I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

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My take (spoilers ahead!):

Just like the previous I Spit movies, it's about a girl being raped by a few guy and survived. Then she is back for a bitter vengeance. 

This round it's about a model wannabe Katie who turned down a request by a photographer to do a topless shot. One of the photographers team went to her house and raped her and kidnapped her to Bulgaria where she is sold to a sick fat man for his sick fantasy. 

She managed to escaped after all the ordeal can come back to torture and kill each of her assailants.

The movie is quite entertaining but the ending screws up. It shouldn't end that way.

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Premium Rush

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My take:

A simple movie about a cyclist despatch Wille given a job to send an important document, so important that a smelly cop wanted to have it in order to pay off his gambling debts.

There goes the rush of a police chase around the city and how Wille manage to safely deliver it to the intended recipient.

Quite enjoyable to watch see cyclist zooming amongst the traffics.

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

A Little Thing Called Love

Main casts: Pimchanok Lerwisetpibol, Mario Maurer

The story basically goes like this:

It’s about this young dark specky with braces girl Nam falling for one of her handsome senior P’Sone in school. She did all the crazy stuff to get his attention. Few years later she becomes prettier and P’Sone best buddy P’Top falls for her. She rejected P’Top advances and gather all her courage to express her feeling for P’Sone but P’Sone already attached. Nam is heartbroken and went off to study in the US and they met again 9 years later. Read more about it here.

My take:

This is one damn romantic sweet movie. Love the story telling part and the ending. Might get diabetic by just watching. Dang!

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Bedevilled

Main casts: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji

The story basically goes like this:

It’s about a city girl Hae-won trying to get away from her problem and visited her childhood friend Bok-nam in a remote island, only to find out that she is treated as a slave by her relatives. Instead of helping her, she pretended she did not see anything and ignores her plea to help her escape. The abuse went overboard and Bok-nam started a killing spree on all the people who abused her, including her selfish friend Hae-won. Read more about it here.

My take:

This is one hell of a movie. It shows how a weak a person can be when surrounded by bullies within her family. And how a selfish friend can be. Issshh!!

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Frozen

Tagline: No one knows you're up there

Main casts: Emma Belle, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers

The story basically goes like this (shamelessly stole from here):

Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

My take:

A simple yet thrilling movie. Imagine stranded on the chairlift during winter. Jump down, will suffer broken bones. Sit there will freeze to death. Climb to safety, the razor-sharp cables will cut through ur skin. How? Which way would you choose to die? The atmosphere created is excellect to make you feel as if you are there, making decisions...

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

Aftershock

The story basically goes like this (shamelessly nicked from here):

Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976, Li Ni returns home only to find out that her 7-year-old twins are buried under the debris. She's left with a dilemma on deciding whom she chooses to save, her son, Fonda or her daughter, Fan Teng. She chooses to save her son in the end without knowing that Fan Teng overheard the decision being made. Miraculously, she manages to survive but suffers from the painful memory of her mother's decision. Later, a young couple adopts her but she remains traumatized by this childhood experience.

My take:

A very good movie. Tear jerker. A few touching moments especially when the grandmother wanted to take the mother’s son away to stay in another town after the tragedy. Worth a watch!

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

The Machinist

Tagline: How Do You Wake Up From A Nightmare If You're Not Asleep?

The story basically goes like this:

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

About this guy Trevor (Christian Bale) suffering for insomnia for one year until his body weight is like skeletal. Everyone is worried about his constant loss of weight and even his boss suspects him on taking drugs. One day while taking a break, he met a new employee named Ivan and things started to get strange. A series of unfortunate events happens and Trevor came to the conclusion that Ivan is planning a conspiracy againsts him. One thing lead to another and slowly the story reveals the reasons for his imsomnia. About 3 years ago Trevor involved in a hit-and-run where he knocked down a kid. That guilt slowly creeps up on him and causes his inability to doze off. At last, he gave himself in to the police, and had his sleep for the first time..

Read more of it here.

My take:

This is an interesting movie but the formula is not something new. Think Beautiful Mind, Fight Club, Identity. But Bane's character is really scary, looking at his skeletal built. Based on reliable source, he starved himself for 4 months with only a cup of coffee and an apple or a can of tuna to have that skeletal look before the shooting starts. All the characters are well-played and the story is keeps you wanting to know what is exactly happening.

