywhere the tickets were out. But on that day, we, about 10 people, drove to The Mines at 8 PM, without booking or anything, asked for the tickets for the midnight show and we got the back seat, hahahaha, to think that even in the US the tickets were sold out.

There were several movies of note during those times. Rahsia, Layar Lara, Sayang Salmah, although it still doesn’t reach the good standards yet, but the plots were good, it makes people think. However, movie like Kaki Bakar was much too heavy, it was more towards the director’s ideology rather than commercial based.

Not long before, Spinning Gasing makes its way into the commercial line. There were several movies before, mostly independence, but Spinning Gasing has succeeded in making its way into the big screen, though I’ve heard after a couple of years in the dark room of Finas.

It’s a start of a new age of filming genre in Malaysia. The cinematic, the actors and the plot were good. It does reflected a bit about Malaysian nowadays, it makes the viewers think about the message that the film tried to send through. Whether it’s bullshit or not, it doesn’t matter; most of the movies around the world were bullshits this day, no matter how they said that the movies were based on true stories, yeah, right.

This year alone, we have seen Gold and Gincu, Sepet and the latest one, Salon, making their way to the cinema. I’m planning to watch Salon in a couple of days maybe. I was hoping that there will be more of these types of film. I could only pray.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Sepet... Dell like the.....cinematografi and the scene. but... story line is ridicoulus, i meant the 'love' conflict part.. it just dont hit me... most dislike... berkemban part... disgusting"

"Gol dan Gincu... Dell give thumbs-up... and two thumbs up to Shazy... she'll be a great malay actress... she make Dell hate her so much in that movie.. such a bitchy, arrogance, ego, rich girl... the story line is light and refreshing... and more realistic..."

"Salon... gonna watch it"

Dell fells that this will a benchmark of what us, viewers looking for in local malay movie... something fresh, realistic drama, indirectional love affairs, and clear message. Dell hopes more of new age malay movie will be in the market.