watch 50 movies in 2006

Didn’t know this one was challenging to do as well! Will not continue this goal in 2007 as it’s such a waste of time anyway!

I was praying this movie won’t mess up the comic for me…

Prayers answered. :p

For only RM4 (just a bit more than $1), my bootlegged DVD gave me around 2 hours of adrenaline rush. I was borderline jumping, screaming and throwing air-punches.

Sin City style cinematography. Perhaps they copied it because it worked so well for Sin City which was also adapted from a comic. Surreal Reality, for lack of better word. Niiiiiicccceeeeeeeee!!!!

Donnie Yen was very, very cool.

I grew up watching martial arts movies, I’ll never grow out of it!

Excellent!

Light hearted and fun enough…but am too tired to write any long review on it.

In other words, Rent it, don’t buy.

Can this be considered a movie? I think it is supposedly 3 parts. But anyway…

Quality was good enough, script was just ok (just!) but I hated the whole concept, the storyline and the simple fact that it’s essentially a chic flick disguised pretentiously as an ethnic-ethic-tradition-women questioning movie.

There are movies that inspires you to find yourself. There are movies that inspires you to look beyond the usual web of stereotypes. There are movies that makes you think.

And there are movies that inspires you to find out why the hell you are watching that very movie, and inspires you to look beyond the TV screen and thinking “watching that TV aerial is more interesting!”

It’s a movie about Indian communities as potrayed by 3 women. The core subject is of relationship. Arrange marriages, marriages in general, dating outside of the race…

I expected it to be good. I thought it would be. I mean, this is a movie that supposedly questions the Indian ideals of having girls married off. Unless you’re married, you’re a useless liability. I thought that was revolutionary thinking Indian-wise and I expected to be enlightened on this matter, besides the actors were all the royalty of British-Indian actors (I’m a fan of Sanjeev Bhaskar comedies) but I was very very disappointed.

It was annoying to watch and I can’t be bothered to watch the remaining two episodes.

Im a movie-watcher. Is that a word. I love movies. Im pretty sure that Ive watched atleast…100 movies so far this year…prolly more. I wont lie.

I was prepared to not like it since Orlando Bloom was there.

And I don’t like the fact that I like Orlando’s Balian in that movie. Sigh.

Lord Godfrey: (throws a sword beside a sleeping Balian) Pick it up. Let’s see what you’re made of.

Hospitaller: His hand is hurt, my Lord.

Lord Godfrey: I once fought two days with an arrow through my testicle.

Hospitaller: Oh.

Liam Neeson plays Godfrey. I wish he had a longer role in the movie, I would have loved him! But he died even before the movie reached halfway.

This is one of the movies I’d like to own. Interesting battle strategies and good enough battle scences to make me happy. Ancient warfare in movies always delights me!

I liked the script. Some favourite quotes:

“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here (points to head), and here (points to heart)-and by what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man. Or not.”

“You see, none of us chose our end really. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son. But remember that, even when those who move you be kings or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God you cannot say “but I was told by others to do thus” or that “virtue was not convinient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.”

(That was my most fave quote)

This one rings true…

Balian of Ibelin: What is Jerusalem worth?

Saladin: Nothing.[walks away]

Saladin: Everything!

And another one that rings true.

Saladin: Will you yield the city?

Balian: Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places – ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.

Saladin: I wonder if it would not be better if you did.

Know what’s funny?

Approximately 14,000 costumes were made for the movie. Some were made in Thailand and Turkey. The chain mails were made in China.

Everything is made in China nowadays!

This Korean movie is so funny I nearly farted out loud a few times because I was laughing so hard!

26 year old Cha Eun-jin is a gang leader in the Korean criminal underground. She was orphaned and separated from her older sister when she was still a child, has fought her way up the food chain to become the leader of her own gang.

Known in mob circles as Mantis, her skills in hand-to-hand and weapons combat are unsurpassed, and anyone who crosses her can expect a beating, her own men included. Having grown up in such a male-dominated and violence-prone environment, Eun-jin has adopted a tomboy lifestyle, walking, talking, and dressing like a man.

This is all turned upside-down when she is finally reunited with her long-lost sister who is dying from cancer. Her last wish before she passes on to the next world is to see Eun-jin get married and settle down.

This is where the comic starts. She sends out her men to find a husband for her, ASAP!

To make her more “womanly”, her men hire a professional to give Eun-jin a makeover and give her dating lessons, this ends up backfiring as she keeps lapsing back into gangster mode.

Finally, Eun-jin settles on Kang Su-il a civil servant who has no idea what is going on most of the time. Seeing Su-il as the quickest way to fulfill her sister’s dying wish, Eun-jin gets hitched, which is when the fun really begins, as she tries to play housewife to the clueless Su-il while continuing to run her gangland operations. And if that wasn’t enough, the dying sister makes one more request: for Eun-jin to become a mother.

Tough-as-nails mob boss trying to get in touch with her feminine side. The film’s first half is a laugh riot as Eun-jin is faced with things that the mean streets of Seoul never taught her, such as how to wear high heels, how to go on a date, or what to do in bed. The husband is a sympathetic and lovably dumb as a man whose ideas about love and marriage are almost as naive as Eun-jin’s.

Very entertaining! Super! HAHAHA!

27. American Pie 1
28. American Pie 2
29. American Pie 3

I watched all 3 in one go, on Saturday. I just came back from the Rainforest Festival and my wisdom tooth was bothering me from the yelling and cheering, the dancing and the samba-salsaing.

I hate to think about pain. So whenever I’m in pain, I busy myself so that I get distracted (works better than painkillers, and you get things done too!)

So I stupidly plug in American Pie(s) thinking that I’d have a good laugh and forget my pain.

I did have a good laugh. A great one, in fact. But the laugh makes my jaw sorer, and I was in more pain.

At least I dragged my butt to watch something, no….3 things that half of the world population have already watched yonks ago!

Why did I end up watching this stupid movie?

The combination of Hillary Duff and Chad Michael Murray….oh God. Apparently He refused to have mercy on my soul last night!

Not worth the watch. Too damn stupid to even be entertaining. I mean, come on!

Sypnosis

I refuse to shame myself any longer.

Amanda Bynes is really, really funny.

Even the tagline I thought was interesting and funny:

Everybody has a secret… Duke wants Olivia who likes Sebastian who is really Viola whose brother is dating Monique so she hates Olivia who’s with Duke to make Sebastian jealous who is really Viola who’s crushing on Duke who thinks she’s a guy…

When a teenage girl, Viola, discovers that her soccer team has been cut from her school, she disguises herself as her twin brother and takes his place at his new boarding school for two weeks. Comedy ensues when she falls in love with her new roommate, Duke, and finds herself the object of affection of the beautiful Olivia, the girl whom Duke loves.

Oik!

This movie, actually, is a modernization of the original “Twelfth Night, or What You Will” by William Shakespeare.

Fun fun fun fun!

Especially when someone kicked the ball to Viola’s (who was still impersonating her brother at that time) crotch and she didn’t react at first…then she realized that she should be screaming in pain because of “anatomic” reason. Watch this part.

{ROFL}