Wednesday, April 30, 2008
new class
Ok, it seems that there is too many movie reviews, so let's have a break and talk about something else. What should we talk about? Oh yeah, my new class W65N. Now I am year 2 in RP, currently doing my interactive and digital media. Seriously, I never once like programming this much and I always look forward to the next one. Class had never been boring, there is so many common thing in this class. Close to everyone is retro, anime lover and they like to draw. I'm not detesting anime neither I like it, so I'm neutral, I don't draw well too. Another thing that really got me interested is that there is so many martial artist in this class. Wushu, judo, capoiera and taekwondo. Wow, almost everyday got a small tournament. I bet the facilitators don't want to be too cocky, unless he/she thinks he/she lived too long. We watch old movies and listen songs, and I mean old, can be as far back to the 70s. I like this class, everyday so fun. Next time I'll tell you how crazy we can get to, but the next post will be a movie reiew again, so stay tune.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
movie reviews
Yup, like the title, this is a movie review post that I held it for quite a long time. Let me take you back to the 80s, the time where all the classic movies were made and were never surpassed until now. I'm going to review one of them, it is one of the greatest comedy, but to me, it is the greatest comedy movie I ever watch. Not one movie of this time can surpass it. Not only that, it was ranked first on ign.com as the best comedy movie of all time. So after saying this much, I'm going to reveal the name of the movie, it is "Ghostbusters".
Normally people will start to say, "isn't ghostbusters a cartoon that got made into a movie?" Wrong, ghostbusters got a cartoon series because it is so success, it was made into a cartoon that ran for 7 seasons and a lot of action figures. Let's get started on the review, ok?
Ghostbusters, the theme song was a big hit at that time too and still I love the theme song. Basically, the plot start with 3 university professor, researching on paranormal stuff and finally got their first encounter in the library. They were egon, the scientific guy, ray, always energetic and peter, the guy with the heart of calm. When they met the ghost, they can't do anything but run since the ghost is angry. Well, after that, they were chased out of the university because of the lack of operating funds for their department. With their reseach and the first experience, they go into bussiness themselves of the ghostbusting career. At first they didn't get much customers, until a women named dana approach them for some paranormal help. That gives them a little more fund to prolong the bankcrupcy. Finally they got their first ghostbusting work and there they go, drive the ecto-1 and head to the hotel. Although they have the equipment, the ghost trap and the proton packs, they never actually test it before. Whoa, luckily I'm not the first customers. They went through the humourous way and finally got the ghost. That is when their career got picked up and they became celebrity.
Cut all the way to the end, it's too long to write out all the plot. They reseach a lot and then found out that the multiple appearance of ghost is because of the arrival of a destruction god. They got the god eliminated and save NYC.
I can't find anything that is bad about this movie, the movie is 130 minutes long and I laugh 125 minutes, the 5min is credit. The special effects are cool, in fact, the CG inside sometime don't look like from the 80s, more like from the current time. The jokes inside never repeat, everytime there is a joke, it is totally new. So I laugh my way throughout the movie.
There is a sequel to it, ghostbusters II. To cut short, this is a good movie too, but not as good as the first one. If you all can get to see this 2 movies, I recommend you to do so, it is really nice.
One thing I want to complain about, nothing related to the film. Will there be a ghostbusters III? Well, if there are home alone 3, psycho 3, spiderman 3, free willy 3, a bunch of sequels to scary movie, america pie that rape the ass of hollywood, I don't see the reason of not having ghostbusters 3.
Normally people will start to say, "isn't ghostbusters a cartoon that got made into a movie?" Wrong, ghostbusters got a cartoon series because it is so success, it was made into a cartoon that ran for 7 seasons and a lot of action figures. Let's get started on the review, ok?
Ghostbusters, the theme song was a big hit at that time too and still I love the theme song. Basically, the plot start with 3 university professor, researching on paranormal stuff and finally got their first encounter in the library. They were egon, the scientific guy, ray, always energetic and peter, the guy with the heart of calm. When they met the ghost, they can't do anything but run since the ghost is angry. Well, after that, they were chased out of the university because of the lack of operating funds for their department. With their reseach and the first experience, they go into bussiness themselves of the ghostbusting career. At first they didn't get much customers, until a women named dana approach them for some paranormal help. That gives them a little more fund to prolong the bankcrupcy. Finally they got their first ghostbusting work and there they go, drive the ecto-1 and head to the hotel. Although they have the equipment, the ghost trap and the proton packs, they never actually test it before. Whoa, luckily I'm not the first customers. They went through the humourous way and finally got the ghost. That is when their career got picked up and they became celebrity.
