A Christmas Carol In November? Weird …

It’s Friday. That means movie night. Strangely, was deciding between watching AstroBoy or Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol. Strange, because I’m a big fan of AstroBoy. If this was an Osamu Tezuka production, I wouldn’t think twice. But, it’s not and I don’t fancy the idea of having AstroBoy altered to suit a different market & losing it’s original appeal. Hence, my boycott of the movie. So, will be catching Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol in 3D instead. Still, quite a strange choice – a Christmas movie in November. Oh well.

Movie: 2012

Back from the movie. It was indeed two and a half hours long. But it has non stop action all the way. The destruction of Los Angeles was amazing. The special effects were jaw dropping. My only complaint was the camera works and lighting toward the end were a little “handy-cam” like. It felt like there were two groups of camera crew shooting the movie. One was the Hollywood team and another, a bunch of film school students with a shoe string budget. Please watch it in the cinema. It’s well worth the price of your ticket. Will definitely get the Blu-ray for all the making-of features. One of the most enjoyable movie of the year.

Rotten Tomatoes rated 2012 a horrible 38%. I think most of the film critics there went in and expected something along Schindler’s List or The English Patient. Come on! It’s a disaster movie, filled with spectacular visual effects. Realistic story and moving relationships are the last thing on the plate. You wouldn’t go in and watch Too Fast Too Furious and expect to be moved to tears now would you?

Movie: The Fourth Kind

Don’t believe the bad reviews. The last time I was this freaked out by a movie was back in 1999, by The Blair Witch Project. If you’d recall, the public was told that the three missing persons in the documentary were never found, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later. This “recovered footage” is presented as the film the viewer is watching. Back then, I went into the cinema “believing” that what was shown were real footages and not re-enacted scenes. So, you can imagine how I felt when I was watching that in a darken cinema. I almost peed my pants and the last scene crept me out till this day.

So how bad was I freaked by The Fourth Kind? 10 minutes after the show ended, were still having goosebumps even as I was walking towards my car. James and Ed can be my witness. From the opening scene when Milla Jovovich identifying herself as an actress, then going on to explain she will be playing psychologist Abigail Tyler and what we are about to see are real footages, of real people, sharing their experiences of these so called alien abductions. The director had my undivided attention. As Milla Jovovich continued – how you wish to interpret these footages, it’s all up to you, but please be warned that what you are about to see, can be very disturbing.

And boy oh boy, I am still having goosebumps as I am typing this. Don’t believe the negative reviews critics are giving. I will not elaborate more on the movie and what took place. Trust me on this, go watch this film. Trailer after the break.

That Was It?

Just came back from the movie. Throughout the entire show, I was saying to myself – That was it?  If you’re seen a MJ concert before – in person or in video, you’ve seen it all. This is basically concert rehearsal footages “conveniently” shot in HD and covers every song. Call me silly, but I’m still saying MJ is alive and kicking somewhere sipping Margaritas laughing his ass off to the bank. It’s the perfect retirement promo in the history of mankind. Fake your death, people go crazy, CD sales hit the roof, release a movie, release the Blu-ray, you’ll have yourself a big bang farewell concert that will reach a worldwide audience a concert could only dream of.

Michael Jackson, This Is It

The movie starts in 2 days. Have you got your tickets? I sure got mine. Say whatever you like about him, you can’t deny the fact he was legendary in the 80s and early 90s. I even made it to his Dangerous World Tour in Singapore way back in 30th August 1993. Waited from 1pm under the scorching sun followed by rain at Singapore’s National Stadium. Till this day, I still have the concert ticket and a photo of the stage from the angle where I sat. Wanna see it? Continue:

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Earlier tonite, watched it for the very first time. I must say I’m more familiar with the song Moon River from the movie than the movie itself. I’m sure it’s a classic for it’s time but I just don’t get it. Sure, Audrey Hepburn looks gorgeous but I just didn’t enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. Even at the very last scene at the alley, I felt nothing. Whereas, everytime I watch the ending of You’ve Got Mail as Joe (Tom Hanks) and Kathleen (Meg Ryan) met and Joe said “Don’t cry, Shopgirl. Don’t cry”, while Kathleen replied – “I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly” with Somewhere Over The Rainbow playing in the background.  Ummmmmmph! Get’s me every single time. Time to re-watch that scene, after the break: