I don’t…’

I disagree. I love your website and the reviews, they are pretty much the best I’ve ever seen. I like that you guys pick up and mention things that other reviews don’t, and anyway, you have a sense of humour. As for technology, I think the website is fine as it is, in fact I like a simple layout.

I’m being a bit sarcastic but I was slightly disappointed by Exodus and Trivial Matters.

But from a glass-half-full perspective, he put out two films quickly and they both took major risks despite any other problems with them.

Kozo, your Chou/Chow teamup sounds like a great, great idea!

Oh well.

Glenn, that review was for Playboy Cops, so obviously there are people who like it. I personally enjoy it as sort of an update of past Hong Kong Cinema tropes (extreme shifts of tone, solid action), though I still question if the formula works nowadays. If 100 films had been released so far this year, I’m sure Playboy Cops wouldn’t crack the Top 20, but as is, it comfortably settles into the Top 10. Hell, it only has to be better than half the movies coming out this year.

Thanks for votes of confidence on the blogs. We should give credit to Kevin Ma, who updates frequently, and Sanney Leung, who updates thoughtfully. I update randomly and haphazardly, and without much thought put into it. Film reviews and site updates are still my bread and butter, and I don’t have the time or mentality to be a real blogger. At least, not yet. Who knows, I could learn one day how to do it.

I like Jay Chou a lot. Frankly, I think the best Hong Kong movie team-up that has yet to happen may be Stephen Chow directing Jay Chou. It could work.

With so few HK films to review and most of them being expectedly unwatchable, the blogs have the site afloat.

If only you had more Shaw reviews BUT that’s a minor, minor quibble.

I hated Playboy Cops. And while I didn’t like Kung Fu Dunk, I did think Jay Chou was almost likeable — I thought Initial D was wildly overrated and found him insufferable in the altogether disappointing Curse of the Golden Flower.

There was enough there in KFD to make me think he could be an enjoyable actor one day — weren’t people laughing at Louis Koo only a few short years ago?

I don’t give evaluations to LoveHKFilm contributors. Hypothetically speaking, I would give the Webmaster a “C+”, because of his inability to motivate the writers and bring the website to a level where it can compete with all the really good Asian Cinema sites. The only thing he did correctly was not quit.

The writing itself gets a “B” for its sheer length, if not quality. The site readers get an “A” because they haven’t abandoned us. I give my webhost a “B”. Our technology gets a big fat “D”. The only reason we don’t fail is because the blogs exist.