Asia 66 – Canh Hoa Thoi Loan
Asia Entertainment has done it again. The production managed to create gloomier and gloomier videos with each new release by recycling old concepts, old songs and same old documentary clips. In Canh Hoa Thoi Loan, Asia even used scenes from Journey From The Fall throughout the program as if they were part of the documented materials. Is Asia turning into Fox News?
One thing for sure, Asia has mastered the art of drama entertainment. Right off the opening scene, Asia brought out guns, dancers in army uniforms and tons of explosive effects in the background. Quoc Khanh was all teared up trying his hardest to make “Ao Anh Sut Chi Duong Ta” convincible. Then the MCs all beefed up to make the program even more dramatic. Sister Duong Nguyet Anh spoke with so much anguish that she sounded like she was swallowing her own tears every time she opened up her mouth.
Canh Hoa Thoi Loan is so damn heavy that even some of the up-tempo performances couldn’t lightened up the spirit. As depressing as the program was, I’ll admit that I can’t take any of it any more serious then a product of entertainment. I am not the only one here. Asia knows it too. If you read in between in the line you can tell. Asia dropped hints here and there. Take “Hat Cho Nguoi Nam Xuong,” one of the darkest performances in the video, for instance. Thien Kim is not Khanh Ly, but she came pretty damn close in expressing the mournfulness in Trinh Cong Son’s lyrics. While she was performing, the coffin covered in the yellow-with-three-red-stripe flag was hanging in the air. The whole scene was looking pretty damn doleful until the camera zoom right to Thien Kim’s sexy, see-through ao dai and her black bra. I am not accusing her of disrespecting the dead, I am just saying.
After Y Phuong’s grand finale, MC Thuy Duong gave another clue in her closing statement: “This has been a very special show for us. We hope you had a great time and we look forward to seeing you again next time.” I don’t know if I had a great time, but I would have drove myself off the cliff after watching the program if I took the content seriously. So even Asia knows that this is just for your entertainment.
I can’t stop laughing at the FoxNews references. I had watched a combination of about 30 minutes of SBTN programing in my life and some FoxNews clips from the Daily Show, I must say they are pretty much the same program just in different languages. Replace the word “Constitution” with QDVNCH (or the equivalences) and you will have the Fascist/Communist/Socialist agenda that going to destroy America.
I’m pretty sure even Asia is bored with the whole concept but as long as there are still war vets buying their products, this must go on. Also, the lightning play a big part in making the mood so mournful. I would be sad, too, if I had to listen to these music (not that they are bad) when there is a power outage.
another suicidal production!!!
Eh. Even with all the new special effects their big numbers still seemed amateurish. They just haven’t learned how to stage coherent story lines or choreography. I cringed during Bang Tam’s melodramatic number.
And Quoc Khanh is no Elvis Phuong.
That’s why Asia gives you the option to skip the MC portion, funny how they were the first one who did that
I enjoyed some performances at least such as those from Diem Lien & Nguyen Khang, Anh Minh, Y Phuong and Nguyen Hong Nhung
To Sammy: The Fascist/Communist/Socialist agenda will destroy America. If your parents are Vietnamese, ask them why you are here. Plus, you seem to have a problem with the US Constitution. Are you an American if I may ask?
After I read all over the good comments for ASIA 66….So I watched the whole DVD. My goodness…
-Hoang Oanh…cannot sing anymore. She almost cannot deliever the mid range notes.
-QK is ok but not outstanding
-Y Phuong sang this song so damn awful. I heard this song from HA THANH: classic!
- Doan Phi…he looks like A RAT..not a solder at all.
- Dang The Luan: is a joke here. No talent singer at all!
- Thien Kim…(I do not agree with Don here), she sang far away from KL. Lucky her, this was not live show!
The DVD about VN WAR from ASIA that I still love it: Hanh Trinh 30 nam….I do not see any better DVD than that one.
The singers that I like: Vu Khanh, Thanh Thuy, Nguyen Khang the most in here…the rest of them are trash!
..summer’s grass
all that’s remained
of the warriors’ dreams…
GeorgeMason, the one with or without the 16th amendments?
“The DVD about VN WAR from ASIA that I still love it: Hanh Trinh 30 nam….I do not see any better DVD than that one.”
ITA. That one was a classic. The rest of the DVDs are painfully bad sequels.
To H: huh?? What’s your point? If you don’t want to pay taxes, don’t file it. I just wanted to point out Sammy’s idiotic analogy about the US Constitution…..
Yet they still have numerous of people, especially the generation who put their lives on the line or sailed across the ocean for God knows how long or suffered through reeducation camps from those damn communists, supporting their productions. Maybe it’s simply because these “boring” or “pointless” shows, as you would put it, brings back beautiful memory or has magnificent meaning to them.