Serious Sinkie Retards Paid for Jack Neo's CNY Movie, Walk out half way!

[Pinkieslut]

UNBELIEVABLE GOT RETARDS PAY TO WATCH JACK NEO MOVIES?

'Please respect us as filmmakers': Jack Neo hits back at criticisms of his CNY movie





In a livestream on Jan 31, Jack Neo responded to criticisms of his new movie I Want To Be Boss.


PHOTO: Screengrabs/Facebook/Jack Neo





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FEBRUARY 02, 2025 11:40 AM


ByYEO SHU HUI

Jack Neo has responded to criticisms about his new movie I Want To Be Boss in a Facebook livestream on Friday (Jan 31), days after it opened in Singapore and Malaysia cinemas for the festive season.


"Whenever we make a movie, we go through many processes before it's released in the cinemas. It is definitely not to hit targets or to be used as a backup as other people suggested," said the 65-year-old local director.


This comes after negative comments surfaced online about Jack's movie, with some netizens urging others not to catch it in cinemas.





On fuckwarezone's forum, a netizen shared his experience of watching the movie on Jan 23, saying that "a lot of people left halfway" and that he "cannot imagine a single person walking out of the theatre thinking the movie is good."


Some netizens also commented on the movie's trailer on YouTube, asking others not to "waste money" on tickets.





Netizens commented on YouTube about Jack Neo's new movie I Want To Be Boss.


PHOTO: Screengrabs/YouTube/JTV, GSCinemas


I Want To Be Boss tells the story of Ong Dongnan (Henry Thia), who partners with food critic-influencer Douyin Jie (Dawn Yeoh) to open a Chinese restaurant after being forced into retirement, and takes his ex-colleague Steven (Zhang Shuifa) as his culinary apprentice.


Dongnan also owns an AI robot Ling Ling (Patricia Mok), which helps to ease household pressures and serves as a mediator for him and his wife Mrs Ong (Aileen Tan). However, AI technology becomes Dongnan's downfall, after Douyin Jie and Steven steal his secret recipe and frame him for it. Through a series of events, including a family crisis, Dongnan learns the importance of hard work, honesty and forgiveness.


The movie ranked first in Singapore's box office on Chinese New Year eve as well as the first two days of the festive season, and also made RM2 million (S$610k) in Malaysia's box office as of Jan 31.





'Please respect us as filmmakers'


In the livestream, Jack said that a lot of time and effort go into making every movie.


Each movie released during the Chinese New Year period is planned at least a year ahead, with many rounds of discussions made with production and distribution companies in Singapore and Malaysia.





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After filming is completed, more than 100 people would be invited to watch a raw version of the film and give their views, which would be taken into consideration during editing. The movie then screens in cinemas.


"Everyone has their own views when watching a movie, that is understandable. But I hope people wouldn't say things like, 'Don't watch this movie'.





"We'd never tell others not to watch other movies, because as filmmakers, we know how tedious the process can be," he said.


Jack added that he was "unhappy" when he saw the derogatory comments and wanted to give his side of the story.


"I released this movie after it went through many rounds of professional editing and critique. The movie is definitely not something that would make the audience want to leave the cinema halfway or fall asleep," he said.


"Perhaps there are some people who had reasons for leaving halfway, but even if you do, please do not tell others not to watch it. Watching a movie is a personal experience — even if you don't like it, it doesn't mean others don't."


Acknowledging that the viewers are entitled to their opinions, Jack also called for respect to filmmakers.





"Please give us a chance and give your friends a chance [to watch the movie], maybe they would enjoy it," he said.


I Want To Be Boss also stars Terence Cao, Jae Liew, Yang Guang Ke Le and Shawn Thia, and is now showing in cinemas.

 

[laksaboy]

'Please respect us as filmmakers': Jack Neo hits back at criticisms of his CNY movie

If your films are shit, you don't get respect. There are many shit movie directors out there, none of them demand to be respected like you. You still you are still a SAF officer like back in the day?

 

[millim6868]

Lau tiko still kpkb , lol

 

[Truthspeak]

One promotes AI, the other promotes LGBT.
These scammers got backing from government to do these movies

 

[8::::::D]

Online videos had changed our audience expectations. Jack neo style is old fashioned already

 

[8::::::D]

I just forced myself to finish watching kavan movie

 

[mojito]

What he say in moo vee? Learn to code? Govt v good pay u up skew?

 

[red amoeba]

i will watch it when it appears on those China streaming sites...not worth spending a cent to go cinema.

 

[oliverlee]

fuck his mother's lao cheerbai. I would take his script and wipe my ass.

