Everything Wrong With Crazy Rich Asians
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2019
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This movie made a lot of money and it's pretty entertaining. But Crazy Rich Asians still has sins.
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He did not take 100 sins away for the best line in the movie and it was from Astrid. "It's not my job to make you feel like a man." BOOM, the real hook, line, and sinker.
Ugh that line is so corny
No taste...
She was like,"I cant make you something youre not."
And I fucking blew up
That was my favourite part of the movie
That line so smooth it cleansed me of toxic masculinity
If you were in a restaurant and Brad Pitt walked in, you would know. Nick Young is Singapore's Brad Pitt. And that's how everyone.knew.
No one would recognize Brad Pitt from a million other guys by just the back of his head.
@@fkrkf Singapore is its own country, separate from China.
beccabunny09 Alrighty then
I'm Singaporean, who tf is Nick Young?
Bryan Gosling a fictional character in a fictional story....the way they portrayed nick young in the book/movie would be analogous to how brad Pitt is in real life. So of course you wouldn’t know nick young despite being Singaporean because he isn’t real...
BUT YOU DIDNT TALK ABOUT THE *its not my job to make you feel like a man, I can’t make you something you’re not* MOMENT!!!! Like come on dude that roast was gold
Meh. A man should make his girl feel like a queen. If they love each other, it should go both ways. But, to each his/her own
Why was she able to just take THEIR kid?
As a non-rich woman, I find Cinemasins’ take refreshing. The fact that she owns 14 apartment buildings means that the poor paid for her 1.2 million dollar earrings just so that they could have a roof over their heads.
As for their relationship, a key difference between Astrid and Nick is Astrid’s passivity. Michael gets treated shabbily by the family (this is portrayed more explicitly in the book) and instead of standing up for him, Astrid merely hides her expensive clothes from him. We see it a little with Rachel and the fish too - Astrid helps Rachel, but she doesn’t stand up to the other women. The writers could have given her character development there, like they did with Nick, who initially buries his head in the sand but later stands up for Rachel. But they didn’t, and in light of that, Astrid’s moment of “triumph” falls as flat for me as it appears to do for CinemaSins. Especially now I know that in the book, Michael fakes cheating so that he can break up with Astrid while allowing her to save face.
“Racism is a cliche” aaah the white privilege we seriously love to see it
Oh I would love to see that nonexistent white privilege as well.
No Name Passerby A god you’re dense. Non white people have experienced racism exactly of this nature which white people think is just a “cliche” and “doesn’t happen”.
@@user-ub8oi7oh3r Yeah sure, try telling that to the MSNBC and BBC that keeps painting cis white men as privileged spawn of Satan
No Name Passerby A they’re making life harder for the white men because they’re cis not because they are white. You and other white people will never understand what it feels like to be discriminated against because of *RACE*
Slowdayonthe MISSISSIPPI but it’s still wrong to say that racism is a cliche. Just because all white people aren’t racist and all other groups might have individuals who are racist does not make it okay to say white people being racist is cliche. Just cause one white person you know was not racist doesn’t mean all white people aren’t racist and that was based on the past which means racism was worse in the white community then than it is now
"How did she know it was Nick Young? She was staring at the back of his head!"
....clearly you don't understand quite how obsessed some fangirls can be.
That fanfirls are nothing comparing them to sasaeng fans
@@dieforwenqingliveformengzo3241 for real
Nellie Bachesneg Also Radio 1 Asia is a Young relative from London!!
That's fucking true, i can even recognize my idol just from his finger
I confirm
Am I the only one who liked Astrid’s storyline?
It's set up for book 2
i liked her name, pretty bad ass.
I really loved it. Favorite part of of the movie tbh.
Cynthia Smith it would've maybe been a better movie if it was based off of her lol
She was pretter than the lead
Does anyone else feel like cinema sins has drifted away from actually finding inconsistencies and cliches in movies to bashing on whatever is popular.
Yeah this clown is really reaching. I guess if you're desperate to find sin you can find it anywhere.
Yeah, they are desperate for views.
where is the lie?
They literally made an entire video about people not understanding sarcasm. You are a prime example of one such person.
It’s been that way for years
Ok, I wouldn’t bring it up, except he sinned the movie so much for it that I’ve gotta call it out: That subplot with Astrid and Michael was one of the best elements of the movie, and CS here either deliberately misinterpreted it, or was a colossal dunce during any scene about it.
The struggle of the subplot was not about Astrid being rich and learning to be happy. It was about Michael’s insecurities and how he unfairly blamed her for them.
Astrid clearly loves Michael, as suggested by her buying him gifts and wanting to help him thrive. But Michael is focused on himself and his own discomforts, namely that he feels less of a man for bot being the breadwinner. Something he likely would never have considered about Astrid if HE were the breadwinner. Maybe people are shaming him for it (which we never actually see evidence of, btw).
But rather than being vulnerable and seeking emotional affirmation from Astrid, or realizing anyone shaming him for having a hot rich wife who sincerely loves him for who he is can go fuck themselves, he gets bitter. He either talks about her family looking at him with scorn, rejects her help and gifts, or accepts them in a strained manner. All these acts make Astrid feel like a failure as a wife, since she can’t make him happy or do anything to fix his problems. He makes his insecurities Astrid’s fault. So much so that she actively hides her wealth because he’s made her think she’s flaunting it, rather than she’s just getting what she likes. Which again, I doubt he’d do if he were the richer spouse.
Then there’s the affair. It’s unclear if this is real or a falsified cry for attention, but either way it’s inexcusable. He puts her through undue emotional turmoil because he doesn’t know how to handle his own insecurities, or properly communicate to them. It’d be one thing if it turned out Astrid had been ignoring him in favor of her career, but it’s constantly shown she still invests herself in him and their son.
Astrid ultimately realizes his actions are not her fault. He’s made her feel ashamed of being successful, because he perceives it as a threat to his reputation.
This is a guy who tried to unironically pass himself off as an “SJW” and reclaim the term in his Captain Marvel video. Yet he somehow took an entire sequence about a woman coming to terms with her wealth and status; realizing these were not insults to her husband’s masculinity and him thinking they did was his problem; and being confident in who she was; and all he got out of it was “Pfft, rich people problems, am I right?”
News flash: someone being richer than you doesn’t give you a right to shame them. Nor does their money protect them from feeling the effects of a toxic, emotionally abusive partner.
Yes
AMEN
^English majors
Yeah but it was boring though
beautifully said
Okay but the Asian information network is real and also scary.
All it takes is "Hey you know Josh Lim? Violin UCLA Josh Lim? He's dating math olympiad Ashley Kim." And by the end of the day every Asian family in the area knows about it
That's not an information network..that's sharing specific information on someone obviously revealing the identity.
I do however love the stereotypes you used.
@@ArgUsaIsr tbh its kinda true i failed my math test and by the end of the day my entire family knew
That's so rich asian
This is so true I told my mom about my results and the next day I’m getting messages from my cousin talking about my results
That's very true in the Asian culture lmao
He gives sin points for asians knowing nick from the back of his head. He clearly doesn't know the power of social medias with asians.
