Buried

We watched it last night and all I can say is... damn, this is one god damn cheap movie. Not cheap as in.. you know.. a slut, i mean it's cheap in term of money. I don't exactly know what is the cost actually, but I guess it is cheap considering we can see only, I mean it, only Ryan Reynolds the whole long movie. Plus few props like a zippo and a cellphone. So I guess if it is not because of Ryan Reynolds, this movie perhaps way cheaper than a a porn movie. A porn movie at least have two stars. Even a masturbate porn movie will require a dildo, provided the dildo is more expensive than a cellphone. Ok cut the crap.

But to this date the film managed to collect a mere USD3.2 mil worldwide. How the fuck they gonna pay Ryan Reynolds with that?

Okay cut the crap already.

But I like the movie. Good enough for Ryan-I-only-act-in-a-romcom-movie-Reynolds. I think he did pretty well in it. You can actually feel how panic and desperate he is to get himself out of the coffin. And I thought, damn this guy can actually act. And the movie plot is quite nice. Everytime the audience thought it gonna be a calm situation, something always fucked up. And the director used a lot of light techniques and camera shots which display the situation in many awesome angles.

All in all, a good movie to watch. If you seek for a twisted and depressing movie, this is definitely the one to choose, considering not much good movies were shown at the moment.

Picture is from here.

D.E.V.I.L.

I just have one wish after watching this movie, somebody please stop Shyamalan from doing any more movies because it is a total crap! Don't believe me? Try watching Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening and the Last Air Bender, and you will get what I mean. Major total crap! And he making money producing a crap thing! (And why the hell I watch his movies, I don't quite understand either. Maybe because there were no decent movie that is worth watching so I end up watch this crap. Good strategy there Mr. Shyamalan. Malaysian movie producer please take note.)

Put aside Sixth Sense. Sixth Sense is just a one time wonder.

I found a website where people make fun of the movie. Click here. The best one probably this one by Mr. Ryan Corderman where he said, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us M. Night Shyamalan was a genius." LOL. Nice one Mr. Corderman.

I love the movie's tagline too. "Bad things happen for a reason." Wow. Catchy, and sounds mysterious, but isn't good things happen for a reason too? Everything in this world happen for a reason God damnit!

And I read from IMDB that Shyamalan actually are working on the sequel. What the hell?

So by now I know already, when it comes to choose between a Malay movie and Shyamalan's, I choose..... well this is a very tough decision to choose. I choose not to choose.

Inception

This year alone I've watched 3 considerably good movies. They are Kick-Ass, Toy Story 3 and Inception.

Well, about Inception, my gf thought it was overrated. I on the other hand, felt it is good. Not the best but rather good. For me it feels like watching a Stanley Kubrick directing a Matrix movie.

The movie is about... the hell I'm not gonna write down the plot here. Go wiki it you lazy bum.

But I really like how Christopher Nolan describes the different layers of the dreams. Altough there actually four different scenarios indicating four different layers of dream, the audience will never get confuse of which is which. Brilliantly done there.

And I read in Yahoo! News, Inception is the best movie yet shown so far this year and it is the most likely candidate to win the Oscar. Urghhh. I wouldn't agree with that though. I still think Toy Story 3 is much better.

But all in all, good movie to watch. Worth every penny. And make sure you go in with your mind blind folded. You'll get what I mean.

Disclaimer: The picture was taken from here.

To the Infinity, and Beyond!

I love it! In fact, I think it was the best movie I've ever watch this year so far. I dare to say it was better than Kick Ass, or at least I think it was. And I might say it is the best among the trilogy. So you can just imagine, Toy Story 1 and 2 were already in the league of their own, how good can the third one can be?

It is funny, yet touching, and full of messages that we can take into account. And we could learn a lot from those toys.

What the movie is all about? You lazy bump. Alright, let me google it for you.

"Woody, Buzz and the whole gang are back. As their owner Andy prepares to depart for college, his loyal toys find themselves in daycare where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it's all for one and one for all as they join Barbie's counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear to plan their great escape."

That was taken from IMDB. It sounds simple, but believe me it was far more complicated that it sounds. As usual more new characters, new villains, a lot of funny moments, and also touching scenes. Talking about funny, I couldn't stand it when Buzz Lightyear addressed Piggy as "Musical Hog." Musical Hog. LOL. I even chuckle when I wrote this. Who the hell came up with an idea to addressed a harmonica-playing-pig as musical hog?

After the movie we went downstairs to look for the merchandises, and we found Lots-o'Huggin' Bear and guess what? It does smells strawberry! LOL.

Anyway, a movie I strongly suggested you guys to watch. Altough I could say the 3D effects didn't impress so much though, but you should watch it because the storyline is so good, you will forget about the effects.

I read somewhere that there will be no more sequel after this, but believe me, we'd love to see a lot more of them in the future. We will never get tired of them. Muchas gracias Pixar and Disney for the lovely ending of the trilogy. We sure will miss Woody and his friends.

ps: Ah forgot to mention, before the movie starts they showed a short movie titled Day & Night. It was a nice movie though, about a creature representing Day met a creature representing Night, and they fight each other to prove that they are the best before they realize that they actually need each other.

Prince of Persia: The Shit of Time

One word. Cliche. Freaking cliche. Let me tell you why.

1. God created a device that so powerful, no mere human were allowed to use it or God will get pissed and wiped the humanity from this fucken world or it might bring disaster to the whole world, and apparently some stupid shit attempt to use it for his own good. The question is, why did God created that weapon in the first place?

2. The kiss scene. At the very dying moment, the hero and heroine still manage to kiss, like it is the end of the world and we'd better kiss before it is too late?

3. Why do people have to scream "Noooooooooo!" when they falling into a very deep hole although she is the one who tell they hero something like, "Let me go or you will not have enough time to save the world"? Isn't she suppose to scream "Yesssssssssssssss!"?

4. A heroine with beautiful, gorgeous and voluptuous body but can't act? Remember Megan Fox/Transformers? Cliche? (My other half will definitely not agree with this)

5. The talking session after the bad guys manage to catch the good guy. Apparently they must talk. Why don't you just kill them damn it? And after that guess what? They escaped!

6. So to get to this deadly device the hero must walk through a tunnel full of booby traps, and it is likelihood the hero must make a mistake and then all the booby traps fire up and destroy the tunnel. So if there just happen 5000 years later a guy attempt to get the device, sorry dude, 5000 years ago somebody already screwed up with the traps and no chance for you or any future hungry power seeker to get it.

At the end of the movie, I just wish one thing, PLEASE DON'T MAKE A SEQUEL!

Yasmin Ahmad R.I.P.

This entry might abrupt anger among you readers, but I hope you will read this to the end.

I never fancied Yasmin Ahmad. Ok maybe I lied a little bit there. I do fancied her during her early works, with the ads that coming on our tv screens, especially during any festive eves. It were so brilliant, made us think for a second about life and such, and before we realized it we started to anticipate for her ads everytime the festive seasons coming.

And then that's it. I stopped liking her works after her movie debut, Sepet. Most of us thought it was a brilliant piece of work. I thought it was a brilliant piece of work. It just I don't like the idea of the movie. So does her other works. I don't quite agree how she interpreted Islam in her movies. It is a dangerous thing to play with. It's not even a play thing. We are not suppose to play with the thing that we do not know. I have never gone out to the toilet in the middle of a movie play. I think it a waste. You got a plenty of time to do your pee before or after the movie. But while watching Gubra, for the first time in my life, ok maybe I exegerate it too much, for the first time in my life as far as I can remember, I gone out to the toilet, in the middle of the movie. I just can't swallow it anymore.

Nevertheless, she is a great director, with a brilliant vision and idea in her mind. She inspired, she got followers, she has a lot of admirers, and the most important thing, she put our movie industry one step ahead. Maybe two steps, or maybe a significant leap. She will be missed by us, and some already have.

Rest in peace, Yasmin Ahmad. Al-Fatihah.

Movie Talk part 2

I am a great admirer of Bryan Singer's works. I mean, he is brilliant when he had his hand on the camera. His masterpiece, The Usual Suspects, is the greatest of his works I believe. Man, who can ever forget when Verbal Kint walked out of the police station cripple, and slowly the cripple gone, then came a car, a man came out and light him a cigar, he put one leg in the car, look outside for a while, puff a little bit, and gone off. Man, I was like, what the fuck???? That was brilliant! That was awesome! The same feeling when you find out how Andy Dufresne escape from the prison in Shawshank Redemption, and the same feeling you found out Bruce Willis is actually dead already in Six Sense. Fucking brilliant!

And that's not all. I just love the whole movie actually. How he played with the background songs, the scripts, I just love a movie with good lines.

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone."

I don't actually know where the lines were originally from, but the first time I heard it was in the movie. Catchy eh?

And I love his other works too. X-Men, X-2, Superman Returns, I love it all.

I am glad he was brought in to direct Superman, because the original director's version, Brett Retner, is like a super crap.

"Abrams story re-imagined Superman as a Kryptonian prince sent to earth as a baby to avoid an impending civil war between king Jor-El and his brother Kata-Zor. Raised as Midwestern teen Clark Kent, and in love with his high school sweetheart Lois, Superman becomes humanity's defender when Kata-Zor invades Earth, aided by CIA Agent Lex Luthor, who is actually a Kryptonian in disguise. The film ended with Superman returning to Krypton to rule over his people after the death of Jor-El." (www.imdb.com)

Are you kidding me?? That's not Superman Returns! That is Super Faggot Kicking-His-Uncle-Ass-To-Become-A-King Returns! Brett Retner loves to do something bombastic. Look what he did to X-Men 3. Freaking lame. I hate it.

And I just love the Bryan Singer's version. How the emotional retention between Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane, and the background musics. One of my favourites scene, when Lois was trapped together with his fiance and son in the boat, all hope was lost, before suddenly Superman steps on the boat, and brought it up over the sea. And then the Superman's theme song slowly blend in.. brilliant. And also the scene after he throw that huge rock to the sun, he fell down, everybody just watching helplessly, and then Boomm! He hits the ground. I was silence. No background songs or any lines can be heard.

And the lines, I just love it.

Lex Luthor: Do you know the story of Prometheus? No, of course you don't. Prometheus was a god who stole the power of fire from the other gods and gave control of it to the mortals. In essence, he gave us technology, he gave us power.
Kitty Kowalski: So we're stealing fire? In the Arctic?
Lex Luthor: Actually, sort of. You see whoever controls technology controls the world. The Roman empire ruled the world because they built roads. The British empire ruled the world because they built ships. America; the atom bomb. And so on and so forth. I just want what Prometheus wanted.
Kitty Kowalski: Sounds great Lex, but you're not a god.
Lex Luthor: [fixes Kitty with an icy stare] Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes and don't share their power with mankind. No, I don't want to be a *god*. I just want to bring fire to the people. And... I want my cut. (www.imdb.com)

How fucking awesome is that?

But of course, the movie lack of characters strength. Nothing much memorable about the character, not something you can remember like Forrest Gump, General Maximus Decimus Meridius, Chuck Noland of Cast Away, or even Captain Jack Sparrow.

Sadly, I have no idea why the rating was so low in IMDB. 6.7. That low. Or am I just sucker for low Q movies? Ha Ha.

At the moment, his latest movie, Valkyrie is on the show right now. Surprisingly I am not tempted to go and watch, not tempted at all. Wait for the torrent then I guess?

I'm Just Addicted to That Silver Screen

I watched There Will be Blood the other day, and I was kinda dissapointed because the movie was sooo dark... and depressing. And boring. Freaking boring I might say. Blerghh. Make me think twice to watch No Country for Old Men that I already downloaded. The only reason that I watched it because it was Oscar nominated. Fuck Oscar. Nowadays they cherish dark and depressing movies too much. I want the Dark Knight on the list God dammit!

Hmm.. Made me thing, why don't I list down the top 100 movies in IMDB list that I already watched? Here goes nothing....

* Movie already watched is in black bold

* Movie that I think I'm gonna download and watch it, or anticipated in red bold

1. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

2. 9.1 The Godfather (1972)

3. 9.0 The Godfather: Part II (1974)

4. 8.9 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

5. 8.9 Pulp Fiction (1994)

6. 8.9 The Dark Knight (2008)

7. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993)

8. 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

9. 8.8 12 Angry Men (1957)

10. 8.8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

11. 8.8 Casablanca (1942)

12. 8.8 Star Wars (1977)

13. 8.8 Seven Samurai (1954)

14. 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

15. 8.7 Goodfellas (1990)

16. 8.7 Rear Window (1954)

