Crazy Rich Asians (Jon Chu, August 17, 2018) Movie • Page 2

almost like people want diversity in film and you should release films when there's less competition so they have time to breathe and shine or something

 

Me and my wife went to see this the other night. I love 90s rom coms and feel like i haven’t seen a great rom com that stacks up to the ones from my childhood in forever. This was the rom com i have been wanting forever.

I had the biggest grin in my face the whole time. I don’t think there was a sing thing I didn’t like about this movie. Hollywood needs to take note. You can tell great stories without filling it with white people. Put the main cast in everything from now on please!! I need more Michelle Yeoh in my life.

 

This was a solid rom com and probably one of the better ones to come out in the last few years. Though, there really haven't been that many of note lately.

Constance Wu and Henry Golding had great chemistry. And Awkwafina was awesome.

 

Just got back from the cinema. It is very good. Constance Wu is an angel. It’s also a pretty blatant Singapore tourism commercial, haha.

 

hold on The Proposal made $164 million at the box office, but also congrats

 

Constance Wu > Sandra Bullock

 

This released in China last weekend and only made $1 million.

 

I'm not sure this movie was predicated to do well in China. So although it stinks it had a bad opening, I don't think it's a shock to the studio

 

is there a cultural reason why it wouldn't?

 

Yeah I'm sure that's definitely a reason. Comedies in general don't usually play that great in the foreign market. This movie is still incredibly successful despite the poor numbers from China

 

oh yeah that is a factor i forget about

 

We just watched this over the weekend and loved it

 

Part of it that in China it is just one of many movies with Chinese actors. On top of that, I seem to remember some mainland bashing in the CRA book. I’m not sure if it was in the movie.

 

'Crazy Rich Asians' Sequels to Shoot Back-to-Back

 

Yeah that makes sense

 

I'm down for two more of these.

 

I recently bought all the books, right before the box set came out... I've yet to read them. But anyway, I'm excited because we get two more of these movies, and because it seems like everyone's blowing up. Can't wait to see all of them in all the things.

 

I love that, between this film & Black Panther, representation (both in front of and behind the camera!) is finally starting to sink in as the "safer" choice for these studios. I feel like I shouldn't let myself be too optimistic, lol, but I am optimistic about the future film landscape.

 

I bought the first book on audible but returned it. It’s not exactly my thing when it’s not paced like a movie.

 

I don’t know man, it wouldn’t be the first time they ignore reality, “black movies” and stars have been doing amazing things for a long time yet the big studios kept pretending like they didn’t. In some ways it has even gotten worse in the late 00s, only to get a little better again now.

 

I read the first book after I saw the movie. Was just as good. Def enjoyed the movie more cause Constance Wu and Henry Golding

 

Yeah, I just started the first one and all I see is people from the movie. It's fine, though, like, I read all of Harry Potter after seeing the first seven movies, and it didn't bother me that I saw Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in my head the entire time.

 

Uh, holy shit at the wedding procession scene. Stunning