Cut all the way to the end, it's too long to write out all the plot. They reseach a lot and then found out that the multiple appearance of ghost is because of the arrival of a destruction god. They got the god eliminated and save NYC.
I can't find anything that is bad about this movie, the movie is 130 minutes long and I laugh 125 minutes, the 5min is credit. The special effects are cool, in fact, the CG inside sometime don't look like from the 80s, more like from the current time. The jokes inside never repeat, everytime there is a joke, it is totally new. So I laugh my way throughout the movie.
There is a sequel to it, ghostbusters II. To cut short, this is a good movie too, but not as good as the first one. If you all can get to see this 2 movies, I recommend you to do so, it is really nice.
One thing I want to complain about, nothing related to the film. Will there be a ghostbusters III? Well, if there are home alone 3, psycho 3, spiderman 3, free willy 3, a bunch of sequels to scary movie, america pie that rape the ass of hollywood, I don't see the reason of not having ghostbusters 3.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
I am so touched...
Ok, this post is not going to be a movie/game review. Just now I came across this video that is so true, so touching, I tears in my heart because it touches to the deepest depth. It is a video telling what ultraman had taught us through the tv series. A lot of people might still think that ultraman is childish or it is violent, but they don't know the message that was conveyed to the audience. I notice that as people grow up, they lose faith in what they believe to be true when they are still a child. Soon, they have doubt in them and sometime even denied them. Ultraman series had been going on for 40+ years, yet the message conveyed to us was how to be a better person. Some watched it might get the message and follow the message, but some might not. About this video, it is telling us what each ultraman had taught us. Sorry it is in chinese, so I will put the translation here.
http://www.ultramanclub.com/2008-1/200816195025.htm
Here is the translation of each message conveyed to us.
Ultraman: He taught us the importance and the meaning of life.
Being the first ultraman that came to earth as a defender, he knew that life is so fragile, yet so precious. Because we live, we have dreams, love, friends and future. Although life can be shattered so easily, but the experiences of all those mentioned above was nevertheless, priceless. Don't give up life, life is very precious because they are things that cannot be gained without being alive.
Ultraseven: He taught us to treasure the un-replacesible things, love and friend.Love and friends, 2 things that is VERY important in a person's life. While ultraseven is on earth, there is no one to help him. Everytime he fights the enemy, he fights them alone. But because the friendships and love from the friends on earth, he continues to protect them. Friendships and love is always the supporting pillar for each one of us, without them, we can collapse anytime there is a storm in our life.
Ultraman Jack: He taught us the true meaning of love.
Brotherly love, parents love, life partner love, etc. There are tons of love in the world, but sometime we take for granted of it or we don't really know the meaning of love. What is love? When our parents nag at us, the words sometime might be harsh, but there is always love deep down in their words. There is a famous qoute in the series that is still echoing in the series and our life, the ultra 5 oath. Not going to say out the whole thing, but the oath through the surface, we won't get the true meaning, only if we look into it, we know that this is the true meaning of love.
Ultraman Ace: He taught us how to trust other people
This is so far the most important lesson we should learnt and even I'm still learning it, trust. Every relationship begin with trust and relationships were able to continue because there is trust. People often don't believe each other, they afraid that that other person might hurt them. This is particularly obvious in Singapore, you can practically see it everywhere, even my mother told me not to trust other people than yourself. See, without trust, there will always be conflicts and wars. Is it so hard to trust other people? So what if you trust the other person and you yourself got hurt? At least you make effort to start/continue a relationship, that person will be at fault because he/she abuse that trust. Even though you were hurt because trusting other people, never give up in trusting people. A little trust can change the world and make the world without stranger, that is what I strongly believe.
