Why do we hurt the most, The ones we love the most?
I personally prefer Sepet more. But then again, Gubra is a beautiful film by itself too. This time, Jason’s parents finally decided not to fight anymore. Actually, I wanted to laugh when I heard that Jason’s mom was the one that push his father down the stairs. But then again, it would be very cruel of me to laugh, right? The lovely part was when Orkid’s parents, both were lying in Orkid’s father’s hospital bed, dancing. The other scene that I remember was when Orkid found out that her husband was cheating on her with another women, she got so angry when she left, she held Jason’s brother Allan’s hand and walk off. I still find Jason better looking than his brother, but he does not have Allan's nice body :p
(Ring...Ring...)
Allan: Hello, Orkid?
Allan’s mom: Ah Mah la…
So, coming back to the tagline of the movie, “Why do we hurt the most, the ones we love the most?” Sepet 2 shows how people are hurt by the ones that they trust and love the most. Does being hurt gives us the rights to hurt the other person back? Think about it. Think about the time when Orkid said to her husband; "I promise I’ll stay. You promise Abah(father) that you will never hurt me. Jason promise me that he’ll never leave me."
As for me, “love” is never that simple, although in my whole life, all I’ve ever asked for is a simple love, simple concern, caring, and yes… love. Love can be so beautiful and wonderful when it is shown the right way. I know I am capable of loving the person that means a lot to me. I want to be so much more than just another “girl” by a guy’s side. I want to give the best I could give today because tomorrow might not come. I want so much to be that girl in my guy’s life that did touch his heart in a special way and no matter what happens in the future, knowing the fact that we might still be together or not, I will have a place in his heart. I don’t want to be someone that he will just have to eventually forget, to move on with his life. Sometimes, I do felt that there is so much more that I would like to give, so much more… but then again, giving all your love to someone does not mean that we well receive love back. The best things that can be done in situations like this are just to be contented that love did grew in my heart. The love that I had always wanted had never really turned out the way I wanted it to be. And at times, I just felt as though it’s just best not to hope for anything, because I know how it feels like, to have a lot of things around me and yet still felt that I have nothing at all. Complicated? Yes, I told you love was not simple.
"And all that I've ever did was love you. You just don't know how much you meant to me."
Ironically, love never really consist of only the intimacy and the affectionate the two person share, the environment and people around the two people usually have a bigger affect on the couple’s love.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
400 Blows
Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) is a French film also known as 400 Blows in English is directed by Francois Truffaut. The movie basically revolves around an ordinary young kid in Paris, Antoine Doinel (Jean - Pierre Leaud) who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker, having lack of attention from the people close to him, the agony he had been through when his parents start arguing, he then starts to delve into a life of petty crime at a young age. This is a biography drama and the whole movie is actually shot on the days of Antoine’s life, from morning until night. This autobiography reflects on many events of Truffaut’s life too as stated in Wikipedia. This movie is one of the defining films of the French New Wave which displays many characteristic traits of the movement.
I like the ending part the most, when the he was running to the sea, he runs runs and runs and the when he reach the sea, he finally realize that he had reach the place where he had always wanted to go but he did not know what to do next since he had reach the sea. The camera shoots the scene in a very good position, which is where shots were taken far from Antoine when he was running. At the end of the movie, Antoine looks straight into the camera and that let the viewer see the expression of his face clearly. When the movie ended, I was a bit taken back because I was expecting that he would do something but no, the movie ended there. The ending part made the viewer wonder what “What happen next?”, “So what now, since he had reach the place that he wanted to go all along?” and a lot of question marks were raised when the movie ended. The ending leaves the viewer to think and ponder what about what Antoine had been through in his life so far and feel for him.
I did enjoy this movie although I had to read the subtitles which was really not what I like to do.
I like the ending part the most, when the he was running to the sea, he runs runs and runs and the when he reach the sea, he finally realize that he had reach the place where he had always wanted to go but he did not know what to do next since he had reach the sea. The camera shoots the scene in a very good position, which is where shots were taken far from Antoine when he was running. At the end of the movie, Antoine looks straight into the camera and that let the viewer see the expression of his face clearly. When the movie ended, I was a bit taken back because I was expecting that he would do something but no, the movie ended there. The ending part made the viewer wonder what “What happen next?”, “So what now, since he had reach the place that he wanted to go all along?” and a lot of question marks were raised when the movie ended. The ending leaves the viewer to think and ponder what about what Antoine had been through in his life so far and feel for him.
I did enjoy this movie although I had to read the subtitles which was really not what I like to do.
Rashomon and YoJimBo
Rashomon a Japanese movie directed by Akira Kurosawa was mainly to show the humanity of people and how the weather could be an element that provokes the viewer’s feelings. In the movie, different people tell their side of a particular incident that had happened, and all of their views differ in many ways. Who is telling the truth? Who actually was there and witness the whole scenario? Who’s point of view and story can actually we believe? Different people look at the same thing differently. People now a days cannot be trusted of what they say, life just have to be viewed in shades of gray, in my view, it is shades of dark grey as I am not an optimistic person by nature. Not only can people not trust others, they sometimes come to a point of time where they cannot trust themselves too. “Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. It's easier that way.”, “It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.” and “… men are weak, they lie to deceive themselves.” That is so much for the irony in life.
The visual effect of the movie which is the elements of the world like I have said above does play a big part in this movie. The director began the movie by showing the viewer the hut and it was raining heavily at that time. The rain symbolizes the blurriness on the situation and the uncertainties of life.
There is still one thing that I do not like about the movie, which is when the woman in the movie will suddenly cry and yell and do silly stuffs. I got irritated by that disturbing fact that the woman was either out of her mind or just plainly provoking the two men to fight over her. The close ups done in the movie was done quite good as the viewer could see the exaggerations of the expression of each character’s face.
YoJimBo, another drama action crime movie directed by the same director was equally as good as Rashomon. The movie started by showing Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune), the Samurai’s back. The viewer was not able to see his face until a few minutes after the movie started. I find that part interesting because it is a bit different from the way the rest of characters from other movies were introduced into the movie. I do find a few characters movements and expressions a little too exaggerated and I did not really like it.
The visual effect of the movie which is the elements of the world like I have said above does play a big part in this movie. The director began the movie by showing the viewer the hut and it was raining heavily at that time. The rain symbolizes the blurriness on the situation and the uncertainties of life.
There is still one thing that I do not like about the movie, which is when the woman in the movie will suddenly cry and yell and do silly stuffs. I got irritated by that disturbing fact that the woman was either out of her mind or just plainly provoking the two men to fight over her. The close ups done in the movie was done quite good as the viewer could see the exaggerations of the expression of each character’s face.
YoJimBo, another drama action crime movie directed by the same director was equally as good as Rashomon. The movie started by showing Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune), the Samurai’s back. The viewer was not able to see his face until a few minutes after the movie started. I find that part interesting because it is a bit different from the way the rest of characters from other movies were introduced into the movie. I do find a few characters movements and expressions a little too exaggerated and I did not really like it.
JFK
JFK is a movie base to stir up curiosity for the young people who seek the truth, the truth about The President, John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Who killed JFK? How many assassins killed JKF? Who was behind the assassination? Why was JFK killed? In the movie, it was shown how Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner), a district attorney of New Orleans was interested in helping the government's investigation on the conspiracy of JFK, stayed confused for three years after the death of JFK and how he later began to be obsess with his investigation on finding out the truth and also the facts and arguments that he provide for the murder of the president. The facts that he gave can be questioned whether it is true or not because the movie is actually not about the truth on the assassination of JFK but it is to prove to the viewer that there were actually a conspiracy behind the killing of JFK and that the government did cover it up.
This drama history mystery suspenseful movie, directed by Oliver Stone was a bit too long for my eyes to be kept wide open. Having to see a three and a half hour movie does to a certain extend makes my mind wonder off a bit. I find the movie a bit dreggy too. But overall, I guess I still have to submit by saying that this movie is worth watching. Stone not only did smartly choose the right actor for each character, the cinematography and the editing of the movie was done well. The movie starred Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman and others were good at acting their characters out especially Kevin Costner. He acted as though he was really Garrison trying his best to find the missing pieces of the assassination. He indeed is a good actor.
The whole movie clearly shows the curiosity and impact the assassination had on the nation. Everyone wanted to know what really happened. It had been a few decades since JFK died and still no one clearly knows who killed him and for what reason. Yes, there may be many explanations as to why he was killed but until today, people are still finding out the truth. Curiosity kills the cat; I do hope no one gets killed trying to find out the truth behind JFK’s assassination after their curiosity was provoked by the movie.
This drama history mystery suspenseful movie, directed by Oliver Stone was a bit too long for my eyes to be kept wide open. Having to see a three and a half hour movie does to a certain extend makes my mind wonder off a bit. I find the movie a bit dreggy too. But overall, I guess I still have to submit by saying that this movie is worth watching. Stone not only did smartly choose the right actor for each character, the cinematography and the editing of the movie was done well. The movie starred Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman and others were good at acting their characters out especially Kevin Costner. He acted as though he was really Garrison trying his best to find the missing pieces of the assassination. He indeed is a good actor.
The whole movie clearly shows the curiosity and impact the assassination had on the nation. Everyone wanted to know what really happened. It had been a few decades since JFK died and still no one clearly knows who killed him and for what reason. Yes, there may be many explanations as to why he was killed but until today, people are still finding out the truth. Curiosity kills the cat; I do hope no one gets killed trying to find out the truth behind JFK’s assassination after their curiosity was provoked by the movie.
Heat
Heat is a movie about two men that are similar in so many ways yet both on opposite sides of the law. The first men is a police Lt. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) that is life driven by his work which is catching hardcore criminals like the second men, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro). Both of them had screwed personal life when Hanna is always in a bad state with his marriage, (quoted from the movie) “My life's a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father's this large-type asshole. I got a wife; we're passing each other on the down-slope of a marriage - my third - because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block. That's my life.” and McCauley being a loner but claims to not be lonely, as said in the movie “I'm alone, I am not lonely.” And “Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” Despite their hate for each other, they did in a point of time cross path and “talked” over the life they choose to live. The director of this crime thriller drama film that was released exactly eight years after the day I was born, Michael Mann which also directed “The Insider” was innovative enough to divide both the two characters properly as each character is shown their working style, their principles and most importantly their personal life. There were a few good scenes where the director played with the lighting and the positioning of the camera. One of the scenes which made a big impact on the viewer was the ending part where McCauley notices bright runway lights turn on during the landings to enable the pilots to land, and, sensing an opportunity, makes a move to take out Hanna. However, as McCauley steps out to shoot Hanna with the lights at his back, Hanna is able to see McCauley's shadow and shoots first. As McCauley dies, Hanna moves to comfort him, and the two men share a final, reflective moment. Honestly, I was expecting a twist of fate for Hanna at the end of the movie, I was actually hoping that McCauley would take out a knife and kill Hanna or at least injured him before his final breath but he did not. Despite my hopes For McCauley’s revenge on Hanna for killing him, I think that the ending is a pretty good one where the viewer could see the honorable moment the two men shared at the end. It is somehow touching and very rare to see one man comforting another without them looking like gays. I believe their acting was superb and the director was talented enough to make this movie such a heart touching movie despite all the crime scenes that was in the movie.
Brazil
Brazil, indeed one of the worst movies I have ever seen. First, I did not understand why was there so many bombing and people dying here and there even in restaurants and public places. It was so unrealistic in the beginning already, showing people dying at the back of them while Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) was so call celebrating his birthday with his mom, Mrs. Ida Lowry (Katherine Helmond) and her friends. There are a few things that I find it silly and one of them is when the telegram girl came crashing into Sam’s house, dancing wildly, while singing in an absurdly high soprano. At that very point, I felt like cursing the movie.
There were parts in the movie which until now, I do not understand. One of them was the scene where Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle (Robert De Niro) came in to the picture. I did not understand the part where Tuttle came and fix Sam’s air con that broke down. There was also another part where Tuttle shit into people’s suit when the people were in the room. The cold humor in that particular scene did in a way made me laugh, but only after seconds after the scene toke place.
The gadgets that were shown in the movie was the interesting part. I fancy the televisions that were used in the movie. It looked like an on old television but in the same time, it looks like a technology from the future. The computers used in the movies were also uniquely funny yet very high tech. there were parts in the movie where the positioning of the camera played a big part and one of which was the scene where the camera moved from Sam’s face that was facing the computer, to the back of the computer and made the computer looked like a magnifying glass.
The part where Sam was dreaming was the real confusing and really stupid part. But I maybe it is there for a reason that is to show how Sam’s life is in such a boring routine and actually all he wanted is to be with his dream girl. In his dreams, he just wanted to save the girl and be with her but there were so many enemies and evil that tries to stop him from getting to his dream girl. In the end of the movie, he was so caught up with his dreams he could not focus on the reality anymore and became insane. This thing will happen if we do not control our fantasies and dreams and let them overpower the reality part of our lives.
There were parts in the movie which until now, I do not understand. One of them was the scene where Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle (Robert De Niro) came in to the picture. I did not understand the part where Tuttle came and fix Sam’s air con that broke down. There was also another part where Tuttle shit into people’s suit when the people were in the room. The cold humor in that particular scene did in a way made me laugh, but only after seconds after the scene toke place.
The gadgets that were shown in the movie was the interesting part. I fancy the televisions that were used in the movie. It looked like an on old television but in the same time, it looks like a technology from the future. The computers used in the movies were also uniquely funny yet very high tech. there were parts in the movie where the positioning of the camera played a big part and one of which was the scene where the camera moved from Sam’s face that was facing the computer, to the back of the computer and made the computer looked like a magnifying glass.
