This weekend, I shall be embarking on a great endeavour indeed… which would include striving to watch movie after movie after movie, all holed up over here, at Lizzie’s super cosy niche right behind SC…
And so let the marathon begin… Time: 1830 Saturday
Walk the Line - directed by James Mangold
Rating: **.5/5
Genre: Autobiographical, musical
Started on a slow (and awful) note with ‘Walk the Line’, a film by James Mangold which we decide should be renamed as… ‘Walk the Line - head for the exit’. Anyway, it’s a film about the life and love of Johnny Cash, influential American country, rock 0′n’ roll singer and songwriter, who not only has an ultra colourful career lasting almost 50 years, but a fairly colourful love life too! The movie gets off on a really slow slow slowwww start, and Reese Witherspoon only appears almost half an hour later… Quite a boring show… very sian. How on earth did she get an oscar for that role?!?!
To all medical students, you’d be excited to hear that Johnny Cash suffers from amphetamine and barbiturate addiction, MSA (of the Shy-Drager type), had 2 arteries CABG, heart valve replacement and eventually died from complications of diabetes…
Anyway we were sooo glad when dinner arrived to help relieve the boredom from the film. PHEW!
Time: 2030 Saturday
Pride and Prejudice
Rating: ****/*****
Genre: Book adaptation, romance
Ok, I’ve seen this in the theatre… the one I caught in the theatre was the American version, this one’s the British one. It’s so much more enjoyable than ‘Walk the Line’, with so much more eye candy huh… hehe I like Keira Knightley, and Mr. Darcy is like xi1 you3 pin3 zhong3 le! All men are scum except those like Mr. Darcy, and they don’t exist no more… lol… Rite EW?
PS: Don’t you think that Mr Wickham (Rupert Friend) looks quite like Orlando Bloom?
Time: 2245 Saturday
Omen - directed by Robert Thorn
Rating: ****/***** (Sanz has no comment, she was half immersed in her towel most of the time…)
Genre: Remake, horror
It was in short, quite a good horror film. I hadn’t watched one of these classic films for ages! It starrs Liev Schreiber, who looks just like one of the main actors in ‘The Prestige’, I think Christian Bale. I was quite disappointed in the end though, cuz good didn’t exactly triumph, they had to kill Schreiber off, just so that there would be sequels. Heard from Lizzie that there’s supposed to be Omen 1-4… -_-
Liev Schreiber - now drool!
Time: 0100 Sunday
A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa Hongryeon) - directed by Ji-woon Kim
Rating: **/*****
Genre: Psycho-thriller
This was the most ‘un-horror’, ‘un-terrifying’ horror film I’ve ever watched. It almost brought me to tears of boredom and bewilderment. Throughout the entire film (except towards the latter half where I got so sian I decided to google for spoilers), I was badgered by questions like what on earth was happening? And why is there nothing scary going on??? I think I fell asleep at least twice throughout. Even Sanz (and those who know her should know that her tolerance for horror films is quite low) got bored and started to eat chips (which indeed is a significant achievement!) Anyway, I blame the censorship board here, they probably took out too many scenes that were necessary… -_- *hrrmph!*
Hint: The film is like a combination of ‘Memento’ (in how the temporal sequencing of the film is done) and ‘Identity’ (in the main theme of multiple personality disorder) But Identity is a far far far better film. I would give it 6*/5 and watch it again.
Time: 0245 Sunday
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift - directed by Justin Lin
Rating: ***.5/*****
Genre: Action, cars, hot dude and many hot babes
This features rather droolsome Lucas Black (Sean Boswell) who is sent to Tokyo to live with his father, in order to avoid a jail sentence for ‘drifting’ over in the states. Drifting is, in simple terms, defined as the art of throwing a car into a slide and controlling it through throttle and steering inputs to maintain/adjust the slide. He soon becomes embroiled in his favourite activity again, this time, also involving the Yauka…
Lucas Black - guys I drool over generally fit into 3 main categories…
In detail (for those who are interested): Drivers begin a drift as they approach a corner by first initiating the drift (breaking rear-wheel traction and sending the car sideways), then giving the steering wheel opposite lock (counter steering) and gas. The car is then said to be ‘in drift’ and will continue to go in the direction that the front wheels are pointed while gas is given. Drivers can then ‘transition’ the car through steering inputs to change the direction the car is traveling. Drift courses usually require the driver to transition once or more. (It’s all Greek to me, the one who cannot even parallel park properly.)