Asian + Social media= Almighty
Chong.95 LMFAO 💀💀💀
Chong.95 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 heck, even my 70 year old mom knows how to text!
Chong.95 I’m not even Asian I know this is true af
plus the fact that they were able to find out who Rachel is was no exaggeration. I have friends who can do this within minutes, esp girls.
Okay usually I’m a huge fan of cinema sins but a lot of things about this one rEALLY annoyed me. First of all, you completely discredited the racism shown towards the family which, in my mind, is an important part of the film. It shows how the Young family and many people of color are constantly overlooked even as successful people just because of the color of their skin. Second of all, Astrid’s storyline not only shows great symbolism as foil characters for Rachel and Nick, but it shows that Astrid can be her amazing self and own her womanhood wether or not her husband supports her. Third of all, you completely skipped over the most gorgeous scene of the entire movie. THE WEDDING!! The wedding was executed beautifully and gracefully and seeing Rachel as she was at the wedding talking to a literal princess was my FAVORITE SCENE OF THE ENTIRE MOVIE
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
Oh God shut up
@@omgmono Hope you can find a better use of your time in the future 💗
thank you for this!!!! Astrid is one of the important person in this entire movie & why did they tryin to skip her existence aite?!
AlbertBlackout go cry to ur “coolest aunt” albert
"discount Joseph Gordon Levitt", "Asian Britney Spears", "Asian version of..."
your racism is showing
That's sexist
@@johns5638 no it is not
@@dyliscairofoon9678 It's a joke.
@@johns5638 do this /s for sarcasm
@@dyliscairofoon9678 No
Why dose he keep counting people being racist towards them a Cliché? It’s not. That’s what happens in the real world. 🙄
Sure but the example in the beginning is so ridiculous. Like yea there are racist people. But the manager of a fancy hotel turning away obviously rich people with a reservation in the rain because they're Asian is a little unrealistic. Like I don't know how intolerant Britain was in the 90s to Asians but that's some cartoon level racism
Robert Frances Donovan Agree. The world is full of awful racists, and Jeremy was definitely a bit unfair to this movie, but that level of extreme discrimination at a fancy hotel just wouldn’t happen in Britain in the ‘90s.
@@robdon3472 y'all wake tf up it happens until now too. Ofc you wouldn't know🤦🏻♀️ don't take that as unrealistic yet not experiencing that kind of treatment
@@robdon3472 LOL I agree. Racism is real, a fact & will be an ongoing phenomenon till the end of time. Only, nobody knows it unless someone openly speaks rudely about it. These days, racism & discrimination are hidden but it will ALWAYS be there. Speaking of evolution.
It would never happen to anybody with enough money to reserve the Lancaster room. While Asians do experience discrimination, it's unlikely to have touched those with the wealth & status to buy respect.
I actually think the subplot was an important part of the movie. They worked as foils to our protagonists to show that marrying rich doesn't always work. *shrugs*
Or that there's room for either person to f*** it up, whether they rich or poor
Or that it doesn't always turn out glamorous or happy.
@@arjunwali8386 they should've turn into a Drama rather than a movies, since they have limited time
The movie cut out all the nuance, though. In the book, the family treats Michael like unpaid tech support and there’s a scene where Michael calls out the fact that the Khoos are spending millions on one party while half the world is starving. And he fakes cheating so that the family will put all the blame on him for the breakup and not judge Astrid. He’s still not a perfect character by any means, but the movie made him into an out and out antagonist when he wasn’t meant to be.
That church auntie bible study gossip circle was PRECISELY the way I've seen church bible studies go: random disconnected bits of verse, torn from context, and used to justify whatever the speaker wants to say.
Exactly what I was thinking. This guy actually sinned a movie because the writers put actual thought into making a metaphor/Easter Egg.
He shamed a movie for having effort and creativity in its writing. Let that sink in.
@@ursaminor9780 he shamed movies for having long intros. It’s not like he’s actually critiquing the movie, he obviously just wants to make jokes, so why would he actually research that deep into Asian culture?
@@ursaminor9780 you do realise these videos are meant to be jokes and not a social studies paper
@@badabing9402 But what exactly is funny about that comment?
Even if you’re unaware of the cultural accuracy behind it, it’s still a good metaphor, a clever comment when they could’ve just been reading any passage of the Bible in the background while the main conversation happened in the foreground.
All his comment seemed to say was “I didn’t get the joke, and I made the ding sound. Laugh please.”
@@vivaandua649 Even without the cultural context, their chosen passages still work as a good metaphor. One which apparently went over the head of whoever wrote that line. You don’t need a social studies paper to get it, just a rudimentary understanding of the English language.
i’m so confused why like every joke was a sin.? it’s a rom-com, and the whole point is the over-the-top ridiculousness of it all. there was plenty to talk about otherwise
Right?
this is just how his videos work. oftentimes he points out something dumb that a character said, make a joke, and add a sin. there’s also a lot of running gags on his channel where he adds a sin and it seems nonsensical if you haven’t seen his other videos. it’s just the structure of his videos. the sins are often more of a comedic thing than anything
Bc it’s the same joke they do in every single rom-com
Because this channel is only about whining about things that most audiences enjoyed in movies.
@@ideasmithy no, this channel is satire idiot
Tbh you gotta know Asian culture to get this movie
Omg yes😒
I loved this movie, but I guess I shouldn't have?
1. R/gatekeeping an entire fucking movie to a race? Lol 2. No you don’t 3. You’re an idiot if you think he meant the things he said in the video.
Jarl Ya this movie was made for Asian Americans.. sorry were taking one movie for ourselves🤷🏻♀️
Jojo no it wasn’t.
I’m surprised you didn’t take 15 sins off for that gorgeous wedding scene
I know, right!
More like 50 , that scene will never be forgotten, it was stunning
I watched this movie on a plane, thinking how weird and over the top the wedding scene was. Sobbing, of course.
OMG, YES!!!! When she stepped in that water, I lost it!
Should have added sins for flooding her damn aisle and ruining not only her dress but everyone else's dresses and shoes
As a girl, to be fair the whole "spending the day finding an outfit to wear" thing is actually really fun.
Ya but not for all girls. For example I’m a girl and to me that’s boring AF.
@@bisexualbean2529 Understandable. Live your best life
Ultimate Fangirl If you have money
@@bisexualbean2529 yes but for some girls it is. The character isn’t supposed to represent all girls in the world.
I am a woman and I don't like it. Luckily my other female friends are like me. If we need anything we just go quick and then go somewhere to eat or I will just go by myself. So it is just a personal thing. Not so much an all women or all men thing.
bruh, that was lazy sinning. it's almost like he made up sins for this...
oh wait -
To be fair they do it to every movie for the past few years
yes, nowadays is all bout the shocking title like "Everything wrong..." I was kinda shocked when he even counts the Goh Madam-feed-toddler-chicken-nuggets-scene as sin =)) not only it's such a teeny tiny detail, it's also not wrong to be criticized and counted as a flaw. Some parents actually do it in real life =) the baby might just have fun licking it thinking he/she's sharing the food with the adults, which my nephew enjoys very much :)) We just don't feed babies the whole chicken nuggets box, but a bite or licking for fun is totally harmless. And other sins don't make much sense to me either, like recognizing Nick Young by the back's not possible and stuff but hey, everybody can already point it out.
