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NEWS: Jay Chou's next role is a Slam Dunk




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GATSU



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:46 am Reply with quote
It's not an adaptation. It's a "tribute" which conveniently "borrows" the title.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:49 am Reply with quote
Ha, does it "borrow" the story, too?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:52 am Reply with quote
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Slam Dunk is about an orphan, who grew up at Kung-Fu University...becomes a talented basketball player.


Rolling Eyes
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CaliSerenity



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:32 am Reply with quote
Jay Chou and Boa, huh. So it will at least be a nice movie to look at. Anime smile
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:38 am Reply with quote
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The film will be directed by Chu Yin-Ping and produced by Taiwan's Chang-Hong Channel Film & Video Co. Ltd.

I wondered who this director is, so I did a search in Chinese (周杰倫 + 姚明)...

朱延平?!

Orz


God, he is one of the worst director I've known. His films were filled with low jokes and stolen ideas. And now he pursuaded GIO director to fund this movie with US$3M taxpayers' money (with 1M goes to Jay Chou)?! Rolling Eyes

Oddly enough: this news didn't appear on the front page of any domestic newspaper, but it was highly anticipated to overseas media in Chinese (North America, SE Asia, etc.)
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:13 am Reply with quote
Jay Chou is not nice to look at. Even most of my female friends will at least give me that one.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:53 am Reply with quote
jsevakis wrote:
Jay Chou is not nice to look at. Even most of my female friends will at least give me that one.

Same here. Don't get it why he's so popular. His nickname is "Chou the CEO" (周董) for his rude attitudes towards his coworkers, backstage staffs, fans, and media. Yet despite the rudeness his popularity maintains because his loyal fans think he deserves the privilege of having an attitute.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:17 pm Reply with quote
I can think of three reasons:

1. He can play TWO pianos at a time! Surprised

2. He introduced not one but TWO endlessly recycled canto-pop melody patterns! Surprised

3. Fangirls can pretend he's a bad boy that got into a fight and had to have reconstructive surgery by a back-alley unlicensed plastic surgeon. (or that he was some horrible failed experiment to merge Leonardo DiCaprio and Edison Chan.) Anime hyper

Can you tell I'm a fan? But hey, I can go on like this about most Asian idols. :p
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:56 pm Reply with quote
Does anyone else smell that?

It's the smell of an impending shitstorm.

This is going to suck, I can already sense it.
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Hinatakicksbutt



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:44 am Reply with quote
Jay was in Initial D and that movie wasn't too bad. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:44 am Reply with quote
Hinatakicksbutt wrote:
Jay was in Initial D and that movie wasn't too bad. Smile

Yeah, and they only tried to pack 40 or so Initial D episodes into an hour and forty minutes.

It didn't turn out...too...bad....

Who am I kidding, really?

I'm a fan of Initial D, i've seen all the tv series, including the recent Fourth Stage, and even I found the movie to suck.

The only thing they even remotely did right was the cars, other than that its just a crappy Fast and the Furious. Then again, Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift is nothing but a crappy Initial D, so I guess alls fair in cars and crappy movies.
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Hinatakicksbutt



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:02 pm Reply with quote
I think they are making a part 2 to Initial D. I never saw the original initial D anime so I have nothing to compare it to.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:09 pm Reply with quote
Hinatakicksbutt wrote:
Jay was in Initial D and that movie wasn't too bad. Smile

Because it was not directed by Chu.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:41 pm Reply with quote
Here's the teaser I found off KFCC. They had to change the name for obvious legal reasons.
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