Ultraman Taro: He taught us how to independent
Ultraman taro is the youngest among the ultra brothers, thus he depend a lot on his elder brothers. Again, this is especially obvious in singapore. People always depend on the others to do things and help them. They never think of doing the things themselves before seeking for help. Although friends are there for us, but we have to be independent in our lives.
Ultraman Leo: He taught us how to be a person with strong-will.
Ultraman leo, being the only ultraman not from M78 on earth. He was on earth because his home planet was destroyed, thus he vowed to protect earth because it is a second home planet to him. When he is fighting and if he lost, he never give up. He will always train and return with solution. Without a strong will, you tend to give up easily and then just forget about it. To get true success in life, first you must have strong will.
Ultraman 80: He taught us to treasure the unforgetable memories.
No matter what memories we had, bad or good, we should treasure it. We can always take it out from our mind and look at it, we will remember all the sweet and sour of our life. Even it is a bad memories, we can use it as lesson and guide for our life. Just treasure the memories.
Ultraman mebius: you will not fight alone.
This so far another best lesson I've learnt, friends are always with us, with you. Even I got my up and down in life, in the past, I'm always alone when I got my up and down. Not now, I got my buddies, they are always with me to go through all those. Another good quote, "the heart of believing can change impossible to possible" from ultraman mebius. Believe in yourself, your friends, your lover or whoever you can think of, because believing makes impossbile possible. You will not be fighting alone. Even when you fight at the areana, your supporters will be at your back, believing in you, so you must believe in yourself to make it.
This is the message that was conveyed to us by ultraman. Ultraman is not only for entertainment, but also education.
http://www.ultramanclub.com/2008-1/200816195025.htm
Here is the translation of each message conveyed to us.
Ultraman: He taught us the importance and the meaning of life.
Being the first ultraman that came to earth as a defender, he knew that life is so fragile, yet so precious. Because we live, we have dreams, love, friends and future. Although life can be shattered so easily, but the experiences of all those mentioned above was nevertheless, priceless. Don't give up life, life is very precious because they are things that cannot be gained without being alive.
Ultraseven: He taught us to treasure the un-replacesible things, love and friend.Love and friends, 2 things that is VERY important in a person's life. While ultraseven is on earth, there is no one to help him. Everytime he fights the enemy, he fights them alone. But because the friendships and love from the friends on earth, he continues to protect them. Friendships and love is always the supporting pillar for each one of us, without them, we can collapse anytime there is a storm in our life.
Ultraman Jack: He taught us the true meaning of love.
Brotherly love, parents love, life partner love, etc. There are tons of love in the world, but sometime we take for granted of it or we don't really know the meaning of love. What is love? When our parents nag at us, the words sometime might be harsh, but there is always love deep down in their words. There is a famous qoute in the series that is still echoing in the series and our life, the ultra 5 oath. Not going to say out the whole thing, but the oath through the surface, we won't get the true meaning, only if we look into it, we know that this is the true meaning of love.
Ultraman Ace: He taught us how to trust other people
This is so far the most important lesson we should learnt and even I'm still learning it, trust. Every relationship begin with trust and relationships were able to continue because there is trust. People often don't believe each other, they afraid that that other person might hurt them. This is particularly obvious in Singapore, you can practically see it everywhere, even my mother told me not to trust other people than yourself. See, without trust, there will always be conflicts and wars. Is it so hard to trust other people? So what if you trust the other person and you yourself got hurt? At least you make effort to start/continue a relationship, that person will be at fault because he/she abuse that trust. Even though you were hurt because trusting other people, never give up in trusting people. A little trust can change the world and make the world without stranger, that is what I strongly believe.
Ultraman Taro: He taught us how to independent
Ultraman taro is the youngest among the ultra brothers, thus he depend a lot on his elder brothers. Again, this is especially obvious in singapore. People always depend on the others to do things and help them. They never think of doing the things themselves before seeking for help. Although friends are there for us, but we have to be independent in our lives.
Ultraman Leo: He taught us how to be a person with strong-will.
Ultraman leo, being the only ultraman not from M78 on earth. He was on earth because his home planet was destroyed, thus he vowed to protect earth because it is a second home planet to him. When he is fighting and if he lost, he never give up. He will always train and return with solution. Without a strong will, you tend to give up easily and then just forget about it. To get true success in life, first you must have strong will.
