This is one of the rare movie that I've watched in my life, because it's an indonesian movie. Not being racist, just it's pretty rare to see it in big theatre over here in singapore. And I've heard good reviews of this movie, thus I decided to give it a shot. After the movie, I would say it's pretty damn good.
The story:
I always think that a movie should have good story, I don't care how good the graphics are in the movie or how hot the actors/actresses are, if the story is not good, then it's a bad movie. Yes, I'm referring to Transformer, bad movie at it's best. So I shall go down to this movie's plot.
This movie got very simple plot, but still works kind of plot for a movie. It's a simple "police charge in, kill all the bad guys, discover some mystery that they didn't expect and then got out of the place". Since the plot is so simple, revealing too much would have spoiled the movie. But one thing for sure, it still works for movie. The plot is a bit similar to "Blood and bones", simple, still workable. At the end of the movie, you would still remember the movie plot.
Graphic:
Nothing much to talk on this movie, the graphic are done very minimally. It's workable, but there are scene of explosions are simply very easy to see through and obvious that it's CGI.
Music:
The music is really good, it brings the emotions of each required scene. But the most remarkable one is during the final fight, the sound track excites you to watch the final fight scene and at the end of the fight, you find nothing but satisfaction.
Action:
The Gun fight are ok, nothing much to talk about it. Typical gun fight choreography for a police film. The highlight is the hand to hand combat fight scene. It's pencek silat on galore, the fight scene are insanely good. Not only it brought out the essence of pencek silat, it also brought the excitement of the audiences in the theatre. I remembered after the final fight scene, everyone cheered because the fight is so damn good and the good guys finally overcame the bad guy. It's rare to see crowd cheering at the end of the movie, I only remember witnessing it once at the end of ip man 1. From this, can judge how good the final fight scene was.
Overall:
I think I will give this movie a 7/10, the only thing that's lacking is a better graphic and a slightly deeper plot, else, everything works fine for me.
I shall stop here, I think I will write a few more post, seeing my blog is so dead in the recent months.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Movie review, like finally?
It has been so long since I write a movie review, most of the time, I'm just simply lazy to do it, sometime I'm too busy to do the writing. Since I got a bit of time, why not do it. So what movie I'm going to review? It's called "The Raid: Redemption"
This is one of the rare movie that I've watched in my life, because it's an indonesian movie. Not being racist, just it's pretty rare to see it in big theatre over here in singapore. And I've heard good reviews of this movie, thus I decided to give it a shot. After the movie, I would say it's pretty damn good.
The story:
I always think that a movie should have good story, I don't care how good the graphics are in the movie or how hot the actors/actresses are, if the story is not good, then it's a bad movie. Yes, I'm referring to Transformer, bad movie at it's best. So I shall go down to this movie's plot.
This movie got very simple plot, but still works kind of plot for a movie. It's a simple "police charge in, kill all the bad guys, discover some mystery that they didn't expect and then got out of the place". Since the plot is so simple, revealing too much would have spoiled the movie. But one thing for sure, it still works for movie. The plot is a bit similar to "Blood and bones", simple, still workable. At the end of the movie, you would still remember the movie plot.
Graphic:
Nothing much to talk on this movie, the graphic are done very minimally. It's workable, but there are scene of explosions are simply very easy to see through and obvious that it's CGI.
Music:
The music is really good, it brings the emotions of each required scene. But the most remarkable one is during the final fight, the sound track excites you to watch the final fight scene and at the end of the fight, you find nothing but satisfaction.
Action:
The Gun fight are ok, nothing much to talk about it. Typical gun fight choreography for a police film. The highlight is the hand to hand combat fight scene. It's pencek silat on galore, the fight scene are insanely good. Not only it brought out the essence of pencek silat, it also brought the excitement of the audiences in the theatre. I remembered after the final fight scene, everyone cheered because the fight is so damn good and the good guys finally overcame the bad guy. It's rare to see crowd cheering at the end of the movie, I only remember witnessing it once at the end of ip man 1. From this, can judge how good the final fight scene was.
Overall:
I think I will give this movie a 7/10, the only thing that's lacking is a better graphic and a slightly deeper plot, else, everything works fine for me.
I shall stop here, I think I will write a few more post, seeing my blog is so dead in the recent months.
This is one of the rare movie that I've watched in my life, because it's an indonesian movie. Not being racist, just it's pretty rare to see it in big theatre over here in singapore. And I've heard good reviews of this movie, thus I decided to give it a shot. After the movie, I would say it's pretty damn good.
The story:
I always think that a movie should have good story, I don't care how good the graphics are in the movie or how hot the actors/actresses are, if the story is not good, then it's a bad movie. Yes, I'm referring to Transformer, bad movie at it's best. So I shall go down to this movie's plot.