 

[VanDick]

He sounds just like a certain pappy loser who demands that dumb sinkies show more respect to gahment politicians. Respect has to be earned, and he doesn't deserve any for the shitty movies he pumps out.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

If you still go and watch this movie after watching the trailer, you deserve to get shafted!




8 Days gave it a 1.5 out of 5!

https://www.8days.sg/seeanddo/streamit/movie-review-i-want-be-boss-jack-neo-movie-review-840286

I Want To Be Boss Review: Jack Neo's AI-Themed Comedy Is Silly, Cheap-Looking And Slapdash​

His CNY offering is what happens when you throw a computer into a cai png stall. In other words: it’s a mess!​

I Want To Be Boss (PG13)

Starring Henry Thia, Aileen Tan, Patricia Mok, Dawn Yeoh, Zhang Shuifa, Jack Neo

Directed by Jack Neo
The Jack Neo Chinese New Year comedy goes like this.

No artistry. No underlit tension. Just an over-bright, overlong show that lets his cast yak on and on about the kopitiam topics of the day.

This time in his so-called AI pic fronted by Henry Thia, Neo projects further into the future without seeming like he's even trying. This strangely assembled flick ends up looking daft, cheap and truly slapdash as a bizarre mishmash in a pseudo sci-fi way.

Give points to Neo for breaking out of his Money No Enough and I Not Stupid obsessions.

But the man's idea of AI — “artificial intelligence”, not “actually incoherent” — is Patricia Mok and Jae Liew extending stiff arms and rotating heads as good and bad robots in tacky body suits borrowed from a 1970s fembot movie.

It's straight out of amateur hour as director/co-writer Neo makes zero attempt to even minor-futurise his trademark HDB-heartlanders setting. As though he suddenly throws a computer into a cai png (mixed vegetables) stall. Yep, he plays a cai png seller here.

For a long while, you forget that there's even some sort of tech input since the first half looks like a Restaurant Wars episode.

Thia plays Ong Dong Nam, a laid-off top chef who opens a hit restaurant with his trendy influencer friend, the Tasty Queen (Dawn Yeoh) of foodie livestreams.

Of course, Thia being Thia, his Nam is a stubborn simpleton who feels looked down upon, demands “face” and wants to become a “big boss COE”. It's an unfunny wrong-spelling running gag about “CEO” which he keeps repeating.

FYI. I might've laughed twice throughout this daffy deal. Once during the singing of a funereal birthday song.

Surrounding Nam are his kids and too-free wife (Aileen Tan), hawker pal Kiong (Neo), and Steven (Zhang Shuifa), an ex-colleague who initially begs to be trained as his apprentice. But he's planning secretly to betray his master by becoming a competitor with a stolen recipe (“Durian Prosperity Rice”, anybody?), deepfake dirty tricks and a bot-vs-bot showdown that's too TV-ish silly to be charging money.

At first, all this is merely a cooked-up cooking drama with Nam getting too big for his head by blithely taking credit for everything. He bickers with his wife and splits with Queen who joins Steven to set up a rival restaurant which thumps Nam's.

Gotta say — Thia, centrestage here, is kinda fun to watch as a sourpuss KPKB-er (Hokkien for complainer) who keeps grumbling. Like a whiny little Labubu moppet.

His scenes with Mok, playing Ling Ling the robot, are the movie's best. An oddball hamming it up with an odder gadget as they grapple scandalously in the bedroom when the automaton runs out of charging juice.

Now, the opening scene sees a PM Lawrence Wong-lookalike (Kunhua) making a speech about bringing Singapore into the “new age of AI robots”. But I'm stumped trying to recall exactly when the AI stuff comes into this film like an add-on.

Somehow, long into the tale, Robert the AI-robot salesman (Terence Cao), pops up to unbox Ling Ling in the living room. Besides sticking a vacuum hose into her mouth, she's there to “improve familial and marriage relationships” in Nam's fractious household dispensing domestic advice like an ATM. The wife, whom Nam chides for wasting money and not giving him face, is suspicious of her hubby employing only pretty waitresses.

Huh? Is a story about robotics, circa 2025, after I, Robot; Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence way back in 2001; and countless ingenious bot plots; this simplistically, childishly and lazily easy?

Well, apparently, in the cheesy neo-world of Neo, sans effects, expertise and intelligent rigour, it is.

Okay, about those aforementioned deepfakes. The machine keeps telling the missus, “Be careful of scams”, while she's being duped by a fake online chat run by a “shuai” (handsome) swindler named Ronaldo.

Funny thing is, Neo's product placements whizz by and I actually can't tell whether they're real or not since they look kinda fakey too.

It's what a half-cooked AI thingy does to a viewer.

That, I believe, may have been my second chuckle. (1.5/5 stars)

 

[batman1]

ENough is Enough.