film: Better Luck Tomorrow

[jasonlee]

Better Luck Tomorrow

Justin Lin's movie is truly magnificent, has anyone seen it?

 

[fruitfly]

I really liked this movie.

 

[Razzie]

Loved it loved it loved it! I think there's another thread on this movie somewhere in here.

 

[jasonlee]

I truly loved it! what a great film, is justin lin doing anything else?

 

[Razzie]

I couldn't find the other thread about it even though I did a search. I did look on imdb and Justin Lin co-wrote and directed "Oldboy" which I've heard about. I can't wait to see it.

My husband and I paid to see Better Luck Tomorrow when it came out in the theaters. It mirrored our lives so much as Asian kids growing up in urban USA (minus the murder). We could get away with practically anything just because we got good grades. Like the movie said, "our grades were our passports."

 

[wanderlust]

better luck tomorrow

poll.

and, please from the forum guidelines:

4. WHAT'S IN A NAME. Choose your thread subject carefully. "The Matrix Reloaded" is much better than "matrix sucked!!!!". Selecting an appropriately worded subject will likely generate more useful discussion.

Use a prefix if possible. If you are discussing a film please prefix your thread subject with "FILM" e.g.

"The Matrix Reloaded" becomes:
"FILM: The Matrix Reloaded"

 

[Mysticalis]

I totally loved this movie. Excellent storytelling and an excellent cast. It's great to see a rich cast of talented Asian actors, as it gives me a refreshing break from the typical Hollywood caucasian OC "in Crowd" that's seen in so many teen coming-of-age films and Fox teen soap operas.

 

[fruitfly]

Here's what Justin Lin's been up to:

Better Luck Tomorrow director Justin Lin is currently directing his first studio film, Annapolis, for Disney. It’s a remake of the violent Korean drama Oldboy. After the success of Better Luck Tomorrow, Lin was offered a number of projects, which he turned down.

But over dinner with a Universal executive, Lin was pitched the idea of remaking Oldboy, which, at the time, he knew nothing about.

“His pitch was very simple,” Lin remembers. “He basically said this was the story of a guy who gets kidnapped and held captive and he and the audience doesn’t know why. Fifteen years later, he’s released and he and the audience still don’t know why. So the guy sets out to get revenge on whoever did this to him.”

Lin was intrigued and screened the film the very next day.

“I loved the themes and the story,” Lin says. “I wasn’t interested in remaking the film so much as taking [the concept] and exploring that.”

Lin attributes Hollywood’s recent fascination with Asian cinema to the changes in technology that have allowed filmmakers from other countries to compete with American studio films as well as Hollywood’s constant need for fresh voices and stories.

“Since Sundance, I’ve been offered a lot of remakes,” Lin says, “not just Asian films, but from all over — Europe, Argentina. Development takes years and years so taking a film that already exists and [adapting it] helps truncate that development time.”

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[xena]

i liked this movie a lot.

 

[psychetool]

Throughly enjoyed it. Three stars.