tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758666836317755286.post2618992341356079514..comments2024-03-23T02:53:40.486-06:00Comments on CeeJay's Entertainment: Filmart 2016 - A Look at TVB's Upcoming DramasCeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13460655393325459002noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758666836317755286.post-90079384174593804032016-10-29T11:15:52.318-06:002016-10-29T11:15:52.318-06:00Hey Anonymous!! Thanks for sharing your thoughts o...Hey Anonymous!! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these dramas!! <br /><br />Okk we are planning to do a year in review soon!! So do stay tuned for that if you want to hear our thoughts as well but right now we have to spill our thoughts on your comments too! <br /><br />BK2... oh god. ahhh! We only saw the first five episodes actually. Before Grace Chan even had a word to say we dropped it so we didn't have to endure it haha. How does one pull through all 40 episodes!? We actually cringed when she first appeared and was dancing in Okinawa trying to look hot for Edwin because it was really unattractive. Oh, we have a dramalist of all the dramas we've seen or dropped and what we rated them if you want to see as well haha http://mydramalist.com/dramalist/Ceejayent<br /><br />We really like Fist and all the pairings in it although two of the pairs did not end up together. Ohh who is Foon Hei gor? Do you mean Chun Mei gor as in Carlo Ng or Foon Hei gor we are thinking of is Benz Hui from Line Walker.<br /><br />We are currently watching Two Steps and it has been ok... but we do agree that Priscilla does not fit her role and she dresses the same in every drama as well which doesn't fit her different roles. She can do well in mellow dramas like Swipe Tap Love or Madam Cutie but this one calls for a more demure actress. The three male leads are great we think.<br /><br />We saw one ep of Fashion War and we don't think we will have time to go back and watch it since we don't really like Moses Chan these days :( <br /><br />Thanks again for your comments!!CeeJayhttp://ceejays-entertainment.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758666836317755286.post-43851590983379975302016-10-29T10:50:14.718-06:002016-10-29T10:50:14.718-06:00Oh dear...I meant Grace Wong's character in A ...Oh dear...I meant Grace Wong's character in A Fist and not Grace Chan. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758666836317755286.post-83881487340224999822016-10-29T10:48:56.646-06:002016-10-29T10:48:56.646-06:00@CeeJay Just need to give my two cents here as wel...@CeeJay Just need to give my two cents here as well since there are no other blogs that I can discuss TVB dramas in English. <br /><br />Brother Keeper 2<br />Oh my God...thank God for being able to watch online as I was able to fast forward through all the scenes featuring Grace Chan. She has NOT improved at all and was a whiny and absolutely cringe worthy character. She has this one expression on her face be it happy, sad or angry. Seriously, after the 1st 5 eps of the drama where Ruco was in it, you can just stop watching. <br /><br />A Fist Within Four Walls<br />That guy who plays Foon Hei Kor...that guy deserves to be in meatier roles in other dramas rather than just appearing as kelefes all the time. Gosh...by the time they are actually recognised as lead actors, they'd be in their 50s and that is another reason why ratings have been bad cause the young ones don't tune in for old men. Good for eyecandy was Phillip Ng and his character plus Moon Lau's make a great pairing. No wonder they dialed up the rumours on a real life pairing. Ben's acting was rather one dimensional but Grace Chan was a complete surprise. She normally plays the sexy siren in other dramas but here that sexy siren has more meat and purpose.<br /><br />Two Steps for Heaven<br />Looks promising. But Priscilla is just such a girl next door don't see her playing this dark role. Edwin needs to buck up or be shipped out. He's acting is getting on my nerves...pretty similar to Grace Chan's. Both of them together was so annoying in BK2. <br /><br />You should give Fashion War a try. It was all that bad and pretty fast paced as well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758666836317755286.post-52128593577764136632016-03-30T21:39:53.632-06:002016-03-30T21:39:53.632-06:00Hey! Thank you so much for checking us out and tak...Hey! Thank you so much for checking us out and taking the time to read our post and commenting