Comments on: Panned By Global Times, Will You Nonetheless Watch “Lao Wai”?

By: MAC

MAC — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:29:09 +0000

To be fair I flubbed the punctuation of my own comment. This is just a blog comment.

By the way, in case I wasn’t direct enough, I’m not just taking a shot at the GT’s English usage, I’m implying that as Chinese people (to do some stereotyping myself) seem to LOVE caricatures, if anything “though” should be replaced by “because.”

By: King Baeksu

King Baeksu — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:37:05 +0000

If it involves a Frenchman, the answer is, “Oui, bien sur!”

By: KopyKatKiller

KopyKatKiller — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:32:25 +0000

Does this: “together they test “the limits of love in the face of overwhelming cultural differences.” ” = anal?

By: King Baeksu

King Baeksu — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:30:44 +0000

You mean, “Sex and the City” in a qipao? A shanzhai book if ever there was one.

“Half decent”? Well, in the spirit of compromise I’m willing to concede that it was “half indecent,” but that’s about it!

By: Chinese Netizen

Chinese Netizen — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:21:49 +0000

LoL!!

By: P.

P. — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:10:50 +0000

I liked this better when it was a half-decent book called “Shanghai Baby.”

By: RhZ

RhZ — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:16:02 +0000

That was my thinking precisely. GT doesn’t seem to know what ‘though’ means.

By: Fredrick

Fredrick — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:03:44 +0000

What do you expect when it’s amateur hour in the editing office?

By: Fredrick

Fredrick — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:03:07 +0000

Looks to me like some two-bit director trying to cash in on the Chinese market. That trailer made me want the world to actually end so I could stop watching it.

By: King Baeksu

King Baeksu — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:56:00 +0000

“Gotta agree… Mei (or even worse, Mei Lin) has become such an overused “Chinese female character” name that its ridiculous.”

I used to work with an African-American dyke named “Mei” in college.

I’m sure she’d have a gay old time in the PRC!

By: Mei

Mei — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:12:48 +0000

Gotta agree… Mei (or even worse, Mei Lin) has become such an overused “Chinese female character” name that its ridiculous.

Regardless, that trailer’s like watching paint dry. From that, at least, this feels like the perfect mashup of French celluloid navelgazing and Chinese romantic drama handwringing, distilled into a snail-tempo feature that should appeal to neither party (and no one else, for sure).

By: King Baeksu

King Baeksu — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:59:24 +0000

I hear a bitter old madam on Hengshan Road is played by Wei Hui.

Anyway, if the frog teaches his little peony how to use a bidet, I’ll see it!

By: MAC

MAC — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:55:44 +0000

“Though Fabien said the film was made “with Chinese audiences in mind,” the characters often come across as one-dimensional caricatures.”

Another example of the GT’s difficulties with words like “though,” and “however”?

By: Meimeimeimeimeimei

Meimeimeimeimeimei — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:47:49 +0000

Can we please just shoot any westerner from here on who gives a Chinese girl the name “Mei” or “May”? It’s about as cliche and over-used as a laowai named “John”. What happened to originality?