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

Mr Woodcock

Saw this ,no thanks to mediacrap's abysmal programing over the holiday weekends..

I would have go for the retarded and cheap laughs of Balls of fury ,but since I'm also having my dinner later, I don't want to spoil my appetite.

Don't be misled by the title , there's really nothing too naughty...
I was not expecting over the top silliness and toilet humor..
Sure enough,nothing in the movie is really OMFGROLFMAO or too gross

Billy Bob Thorton as Mr Woodcock provided many laughts,even though he puts up a stern face all the time.
There's a classic Joke involving a pothole at the very end that's more funny than it should be.. some how this and alot of other lines in the movie is funnier comming out of Woodcock's mouth.

His unsmiling face in the trailer is what made me want see the movie in the first place...I though it would be quite funny opposite the kind of characters Seann Willam Scott usually plays,but his character is rational and calm most of the time ,only loosing it abit in the end.

Don't believe what the newspapers says

I planned to do most of the stuff on wednesday
but In the end.. I stayed home all day on Wednesday, catching up on some reading, but mostly playing Civ 4 with beyond teh sword expansion .

And so everything gets to be done on Thursday..
Went to the bank first in the morning.. even so still got a queue and I have to spend about half an hour there. Atleast the swimming pool was empty as I expected , had it almost all to myself but didn't get much of tan, it was cloudy and the sun only comes out once in a while..
Didn't take lunch as I had a late breakfast and a movie to catch at 1.50am at Orchard cineplex.. I checked the schedules online the day before.

I grab a copy of "today" newspaper at Somerset MRT. Eh? the Movie listing there for the show (Day watch) I want to watch is at 2.15om. Oh? I think i must be last minute changes from yesterday....

I had about an hour to spend.. so I went someplace to sit down .
When I went to the cinema at about 1.55pm .. shitz... the show really is at 1.50pm!!
The next show is at 4.20pm. since this show is exclusive here, going to other cinemas is out of the question .. oh well I just have to wait lor..

So... I went to Sim Lim Square..for a quick look and on the way look for Legend of Zelda : Phantom Hourglass for the DS
Earlier in the day , before i went to the bank I went to look for Phantom Hourglass at the comic connections I saw the day before .. It's gone!!
oh shiz that's the thing with DS games.. if you don't buy the game when it just come out.. it's hard to find it later. I'm pretty sure I can still get it but it's just something I mostly play during transit to work , I'm not going too out of my way over it..

Well.. there was nothing much to see in Sim Lim, so I went to Bugis junction basement food court to grab a bite. Found out the food court moved to 3rd floor liao... Passed by Kinokunya ..saw "The Hedge Knight" Graphic Novel in the display window.
OMG!!I though I'll never get to see it!! It's a spin off comic book from one of my fav book series 'Song of ice and Fire"!!!
Well, my father is not rich, so I'm not into the ang moh comic scene and won't know where to get it even if I was willing to pay ..
I check the price only $20 plus .. not so bad.. for six issues worth of content.
Also saw latest issue of "games for windows" magazine.. so thin and selling at half the price it used to. Sad... I bought the magazine regularly for 10 years back when it was still known as Computer gaming world , when the issues are thrice as thick and got more words than pictures,but I've stopped buying a few months ago...

Anyway.. yeah.. the new foodcourt at Bugis Junction.. WAH!!! so Nice .. the chairs... wooden ones...with cusioned seats! The Cool lighting and color scheme looks much classier than the old basement one.. which looks like a school tuckshop..
It has quite a bit more sitting space than the old one . The ambience is like a restaurant when I was there so quiet and cool, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be very squeezed and noisy when it's peak hours..

After that went back to Orchard for the movie .. just nice.

Mid-Week Break

I took leave on Wed & Thur. Needed the break and rest.
I'm still not done with Neil Humphrey's Final notes from an island,after 2 weeks!
In contrast , I finished his first book in two days.
Yeah the third book is abit thicker than the first but the thing is I kept dozing off reading the third one.
Nothing to do with the book really, I'm just too tired to finish it..

I also needed to go to the bank. I hate going to the bank and am certainly not going to waste my time on a weekend ,standing in line in one!
And going for a swim,should be quiet on a weekday, also catch a movie or two..