Scary MoVie (5)

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My take:

Funny, for the first few minutes during the screen time of Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan. It's funny because put in some of their real life issues in it. Like it when the narrator says 'The police arrest Lohan out of habit...'

As usual, Scary Movies, is a spoofs after spoofs after spoofs kind of movie. But I must say that guy who portrays Leo in the Inception spoof is kinda look like Leo. 

Not too bad a movie. Can have a few giggle here and there on the silliness..

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Taken 2

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My take:

Well, the first movie was a hit, this is a miss.

Basically the father of one of the kidnappers is back for revenge as Liam killed his son in the first movie. This time they took his wife. If all the bad guys father come back for a revenge, we will have never ending sequels to every movies!

Same formula. But it's not working anymore. 

Maybe he should just remain as a meme.

Please, no part 3 please..

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Furious 6

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My take:

This movie is very ridiculous.

For a start, only 2 police officers are assigned to a case where the bad guys are wanted in dunno how many continents over dunno how many crimes. Then comes the most ridiculous scene:

The girl flew from a tank from an impact, the guy then crash his car to form an impact to fly over and catch the girl in mid air to end up on a car on the other side of the highway. Can win Bollywood man!!

Then ending, they all fight fight on a runway to stop a plane from taking off. Throughout all the fight, which lasted dunno how many minutes, it can only be assumed that the runway is this long:

At the same runway, a girl fell off from a car onto the runway. But the scene looks like she fell off a cliff but hello, the height of the car to the runway is maybe 2 meters high..? Takkan like that also can die while the 2 (refer to above) flew across the highway and survive.

Lastly, they kill off the only asian guy in the team to sneak peak on the next F&F movie. Hollywood, oh hollywood.

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Kidnapping Miyabi

Main casts: Alessia Cestaro, Hardi Fadhillah, Kevin Julio, Maria Ozawa

The story basically goes like this:

A group of 3 college kids' idol, Maria Ozawa aka Miyabi is coming to Jakarta. Feeling excited, they decided to meet and greet her at the airport but after some crazy mishaps, they ended up kidnapping Miyabi. But, Miyabi actually missed her flight and they got the wrong girl.

My take:

Rather lame storyline and some over-acting especially the fake Miyabi. If they exclude Maria Ozawa in the movie, I think nobody wanna watch this. Try rename this to Kidnapping Losmah and see got ppl wanna watch onot.. hahaha :P

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

oh btw, Miyabi is a pretty porn star in Japan who is very famous in Indonesia:


So, enjoy the movie!

High Tension

Main casts: Cécile De France,Maïwenn Le Besco,

The story basically goes like this:

Alexia and Marie travel back to Marie's farm in a small town and a sadistic murderer broke into the the house late at nite, killing everyone but tied up Alexia while Marie managed to escape. Then Marie fight back to save her friend from the sadistic murderer. Read more about this here.

My take:

The story is quite entertaining as the mystery of why that guy wanted to kill the entire family. However, the ending is not something new. Too many movies use this formula and after knowing the reasons, the movie is somehow sounds ridiculous and some scenes are just doesn't make sense..
I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

The Reef

Main casts: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley and Adrienne Pickering

The story basically goes like this:

A group of friends went snorkeling in the open sea only to find their boat breakdown and sinking in the middle of the sea. They have 2 options, either to wait for help which no one knows when will that be, or swin 12 hours to the nearest shore. But they forgot that there are sharks. Read more about it here.

My take:

The story is quite intense as you can see the friends are desperately in need of help and glimpses of sharks hovering around them in the middle of the sea. Not too much gore but seeing each of them end up being the sharks' snack is *ahem* entertaining :D

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

The Ghost Must Be Crazy

Main casts: Wang Lei, Mark Lee, Dennis Chew, John Cheng, Henry Thia

The story basically goes like this:

The movie breaks into 2 stories. The first one is about the army where during one of the exercise night, 2 veteran soldiers encountered ghosts in the jungle after some unfortunate series of events. The 2nd story is about a man who is facing bad luck in love asked for some blessing from the spirits and got what he wanted but have to face the consequences. Read more about it here.

My take:

The stories are highly predictable. If it’s a comedy, why I just chuckled only once or twice? If it’s a scary movie, why I wanna fall asleep while watching? Not really entertaining and some of the scenes are just too unrealistically overboard.

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

The Roommate

Main casts: Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester

The story basically goes like this:

A new student Sara checked into a college and met her new roommate Rebecca. Rebecca started to be overly protective of Sara and do crazy to keep Sara by her side, including murdering Sara’s friends . Read more about it here.

My take:

The story is nothing new, crazy roommates. Too many movies are based on this theme oredi lorr..

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Marriage with a Liar

Main casts: Chrissie Chau, Him Lau

The story basically goes like this:

Few days before marriage, the couple Jerry and Kiki had an ‘accidental’ fling and both are covering their flings from each other. Then comes their friends discovering their flings and promised to keep quiet for not spoiling the marriage. Read more about it here.

My take:

The story is so-so, the acting also mamatei. But Chrissie is yummy to look at albeit being a bitch :P

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movie!

