由 CGbaby » 9日 1月 2005年, 02:22
I stopped by HK on my way to Bangkok from the States for the Animation Festival. I've heard of this first animation movie made in Hong Kong, so my colleagues and I figured we should check it out, especially since this is the first ever.
Honestly, the movie is quite all right. There is certainly room for improvement, but a good number of scenes were done excellently; the combat scenes were in fact very impressive. Although the combat scenes were capturing, the regular movements such as walking was actually quite awkward. In fact, it was a bit strange that complicated scenes with a lot of movements were done very nicely, but the regular movements were not. Anyways, I'm not here to talk about the movie, I'm here to talk about my experience at the movie theatre.
I watched the 9.40pm show at Times Square on Friday, Jan 7. Although it was not a full house, there was a decent number of tickets sold. Right after the lights were dimmed, a group of dozen late comers joined in. Everyone was aware exactly when they showed up as they were making tremendous amount of noise as if they were trying to draw everyone's attention that they've arrived. My colleagues and I started to look at each other thinking why this group showed up as if they were arriving at the Oscars??
At first, I thought they were all so excited about coming to the movie. However, instead of finding their seats and let others to continue to watch the film in peace and quiet, they already started bad mouthing the movie very loudly by saying "this is a stupid movie", "let's go home" and so forth BEFORE the movie even started. Then, I started to think if that's the case, why would you come here?
The movie hasn't even started yet and these people sounded as if they already knew what the whole movie was all about. Throughout the movie, this group continuous making a lot of obnoxious comments and interrupting others. They were making unnecessary and childish remarks which had absolutely nothing to do with the film. In short, this group was very obvious and irritating. All they were doing was sabotaging. Then, I realized their motive after overhearing their comments. This group also works in the CG industry, most likely a "competitor". I was stunned!
After the movie, this group started screaming and yelling on their way out, and they were hanging around at the exit, waiting for the other movie to end and started saying things like "Dragon Blade was a stupid "asx" movie, don't ever "fxxking" go see it" and swearing in front of people on the street and others who just got out from another movie.
I have never seen anything like that in California, or anywhere else in the States! All I can say is that I was stunned and very disappointed. I was disappointed not in the movie, but I was extremely disappointed in the quality of the so-called CG "professionals" in HK.
If they are not able to respect themselves as a movie patron and disrespecting the movie and the CG industry, maybe they really should think about whether they should ever get involved in movie making in any way, shape or form. Instead of watch and learn from others, this group went in with a preset mind frame of sabotaging others' work. How else do you think the CG industry in HK would ever, ever improve and make a footprint on the map? This type of sour grape attitude would never get this industry in HK to the world's standards, especially when these so-called "professionals" represent themselves with such juvenile, immature and aggressive behavior. Even successful stories such as Shrek, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo still have room for improvement. I didn't realize that this group of "dirty dozen" are the best CG animators in the world. Even so, who gave them the rights to act that way? Do they really feel heroic by acting out that way in public?
I am certain that this type of uncivilized behavior has really made an impression on me and my colleagues from the States. Bear in mind that behaving like this in a public place where you have no idea who might be sitting next to you, sometimes would do a lot of damages. I am very sorry to say it was in fact embarrassing to witness that! I hope I won't ever have to come across this group again if and when we have to work with any HK CG company in the near future. Wish I knew where this group comes from so that I can definitely avoid that from happening.