The part where Sam was dreaming was the real confusing and really stupid part. But I maybe it is there for a reason that is to show how Sam’s life is in such a boring routine and actually all he wanted is to be with his dream girl. In his dreams, he just wanted to save the girl and be with her but there were so many enemies and evil that tries to stop him from getting to his dream girl. In the end of the movie, he was so caught up with his dreams he could not focus on the reality anymore and became insane. This thing will happen if we do not control our fantasies and dreams and let them overpower the reality part of our lives.
The Insider.
The movie, The Insider, directed by Michael Mann is a biography, drama and thriller taken from an article The Man Who Knew Too Much, telling the events that took place in the 1990s between the news broadcast “60 Minutes,” its television stations CBS and the exposure of the tobacco industry. This movie is about a true story of a middle-aged Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), an executive for a tobacco company Brown & Williamson Co. fired. Left jobless, he still had to support his family and his house. Hope came when Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), an assistant of the “60 minutes” producer offers a paycheck that he desperately need in return of Wigand’s willingness to expose the tobacco company’s dirty “secret” about the addition various other chemicals to give cigarettes more of a kick when they knew about cigarettes being abdicative. In the beginning, Wigand is not willing to cooperate with Bergman and is determine not to say anything that might put his former company in trouble but he later changes his mind. At the beginning, I was a bit puzzled when I saw Bergman “captured” and blindfolded in a car and was brought to the streets of Tehran but later only did I realize that he was not actually captured but was going for an arranged interview for Mike Wallace. The whole “insider” thing is portrait by not only Wigand but by Bergman too.
The director did a good job at portraying the characters. His chronological way of introducing the two main characters were effective too. The viewer gets to see their style of working; how they approach problems and they way they handle situations even in the beginning of the movie. The positioning of the camera, the close ups that were shot up to the cinematography that was done in the movie was well done as it makes the viewer feel what was going on in the particular moment rather than juts watching it. The scenes where Bergman and Wigand exchange faxes was taken were good shots. There were also a part where I find it funny, which is when Ron Motley (Bruce McGill) was talking to the tobacco lawyer about having the rights not to talk about the exposure of Brown and Williamson Co. Motley’s reply to him was “Boy, you got rights... and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. So what?...” that part really made me laugh and that particular scene was actually stuck to my head even after the movie.
In conclusion about the movie, it is just about two men driven to tell the truth... whatever the cost is.
The director did a good job at portraying the characters. His chronological way of introducing the two main characters were effective too. The viewer gets to see their style of working; how they approach problems and they way they handle situations even in the beginning of the movie. The positioning of the camera, the close ups that were shot up to the cinematography that was done in the movie was well done as it makes the viewer feel what was going on in the particular moment rather than juts watching it. The scenes where Bergman and Wigand exchange faxes was taken were good shots. There were also a part where I find it funny, which is when Ron Motley (Bruce McGill) was talking to the tobacco lawyer about having the rights not to talk about the exposure of Brown and Williamson Co. Motley’s reply to him was “Boy, you got rights... and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. So what?...” that part really made me laugh and that particular scene was actually stuck to my head even after the movie.
In conclusion about the movie, it is just about two men driven to tell the truth... whatever the cost is.
The Haunting
The Haunting – “It was an evil house from the beginning - a house that was born bad.” Stared by Julie Harris as Eleanor Lance, Claire Bloom as Theodora or “Just Theo”, Richard Johnson as Dr. John Markway and Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson, this movie is based on the classic novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. The Haunting, 1963, directed by Robert Wise, was not scary because of what I saw in the movie; it was what I could not see that scares me the most. It is because what a person does not see makes the mind create things that are very likely worse than reality. It is in the state of the mind. This movie plays a lot on our emotional and psychological part where when we tend to imagine the horror in our mind. This movie frightens the viewer by its intense powerful sound and simple visual effects, creating a horrifying experience. The director of the movie, Robert Wise was a sound effects editor and film editor. He edited the sound for the movie, Citizen Kane. Naturally, being a good sound editor, he did a good job using sound to scare the viewer. There was a part where the door of the room Theodora and Eleanor Lance was in keep banging, it was as though there was some force from the other side of the door banging it and trying to get in. It was frightening enough just to see the door banging and hearing the sound of the banging. That particular scene lasted quite long until the banging stop. I could still remember the scene that very night after I had watched the movie. I couldn’t really sleep at night because I was frightened and I kept looking at my room door, feeling scared that it would start banging by itself and that night, I kept my hands to myself. I could still remember the part when the time Eleanor was in bed, when she felt that she was holding Thor’s hand but when she woke up with a shock saying “God! God! Whose hand was I holding?” when she realized that Thor was sleeping at another end of the room. The sound played a big part of the movie, there is a part in the scene where Eleanor was very frighten and was explaining about the crying of a child she heard at night, in fact there was actually her imagination of a child when she heard the voice, the child was solely imagined in her mind because only the voice was heard. Dr. John Markway said to her “There was no child, remember? Just a voice.” The director was also good at making images scary. There is a part of the movie when a face could be seen at the door. The crafting of the door look as though it was an ugly face staring at them.
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure, directed by Ronald Neame is an adventure, action and disaster film based on a novel written by Paul Gallico. It is about how a group of survivors find struggle their way to the bottom of the hull when S.S. Poseidon overturned on a New Year Eve killing thousands of passangers. The luxurious ocean liner was hit by a mother of all tidal waves killing most of the people in it when on her way across the Atlantic from New York City to Athens on its last voyage. The survivors included young Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) who believes that strength is related to your faith, as well as bickering Detective Lt. Mike Rogo (Ernest Borgnine) and his beautiful, foul-mouthed and ex-prostitute wife Linda Rogo (Stella Stevens). Alongside are an elderly couple Manny Rosen (Jack Albertson) and his obese wife Belle Rosen (Shelly Winters) that are going to Israel to meet their grandson, a bachelor Haberdasher James Martin (Red Buttons) who takes numerous vitamin pills ever, a pop singer Nonnie Parry (Carol Lynley), and two children Susan Shelby (Pamela Sue Martin) and her brother Robin (Eric Shea) are traveling to meet their parents in Greece. The actors did a good job at acting their parts, the emotions and tension the actors and the sound effect provoked the viewer in a way or another. The director is smart to blend in tension, honor, humor and teamwork in the movie. While watching the movie, I suddenly realized that my hands are griped tightly to the side of my chair as could feel that I was going to fall off the “deck” when the explosions accrue. The lost, sacrifices that were made just to help each other were touching. The time when aged Mrs. Rosen jumped down to free Scott from being trap in the water was a heart-touching scene when she decides to sacrifice herself knowing that she is not capable of swimming anymore, but yet for the sake of everyone and Scott, she did it anyway. It was sad in the end that she had a heart attack and died after saving Scott. There were also parts where I could see so much pressure and intensity in the movie, I could feel the fear in each character’s heart and yet want to burst out into laughter at the same time when the conversation in the movie was funny. The people there are so serious when they are determining to get out safely but yet, there are parts where the way they talk makes me laugh. Those parts were mostly conversation that involves Mrs. Linda Rogo. The scene where people were in the air, here and there when the ship capsized, and after everything was over, and people started to pick themselves up and look for survivors, Mike Rogo went looking for his wife, after finding her she questioned him “Hi... where the hell have you been?” and Mike Rogo answered her “Where do you think? Flying around on my ass.” That particular scene made me laughed just after I felt the tension of the whole chip capsizing.
Singing in the Rain
Chicago, the only other musical movie that I have watched was bad enough to make me not want to watch another musical movie. I remember I fell asleep during the movie too. But honestly, for a person that does not like musical movies at all, I do find “Singing in the Rain” not a bad movie after all. At least I could understand the story line in this movie and the songs were not that bad. Singing in the Rain was directed by both Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly with Kelly not only “singing and dancing” but also acting, directing and choreographing. This movie did its part by showing the humorous way of how Hollywood transits from silent films to “talkies” where. The talented actors and actress in this movie such as Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds did made the movie so much more interesting. I like watching Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown, and Kathy Selden dance especially on the part where the three of them dance and sing in the house after Don though that the studio is going to close down because of Lina Lamont’s (Jean Hagen)’s hideous ridiculously awful voice and the sound system that was not working properly. There was a scene when Lina said “What's wrong with the way I talk? What's the big idea? Am I dumb or something?” and "People"? I ain't "people." I am a - "a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament." I could not help but laugh. It was so obvious that she had a very bad voice. There are also some other part of the movie that will put a smile on your face. I could also remember the part where Brown sang and danced “Make ‘Em Laugh” it was so catchy, the way he danced was so funny and it makes him look so flexible, I could see that he is really artistic. The songs were nice enough to successfully be implanted in my brain for a few days until it finally fades away. I was actually surprise to find myself humming the tune of “Good Morning” and “You Were Meant for Me” after the movie. However I do find a part of the movie quite dreggy, which is the part where Don kept singing and singing if I recall properly it was the Broadway part. I find that scene a bit too long. Frankly, I find the character Cosmo Brown even more interesting than the main character itself. Maybe it is because his actions and facial expression are more amusing in a way.
Memento
At the end of the movie, I just sat there looking at the screen blankly. It toke me a few seconds to realize that the movie had ended and that I was not really sure if I still know what was going on. The movie is extremely confusing; my mind just could not contain what I had just seen. Not until I have to sit down rethink about what I have seen in the movie. Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan is told in reverse-chronological order with the beginning part of a scene acted as the ending point for the next. Therefore there opening scene of the movie where we sees John Edward Gammell a.k.a Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) killed by Leonard (Guy Pearce) was actually the ending part of the whole movie. In the movie, there are black and white scenes and also colored scenes. The movie consists of short scenes of Leonard’s memory. The movie brings the viewer into the position of the main character in the movie, Leonard Shelby’s mind, narrating whatever that Leonard is thinking, his motives and his feelings. The viewer will instantly be in the realm or being in Leonard’s shoes and feeling the way he did. Leonard, the guy that suffers from a short term memory lost when he was hit by a person that rape and murdered his wife was the narrator of the movie. Leonard - “I can't remember to forget you.” But after some time, I realized that whatever he “recalled” and narrated could not be true because everything that had happened was what he remembered only, I did not see the whole picture of the movie. This makes the whole movie very mysterious and interesting in a way because until the very end of the movie, everything was still so uncertain. The director lets the audience decide whatever that happened outside the mind of Leonard and also lets us ponder about the ending of the movie.
In this movie a “femme fertile” was introduced too. A “femme fertile” is a female character in the movie that uses her sexuality to seduce the men. In this movie, it is seen that Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss) uses Leonard to get her out of her drug dealing mess she was in by manipulating him to kill Dodd. After seeing that he got rid of Dodd, she helped him to find “John G”. She even dared saying “You sad, sad freak. I can say whatever the fuck I want, and you won't remember. We'll still be best friends. Or maybe even lovers.” In the beginning of the movie when she was introduced, she was known to be a good person, but after some time, as the story unfolds, she turn out to be just another character that used Leonard for her own benefits, just like what Teddy did.
In this movie a “femme fertile” was introduced too. A “femme fertile” is a female character in the movie that uses her sexuality to seduce the men. In this movie, it is seen that Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss) uses Leonard to get her out of her drug dealing mess she was in by manipulating him to kill Dodd. After seeing that he got rid of Dodd, she helped him to find “John G”. She even dared saying “You sad, sad freak. I can say whatever the fuck I want, and you won't remember. We'll still be best friends. Or maybe even lovers.” In the beginning of the movie when she was introduced, she was known to be a good person, but after some time, as the story unfolds, she turn out to be just another character that used Leonard for her own benefits, just like what Teddy did.
LA Confidential
LA Confidential, directed by Curtis Hanson is a good crime movie, a classic film noir. I am not a fan of this kind of movies where I have to use a lot of my brain cells and to crack my head thinking about what is going on in a movie, but LA Confidential is seriously good. The movie is complex but it is still understandable and at least not confusing. There is also always something new to catch from each scene and I’m glad that this movie is not a dull one. The movie is about the corrupt policemen in the world of the 50s. The movie started by introducing the three main characters in a not so nice way. But after some time, the viewer could see where they were coming from. Officer Wendell “Budd” White is a hot tempered guy that has a violent obsession with men who abuse women. Later only it was reviewed that the reason why he was like that, was because of his childhood life. His mother was frequently abused by his father. The other character in the movie, Det .Lt. Edmund Jennings 'Ed' Exley, acted by the same guy in Memento as the main character is Guy Pearce. Being the son of a legendary LADP police, he is determining to outdo his father and because of that he tends to receive a cold shoulder by his colleagues because of his straightly-follow-the-rules character. Jack Vincennes on the other hand is a popular cop that indulges himself into increasing his fame in the Hush-Hush magazine. The investigation is actually on a crime that happened on Nite Owl coffee shop. The director reviews little by little information about the murder by what each pf the three cop had found out about the case. There was also a “femme fertile” in the movie, which was Lynn Bracken, a beautiful high class call girl that uses her sexuality to manipulate the cops as you can see in the movie that she sleeps with Budd but then seduces Ed too with her own motives.
The movie was shown as though from three different sides of a story yet it comes back to the same path at the end. The actors and actresses chosen for the movie were suitable for their character. The cast consist of Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger did a great job acting their parts.