Ultraman 80: He taught us to treasure the unforgetable memories.
No matter what memories we had, bad or good, we should treasure it. We can always take it out from our mind and look at it, we will remember all the sweet and sour of our life. Even it is a bad memories, we can use it as lesson and guide for our life. Just treasure the memories.
Ultraman mebius: you will not fight alone.
This so far another best lesson I've learnt, friends are always with us, with you. Even I got my up and down in life, in the past, I'm always alone when I got my up and down. Not now, I got my buddies, they are always with me to go through all those. Another good quote, "the heart of believing can change impossible to possible" from ultraman mebius. Believe in yourself, your friends, your lover or whoever you can think of, because believing makes impossbile possible. You will not be fighting alone. Even when you fight at the areana, your supporters will be at your back, believing in you, so you must believe in yourself to make it.
This is the message that was conveyed to us by ultraman. Ultraman is not only for entertainment, but also education.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
movie review again
Now, I had to admit that I watched a lot of movies recently. As I said before, movies and games are meant to be entertaining, so if it is a bad game/movie, you will swear. Yeah, this post is going to be another movie reviews. As some of you people who knows me, you know that I don't like horror movies. It is because of the weak storyplot, suck shit ending and totally not-scary scenes. But hey, this horror movie that I just watched wasn't that kind of horror movies that I don't like.
Yes, this is "rule #01". From the producer or director of the maid. Talk about "the maid", I had one simple complain of that movie. Why doesn't the dead maid the main ghost that appears in the movie? Instead, make way for a random maid got shadowed by the shadow of the coffin, then she just ran like 5km just to jump off a building to die. I mean, what the hell? There are a lot of high rise buidling in singapore, so why does she has to run so fucking far, just to commit suicide? That's bullshit.
The movie starts off by seeing a low ranked police giving fine to a driver who didn't tie safety belt. Then he checked the back of the car and discovered a dead girl body, suddenly the drive brokes out with a gun and shoot all limbs with a bullet, before he shoot at the head, the police and the the driver saw the back of the car rises and the girl sits up. The police then shoots the driver in the head and faints.
After he woke up and return to his post, the superior put him to a new department. It is miscellaneous affairs department, basically this department handle shits like ghostly stuff. This department is sad, only 3 staff, the police(let's call him A), his superior(let's call him B) and a adminstration staff.
So what this department do, you can never imagine police do all these shit. The department, handle ghost stuff, if a human or more people were possessed, they shoot them in the head. In the movie, it explains that once the ghost possessed someone, just a simple touch can possess another person and then control the body. What happened to the body previously, do they return to normal? No, their souls were shattered and left only an empty shell. Everything was done in secret, so no one ever saw a police going around shooting the possessed.
At the end of the movie, A got possessed by the driver he shoot at the beginning of the movie, through many plans from the driver's ghost. At the end, A shot B in the head and now he got the whole department under his control.
Ok, enough of the summarising. This movie is not bad for a horror movie, although the scary parts suck quite hard, because it is the worst scaring scenes I ever seen in my life. Most of the ghosts are just random wondering ghosts you can see on the streets, provided if you can see ghosts.
The story, yes, the story is pretty good for horror movie. There is actually a plot, a fucking plot, explaining why the ghost to do stuff to the living. Yet, it is very boring at the beginning of the movie, just like in the Jaw movie, the early part got too many dialouge, so many that I don't even want to count them. After A met his first ghost encounter as a police in that department, that is where the plot starts to brings up the hype of the audiences. Although having a decent plot, the ending sucks. I bet most of my friends don't understand the ending including me, until I analyse the whole movie after I got home and then tell them. Seriously, I have to get into the detail of the movie, analyse the plot and then come out of the explanation how the ending goes. Well, once you understand the ending, it's actually not that bad of an ending.
Actors....sigh*. I had only one complain of this thing, why the hell fiona xie got so little scenes in the movie? Why is there so fucking little scene she's in there? On the poster and the credit, you'll see "starring blahblahblah, fiona xie". Starring fiona xie? So why she appear so much lesser than other characters which are starring them too?
