<p>oh yeah...happy b-day yy0712!! if it is your b-day lol</p>
<p>happy b-day to the thread's first poster!! she's done a lot to take us this far .... :D:></p>
<p>happy, happy, yy0712,</p>
<p>and in response to your call for the movies</p>
<p>and keep this thread afloat and interesting, (and as i selfishly am in desperate search for good movies to watch in the summer as well....Netflix)</p>
<p>Let's talk about our favorite movies: </p>
<p>I will begin with:</p>
<p>** Amelie (Fabuleux destin d'Am</p>
<p>Ohh.. happy birthday yy0712!!! I just came back from orientation at Berkeley. It was veyr cool :) .</p>
<p>:)
so i just got home from 4 days of orientation in austin, about to drop dead on the floor any minute
but i still wanted to spend like a minute online to quickly check emails and of course, our beloved chinese thread. and GOSH, i'm so completely wide awake now
i really wasnt expecting this! thanks you guys--you've just made my day :) and yes, how did you know i'm a 'she'...jeez, don't i sound manly enough?! lol. </p>
<p>yes, i didnt even realize myself (since ive sorta stopped celebrating my b-days years ago) until just yesterday when my parents suggested that i should take some friends out for dinner this year, since it's my 18th one and all </p>
<p>but thank you all again! although i've done nothing to deserve all this special attention. we should really instead thank all those loyal posters who have brought so many awesome topics here for discussion. and sorry about the nerdy way i started this thread... i never expected it to transcend into such an enduring source of humor/information/support/joy/friendship/...</p>
<p>but anyway, i can't thank you all enough. let's be sure to stay in touch wherever we go!</p>
<p>and yes, amen, chinese thread ;)</p>
<p>do we have a list of everyone so far?</p>
<p>YES,CHINESE THREAD 万岁！lol...
you guys already had your orientation?? darn,i'm not having mine until august 17.
oh yeah, how did you start the thread yy0712? i'm just too lazy to check...
ok about movies. bowtoserenity, i'm embarassed to post my favorite movies. it's all so trivial compared to yours! i know i'm a loser, i love chick flicks. still...i'm gonna post so bear with me.
hmmm...i just realized i don't know how to put my words in bold. i am a true blue loser.
LOVE ACTUALLY
it's the sweetest xmas movie! i love hugh grant even though he's old and playboyish...</p>
<p>SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
i just like the music in the movie. maroon 5 rocks! and keanu reeves is a plus too hehe.</p>
<p>INITIAL D头文字D
need i say more?? jay chou's in the movie for god's sake, plus two other very cute guys, 余文乐AND陈冠西。sigh....the special effects are quite good too.</p>
<p>CHOCOLAT
it has chocolates, french, johnny depp, and the typical good vs evil plus happy ending.</p>
<p>天下无贼
zhang yi mou is GOOD...</p>
<p>hmmm...i can't think of anymore as of now. will tell you guys more.</p>
<p>speaking of movies, nowadays, many new foreign movies, usually featured at non-american movie festivals, are catching up hollywood flix.
if you have a netflix account, you will have a good access to great foreign films. netflix does a better job updating new foreign movies than blockbuster
foreign films present their world view in a strikingly different way. being in america for years, hollywood movies filled everywhere, most of them repeatedly presenting similar things.
here are some bizzare recommendations,
Shanghai beach, （上海滩，1980 周润发，吕良伟 版本）
A Better Tomorrow I,II, （英雄本色 一，二部）
Swordsman I,II （笑傲江湖 1， 笑傲江湖 之 东方不败）
the bike of the 17 year old (17岁单车）
Cell Phone(手机）
杀手壕， don't know english title, a classic Jackie Chan movie.
