My review on Crazy Rich Asians

Introduction

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Hey guys it’s me again and this time I am going to review on a movie that is pretty close to me. The movie that I am going to review is Crazy Rich Asians. Crazy Rich Asians is an American romantic comedy movie directed by Jon.M.Chu which is based on a novel with the same title that was published in 2013 by Kevin Kwan. The movie starts by fellow Malaysian Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh and fellow cast member such as Constance Wu from Fresh off the boat, Ken Jeong from the hangover franchise, Gemma Chan, Awkwafina and many more. This movie follows an American lecturer who falls in love with a fellow Singaporean and decides to meet his family back in Singapore just to find out that his family is one of the richest family in the whole of Singapore.

Plot

Back in 1995, Eleanor Young played by Michelle Young enters a hotel and seeks for help so that she could check into her room but unfortunately, she wasn’t allowed to check in. After talking to her husband, she actually managed to buy the entire hotel and it was the start of the dynasty of the Young family. Now in 2018, Nick Young is dating a professor named Rached Chu who teaches in New York University(NYU) and he suggests to his then girlfriend to visit Singapore as he is the best man for his best friend’s wedding. Without hesitating, she accepted his offer and accompanied him to Singapore. She was a bit shocked when she was asked to move to first class but when she asked Nick how wealthy is he, he replied his comfortable. Upon arriving in Singapore’s airport, they were greeted by his best friend who is getting married and his fiancee and they both went to the nearest hawker stall to grab something to eat. The very next day, Rachel decides to visit her ex-college mate Peik Lin. While having lunch, Rachel shared an interesting message when she said she was dating Nick. Peik’s family was really shocked knowing that fact as they explained to Rachel that the Young’s are a known family among the community for being one of the richest family in Singapore. Even though Peik warns Rachel that the Young’s associate and family might treat her differently as she is not from the same sort of family background, Rachel ignores that fact and still attended the gala dinner. It was then when Rachel met Nick’s family for the first time. Rachel notices that Nick’s mother dislike Rachel but his grandmother seems to like her. During the bachelorette party, Rachel received a threat while with Nick, he was discussing the idea of proposing to Rachel. Nick cousin’s Astrid comforts Rachel till the night ended. As Nick and Rachel got back, she told the incident to Nick and he apologized and asked her if she would want to join them to make dumplings. Rachel noticed Eleanor’s engagement ring and Eleanor explained that her mother in law wasn’t fond of her and she also said that Rachel would never be good enough for Nick. Rachel was upset but Peik cheered Rachel up suggested that she should up her game by dressing like how the Young’s would dress for the wedding which would be in something grand. While riding together with her husband, Astrid confronted her husband about his affair and he admitted to it. He left halfway during the car ride and Astrid arrived the wedding with her grandmother During the wedding day, she managed to befriend Princess Intan who is usually cold and seems to be alone. During the reception, Eleanor and her mother in law managed to dig something up about Rachel’s past by revealing that her was conceived through an affair and her dad is still alive. Rachel left the reception crying while Nick’s mother forbidden him from seeing Rachel in fear that the scandal might be exposed. Rachel’s mother Kerry explained what happened when she conceived Rachel that her husband was abusive and her old classmate helped her through everything and along the way conceived Rachel. Kerry ran away from her husband by flying to America so that he can’t track her down. Kerry urged Rachel to meet with Nick and he proposed to Rachel but she declined. Rachel met Eleanor for a game of mahjong and she deliberately lost the game to Eleanor symbolizing her sacrifices and leaves with her mother. As they boarded the plane, Nick ran and met the both Rachel and Kerry with Eleanor’s engagement ring as a way of giving her blessing that she approves of the marriage. Rachel said yes to him and they stayed for an extra day for the engagement party.

Cast

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From the left Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Sung-Young, Nick’s domineering mother, Henry Golding as Nick Young, Rachel’s boyfriend and Eleanor’s son, Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, Nick’s girlfriend and Kerry’s daughter, Ken Jeong as Goh Wye Mun, Peik Lin’s wealthy father, Awkwafina as Goh Peik Lin, Rachel’s Singaporean college best friend and Wye Mun’s daughter

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Gemma Chan as Astrid Leong-Teo, Nick’s cousin and Lisa Lu as Shang Su Yi, Nick’s grandmother

Production

The production started mid April of 2017 and it ended by the end of June. The cast members are all asians and it’s the first in Hollywood by having an all asian cast members. It shows that there are other ethnicity who can actually work and act in a Hollywood movie. The movie was shot between Malaysia and Singapore from Langkawi to Esplanade Park in Singapore.

Reception

Rotten tomatoes gave 92% out of 100% based on 275 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “With a terrific cast and a surfeit of visual razzle dazzle, Crazy Rich Asians takes a satisfying step forward for screen representation while deftly drawing inspiration from the classic—and still effective—rom-com formula.On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A” on an A+ to F scale.

Box office

As of November 6, 2018, Crazy Rich Asians has grossed $173.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $61.8 million elsewhere, for a worldwide gross of $235.1 million, against a production budget of $30 million. In October 2018, it became the highest-grossing romantic comedy of the last 10 years, and the 6th-highest-grossing ever.

Recommendation

I would recommend my readers to watch this movie as it talks about how someone would do anything to please others and still win in life and not lose any part of it. Do good get better as they say. Not only that, it also shows our culture as a multiracial country and we should always go back to our roots no matter wherever you are. Most importantly is it displays that whatever it is, family comes first regardless anything and family would do anything for each other’s happiness. I would rate it a 9/10.