What do u expect for the guy that sins a movie because of the intro being a little too long
you would be excellent at cinema sins !!
for the first time I'm a little annoyed with cinemasins.
Natalie Xu me too.
I'm sorry...this is the FIRST time?
why? this movie is trash. plotline is unrealistic and all characters are jackasses except astrid and awkafina's character. nick is an asshole and rachel is a bimbo who never acts like an actual prof
I thought all their sins were super valid. I still enjoyed the movie, but all their sins were on point for me. That's rom-coms for ya. They're not always high-quality stuff but people love 'em anyway. It's sort of an oxymoron I guess? But it is what it is.
Luxan Jeya ofc the plotline is unrealistic (they’re rich) and the characters can seem like jackasses at first but I feel like they’ve gone through character development, especially the mom
6:20 The camera sound are actually not optional in a lot of asain countries and are very loud to prevent people from taking photos of women without consent. Just thought I point it out.
Danjian Cai in that case, nice detail.
I remember reading something about that. Nice catch!
Terrifying that it needs to exist
Wow that's sad that women need that to be aware if a sicko is in their vicinity.
Perfectly pointed out. Wish more people would know
The accuracy of this movie tho omfg. The family groupchats, introduction to the extended family, hiding expensive shopping, bible study with the aunties and grandma, prejudice to non-asian in-laws, the ''Just because we're rich doesn't mean we can't do ordinary thing like making dumplings with family". This is all so true.
I love how he had to stretch really far to find enough sins.
That’s literally the point. He’s being sarcastic and pointing out stupid things. It’s every video
@@mirra4328 lmfao here we go again. hes definitely not sarcastic and he definitely takes his "criticism" seriously
@@theresamushroomonmyshirt7783 this channel is for fun ,chill out .
Calling out British racism isn't a sin.
Agreed. That opening scene was so important. It showed the struggle they faced even though they were 'old money rich'.
@@Prakido Exactly, it was necessary because some people don't even know the struggle of racism towards asians. Some people are ignorant.
I thought the sin was that it exists
Don't forget Jeremy is a 40 yr old white guy
@@debodatta7398 So?
im glad that the asian community finally got some representment in hollywood outside of the traditional kung fu action role
Oh, but if they gave a Kung Fu role to someone else, then it would be whitewashing.
Did you know China actually funds many Hollywood films, also it's based about population so one of the smallest minority groups tend to get equal representation to population size or less.
@LocalToast That's very rude and racist.
No it's really not. Asians are heavily represented in the world with in the confines of what is considered 1st world or industrialized entertainment. Blacks and Middle Easterns still aren't very well represented. But this leads to the fact that if anything, this movie shows that all these people were hired because they are Asian, not because they may of fit the part or been good actors. This is why forced diversity is stupid, because it's just more racism.
What movies SHOULD do, unless the point of the movie is actually about the persons race or gender, they should just pick from a hat any race or gender for any character. Just make it random, no white washing, no quotas, no forced diversity that is picked.
Race and gender make so little actual difference in life when you look at people and how similar they all are so why is it that in movies they definitely play to stereotypes? Can't people just be people, not their race or gender?
Movie Master I call bullshit
6:19 remove that sin because *it the law to have the camera sound on. Since so many ppl in Asia record and take photos of others' secrets. Singapore made it a law and you can get fine.*
What i have never heard of that law before even though im Singaporean
It’s true in Japan but he also mentioned how far away she was and he’s right it wouldn’t have been heard from that distance if such a law exists in Singapore too
Where got law like that? Never heard of it before
Same in Japan and Korea. It really takes someone who doesn't know a thing about Asia to spout something like that XD
never heard of this rule and there is a dedicated website called stomp where people upload recording or pictures of strangers
The best line (fight me on this people) in this movie is
“and we got Asian Ellen.”
yes i also loved when he screamed at them to eat the chicken nuggets 😂😂
First of all, no one in this movie had AirPods soooo
#idontspeakbroke
haha..only wannabe rich use em..rich people didn't even bother😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
this movie was made before airpods were released 🤣
Mr BestBeast I have air pods...and I’m not a wanna be rich person thb when I first got them I didn’t know they were popular.
Yo!
Thank you for pointing out that people in college right now ARE NOT MILLENNIALS! Half the people I hear complain about millennials are themselves millennials and it drives me crazy.
I mean, it depends, you can go to college or university when you're older But fewer people do, so ye you're right, except for 'mature students' in which case, the eldest student I ever met was in his 70s
@Randy Keith No. Millenials are pretty much grown up. Your generation is right under that
Millennials are 1998 and earlier by most definitions, but others claim 2000, or 9/11/2001 to be the dividing point. So if you are 23, you are definitely a millennial. And juniors and seniors in college right now are still millenials.
@@I_like_pi_ the problem is people keep moving the goal post for millenials. When will people stop doing that. 2001 is definitely not a millennial.
@@KennyakaTI I would argue that the most important event dividing millennials from gen z is the creation of the iPhone. Millennials remember when a phone couldn't do everything, but gen z can't, which puts the dividing line somewhere around 2000-2003. It's not a matter of moving the goalposts. The issue is that people tried to make the millennial era too short from the beginning, encompassing less years that any previous generation, in order to make the end of the millennials line up with the beginning of the new millennium. A generation is normally about 20 years. 2000-2006 is what would make the millennial generation about as long as other generations. The question about the dividing line should be based on the most significant event which changed lifestyles. Some people point to the 9/11 attacks, but honestly, those didn't cause enough social change in my eyes, and the iPhone had a much more widespread and long-lasting impact on most individuals.
Not gonna lie, a lot of the sins were bullshit. But hey thats me
In most of the videos, the sins are 99% jokes and 1% actual critiques/plot holes. Its obvious that they’re going for comedy so its natural to have most of your sins be bullshit thats explained by the movie.
Welcome to every video on this channel. Dudes a moron
Vash The Stampede then why you’re here
says all the asians, including me: hey thats me
The actress playing his mom provided her own emerald ring for this movie. She definitely understands how to play the part of a mega rich Asian woman.
_bruh, they aren’t even wearing AirPods smh my head._
*sOrRy I dOnT spEak bRoKe*
Smh my head
Wha....t?
-go back to sleep-
Shaking my head my head my head my head smh my smh
ok astrids storyline was there bc the next movie is mainly about her and her relationships so.... and i also really liked her storyline so excuse you
LifeofDOugh that’s just like your opinion man
Exactly! I'm like 3/4 of the way through book 2 and I cannot WAIT to see Astrid and Charlie end up together!!!
What is the movie title?
