John Carter – Movie

Before I’m officially gone from SIngapore tomorrow, gonna finish up this post first, else I’d most probably forgot 50% of the storyline next week I’m back. Yes, Oi, I’ll TRY to feel your wrath while I’m happily strolling around in the Casino of Genting, or when I’m happily sitting down in some StarBucks drinking Chocolate Cream Chip (or Chocolate Chip Cream / Or whatever some other nice StarBucks drink). Hehe. Yup, I’m so gonna do that.

I’ve went to watch this show, knowing that it’s not a good show. Heard so from my colleague, she told me the show is losing money and many reviews saying that it sucks. Being the spoilt and curious brat I am, I went ahead to bought the tickets for my friend and I. Before the show commences, I whispered to her,

“I heard this show is losing money.”

Gave me a O_O look and whispered back, “You knew this after you buy the tickets or before you buy the tickets.” You know how when you watch some romance movies and this couple is bickering, and the female lead will ask the male lead some question, but obviously you can hear in her tone that your answer has better be the correct one. (just a analogy, I’m not a lesbian by the way, I drool at guys). Yup, I felt it, but having the virtue of honesty in me, I answered the truth,

“Erm… I heard it when I was buying the tickets.” (Which is half-truth, I heard of it when I was queuing).

“… You must be lazy to take out your phone to call me to tell me this, which is why you go ahead to buy the tickets because it’s more troublesome to call me and ask me what other movies we wanna watch!” *Accusation tone*.

Dang! Bingo.

Anyway, lucky thing is, this show is not half that bad. Maybe cuz both of us think that Immortals suck way more than this movie, or both of us were already prepared to watch something that’s as sucky as Immortals or way bad than Immortals.

For those who don’t remember what Immortals is, I’ve wrote a review on it before, think it contain most spoilers : Immortals.

I think this is one of the few shows where I didn’t really drool at the male lead, there’s a few parts that I think he’s really good looking though. When he reminisce of his past with his ex-wife and he had much shorter hair then (Reallllllyyyyyyyy cool, just in the movie though, cuz when I actually went to google his pictures, really don’t find him appealing to me).

The star of the movie, however, I think is not the male lead, nor the female lead. It’s this :

Gonna keep this picture as big as the poster, cuz he’s really cute. Haha. He’s the alien dog which keeps following the male lead around (running as swiftly as any flying gadget in the movie). How did this guy become so popular? No idea man, he’s really cute in the show, not the literally kind of cute, but yeah, cute.

It has all the qualities of a man’s best friend : dog.

Don’t wanna write too much spoilers because I think you all can give this show a try. I like the little twist it has in the end.

The only thing that gets me thinking is, if I was really involved in the show (the usual thing I always think when I watch movie, which is why I don’t watch horror, I can’t make it past 1 minute of the show man), I’d be in trouble. Apparently, you have to memorise this code name thingy which can teleports you to and fro. It was repeated like 3-4 times in the show, but till now I don’t remember any of the code at all. Dang.

MIssion Impossible : Ghost Protocol – Movie

I’m not really a Mission Impossible fan, I’ not even considered an action-movie lover, but I did watch the 2 recent Mission Impossible movies starring Tom Cruise in it. You people should know how shallow I am anyway wahaha.

Anyway, the show is actually pretty nice. What makes the movie really worth the movie ticket price is the 2 hours 10 minutes of playing time. I almost became an ice block inside despite my jacket covering over me. Thank god I didn’t leave my jacket in the office. The previous movie I’ve watched is the Immortals. In comparison, this movie is like really good, I’m not saying this movie sucks, and is only better as compared to the sucky Immortals. I like the storyline, at least I can’t find loop holes like I did in Immortals (the loopholes in that movie is as much as the holes in those cheese that we see in Tom & Jerry cartoon).

And, I have a thing for guys in hood / cloak. You know, like the main character in Assasin’s creed / Priest. I don’t know why but I really find the guys in the hood super super super (* 1 million times) attractive to me. I’d fall head over heels for them, I’ve still regretted not watching Priest. Sigh. This is the reason why I’ve uploaded the above picture with Tom Cruise in the hood, hoho. Can you believe it? He’s like 49 already (that seriously shocked me when I wiki-ed him). But he’s still so good looking!!!! <33333333 Yeah, I’m as shallow as shallow.

I like the fighting scenes, it’s nice and the female looks good when she’s fighting too. Occasional funny parts when the technological stuffs used by the 2 guys in the movie had faulty bugs and might have caused deaths to them.

As I was watching, I realised, I not only can’t survive in a disaster movie (as refer to the post here), I will also not be able to survive in an action movie at all.

1 ) There’s this chasing scene where the protagonist and the criminal was in a run-and-chase situation and both were running for like 10 minutes without stopping? What’s more was they were running at their full speed. Me? It’s amazing I could even run at full speed for like 1 minute. Maybe not even 10 seconds.

