That’s Stella

A few years ago my friend from Melbers recommended I watch this Korean film called Il Mare. He was heavily into Asian flicks (Jap flicks to be precise) and I thought that this Il Mare would just be chocobloc with hot Asian chicks with cheesy dialogue and bad dubbing and other terribly untrue cliches I think of when it comes to Asian flicks.

One night whilst channel surfing, I came across Il Mare on SBS (I heart SBS) and thought I’d take my friends advice and watch it. Afterall, he had good taste in music and assumed it would transfer to his movie taste.

Oh. My. God. 90 minutes later and I am balling my eyes out. My eyes were red. Ny nose was runny. I was a mess. I tell people this story and they have a hard time believing I would even take the time to watch a romantic Asian movie. I have a hard time believing it myself.

I will never ever go out with an Asian man - reason being, I think it’s completely incestuous. So watching a romantic Asian flick and seeing Asians get it on, well, all I can think of is somewhere down the line, there’s going to be a twist in the movie when they realise that their long lost cousins and their offspring are going to be born without big toes due to inter breeding and hell, that is wrong.

But what is even more wrong is Hollywood remaking fantastic original movies and doing an embarassing effort of marketing the film to mainstream. Damn it! It makes me so mad! The Lake House (staring those bomb on bus joy riders Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves) is released tomorrow and is the Hollywood remake of Il Mare. I’ve been seeing the theatre trailors on TV and seriously, from watching the trailors, you’ve got to be pretty hardcore Bullock and Reeves fans to even have an inkling to want to see it. Completely unappetising.

Of course I am going to go see it… just for another reason to bag out that Sandra Bullock. How could I resist?