@Ayan UwU I'm interested
Hide the expensive shopping is actually a thing 😂
It did happen in the book, but Astrid did it all by herself and stuffed it into a room I think (please don't at me in the comments, I haven't read the book in years) but in the movie there were definitely more maids, and a LOT more places to hide her things.
@@anniesung6555 It's also a thing for lots of us HAHAHHAHA
He doesn’t understand so many of the jokes
In my university Chinese parents (including alumni's parents) have a huge mega-chat about everything that's going on and they know the news faster than me. You largely misunderstand Asian culture and the power of Chinese networking
*cheers for profem points
Did you just have the audacity to call Harry shum jr . , one of the hottest men on the planet ...discount joseph gordon levitt ?????
Puh-lease! No celeb is the hottest anything anywhere. You can find better looking people than any celeb in every town on Earth.
lol he does look like joseph gordon levitt....and not as handsome
Todd Anderson Eh no majority of ppl I see in public are below average in looks to me
I agree. How dare he.
I'm glad that he points out the fact that Nick had a whole year to tell Rachel about his family/wealth/notoriety and then didn't. That bothered me a lot while watching the movie. I get that Nick probably didn't want to scare her or be taken advantage of but seriously? Pull your shit together and give her a heads up, would it have killed you or something?
I didn't see the movie, but the vibe of that idea says he doesn't actually trust her and has to put her through some kind of vetting process instead of giving her the benefit of the doubt that she's a decent person all on her own. Tsk tsk.
That's actually why in the book, Rachel hasn't completely forgiven him yet in the end. It took Nick and Rachel rebuilding their relationship again before he proposed to her again and she finally accepted. Nick and his mom were estranged for a while, and Rachel had to learn to trust Nick again.
Also he must have straight up lied because it definitely would have come up. I feel like in a one year relationship you get at least a general overview of a person’s life. Like has she never asked about his family?
I find it incredulous after one year of dating she had no inkling he was rich? where did they go to eat, where did he live, what did he drive?
You should read the book, the movie doesn't do it justice. Nick was raised NOT to show his wealth and lived an ordinary life abroad. He couldn't tell Rachel so much because he himself did not know the extent of his royalty. It's not an excuse but he was practically the only one oblivious to his family's wealth.
astrid has all my respect. god, she's like, the best character ever and didn't deserve what happened to her
The problem is she is so good as a character it makes her one dimensional
loved her and araminta
@@medd0ws yes because being a nice person makes you one dimensional
If you don’t like the movie just say that. You’re disliking things that are obviously there for movie purposes. Really, the fish and hook emojis?
He even criticized his own fave movies on this channel. He will nitpick even if he worships the movie he's reviewing. That's what he does
you must be new to this channel.
@Miriam Svenson the point of this channel is for the observant and/or nitpicky to nod and agree with each other- not review films.
Who the hell uses those emojis? I would have loved the movie if there was a few seconds of delay on the emoji input for realism or some thumbing around the keyboard. Realism can be cut if it gets in the way of pacing but being a comedy it would have been an awesome attention to detail.
that’s the whole point of this channel...
Lmao way to misunderstand the whole point
Vomiting merlion is a mistake???????
Its a landmark.
You wouldn't fault a movie based in paris for showing the Eiffel tower
It's a joke
I actually kind of feel like they've done that...
Showing landmarks to establish location always gets sinned.
clearly youre new to cinema sins, they sin everything for jokes. its their shtick
Oh, honey, they would.
I’ll defend the international waters part because a lot of the things they were doing at the bachelor party is illegal in Singapore so i’m guessing it’s more of an inside joke.
I edited it so its clearer 🙃
4:40 I'm pretty sure she was feeding the dog not an infant
the fact that he didn't even show the wedding confirms there was no sin, because it was absolutely beautiful.
No sins for the quirky best friend/sidekick cliché?
Let's be honest. Awkwafina's great performance redeems it
ugh she's crap
In asia all phones have that loud shutter sound on the default camera. You cant turn it off. It's to prevent getting sneaky creeper pictures like up skirts.
you can turn it off, actually. if your phone is on vibrate/silent, there won't be sound.
@@EM-ti4fk not for mine. It didn't matter if my phone was on silent/vibrant.
Korea/Japan models can’t turn it off.
Only in Japan, not all of Asia. Shut up you dumb bitch
Racists being racist up in here. Stereotyping in 2019? Come on internet.
Look at me on my Chinese OEM phone shutting off my shutter sound. You know what phone doesn't let you shut your shutter sound off? iPhone. You have to mute your whole phone. There's no separate option to just turn off shutter sound.
While I agree that the opening seems a little bit "out of place" for a rom-com and I didn't particularly care for it, I still disagree with this video that it was "unnecessary" and just a "cliche".
Until, I saw this video and read the comments, I actually didn't think much of it. But when I did think more about it, I think of it as like an orange peel - it may not be what you want, but it serves a purpose and without it something would be lessened. And I don't think the person making this video thought about it too deeply.
1) If you look at it from the kids point of view, a lightning storm is scary so the tone would fit in with how those kids must be feeling. True it's not a "rom-com" feeling but it's more of a background set up thing.
2) For a couple of reasons, I find it funny that some white people get so "defensive" about the hotel manager being racist and accuse the film makers of a "cliche" and at the same time want non-white people to just "brush off that racist incident".
2a) The previous owner of the hotel was also white but didn't treat Michele Yeoh's character in a racist way. Maybe the previous owner is racist and hired that manager because they shared the same views, but we don't actually know enough about him to make that call. So judging the previous owner by his own behaviour, you can't accuse the film makers of portraying "every" white person as being racist. (Also none of the white students later in the movie were showing racist behaviours either.)
2b) The other reason I find it funny is that there are plenty of movies with white characters that aren't being portrayed as being racist. But how many movies are there where non-white people are not being portrayed by a stereotype. (Ok that is getting better now, but still...) It's ironic because in the past when there is only one Asian, Black or any other non-white character in a movie and they are being portrayed in a racist way, those same people would be quick to try to dismiss complaints about it.
2c) I also liked that some of the Asian characters were "jerks" - so not all of them are "perfect" and the decent ones balance out the "bad" ones and it's like "hey, what do you know, Asian people are just like other people as well - there's some good, some bad and a number of ones in between."
3) I think it also gives a glimpse of Michelle Yeoh's character's thought processes and why she doesn't like "foreigners". And how it reinforced to her how money can control things - that hotel manager treated her badly because he had "power" over her ... but after her husband bought the hotel, suddenly she has the power over the manager. If he wasn't racist and treated her decently, then he shouldn't be nervous/afraid when he learned that her husband had just bought the hotel. He wouldn't even let her use the phone and she had to go out in the rain to find a pay phone!
4) I also think this isn't just a "cliche" and it actually is an "interesting twist". A lot of movies take place in the US where non-white people are visible minorities. My parents immigrated here as kids so they basically mostly grew up in a "North American" culture and adopted to the culture here ... and yet they still faced racism just because of their skin colour and not how they acted.
What Rachel's mother said later in the movie resonated with me. When she told her that they saw her as a "banana" - because she was "yellow on the outside, but white on the inside" seemed "true" to me.
It's one thing to go to somewhere and be treated badly because you don't act like the majority of the people there do, but it's different when you are treated badly where you are some place where some "outsider" comes in and treats you badly. That is the case here - Hong Kong is composed mostly of Chinese people and the British are the minority there. But instead of trying to learn and understand the culture there and "fit in", they tried to push their own culture onto the people there. So that is why I think it's an interesting twist - because this isn't happening in a country that is predominantly white people. But the hotel manager, a white person goes to a country that isn't predominantly white and acts racist towards them because they aren't like him/white... and how many times have you seen that in a movie? Yeah, I guess it is a subtle difference that the person making the video didn't notice, but it is kind of slightly significant.
5) I will give the creator of this video some credit - if he wasn't so "flippant" about the opening scene, I might not have bothered to try to analyze the opening scene as much ... after all, I did go see the movie just because I heard that it was supposed to be a rom-com. (Actually the only reason why I'm even on here was because I was thinking about and wanted to see the wedding scene again and saw this link... otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered to comment about the movie.)
6) Oh, and I'm not going to go through all of the other "sins" but those "large subtitles" never bothered me - while my eyesight is fine, I do realize that for older people whose eyesight isn't as good that the larger font size for the titles might be helpful to them.
You said it! Everything I wanted to comment on and then some. But just one mistake, it was her bestie who referenced the banana not her mother. Unless her mother said so in another scene. An excuse to watch this movie again 😉 Thank you for taking the time to write ALL this. I definitely understand the opening scene now that you've explained. Enjoyed this movie, not all great moments but it was worth the watch. I'm definitely getting the book.✊🏾
Seriously, this is what I’ve been wanting to say, and this isn’t the first time people (not just white people, literally just people) have been triggered by the hotel scene. I ‘brush off’ so many racist incidents so often (some I’ve experienced myself, some I’ve observed) that now I just feel like I have to explain myself whenever someone blatantly assumes something about me based on my race or religion. Idk really, I can sympathize with both non-white people and white people now.
i love cinema sins but this video just brushed off racism as “not a big deal” and it made me really uncomfortable
It’s clearly just a joke, it’s not like they don’t care about racism, rather they don’t care too much to not make jokes about it.
Well, I think they could phrase it better but rather than "racism is not a big deal", I think he is "sinning" the racism bit because it is a bit on the nose. Like, how often do we come across people in the service industry that acts like that? It may be because I am a bit sheltered and live in big cities all my life (and I do understand that anti-Asian sentiment is a big problem at the moment) but when I come across racism in my life it is a lot more subtle than that. It is a full on character establishment trope and Tropes Are Not Bad per se, but this is Cinema Sins where they point out tropes and call them "sins" to make content.
in all fairness, the movie only did the bare minimum with Astrid's storyline. the books are 1/3 nick and rachel, 1/3 astrid. michael, charlie, and 1/3 eleanor
There are BOOKS? Plural? Oh Lord.
MrBo Jangles 3 of them, there’s a sequel to this movie coming out in like 2020
i also feel that the book focuses a lot on kitty pong as well
Karlo Gabriel
and rightly so, because Astrid's storyline was so boring and hard to sympathize with. Kevin Kwan couldn't stop telling us how gorgeous, desirable, fashionable and privileged she is... The good thing about the books that the movie lacks in is that they dive pretty deep into the unique aspects of Singaporean culture from food, language and the education systems. But the thing that the movie does well and the books do not is the PLOT. The series originally starts off with being about Nick and Rachel then starts adding so many other characters that I don't have the opportunity to care about them at all. The book should focus mostly on Nick and Rachel's relationship .
Honestly astrid's story is much more worth it. Hopefulky the sequel will focus more on her and her back story. I love her.
You’re sinning things about asian culture when you have limited/no understanding of many of its hidden social dynamics
Eric Lang Tbh, true.
Lol so true.
You realize they drag every single movie through the mud?
That's why the left would crumble, like all the others.
Cos of idiots like you not getting into context.
If you were to ever make a movie of ur own i can tell it's going to be painfully boring
Nahh, he removes sins for some awesome things man, you new? 😂
I like this channel and Jeremy ,but having read his book ...you are 100% correct
@@libbywilliams9969 he made a book? Also yh I'm three minutes and already bored.
OMG GOOD POINT
12:19 ........do you need to be a woman to understand this part of the scene?!? She just owned her!
If the wedding scene was included it would’ve counted out all the sins
nope
Not Kulee LOLZ NO.
I agree
Anyone who says that they didn't cry at that part is a liar sorry I don't make the rules
Susan Raymond call me a liar but I’m sayin the truth
“Yet another makeover montage... I’m just saying I’ve never really seen a guy do one”
Um, excuse me but have you seen revolutionary cinematic masterpiece High School Musical 3? Thank you.
i’m going ghost hunting 😆😆😆 nice!
I think there was one in that Paul Rudd movie about looking for a best man.
There's also Crazy Stupid Love with Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell
and teen beach movie
Dumb and Dumber
the fact that no sins were takin off for the actual wedding scene?! hello the most beautiful cinematography ever
purrrrr
13:23 NEVER disrespect harry shum jr like that ever again
I totally agree! He deserves better! I was like "he did not just say that..."
THANK YOU
Who?? Who cares, he hasn't done anything that's worth mentioning beside asian girls crush compared to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, so "discounted joseph gordon levitt"
@@ken0746 uhhh he's in multiple tv shows such as glee, shadowhunters, single by 30, etc and is a highly credited actor??? pretty sure those are worth mentioning
@@ken0746 both he and joseph gordon levitt are two of my favourite actors and both are very different to each other so yeah calling harry shum jr discount joseph gordon levitt kinda annoys me???
This movie was funny and visually interesting to watch, but I could never figure out what Rachel saw in Nick. Sure he seems generally friendly and fairly attractive, but he also spends most of the movie not thinking about her needs or emotional well being. No need to prep your girlfriend for dealing with your crazy and backstabbing relatives. If anything, the events of the movie should have resulted in Rachel seriously reassessing her life and coming to the conclusion that her boyfriend either a) didn't trust her or b) didn't think her emotional health mattered. Money or not, do you really want to marry a man child with no concept of consequences?
In rhe movie it reads as she can handle anything so she doesn't need my help. But still ugh stupid obvious miscommunication to pull the story along. (Like that is pretty accurate in relation to most real world problems but its not entertaining)
Well, in the book Rachel goes that route. She breaks up with Nick and he had to win her over again a year or so later.
I wished that the movie took that same route. I was very disappointed when they did that cliche "chase the girl on the plane" scene.
Absolutely agree.
Once it is clear that the relationship is serious enough to introduce her to his family, he should have prepared her for all the finesses of social life in his insanely rich and judgmental family. By the latest as soon as she agrees to travel to singapore with him. Not just throw her to the wolves and let his family walk all over her.
