Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas holiday movies

I caught 2 movies in a row, one with my bro and one with my bro and my cousin(along with his girlfriend). So what movie I watched, I will review them here.



This first movie that I caught with my bro, it is "bedtime stories". It is about a man, Skeeter, whose father operated and own a motel. But due to financial problem, he had to sell it, under the condition that skeeter have to run the hotel when he grows up. Well, skeeter did work in the hotel that was built after the person bought it, but he work as a plumber. One day he had to baby-sit his sister's children while she went out of town for a week. The kids are used to have bedtime story before the sleep. Skeeter told them one during the first night, the kid added sometime into the story, so the ending sounds happy. In the next day, skeeter found out that what ever was said in the story by the kids, it came true. On the same day, he got the chance of meeting the boss of the hotel. The boss said that the new hotel's theme and skeeter mentioned that the theme was outdated. The boss give him a shot, if he can come out with a better idea, he will be the manager of the new hotel. He decide to make use of the strange phenomenons that the bedtime story told to the kid to gain the position. Although in the end he got the position, he was fired moments later due to something(avoiding spoilers). I would now talk about the ending, it is predictable, what you expect from disney movie? Sad ending?

Second movie, yes man.


This movie is about a loner who says no to anything that comes to him, even his buddy asking him out. One day, his old classmae asked him to attend a seminar that ultimately changed his life, that is to say yes to everything that comes to him. Because of this, he finally found his love and finally got to become a sociable person, got into high rank in his bank office. Well, in the end, it is still a holiday movie and it has, of course, happy ending.

Basically, both movies are very funny, but they suffer the same error, jokes get old. This is very obvious in "Yes man", almost all the jokes had been used before. But, they are both very good movies, I give them 7/10 for "Bedtime stories" and 6.5/10 for "Yes man". Catch them if you got the chance, will give you a good laugh.
New post, I will review a series of movies starring my idol, donnie yen.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Movie review, bolt



Ok, this is a disney movie, so it is a kid movie. Yet, it attracted a lot of people to watch it and include me.

This movie started a dog, bolt, with a girl, penny, trying to save her father from an evil organisation. The father knows the girl will be targetted, he altered bolt's gene and make it a superdog. So there is a dog-bike-chopping chase scene and then bolt bark the shit out of the thugs.

You thought this is an action disney movie, oh no, you're wrong. These action are jst a filming of a tv show. Bolt believe that everything and his power is true and people are trying to catch penny. Until one day that after a shooting end with penny really got caught. The manager of penny don't allow her to see bolt to let bolt continue to believe everything. Bolt escaped the studio and accidentally got to NYC. From there, he team up with a cat, mitten and a mouse or something, rhino to get back to hollywood. In the mean time, he noticed that everything is fake and so do his power.

Finally he got back to hollywood and some shit happens, he got back with penny with mitten and rhino, becoming pets of penny's.

I had to say the graphic are pretty good and the voice acting are pretty good. Well, what you expect for the disney movie? But I got one thing to say about the plot, it is very similar to Toy story by pixar, in fact, I think the plot is exactly the same, just with different character. Toy story is about a toy woody and buzz got lost and then a kid grab it and claimed his. Then the owner is moving house and then woody and buzz got back to the owner just in time. That is the one thing that I complain, the plot is so similar to toy story that there isn't much originality.

This movie is still pretty good, I give it 7/10 for it. Go watch it if you got the chance.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Argh! pain!

Last sunday, I think I over exert a bit too much during the gym session, I injured my bi-sect(sp). Now it's ridiculously pain if I want to raise my hand higher than the shoulder height. *sigh, 2008 is almost over and this year hasn't been one of the worst year, but it wasn't one of the best. I lost a lot of things this year, I lost love, I lost friendship, not to mention twice. It's seems that I always don't get love, I always can't get a girlfriend that both of us love each other. I'm not being a "love-holic", but it's just too...lonely. I'm always so lonely, even though I always told my buddy that I will not love, martial art is the only thing. But deep down in my heart, I always want someone to love and someone to love me. Can you imagine how lonely to watch a movie alone, to go shopping alone, go playing alone and even walking alone? It's this emptiness that is enough swallow a whole person in and devour them. God, please grant me this small wish, I want to love someone and someone to love me...

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Busy, busy and still busy

Been busy recently, tomorrow is my first day in the Film IG, so I'm going to work hard to get better on filming. Talking about filming, last time I talked about taking part in the reflection, an art event in school. So a team need to submit their entry, a short film and then judges will judge which one will win. I didn't win, but it's due to one that there is no "best action design" prize, so I didn't win any one of the prize. I also got not very good comment on the sgcafe forum. I'm ok with it, just a little demoralising when saw it. But, the president of the Film IG invited me to join, to hone my camera skills. Also, one of the organiser said that the judges like the fight scene, one of them is a tv programe producer and might look up to me when they want to film action scene. Although, I never win, but it seems that the reward is bigger and better than the $1000 cash.

Recently not only busy, I don't know what happened to me. When I'm bored, I turn on either python or php to do programming. Although it might be difficult at time, but it is quite fun when I do it.

I am now planning for the last episode of the "dawn of twin vegeance". I'm going to make it big. I might film it in this dec holiday or during the 2 months holiday.

Tomorrow going to watch a movie, will talk about it when I got back home.