The movie was shown as though from three different sides of a story yet it comes back to the same path at the end. The actors and actresses chosen for the movie were suitable for their character. The cast consist of Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger did a great job acting their parts.
Citizen Kane
Directed and acted by Orson Welles, the movie Citizen Kane was said to be the “best film of all time” or “the greatest film every made”, of which I only agree partly with it. Yes, the technical part of the movie is good but it still fails to capture my full attention and make me relate to the movie.
At the beginning of the movie, the shot of the “No Trespassing” sign first reminded me of one of Mr. Patrick’s movie, Exit. In my opinion, it’s a good way of starting and ending this movie. This movie began by showing Kane’s big mansion, named “Xanadu”. The beauty of the beginning of the movie was that when the mansion was shot at every angle, be in front or at the reflection of the water, the window of Kane’s bedroom in particular was in all the shots of different angel of the house. At first, I did not realize anything extraordinary about all the shots of the house, but it suddenly hit me that all the shots have the bright yellow light coming out of the window in it. It made me think it was a horror film at first but I was later convinced by the movie and Mr. Patrick’s explanation that “Kane propose a fictionalized biography of media magnate William Randolph Hearst.” I honestly think Orson Welles did a good job at the shots of the window because it’s unique. This movie is mainly about a man, Chiles Foster Kane, fragments of his life and the search of the meaning of “rosebud” which was the last word he said before he died. The reporter that was assigned to find out the meaning of “rosebud” did all sorts of research such as tracing back his life, meeting up with people that associated with Foster Kane when he was alive and reading Foster Kane’s journal. Even with all the information the reporter had gathered, he could not find out what “rosebud” meant. It was later at the ending of the movie that showed “rosebud” was the name of a sled that Kane used to play when he was young. It symbolizes the lost of his childhood innocent and love. After uttering the word “rosebud”, Kane died and a small glass with snow inside dropped out of his hand. In my opinion, it reminds Kane of the time he was taken away from his mother. It was snowing when he had to leave his poor but loving mother and live with a wealthy businessman. That point where he was “adopted” by the businessman, Kane’s life changed. He loved his life yearning for love, in “his” own terms. Quoted from Susan, his second wife’s words “Love! You don't love anybody! Me or anybody else! You want to be loved - that's all you want! I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want - just name it and it's yours! Only love me! Don't expect me to love you” It’s sad to know that all he ever wanted was what he could never get, that is just to leave a normal life with his mother and just be blessed with the love his mother could give him.
There were also a few jump cuts in the movie such as when he was growing up and on Foster Kane’s first marriage. The time frame for those events was long, but Orson Welles did some jump cuts and made it in a few minutes. There are also scenes in the movie where Foster Kane was always in a box, as if he is trapped and cannot get out of the situation or he is always bounded with things around him. One of the scenes were when he was dancing, he is always in a frame even when the dancing part was hot in another few angels. There is another part where Foster Kane was standing in front of a lot of mirrors after his second wife walk out on him. It seems like the director is trying to indirectly show the different times in Foster Kane’s life.
At the beginning of the movie, the shot of the “No Trespassing” sign first reminded me of one of Mr. Patrick’s movie, Exit. In my opinion, it’s a good way of starting and ending this movie. This movie began by showing Kane’s big mansion, named “Xanadu”. The beauty of the beginning of the movie was that when the mansion was shot at every angle, be in front or at the reflection of the water, the window of Kane’s bedroom in particular was in all the shots of different angel of the house. At first, I did not realize anything extraordinary about all the shots of the house, but it suddenly hit me that all the shots have the bright yellow light coming out of the window in it. It made me think it was a horror film at first but I was later convinced by the movie and Mr. Patrick’s explanation that “Kane propose a fictionalized biography of media magnate William Randolph Hearst.” I honestly think Orson Welles did a good job at the shots of the window because it’s unique. This movie is mainly about a man, Chiles Foster Kane, fragments of his life and the search of the meaning of “rosebud” which was the last word he said before he died. The reporter that was assigned to find out the meaning of “rosebud” did all sorts of research such as tracing back his life, meeting up with people that associated with Foster Kane when he was alive and reading Foster Kane’s journal. Even with all the information the reporter had gathered, he could not find out what “rosebud” meant. It was later at the ending of the movie that showed “rosebud” was the name of a sled that Kane used to play when he was young. It symbolizes the lost of his childhood innocent and love. After uttering the word “rosebud”, Kane died and a small glass with snow inside dropped out of his hand. In my opinion, it reminds Kane of the time he was taken away from his mother. It was snowing when he had to leave his poor but loving mother and live with a wealthy businessman. That point where he was “adopted” by the businessman, Kane’s life changed. He loved his life yearning for love, in “his” own terms. Quoted from Susan, his second wife’s words “Love! You don't love anybody! Me or anybody else! You want to be loved - that's all you want! I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want - just name it and it's yours! Only love me! Don't expect me to love you” It’s sad to know that all he ever wanted was what he could never get, that is just to leave a normal life with his mother and just be blessed with the love his mother could give him.
There were also a few jump cuts in the movie such as when he was growing up and on Foster Kane’s first marriage. The time frame for those events was long, but Orson Welles did some jump cuts and made it in a few minutes. There are also scenes in the movie where Foster Kane was always in a box, as if he is trapped and cannot get out of the situation or he is always bounded with things around him. One of the scenes were when he was dancing, he is always in a frame even when the dancing part was hot in another few angels. There is another part where Foster Kane was standing in front of a lot of mirrors after his second wife walk out on him. It seems like the director is trying to indirectly show the different times in Foster Kane’s life.
A Few Good Men
I personally do not favor court case movies because there is too much dialogue in it and sometimes, it makes me feel very bored. There is just too much talking in the whole movie. I would seriously be dishonest if I say that I love this movie just to please my lecturer. Maybe it is the way I see a movie, I did not see it in dept and just I did not analyze all the scenes thoroughly. But there is always one thing that will somehow capture my attention, that is when the character in the movie says a particular sentence or phrase that is very meaningful. The movie, A Few Good Men, directed by Rob Reiner has all the drama in the courtroom, the way they the lawyers handle the case, the irony and fear of losing the case and near to giving up hope when they lose all their witness, the relationships the lawyers had between each other, the way the characters “mature” at the end of the movie and the way all the characters bring themselves up in the movie. The movie draws a line between honor and manipulation; right versus wrong and how the fate of a person’s life is in another person in a more superior position than themselves.
The movie expose the fact that in a way, our life is actually determine in another person’s hands, like in the movie, the two U.S. Marines on Gitmo life’s, who were charged with the murder of another Marine were actually in the hands of the Col Jessep and later in the hands of the jury of the court. They though they were just doing their duty because like what Dawson said. “We joined the Marines because we wanted to live our lives by a certain code, and we found it in the Corps. Now you're asking us to sign a piece of paper that says we have no honor. You're asking us to say we're not Marines. If a court decides that what we did was wrong, then I'll accept whatever punishment they give. But I believe I was right sir, I believe I did my job, and I will not dishonor myself, my unit, or the Corps so I can go home in six months... Sir.” But actually after the jury made their decision that the two of them were wrong and was still punished Dawson realized that he did made a mistake and not only follow the rules blindly but make a stand when he knows it is wrong to oppress someone weaker. At the end he said “We were supposed to fight for the people who couldn't fight for themselves. We were supposed to fight for Willie.” That shows how he finally realize and mature throughout the whole movie because at first he was determine that he was only doing the right thing. The best quote of the movie is still this statement made by Kaffee “You don't need a patch on your arm to have honor.” The ending part of the movie where Col. Jessep said “Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s going to do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, and you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” made me think a little about the way I handle situations. Sometimes, I do think that I am just doing the right thing for everyone’s benefit but it is actually merely self deception of the truth that it is actually wrong in some situation even though I am only following instructions. The other thing that Col Jessep said that was quite catchy was “You can't handle the truth.” Sometimes, theses things that the character says really make you think.Tom Cruise look very smart, handsome and nerdy too in that movie wearing the suit to the court room. He did a very good acting in this movie. I still can remember the expression he made when he look around the court room at then end of the first trial. Demi Moore was quite a charmer too in the movie; she brought out the strong side of her character in the movie well. I find what Patrick said that to be quite true about the part where there is no scene in the movie than can be cut because all of the scenes are very informative. Even the scene when Galloway was on a date with Kaffee at the seafood restaurant was important to a certain extend as to show us that there might be a certain closer or more intimate relationship blooming between them but it just stop there, unlike other typical films that shows the couples sleeping with each other after just a dinner. This movie is said that we can find something new every time we watch the movie again. I am not planning to watch this movie again because I am really not interested in law movies. The reason I gave quite a lot of quotes from the movie is because the movie mainly has a lot of conversation and not much action so by quoting on the words the characters say, I can relate and write on this movie.
The movie expose the fact that in a way, our life is actually determine in another person’s hands, like in the movie, the two U.S. Marines on Gitmo life’s, who were charged with the murder of another Marine were actually in the hands of the Col Jessep and later in the hands of the jury of the court. They though they were just doing their duty because like what Dawson said. “We joined the Marines because we wanted to live our lives by a certain code, and we found it in the Corps. Now you're asking us to sign a piece of paper that says we have no honor. You're asking us to say we're not Marines. If a court decides that what we did was wrong, then I'll accept whatever punishment they give. But I believe I was right sir, I believe I did my job, and I will not dishonor myself, my unit, or the Corps so I can go home in six months... Sir.” But actually after the jury made their decision that the two of them were wrong and was still punished Dawson realized that he did made a mistake and not only follow the rules blindly but make a stand when he knows it is wrong to oppress someone weaker. At the end he said “We were supposed to fight for the people who couldn't fight for themselves. We were supposed to fight for Willie.” That shows how he finally realize and mature throughout the whole movie because at first he was determine that he was only doing the right thing. The best quote of the movie is still this statement made by Kaffee “You don't need a patch on your arm to have honor.” The ending part of the movie where Col. Jessep said “Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s going to do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, and you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” made me think a little about the way I handle situations. Sometimes, I do think that I am just doing the right thing for everyone’s benefit but it is actually merely self deception of the truth that it is actually wrong in some situation even though I am only following instructions. The other thing that Col Jessep said that was quite catchy was “You can't handle the truth.” Sometimes, theses things that the character says really make you think.Tom Cruise look very smart, handsome and nerdy too in that movie wearing the suit to the court room. He did a very good acting in this movie. I still can remember the expression he made when he look around the court room at then end of the first trial. Demi Moore was quite a charmer too in the movie; she brought out the strong side of her character in the movie well. I find what Patrick said that to be quite true about the part where there is no scene in the movie than can be cut because all of the scenes are very informative. Even the scene when Galloway was on a date with Kaffee at the seafood restaurant was important to a certain extend as to show us that there might be a certain closer or more intimate relationship blooming between them but it just stop there, unlike other typical films that shows the couples sleeping with each other after just a dinner. This movie is said that we can find something new every time we watch the movie again. I am not planning to watch this movie again because I am really not interested in law movies. The reason I gave quite a lot of quotes from the movie is because the movie mainly has a lot of conversation and not much action so by quoting on the words the characters say, I can relate and write on this movie.
Amelie
Amelie, also known as Le Amelie Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain is a French romantic comedy drama. It is about this sweet, innocent, shy and naïve girl, Amelie, acted by Audrey Tautou that went through a lonely childhood life. Amelie, as a young girl had wild imagination and it amuse me to see such creative thing like this particular scene where Amelie, when she was still a young girl, draw a picture of a face on her hand and moved it so that the face looks like its opening and closing its mouth. Later, as an adult, she worked as a waitress in Montmartre café. Her life changed when she found and returned a long-lost childhood treasure to a previous resident of her apartment. After observe the effect on how much it meant to the owner of the “treasure”, she made up her mind on helping people around her and make them happy. The irony of it is that she is sometimes “afraid” to look at her own life to see the loneliness she had within her. It is somehow amazing how she managed to see the little and small things in other people’s life that seems so insignificant to others yet it could mean a lot to that particular person.
This movie had a lot of narration in it. It started with the narration part where the narrator gave details on the exact day, time and place, description on the people, insects and things, and “At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to Raphaël Poulain, made a dash for an egg in his wife Amandine. Nine months later, Amélie Poulain was born.” It is quite a funny way of starting a story. There were also parts in the movie where Amelie and the other characters such as Nino Quicampoix, acted by Mathieu Kassovitz looked directly into the camera and talked to it. In a way, it connects the person watching the movie to the character. There was a part where Amelie was in a cinema and she turned and looked into the camera saying that she likes to see other people’s expression when they watch a movie. The movie has a lot of animation in it that made the movie to be so unrealistic. There was a scene in the movie where Nino was talking to a photograph when he was on the bed. That is because the director of this movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet was once an animation director. The director also did a good job in introducing the main character, in the beginning of the movie, there were at lest 10 minutes of showing the people associated with Amelie, who she likes and dislikes, the way she was brought up and her character build up from that strong foundation since the beginning of the movie. Quite a lot of Paris’s popular landscape was shown in the movie too. It is quite funny to see the expression of Amelie’s father’s face when he receives pictures of his gnome visiting places around Paris.
I believe Audrey Tauton did a good job in acting her character out as Amelie. The smile on her face, her expressions, it’s all still so clear in my mind. She made Amelie a unique character. She made the movie a one of its kind movie with the combination of the director’s good work and other things. Overall, this movie is worth watching.
This movie had a lot of narration in it. It started with the narration part where the narrator gave details on the exact day, time and place, description on the people, insects and things, and “At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to Raphaël Poulain, made a dash for an egg in his wife Amandine. Nine months later, Amélie Poulain was born.” It is quite a funny way of starting a story. There were also parts in the movie where Amelie and the other characters such as Nino Quicampoix, acted by Mathieu Kassovitz looked directly into the camera and talked to it. In a way, it connects the person watching the movie to the character. There was a part where Amelie was in a cinema and she turned and looked into the camera saying that she likes to see other people’s expression when they watch a movie. The movie has a lot of animation in it that made the movie to be so unrealistic. There was a scene in the movie where Nino was talking to a photograph when he was on the bed. That is because the director of this movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet was once an animation director. The director also did a good job in introducing the main character, in the beginning of the movie, there were at lest 10 minutes of showing the people associated with Amelie, who she likes and dislikes, the way she was brought up and her character build up from that strong foundation since the beginning of the movie. Quite a lot of Paris’s popular landscape was shown in the movie too. It is quite funny to see the expression of Amelie’s father’s face when he receives pictures of his gnome visiting places around Paris.
I believe Audrey Tauton did a good job in acting her character out as Amelie. The smile on her face, her expressions, it’s all still so clear in my mind. She made Amelie a unique character. She made the movie a one of its kind movie with the combination of the director’s good work and other things. Overall, this movie is worth watching.
The Road Home
This movie The Road Home by Zhang Yiu-mou had seriously moved many hearts. It is a beautiful story about the fairy tale like flash back of a pair of lover’s courtship through their son’s eyes. The love the two lovebirds shared were so pure, it’s as though love really is that simple yet so outstanding. Living in a reality world like this, love is never that simple anymore in the minds of human. In this era, love is just something that we “fall in” and “fall out” off. Unlike shown in the movie, Zhao Di’s love for Lu Changyun was actually “love at first sight”, and that her love for the primary school teacher stayed until the very end. The best part of the movie is that the lovers did not even touch, hug, kiss or have sex. In this movie, it’s all about the way Zhao Di looks into Lu Changyun’s eyes when they walk pass each other when Lu Changyun accompanies his students back home, it’s about the irony she went through when Lu Changyun had to leave the village, it is about how she waited, looking and hoping for Lu Changyun’s arrival back from the city, it’s about how she yearned to listen to Lu Changyun’s voice teaching. The actions the actors make is just so sentimental, so into the “love” realm. It is just something like filming a real couple’s courtship rather than actors just acting the role out. This movie is just so different, compared to the movie Titanic. Titanic was all about the passion and sense of touch, scenes that provoke the audience to cry such as the time the main male character in the movie died.
Zhang Yiu-mou did put in some symbolic meanings in the movie too. The broken bowl symbolizes Zhao Di’s heart when Lu Changyun had to leave the village. The bowl was not thrown away but her grandmother has it repaired. The bowl meant too much for Zhao Di to be thrown away, it reminds her of her way of showing her love to Lu Changyun by cooking her best dishes and hoping that he will eat her cooking when the men were building the school. Zhang also did show the differences between the past era of China and the present one. Back then, it was bad luck for the women to go near men that are working so all they can do it to cook, bring the food to the construction area and sit to see the men work from a far. It is different now because women work too. Last time, education was hard to come by; therefore it is really a privilege when a person gets to study. In today’s era, education is given to everyone. It is often taken for granted by most people that sometimes education does not mean much to them. Education back then was something that they look forward for; going to school was an important event.
I personally like Zhao’s way of making the movie, the past in colored scene while the present in black and white. It shows that the past was even so much more beautiful and lively than the present. A lot of shots were taken at the same place too, such as the well, the bridge, the road that connects the village to the city, the school and Zhao Di’s house.
This romantic movie did made me cry in certain scenes, I was actually impress by how touching the movie is even though the closes Zhao Di and Lu Changyun could get to each other was when Lu Changyun handed Zhao Di a hair pin and said that it suits her red sweater. After the movie I could still remember the particular scene where Lu Changyun describes Zhao Di being as beautiful as a painting on the wall. It was just so lovely how the shot was taken when Zhao Di lean against the door waiting for Lu Changyun to come in. I also realized that there is a lot of close up on Zhao Di in the movie. It is good in a way as it shows the expression of Zhao Di’s face clearly.
This movie also shows how the son respected the mother’s request of bringing his father’s dead body back the traditional way, by foot. It is done so because it is believed that if the body is bring back by foot, the spirit of that body will know the way back to his home. At the ending of the movie, the son taught at the school, his father had taught before, as to respect of his father’s wished. That scene was also one of those that made me cry.
I remember turning to the person next to me right after the movie and said that I would also like to have a love life, as innocent, simple yet splendid like how Zhang Yiu-mou had portrait it to be.
Zhang Yiu-mou did put in some symbolic meanings in the movie too. The broken bowl symbolizes Zhao Di’s heart when Lu Changyun had to leave the village. The bowl was not thrown away but her grandmother has it repaired. The bowl meant too much for Zhao Di to be thrown away, it reminds her of her way of showing her love to Lu Changyun by cooking her best dishes and hoping that he will eat her cooking when the men were building the school. Zhang also did show the differences between the past era of China and the present one. Back then, it was bad luck for the women to go near men that are working so all they can do it to cook, bring the food to the construction area and sit to see the men work from a far. It is different now because women work too. Last time, education was hard to come by; therefore it is really a privilege when a person gets to study. In today’s era, education is given to everyone. It is often taken for granted by most people that sometimes education does not mean much to them. Education back then was something that they look forward for; going to school was an important event.
I personally like Zhao’s way of making the movie, the past in colored scene while the present in black and white. It shows that the past was even so much more beautiful and lively than the present. A lot of shots were taken at the same place too, such as the well, the bridge, the road that connects the village to the city, the school and Zhao Di’s house.
This romantic movie did made me cry in certain scenes, I was actually impress by how touching the movie is even though the closes Zhao Di and Lu Changyun could get to each other was when Lu Changyun handed Zhao Di a hair pin and said that it suits her red sweater. After the movie I could still remember the particular scene where Lu Changyun describes Zhao Di being as beautiful as a painting on the wall. It was just so lovely how the shot was taken when Zhao Di lean against the door waiting for Lu Changyun to come in. I also realized that there is a lot of close up on Zhao Di in the movie. It is good in a way as it shows the expression of Zhao Di’s face clearly.
This movie also shows how the son respected the mother’s request of bringing his father’s dead body back the traditional way, by foot. It is done so because it is believed that if the body is bring back by foot, the spirit of that body will know the way back to his home. At the ending of the movie, the son taught at the school, his father had taught before, as to respect of his father’s wished. That scene was also one of those that made me cry.
I remember turning to the person next to me right after the movie and said that I would also like to have a love life, as innocent, simple yet splendid like how Zhang Yiu-mou had portrait it to be.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
DOA: Dead Or Alive
the story line sux. the only interesting thing about this movie is the hot chics...
Quotes:
Helena Douglas:
Don't you think the guy in the second row's cute?
Christie Allen: Is there a guy in the world that you don't have a crush on?
Kasumi: You can have him. But what about the other 300? unknown:
[a whole army of men charge at the girls]
Tina Armstrong: [pause] Why don't we just split em' up evenly?
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Tina Armstrong: Perfect. Broke another nail.
Quotes:
Helena Douglas:
Don't you think the guy in the second row's cute?
Christie Allen: Is there a guy in the world that you don't have a crush on?
Kasumi: You can have him. But what about the other 300? unknown:
[a whole army of men charge at the girls]
Tina Armstrong: [pause] Why don't we just split em' up evenly?
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Tina Armstrong: Perfect. Broke another nail.
Monday, September 25, 2006
The Banquet.
this movie wasted my time and money.
i hate the part when Daniel Wu and gang dance at the begining of the movie. i wanted to laugh...but the only thing that shoped me was no one was laughing. another thing why i think this movie is boeing is because it sucessfully made me feel like i wanna sleep. *btw, there were people snoring in the cinema that day.*
it sux! the end.
i hate the part when Daniel Wu and gang dance at the begining of the movie. i wanted to laugh...but the only thing that shoped me was no one was laughing. another thing why i think this movie is boeing is because it sucessfully made me feel like i wanna sleep. *btw, there were people snoring in the cinema that day.*
it sux! the end.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Goodbye Boys
9 BOYS, 5 DAYS, 100KM. One coming of age journey...
Thumbs up for Bernard Chauly’s movie, Goodbye Boys! I LOVE THE TEAM SONG FOR THIS MOVIE (Nitrus - Hujung Dunia) Gosh! I got Bernard’s autograph too… (Thinking of framing it up :p) other than the autograph, I also got a poster, a cd, 3 postcard and a t-shirt (I’m wearing the shirt to bed tonight!!!) haha… I’m really happy I got to meet him again(the previous time I met him was at the Japanese Film Festival, he did the interview on the Japanese director, Shinohara Tetsuo) and toke his autograph this time. Darn! Come to think of it I really should have brought a camera along... Despite meeting him before the movie start, outside the cinema when he was going around greating all those people that came for the movie, he came into the cinema right before the movie started and gave a short speech. From the way he speaks, I realize that he’s a guy that has a good sense of humor! He said that if the movie is good he asked us to go tell all our friends about how good the movie is, but if we do not like the movie, he asked us to go tell all our enemies about how good the film is to cheat them. Haha… funny guy! Anyway, back to the movie, the movie Goodbye Boys have a lot of good message to send across to the audience. Some messages will actually make you “wake up” from your sleep in your walk in life. “This journey we toke was like walking through life, we all headed to the same destination but we toke different paths to reach there.” “When you are drowning, life seems so real… (I forgot the ending of the sentence already…anyone care to help me out?)” and yeah… there were many more messages in the movie but I couldn’t possibly remember all la. I got so much to talk about the movie…don’t know how to put them down in words. I felt like some of the characters are not fully developed as in their family background. But I like the way Bernard first introduce the characters to the audience. Bernard is good at placing the camera to shoot all the shots. Btw, the 8 boys did sing a lot of sings throughout their journey too. And oh! In the movie, there was one part where Xiao’s mother gave Xiao a RM20 note!!! Where in the world can you still find a RM20 note anymore??? There are lots of things more I wanna say about the movie but I rather talk than blog about it :p So, anyway,The ending part where they show what happened after a few years was really funny and good! Overall, I am really glad I watched the movie.
ps: My favorite character in the movie is still Glenn (the most handsome one)! So manly! haha... :p Although most of the characters like Wei Heen, Jin, Ivan and Leonard are cute too. (the above was updated 23/9/06)
The Cast & Crew
Casts
Jay Eng as Jin
Nas-T as Glenn
Razif Hashim as Ivan
Farid Ramlee as Aris
David Eng as Leonard
Peter Khor as Wei Heen
Daniel Henry as Xiao
Tommy Kuan as Aaron
Lisa Surihani as Lara
Crew
Director: Bernard ChaulyProducer: Lina Tan Screenplay: Bernard Chauly
Executive Producers : Lina Tan, Lee Mee Fung, Alan TanAssociate Producers : Lee Mee Fung, Alan Tan Cinematographer : Haris Hue, Albert HueLine Producer/ First Asst. Director : Joanna LeeArt Direction : Crystal WooMake-up & Hair : Susan ChaopradithWardrobe : Daniel Henry
Jin (THE MAVERICK CHARMER)
Leonard (THE OPTIMISTIC OBSERVER)
Aris (THE PRANKSTER)
Glenn (THE SILENT LEADER)
Ivan (THE IDEALIST)
Wei Heen (THE PRIVILEGED BRAT)
Tommy (THE DETERMINED FATTY)
Xiao (THE FLAMBOYANT JOKER)
*click here for more pictures of the guys*
“I’m a good guy, I play by the rules, but why do girls still go for jerks like Jin?” - Ivan from the Bernard Chauly movie, Goodbye Boys.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
You, Me and Dupree
It's a silly movie...
Neil: How the hell did Dupree wind up on the worng island?
Carl Peterson: Dupree was born on the wrong island.
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Molly Peterson: Did you know Dupree writes poetry?
Carl Peterson: What a homo.
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Randy Dupree: [after fallling on the skateboard] I've wracked my little Duprees!
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Carl Peterson: [Carl is massaging Molly's bare feet] You have the most beautiful toes, and I'm not even a foot guy.
Neil: How the hell did Dupree wind up on the worng island?
Carl Peterson: Dupree was born on the wrong island.
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Molly Peterson: Did you know Dupree writes poetry?
Carl Peterson: What a homo.
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Randy Dupree: [after fallling on the skateboard] I've wracked my little Duprees!
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Carl Peterson: [Carl is massaging Molly's bare feet] You have the most beautiful toes, and I'm not even a foot guy.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
I’ll give the movie an average rating. There are some scenes that are pretty funny la… and if I were a guy, I definitely would not want a girlfriend that has super powers….
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Quote)
Jenny Johnson: [after breaking the bed while having sex] I'm sorry. I'll get you a new one.
Matt Saunders: A bed or a penis?
Jenny Johnson: Both.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Quote)
Jenny Johnson: [after breaking the bed while having sex] I'm sorry. I'll get you a new one.
Matt Saunders: A bed or a penis?
Jenny Johnson: Both.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Work on the Grass
We reach ASWARA (FORMALLY KNOWN AS ask, Akedemi Seni Kebangsaan) at 8.30pmfor the talk by Mr. SHINOHARA Tetsuo, the director of “Inochi” and “Heaven’s Bookstore”. Bernard Chauly, the director of Gol Dan Gincu was there at the talk too. The event started by showing us Mr. Shinohara Tetsuo’s 1st film that he wrote and directed, which was Work on the Grass. Starring Naoki Goto and Hikari Ota.
[Synopsis: Two field workers--one experienced, the other an aspiring writer--spend spend a hot summer day cutting a vast expanse of tall grass. The two men clash hen the novice begins botching the job. Eventually, through an exchange of stories during their lunch break, the two achieve a rapprochement that has ambiguous sexual overtones.]
It’s a nice movie, with lots of close up shots and there are certain parts in the movie that was quite funny. It’s suppose to be a Japanese comedy, but we only laugh 3 times at 3 scenes, that also only when people start laughing then only we laugh (not to say that it’s not funny, but it’s just that maybe we were a bit slow in catching what the Japanese were saying in the movie) There were only 2 characters in the movie, 2 Japanese lawnmower, an experience one and the other not. The movie shows the relationship between the 2 men from the beginning of the movie, which they barely know each other until the ending of the movie that shows that they were closer and more comfortable with working and conversing with each other. There was even one part where the 2 men were so close to each other… I really though they were going to kiss. Haha... they didn’t la of course.
So after the movie was showed, it was the Q & A session. About the movie Work on the Grass, Mr. Shinohara Tetsuo said that there were other sponsors coming in for him to produce this movie, but he chooses to do it in his own funding and budget. He implied that he used to work part time jobs when he was a student and he wanted to show the experience he has gone through in this movie. After this movie, was release back in year 1993, the public started to question him, asking if he was gay. (He’s a straight guy) If he was given a choice to re-shoot the movie again, he would do it in another different way. More about Mr. Shinohara Tetsuo himself; he studied and graduated Law in a law school but had never been a lawyer before. He became an assistant director for 10 years before he became a director himself.
[Synopsis: Two field workers--one experienced, the other an aspiring writer--spend spend a hot summer day cutting a vast expanse of tall grass. The two men clash hen the novice begins botching the job. Eventually, through an exchange of stories during their lunch break, the two achieve a rapprochement that has ambiguous sexual overtones.]
It’s a nice movie, with lots of close up shots and there are certain parts in the movie that was quite funny. It’s suppose to be a Japanese comedy, but we only laugh 3 times at 3 scenes, that also only when people start laughing then only we laugh (not to say that it’s not funny, but it’s just that maybe we were a bit slow in catching what the Japanese were saying in the movie) There were only 2 characters in the movie, 2 Japanese lawnmower, an experience one and the other not. The movie shows the relationship between the 2 men from the beginning of the movie, which they barely know each other until the ending of the movie that shows that they were closer and more comfortable with working and conversing with each other. There was even one part where the 2 men were so close to each other… I really though they were going to kiss. Haha... they didn’t la of course.
So after the movie was showed, it was the Q & A session. About the movie Work on the Grass, Mr. Shinohara Tetsuo said that there were other sponsors coming in for him to produce this movie, but he chooses to do it in his own funding and budget. He implied that he used to work part time jobs when he was a student and he wanted to show the experience he has gone through in this movie. After this movie, was release back in year 1993, the public started to question him, asking if he was gay. (He’s a straight guy) If he was given a choice to re-shoot the movie again, he would do it in another different way. More about Mr. Shinohara Tetsuo himself; he studied and graduated Law in a law school but had never been a lawyer before. He became an assistant director for 10 years before he became a director himself.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
The Ant Bully
Funny and nice movie with a good lesson to learn.
Hova: Cross my heart, I will not eat you.
Lucas Nickle: Cross your heart, not your butt!
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Zoc: [glares at crystal in hand] Curse you, rock; a curse upon your children!
Hova: I don't think rocks have children.
Zoc: [throws crystal to the ground] Well they won't *now*.
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Zoc: An ant will always sacrifice himself to save another.
Hova: Cross my heart, I will not eat you.
Lucas Nickle: Cross your heart, not your butt!
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Zoc: [glares at crystal in hand] Curse you, rock; a curse upon your children!
Hova: I don't think rocks have children.
Zoc: [throws crystal to the ground] Well they won't *now*.
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Zoc: An ant will always sacrifice himself to save another.
S.W.A.T.
Haha… that movie’s quite good, don’t really fancy action movies… SWAT’s not that bad
Hondo: You know what they say, you're either SWAT or you're not.
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Street: So why'd you pick me?
Hondo: To piss off the captain.
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Hondo: You wanna join S.W.A.T?
Chris: No. I just like applying all the time.
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McCabe: What? No roll, Hondo?
Hondo: How do you know I didn't?
McCabe: You didn't, did you?
Hondo: They only roll in John Woo movies, not in real life.
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[about Hondo's S.W.A.T. selection]
Capt. Thomas Fuller: Sanchez is a woman and Street, well he's on my shit list
Hondo: Hey! I'm on your shit list too and I'm the team captain.
McCabe: What? No roll, Hondo?
Hondo: How do you know I didn't?
McCabe: You didn't, did you?
Hondo: They only roll in John Woo movies, not in real life.
[about Hondo's S.W.A.T. selection]
Capt. Thomas Fuller: Sanchez is a woman and Street, well he's on my shit list
Hondo: Hey! I'm on your shit list too and I'm the team captain.
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Chris Sanchez: Just because I bought you a drink doesn't mean you're getting laid tonight. Street: So, what does two drinks mean?
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Capt. Thomas Fuller: Nice job.
Hondo: Don't sound so happy.
Capt. Thomas Fuller: Still got a problem. He's still here.
[Gestures towards Alex Montel]
Chris: Road trip?
Street: [Beaten up from the fight with Gamble] Road trip.
Hondo: Yeah...road trip. Guess you'll have to fire us later.
[Street spits blood out of his mouth, team walks away toward arriving SWAT truck with Fuller smiling at the team for once in the whole movie]
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Hondo: Street. Don't beat him so badly I can't get a rematch, all right?
Street: I won't make any promises.
Hondo: It's my money, man.
Hondo: You know what they say, you're either SWAT or you're not.
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Street: So why'd you pick me?
Hondo: To piss off the captain.
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Hondo: You wanna join S.W.A.T?
Chris: No. I just like applying all the time.
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McCabe: What? No roll, Hondo?
Hondo: How do you know I didn't?
McCabe: You didn't, did you?
Hondo: They only roll in John Woo movies, not in real life.
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[about Hondo's S.W.A.T. selection]
Capt. Thomas Fuller: Sanchez is a woman and Street, well he's on my shit list
Hondo: Hey! I'm on your shit list too and I'm the team captain.
McCabe: What? No roll, Hondo?
Hondo: How do you know I didn't?
McCabe: You didn't, did you?
Hondo: They only roll in John Woo movies, not in real life.
[about Hondo's S.W.A.T. selection]
Capt. Thomas Fuller: Sanchez is a woman and Street, well he's on my shit list
Hondo: Hey! I'm on your shit list too and I'm the team captain.
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Chris Sanchez: Just because I bought you a drink doesn't mean you're getting laid tonight. Street: So, what does two drinks mean?
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Capt. Thomas Fuller: Nice job.
Hondo: Don't sound so happy.
Capt. Thomas Fuller: Still got a problem. He's still here.
[Gestures towards Alex Montel]
Chris: Road trip?
Street: [Beaten up from the fight with Gamble] Road trip.
Hondo: Yeah...road trip. Guess you'll have to fire us later.
[Street spits blood out of his mouth, team walks away toward arriving SWAT truck with Fuller smiling at the team for once in the whole movie]
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Hondo: Street. Don't beat him so badly I can't get a rematch, all right?
Street: I won't make any promises.
Hondo: It's my money, man.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Snakes On Plane
Snakes On Plane, what do I have to say about it? Hmm… it’s kinda frightening when the snakes attack those people on the plane. Woaw…the snakes attacks and bite when its least expected to do it.
There’s a scene in the movie which showed the snake comes out of a guy’s mouth. After the movie, as I was walking, I saw a little girl putting the long balloon in her mouth… it freaked me out as it looks just like the scene the movie!!! But I enjoyed the movie la… haha..
Nelville Flynn: Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
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Dr. Steven Price: Remember, time is tissue.
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Nelville Flynn: How good are you at this game?
Troy: Pretty good. I mean, my brother Randy has the hi-score. Asshole never lets me hear the end of it.
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Sean Jones: It's getting hot in here...
Nelville Flynn: I'm from Tennessee, I didn't notice!
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Nelville Flynn: All praises to the playstation!
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Big Leroy: Some-one get this snake off my ass.
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Claire Miller: [to the wounded Rick] You sure you can fly this thing with one hand? Rick: Honey, you'd be surprised at what a man can do with one hand.
There’s a scene in the movie which showed the snake comes out of a guy’s mouth. After the movie, as I was walking, I saw a little girl putting the long balloon in her mouth… it freaked me out as it looks just like the scene the movie!!! But I enjoyed the movie la… haha..
Nelville Flynn: Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
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Dr. Steven Price: Remember, time is tissue.
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Nelville Flynn: How good are you at this game?
Troy: Pretty good. I mean, my brother Randy has the hi-score. Asshole never lets me hear the end of it.
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Sean Jones: It's getting hot in here...
Nelville Flynn: I'm from Tennessee, I didn't notice!
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Nelville Flynn: All praises to the playstation!
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Big Leroy: Some-one get this snake off my ass.
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Claire Miller: [to the wounded Rick] You sure you can fly this thing with one hand? Rick: Honey, you'd be surprised at what a man can do with one hand.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Monster House
was a little bit of funny + frightening!
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Jenny: Are you two mentally retarded? Because if you are I'm legally certified to teach you baseball.
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DJ: I kissed a girl! I kissed a girl on the lips!
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DJ: We haven't left this room once! Not even to go to the bathroom. [Points to 2L bottle filled with something]
DJ: Don't drink that!
Zee: Oh gross! Whatever disease you guys have I'm sure its got letters and that they make pills for it!
DJ: Zee, it's true! There's something evil going on across the street!
Zee: [Sarcastically] That's excellent, I'm really happy for you.
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Zee: Whatever issue you guys have, I'm sure it has letters and they make pills for it.
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Chowder: All right, vacuum cleaner dummy, I'm setting you down on the lawn. Don't be scared, that's not how you were trained. [slight pause]
Chowder: I love you, vacuum cleaner dummy.
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Jenny: Are you two mentally retarded? Because if you are I'm legally certified to teach you baseball.
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DJ: I kissed a girl! I kissed a girl on the lips!
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DJ: We haven't left this room once! Not even to go to the bathroom. [Points to 2L bottle filled with something]
DJ: Don't drink that!
Zee: Oh gross! Whatever disease you guys have I'm sure its got letters and that they make pills for it!
DJ: Zee, it's true! There's something evil going on across the street!
Zee: [Sarcastically] That's excellent, I'm really happy for you.
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Zee: Whatever issue you guys have, I'm sure it has letters and they make pills for it.
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Chowder: All right, vacuum cleaner dummy, I'm setting you down on the lawn. Don't be scared, that's not how you were trained. [slight pause]
Chowder: I love you, vacuum cleaner dummy.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Click
Click is a nice movie. I recommend it. And for the 1st time in my life, a person(one of my friend) sitting next to me gave me a tissue paper without me asking for it when I’m watching a movie!!! History was made today! I’m impress and really glad. It’s the little things someone else does that seems insignificant to others but can just touch your heart and mean a lot to you. You know who you are. haha… a hint :: Esther very happy, so Esther wants to say THANK YOU to that guy that gave Esther tissue in the cinema when Esther is crying! Ok ok… I should be talking about the movie… the movie is about this guy acted by Adam Sandler, he’s just bored with his life and always gives 1st priority to his work, family 2nd. So one day he finally got hold of this universal remote control that controls EVERYTHING!!! He could use the remote to fast forward the dinners with his parents, arguments with his beautiful wife, baths, promotions and so on… in no time, he’s more then 50 years old already… then he begins to regret how he live his life using that remote. And at the end... here comes the spoilers... if you don’t want to know, don’t read the sentence after this and you can stop reading here. BUT if you want to know the ending, here goes, it’s all a dream.
Lesson learned from the movie:
Family comes first, work comes after family.
You will miss out a lot in life if you do not set your priorities right in life.
Appreciate every moment you have with the people you love, they do not live forever
Morty: He's always chasing the pot of gold, but when he gets there, at the end of the day, it's just corn flakes.
Morty: It's all just... cornflakes.
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Michael Newman: Ben... Family... Always comes first...
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Samantha at 5-Years-Old: [Sundance begins humping the stuffed Duck] Daddy, what's he doing? Michael Newman: Something you shouldn't know about for at least 10 to 30 years. [Points at son, Ben] Michael Newman: You, ten. [Points at daughter, Samantha] Michael Newman: You, thirty.
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Morty: Think about it, you've skipped a year. That's a lot of sex. That's like, thirty minutes worth for you.
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Morty: [standing at Ted's, Michael's dad's, grave] He was a good man. I didn't want to take him. Michael Newman: What? Morty: Michael, I'm an angel. Michael Newman: I thought angels were supposed to protect people. Morty: I'm the Angel of Death.
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Lesson learned from the movie:
Family comes first, work comes after family.
You will miss out a lot in life if you do not set your priorities right in life.
Appreciate every moment you have with the people you love, they do not live forever
Morty: He's always chasing the pot of gold, but when he gets there, at the end of the day, it's just corn flakes.