This movie got very simple plot, but still works kind of plot for a movie. It's a simple "police charge in, kill all the bad guys, discover some mystery that they didn't expect and then got out of the place". Since the plot is so simple, revealing too much would have spoiled the movie. But one thing for sure, it still works for movie. The plot is a bit similar to "Blood and bones", simple, still workable. At the end of the movie, you would still remember the movie plot.
Graphic:
Nothing much to talk on this movie, the graphic are done very minimally. It's workable, but there are scene of explosions are simply very easy to see through and obvious that it's CGI.
Music:
The music is really good, it brings the emotions of each required scene. But the most remarkable one is during the final fight, the sound track excites you to watch the final fight scene and at the end of the fight, you find nothing but satisfaction.
Action:
The Gun fight are ok, nothing much to talk about it. Typical gun fight choreography for a police film. The highlight is the hand to hand combat fight scene. It's pencek silat on galore, the fight scene are insanely good. Not only it brought out the essence of pencek silat, it also brought the excitement of the audiences in the theatre. I remembered after the final fight scene, everyone cheered because the fight is so damn good and the good guys finally overcame the bad guy. It's rare to see crowd cheering at the end of the movie, I only remember witnessing it once at the end of ip man 1. From this, can judge how good the final fight scene was.
Overall:
I think I will give this movie a 7/10, the only thing that's lacking is a better graphic and a slightly deeper plot, else, everything works fine for me.
I shall stop here, I think I will write a few more post, seeing my blog is so dead in the recent months.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Really busy and what the fuck is wrong with me?
Seriously, in the recent months, I think about half a year already or slightly more than that. The design work never ends and I don't seems to have a time to rest for a while. It's tiring as hell, I need time to rest, to think and reflect, to train.
Also, I realized and perhaps many of my friends noticed something, I've been very cold towards relationship. It seems that I don't even care about relationship anymore. In a way, it's kinda true. Of all the things that I due with, relationship is the only thing that I can't get myself to be positive about. I think that's because the constant failure and heart breaking moment I had before. I want to avoid all these all together and seems that the only way to do so, is not to get into relationship at all. In fact, not even falling in love AT ALL. I know it's very extreme to say so or do so because of the failures I had. But I had enough of the heart breaking moments, it hurts way too much. Especially the most recent one, which create such a great impact on me. Imagined a person that you loved very much, turns out that she doesn't love you like how you loved her. That's what happened to me. Although I think I still hold onto a glimpse of hope, thinking that there will be a girl appearing soon in the future that would change my life. Despite having that glimpse of hope, I am very skeptical of such girl's existence...Seriously, what do I want? Do I want love and be loved, or do I want to avoid love? I don't know the answer myself.
Also, I realized and perhaps many of my friends noticed something, I've been very cold towards relationship. It seems that I don't even care about relationship anymore. In a way, it's kinda true. Of all the things that I due with, relationship is the only thing that I can't get myself to be positive about. I think that's because the constant failure and heart breaking moment I had before. I want to avoid all these all together and seems that the only way to do so, is not to get into relationship at all. In fact, not even falling in love AT ALL. I know it's very extreme to say so or do so because of the failures I had. But I had enough of the heart breaking moments, it hurts way too much. Especially the most recent one, which create such a great impact on me. Imagined a person that you loved very much, turns out that she doesn't love you like how you loved her. That's what happened to me. Although I think I still hold onto a glimpse of hope, thinking that there will be a girl appearing soon in the future that would change my life. Despite having that glimpse of hope, I am very skeptical of such girl's existence...Seriously, what do I want? Do I want love and be loved, or do I want to avoid love? I don't know the answer myself.
Monday, January 9, 2012
2012
Recently had been too busy with so many design work, hardly have time to do something about this blog. Since now I have a bit of time for a while before shit got serious again, I decide to do a resolution for my 2012 and recap of 2011.
Achievement at 2011:
1) Recovered my knee
2) Got into army news, prevented my media skills from disappearing inside my mind.
3) Wrote a few stories, which might be able to work for my future short film
Since I'm in NS, there are so many things that I wanted to achieve but in the end didn't. Getting my knee a serious injuries also contributed to the lack of achievements I planned earlier of 2011. Now let's look at 2012.
2012 New year resolution:
1) Getting into this year's taekwondo tournament and get a gold medal
2) Train my martial arts into a whole new level
3) Get into lasalle or any uni to study film
3) Film more work piece for myself.
