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Summary: A waste of time.
Review: This movie has insulted my intellgence. The drama is played out in a manner that is both sluggish, dull, and apathetic. The charcter portrayals suffer from lack of development, and the racial overtones are intensely insulting. Don' waste your time with this movie.
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Summary: Wow!!
Review: This movie literally blew me away. A heart warming story that transcends the racial boundaries between the white male saviour and the oppressed asian female. With the exception of countless hollywood productions and TV shows involving white male and asian female courtings, such a movie has never been produced in real life. This is why this movie gets high marks for originality. But there is a reason for the one star rating. Of course, love is colorblind and people don't even notice race in the dating scene, so why bother producing this movie in the first place?
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Summary: This movie is just plain mediocre
Review: This movie, it kinda sucks. I believe the director/writer/asiaphile that made this saw too many repeat showings of Joy Luck Club on cable. I mean, seriously, how many times do i have to be reminded that the role of an asian man on this planet is to oppress the asian woman? And how many times do i have to be reminded that the only one that can "save" her is, of course, the white man? What's sad though, is that i've actually seen this theme worked better in films like The Transporter, Pillow Book, and even Dumb and Dumberer (Don't get me wrong though, all those movies sucked too, so you figure out just how much worse this film is). Seriously, did he think this concept was original? Oh, aren't IR relationships just wonderful and liberating!? Of course, there's never any mention of the exploited mail-order-brides, those horribly tacky military brides (and equally as exploited), or even the ever prepetual asian female self-hater (aka SELLOUT, aka Amy Tan, aka Maxine Hong Kingston, aka Kim Wong Keltner). Why? Because all's well in the land of la-la, and the only thing that would corrupt it is the hand of the evil asian MAN! ... but boy do i love those asian women because they're so _______!
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Summary: This film is RACIST
Review: Valiant white man rescues poor Asian female flower blossom. Doesn't something smell fishy in the plot of this film?
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Summary: We really liked it
Review: We came to see your film at the Long Island Festival and must tell you it was excellent. We have not seen such an emotionally moving story for quite some time. The actors were fantastic and we forgot we were even watching a film. Anyone can relate to this even though it is set in Chinatown. My husband was crying along with me and that is rare. It brought back many memories for me growing up and you deserve all the success in the world. Please let us know when it is at the regular
theater. I want to recommend it to my friends and relatives. Please keep making films like these. Thank you and good luck.
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Summary: MOVING!
Review: We now are a nation of immigrants, only now we don't look alike as we did during the 1800s when most coming into the nation came from Europe. This is a moving story of one such person with clearly Asian features who tries to make a go of it here. What she learns is that freedom is a relative term. She is bounds by the cultural rules and regulations within Chinatown, her Now. But what about her Tomorrow? Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Actor Steven Dunning takes the viewer down the dark alleys of a place even Chinese Americans no longer see as we move outward into the suburbs for better schools. But Lee is trapped--or is she? This low budget indy makes many statements and awakens the complacency within us. Now I understand why this film was named one of the top ten DVDs of the year 2002. It has earned this honor.
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Summary: Awesome, dramatic and funny too! great camera and music!
Review: well since the Los Angeles Times film critc Kevin Thomas and The Hollywood Reporter said it was great i saw it in a theater first, and they were absolutely right! i don't know how the director (Steven Dunning) did that and wrote and produced and acted, i kinda didn't realize that till it was all over, what a job! future clint eastwood, hehe. in a theater i've never seen guys crying too with the girls and then laughing right after that, my brother even tried to act tough but he loved that movie. i hate knight in shining armour stories so at first i was thinking oh no, but then you see it's not that at all, and it's such a powerful emotional rollercoaster, the music was great- i want a soundtack from the movie's website, i saw an article in Daily Variety that this was one of their top 3 picks for theater distribution, i hope that happens because i saw the film at a festival and wanted to take others back but the screenings were packed ad sold out both shows, so i'll get the dvd, the director talked after it and said the dvd will be the next level of what people will expect of all following studio and indy dvd's as far as the extreme diversity of the extra content and even has new terms for things that we've never heard of yet, it's not chick flick, it's so inspirational once you hit the end and you feel so free and light, that was cool, so ship it soon!
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Summary: Yet another unoriginal film
Review: What it basically boils down to is the following:
An Asian woman is oppressed by her own kind. Lady luck smiles at her, however, when the Caucasian man of her dreams shows her how truly wonderful life can be. Spend your money more wisely, especially now that the economy is in a rut.
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Summary: A racist WHITE lie - A dime a dozen poison garbage
Review: Wow, what an original script. Let's here: Little Chinese woman immigrated from an oppressive nation and then further oppressed by her own people, family, and culture. She yearns to be something different - perhape to become WHITE. Lo and behold, the WHITE KNIGHT in shining armor is here to the rescue. Frees the entrapped, fragile, and obedient Chinese woman from her oppressor that tells her that "She will always be Chinese." Does it occur to any Chinese person that being Chinese is shameful? It is a default for a Chinese woman, in order to shed her shame for being Chinese that she must remedy this situation by running to the WHITE man? Althought this is laughable garbage, but it is none-the-less powerful poison to the impressionable mind - the Asian youths growing up in America. These kinds of garbage from Hollywood and the like poisons our Asian youths to hate themselves, their parents, their culture, their upbringing. THIS GARBAGE HAS TO END. Steven Dunning is a blatant racist and a deplorable human being for spilling such poison. Let me tell you about the heroes of the immigrant Chinese. The brave and fearless parents that came to a foreign land with no money, no connection, no skill, and no English that brings their next generation to forge a better future. They work their hands to the bone to support their kids through higher education. They endure the hate and racism from their OWN KIDS, poisioned by the Steven Dunnings of America, yet still persevered and worked honorably for the better future of their children. Here is challenge to the racist Steven Dunning: shed your wealth and lead your family to Vietnam and see how long you can survive? Steven Dunning, you are truly a piece of human waste. Steven Dunning is nothing more than a two bit racist pig. I will spit in his face if I see him. What a shame for humanity!
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Summary: It's about time for a good film that is human!
Review: Your movie, Now Chinatown, stimulated my senses and touched my emotions.Your realistic and sensitive portrayal of a Chinese immigrant girl struggling to survive in the Los Angeles Chinatown offers the viewer a real treat. Your accurate perspective on a subject rarely explored by today's movie industry is a great contribution. You have decided to tackle a subject shrouded in mystery to most people. Most Americans have no concept of the behind-the-scenes drama that may occur daily at a Chinese Restaurant. Steve, you had succeeded in unfolding this subject in such a way that all audiences can not only understand but also connect and sympathize with the plight of the main character. Your movie is not only entertaining but it is also educating. Too bad there are not enough movies like yours out there in that vast Hollywood landscape. Please keep me posted about your future projects. I would love to get a
tape of Now Chinatown when it becomes available. Your film was just superb! Please let me know when will you be in New York. I would like to meet you.
Best of luck!
Henry Salus
HARVARD Club of New York City
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