Morty: It's all just... cornflakes.
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Michael Newman: Ben... Family... Always comes first...
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Samantha at 5-Years-Old: [Sundance begins humping the stuffed Duck] Daddy, what's he doing? Michael Newman: Something you shouldn't know about for at least 10 to 30 years. [Points at son, Ben] Michael Newman: You, ten. [Points at daughter, Samantha] Michael Newman: You, thirty.
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Morty: Think about it, you've skipped a year. That's a lot of sex. That's like, thirty minutes worth for you.
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Morty: [standing at Ted's, Michael's dad's, grave] He was a good man. I didn't want to take him. Michael Newman: What? Morty: Michael, I'm an angel. Michael Newman: I thought angels were supposed to protect people. Morty: I'm the Angel of Death.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
The Break Up
The Break Up is a nice movie.. no regreats watching it. I like the ending part when the guy told her that he still loves her but she didn't feel the same way anymore.
Gary: Richard did not kick my ass, what Richard did was attack me while I was half asleep. Brooke: Really? Is that how you see it? Gary: Theres a really big gap between getting your ass kicked, and having a dancing, singing sprite fool you with trickery, and then strike your throat before you know that you're even in the fight. But I wouldnt expect someone like you to understand that, because all you do is make moves from up in your ivy tower.
Gary: Richard did not kick my ass, what Richard did was attack me while I was half asleep. Brooke: Really? Is that how you see it? Gary: Theres a really big gap between getting your ass kicked, and having a dancing, singing sprite fool you with trickery, and then strike your throat before you know that you're even in the fight. But I wouldnt expect someone like you to understand that, because all you do is make moves from up in your ivy tower.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Sleepless in Seatle
"Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while."
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"Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. "
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"People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. "
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Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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Annie Reed: Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...
Becky: A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
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"Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. "
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"People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. "
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Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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Annie Reed: Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...
Becky: A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
I watch this movie on :13/July/2006
I would vote this movie for the Best Movie of 2006, so far! The movie’s great. I love it. Honestly, I really could not wait until the ending of the movie to sms Mei Cher and tell her that this movie is terrific! Almost excellent! There are movie scenes that are really funny... and are really able to make you laugh... not like those lame jokes or scenes that is just really… nothing but plain lame, in other movies! As I watch this movie, the director of the movie really directed this movie in a way that makes me feel very excited and there are many times that the director successfully create scenes that makes me curious and excited. I keep asking myself… “Gosh... “What’s going to happen next?” I believe that Johnny Depp does not even need to act in the 2nd movie to prove to everyone that the director of the movie did choose the perfect person to act as Jack Sparrow. Indeed, he’s a talented and experience actor that suits the character he is acting in. This movie is worth watching… even if you have to pay RM 20 for a place in the cinema to watch this movie, PAY, COZ IT’S WOTH IT! Ps: Btw, I love the ending… I do not think Jack Sparrow is dead. In my opinion, he is still alive, he’ll definitely somehow manage to survive! He’s sooo handsome: p and I am really waiting for the next episode to come on screen.
I would vote this movie for the Best Movie of 2006, so far! The movie’s great. I love it. Honestly, I really could not wait until the ending of the movie to sms Mei Cher and tell her that this movie is terrific! Almost excellent! There are movie scenes that are really funny... and are really able to make you laugh... not like those lame jokes or scenes that is just really… nothing but plain lame, in other movies! As I watch this movie, the director of the movie really directed this movie in a way that makes me feel very excited and there are many times that the director successfully create scenes that makes me curious and excited. I keep asking myself… “Gosh... “What’s going to happen next?” I believe that Johnny Depp does not even need to act in the 2nd movie to prove to everyone that the director of the movie did choose the perfect person to act as Jack Sparrow. Indeed, he’s a talented and experience actor that suits the character he is acting in. This movie is worth watching… even if you have to pay RM 20 for a place in the cinema to watch this movie, PAY, COZ IT’S WOTH IT! Ps: Btw, I love the ending… I do not think Jack Sparrow is dead. In my opinion, he is still alive, he’ll definitely somehow manage to survive! He’s sooo handsome: p and I am really waiting for the next episode to come on screen.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Take the Lead
I watch the movie on : 6/7/06
My review:
The movie is a total must watch! I like the movie even though I’m not interested in musical genre movies. The story line is good, the characters dance to the beat, the dance steps were smooth and for an old man like Antonio Banderas is handsome. Antonio Banderas acted in the movie Zorro a few years back and I must confess that he’s really good at acting and experience too, after acting in about 67 movies. The dance steps and moves were cool, and I personally like the way and things he explained to the pupil’s parents about him teaching ballroom dance during detention. Dante Basco is 31 years old this year, but he’s playing the role of Ramos, one of the pupils that attend detention. I must say it would be impossible for me to know about the fact that he is that old because he makes a very good high school boy in the movie. By the way, Basco looks a bit like Brian Tee as the DK from the movie “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006).
The movie is about how this dedicated teacher decides to teach the bunch of “school rejects” in during detention class, teaches them with his heart and then pulls them to success.
This movie's storyline is similar to the movie " To Sir With Love", the only difference is that in the other movie, the teachers teach them a particular school subject, but in this movie, the detention teacher teaches the students something that's not tought in school, ballroom dancing!
One of the quote in this movie that is meaningful:
Pierre Dulaine: You can get what you want.
Rock: No, some people get what they want.
Pierre Dulaine: Those are the people who show up to get it.
My review:
The movie is a total must watch! I like the movie even though I’m not interested in musical genre movies. The story line is good, the characters dance to the beat, the dance steps were smooth and for an old man like Antonio Banderas is handsome. Antonio Banderas acted in the movie Zorro a few years back and I must confess that he’s really good at acting and experience too, after acting in about 67 movies. The dance steps and moves were cool, and I personally like the way and things he explained to the pupil’s parents about him teaching ballroom dance during detention. Dante Basco is 31 years old this year, but he’s playing the role of Ramos, one of the pupils that attend detention. I must say it would be impossible for me to know about the fact that he is that old because he makes a very good high school boy in the movie. By the way, Basco looks a bit like Brian Tee as the DK from the movie “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006).
The movie is about how this dedicated teacher decides to teach the bunch of “school rejects” in during detention class, teaches them with his heart and then pulls them to success.
This movie's storyline is similar to the movie " To Sir With Love", the only difference is that in the other movie, the teachers teach them a particular school subject, but in this movie, the detention teacher teaches the students something that's not tought in school, ballroom dancing!
One of the quote in this movie that is meaningful:
Pierre Dulaine: You can get what you want.
Rock: No, some people get what they want.
Pierre Dulaine: Those are the people who show up to get it.
Just My Luck
I watch the movie on 6/7/06
My Review:
If there’s just one thing that I’m allowed to say about the movie, I would say that this movie has the most cute and handsome guys in a movie. The blond guy in the band McFly is a total cutie. Lindsay Lohan looks much mush mature in the movie. In my opinion, Lohan is just the right person to act as Ashley. She just fits into the character perfectly. As a child actor Lohan is good at her acting skills. Even since she was a child she acted very well, for example in one of her earliest movie that she acted in, Disney’s The Parent Trap (1998) as Hallie Parker and Annie James at the same time.
Overall, the movie is nice. If compared to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) aka Wie werde ich ihn los - in 10 Tagen? (Germany), director Donald Petrie did not improve much on his movie directing skills.
This movie have nice soundtracks and the McFly band is good!
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Dead Poet's Society
Movie Wacthed on : 30 June 2006
My Reviews:
The movie was about this teacher, acted by Robbie Williams that taught the students in his class to push their abilities to the limits and move the boundary given to then by the school and their parents. He made the boys realize that they can achieve great things in life not by only studying in class, he made them think outside the box, he made them realize that they do not need to wait until they graduate from school to achieve their goals in life. He inspires his pupils, he gives them hope, and he made a difference in his student’s life, but yet, he was blamed for an incident and tragedy event that was not his fault but indirectly was linked to him and so he was expel from teaching in the school. The tragedy was when one of his student disobeyed his father because of doing something he loves, which is acting in a play and later after that committed suicide because of the pressure his parents and school put on him. This movie shows how a group of boys’ life changes because of this one very special teacher that had taught them to “seize the day!” without recreating it. Jon says that the story line is good but I think its average at first which is right after watching the whole movie, but as I come to really think of it now and flash back what I’ve seen in the movie, I have to agree with him that the story line IS in fact a good one.
My Reviews:
The movie was about this teacher, acted by Robbie Williams that taught the students in his class to push their abilities to the limits and move the boundary given to then by the school and their parents. He made the boys realize that they can achieve great things in life not by only studying in class, he made them think outside the box, he made them realize that they do not need to wait until they graduate from school to achieve their goals in life. He inspires his pupils, he gives them hope, and he made a difference in his student’s life, but yet, he was blamed for an incident and tragedy event that was not his fault but indirectly was linked to him and so he was expel from teaching in the school. The tragedy was when one of his student disobeyed his father because of doing something he loves, which is acting in a play and later after that committed suicide because of the pressure his parents and school put on him. This movie shows how a group of boys’ life changes because of this one very special teacher that had taught them to “seize the day!” without recreating it. Jon says that the story line is good but I think its average at first which is right after watching the whole movie, but as I come to really think of it now and flash back what I’ve seen in the movie, I have to agree with him that the story line IS in fact a good one.
8 Below
Movie watched on : 29 June 2006
My Reviews:
The movie is based on a true story. Overall, I will also rate the movie, slightly below average. It’s not as good as I’ve expected it to be. When I bought this DVD I though that it’s a very touching story of this guy that risks his life to save his team, which is the dogs from the heavy story... but to my disappointment, the movie I saw just now was not up to my expectations.
My Reviews:
The movie is based on a true story. Overall, I will also rate the movie, slightly below average. It’s not as good as I’ve expected it to be. When I bought this DVD I though that it’s a very touching story of this guy that risks his life to save his team, which is the dogs from the heavy story... but to my disappointment, the movie I saw just now was not up to my expectations.
Superman Returns
Date watched: 29 June 2006
My Review:
Superman Returns was not a really nice movie to watch. In the movie, it shows that Clark Kent / Superman did some soul searching for 5 years. After 5 years, he came back from Krypton and went back to work, only to find out that his love interest; Louis Lane is already engage to another guy. She even has a cute and handsome son, which he later found out that it’s his son because the boy has super strength too. Lex Luther on the other hand, had found out Superman’s father’s graveyard and toke the crystals that was left behind for Superman. The crystals are worth a lot because it’s the key to very advance technology. In the end superman was in a coma but woke up after spending some time in the hospital. If I would have to rate Superman Returns, it would be a slight below average. In the movie, indeed it shows how strong he is, every part of his body is made of steal. There is one scene that really captured my attention, which is the part where a guy pointed a gun at Superman’s eye and shot a bullet at it. Not only did the bullet not injure this Man of Steal, the bullet just bounce out of his eye, it was squash. In this movie, Superman did a lot of flying and did show how strong he is, but I personally would like to see more action scenes. There are scenes in the movie that is also quite fake when Louis Lane was in the plane and she knock onto so many things but wasn't even hurt. In fact, none of the passangers were hurt, even when they went to outer space, the people in the aeroplane was calm and acted as though it's just a normal rough flight. The most silly part of the movie is that Louis Lane can't even reconise Clark Kent without his specticles. The only difference between Superman and Clark Kent is the voice and the specticles. As for the comedy part of the movie, the only person that played the “comedian” was Lex Luther. The actor playing Luther is just not bad enough for the character.
My Review:
Superman Returns was not a really nice movie to watch. In the movie, it shows that Clark Kent / Superman did some soul searching for 5 years. After 5 years, he came back from Krypton and went back to work, only to find out that his love interest; Louis Lane is already engage to another guy. She even has a cute and handsome son, which he later found out that it’s his son because the boy has super strength too. Lex Luther on the other hand, had found out Superman’s father’s graveyard and toke the crystals that was left behind for Superman. The crystals are worth a lot because it’s the key to very advance technology. In the end superman was in a coma but woke up after spending some time in the hospital. If I would have to rate Superman Returns, it would be a slight below average. In the movie, indeed it shows how strong he is, every part of his body is made of steal. There is one scene that really captured my attention, which is the part where a guy pointed a gun at Superman’s eye and shot a bullet at it. Not only did the bullet not injure this Man of Steal, the bullet just bounce out of his eye, it was squash. In this movie, Superman did a lot of flying and did show how strong he is, but I personally would like to see more action scenes. There are scenes in the movie that is also quite fake when Louis Lane was in the plane and she knock onto so many things but wasn't even hurt. In fact, none of the passangers were hurt, even when they went to outer space, the people in the aeroplane was calm and acted as though it's just a normal rough flight. The most silly part of the movie is that Louis Lane can't even reconise Clark Kent without his specticles. The only difference between Superman and Clark Kent is the voice and the specticles. As for the comedy part of the movie, the only person that played the “comedian” was Lex Luther. The actor playing Luther is just not bad enough for the character.
The Inside Man
Date watched : 28th June 2006
My Reviews
The movie was not up to my expectation nor was as good as how Jon describes and said it to be. It’s basically about a bank robbery that actually in the end, did not happen at all because the robbers did not steal anything from the bank. All the robbers did was just to make all the hostages dress like them (they came in wearing painter suit) so that it’s easy for them to run away with the crowd when all the hostages were released and also to create attention of the police. The main objective behind the mastermind of the “robbery” is to review the bank’s owner dark past. The movie is mainly about the robbers conducting the successful “robbery”. The best part of the movie was when the leader of the “robbers” told the detective that he’s just going to walk out of the bank door when he is ready which he really did without getting caught.