If this happens in real world:

Trevor is already a permanent resident in Tanjung Rambutan.

Food to go along with this: Anything except coffee, apple and tuna.

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

Women In Trouble

Tagline: High Hopes, High Anxiety, High Heels.

The story basically goes like this:

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

This movie is about 10 girls with trouble. They are not related to each other but somehow their trouble has a slight connection. The troubles include stuck in an elevator, infidelity, porn, lesbian relationships, bestiality, and unusual sexual dysfunction, to name a few.

Read more of it here.

My take:

Quite a nice movie to watch. It's entertaining to see how each of them end up in deep shit and see the better side of it and encourage each other to overcome it. And one of the character, a dumb blonde porn star/hooker is very funny.

If this happens in real world:

Isn't this already happens in the real world...?

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

Law Abiding Citizen

Tagline: Justice At Any Cost

The story basically goes like this:

10 years ago 2 robbers (Darby and Ames), broke into Clyde's (Gerard Butler)home, killing both his wife and daughter. The prosecutor, Rice (Jamie Foxx) then make a deal with Darby where Ames will face the death sentence for murder while he (Darby) will get a light conviction just because he (Rice) wanted to maintain his 96% conviction rate. That's how the system works. 10 years later, while carrying out the death sentence through lethal injection on Ames, he dies an agonizing death but the lethal injection is supposed to be painless. Upon inspection, someone had changed the solutions thus the agonizing death. Moments later, Darby was found in a warehouse nearby, dismembered to 25 pieces. All the evidences leads to Clyde but it's insufficient to charge him unless he confesses that he did that to both Darby and Ames. While in detention, Rice kept pressuring Clyde to confess but Clyde just wanted to prove that the system has too many loopholes. Slowly, while still in detention, he still managed to kill the judge, Rice's boss, Rice's team, the attorney for Darby and Ames and just anyone involved in his case 10 years ago by just executing his pre-prepared plan..

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My take:

This is almost great movie! It's interesting to know how someone can still kill so many people while in detention just by having the right timing and superb planning. There is a point where I am confused as who is the villain here. Clyde or Rice? The story is well told but the ending is bad. If not of the bad ending, this will a great movie.

If this happens in real world:

Almost everyone in our judiciary system is dead.

Food to go along with this: A Quarter Pounder from McD will be great!

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

2012

Tagline: We Were Warned

The story basically goes like this:

Based on the Mayan's theory, the world will come to an end on 21st Dec 2012. This is the story of how a small family struggle to escape the catastrophe by smuggling themselves to join in with the rich and powerful to take refuge in a specially build ship when the world comes to an end. The movie starts with an introduction on the signs that the earth is very sick few years before 2012 and as 2012 approaches, all earthquakes and tsunamis hit the earth causing massive destructions on buildings and mankind..

Read more of it here.

My take:

I think the movie will be better if it goes the other direction. Instead of telling the story of how the rich and powerful people can build a ship and escape, why not just zoom into the life of normal peasants like you. The sad stories on how people prepare to face an event like that. Throw in some emo moments, like Tsunami At Haeundae. So when the story focus on the special huge ship it becomes like a sci-fi movie. Who wants to see a sci-fi movie when the world ends? Show la how a family bidding farewell to each other.. or how people react on such thing.. the tears, the farewell etc... And the movie gives me the impression that rich people's life is only worth saving? Mona Lisa portrait is more important than human lives? sigh.. Anyway, the special effects are awesome.

Food to go along with this: International buffet spread. What? This is an international disaster what...

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

Jennifer's Body

Tagline: She's Evil.. And Not Just High School Evil

The story basically goes like this:

The story is about 2 BFFs, Jennifer and Needy out for the nite to watch an Indie band in action. Some mishaps happens and Jennifer was ‘abducted’ by the band to perform a satanic sacrificial ritual. The band needed a virgin to be sacrificed to boost their popularity but unknown to Jennifer, she admitted she is a virgin (which she is not) because she thought they will not rape a virgin. Based on theory, during the sacrificial ritual, if she’s a non-virgin, satan will possessed the body of the girl, hence, ‘Jennifer’s Body’.. :) Anyway, Jennifer returns from the ritual, half human, half monster and need to eat human to stay fresh and pretty. There she goes, chomping guys in the high school until one day she decided to eat Needy’s bf. Last last Needy’s bf is dead and Needy ends up in the asylum. How? Go watch yourself.

