Well, I hope you had a lovely Valentine's Day. It's apparently quite a romantic day for some people, including one adorable couple I know who got engaged (congratulations Pinky and Allan, you crazy kids!!). Me, I spent an amusing but not at all romantic three-and-a-half hours in a movie theatre with my 11-year-old nephew watching kids' films (Toy Story 1&2 in 3-D double feature - brilliant!) , then in the evening headed to the folks' place for a big family dinner to celebrate Chinese New Year.
This involves at least three types of roast pork, which is probably someone's idea of a really good time (unless you're a vegetarian) but, again, not terribly romantic...Something I was able to get more excited about yesterday - The Chinese year of the Tiger!
If you were born in 1962, 1974 or 1986 (or 1998, 1950, 1938, 1926, 1914. with a few exceptions like January birthdates) or indeed 2010 starting yesterday this is (potentially) your lucky year, baby! Here are some horoscopes for you (in rather poorly translated English), if you feel like finding out what 2010 - the year of the White Tiger - holds for you. May be a bit rocky for some, but then, if you've got a bad horoscope you can always decide you don't believe in this stuff.
Also related to the Chinese theme, tonight I'm in Wellington for the gala screening of the new Bruce Beresford film Mao's Last Dancer - a biopic about the incredible life of Li Cunxin who was randomly picked from a school in rural China to join the Beijing Dance Academy at age 11 and went on to defect to America. While performing in England, he fell in love with an Australian ballerina. He's now an Aussie-based stockbroker, father of three and public speaker. (See his website for more about his fascinating story.)
Without the aid of Chinese fortune tellers, looking into the future, I know that 2010 holds a lots of films that are sequels, based on comic books and 80s TV shows, a smattering of sex comedies and the usual roundup of rom-coms and kiddy flicks.
I was amused to see that only TV2 scheduled a romantic-comedy to celebrate Valentine's Day (C4 played Jaws 2!). Shame it starred Hollywood's most polarising actress, Sarah Jessica Parker (most men I know can't stand the horse-faced Noo-Yorker).
The only good thing I can say about Failure To Launch is at least it isn't as abysmal as SJP's latest abomination of a rom-com Have You Heard About the Morgans? I wish I hadn't... It's one of those movies where you envy the people who are free to walk out of the cinema. So two questions today - what's your least favourite romantic-comedy? And what's your favourite Chinese film?
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