2 ) Bombing that occurs every now and then, I’m so oblivious to everything that’s happening around me, the protagonist realised the bombing as soon as smoke started coming out from the building and starts running. Me? Even if I DID see smoke appearing from all the windows of the building, I’d be like “oh? there’s a fire?” and have my whole body vaporized before being able to use my 10 seconds charge to run away.

In conclusion, running is a very important part of our life, you’d have to run in horror, action, disaster movies. I should go running more often.

Immortals – Movie

I didn’t really wanted to watch this show. No, I wanted to but at the same time I don’t want to. I’m really quite against shows that are M18 and R21, unless it’s the you-know-what kind. I have always wanted to watch 300, because it seems like the kind of show when you’re watching, you really feel like shouting along with them, but I didn’t went to watch and have regretted since then. So I went ahead to watch this when my friend said she wanna to watch it.

I feel like, I’m watching a show that consist of a few humans and millions of jellies, with more juice, and more jelly pieces. And juices. And jelly pieces. More juices. More jelly pieces. And jellies. And juices. Juices. Jellies. Okay stop. It’s amazing how much liquids are shown in the show. If 300 was another jellies and juices show, I think it might not be worth watching it, though I am still curious.

Don’t think any of you are going to watch it anyway, so I’m going to reveal some spoilers here. There are a lot of parts of the film which don’t really make sense to me. So there’s this evil bastard who decides to kill all jellies (and gods?) because the gods didn’t answer his prayers for saving his wife and children (and nothing more was told about this anymore, we only know they’re dead). So he decided to get this random Bow thing which will be able to release a bunch of things called “Titans” which gives off the impression that these things are like some Transformers beings. If everybody in reality thinks like this guy does, I think our humanity would be bombed like 10 million times because few people actually strike 4D/Toto.

Okay, fine, let’s overlook this point and look at this other point. The Transformers-like beings are being trapped in this random mountain like just in front of the capital of Greece ( in some b.c year), in this random jail-cell like thingy, with this random pole which they are all biting in their mouths. So this jail like cell thing is square and the Transformers are standing in either 4×5 or 5×5, side by side and line by line. Have no idea why are they biting on to the pole, maybe to give off the feel that they are bound in that random place. Titans were once immortals, like the Gods, but because they were evil or what (maybe caught watching porn) and then banished into that jail cell to bite on the poles and labelled as Titans aka Transformers. So as they were saying, if Titans were released, the Gods and jellies would be in danger. Which we later find out, it’s not really the case at all, the Gods kinda seems super imba, like a Transformer that has transformed and kill off other Transformers that haven’t transformed. Then as the fight ensues, we see a few of the Gods starting to die. Then, something that’s really puzzling happened. The Zeus (leader of Gods) jumped on to the random jail cell where there are actually 2 random rope like thingies strapped on to the sides of the mountains. So what he does is, he pulled the ropes, the whole mountain collapsed, and all Transformers died.

He could have like done this 1 million years ago right? Why keep them confined within that random jail cell, forcing them to bite the pole? Weird. Some fetish, maybe. And he sacrificed like 4 other Gods while fighting the Transformers (including his daughter). Oh, and amazingly, I told you guys I saw like 4×5 and 5×4 Titans inside right. While fighting, I swear, we were shown like > 15 Transformers-jellies being killed, and yet there are still more Transformers-jellies.

I guess the reasons why I don’t really like watching gruesome shows is cuz :

• I tends to actually imagine myself in that situation and feel the fear and pain the victim at that time was feeling
• I would think what I’d do if I was in that person’s shoes and what would happen if I did what I am thinking

There’s a lot of brave people in this show who no matter what, does not succumbs to the threat of the evil bastard. The priest even slice off his own tongue just so that evil bastard would not get anything out of him. I seriously salutes this guy man. I wish war will never come, I’ll seriously feel like this goldfish being thrown into the sea filled with crocodiles, sharks and piranhas. And, don’t even talk about fighting in the war, I can’t even keep a secret man. Point a knife anywhere near my body, I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.

And when I was watching this scene where the jellies were being pounded in jelly pieces during the final war, and the protagonist was bravely chionging at the front, smashing whatever jellies and puddings that were in his way. I thought, “what if actually the puddings and jellies in front wanted to avoid him, but he just kept smashing ‘em?” “What would happen to me if I was in front of him and I BADLY want to just skip to the side?”. Then I finally came with the conclusion that I would just take that round shield thing given to me, find a spot in the corner corner, cover the shoe over my body, smear people’s blood all over myself and lie on the ground praying to Gods that nobody will notice me and for the thing to finish.

Side note : the people who have helped the protagonist ended up dead, and the oracle priestess got pregnant with his kid, but he was the only one who joined the Gods in the end. Wth?

Anyway. Point is, this show wasn’t really worth watching at all. I really curious about 300 now.