so thoughtfully! This really does mean the world to us. Please do not apologize for the long reply. We love a good discussion and as long as you don't mind typing too much, we would love to hear your opinion! We are still trying to find more people are still passionate about TVB, it's getting harder and harder these days :( <br /><br />Anyways, wow. We do agree on many, many things that you touched on! But we are, sadly? Still sticking with TVB. Our families are still watching it so we join the party haha. We've so far only skipped Fashion War and Wuxin. Yes, we even made it through King Kong and Jason Chan's so called acting in Love as a Predatory Love Affair, 35 eps of dark, crazy plot twists in a SUPPOSED comedy of Short End of the Stick... the list goes on. We've been finding that the scriptwriters these days are just writing up some abysmal stuff. There is no logic and it is just plain sloppy when even a kid with basic common sense can tell there is some not quite right! If not, then the plots are just very uninteresting and we could close our eyes and ears for 10 eps and still know what's going on... Actually. This was the case with Come Home Love 2!! We stopped at around 10 episodes in for the new series and recently saw the trailer of like ep 970 and oh guess what? Still the same people fighting about the same issues. What has been going for like half a year CHL2? Besides that, what TVB is losing is it's star appeal. We're finding that a lot of people are leaving since they just don't get what they deserve. They really do make meagre wages for long hours whether it's rain or shine and if the director says, jump in the ocean, you gotta do it. It's no wonder that people are jumping on board the mainland train if they can make it! TVB has no strategy for promoting a solid new line of actors who are capable of leading on new dramas that are well-written. <br /><br />Back to the dramas in line, yeah, we do agree... none of this stuff is really worth watching if not out of pure boredom and a lot of spare time. However, unlike you, we havent seen the "golden age" of TVB. We started watching TVB in the early 2000's and took a break and started again in around 2007 and have been watching ever since. So the big things we've seen are just Heart of Greed, Moonlight... And from there on comes the bottom of the pile like Inbound Troubles 2! We cannot believe Wong Cho Lam wants a third one! We both do not like Joey Meng much either, she just does not fit her roles very well. She needs new roles or something needs to be changed. We don't really remember Roger as Ah Wong but we did love him in Black Heart White Soul. Right now, his role in Last Imperial Physician isn't anything special... same old, same old. And Tavia Yeung is a rowdy, lowly maiden girl... again! She's been stuck in these roles for a while since The Hippocratic Crush 2! And boy are you spot on about Ron Ng. We were hoping for some justice from him in Lord of Shanghai but we were so disappointed with how his character was written in the end! It was just absolutely ridiculous. He took a 180 degree turn from a good-hearted lawyer to a greedy, violent bastard in one episode, or actually in one minute on screen. Just like that... don't know what the scriptwriters were thinking! <br /><br />So that's our view on why TVB has been bad lately. Law Disorder looks like Liu Kai-Chi's stage for sure! What do you think of the lead Mandy Wong? Just crossing our fingers the script is good and the cases are good because we just can't deal with some more crazy plots which don't belong to professional scriptwriters. That's all for now! Thanks for commenting again! :)CeeJayhttp://ceejays-entertainment.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758666836317755286.post-56953729093644392702016-03-30T00:46:33.554-06:002016-03-30T00:46:33.554-06:00(comment continued from above...)