Honorable mention:
Getting a girlfriend
My friends would have noticed, "getting a girlfriend" no longer in the resolution, now it's just an honorable mention. I think after that incident, I had no more expectation for my own love life, it has been a mess and I doubt it will change. Instead of brooding over it, I shift the focus to somewhere else, like my career or my martial arts training. I think that's also a good thing, allows me to focus on something. Although saying that, getting all the achievements but no one to share the joy with, it's definitely sad, depressing and lonely. Of course, I still want a girlfriend who can share my joy and burden, but I don't have much or any expectation for this anymore. Lonely? For all I care, at least I can tell myself "I've achieved what I wanted for myself". I can tell people that I've done what I wanted and achieved, I've succeed. Some people for all their life, they don't know what they want. Even if they know, they don't know how to approach it or how to achieve it, worst still, don't even work towards it.
I know, I seems to be escaping from my relationship failure, that failure affected myself permanently and negatively. But I think that shift my focus, so all in all, still pretty good.
Achievement at 2011:
1) Recovered my knee
2) Got into army news, prevented my media skills from disappearing inside my mind.
3) Wrote a few stories, which might be able to work for my future short film
Since I'm in NS, there are so many things that I wanted to achieve but in the end didn't. Getting my knee a serious injuries also contributed to the lack of achievements I planned earlier of 2011. Now let's look at 2012.
2012 New year resolution:
1) Getting into this year's taekwondo tournament and get a gold medal
2) Train my martial arts into a whole new level
3) Get into lasalle or any uni to study film
3) Film more work piece for myself.
Honorable mention:
Getting a girlfriend
My friends would have noticed, "getting a girlfriend" no longer in the resolution, now it's just an honorable mention. I think after that incident, I had no more expectation for my own love life, it has been a mess and I doubt it will change. Instead of brooding over it, I shift the focus to somewhere else, like my career or my martial arts training. I think that's also a good thing, allows me to focus on something. Although saying that, getting all the achievements but no one to share the joy with, it's definitely sad, depressing and lonely. Of course, I still want a girlfriend who can share my joy and burden, but I don't have much or any expectation for this anymore. Lonely? For all I care, at least I can tell myself "I've achieved what I wanted for myself". I can tell people that I've done what I wanted and achieved, I've succeed. Some people for all their life, they don't know what they want. Even if they know, they don't know how to approach it or how to achieve it, worst still, don't even work towards it.
I know, I seems to be escaping from my relationship failure, that failure affected myself permanently and negatively. But I think that shift my focus, so all in all, still pretty good.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Recourse
whew, one more week and I'm done with recourse. Come to think of it, it's exactly one year since my surgery on my knee. It's not completely recover yet, but most of it was recovered already. But, not without any weird kind of after effects. Hope it doesn't affect my martial art journey in the future.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
fluctuation
It's damn irritating to have fluctuation, 2 things in particular. My weight and my capabilities in martial arts.
My weight always go up and down, despite I did nothing to affect it. I eat normally, bowel movement still as good as ever, whole bunch of vitamins and other minerals. My weight still goes up and down, what is fucking wrong with my weight?
Then there is my martial arts standard. Sometime I can punch very fast, sometime the speed drops. I really hate that my punching speed drops. My kicking also fluctuates a lot, some time can be high and fast, some time it's just simply like shit.
Fuck! Please, stop fluctuating, I didn't do nothing to affect it, so just fucking stop.
My weight always go up and down, despite I did nothing to affect it. I eat normally, bowel movement still as good as ever, whole bunch of vitamins and other minerals. My weight still goes up and down, what is fucking wrong with my weight?
Then there is my martial arts standard. Sometime I can punch very fast, sometime the speed drops. I really hate that my punching speed drops. My kicking also fluctuates a lot, some time can be high and fast, some time it's just simply like shit.
Fuck! Please, stop fluctuating, I didn't do nothing to affect it, so just fucking stop.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
May be I should...
May be I should finally put a full stop to everything I did and doing, let god do the judging and decisions. I'm not sure 100%, but I think from the stuff that I did and the sincerity, I think most girls will be touched, just don't know why it doesn't affect you one way or another. I decided, I'm just gonna be your friend, if fate exists and we are meant to be together, one day we will cross path again and walked together as a couple instead of a friend or brother/sister relationship.
For now, I'm just gonna stay focus on martial arts and prepare for my career and/or uni studies. I also realized I might be able to do the 360 spinning back hook, will continue to work on that. I also realized that my palm strikes are ridiculously stronger than my punches, gonna work on that and hope to develop something that suits me.
So long never do a movie review, hope will be able to fork out time to do a review soon.
For now, I'm just gonna stay focus on martial arts and prepare for my career and/or uni studies. I also realized I might be able to do the 360 spinning back hook, will continue to work on that. I also realized that my palm strikes are ridiculously stronger than my punches, gonna work on that and hope to develop something that suits me.
So long never do a movie review, hope will be able to fork out time to do a review soon.
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