To be fair, I wouldn't have started to date this man child in the first place.
Maybe Nick was testing her. Which would have still been awful!
Kirsten Paff I hate to be that person, but the books are a lot better than the movie. It leaves out a lot from the books and the books explain the slang and everything in hilarious annotations by the author and yeah. The books are better and are a lot funnier
Didn’t even mention the amazing wedding scene. Smh
That's cause it was good B]
That bit with the golddigger was sheer genius. The romantic-angst I could do without.
Sorry, I'm thinking about the reception, not the actual service.
256th like yay!
What does Smh mean?
any kpop fan knows how easy it is to recognize someone by the back of his head XD
"discount Joseph Gordon Levitt", "Asian Britney Spears", "Asian version of..."
obviously asians ain't full on people, they are watered down version of real humans aka whites... >>
ah yes he has discovered our secret: asians are actually just white people from an alternate timeline
10:00 Yeah that actually is a thing, weirdly. The Chinese characters meaning steamed bun and baby are very similar in pronunciation (both are pronounced "bao", but with different inflections). The title of that Disney short was a pun based on that fact, and it's not just exclusive to Disney.
Edit: grammar.
Yes 包 (bun) and 宝 (baby).
We don't just call a baby bao. It's always bao bao.
@@fennfie Correct, but that doesn't work with the pun, really, as dumpling is just "bao". That's why the pun is just the one "bao".
Nate Hoffmaster dumpling is 'jiao', not 'bao'....
@@somecho Actually, there are two different words for dumpling in Chinese. One of them, like the ones portrayed in Crazy Rich Asians as well as Disney's short, is a steamed stuffed bun, which translates to "bao". "Jiao" is similar to Japanese gyoza in looks, making it different from "bao".
The Mahjong scene is truly amazing. I got goosebump.
I feel like he didn't give enough credit for Astrid's story arch. 🤷♀️
giving "sins" on an asian movie with western mindset. which is why this one strayed from the usual cinema sins. even asian socialites have cited that the movie is 80-ish accurate to their actual lifestyle.
The sins in this video felt more arbitrary than usual
Tazlina Rhetoric it honestly did
I'm sorry WHAT did you just call Harry Shum Jr.
Emma Maxwell I’m still shocked
Discount Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Cuong Tran And it’s a great nickname
The subplot with Astrid and Michael was, in my opinion, meant to parallel Nick and Rachel's relationship, and show how it can go wrong. Michael, like Rachel, had a successful career, but was still way less rich than his spouse and was disliked by his in-laws for it. But while Rachel faced the stigma from her in-laws and proved that she was good enough for Nick, no matter what other people said, Michael was unable to do that. Instead, he was haunted by those insecurities which eventually destroyed his marriage. Astrid and Michael's relationship was meant to show what would have happened if Rachel had married Nick when he proposed the first time. She wouldn't have had the support of Nick's family and would have spiraled into the same issues that Michael had.
THIS COMMENT IS COPIED FROM ANOTHER VIDEO I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH SHARING HERE.
I give you guys a brief explanation of why this mahjong scene is powerful:-
1. But first off, let's start with some basics of mahjong. To win mahjong, you would need to reach certain combinations before another player does. You will always have 13th tiles, but you would need to pick up the 14th tile to win. Think of it like poker, or more accurately gin rummy, except you have to create your own combination. You can have three simplified combinations that can help you to win the game:-
I. Chow: having three tiles of sequential number sequence of the same suit (ex: 2 bamboo, 3 bamboos, 4 bamboos is considered a chow)
II. Pong - Basically three of a kind. You must shout "Pong" when someone discards the tile that you want, and then you have to show everyone that you actually have the initial two of the same tiles by laying three of it flat.
III. Kong- Basically four of a kind, same mechanics as Pong, but you also draw a tile from the wall.
Eye- basically a pair.
To win, you would need either 4 Pong/Chow and an eye, or 3 Kong and an eye, or any combination above that fit within the 14th tile framework. You must always have an eye to win (the basic way, of course. There's also special variations of creating your 14th tile combinations, but let's stick to the basic for now).
2. In mahjong, there are four sitting positions: North, East, South, West. At the start of the scene, Rachel offers Eleanor to sit at the East seat, which is practically the dealer seat, while Rachel sat at the West seat. This is important as both of them are representing themselves of where they come from, Eleanor from Asia (East) and Rachel from America (West).
3. At the start, Eleanor started out with a Pong (three of a kind). She is showing to Rachel that she intends to win the game by having multiple Pong and an eye. Then during one of their conversation, Eleanor highlights the difference between the Western and Eastern, saying that despite American Asian look Asian, they are still American at heart. And then Eleanor explained the meaning of kaki lang, in Hokkien which means to say "one of us", and telling Rachel that she was not one of us. Note that she was also trying to Pong her way to victory, and Pong is all the same kind.
4. Then, Rachel drop the bomb onto Eleanor, saying that Nick actually proposed to her, where he was dead set on running away with her and away from his family. Right as she was saying this, Rachel draws one of the most important tiles in this particular game: a bamboo of eight. To us Chinese, number 8 represents fortune, and it's considered a sign of wealth, prosperity, and happiness. However, an eight doesn't have any special value in mahjong, but the eight of bamboo was the one tile important for Rachel to complete her hand, winning the game. However, being a professor of game theory, she noted that this tile was also Eleanor's winning tile to complete her hand.
5. Rachel then told Eleanor that she turn Nick's proposal down, and to which Eleanor replied, "Only a fool folds a winning hand." THIS PART IS VERY CRITICAL, as in earlier first scenes of the movie, Rachel demonstrated that to be successful in a game where psychology and choice are the factors, you can't play with a "not to lose" mentality, but rather play to win.
6. Rachel then retorts back, saying that Eleanor has guaranteed there's no winning in any outcome when it comes to her marrying Nick. Nick choosing Rachel will cause Nick to lose his mother and his family. Nick choosing his family will result in Nick resenting his mother, where both are lose-lose situations. This is where Rachel decided to choose for him by declining his proposal. Of course, she does not want to do it without Eleanor knowing, and what she is giving up to make this possible, hence this meeting.
7.With this, Rachel discarded her eight of bamboo, her symbol of happiness and her chance of winning the game, knowing that Eleanor will pick it up to win.
8. Rachel told Eleanor that she knows Nick will eventually find someone else that his family would approve of. While her heart will be broken, she is willing to suffer if it means Nick will keep the thing that is at the heart of all Asian cultures, and of his story: his family. She also elaborates that when Nick does find someone that the family approves, it will be because of a "poor, raised by a single mother, low-class immigrant nobody" who made it all possible. After that, she shows her hand before walking away, making it clear to Eleanor that she could have won the game.
In short, Rachel shows Eleanor that she understands the concept of putting family first over everything else, and is also showing that she is as strong-willed as Eleanor, which completely overwhelm Eleanor's cruel remarks of Rachel being "never good enough" for Nick.
