通常評論香港獨立電影的人都會因為導演的誠意、資金的緊拙等，用一把較寬容的尺量度獨立作品，很少有像《港鏟片》評張偉雄的《一角之戀》那麼harsh: 一文不值? Ouch! 基本上我相信每個導演都應給三個機會他證明自己，可能張偉雄已用凸了他的quota.
在商業片的世界裡，沒有觀眾的戲會自動被淘汰，但政府的資助卻簡接扭曲市場規律，讓沒人看的電影也能一部一部的拍下去。當然藝術可以是小眾的，有些電影也可能因為種種原因(題材冷門、沒有明星、較低娛樂性)而不能馬上找到很多觀眾，但始終不能忽略與觀眾的交流。而獨立電影因為觀眾少，影評的角色更舉足輕重。我覺得香港一直欠缺的是有質素、客觀的影評人，尤其是評獨立電影，這麼多年來大都是客客氣氣，避重就輕，所以我很慶幸有《港鏟片》這網頁的出現。寫這個blog的人對港產電影的製作、宣傳很內行，評論也很到位，希望他能一直寫下去。
今天晚上是吾友Jessey的電影的全球首影，不知會否得到港鏟片垂青?
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Puppy love
It's been two weeks since Plato has been living with me, and already it's hard to imagine life without her!
Friday, March 7, 2008
No country for old men
Just saw No Country for Old Men. It's gripping and tense, but otherwise it leaves me cold. The film, like all Coen Brothers' films, has no heart. The ending feels tagged on, empty. Is the Jones character lamenting contemporary moral decline? And it started with Reagan coming to office? How astute an observation is that?
From IMBD, there's a thread called 100 things I learned from No Country for Old Men. Some of it is hilarious:
-don't stand still when a man puts a cattle gun to your forehead
-don't return to a Mexican-drug-deal-gone-bad scene
- if you have to return to a Mexican-drug-deal-gone-bad scene - don't use a vehicle registered in your name
-don't drink beer with a lady stranger chatted up by the pool since beer leads to bad things
-don't leave your mother in law chatting with slimy strangers approaching on the street
- keep your gun above water when you're being chased by a swimming pit bull
- when you realize you're being tracked by the help of a transmitter in your possession - get rid of it - don't put it on the bedsie table and calmly await the serial killer who is approaching
- just learn a few army outfits who served in Vietnam by heart - and you can pass through the US-Mexican border without any problems
- you're easy to find as soon as you check into a Mexican hopsital
-Dimes work great as screwdrivers in hotel room ventilation covers
-Sliding heavy cases full of money through ventilation shafts is a silent act when you need it to be one, but at all other times is quite noisy
-In Mexico, if you have a gunshot wounds you get free medical attention; if you're in the united states you have to steal from a pharmacist.
-A gun is traceable, but a man walking around with a gas-propelled cattle slaughtering device is commonplace and so undetectable.
-If you come across a multiple murder in Texas, the first thing you should do is steal one of the likely murder weapons. This doesn't implicate you in the slightest
-When you break into someone's house, feel free to drink their milk and sit on their couch and watch your reflection in the turned off TV
-If you are a deputy and just arrested someone who looks like a wacko and carries a cattle gun & compressed air cylinder, you normally just let him sit behind your back unattended
- When you feel like helping a sole survivor in a drug related shootout, you don't call 911; taking a jug of water to him personally after sunset is much a better idea
- If you just murdered about a dozen people near a motel, just stay in the room and hide there - the police sure won't bother checking for clues so you can leave the next day completely unnoticed
-There were transmitters back in 1980 which challenged all you knew about electromagnetism and could send a clear signal through a metal obstacle such as a duct tin
From IMBD, there's a thread called 100 things I learned from No Country for Old Men. Some of it is hilarious:
-don't stand still when a man puts a cattle gun to your forehead
-don't return to a Mexican-drug-deal-gone-bad scene
- if you have to return to a Mexican-drug-deal-gone-bad scene - don't use a vehicle registered in your name
-don't drink beer with a lady stranger chatted up by the pool since beer leads to bad things
-don't leave your mother in law chatting with slimy strangers approaching on the street
- keep your gun above water when you're being chased by a swimming pit bull
- when you realize you're being tracked by the help of a transmitter in your possession - get rid of it - don't put it on the bedsie table and calmly await the serial killer who is approaching
- just learn a few army outfits who served in Vietnam by heart - and you can pass through the US-Mexican border without any problems
- you're easy to find as soon as you check into a Mexican hopsital
-Dimes work great as screwdrivers in hotel room ventilation covers
-Sliding heavy cases full of money through ventilation shafts is a silent act when you need it to be one, but at all other times is quite noisy
-In Mexico, if you have a gunshot wounds you get free medical attention; if you're in the united states you have to steal from a pharmacist.
-A gun is traceable, but a man walking around with a gas-propelled cattle slaughtering device is commonplace and so undetectable.
-If you come across a multiple murder in Texas, the first thing you should do is steal one of the likely murder weapons. This doesn't implicate you in the slightest
-When you break into someone's house, feel free to drink their milk and sit on their couch and watch your reflection in the turned off TV
-If you are a deputy and just arrested someone who looks like a wacko and carries a cattle gun & compressed air cylinder, you normally just let him sit behind your back unattended
- When you feel like helping a sole survivor in a drug related shootout, you don't call 911; taking a jug of water to him personally after sunset is much a better idea
- If you just murdered about a dozen people near a motel, just stay in the room and hide there - the police sure won't bother checking for clues so you can leave the next day completely unnoticed
-There were transmitters back in 1980 which challenged all you knew about electromagnetism and could send a clear signal through a metal obstacle such as a duct tin
Thursday, March 6, 2008
My new best friend
Meet my new best friend, Plato. Isn't she adorable? She's only five and a half weeks old! I've only brought her home for four days, and she already she knows her name, and can distinguish between a harsh sounding "Plato!" (as in don't mess around the garbage can) and a loving sounding "Plato" (as in you're the loveliest little puppy in the world.)
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