Apparently I am now sick enough to have 3 days off work. I don’t really feel it, but it’s infectious so I ain’t bringing it to work with me.
For the last couple of weeks, I have been tirelessly going through a pile of movies. Just because, you know, I didn’t quite have the chance before to do so. I never knew movie marathons can be quite so tiring (and effectively ruining the “tirelessly” bit). This is what I watched:
1) Feel the Noise
one word: Sucked. The trailer looked awesome, it sounded hot and it looked like it was going to be hot. However, it appears the trailer was more exciting than the whole movie. the plot is, at best, flimsy. The storyline and the dialogues was so lame, the music offered was good at the start. then they repeated the same song literally, what, 10 times throughout the movie.
The dance, which was what drew me to the movie at first, was clubbin’ level, so nothing great about it other than a nice hot ass to look at. and even that was mostly hidden after the first 5 mins of seeing it. This is from a character who claims she wants to go to america to learn dancing! Better dancing was offered by the extras, but lasted all of 2 minutes of screen time.
2/10: 1 point for the good start, 1 point for the nice ass viewage.
2) Bourne Trilogy:
I am pretty sure that I have seen the first movie and bits and pieces of the last movie. For the life of me, however, I could recall nothing about those movies until I re-watched the both, plus the one in the middle. They were good value, however, and I loved them all. The fight scenes were beautifully execeuted and I wished I could fight like that.
oh, not to mention Matt Damon is hot hot hot, especially when he starts spewing German. I could eat those lips.
9/10
3) Make it Happen
Another dance related movie… and I actually bought this because I thought why the hell not. Burlesque dancing was stated in the summary, and yeah… maybe I am into burlesque hrrmmm…
I am a little confused about this show, as in how I feel about it. I love some of the dance scenes, particularly the last one and a couple of the “burlesque” ones.
What annoyed me were some of the finer details, like how she was the only street-ish dancer in the audition room scene, and everyone else was a ballet dancer. And while I am not well verse with burlesque dancing, I am pretty sure what they did in the movie doesn’t come close to burlesque.
The acting and script was also quite flawed in my opinion, sans that of the main actress. But one person can’t save the entire cast, so yeah….
4/10
4) Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick
Watched both of this, and one cannot be talked about without the other. Essentially about an escape convict and how he… really isn’t a bad person. hahaha…
Fight scenes were beautifully execeuted as well, and Vin Diesel & Alexa Davalos are both extremely hot. Him putting knee between her legs to lift her up was hot too!!! Storyline is awesome, to me anyways. I like the idea of aliens, cross-universe transportation/living/etc… it appeals to me much like star wars et al ever did.
Again, I watched part of Chronicles of Riddick somewhere, possibly during an exam period when i walked past the TV on occassions but didn’t stop to think or watch and the familiarity of it brought on more love.
8/10
5) State of Play
This is probably the first political thriller I have ever watched. Or at least, went to watch knowing that it is a political/journo thriller. The thing I utterly ruined for myself was knowing the twist at the end of the movie, thanks to Wikipedia, as I was terrified to death it would involve some scenes that would scar my brains.
Without knowing the twist, however, this is an extremely clever movie. It highlighted the possibilities of corruption in the real world, the workings of journalists and how much of an ass it can be to work as a journalist. It confronted the problems current journalists are facing (with the advent and rage of “citizen journalism”), as well as facing the realities of other aspects of a political/journalistical life. of course, some of it has been stretched and dragged around a little, it being a movie and all – doesn’t make it less of an interesting watch.
And the twist is still really clever, as well as the acting and filmography – makes me want to move to america and be a journo there hahahaha.
9/10
6) Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers was a big part of my childhood, even though I may not remember much of the series now. All I do remember is how much I loved optimus prime and the little casette tape bot thing. Watching Transformers movie was nothing more than admiring my childhood loves, and now I am watching it because it is Transformers.
and also to remind myself I have yet to capture the thief who stole my Transformers pencil box when I was in my first grade.
the danger with making sequels is, you often have to live up to the hype. I wouldn’t say that Transformers 2 didn’t quite live up to the hype, but it certainly wasn’t quite what I expected. The characters weren’t developing much and something about the storyline seems just a little off to me.
I did love the machine vs machine fight scenes though, and I absolutely adored the twins, Skids and Mudflaps and their mad chattering (and the voices were awesome too!). Megan Fox is still hot, and there was too little of her to be seen in the movie, i think :p
There was just something missing in the movie, but, and I can’t put my finger on it. more dialogue maybe? less fast tracking of the main storylines maybe? Seeing Megatron all submissive to the Fallen? perhaps. It did give me one thing though – finally understanding where the hell Optimus got his wings from ahhaha
8/10
7) Batman: The Dark Knight
When the movie was first released, I didn’t want to see it because there was just too much hype over it. “Heath Ledger’s last film” or “Talent that was ignored” or blah blah blah. The thing about newspapers is, they only really cared that much about you if 1) you have fucked up or 2) if you’re dead. Michael Jackson’s life was an epitome of all that, with absolute crashing hypocritism. I mean, they HATED him and dragged it out about how he’s a paedophile, even after his acquittal. then suddenly, there was a massive mourning and feeling of loss when he died.
Face it, you guys still think he jerks off to little boys.
but, back to the movie.
Heath Ledger or not, Joker as a character was brilliantly performed. His fucked-up personality completely screwed with my head, and I loved it. Of course, the others were brilliant too, but the Joker’s personality can be hard to capture I had think, and hard for someone to let it shine through. So, acting and script-wise, it was all an ace.
Besides that, Harvey Dent was brilliantly played out too. The flawed good person. aaahhh
10/10
Ok, I am getting tired now. toodles!