Add in the wonderful sights and sounds of a Japan that we usually do not get to see, a dash of the Yakuza and his love interest, Neela (Nathalie Kelly) plus many hot Japanese babes and fast cars, be prepared with a box of highly-absorbent tissue and look forward to an enjoyable time ahead!
Time: 0700 Sunday (just got up)
It’s now 8am and I’ve spent a few hours on the couch, not unlike on call days during SIP posting. Only this time round, my legs were sticking out beyond the couch and into the ferns at the corner of the room. I hope those ferns don’t wither tomorrow. Lizzie’s in the room, I snuck in to use her toothpaste… Sanz on the bigger sofa with the pig. I think she might start snoring soon… Maybe I should take a picture of her asleep… haha… and drooling!!!
Have been blogging for the past hour or so, waiting for those two pigs to wake up, cuz I wanna watch ‘The Exorcist!!!’
Time: 0900 Sunday
The Exorcist: The Beginning - directed by Renny Harlin
Rating: ***.5/*****
Genre: Horror, prequel to the mother of all horror films… The Exorcist (1973)
I lurve it! OMG it’s delicious!
This film is about Father Merrin’s first encounter with the devil, yup, the same one which finally kills him in ‘The Exorcist’ (1973), which incidentally is one of my greatest favourites! :D After witnessing the horrors in WWII, Father Merrin loses his faith in God and devotes his life to archaelogy. One day, he is asked to join a British excavation in the Turkhana region of Kenya, where an almost perfect Christian Byzantine church was unearthed (a century before Christianity arrived in that region) Interestingly, it appears that the church was buried right after it was erected. Soon enough, strange gruesome things begin to happen to the diggers as well as the native tribesmen… Soon, Father Merrin realises the horror beneath the church and has to regain his faith in order to fight the evil within… blah blah, the usual works you know, for the seasoned horror film viewer, you’ll definitely enjoy this film…
A priest takes out this tiny glass bottle, flips open the bible to the burial page and faces a poor kid who’s apparently dying soon…
Me: omg, is that liquor or is that poison?
Liz & Sanz: HOLY WATER LA!
Me: oh, I tot he was going to zhuang dan then poison that kid ma… save him from the misery…
Liz: Haiz, even Sanz knows it’s holy water lor!
I think too far about such things these day… a bit evil…
Time: 1100 Sunday
Miami Vice - directed by Michael Mann
Rating: */*****
Genre: Mindless action
ERM, can someone tell me what on earth was happening? The plot was so loosely connected you can just start watching or stop watching anywhere and you’d be none the wiser… Starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, the film is supposedly about a group of undercover ‘vice’ detectives who try to infiltrate this South American druglord’s base… while investigating some sort of murders… blah blah blah, then Farrell gets embroiled in this lusty affair with Isabella aka druglord’s wife (Gong Li). Whenever Gong Li appeared, we would rush to turn on the subtitles but would still be clueless as to what she’s saying cuz apparently the ’subber’ also couldn’t understand her English. Hmmm… At one point, she said: ‘Show me.’ And we heard ‘Tell me’ and ‘Try me’ instead, whereupon, Sanz wondered whether why they were going to make out so soon after their first meeting. Haha… -_- The really lousy ’subber’ also loved to type ’soybean cake’ to fill in any holes… Maybe he’s advertising for Mr Bean’s soyabean ice-cream. :S
It was a horrible movie, even worse than ‘Walk the Line’, seems like we’ve come full circle, start with something lousy and ended with something dismal…
Anyway, sure am looking forward to the next movie marathon! Let’s hope Laurie will not be bogged down by work then, and Mich will be back!