Rum Diary – Movie

I’m officially declared a faithful member of the club, “Does-not-understand-english-films-without-subtitles Club”. Through the 2 hours of the show, I have to use all of my concentration and all my focus into my ears. Still, I lost the show half-way through. It’s been a very long time since I’ve actually watched a English film without subtitles, I rely a lot on subtitles. A LOT. Because I can’t really understand English accents, English that are spoken out by westerners, unless they deliberately speak slower and clearer. But you know that doesn’t happen in movies. Sometimes they could just combine two words together and make them into 1, the skill of Jay Zhou.

And talking about him, I could only get his album next friday! Argh, FRUSTRATING!!!

Chinese movies are okay, I can very well do without subtitles unless if it’s included with the Chinese accent, like how most people from China speaks. I saw a clip before by this China boy who came to Singapore to study who filmed a video of him speaking in this weird Chinese accent that kept scolding Singaporeans, 90% of the time I couldn’t register what he’s saying. But if not, I’m generally okay with Chinese movies.

Anyway, back to the point.

Shaw theatre is not bad, the seat was adjusted upright, so it reduces the chance of (me) sleeping throughout the show. If it had been the cathay in AMK, I might have fallen asleep like 20 minutes into the show. Oh, and it’s because of this theater that I’ve realised how LOUD AMK Cathay theater was. Real Steel was real loud.

The show was okay. There were funny parts happening now and then which made me burst out laughing (even though I could not understand the english half of the time, but the jokes were comprehensible). I’m aware that I lost a lot of jokes though, because I couldn’t get those crucial words right, so even though I knew it should be a funny thing, I wasn’t laughing, and I didn’t hear much laughter going on around me at that time, so I’m taking it that most of the people were in the same situation as I am haha.

The only point I got throughout the show was the poor and the rich thing. Like the rich (or authorities) covering up the truth of how serious the poverty of that little island really was(with the little kids scavenging around rubbish) and requested that Johnny Depp focus on reporting on the good things of the island just so to attract tourism and stuffs, and that’s provided I didn’t get the whole conversation wrong, I think it should be like this haha. I’m always kinda sensitive / curious to this kind of topic so it kinda caught my attention.

There are a few parts that I still don’t get it though, but since I’ve already gotten the general plot, I guess it’s not that important after all. The funny parts were very random though, because I don’t really understand why they’d happened.

Sigh. Most of the time I was really concentrating on looking at Johnny Depp’s face (I really didn’t want to). This is the first show that I’m seeing him on screen whereby he isn’t dressed up as a pirate. If not for Oi Shan, who I think have showed me pictures of him beardless before, I wouldn’t even know this is Johnny Depp when I saw the zoomed in face on the poster.

Don’t think I’d watch this show again, think not even with subtitles. I might like this more if I’ve watched this with subtitles from the start. Unless Nicholas Tse is acting in this show, I could stare dreamily at his face non-stop for 2 hours.

Well, it was fun hanging out with er, LEOs again. I guess maybe 3-4 years down the road, we might actually find ourselves chilling in pubs and talk about how suck life / word is. Haha. I kinda look forward to those days though xD.

Real Steel – Movie

My colleague was telling me that this show is a bit touching (oh gosh, I naturally typed bitch when I only wanted to type bit). I guess I went there, kinda expecting that it’s gonna be a touching ending, and mentally prepared that the robot is gonna kinda die / be crashed in the end. I prepared myself for whatever all sorts of sad scenarios coming up, well, in the end, nothing happened.

The show is not bad. Of course, not the type that’s super ultra high graphics kind like transformers, well, the robots looked real too (the westerners are good at this kind of thing). But, the storyline is good. And I fell in love with Dakota Goyo (the small boy in the show). By the way, I’m not a pedophile, in case you all took me the wrong way. The little boy is soooooooo cute in the show, and even though he’s still young, you can kinda see how great his body would turn out when he grows older (again, I’m really not a pedophile).

The movie, is very noisy though. Then again, a lot of movies are noisy when it’s being played in the theaters (which is why I don’t watch horror movies, I’d end up having a heart attack blow inside. Or if I didn’t had a heart problem, I might develop one once I watched a horror movie in theaters). I think it’s kinda a “high” movies. Especially when the robots are fighting, you’d kind of get the hype and wanna to stand up and start shouting words of encouragement for the robot (on the hero’s side duh).

I kinda get misled by the trailers, though that the robot had feelings. After watching the movie, I’m still not confirmed whether or not the machine had feelings, they kinda give you the feeling that the robot had feelings, but most of the part shows otherwise though. Well, if there is a sequel, I think I’d go watch it.

Oh, one part I really like about the movie is that, there isn’t sore losers in the show. You know those typical movies where triad-like characters in the shows always end up beating the good guys or doing some dirty moves behind after the good guys win a fight / tournament / whatever. There are a couple of scenes where there are a few characters with the likes of sore losers who lost the fights, but they still swallowed it and gave the prizes to the winners (surprisingly).

The movies are getting off the theaters soon. If you still have the time to, you can consider watching it, I think it’s great.