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No, I did not deny my “Asian duty” to go see what was pushed on to me as THE MOVIE! The “like ohmigod, this movie will sooooo break the asian stereotype, will be sooooooo revolutionary, will be soooooooooo blingity blingity bling bling”. I dragged my so very non-asian (in fact glaringly white) gal pal to see Better Luck Tomorrow the day it officially came out. As five to seven people all walked to theatre 8 (two of them including my friend and I), a long line was forming out to the concession stands for “Chasing Papi” and “The Real Cancun”. Obviously, I was not in the right neighborhood for this. I was relieved to see that two more people had shown up making about 9 highly intelligent cultured beings in total watching BLT (hold the tomato…ba da bum ching <---- ha ha I made a funny). I can't comfortably recommend this movie to just about anyone nor can I rave along with all my Asian friends (I think I have one... I think) about how absolutely incredibly powerful and amazing it was. It just simply wasn't. Being in my mid twenties..gasp! Did I just say that? No, no, I mean early twenties...I guess I couldn't fully relate to it, all Asian cast or not. Simply put, it was another Heathers-type movie. A movie that if I was 16 years old I would've been completely floored over. I do admit, the movie barely emphasized on the fact that they were Asian (they prolly did so about three times?) and it's really nice to see that someone who looks like you is on the big screen and for God's sake they're actually NOT FUCKING DOING SOME KUNG FU SHIT or PORTRAYED AS SOME DANGEROUS “DRAGON LADY” !!! That was pretty nice. (Oh and dammit Chow Yun Fat, I’m so disappointed in you in Bulletproof Monk - but I’d still do ya anyway.) The acting wasn’t phenomenal, in fact I was rather disappointed with John Cho (”The Asian kid” in American Pie, but the cool “Chow” in the t.v. series Off Centre). The storyline really dragged in the beginning and the ending was a bit surprising but not “OHMIGOD THAT WAS SHOCKING AND YET PROFOUND, I MEAN PROFOUNDER THAN PROFOUND” surprising. In the end, I couldn’t help feeling that BLT, despite it’s attempt to remove most Asian stereotypes from it’s movie, did just the opposite of what they claimed would make the movie ground-breaking. They left me with the message that Hey good kids do turn bad, but Asian kids turn bad because we’re fucking overachievers because we need to get in a good college and score high on our SAT’s. From Robert Denerstein at the Rocky Mountain news ” it makes you think about the clichéd pictures of Asian kids in the popular imagination and how painful it must be for them to carry the burden of perfection”. EXACTLY WHAT THE MOVIE SHOULD NOT HAVE MADE MR. DENERSTEIN FEEL! So you can either love the movie because you’re young, stupid, have a need to like things that are “different”, and cuz hey, I gotta support my AZN peeps or you can be honest about it and say “it was aiight”.

By the way, I’m making a muppet. OH YES. OH YES I AM. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! A REAL MUPPET! HAHAHHAHAHAHA!

Less than a month before Kev will be visiting here! WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!! New Yorkers beware……