Lastly, I can’t...(comment continued from above...)<br /><br />Lastly, I can’t help lamenting once again how badly TVB has deteriorated over the past decade. Last year (2015) was actually the first year in my close to 30 years ‘following’ TVB where I couldn’t find a single TVB series to watch in its entirety (in past years, no matter how bad things got, there would at least be 1 series I could watch from beginning to end) – with last year’s series, I couldn’t get past episode 5 on any of them (most of them I actually dropped after 1 or 2 episodes). With that said though, this year seems to be faring much worse, since so far, I haven’t watched a single episode of any of TVB’s 2016 series (in fact, I don’t even know what series is airing when anymore, since I’ve been paying less and less attention to TVB’s lineup due to the lack of interest in their series nowadays). Maybe if TVB does end up airing Law Dis-order this year, I’ll be able to go back to having at least 1 decent series to watch – otherwise, this just might be a record year for me in the “zero TVB series watched” category, lol!<br /><br />P.S.: Sorry for the long-winded response (you’ll probably notice from reading my posts on my blog that I tend to write a lot and when I get started on a particular topic that I’m passionate about, I can’t seem to shut up, lol). I’ll try to write less next time! ;-)llwy12https://www.blogger.com/profile/02401832364832078932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758666836317755286.post-38697895154428858142016-03-30T00:45:57.904-06:002016-03-30T00:45:57.904-06:00Nice summary! Thanks for taking the time to put t...Nice summary! Thanks for taking the time to put this together! :-)<br /><br />To be honest, I’m really not ‘looking forward’ to any of these dramas, though if I really had to choose, the only one I have some slight anticipation of watching is Law Disorder – but that’s only because of Uncle Chi (Liu Kai Chi), as he is one of my all-time favorite veteran actors and even back in the 80s at the height of his TVB career, he never disappointed with his performances. I actually don’t like most of the rest of the cast (except Raymond Cho, whom I like and have always enjoyed watching)…and yes, I share the exact same opinion as you in that Alex Fong is a bland, mediocre actor with nothing much memorable to his name other than the fact that he bears a resemblance to Richard Gere. I actually try not to watch series with Alex in them because I tend to fall asleep when he’s onscreen (no kidding, haha) but for Uncle Chi’s sake, I will most likely give this series a try.<br /><br />The only other series from this list that I would’ve been interested in watching is Dead Wrong, since Roger Kwok is another veteran actor whose career I’ve been ‘following’ since the 1980s and he is definitely on my ‘favorites’ list in terms of actors I love watching. However, with that said, I’m tired of seeing him paired with Joey Meng once again – especially since Joey has always been a mediocre actress in my book and her acting is nowhere near the level of Roger’s. While I did like their first pairing in Inbound Troubles, part of it was because the pairing and series itself was fresh and different from what we were used to seeing from TVB at that time… too bad they overdid it in the sequel (Come On Cousin), which was a horrible series with the only 2 ‘saving graces’ that made the series even remotely watchable being veteran actor Ram Tseung’s performance (another veteran actor I adore) as well as all the classic songs they incorporated into the series (especially for long time HK music lovers like me – I actually had more ‘fun’ identifying all the songs in the series than watching the actual series itself). Anyway, it’s too bad that I actually may not even watch the series Dead Wrong, since I love watching Roger do dramatic roles (while he was excellent as Ah Wong, his dramatic roles are really the ones that allow him to showcase his acting chops most). I enjoyed his performance in Black Heart White Soul, but didn’t like that series overall, as the storyline was bad and the rest of the cast was annoying (especially couldn’t stand Ron Ng in yet another repetitive hot-headed, impulsive brother/friend/colleague role as well as that girl that played his love interest – the scary-looking one who reminded me of Chuckie from the horror flick Child’s Play, lol). I definitely agree with the ‘treasure’ comment though with Roger and am hoping that TVB cherishes him by giving him better material to work with and better co-stars (though I doubt that will happen given this IS TVB after all…).<br /><br />Oh, one thing to note – I’m not really counting Dinner at 8 in the lineup, since I don’t really consider it a true ‘series’ per se. But I am absolutely looking forward to this sitcom, based purely on cast alone (love Teresa, Wayne, and Power, plus I like Eric Li and am happy to see him finally getting a ‘meaty’ role again after so many years). And yes, having Anthony Wong in a few episodes in a cameo role is absolutely ‘icing on the cake’!<br />llwy12https://www.blogger.com/profile/02401832364832078932noreply@blogger.com