Chinese Connection, 精武门，李小龙 版
Fist of Legend, 精武英雄， 李连杰 版
The Big Boss, 唐山大兄， 李小龙 版
the Game of Death, only worth watching the last three fight scenes by actual Bruce Lee
鬼子来了， 姜文 版
Scent of A Woman, Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnel
The Professional,
The Taxi Driver, Robert de Niro</p>
<p>yy0712, "birthday girl"! woo..... hm, envying you for taking the laurel of the founder.... haha, but... :cool: I am the first poster to bump the thread (2nd poster! yeah! changed my ID from penumbra :p).....</p>
<p>ali_liu, I believe I compiled one chinese list quite a while ago(like page 17 or so? not sure....it takes some effort to list everyone again since our # of members have been growing exponentially :D )</p>
<p>** Vanilaice **, thanks for your movie list, to make the characters bold, just type [ b ] and <a href="beginning%20and%20end"> /b </a>without the spaces between b and the parenthesis. And Love Actually is actually on my Netflix Queue of the movies to be rented. You fanned up my expectation...hmm....</p>
<p>"唐"山大兄....If you like Al Pacino's movie, you should probably also check out Dog Day Afternoon.</p>
<p>And I missed one of also my favorites:
Life is Beautiful (Vita </p>
<p>大家嗨：
我新来的刚注册，看到这引索蛮感兴趣，情不自禁写几句望大家见谅。
从头看起，你们原先在分析高考流学美国过程，我是过来人，不妨说说自己经验，反正我目前特无聊。我老家在山东，挺早就移民美国，在此住了一阵子，虽然算不上真正外国流学生，也不差很多。报大学的时候以780/730/740(writ)/800(miic)成绩与颇充实的科外活动/推荐信等等，但未能进入所中意的大学(stanford,yale)。最后以upenn,wustl,berkeley的选择，决定去了berkeley(去年)。但去之以后觉得心满意足，第一年过的比较顺利，只怨于交州外学费。</p>
<p>看到后来大家论起电影啦，兴致倍增！既然大家都是国人/湾台，如何谈不到周星驰/梁朝伟？实吾平生最最最(x100)崇拜的演员。开始列最佳电影:</p>
<ol>
<li>大话西游(第一肯定)</li>
<li>鹿鼎记</li>
<li>重庆森林</li>
<li>少林足球</li>
<li>东邪西毒(欲懂须看屡次)</li>
</ol>
<p>怎么?我是喜欢搞笑:P</p>
<p>很高兴能够有交流的机会.
我的中文马虎,蒙各位指教.</p>
<p>由于我每次回帖时间不多， 只有一点一点的来了</p>
<p>周星驰的古装戏较现代戏更具幽默和创意。他的唐伯虎点秋香，大话西游，九品芝麻官 是其他喜剧演员演不出来的。
下次推荐几个老法国喜剧片</p>
<p>刚刚读了四年高中我已经快成书呆子了。。。真可悲！我这四年里看的电影可能还比不过你们四星期看的多。不过看你们讨论得这么精彩，不好意思， 我也来凑凑热闹写几句。。。</p>
<p>the few top ones i can remember off the top of my head...
1. pirates from the Caribbean (this is the probably one of my favorites. but then again, i haven't seen many to begin with)
2. all the harry potters (i'm not a huge fan and haven't read any of the books, but nearly everyone i know are really into them. so)
3. all the lord of the rings (very confusing at first but still quite enjoyable afterwards. i've seen the first one twice. the first time i fell asleep in the theater, but the second time was quite enjoyable with a friend doing all the explanations)
4. the count of monte cristo (i vaguely remember all the details, but i think the book is much better)
5. phantom of the opera (i really liked it. but i heard the Broadway version's way better. i've gotten all the soundtracks afterwards. and overall i really enjoyed the performance)</p>
<p>i know, i'm so cultural-deprived. but i am working hard to get some good movies this summer, esp the chinese ones. alright, that's all i have now...will update later.</p>
<p>This is very important,i think.
I'm a newcomer.At first,i introduce myself.
From Hangzhou(Currently in China),studying in Zhejiang University</p>
<p>Harvard is my dream.
I'm studying hard...
