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Couldn’t get tickets to watch it even though it’s been in the cinemas for 2 weeks+.
We called to book the tickets and they were sold out as well.

walao. force me to support piracy.

I seem to have less control of my tear-ducts recently.

Three days in a row my tears spilled out of my eyes.
One time on the bus some more.

WHY:
Day 1: The Weepies - The World Spins Madly On/Across the Universe/other sad youTube videos.
Day 2: The Rescue - Nicholas Sparks. The middle to the end was damn sad
Day 3: The Time Traveler’s Wife

Damn it.

Need to stay away from tear-jerking and heart-tugging stuff.

BUCK the Weasel saved Ice Age: 3.

seriously.

It was pretty boring until he appeared.
Only then did the movie become funny.

I’ll write more later.

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here’s some more fail from failblog.org

warning: may contain minor spoilers

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I didn’t really like it.

did you?
Before u crucify me, hear me out.

WHY I DIDN’T LIKE IT

1. I sat the 5th row from the screen.
I was too close to the action. Granted, Mikaela was right in my face and looked like she was waiting for me to say ‘I love you’, and the college girl/transformer’s butt/blue panties were pointed toward me before she jumped on Sam.
But the giant vacuum cleaner robot’s metal scrotum was also in my face, and the fighting hurt my eyes.

2. There was too much fighting
seriously. It was really awesome for the first hour. But then there was too many robots all the time. The slow motion scenes were great, but the high-speed clanking around really got old for me. Again, this might be because of reason#1 (read above)

3. They overplayed Mikaela
I swear. I like her so much. But in this movie..Riding on her success too much? It made her look like a tool. Whoring her up. Some scenes were okay, but after awhile it was all slow motion bouncing boobs and zooming into her body. I dunno, it just sorta cheapens her. Not cool.

4. Very weak plot
The first movie had a more convincing storyline. The second one sounds weakly conjured up, with a Matrix and his brain having a map and “you can’t find the Matrix, you have to EARN it.” God. sounds like the story was written by a 10 year old. And like the storyline was shoved in between action scenes just for the sake of having a plot there.

5. I cannot understand what the Autobots are saying
Except for Optimus Prime, who actually talks coherently. The rest of them mumble, gurgle, and rush through their words WHILE other sounds creak and groan. I could only understand bumblebee in one scene, where everything was quiet.

6. It wasn’t funny
at least not as funny as the first one. The first one had some sort of charm, and to me, the second one didn’t. Some parts were downright lame, and I really felt like walking out of the cinema whenever the two robots (the twins) were on-screen. They annoyed the hell out of me and i can’t believe that was supposed to be some form of humor.

okay, to be fair:

WHY I LIKED IT
1. The action scenes/robot designs were beautiful
The slow motion fight scenes were awesome. The fast-moving ones made my head spin too much. The size of the robots and the detail were breath-taking. Kudos to the design/CGI team.

2. Mikaela
She’s out-of-this-world hot. She made me all-spark, got me all witwicky.

3. Optimus Prime was cool
He was better in this movie. True story.

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Did YOU like it?
Better than the first?
tell me why.

I want to watch a movie.

What’s showing now? and which should i watch?
and which should i skip?

let me know, please.

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update

hey.

thanks guys.
some of the ones i am eyeing: (some already not in cinemas, so i have to get the dvd)
Angels and Demons, Ghost of Girlfriends Past, Push, The Proposal, Terminator Salvation, 17 again, Transformers 2, Night at the Museum 2, Star Trek.

which one is nice and which one sucks?

Wolverine as a young boy, kills his own dad.

Wade (Ryan Reynolds, the one with the swords) is Weapon 11.

The lead girl (Kayla) is secretly working together with Stryker.

Victor works for Stryker.

Stryker steals powers from the mutants he catches and stores them in Weapon 11.

Will. I. Am. dies. (Fergalicious death. death death death death)

Hobbit dies. (Merry, Pippin, whatever his name. He’s the electricity guy)

Kayla dies.

Weapon 11 dies. His head gets chopped off by Wolverine.

Cyclops appears.

Gambit appears.

Wolverine  gets shot in the head with an adamantium bullet and loses his memory.

Charles Xavier appears at end.

why did u keep reading?

Do not watch Twilight the movie.

or at the very least,
read the damn book before watching.

the book isn’t half bad, though it’s more of a chick book,
you know, like a chick flick, but a book.

the movie is just lousy scriptwriting, bad acting;
and the average special effects (oxymoron?) were the only thing that made me decide to continue to live after allowing my eyes to witness such garbage.

i just finished the first book, which is entitled Twilight, by the way (for the sake of morons). I started getting a headache and feeling nauseous during the later part of the book, namely from page 400-500. I think it was a reaction to the Indian Food from Restoran Amma near Landmark Mall.

anyway.

Read the book.
Watch the movie (and mock them actors).

p/s: Jolene’s married! here

I watched Hitman on Thursday, this time at Cathay, City Square, JB.

My rating:
6/10

ze poster

it’s surprising really, how the ladies have no idea this movie is based on a game until the words appear on the movie-screen:

Based on the game : Hitman

Ladies: eh? Hitman’s a game?
Guys: …duh. One of the better games, too.
Ladies: *groan* movie’s gonna suck, innit..

it’s also strange how people don’t enjoy good ol gunfights anymore. My friend, a guy (i think), fell asleep on my left even when there were bullets flying and explosions ringing.

Hitman is based on the hit game (no pun intended) with the same name. Agent 47, ze main character, is a trained hitman (duh!) whose objective in life is to perform professional assasinations and ask no questions. When the tables are turned and someone is out to get him (duh! wat plot were u expecting), he needs to figure out who, how, and deal with it.

Just like the game, Agent 47 is bald, has a bar-code at the back of his head, and wields his iconic twin silver berettas.

Hitman: Contracts (ze game)

The movie is dark and sometimes slow, following the mood of the game. The action scenes and gunfights are quite impressive, though some parts may remind you of certain Matrix scenes.

Timothy Olyphant (i know - LOTR elephants lol) plays Agent 47. You might remember him from The Girl Next Door. He’s ok, but i would have preferred an actor who looked more like 47. He looks nothing like him.

The movie is fairly entertaining, but don’t expect to leave the cinema completely satisfied.

but hey.

What did you expect from a movie directed by Vin xXx Diesel?

Managed to catch Beowulf yesterday at Jusco Tebrau City, JB.

My rating:
7.2/10

interesting cast

i have to say that i’m quite biased because i’m a John Malkovich fan, and with the sly inclusion of ‘and Angelina Jolie’ at the end of the movie poster/trailer, i was craving to watch it.

that being said, however, the movie looked awesome.

The movie is made using digital animation coupled with real-life actors. The actors actually had to wear skin-tight blue suits while acting, and then the computer animation was later constructed over them.

According Ray Winstone, he and his fellow cast spent days filming in the blue skintight suit, “showing up all your lumps and bumps in all the wrong places. Which can be hard when you’re standing in front of Angelina, who looks stunning in hers.” (source)

The movie looked awesome, but the storyline was quite average. Expect stunning battle-scenes though, with the jaw-dropping Beowulf slaying sea-monsters and killing dragons and Grendel, the gollum-lookalike.

The movie effects may seem familar - it’s produced by Robert Zemeckis - the guy who gave us The Polar Express.

i won’t include spoilers.

Watch the movie if you’re into the whole legend, myth, and fantasy genre.

..or if you’re a straight guy.

=)