8 SEPT
Watching a Singaporean film is just like marking a mediocre composition. Especially in Jack Neo's movie which I think it is not good enough. I have watched this movie last Friday, 5 Sept. Even my mum feels that it was lousy. the current box office hit which is Jack Neo's "money no enough 2", a remake of 1998's original "money no enough". As the title suggests. It is supposingly talking about the tight money constraints in each and every citizen of singapore. Firstly I don't want to explain the whole story because it is too damn long. It beats around the bush about money problems and I don't get Jack, I mean why must he make the movie so drastic and complicated. I mean its always someone owning huge amounts of money to the loan sharks or owning debts. Its always the same thing, Its already cliched. And not to add salt to Jack wounds, no offence but I think his movies are getting lousier and lousier(if there's even such a word called "lousier").
Well let me talk about the jack's past movies like "i not stupid " and "i not stupid too". Especially the "i not stupid too" now I think that movie is worth watching because it talks about teens and kids these days, is it the parents or the education to blame?and I think that movie is more original because it covers all the points and facts about teenagers and children nowadays and best of all the whole movie does not drift into other topics as it keeps on targeting the teens and children and the parents even, it gets it own fair share of humor and some dashes of emotional parts. Some people even cried. Yup this is probably one of the better works of Jack . And then comes "I do I do " the movie which presses the issues of love and relationships in singapore. I saw in the 8 days before its was probably rated 3 stars so it was still okay. Then in the later years, out came the movie "Just follow law". It is about two civil servants switching bodies with each other and having slapstick comedy and having issues about the government's "Black and white". I mean who couldn't resist soul switching movies between a man and a woman. Even though the movie was hilarious, it was rated 2 stars.( I'm pretty sure 8 days has their own reasons). And then a year later, out comes the dark black comedy about gangsters,"A long pte ltd" and boy you would love how 8 days rated it... not even a star! well at least its just half a star and it was better then nothing but that was just so bad. Well it means to say that half a star was just a "well at least he made such a satire movie"to show that "hey at least he(jack) tried to make a movie about gangsters but failed miserably". Imagine tens and thousands of loan sharks drawing their parangs wanting to slaughter Jack for such a lousy job showcasing them.
So back to my point, why are Jack's movies getting lousier and lousier? is it because of the storyboard? Like I said earlier, when doing a movie, the producer is just like a student handing up a composition to the teacher which in this place means us audiences. If I were a teacher marking Jack's "composition", I could have marked it as "out of point". Why ? think about it for example. Think about the "money no enough 2". Even if you have not seen this movie, the title alone suggest about the theme,"money involving Singapore citizens". And then suddenly in the middle of the movie ,the characters are suddenly in debt or are being chase or threatened by loan sharks because of money issues. This maybe money related, but Hell no! you have already drifted into another topic already, it isn't like everyone in Singapore owns the loan sharks. This is already an " A long pte ltd" story already and then in the end it focused a lot into motherhood. Which has even drifted further away from the main topic I mean Why are you talking about a mother's sad plight when in the first place ,it's about money involving everyone in Singapore?money and mothers aren't fucking related! Yes I did cry because it was damn right sad and pitiful for the poor old lady(and by the way, the character Jack is playing and his on set wife, SHAME ON YOU TWO!) I just don't get it. Maybe Jack needs compo lessons... and time management because the movie, like I said its too freaking long!!!Maybe it should have been renamed as "The long,sad,sad truth about elderly folks...and money".
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