Did Jack Neo's Movie Flop? We Gave Our Honest Review On Ah Girls Go Army Series | ZULA ChickChats
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- In this episode of ZULA ChickChats, we discussed Jack Neo's newest movie, Ah Girls Go Army Again. From controversies regarding characters' names and overwhelming number of product placement. Join us as we discuss our thoughts and the controversies about the movie!
Here are the timestamps of the topics covered during the episode:
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Background Information Of Ah Girls Go Army
2:56 - First Impressions
7:01 - Open Casting Call Controversy
7:28 - Character Names' Controversy
9:16 - Public's Reaction Of The Movie - Lack Of Growth In Jack Neo's Movies
10:42 - Token Minority Characters
11:14 - Is The Series Of Movies A Chinese Movie Or A Singaporean Movie?
12:18 - Thoughts On Ah Girls Go Army Trailer
19:31 - Thoughts Of Ah Girls Go Army Again Music Video
23:22 - Did The Movie Deserve So Much Hate?
28:07 - Glenn Yong's Scenes Made To Seem Like K-drama
28:36 - Too Much Product Placement?
31:59 - Thoughts On Public Criticisms
39:26 - MINDEF's Response To Ah Girls Go Army
40:46 - Conclusion
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Have you watched the Ah Girls Go Army series? Let us know your thoughts about it!
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can watchable i caught both on the big screen. training scenes were really good
Yes, and I think both were good in my opinion, and I hope for a 3rd Ah girls go army movie
The problem with the show is that they casted newbie actresses and expected them to “bring the show alive”. Actresses like Samantha, they literally tried for fun by auditioning on TikTok. These new actresses are afraid to offend Jack and probably unable to offer alternatives in the script or to tell Jack that certain lines are not going to work. If he casted seasoned actresses, they would be able to guide and streamline the way the characters are, making the show less cringy. I think there is also a problem in the way that the script was - is it meant to be a value-adding show, or is it meant to be a troll film? The direction of the film seems lost. In ABTM, the show was generally well received because it was somewhat realistic with strands of comedy in it. There was a purpose to the show. But in here, it was cheap comedy with little reality. And tbh, I am not sure what is worse. A horrible movie, or a horrible movie that wouldn’t stop promoting “happily” despite the backlash.
really loving how Brian is being so honest and straightforward LOL
What I did like was the idea of the show, showing what army life could be like and what us as girls could experience, but all the plot points like you said was touch and go, no f[development and no depth. Because they didn’t actually research and understand properly what some girls experience in life, I felt like all so stereotypical and I mean in ah boys to men a lot of the plot points also very stereotypical, but there was at least some depth to their characters.
I feel like that’s one problem in Singaporean media industry, especially for the script writing, everything is so awkward, nothing flows, direction of many movies and tv shows are so bad and they always use references from Korean dramas but can never successfully emulate it so it just becomes worse and is like my secondary school project. I felt like I’m the show, girls were portrayed as very shallow, I mean a few moments off they are generous but that was the entire vibe I got.
Many of the, were amateur actresses that also haven’t been in serious movies before, many of them were guest casts in shows and were also always playing comedy characters. In ah boys to men it was a proper audition, and everyone got proper training as well, they understood how to play the character, but I feel like many of them couldn’t play the character, I wish there were also characters that wanted to enlist instead of just being forced to enlist cause then we could actually see the perspective of the women who is actually serving the nation. Maybe I missed it.
Its the kind of sweeping stereotype movies that JN have always made. Zero script writing needed, just a bunch of guys who came together and do NS talk can come up with
jack Neo’s Homerun movie was based on a Iranian movie called Children of Heaven. (Maybe that’s why it was good)
HUH WAIT GOT 2 SHOWS ?????? I thought only 1 wtf
have so many to say both in the prod side and movie itself since i was involved but like same time no comments LOL
I live for yall dragging them, yall need to regularly review (drag) terrible movies
Homerun was good because it was a remake of an award winning Iranian movie, Children of Heaven. No way Jack Neo will ever be capable of making an original film of that level.
I watched part 2 and there were young kids inside the cinema and all the people was laughing
Must feel really awkward for Mich to be there...😅
Agree with most if not all of the points
The lady with tattoo cried for 40 mins in this podcast
Why they like never promote the second movie more … i dont even know there is a part 2 lmaoooo
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He did not watch ah girls go army part 1 and he judged part 2. I watch ah boys to man part 1 to part 4. And I watch ah girls go army part 1 and part 2. Both was funny. If you want to judged then try to make a movie and see how hard is it.
I didn’t watch that turd on a road of a movie but in my mind “Yes it flopped”
The fact that the second trailer… i dont see any of the minorities lmao
i think jack neo is just memeing for the boomers
Lol , people here all use mouth to talk only . If you are capable , go make your own movie or show . Talking bad about other people's movie just because you are not capable of doing it , it is damn low class . If you don't like the movie then just don't watch and keep your mouth shut lah . What's the whole point of trash talking everything here . Seriously go do something more meaningful or go prove yourself useful other than trash talking here .
@America Chavez LOL , even if don't like , you don't have to trash talk behind other people isn't it ? Why do you have to talk bad and publicize the issue ? People nowadays , mouth trash like shit , thinking like shit . So fucking low class .