This is as good as Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows chess scene, except chess, is more well known than mahjong, so explaining the symbolism behind it is tough. Hope it helps!
Edit: My reference mostly came from Vox if you want to read more about it.
Edit edit: About it being brief, sorry about that. It was brief when I was thinking about it (not to mention the reference obtained from Vox). It somewhat exploded in my write-up itself. Sorry about that.
Hey thanks
You missed the fact that they came out of Departure instead of Arrival when they landed in Singapore
ok typically I love cinema sins but im not feeling it with this trailer. sooo many issues. y’all clearly need to hire someone Asian or at the very least have other people proof read the scripts. a lot of these jokes were uninformed and dumb.
-u criticized the joke about calling Constance Wu fat? yeah that’s just a common occurrence in Asian culture that they were pointing out.
-why were they saying Singapore so much? bc believe it or not a lot of people haven’t heard of it
-calling out centuries of British racism...is a sin?? lol ok.
-a sin about the bao/dumpling thing? yeah that’s a joke a lot of Asians will understand because those two words are very similar. it was done on purpose.
-“nobody cares about game theory”? yeah the movie made that choice specifically due to the stereotypes of Asians liking economics and math.
-discounted Joseph Gordon Levitt? Not cool. Harry schum jr was an Asian character in a show that was aimed towards teenagers during a time where we had even less representation. Asians are not here to be the butt of your jokes.
-the camera thing isn’t an option in a lot of Asians countries to prevent people from taking photos of women without their permission.
-love how u conveniently forgot to take off sins for the amazing wedding scene or the diverse soundtrack but ok.
overall, I’m very disappointed and ashamed of this video. y’all need to seriously reconsider some stuff
Calm down he's not serious it's just a video
Okay I think you're taking things just a little too seriously with this one, but I want to give you my 2 cents on what I understood:
1. They didn't call her fat? They criticised her and said she's American and too skinny. Unless I'm looking at the wrong scene. Mentioning that problem in Asian Culture is important but it didn't come across as a problem but more as character saying stuff that's supposed to be funny.
2. Cinemasins wasn't criticising the fact that they mentioned Singapore but the fact that they mentioned it so many times. They talked about it, they showed a map with Singapore written all over it, then to add to all of that, they announce that they're finally in Singapore in giant type. When movies do things like this they're making the audience feel dumb. Like they can't figure out for themselves that they are in Singapore. And I'm sorry but who the hell in this day and age has never heard of Singapore? This movie shouldn't be catering for the stupid.
3. He wasn't giving a sin for the movie calling out racism. He was sinning the cliche of the scene and the characters. That scene didn't come across as serious, I mean this rich family walks into your hotel that's just about bought the place and the only person who knows about all this is the owner. That just comes across as humorous. Putting a scene like this in is super important but I wish they had somehow shown it differently.
4. So you agree with Cinemasins? No one in this movie seemed to care what her career was they all just saw her as an average working middle class American. Like I get the stereotype but sorry didn't get your point from this one.
5. I didn't even know the background behind that specific actor, and I don't think a lot of other people do too, since he was such a small part of the movie. It just a joke though, he wasn't making fun of Asian people imo, but I get the frustration.
6. After all this, it is still a Cinemasins video, his review, his opinion. If he feels the soundtrack and wedding scene don't deserve sins off well it obviously didn't appeal to him.
This movie is still a movie. Made from Hollywood for entertainment. Just because it's got an Asian cast with an Asian setting and story doesn't mean Cinemasins should give it special treatment, he should review it the same way he reviews every other movie he watches. I personally liked the movie, but found that it was all just a cliche romcom with an Asian cast. They had so much story line potential and they could've done something really cool and unique but hey this is my opinion, you have yours, Cinemasins has his. Just take it from who it comes.
Oh get over it ffs.
Yo, as an Asian who is genuinely happy with the new and more common Asian representation in Hollywood, can you sit the fuck down and not overreact? This video isn't supposed to be serious and the comment above mine has already pretty much wrecks your "arguments". See, you're part of the reason why people don't really care about diversity on screen. If you're all about equality and having Asians being represented equally as other races then, idk, don't overreact about situations that you probably have no qualms with if someone of a different race were involved instead of Asian. Idk, just seems a bit *sketchy* and *hypocritical*
@Barbara Smith lol I would recommend some less pearl clutching and much less SJW:ism for you.. these videos are not meant to be taken even slightly serious, so have a chillpill and loosen that band on your floral hat..
This might be a bit biased given I'm asian but I feel like, youve been pulling at a lot of strings in your recent videos xD not everything that youve seen a few times before is cliche xD and a lot of what you point out isnt actually a bad thing xD
Nah, it’s not just you. I’m a white guy, and he was really reaching here. That “Ocean’s 9” joke was the first sign for me. Because that literally boiled down to “Ocean’s 8 had jewelry and Awkwafina in it. This movie has jewelry and Awkwafina in it. *Ding”*
Oh, and his constant gripes about Astrid’s subplot with her husband was annoying. He took a subplot about a woman finally refusing to lower herself to not threaten her husband’s ego, and essentially wrote it off as “Rich People Problems, amirite lulz”
@Miriam Svenson even if he was familiar with the culture, he probably would’ve sinned it anyway since, you know, comedy and stuff
Before I watched Cinema Sins I never heard anyone use the whole "discount famous actor" thing as a put-down. Now I watch these videos and wait for the line to come up.
How dare you call Harry Shum Jr a discount Joseph Gordon Levit?!!?
It is a sad thing that we're in 2019 now and Asians are still being treated as the butt of jokes. Good thing they'll probably end up abandoning Hollywood completely now that China's even got blockbuster hits.
I came to the comments solely to express this.
yeah that was a white moment of white moments.
It's a joke! He's just some damn actor, one of thousands. Get a life!
I honestly loved this movie so much and saw no issue lol. Everything he complained about was little stuff that made sense to the plot
That’s the point of the channel. Lighten up.
but to me, I've grown up watching Asian movies so this movie is just average not "THE BEST"
Cinemasins has an undeniable point around 9 minutes in: we see nothing of Nick and Rachel’s relationship. Not even close. The final scenes lose emotion drastically as a result. Also: predictable, narrow-viewed and crippled by an inability to utilise the diverse Singapore background.
Caleb Lim Agreed, flat, one dimensional characters that is so obviously tailored to fit with the plot rather than making them believable (example: Awkwafina playing the “bestie of the main character” role in a stereotypically obnoxious way). I wasn’t convinced by the main character’s “love” at any time throughout the movie, especially Nick’s weak presence and the main character’s lack of personality
The poker scene was the stupidest part of this movie so I agree with him there but for the most part the movie was great
i rly loved astrids storyline, i thought it contributed to the overall story well, and to me it seemed kinda like the “opposite” of nick and rachel’s relationship (w michael feeling inferior, and then rachel feeling inferior)
theres a lot of moments that seem small and unimportant but i think actually play a v significant role in the overall meaning of a scene or the story. i watched a video of deleted scenes from crazy rich asians (which were in the book) and i rly wish they had kept those scenes bc they added so much more complexity and explanations
the fact that the gorgeous wedding scene didn’t take at least 10 sins off baffles me 😟
First of all...we're gonna put some respect on Harry Shum, Jr.'s name.