But, when i come to think of it now, after writing the preview above, i've come to a conclusion that the story line of this movie is actually quite good and the movie is worth watching.
My Reviews
The movie was not up to my expectation nor was as good as how Jon describes and said it to be. It’s basically about a bank robbery that actually in the end, did not happen at all because the robbers did not steal anything from the bank. All the robbers did was just to make all the hostages dress like them (they came in wearing painter suit) so that it’s easy for them to run away with the crowd when all the hostages were released and also to create attention of the police. The main objective behind the mastermind of the “robbery” is to review the bank’s owner dark past. The movie is mainly about the robbers conducting the successful “robbery”. The best part of the movie was when the leader of the “robbers” told the detective that he’s just going to walk out of the bank door when he is ready which he really did without getting caught.
But, when i come to think of it now, after writing the preview above, i've come to a conclusion that the story line of this movie is actually quite good and the movie is worth watching.
Monday, June 19, 2006
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 3: TOKYO DRIFT
Date Release : 16 June 2006
I watched the movie on : 16 June 2006
My reviews:
The movie have good stuns and drifts scenes. it's a nice movie to watch if you don't take it all seriously; as in, just watch it, don't follow anything that they do in the movies. it's a 18SG movie anyway, that "warning" explains quite a lot already. the best quote that really made me think was when Han said "That's life. You make chocies and don't turn back"
I have not seen the previest 2 movies, so i can't tell you if this movie is better than the perviest 2 movies.
In my conclusion of the movie, "The winner always get the girl!"
I watched the movie on : 16 June 2006
My reviews:
The movie have good stuns and drifts scenes. it's a nice movie to watch if you don't take it all seriously; as in, just watch it, don't follow anything that they do in the movies. it's a 18SG movie anyway, that "warning" explains quite a lot already. the best quote that really made me think was when Han said "That's life. You make chocies and don't turn back"
I have not seen the previest 2 movies, so i can't tell you if this movie is better than the perviest 2 movies.
In my conclusion of the movie, "The winner always get the girl!"
RV
Release Date : 16 June 2006
I watched the movie on : 16 June 2006
My Reviews:
If I were to rate the movie RV, it would only be a C+. It's quite funny, but I certainly think there should be more improvement. I guess this movie did not have anything much for me to comment except that there are only a few parts that is funny about the movie.
I watched the movie on : 16 June 2006
My Reviews:
If I were to rate the movie RV, it would only be a C+. It's quite funny, but I certainly think there should be more improvement. I guess this movie did not have anything much for me to comment except that there are only a few parts that is funny about the movie.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Cars
Release Date : 8 June 2006
I watched the movie on: 8 June 2006
Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sport
Directed by :John Lasseter
co-director :Joe Ranft
Writing Credits: (in alphabetical order)
Robert L. Baird - additional screenplay material
Dan Fogelman - screenplay
Dan Gerson - additional screenplay material
Jorgen Klubien - story
John Lasseter
Phil Lorin - screenplay
Kiel Murray - screenplay
Joe Ranfts - story
Cast: (in credits order)
Owen Wilson - Lightning McQueen (voice)
Paul Newman - Doc Hudson (voice)
Bonnie Hunt - Sally Carrera (voice)
Larry The Cable Guy - Mater (voice)
Cheech Marin - Ramone (voice)
Tony Shalhoub - Luigi (voice)
Guido Quaroni - Guido (voice)
Jenifer Lewis - Flo (voice)
Paul Dooley - Sarge (voice)
Michael Wallis - Sheriff (voice)
George Carlin - Filmore (voice)
Katherine Helmond - Lizzie (voice)
John Ratzenberger - Mack (voice)
Joe Ranft - Red/Peterbuilt (voice)
Michael Keaton - Chick Hicks (voice)
Richard Petty - The King (voice)
Jeremy Piven - Harv (voice)
Bob Costas - Bob Cutlass (voice)
Darrell Waltrip - Darrell Cartrip
Richard Kind - Van (voice)
Edie McClurg - Minny
H.A. 'Humpy' Wheeler - Tex (voice)
Tom Magliozzi - Rusty Rust-eze (voice)
Ray Magliozzi - Dusty Rust-eze (voice)
Lynda Petty - Mrs. The King (voice)
Andrew Stanton - Fred (voice)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - Junior (voice)
Michael Schumacher - Michael Schumacher Ferrari (voice)
Jay Leno - Jay Limo (voice)
Mario - Mario Andretti (voice)
Sarah Clark - Kori Turbowitz (voice)
Mike Nelson - Not Chuck (voice)
Jonas Rivera - Boost (voice)
Lou Romano - Snotrod (voice)
Adrian Ochoa - Wingo (voice)
E.J. Holowicki - DJ (voice)
Elissa Knight - Tia (voice)
Lindsey Collins - Mia (voice)
Larry Benton - Motorhome Race Fan #1 (voice)
Douglas Keever - Motorhome Race Fan #2 (voice)
Production Companies:
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Soundtracks:
"Life Is A Highway"
"The Star Spangled Banner" Performed by Jimi Hendrix
"Reveille" Traditional
"Westbound Sign" by Green Day
"Real Gone" Written by Sheryl Crow, John Shanks Performed by Sheryl Crow
"Our Town" Written by Randy Newman Performed by James Taylor
"Behind the Clouds" Written by Brad Paisley, Frank Rogers Performed by Brad Paisley
"Find Yourself" Written and Performed by Brad Paisley
Memorable Quotes :
Lightning McQueen: Do I spy a little pin-striping tattoo back there?
Sally: [giggling] Oh. You saw that?
Doc Hudson: All rise.
[Ramone lifts himself up ten feet in the air]
Luigi: Show-off.
Mater: She's my fiancée.
Lightning McQueen: What?
Mater: I'm just kidding. She just likes me for my body.
Lightning McQueen: I'm faster than fast, quicker than quick, I'm Lightning McQueen
Lightning McQueen: Hey, you must be thunder... coz thunder comes after lightning.
Plot Summary & Review:
the story is about this cocky, rookie race car, Lightning McQueen and he has the big big huge competition to compete with 2 other racing cars at California, On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, he somehow ended up unexpectedly detoured and crashing into the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs which was abandon for a long long time, destroying lots of the inhabitants belongings. In order to make up for what he did, the cocky roadster is sentenced to community service by Doc Hudson. Though he will do anything to get away from the work, McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetracks. There he discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line!!! at first he only cared about the competition, but then, when McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters –including Sally (a snazzy 2002 Porsche voiced by Bonnie Hunt), Doc Hudson (a 1951 Hudson Hornet with a mysterious past, voiced by Paul Newman), and Mater (a rusty but trusty tow truck voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) – who help him realize that there are more important things than trophies, fame and sponsorship. The ending part of the movie was pretty touching when McQueen rather not win the Piston Cup but did a very noble thing by helped The King finish his race after he overturn.
"Kecheng" *flashes spotlight at you* this is not just some kiddy kiddy movie(although i watched it with 80% of the cinema filled with 18 and below kids). it's a bomb i tell you. there are values in the movie that you can discover such as how important friends are in your life, realizing the beauty of life and etc. it's really a good movie worth watching. anyway.. you should take notice of the soundtrack "find yourself" by Brad Paisley in the movie. it's a very nice song. that song really made me think about my life. In conclusion, I love the movie and the soundtracks. If compared to Over The Hedge, i would say that Cars, The Movie has more good values which sometimes really make me think back what i really want in life, fame or friends. Wherelse, Over the Hedge is much more of a funny movie that makes you laugh, but not as much good points you an learn after watching the movie.
Characters:
Lightining McQueen
a hotshot rockie racecar, posised to become the youngest car ever to win the Piston Cup Championship. He has just two things in mind: winning and the perks that come with it. Fame, money, groupies, helicopters... It's everything he's dreamed of, but that's about to change. When McQueen gets lost in the forgotten town of Radiator Springs, he's introduced to a group of new friends that challenged him to reconsider the car he wants to be.
I watched the movie on: 8 June 2006
Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sport
Directed by :John Lasseter
co-director :Joe Ranft
Writing Credits: (in alphabetical order)
Robert L. Baird - additional screenplay material
Dan Fogelman - screenplay
Dan Gerson - additional screenplay material
Jorgen Klubien - story
John Lasseter
Phil Lorin - screenplay
Kiel Murray - screenplay
Joe Ranfts - story
Cast: (in credits order)
Owen Wilson - Lightning McQueen (voice)
Paul Newman - Doc Hudson (voice)
Bonnie Hunt - Sally Carrera (voice)
Larry The Cable Guy - Mater (voice)
Cheech Marin - Ramone (voice)
Tony Shalhoub - Luigi (voice)
Guido Quaroni - Guido (voice)
Jenifer Lewis - Flo (voice)
Paul Dooley - Sarge (voice)
Michael Wallis - Sheriff (voice)
George Carlin - Filmore (voice)
Katherine Helmond - Lizzie (voice)
John Ratzenberger - Mack (voice)
Joe Ranft - Red/Peterbuilt (voice)
Michael Keaton - Chick Hicks (voice)
Richard Petty - The King (voice)
Jeremy Piven - Harv (voice)
Bob Costas - Bob Cutlass (voice)
Darrell Waltrip - Darrell Cartrip
Richard Kind - Van (voice)
Edie McClurg - Minny
H.A. 'Humpy' Wheeler - Tex (voice)
Tom Magliozzi - Rusty Rust-eze (voice)
Ray Magliozzi - Dusty Rust-eze (voice)
Lynda Petty - Mrs. The King (voice)
Andrew Stanton - Fred (voice)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - Junior (voice)
Michael Schumacher - Michael Schumacher Ferrari (voice)
Jay Leno - Jay Limo (voice)
Mario - Mario Andretti (voice)
Sarah Clark - Kori Turbowitz (voice)
Mike Nelson - Not Chuck (voice)
Jonas Rivera - Boost (voice)
Lou Romano - Snotrod (voice)
Adrian Ochoa - Wingo (voice)
E.J. Holowicki - DJ (voice)
Elissa Knight - Tia (voice)
Lindsey Collins - Mia (voice)
Larry Benton - Motorhome Race Fan #1 (voice)
Douglas Keever - Motorhome Race Fan #2 (voice)
Production Companies:
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Soundtracks:
"Life Is A Highway"
"The Star Spangled Banner" Performed by Jimi Hendrix
"Reveille" Traditional
"Westbound Sign" by Green Day
"Real Gone" Written by Sheryl Crow, John Shanks Performed by Sheryl Crow
"Our Town" Written by Randy Newman Performed by James Taylor
"Behind the Clouds" Written by Brad Paisley, Frank Rogers Performed by Brad Paisley
"Find Yourself" Written and Performed by Brad Paisley
Memorable Quotes :
Lightning McQueen: Do I spy a little pin-striping tattoo back there?
Sally: [giggling] Oh. You saw that?
Doc Hudson: All rise.
[Ramone lifts himself up ten feet in the air]
Luigi: Show-off.
Mater: She's my fiancée.
Lightning McQueen: What?
Mater: I'm just kidding. She just likes me for my body.
Lightning McQueen: I'm faster than fast, quicker than quick, I'm Lightning McQueen
Lightning McQueen: Hey, you must be thunder... coz thunder comes after lightning.
Plot Summary & Review:
the story is about this cocky, rookie race car, Lightning McQueen and he has the big big huge competition to compete with 2 other racing cars at California, On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, he somehow ended up unexpectedly detoured and crashing into the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs which was abandon for a long long time, destroying lots of the inhabitants belongings. In order to make up for what he did, the cocky roadster is sentenced to community service by Doc Hudson. Though he will do anything to get away from the work, McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetracks. There he discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line!!! at first he only cared about the competition, but then, when McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters –including Sally (a snazzy 2002 Porsche voiced by Bonnie Hunt), Doc Hudson (a 1951 Hudson Hornet with a mysterious past, voiced by Paul Newman), and Mater (a rusty but trusty tow truck voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) – who help him realize that there are more important things than trophies, fame and sponsorship. The ending part of the movie was pretty touching when McQueen rather not win the Piston Cup but did a very noble thing by helped The King finish his race after he overturn.
"Kecheng" *flashes spotlight at you* this is not just some kiddy kiddy movie(although i watched it with 80% of the cinema filled with 18 and below kids). it's a bomb i tell you. there are values in the movie that you can discover such as how important friends are in your life, realizing the beauty of life and etc. it's really a good movie worth watching. anyway.. you should take notice of the soundtrack "find yourself" by Brad Paisley in the movie. it's a very nice song. that song really made me think about my life. In conclusion, I love the movie and the soundtracks. If compared to Over The Hedge, i would say that Cars, The Movie has more good values which sometimes really make me think back what i really want in life, fame or friends. Wherelse, Over the Hedge is much more of a funny movie that makes you laugh, but not as much good points you an learn after watching the movie.