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My take:

The story mamadei jek but Megan Fox is super hot after she’s freshen up eating guys. But when she is deprived from human’s flesh, she looks dull and tired and boring. That’s the power of make-ups :D Ok, let’s put Megan Fox aside. I think if not for Megan Fox, this movie will turn out to be just another gory kind of high school movie. The other characters are not really outstanding. Or maybe they were outshined by Megan? Oh wait, did I just say let’s put Megan Fox aside? Damn!

Food to go along with this: Lollipops!

I rate this movie 3.5/5 buttered popcorns. (If you think I will say 4/5 because of Megan Fox, you are damn right. 4/5 because of Megan Fox :P)

So, try to enjoy the movies!

Invitation Only

Tagline: Getting In Was The Easy Part

The story basically goes like this:

This movie is about this guy, a school drop out who works as a driver for a very rich businessman. One day, he saw his boss having a sex with a glamor model in the car. So, to shut his mouth, the boss pass him an invitation to a very exclusive party, cater only for the rich. At the party, he met a girl and few other 'first-timer' as the rest are regulars. After a warm welcome, the party begins. But this is not an ordinary party. Apparently all the first-timers are 'pushed' in by getting the invitation from someone else. Halfway through the party, this group of first-timers were hunted and dragged to the stage to be tortured alive, in front of the rich audience. Sick but true, this is their entertainment.Then the story goes continues on how the 2 of them struggling to escape the craziness of the party.

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My take:

This is the first Taiwanese slasher movie I watched, not to say I watch alot of Taiwanese movie :P. Anyway the movie is entertaining if you like some sort of gory horror. Lots of 'painful' scenes if you know what I mean. Oh, Maria Ozawa cameo as the model is olalah. I quite enjoted the movie as it keeps me seated wanting to know what will happen next or how they manage to survive and escape the mess.

Food to go along with this: Fries with lots of ketchup and maybe a glass of wine?

I rate this movie 3.5/5 buttered popcorns. (3/5 if not for Maria Ozawa)

So, enjoy the movies!

Orphan

Tagline: There's Something Wrong With Esther

The story basically goes like this:

A couple who lost an infant from childbirth. To make it up the loss, they decided to adopt a kid from the orphanage. At the orphanage, a girl named Esther is sitting alone in a room and painting a beautiful picture. Esther is talented in her painting and social skill and immediatly caught the heart of the couple. So, Esther moved in with the couple. Everything seems nice and sweet until she started to show her real evil side. She managed overturn the household just to achieve her motive.

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My take:

Pretty good movie. Lots of intense moments. Isabelle Fuhrman carried the role as Esther is quite good where she looks lovely in the beginning and you feel like strangling her towards the end. But there is some similarty with Aaron Kwok's Murderer. Not sure if there is any copycats but this movie is enjoyable and entertaining.

Food to go along with this: Maggi Asam Laksa Flavor and plain water

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movies!

MJ's This Is It

Tagline: Like You've Never Seen Him Before

The story basically goes like this:

No story. This is a documentary on the making of MJ's final concert, This Is It. The director compiled all the snippets from the rehearsals which transformed into a brilliant and awesome journey of the legend preparing himself for his concert. It features songs which he practices in the hall with the dancers and musicians and the crew.

Read more of it here.

My take:

Halfway through the movie, I suddenly felt abit emo realising that MJ is no longer with us. This is how enjoyable the movie is.. All the songs featured are MJ's hits which he performed live with the dancers and musicians. I was wondering, how does it feels for the dancers, who travels across the globe just to audition to be MJ's dancers and being selected. Then few months they are practicing very hard with MJ to perfect all the moves and when the show is about to begin, MJ is no longer here. The sudden feel of lost.. all the efforts.. all the sweats.. is like *snap* gone suddenly. RIP, MJ. You are great.

Food to go along with this: Popcorns and Coke (I enjoyed mine throughout the movie)

I rate this movie 4/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movies!