17. 8.7 City of God (2002)

18. 8.7 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

19. 8.7 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

20. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

21. 8.7 Fight Club (1999)

22. 8.7 The Usual Suspects (1995)

23. 8.7 Psycho (1960)

24. 8.6 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

25. 8.6 Sunset Blvd. (1950)

26. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

27. 8.6 Memento (2000)

28. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959)

29. 8.6 The Matrix (1999)

30. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941)

31. 8.6 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

32. 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

33. 8.6 Se7en (1995)

34. 8.6 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

35. 8.6 The Professional (1994)

36. 8.5 Apocalypse Now (1979)

37. 8.5 American Beauty (1999)

38. 8.5 Taxi Driver (1976)

39. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

40. 8.5 WALL·E (2008)

41. 8.5 American History X (1998)

42. 8.5 Vertigo (1958)

43. 8.5 Paths of Glory (1957)

44. 8.5 Amelie (2001)

45. 8.5 Forrest Gump (1994)

46. 8.5 M (1931)

47. 8.5 Double Indemnity (1944)

48. 8.5 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

49. 8.5 The Departed (2006)

50. 8.5 Alien (1979)

51. 8.5 A Clockwork Orange (1971)

52. 8.5 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

53. 8.5 The Lives of Others (2006)

54. 8.5 The Third Man (1949)

55. 8.4 The Shining (1980)

56. 8.4 Chinatown (1974)

57. 8.4 The Pianist (2002)

58. 8.4 The Wrestler (2008)

59. 8.4 Saving Private Ryan (1998)

60. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

61. 8.4 Spirited Away (2001)

62. 8.4 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

63. 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

64. 8.4 Requiem for a Dream (2000)

65. 8.4 L.A. Confidential (1997)

66. 8.4 Aliens (1986)

67. 8.4 Das Boot (1981)

68. 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

69. 8.4 Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

70. 8.4 Reservoir Dogs (1992)

71. 8.4 City Lights (1931)

72. 8.4 Rashômon (1950)

73. 8.4 The Maltese Falcon (1941)

74. 8.4 Raging Bull (1980)

75. 8.4 All About Eve (1950)

76. 8.4 Modern Times (1936)

77. 8.3 Der Untergang/The Downfall (2004)

78. 8.3 Metropolis (1927)

79. 8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952)

80. 8.3 Rebecca (1940)

81. 8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959)

82. 8.3 Gran Torino (2008)

83. 8.3 The Prestige (2006)

84. 8.3 Amadeus (1984)

85. 8.3 Life Is Beautiful (1997)

86. 8.3 The Elephant Man (1980)

87. 8.3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

88. 8.3 The Apartment (1960)

89. 8.3 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)

90. 8.3 Sin City (2005)

91. 8.3 The Great Escape (1963)

92. 8.3 Full Metal Jacket (1987)

93. 8.3 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

94. 8.3 The Great Dictator (1940)

95. 8.3 The Sting (1973)

96. 8.3 Touch of Evil (1958)

97. 8.3 Bicycle Thieves (1948)

98. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004)

99. 8.3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

100. 8.3 No Country for Old Men (2007)

31 movies counted. Hmm not that much. I thought I've watched 50 or something. Ah senang cite movies yg aku tak tgk lagi tuh suma aku nak tgk lahh. Except for the depressing movies. But how am I gonna know the movie is depressing, unless I watch it? Okay, except for known depressing movies. Yg lain, nasib laa, I always can curse later.

Sadly I haven't watch Pan's Labyrinth, yet. They said it was good, as good as Beowulf. Wait. Beowulf is not good at all, so why am I comparing them again? Hmm..Okay forget about that.

Talking about movies, I remembered this one time, I read Maxim back in UTP years. There was this article suggesting the parents to be careful when they purchase any CD movies, because it might turn out to be a porn movie with almost similar title. For example, the porn edition for Saving Private Ryan is Shaving Ryan's Private. It's a gay porn. Blerghh. They even got this funny tagline, "A group of man goes to the battlefield to find out their mision... is a man." Wahaha. Funny. Or maybe you should be careful when picking up Clockwork Orange or it might turn out to be Clockwork Orgy. Wahaha.

Okay folks. Maybe I will update on the other 150 movies of the IMDB list. Or maybe I will not.