Characters:
Lightining McQueen
a hotshot rockie racecar, posised to become the youngest car ever to win the Piston Cup Championship. He has just two things in mind: winning and the perks that come with it. Fame, money, groupies, helicopters... It's everything he's dreamed of, but that's about to change. When McQueen gets lost in the forgotten town of Radiator Springs, he's introduced to a group of new friends that challenged him to reconsider the car he wants to be.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Over The Hedge
Date Released: 19 May 2006
I watched the movie on: 19 May 2006
Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family
Directed by: Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick
Writing credits:
screenplay :Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton and Karey Kirkpatrick
characters: Michael Fry and T. Lewis
Cast: (in credits order)
Bruce Willis:RJ (voice)
Garry Shandling:Verne (voice)
Steve Carell:Hammy (voice)
Wanda Sykes:Stella (voice)
William Shatner:Ozzie (voice)
Nick Nolte:Vincent (voice)
Thomas Haden Church:Dwayne (voice)
Allison Janney:Gladys (voice)
Eugene Levy:Lou (voice)
Catherine O'Hara:Penny (voice)
Avril Lavigne:Heather (voice)
Omid Djalili:Tiger (voice)
Sami Kirkpatrick:Bucky (voice)
Shane Baumel:Spike (voice)
Madison Davenport:Quillo (voice)
Zoe Randol:Mackenzie (voice)
Jessica Di Cicco:Shelby (voice)
Debra Wilson:Debbie (voice)
Sean Bishop:Police Officer (voice)
Jeannie Elias:Janis (voice)
Kejon Kesse:Timmy (voice)
Paul Butcher:Skeeter (voice)
Sean Yazbeck:BBQ Barry (voice)
Geoffrey Pomeroy:Ranger (voice)
Joel McCrary:Dr. Dennis (voice)
Lee Bienstock:Lunch Table Larry (voice)
Brian Stepanek:Nugent the Dog (voice)
Produced by:
Bonnie Arnold:producer
Ellen Coss:associate producer
Jim Cox:co-executive producer
Bill Damaschke:executive producer
Christian Kubsch:associate producer
Production Companies:
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks SKG
Memorable Quotes :
RJ: Ok, what we're goin' for is a crazy, man-eating, rabid squirrel. Can you handle that?
Hammy the Squirrel: Umm excuse me!
[Raises hand]
RJ: Yes, Hammy.
Hammy the Squirrel: Rabbits are all cute and cuddly soo..
RJ: RABID, not rabbit.
Hammy the Squirrel: Ohhh... huh?
--
RJ: No, Hammy, not the cookie. I told you that cookie was junk!
Hammy the Squirrel: But I like the cookie.
--
RJ: That is an S.U.V. humans ride in them because they are slowly loosing their ability to walk.
Lew the Porcupine: Wow it's huge!
Hammy the Squirrel: How many people fit in there?
RJ: Usually,..one.
--
Hammy the Squirrel: Wanna help me find my nuts?
RJ: Very tempting, Hammy, very tempting..
--
Dwayne: [after shooting the head off a plastic flamingo] Arrrgh! Not again! Those things are so lifelike! Curse you, plastic moldsmen.
--
Hammy the Squirrel: I am a crazy, rabid squirrel! I want my cookies!
--
Ozzie: Mother, is that you? Beckoning me into the light? Must... move... toward... the light!
--
RJ: [Lays down some Monopoly play pieces] Okay, this is us.
Hammy the Squirrel: Can I be the car?
Bucky: I wanna be the car!
Spike: I'm the car. You be the shoe.
Bucky: The shoe is lame.
Lou: Why don't you be that snazzy-looking iron there?
RJ: Hey! It's not important. Besides, I'm the car. I'm always the car.
--
Ozzie: I thought you were dead.
Heather: I learned from the best.
Ozzie: That's my girl.
--
Dwayne: I believe someone phoned about an animal problem? The solution is standing before you. Dwayne LaFontaine is here.
Gladys: Where have you been? I am throwing a Welcome to the Neighborhood party tomorrow, and so far, Debbie's car has killed more animals than you have.
Dwayne: Stand down, sister. I personally guaranty that there won't be a living thing at this party. The Verminator is on the job.
--
Verne: I thought we'd be dead by step two, so this is going great.
--
Hammy the Squirrel: [Runs to one end of the hedge] It never ends! [Runs to the other end and back]
Hammy the Squirrel: It never ends that way, too.
--
Hammy the Squirrel: [meekly] But I like the cookie!
--
Stella: Don't even ask about the cork!
--
Tiger: Stella? Stella? Where are you going? Stella? STEEEELLLLLLAAAAAAA!
--
RJ: That's a diaper, and that DOES come out of a wazoo.
--
Stella: You mean you don't mind the smell?
Tiger: This face was bred for Beauty. I cannot smell a thing.
--
RJ: They ALWAYS got food with them. We eat to live - these guys live to eat! Let me show you what I'm talking about! The human mouth is called a 'piehole', the human being is called a 'couch potato'. THAT is a device to summon food. That is one of the many voices of food. THAT is the portal for the passing of food. THAT is one of the many food transportation vehicles. Humans bring the food, take the food, ship the food, they DRIVE food, they WEAR the food! THAT gets the food hot! THAT keeps the food cold! That, I'm not sure what that is. Well, what do you know? FOOD! THAT is the altar where they WORSHIP food! That's what they eat when they've eaten TOO MUCH food! THAT gets rid of the guilt so they can eat MORE FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOOOOD! So, you think they have enough? Well, they don't. For humans, enough is NEVER enough! And what do they do with the stuff they don't eat? They put it in gleaming silver cans, just for us! Dig in!
--
Hammy the Squirrel: I've had dirt, I don't like dirt, it tastes like dirt!
--
Verne: We want NOTHING, to do with ANYTHING, that's OVER THAT HEDGE!
--
Ozzie: I really thought you were dead!
Heather: I learned from the best.
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Hammy the Squirrel: [points angrily to his reflection in a car fender] THIS guy's not comin' with us, is he? 'Cause i dont want him to!
RJ: Oh, I have so much work to do
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Ozzie: Playing Possum is what we do. We die, so we live.
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Porcupine Children: [driving a van] It's just like Auto Homicide 3!
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Stella: I got makeup on my butt, dude!
--
Tiger: Stop! No one has ever spoken to me like that!
[beat]
Tiger: It is bold. I like it!
Soundtracks:
"Family of Me"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
"Heist"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
"Still"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
Plot Summary & Review:
Just whose backyard is it, anyway?
Spring has sprung, and Verne and his woodland friends awaken from their long winter's nap to discover that a tall, green "thing" has mysteriously cropped up right through the middle of their home. Enter RJ, an opportunistic raccoon, who explains that the world beyond the hedge is the "gateway to the good life" where peculiar creatures called humans live to eat, rather than eat to live.Suspicious and even a little jealous of RJ, the ever-cautious Verne wants to keep his blended family safely on their side of the hedge. But, proving the adage that one man's garbage is another man's—or rather animal's—treasure, the manipulative RJ tries to convince the woodland band that there is little to fear and everything to gain from their over-indulgent new neighbors. Eventually, RJ and Verne form an unlikely friendship as they learn to co-exist with—and even exploit—this strange new world called suburbia.
I watched the movie on: 19 May 2006
Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family
Directed by: Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick
Writing credits:
screenplay :Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton and Karey Kirkpatrick
characters: Michael Fry and T. Lewis
Cast: (in credits order)
Bruce Willis:RJ (voice)
Garry Shandling:Verne (voice)
Steve Carell:Hammy (voice)
Wanda Sykes:Stella (voice)
William Shatner:Ozzie (voice)
Nick Nolte:Vincent (voice)
Thomas Haden Church:Dwayne (voice)
Allison Janney:Gladys (voice)
Eugene Levy:Lou (voice)
Catherine O'Hara:Penny (voice)
Avril Lavigne:Heather (voice)
Omid Djalili:Tiger (voice)
Sami Kirkpatrick:Bucky (voice)
Shane Baumel:Spike (voice)
Madison Davenport:Quillo (voice)
Zoe Randol:Mackenzie (voice)
Jessica Di Cicco:Shelby (voice)
Debra Wilson:Debbie (voice)
Sean Bishop:Police Officer (voice)
Jeannie Elias:Janis (voice)
Kejon Kesse:Timmy (voice)
Paul Butcher:Skeeter (voice)
Sean Yazbeck:BBQ Barry (voice)
Geoffrey Pomeroy:Ranger (voice)
Joel McCrary:Dr. Dennis (voice)
Lee Bienstock:Lunch Table Larry (voice)
Brian Stepanek:Nugent the Dog (voice)
Produced by:
Bonnie Arnold:producer
Ellen Coss:associate producer
Jim Cox:co-executive producer
Bill Damaschke:executive producer
Christian Kubsch:associate producer
Production Companies:
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks SKG
Memorable Quotes :
RJ: Ok, what we're goin' for is a crazy, man-eating, rabid squirrel. Can you handle that?
Hammy the Squirrel: Umm excuse me!
[Raises hand]
RJ: Yes, Hammy.
Hammy the Squirrel: Rabbits are all cute and cuddly soo..
RJ: RABID, not rabbit.
Hammy the Squirrel: Ohhh... huh?
--
RJ: No, Hammy, not the cookie. I told you that cookie was junk!
Hammy the Squirrel: But I like the cookie.
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RJ: That is an S.U.V. humans ride in them because they are slowly loosing their ability to walk.
Lew the Porcupine: Wow it's huge!
Hammy the Squirrel: How many people fit in there?
RJ: Usually,..one.
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Hammy the Squirrel: Wanna help me find my nuts?
RJ: Very tempting, Hammy, very tempting..
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Dwayne: [after shooting the head off a plastic flamingo] Arrrgh! Not again! Those things are so lifelike! Curse you, plastic moldsmen.
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Hammy the Squirrel: I am a crazy, rabid squirrel! I want my cookies!
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Ozzie: Mother, is that you? Beckoning me into the light? Must... move... toward... the light!
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RJ: [Lays down some Monopoly play pieces] Okay, this is us.
Hammy the Squirrel: Can I be the car?
Bucky: I wanna be the car!
Spike: I'm the car. You be the shoe.
Bucky: The shoe is lame.
Lou: Why don't you be that snazzy-looking iron there?
RJ: Hey! It's not important. Besides, I'm the car. I'm always the car.
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Ozzie: I thought you were dead.
Heather: I learned from the best.
Ozzie: That's my girl.
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Dwayne: I believe someone phoned about an animal problem? The solution is standing before you. Dwayne LaFontaine is here.
Gladys: Where have you been? I am throwing a Welcome to the Neighborhood party tomorrow, and so far, Debbie's car has killed more animals than you have.
Dwayne: Stand down, sister. I personally guaranty that there won't be a living thing at this party. The Verminator is on the job.
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Verne: I thought we'd be dead by step two, so this is going great.
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Hammy the Squirrel: [Runs to one end of the hedge] It never ends! [Runs to the other end and back]
Hammy the Squirrel: It never ends that way, too.
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Hammy the Squirrel: [meekly] But I like the cookie!
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Stella: Don't even ask about the cork!
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Tiger: Stella? Stella? Where are you going? Stella? STEEEELLLLLLAAAAAAA!
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RJ: That's a diaper, and that DOES come out of a wazoo.
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Stella: You mean you don't mind the smell?
Tiger: This face was bred for Beauty. I cannot smell a thing.
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RJ: They ALWAYS got food with them. We eat to live - these guys live to eat! Let me show you what I'm talking about! The human mouth is called a 'piehole', the human being is called a 'couch potato'. THAT is a device to summon food. That is one of the many voices of food. THAT is the portal for the passing of food. THAT is one of the many food transportation vehicles. Humans bring the food, take the food, ship the food, they DRIVE food, they WEAR the food! THAT gets the food hot! THAT keeps the food cold! That, I'm not sure what that is. Well, what do you know? FOOD! THAT is the altar where they WORSHIP food! That's what they eat when they've eaten TOO MUCH food! THAT gets rid of the guilt so they can eat MORE FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOOOOD! So, you think they have enough? Well, they don't. For humans, enough is NEVER enough! And what do they do with the stuff they don't eat? They put it in gleaming silver cans, just for us! Dig in!
--
Hammy the Squirrel: I've had dirt, I don't like dirt, it tastes like dirt!
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Verne: We want NOTHING, to do with ANYTHING, that's OVER THAT HEDGE!
--
Ozzie: I really thought you were dead!
Heather: I learned from the best.
--
Hammy the Squirrel: [points angrily to his reflection in a car fender] THIS guy's not comin' with us, is he? 'Cause i dont want him to!
RJ: Oh, I have so much work to do
--
Ozzie: Playing Possum is what we do. We die, so we live.
--
Porcupine Children: [driving a van] It's just like Auto Homicide 3!
--
Stella: I got makeup on my butt, dude!
--
Tiger: Stop! No one has ever spoken to me like that!
[beat]
Tiger: It is bold. I like it!
Soundtracks:
"Family of Me"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
"Heist"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
"Still"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
Plot Summary & Review:
Just whose backyard is it, anyway?
Spring has sprung, and Verne and his woodland friends awaken from their long winter's nap to discover that a tall, green "thing" has mysteriously cropped up right through the middle of their home. Enter RJ, an opportunistic raccoon, who explains that the world beyond the hedge is the "gateway to the good life" where peculiar creatures called humans live to eat, rather than eat to live.Suspicious and even a little jealous of RJ, the ever-cautious Verne wants to keep his blended family safely on their side of the hedge. But, proving the adage that one man's garbage is another man's—or rather animal's—treasure, the manipulative RJ tries to convince the woodland band that there is little to fear and everything to gain from their over-indulgent new neighbors. Eventually, RJ and Verne form an unlikely friendship as they learn to co-exist with—and even exploit—this strange new world called suburbia.
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