Splice

Tagline: Science's Newest Miracle ... Is A Mistake

Main casts: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac

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

Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

My take:

Dren is actually not a pretty sight. Bald, eyes too far apart from each other and with legs of similar to goats. Storyline quite ok. But not too interestong and some parts can be draggy. This guy Adrien Brody always got this look of 'fishing for sympathy'. Actually I am quiet curious on how they turn a pretty girl into a hybrid species.

from chick to freak

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

Accident

The story basically goes like this:

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

Brain (Louis Koo) lead a team of 4 members hitman creating an accident scene in eliminating their target instead of just killing them like normal hitman does. But one day after executing one perfectly choreographed 'accident' scene, one of the team members was accidentally hit by a bus. Paranoid, and after choreographing so many accidents, Brain believes that this is not an accident, but a conspiracy to eliminate his team. He started to suspect his team members in turning against him and another person who is related to his previous assignment. After all the tensed and suspense moments, finally he found out that what had happened... is really an accident..

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My take:

Quite nice lah. Something new. But towards half way of the movie is abit boring already. Like no development and towards the ending is like, huh? Actually quite good.. But at the same time not so good. Do you feel like you accidentally read this review? Say yes because I am trying to create an accident scene here. OMG, I am so successful :D

If this happens in real world:

Mr Brain must be really brainy to think of an accident which looks like a real accident, taken into account of so many factors, including timing and human behavior..

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

My Ex (แฟนเก่า)

The story basically goes like this:

One girl committed suicide after finding out her actor boyfriend is cheating on her with another actress. She becomes a ghost and back to seek revenge.

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My take:

The story is a good scary idea but the storyline halfway through is getting out of hand and starting to sound ridiculous. The ghost is scary but when she starts killing people like literally killing people by pulling them into the room and blood starting pouring out, this is ridiculous. Where got ghost kill people so violent one? Ghost only scares the shit of of people ma, where got so kuajiong one...

If this happens in real world:

Almost half of the world population is suicidal because of infidelity. Me not included in the statistics ok!

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

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 finish downloading the power intercepted and fight, with Wind looks like a ghost (due to his evil training) and Cloud with his new sword skills. They managed to kill Lord Godless but Wind had lost himself to the evil side and started killing the innocence. Last last cloud managed to save him out from stepping deeper into the dark side but...... (buy tickets and watch la the ending)

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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!

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.

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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!

Shuttle

Tagline: Never Ride With A Stranger

The story basically goes like this:

2 guys and 2 girls arrived late 1 rainy nite at a not so busy airport. Since it's late, the only ride to the city is the last mini bus. There is already 1 passenger in the bus and adding the 4 with the driver, 6 of them now heads towards to city. But the driver had another plan for the passengers. The ride ends up with screaming, killing, stabbing etc.. just to end with the 2 girls being in the cage, ready to be shipped out as a cargo.

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My take:

So, human trafficking. Something new in the horror/thriller genre? Not sure if this is new but I seldom see movies that focus on human trafficking. The movie is abit draggy. And how can 2 guys and 2 guys can't even beat a driver and his accomplice knowing very well they are in danger? Anyway, there is some elements of suspense and the motive of the driver is not shown until the end of the movie. General knowledge: Stuff to be prepared in human trafficking includes, a cage, some breads, few bottles of water and a kitty's litter box.

Food to go along with this: Bread and water. But please poopoo in the toilet.

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, try to enjoy the movies!

A Perfect Getaway

Tagline: Let The Games Begin


The story basically goes like this:

6 couples, 2 murderers. Who leh? One couple is nice and lovely, the other couple is wild and rugged and the last couple is like natural born killer. Based on Hollywood’s formula, it’s pretty obvious who are the baddies. The nice couples on honeymoon in Hawaii. That time, another couple got murdered and murderer is still on the loose. On the way they met the other 2 couples. All of them end up at the waterfall thingy and that’s where nice couples shows their true colors. The as usual the bad guys were sent back to their creator.

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My take:

This movie was shown in local cinemas few weeks ago. The story is ok. Quite entertaining. But too predictable. Not even halfway of the movie can already predict who is the real killers. But Milla Jovovich is in it! That adds extra credit for being yummy to the eyes.

Food to go along with this: BBQ Chicken Wings and Pineapple Juice

I rate this movie 3.5/5 buttered popcorns. (0.5 is for Milla)

So, enjoy the movies!

Babysitter Wanted

Tagline: No Experience Necessary

The story basically goes like this:

A student, desperately need money to pay for her college fees, took up a babysitter job for a nice couple in the suburb. But the kid's diet abit strange, he eats diced almost raw red meat. Later the girl found out the kid is actually a mini devil, with horns. Then the parents came back and knowing the girl found out the truth, they decided to slaughter the girl to feed the devil kid. End end all fight and with the help of a sheriff, they managed to kill the parents but the kid is missing. A sequel perhaps?

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My take:

This is just another home alone girl with a slasher hanging around to get her life but with a fresh twist. The story is not really logical but the entertainment values are there. And there are moments of suspense too. Kid with horns = funny!

Food to go along with this: Lamb Chop with Sirap Limau Ais

I rate this movie 3/5 buttered popcorns.

So, enjoy the movies!