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It's Wednesday January the 3 around 8:07AM and

Fast and Furious: CBC's 'Dragon Boys'

I find the filmed in Vancouver/Richmond and upcoming CBC movie Dragon Boys (Sunday/Monday at 8:00) interesting. Probably not this interesting: "Dragon Boys features one of the most star-studded casts ever assembled for a Canadian mini-series: Byron Mann, Steph Song, Tzi Ma, Lawrence Chou and Eric Tsang star in this extraordinary human drama." Not really sure if that counts as "star studded", beyond the deee-lightful Steph Song part. Here is your gratiuitous FHM video of Steph Song which can't be all bad right? The movie basically goes something like this:

"A compelling drama and a high-octane thriller. This two-part miniseries centers on a Chinese Canadian RCMP detective and an immigrant family who confront a deadly threat from Asian organized crime"

Ya, I'm not convinced after the trailer either to be honest. Some of it looks too much like bad - read: budget -TV. Fine, some of it looks slicker bu tthis isn't a Brett Ratner film. On the one hand the trailer is almost amazingly overly dramatic (honestly that voice over? Tres hot.) while the posters I've seen around town make it look like the movie is more kind of like "The Fast and the Furious: Richmond, Like, Totally Rules." But you know what? At least it isn't another biopic of a Tommy Douglas/Pierre Trudeau/Conrad Black right? I guess we'll see.

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Posted by: Dragon Boys Fan

January 5, 2007 01:54 AM

This is much much better than Fast and the Furious. True, the trailer doesn't really give an accurate portrayal of the movie. We were just lucky to see the premier. And true, most non-Chinese speaking people don't know Eric Tsang -- but he's arguably one of the top-ten most recognized serious actors in East Asia (FAR FAR FAR bigger than the names we do know, like Jackie Chan). Nothing short of a miracle that he appeared in this made-for-TV production.

If you can handle the Soprano-style cleaver-face-chopping, decapitation, and castration (none of which could have made it in F&F) you'll really enjoy the story. F&F severely lacked any integrity in that the story was based on an actual west-coast Asian American phenomena, but was turned into a token "multi-culti" cast film with as much depth . Would love to know what you think after the telecast. CHEERS.