@bubbles23 he is Hong Kong's no. 1 box office star and yes he is very famous on the mainland. All the Hong Kong movies are china co-productions now anyways. He also has a lot of clout in the entertainment industry as he is the president of thr performing artists guild

@longhair84 "the Kung fu movies are just self-serving propaganda films for the CCP. There is no creativity in those movies either." This is what I am talking about. This is the very thought that causes the downfall of HK movie industry. Every single thing under the sun has to be considered as propaganda by/for CCP. HK had been producing Kungfu movies long before it got back to Mainland, they were great at it. The movies were phenomenal until the West not only in HK or Mainland. HK is a niche/small market, the hard cash come from outside HK. But the moment HK back to Mainland they stop producing it because they wanna shed every single thing that identify them as Chinese. Now those CGI so called kungfu movies are rubbish. They want to copy the Hollywood special effect but sorry HK, you are just can't. The only decent kungfu movie recently was Rise of The Legend with Eddie Peng as Wang Fei Hung. He is good but of course he is not Jet Lee or Donnie Yen. No more great talent in Kungfu movies because no mentor to train the newbies anymore. Those mentors are also shunned as propaganda tools for CCP

@jujuxoxo after jet li and Donnie Yen, who are the next Kung fu stars?? There are none because they don’t have the charisma nor are the films any good. Too much CGI ruined these movies.

@sev2 you’re right. The people interviewed here are past it. Derek Yee made some great movies about 15-20 years ago but his recent output has been very meh

@niangniang the Kung fu movies are just self-serving propaganda films for the CCP. There is no creativity in those movies either. China made some great movies in the 90s and early 00s but even their films nowadays leaves a lot to be desired

@jujuxoxo Ip Man was well received by the local hongkongers. It’s the sequels that got up people’s noses because how long can you go on before people get tired of the cliche that is “the foreign devil has wronged us, we must fight back” rhetoric that just comes across as brainwashing and nationalistic. It plays well to the mainland audience but locals see it for what it is. Either way, Hong Kong movies have been going downhill for a number of reasons namely: A) lack of talent - majority of the older actors came from tv but as tvb stopped producing good actors/filmmakers this had a knock on effect on their film industry. B) censorship - the mainland co-productions require them to meet certain criteria’s to avoid the films getting banned in China so this itself has an effect on how creative they can be. C) competitors - the quality of movies have gone up in other parts of Asia, particularly in South Korea. The asia-Pacific region is no longer dominated by Hong Kong movies as other countries have caught up. D) the cinema experience - people don’t watch movies at the cinema anymore unless it’s a Hollywood blockbuster.

@jayne yep he was awesome in this show, and looked so cool as well.

@longhair84 oh I also thought Sunny looked gorgeous in Shanghai Bund though can never beat our classic CYF

@longhair84 yes yes she looked good in all those dramas you mentioned but I hate her character in Cold Blood. Quite sad. Agreed that Sunny was a handsome man back then he looked great in his character except I didn’t like Charmaine so don’t quite enjoy the pairing as compared to Jessica & Louis.

@nigel yes she was pretty in this, and she also looked particular pretty in Cold Blood Warm Heart and DIF4. Anyway, I thought Sunny was the man in DIF4. His coolest character and one of his best performances. He definitely suits the role of the cool and calm head of police force.

@longhair84 Can't blame tvb for selling out. 7 million vs 1.3 billion persons The math is easy. Not to mention, HK is pretty much on life support.

Terrible idea and substandard cast. I won't be watching this in a hurry. Tvb - you've sold out to the RMB but you just don't care.

@longhair84 Indeed. It is real.

I was very impressed with the recent version of Legend of the Condor Heroes and would have been very intrigued if the same producers and studio made Return of the Condor Heroes and brought back the same cast but it appears as though it's a different bunch of people filming this now. Let's see how this pans out

What a beautiful ending. Better story than most hkg movies nowadays

@llwy12 that's just laughable, playing a Raymond Lam song even though Raymond Lam was only around 11 years old at the time of when they broadcasted this originally. It's not just the songs but the background music, sure some of the bgm isn't original and taken from a lot of Hollywood movies but they added so much to the scenes. I'm surprised no one has complained, but knowing tvb's style I doubt they would even care anyway.

@llwy12 surprising that he made the decision to never take on villain roles as his most famous roles at the time were in Blood of Good and Evil, Looking Back In Anger and The Breaking Point - two of whom were not just the run-of-the-mill villains but memorable ones. I guess he thought as someone who was leading man material, he would never play the leading character if he was the villain of the story.

@hetieshou love the songs from One Step Beyond. And Deric is so underrated. It's a shame that all the good actors end up being "enemies" of TVB.

@llwy12 agree about the original version. Who can forget the scene when Deric is waiting for Maggie in the airport and Right Here Waiting is playing in background, or the part when they're in London and they play Don't Know Much, or the part when they're redecorating the house and Don Henley's End of the Innocence is playing in the background? What TVB don't realise is that music and song add so much to the experience and storytelling, so by replacing the classics with rubbish Tvb music/song just cheapens it for us. This is the reason why I can't watch the rerun and rather watch the original online. I almost wrote an email to TVB to complain as they've done the same to all my favourite tv shows of late.