Actually, that's all. That's the comment.
Yes sis 👏🏾 That 👏🏾effin 👏🏾part.
Oh my good I didn't see him in the movie love him
IKR!
Thank you!!
Harry is no discount anyone
No sin off for the wedding scene??
no sin off for kina grannis !?!
Why? That was probably the best part of the movie for me!
fr!!
I thought it was super cringy tbh but beautiful setting and costumes
TheSuperNats Ugh. That wedding scene made me so uncomfortable. SO over the top romantic, I wanted to puke. It was visually impressive though.
Ask the random american where Singapore is in a map, I’d wager only a few of them can point it out correctly.
Hence singapore, singapore strait, and singapore subtitles.
It kinda of upsetting how the movie didn’t fully show micheal and astrids relationship as it was shown in the movie
why no love for Astrid 😭😭
He hates Bucky too so don't expect him to have a good taste in characters... Astrid is great
Charles li i love astrid she’s a strong and wonderful woman
Because the screenwriters made her character flat by not exploring her flaws, from what I can see.
The sin removals on this one were on point! Also, good find with the TA at the end!
Critical Reviews many were cultural misunderstanding
@@findthisrighthere9476 especially the part where Astrid puts those earrings on, because the relevance is that the initial Queen who wore them, wore them to her OWN coronation. The cultural symbolism is that Astrid is taking back control of her power, something that in Asian cultures is rare for a woman to do. That's the whole point of Astrid's earrings when she walks out on Michael.
I think they had deleted scenes where they showed her being good friends with her TA, and they just weren't put into the movie, hence him being good enough friends with her to be flown there on a whim :p
Jesus Christ loves you God bless and save you amen.
I think there should have been more sin removals tbh
Kinda missed the whole point of why she needed to change from her red dress to a gown. Asians are big on occasions and you need to dress big for a big occasion. People could judge you if you go on a big event underdressed. I know aunties would look at you head-to-toe if you go to war unprepared.
The T.A. Curtis observation at the end made me laugh out loud.
Why Cinema Sins not SINema?
that is so genius!!
sweetieimdagirl because that would be like a double negative
joiedevivre90 No just change it to SINema, one word.
The fact that the channel name doesn’t include that pun in itself is a sin. -Ding!-
Because alliteration rolls off the tongue better and you don't have to see the spelling of the channel name to get it.
Surprised you didn't say anything about the wedding scene.
I'm guessing there was nothing to sin there, and he preferred to knock sins off for the Mahjong scene.
the sin counter would go back to zero because it's an amazing scene
C.DatAZNguyoverthere
I think he tries to get every movie to at least 100 (or so it seems I don’t actually watch all of his videos - this was in my recommended) and the wedding scene would’ve knocked off too many to be 100. The final result was only 101 sins.
@@multifandomismyhobi1533 Can someone please explain what exactly is so "amazing" about the wedding scene?
I've watched the movie multiple times and I fail to see anything special about it whatsoever.
It's a wedding scene. A very ostentatious one, but still a wedding scene.
I haven’t seen this movie in awhile and I also want to know why people are talking about him taking off sins for that scene as well
She was an Economics Professor, they were acting like she was broke af.
yeah... I don't get that either. At my university, most Business / Political Science faculty easily make more than 100K. While that's not rich, That's veeerrryy far from broke.
Comparatively she is. 200,000 per salary vs a family worth several billion? That's a big difference
If she didn't come from a family earning thousands by the minute and billions in a year, she is treated as what you guys say "broke". This is a real asian thing.
Its a concept for a lot of westerners to comprehend. While we appreciate standing on ur own feet, they judge u for ur lack of connections (not connected to any rich family, not being original chinese etc) its a typical asian mentality. Also, compared to Youngs who practically OWN Singapore, she is poor.
There is a part in the book (can't recall if isaw it in the movie) when this girl is shamed by her female relatives for wanting to marry aman who makes $800,000/yr. They break down her properties and his and the expenses keeping them and their staff and conclude that since he would have to take over supporting them, he is just not rich enough. Which is WTF, she can't contribute anymore? It's illogical but it was a plot point to illustrate that a girl making $100G/yr is just SO "common"!
Cell phones in Asia have that sound to keep peeping Toms from taking upskirt photos on the subways
4:50 Asian joke about how our older family members always think we’re too skinny Q_Q y’all need to hire An Asian person to look over these sins my gawwwddd 🙃
Either too skinny or too fat. Either way, we gain body dysmorphia 🤣
I don't think that's just an asian thing. My aunts say that about people in our family too. "you need to eat something, you're too skinny"
It's all traditional societies
It's a fact of life for Asians especially the ones that have to deal with westerners. I can't tell you how often my friends have had to explain themselves to people over and over. It's literally one stereotype after the next.
@@eternalreign2313 True. I'm Italian. My mom does that to me too. Every time. Even when I tell her I gained weight.
The UNO reference was AWESOME! lol
can you just imagine that play :0
He didnt give Astrid's storyline a chance, but I really liked it
It also seemed more realistic?
CinemaSins: *criticizes her teaching ways*
us: bih we wish he did fun learning things like that instead of taking notes all the time and watching useless documentaries.
Bruh don’t do Harry Shum Jr. like that 😂
@Lars Chue no
AGREEDDDDD!!!!!!!!
@@ImissZayn yes
yall "fans" are waaaaay too sensitive. its just a joke. maybe if i hated levitt like yall i would be mad too but 1. i like them both 2. there is no resemblance so his joke makes no sense
Harry Shum Jr. is no discount anything! Man is beautiful!
Hahaha Mike Chang :)
THANK YOU!
Yeah I’m offended he said that
You Leave This Movie ALONE!!! I LOVE THIS FILM!
Cool story bro. Video or it didn't happen.
i love cinemasins as a whole, and frankly i agree with certain points that were made, but other comments were either just unnecessary or pointless
actually, because of the french concession and occupation of China, the quote kinda does make sense
True, but it's still a war quote. That's like opening up When Harry Met Sally with a quote from George Washington.
I can tell you what's wrong: I'm Asian and crazy, but I'm not rich 😐
I am crazy poor Asian😂
Well Im not crazy rich but im a rich asian who lives in a $20M house in Singapore
And u r Singaporean?
Cos you are not singaporean @fifth estate?
@DJHart There are plenty of self-absorbed people who're rich.
Obviously, he didn’t read the novel. Each character is connected and each additional story helps bring insight to the family and why they are the way they are. It adds to the satire of the rich community.
Its called Cinemasins not Novelsins. What the novel says is irrelevant here.
8:22 In International Waters, there are less restrictive laws about things like gambling. That is why cruise ships try to get into international waters as quickly as possible: they can open their casinos sooner, and therefore make more money.