My review on PUBG

The name of the game is called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or known as PUBG. PUBG is an online multiplayer battle royal game developed by a South Korean company called Bluehole. There would be around 98-100 players in you would be competing with. The game has a number of maps to be chosen from such as Sanhook, Eragel and Miramar. There is an option of playing solo, duo and a group of four

This is the homescreen. You can choose a variety of outfit from shoes to masks. As you can see on the left, there’s the start button and below it is where you choose your map and option of playing alone or playing with a group of two or four.

This is the waiting screen. You have to wait approximately around 45 seconds as the other players are joining to from around the world. You can have a peak at the map while waiting for the game to start so that you would know where you would want land and collect your weapons

As you can see once the game has started, the players have to jump down from the plane to land at their designated spot. Most of the players prefer landing at Pochinki as that place is filled with houses and the weapons there are usually more than the rest thus it is a gamer’s favourite spot to land.

The circle in the picture is called the playzone. Players have to be in the playzone so that they can live and play the game. Once the players have landed, the circle would form. If the players are not in the playzone, not to worry about. The circle would only close after three minutes which is sufficient enough for the players to grab a vehicle and drive to the playzone. The circle would downsize every three minutes but as time goes on, the time for the circle to downsize decrease to about a minute.

Alright let’s get down to business. Once you’ve landed, there would be houses,warehouses or an abandon factory for the players to collect their weapons. There are a number of guns to be chosen from starting with pistols. There are actually five types of bullets which are 5.56mm, 7.62mm, 9mm, ACP.45 and 12 gauge. There are three pistols to be chosen from which are called R1895, P1911 and P92 which uses 7.62mm, ACP.45 and 9mm respectively. There are a number of short guns but all of them use the same type of bullet that is 12 Gauge. Next is submission gun or as known as SMG. There are three types of gun that are called Vector, UMP9 and UZI. As for UMP9 and UZI, there are actually similar guns as they both use 9mm but for UZI, you can’t use any type of scope while for UMP9 you can use any type of scopes. Next would be the riffles. These guns are recommended as they’re way more accurate and the impact of it on other players as one shoots is greater than using a SMG or pistol. One of it is called AKM which uses the 7.62mm bullet. The 5.56mm bullet is catered for three other riffles that are called M416, M416A and SCAR-L. The difference between M416 and M416A is the way the bullets are being released as you shoot. My personal favourite is the M416A

Now let’s talk about scopes. There a few to be chosen from like the one above is called holographic sight. This is ideal for short distance shooting as you can’t aim at the opponents and try to shoot them down. The other scopes are called 2X scope, 3X scope, 4X scope, 6X scope and 8X scope. As the number increases, the scopes are better used for long distance such as the 6X times scope. 8X scope is a bit special as only you can only use it with a sniper. The other scopes are comparable with the other guns from SMGs to riffles and even the pistols.

Now as the playzone gets smaller, all the players would be closer to each other thus making it hard to survive The circle would as small as small as it can only fit one player but it depends on the location if it’s a house or a building, the players can strategically take down the other players and be the last man standing but if it’s an open ground, the players would need to hide so that the other opponents can’t find them.

This would appear if you have won the game with the iconic line “winner winner chicken dinner”. After pressing continue, you can see your score. It starts as low as B all the way to SSS. The way to winning this game is by playing smart and not expose yourself. You have to collect the right equipment and hide at a strategic place. I recommend by readers to give this game a try as I am pretty sure it would be a hit among teenagers and young adults. You can download this game from the App store or Google play by searching the name of this game, PUBG mobile. Thank you for reading it! Hope you have a good day.

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A meal at After Black

Located at Bandar Sunway opposite of Sunway University, After Black offers a variety of food and their cuisine is a fusion of asian and western. The opening time is from 10AM to 11PM.

This place serves all sorts of food but their menu has a unique twist as each of every one of the food has something different. For instance, the sandwiches they serve is not like an ordinary sandwiches you get from any convenience store or any coffee cafes such as Starbucks or Coffee Bean. It uses the same bread as a toast dessert.

Not only that even their drinks served there is pretty good. The coffee is served is smooth and the cups that are being used to serve retain the heat for the coffee thus it would much more of a delight to have a hot cup of coffee. Even the hot chocolate too but I would say it is a bit too sweet for me but you can request the staffs to reduce the level of sugar. I would give it an 8.5 out of 10.

As for their salad menu, honestly it seems very normal as you can get it practically anywhere in many cafes or restaurants nowadays. But the price for the salad list is actually quite reasonable but I don’t find the urge to actually go back there and get another bowl of salad. I’d give it 6 out of 10.

This is called an open sandwich. This uses the same bread a toast dessert. This in particular is called a the “big boss”. It consists of smoked duck breast, sunnyside egg, rockets, bacon and sweet potato fries on the side. This is one of their must try as it is tasty and mouth watering. If you ever come to after black, you must try this. I’d rate it 9.5/10.

This is called their black rice set. There are a few option of meat that can be chosen from such as salmon, chicken and crab. The unique part of this dish is the black rice. Not many places serves black rice as it is considered a delicacy for some people. But it is actually good their black rice as it is fluffy yet the consistence of it being really good.

This is the interior of the restaurant. It has a cozy vibe yet being up to date. It is a good place for a meet up or even a date. But the one issue is the restaurant is not as spacious as many of the current restaurant. But other than that, it is really a good place to have lunch or dinner and I’d recommend this place to my fellow readers to give it a try and bring their loved ones here too.

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