Thursday, December 24, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Inglorious Basterds
Tagline: Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...
The story basically goes like this:
A team of American-Jews headed by Lt. Raine (Brat Pitt), calling themselves 'The Basterds' on a vengeance killing spree of the Nazis during WW2. At the same time, a girl, whose whole family was killed by the Nazis few years back had her path crossed again with the Nazis while operating a small cinema in France. A handsome soldier who stars in a Nazis propaganda movie decided to push the premier screening of his movie to this girl's cinema not knowing her deep hatred towards the Nazis. So, she came up with a plan to gather all the Nazis in her cinema and half way through the screening, lock up the cinema and burn the whole cinema down. Since this screening is such a huge event, it attracts the besterds as well to infiltrate 2 bombers into the cinema to blow up the whole cinema during the screening. The cinema did burnt down with all the big shots nazis inside, but not according to the original plan..
Read more of it here.
My take:
Wow this movie is a boomz! But I maybe bias because I love Quentin Tarantino's movies. As usual, QT's movies are loaded with dialogs and this is the same. It makes you want to know what they are talking about and how the story goes. The story line is interesting with the nazi characters you love to hate. And the climax ending is awesome.
If this happens in real world:
I wanna join the basterds! ra! ra! ra!
Food to go along with this: Pork knuckles! yummy!
I rate this movie 5/5 buttered popcorns.
So, try to enjoy the movies!
The story basically goes like this:A team of American-Jews headed by Lt. Raine (Brat Pitt), calling themselves 'The Basterds' on a vengeance killing spree of the Nazis during WW2. At the same time, a girl, whose whole family was killed by the Nazis few years back had her path crossed again with the Nazis while operating a small cinema in France. A handsome soldier who stars in a Nazis propaganda movie decided to push the premier screening of his movie to this girl's cinema not knowing her deep hatred towards the Nazis. So, she came up with a plan to gather all the Nazis in her cinema and half way through the screening, lock up the cinema and burn the whole cinema down. Since this screening is such a huge event, it attracts the besterds as well to infiltrate 2 bombers into the cinema to blow up the whole cinema during the screening. The cinema did burnt down with all the big shots nazis inside, but not according to the original plan..
Read more of it here.
My take:
Wow this movie is a boomz! But I maybe bias because I love Quentin Tarantino's movies. As usual, QT's movies are loaded with dialogs and this is the same. It makes you want to know what they are talking about and how the story goes. The story line is interesting with the nazi characters you love to hate. And the climax ending is awesome.
If this happens in real world:
I wanna join the basterds! ra! ra! ra!
Food to go along with this: Pork knuckles! yummy!
I rate this movie 5/5 buttered popcorns.
So, try to enjoy the movies!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Storm Warriors
The story basically goes like this:If you watched the Storm Riders before, the movie is about the brotherhood of 2 heroes, namely Wind and Cloud. This movie starts off with Wind (Ekin), Cloud (Aaron Kwok) and another hero named Nameless (Ho Kaking) defeated by a Japanese villian named Lord Godless (Simon Yam) and his sidekick/son Heart (Nicholas Tse). The trio managed to escape to rebuild their strength before another face off with Lord Godless. During their hideout, Wind found a sifu to build his strength through evil (think Venom and Spidey) while Cloud got his additional strength from the remaining strength of Nameless. Meanwhile, Lord Godless expanded his power throughout China and managed to capture the emperor to get hold of the ultimate power, which is the Dragon Spine (something like a skeletal belt). Before Lord Godless got hold of that bone, Wind and Cloud
Read more of it here.
My take:
Very good CGI. Some scenes looks like 300. Very cool characters and poses. Very nice choreographic. Very sharp audio and sound effects. But I think this movie got the least lines in HK movies. The characters seldom talk. Each of them has less than 10 lines dialog. But the eyes, the action and the music and the whatsnot manage to convey what they wanted to say. Story wise, not very strong. The ending is not complete, maybe a part 3? The 2 ladies (Cloud and Wind gf respectively) are abit annoying with all the names calling (Wan Taiko, Fung Taiko etc). Overall, this is only a feast to the sight and sound.
If this happens in real world:
If you walk and talk and sit and pose like Wind and Cloud, people will think you come from Jinjang. Barn sai yeh!!
EXTRAS:
Can someone confirm that there is a Love symbol on Lord Godless vest?Food to go along with this: Hokkien Mee and Chinese Tea lor..
I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.
