Regarding the eel — I think I’ve seen worse treatment of lower life forms such as the chicken and the snake in Mr. Vampire.

Being as HK films never include the disclaimer that no animals were mistreated in the course of making the movie and that Cantonese people eat darn near everything (as a Cantonese person,I know) , I sure hope none of these butchered creatures were wasted. know.

I liked the film quite a lot, and I find the film was balanced very well for the most part, in that had the ANY person in the pre and post production department been less competent, the work would have just sagged.

As for the film not being a classic, perhaps not… but it certainly is one of the great films for the year it was released, so it MIGHT end up becoming one. Who knows.

Ironically, my friend is a graduate student looking into writing a thesis about TVB. Which I suggested. Funny how things work out. Hahahaha.

I hear people over here in HK don’t like her as much because they say her promotions usually have her getting all tarted up, but I honestly think there are a lot more tartier and less appealing girls out there with less singing talent.

But I do believe she has a solid fan base. Yay.

If you ask me, I’d like to see her working with Shawn Yu in some random film. They’ve done promotions and a few events together, and they always look like they’re having fun.

Hahahaha.

I enjoyed Hooked on You and even more so now that you’ve provided some background info on it.

Did u see the other 2 handover anniversary films? I liked Mr. Cinema a lot — Ronald Cheng was better than I expected him to be and Karen Mok was still delightful as always — but have yet to watch Wonder Women — seems I have a lot of Fiona Sit DVDs sitting around but I have yet to crack open any of them.

I like Stephanie Cheng and wonder why she is not in more films, perhaps in a starring role. And Jo Koo was funny and sexy in Single Blog and now it seems she’s in a lot of HK films at the moment.

My big complaint with itunes in the US is that I cannot buy from itunes UK. You would think in this day and age that there should be one global itunes with people paying in their own currencies in various countries. No. I can only buy from the country where my credit card’s address is. So getting my music from the UK is actually harder than ever.

And with the demise of Tower, it seems a forlorn hope sometimes.

I have to order my CDs from England from an online retailer and then load them to my itunes to have them when, by all rights, I should be able to just buy the songs from itunes UK and pay.

But I digress…

I know itunes US has some Faye Wong stuff but that’s all is I saw.

I think they have more Jpop than Cantopop at the moment.

The songs are around $10hk, so it’s totally affordable and should discourage illegal downloading. It’s really handy because I often don’t want to buy a singer’s whole album unless I’m very much a fan of theirs; I might just like single songs here and there on recommendation.

Too bad it’s obviously not as well known as iTunes, so people still search around for illegal downloading.

At this time, Hooked on You still makes my Top 5 for 2007, and is probably even in the Top 2. I really, really enjoyed this film.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AF%B8%E8%91%9B%E4%BA%AE#.E5.BE.8C.E8.A3.94

Link at the bottom to Sun site with pictures:
http://the-sun.on.cc/channels/fea/20071114/20071113230147_0000.html