Another thing I find weird is the reason of why the police want to kill the possessesd? I mean, since the police dealing with ghost, that means the govt also admit the existence of paranormal phantasm. Sure that there is a way of getting ghost out of the body than killing them, may be they can co-operate with religion groups to deal with these cases. Another thing that I find it familiar of the police going around, shooting the possessed, it reminds me something from the past. Well, those who watch a lot of older movies and born around or before my time, you know what movie I'm talking about. Yes, ghostbusters...
A group of people running around the city, blasting ghost and then catch them. So the ghostbusters can invent gadgets to catch ghost, why not the government or the police? Talking about ghostbusters, the next post will be review on ghostbusters.
Overall, this movie is not bad, it's worth to watch it in cinema.
Yes, this is "rule #01". From the producer or director of the maid. Talk about "the maid", I had one simple complain of that movie. Why doesn't the dead maid the main ghost that appears in the movie? Instead, make way for a random maid got shadowed by the shadow of the coffin, then she just ran like 5km just to jump off a building to die. I mean, what the hell? There are a lot of high rise buidling in singapore, so why does she has to run so fucking far, just to commit suicide? That's bullshit.
The movie starts off by seeing a low ranked police giving fine to a driver who didn't tie safety belt. Then he checked the back of the car and discovered a dead girl body, suddenly the drive brokes out with a gun and shoot all limbs with a bullet, before he shoot at the head, the police and the the driver saw the back of the car rises and the girl sits up. The police then shoots the driver in the head and faints.
After he woke up and return to his post, the superior put him to a new department. It is miscellaneous affairs department, basically this department handle shits like ghostly stuff. This department is sad, only 3 staff, the police(let's call him A), his superior(let's call him B) and a adminstration staff.
So what this department do, you can never imagine police do all these shit. The department, handle ghost stuff, if a human or more people were possessed, they shoot them in the head. In the movie, it explains that once the ghost possessed someone, just a simple touch can possess another person and then control the body. What happened to the body previously, do they return to normal? No, their souls were shattered and left only an empty shell. Everything was done in secret, so no one ever saw a police going around shooting the possessed.
At the end of the movie, A got possessed by the driver he shoot at the beginning of the movie, through many plans from the driver's ghost. At the end, A shot B in the head and now he got the whole department under his control.
Ok, enough of the summarising. This movie is not bad for a horror movie, although the scary parts suck quite hard, because it is the worst scaring scenes I ever seen in my life. Most of the ghosts are just random wondering ghosts you can see on the streets, provided if you can see ghosts.
The story, yes, the story is pretty good for horror movie. There is actually a plot, a fucking plot, explaining why the ghost to do stuff to the living. Yet, it is very boring at the beginning of the movie, just like in the Jaw movie, the early part got too many dialouge, so many that I don't even want to count them. After A met his first ghost encounter as a police in that department, that is where the plot starts to brings up the hype of the audiences. Although having a decent plot, the ending sucks. I bet most of my friends don't understand the ending including me, until I analyse the whole movie after I got home and then tell them. Seriously, I have to get into the detail of the movie, analyse the plot and then come out of the explanation how the ending goes. Well, once you understand the ending, it's actually not that bad of an ending.
Actors....sigh*. I had only one complain of this thing, why the hell fiona xie got so little scenes in the movie? Why is there so fucking little scene she's in there? On the poster and the credit, you'll see "starring blahblahblah, fiona xie". Starring fiona xie? So why she appear so much lesser than other characters which are starring them too?
Another thing I find weird is the reason of why the police want to kill the possessesd? I mean, since the police dealing with ghost, that means the govt also admit the existence of paranormal phantasm. Sure that there is a way of getting ghost out of the body than killing them, may be they can co-operate with religion groups to deal with these cases. Another thing that I find it familiar of the police going around, shooting the possessed, it reminds me something from the past. Well, those who watch a lot of older movies and born around or before my time, you know what movie I'm talking about. Yes, ghostbusters...
A group of people running around the city, blasting ghost and then catch them. So the ghostbusters can invent gadgets to catch ghost, why not the government or the police? Talking about ghostbusters, the next post will be review on ghostbusters.
Overall, this movie is not bad, it's worth to watch it in cinema.
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