A lot of people love this director, but his failure to cast Bradley Cooper in a leading role has once again earned him scorn in Echo's eyes. "There's no reason they couldn't have put him in a minor role," she said after watching the first half of the film. Her suggestions on suitable positions: a comely street-urchin, vegetable salesperson, or sidekick of the sidekick. "He could help with the typing," she added, hunkering down to watch the film to its somewhat illogical conclusion.

This New Years, we're happy to release another edition of our semi-regular Chinese movie guessing game. Listen to our short clip from a recent Hollywood movie dubbed into mandarin. And if you can guess the film, send Echo an email at echo@popupchinese.com and be entered in a draw for a month of free premium access to Popup Chinese. And Happy New Years!