Hello everyone!</p>
<p>welcome, all the newcomers :)</p>
<p>DelphiXon- it's certainly nice to see somebody from Cal. fayetti is going there next year as well. :) A lot of us now have just been through the "painful" admission process. We are sticking around for the friendly community and helping the '10 or '11-ers (well, partially also because we are bored in the summer). Welcome to the community.</p>
<p>van, Zhejing University is certainly a first class university in China. Do you plan to come to Harvard for graudate school or to be tainted with the undergraduate crimson? Welcome, anyway. Hard work always pays off.</p>
<p>yy0712, how about Netflix? It's cheap and has a relatively broad selection of foreign movies. You can also change your address easily once you go to school in the fall.... heh, do i sound like a sales person or something?hmmm....</p>
<p>Movies! I only watched 3 movies recently: Madagascar (highly recommend, hilarious...), Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Batman Begins.
Yeah...similar to yy0712, I only watched a few movies these years...I like A Beautiful Mind, Phantom of the Opera, LOTR trilogy, Harry Potter, etc...Speaking of Chinese movies, I've watched 手机, 十面埋伏, 心急吃不了热豆腐 in the past few months. Since I am so behind on the movies (haven't even watched many of the classic Chinese ones), I plan to buy some DVD's in China this summer. :)</p>
<p>Vanillaice, you watched 头文字D? How was it? I know that movie has so many stars in it....周杰伦, 黄秋生, 余文乐, 陈冠希, 陈小春 and so on. Combined with the car-racing scenes, it sounds quite exciting.</p>
<p>And welcome to the new members....another round of the admissions process will begin soon. Good luck to y'all!</p>
<p>P.S.: anyone will be in Beijing around 7/20-mid august? I'll be there..so if any of you wanna hang out, just tell me :D</p>
<p>i just got 头文字D.... i thought it was really bad lol, it was just boring and kind of lacked a plot, i think that's what happens when u condense a anime series into a movie... dunno. they did the racing scenes pretty well tho</p>
<p>sweetbee03 - i have some friends who are going on 7/23 heh, i was gonna go with them.. but i guess i went earlier lol
wangfujing 小吃 didnt live up to my expectations =(</p>
<p>《喋血街头》吴宇森猛片</p>
<p>o i see. yes, my friends have given me like a million sites to download movies...illegally. i guess to be safe, Netflix would be a great option.
sweetbee, i heard 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' and 'Batman Begins' were awesome. i'm thinking about taking my dad to see ''Mr. and Mrs. Smith', since ppl say the action is pretty good. but the last time i took him to a movie, he fell asleep during it...so what would you say? and great, maybe i'll drop by someday after you come back to borrow your dvds...;) j/k
also, someone wants to lend me 'meteor garden.' i know it was once banned in china and don't know if it really suits my 'style'. so how bad is it really?</p>
<p>umm i saw meteor garden 1... i thought it was ok lol, maybe cuz i watch too many chinese series shows tho.. hehe i hear the sequels are horrible tho</p>
<p>huh??meteor garden was banned in china???lol...i was in china then and i never heard about it.
anyone watched 仙剑奇侠传？？i know i know,it's actually kinda dumb but it's so damn popular i couldn't resist. and li xiao yao is very very cute.i hate zhao ling er!!!i luv lin yue ru!!!ok u all prolly don't know what i'm talking about but if anyone has played the game before would know.
Initial D is nice! ok check out my msn space,i commented on it and has a very nice pic of jay chou.yum yum.
i just watched Sin City yesterday.dammit,couldn't sleep afterwards.quetin something taratino(sorry if i got his name wrong) is just too sick and bloody to describe. there were the kill bill series and now this. i couldn't believe that elijah woods would actually act as a psycho killer that eats ppl.eesh.i've always thought he's kinda sweet,with the blue eyes and everything.sigh...the movie's just too weird and sick.too strong for my stomach anyway.but it's too intriguing not to watch.my mom's weird.she said she didn't have trouble sleeping at all.geez...i kept running the scenes over and over again in my mind.
现在又来说点中文，霍霍~~~中文电影我也没看多少，不大感兴趣。韩国片看了一两部，超搞，那小子真帅（我知道名字很白痴啦）还有淘气少女求爱记（似乎好象是这个名字），眼泪笑得我不停的留。还有，还有，HMMMM
手机的确不错，我至今还没看2046，原声带倒是听了很多遍，隆重推荐！！现在台湾香港的偶像剧太烂，情节恶心到了一定程度，不过斗鱼据说不错，郭品超帅死了！！花痴中~~</p>