Christmas comes early..

the way my wallet is hemorrhaging money ..

Expenses for going abroad next month aside, Sintex 2007 also coming up. ..

Stadust

A pretty standard come-of-age story and romantic comedy at it's core , the excellent execution of this one is in sharp contrast with that POS in the previous post..

Though the core of the plot is fairly standard, the movie manage to spring a number of nice little suprises and twists on us that didn't seem contrive..

That POS however is a formulic as the idea of the story , I telegraph most of the plot and the movie really would be better fo r it without the big stupid "twist"(not really that much of a suprise really) near the end..


Stardust brings into focus what that POS sorely lacks.. a sense of adventure and wonder..

Stardust showm us very nice vista and imagery and conveys a nice sense of place and adventure , characters went to the beach, forest , mountains , various vilages/cities etc and a few suprise locale ..heh heh

It's joke every time someone in that POS reminds us the the fate of the world rest in the seeker's hand. Hah hah! Hard to belive that's teh case when most of the action seems to takes place within the seekers' home small village/town . The time travel part has so much potential but is so meh except the viking raid (and even that is abit silly )


Both stories has fairy-tale,Big family reunion type endings which is something the orignal Novels dun have..
I like Stardust's, so heartwarming and unlike so many endings.. they didn't forget about anyone!, everyone is present at the end...

That POS's ending would also be quite nice ,but is not b'cos it's so illogical and stupid..

The Seeker..

Another POS..

Don't be fooled by the posters and trailers...

This movie didn't registered on my rader until it opens a few weeks ago.. the poster looks nice and the special effect-laden trailers look exciting enuff..,, it had you thinking of something like harry potter or at the very worst Chronicles of Narnia.

Normally would have gone straight to seen it , but I remember reading some poor reviews on a forum a few months back.. sure enuff , it got ultra low ratings a rotten tomatoes..and even the usually generous newspapers review here give it a poor rating.

For a fantasy movie, it's not very fantastic or magical ,for most of the first part of the movie, you though you're watching a normal film

I dun really mind the overused "farmboy turns World Savior" plot.. but this is the WORST execution of said plot I've EVAR seen ...
Tossing aside teh cliche plot it's simply a bad movie, terribly paced and sleep inducing.. something hard for fantasy film to do..

Don't ask me why I watch it anyway....,i guess it's my fault for not trying Hard enuff to disuade pple then again I wouldn't want to dismiss the film unless I've seen it myself...

The Moral of the story is ..
not everthing has to been seen to believe..
Dun follow the majority blindly..
some times you have defy the majority for what you feel is right..

Piece of crap...

My Creative Zen Wav just died.... was listening to it on the Bus , switch off when I reach home, try to switch it on a while later.. cannot

the on/off oredi abit wonky before.. have to press a few times to hit the sweet spot before it will switch on... now... completely cannot.

Luckily all my music/av files got back-up on the PC if not cry...

shiz now in the market for a new one barely 6 months after i bought this poS