So, try to enjoy the movies!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Astro Boy
Tagline: Have A Blast
The story basically goes like this:
Metro City, a city that floats in the sky is highly sophisticated that robots are used everywhere. One day, while doing an experiment, Toby, son of a top scientist was killed accidentally. His father Dr Tenma then rebuild back his son into a form of a robot but his memory is being restored by DNA and a Blue Core as his heart. But later Dr Tenma realised the new Toby that he built is not his son anymore. So, he rejected Toby and long story short, he falls down to the earth surface. On the surface, Toby the robot met some kids and they name him Astro. Back to Metro City, they need the Blue Core in Astro Boy to activate another robot which will help the major wins the election. So the came to the surface and capture Astro to deactivate him so that the Blue Core can be transfered out. But Astro managed to escape this and finally, the major used a Red Core (evil one la) to activate his new robot to fight Astro. Ending who wins? If you can't get this right, poke blind ur own eyes.
Read more of it here.
My take:
Another movie based on a Hollywood's formula. The story almost the same as Lion King. Happy starting, then something went wrong, then the hero joins the normal folks, then trigger back his heroism, then back to his own place, fight evil, ends. Alot of movies is based on this formula, betul tak? The animation is nice not so interesting. But then again, it's a Hollywood's production. Just enjoy the visual. The story can be ignored.
If this happens in real world:
All the people is Metro City will become obese. Remember Wall-E? That's what will happen if we too rely on robots to perform our daily work.
Food to go along with this: Burgers and Softdrinks (in the future, real food is non existence)
I rate this movie 2/5 buttered popcorns.
So, try to enjoy the movies!
The story basically goes like this:Metro City, a city that floats in the sky is highly sophisticated that robots are used everywhere. One day, while doing an experiment, Toby, son of a top scientist was killed accidentally. His father Dr Tenma then rebuild back his son into a form of a robot but his memory is being restored by DNA and a Blue Core as his heart. But later Dr Tenma realised the new Toby that he built is not his son anymore. So, he rejected Toby and long story short, he falls down to the earth surface. On the surface, Toby the robot met some kids and they name him Astro. Back to Metro City, they need the Blue Core in Astro Boy to activate another robot which will help the major wins the election. So the came to the surface and capture Astro to deactivate him so that the Blue Core can be transfered out. But Astro managed to escape this and finally, the major used a Red Core (evil one la) to activate his new robot to fight Astro. Ending who wins? If you can't get this right, poke blind ur own eyes.
Read more of it here.
My take:
Another movie based on a Hollywood's formula. The story almost the same as Lion King. Happy starting, then something went wrong, then the hero joins the normal folks, then trigger back his heroism, then back to his own place, fight evil, ends. Alot of movies is based on this formula, betul tak? The animation is nice not so interesting. But then again, it's a Hollywood's production. Just enjoy the visual. The story can be ignored.
If this happens in real world:
All the people is Metro City will become obese. Remember Wall-E? That's what will happen if we too rely on robots to perform our daily work.
Food to go along with this: Burgers and Softdrinks (in the future, real food is non existence)
I rate this movie 2/5 buttered popcorns.
So, try to enjoy the movies!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Shorts
Tagline: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock
I rate this movie 2/5 buttered popcorns.
So, try to enjoy the movies!
The story basically goes like this:
It's a simple story of few kids in a small town called Black Falls discovered a little rainbow rock that can grant any wish to whoever is holding it. The wishing rock is fun at first where the kids ask for ridiculous stuff but then when the adults found out, as usual, greed took over and it's havoc.
Read more of it here.
My take:
It's a fun movie if you are a kid. The story is simple and straightforward but abit lame. I think there is a formula book in Hollywood. Peaceful town, something happens, then havoc, then hero saves the day, then happy ending. Oh btw, the movie is called Shorts because it's consist of 4 or 5 short stories, inter-related, all on the rainbow rock but not in sequence. Go figure.
If this happens in real world:
I will take the rock and wish for world peace. Then only ask for unlimited supplies of cash.
Food to go along with this: Something light, like Pocky chocolate stick.
It's a simple story of few kids in a small town called Black Falls discovered a little rainbow rock that can grant any wish to whoever is holding it. The wishing rock is fun at first where the kids ask for ridiculous stuff but then when the adults found out, as usual, greed took over and it's havoc.
Read more of it here.
My take:
It's a fun movie if you are a kid. The story is simple and straightforward but abit lame. I think there is a formula book in Hollywood. Peaceful town, something happens, then havoc, then hero saves the day, then happy ending. Oh btw, the movie is called Shorts because it's consist of 4 or 5 short stories, inter-related, all on the rainbow rock but not in sequence. Go figure.
If this happens in real world:
I will take the rock and wish for world peace. Then only ask for unlimited supplies of cash.
Food to go along with this: Something light, like Pocky chocolate stick.
I rate this movie 2/5 buttered popcorns.
So, try to enjoy the movies!
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