Kamis, 28 Agustus 2008

THE EYE

Kindly see the review here

Happy watching ^_^

Rabu, 27 Agustus 2008

JUNO AND THE HAUNTING PARTY

I have reviewd those films ^_^

Kindly follow this link for The Haunting Party and this link to Juno.

Enjoy the movie ^_^

Senin, 25 Agustus 2008

THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR

Title : The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor

Cast : Brendan Frasher, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michele Yeoh, Luke Ford, Isabella Leong

Rating : Nice but bad cast

Pic : 21cineplex.com

Synopsis:

The story begins at Emperor Han (Jet Li)'s era, an ambitious man that dreams to conquer neighborhood countries and unite them in his authority. One thing the emperor afraid is being old and die. He learns to control 5 elements and always find ways to be immortal. One day, he heard about a powerful shaman called Zi Juan (Michelle Yeoh), the emperor asks his loyal general, Ming (Russell Wong) to bring the shaman to him. General Ming never expects to find a beautiful shaman and he falls in love at once. Zi Juan said she doesn't know any cure to make somebody immortal, but she said she knows shere to find it. Emperor Han order General Ming to escort Zi Juan and warn him not to let anybody touch Zi Juan because he wants her.
General Ming and Zi Juan find the book and involve in intimacy relationship. Once the two get back to the palace, Emperor Han asks Zi Juan to cast the spell written in sanskrit. The emperor soon feels different, he force Zi Juan to marry him or else he will kill General Ming. Zi Juan agrees to marry him but the emperor is still ordering to kill the general and stabs Zi Juan. Once stabbing, the emperor is frozen to earth statue along all of his shouldiers and palace due to Zi Juan curse.
The third sequel of The Mummy where Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his wive Eve O'Connell (Maria Bello) have already retire from their adventure voyage. Rick is desperately try to find a new hobby which not included guns and Eve has become a popular writer. The O'Connells life in a big manor and have prosperous and peaceful life, and even none of them admits to feel bored to death.
Meanwhile the couple only child, Alex (Luke Ford) is described as a rebellious young guy and has an awkward relationship with his father. Rather than attending school, Alex is dumped off in china and is trying to dig Emperor Han's tomb. Somebody tries to killbut he manages to release himself.
A guy from foreign affairs comes and ask The O'connell to bring the eye of shangrila, a giant blue diamond to shanghai. The couple accidently meet Alex at The Pharoh, night club owned by Jonathan (John Hannah), whom entangled in trouble due to flirt Mad Dog (Liam Cunningham) girl. Rick saves his son on the mess but their relation is worsened.
Before showing his invention to public, Alex invites his parents to see the statues. General Yang (Anthony Wong), who eagerly wants to raise Emperor Han from his death and once again rule China. The shangrila eye can only be opened with the blood of a pure heart, Yang pushes Eve and said will kill her husband if she refuses. The diamond is opened and accidently splashes on a statue, the emperor is back to life.
The O' Connells once again should work together to prevent the emperor from immortality source which will arise his thousands of shouldier to conquer the world.

Comments:

Finally i decided to see the movie. And i did not regret it ^_^. I think the movie was great, i like the story line and also their great effect. Great! But one think i regreted, i disagree with the cast, i think Rachel Weiss was the best Evelyn O'Connell, and it was a big loss not to see her on the film. The son, Alex, played by Luko Ford, was also too old. He almost the same old with his "father" Brendan Frasher, and for me definitely weird! And the film should be longer since parts when Jet i transformed to evil monster seemed a bit too much. When you erase that part, the film won't change, much more like a post it, stick on the film with no effect. They should develop that frame, since the monster just appeared and disappeared and did nothing.

Fun Facts:
  • It took days for me to finish the review since i saw the movie on Monday T_T
  • The tomb of the Dragon Emperor with its Terracotta warriors is inspired by the real-life tomb of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty. The mausoleum is located in Xi'an, China.
  • In the Himalayas, a shot of a running soldier's foot clearly shows sand, not snow.
  • General Yang's soldiers are outfitted with AK-47s, but the movie is set in 1947. AK-47s weren't pressed into service until 1949.
  • imdb.com

Kamis, 21 Agustus 2008

MasyaAllah......

Finally, after a long watching blue (again, hiksss). I beat my laziness and saw another movie ^_^. Well, honestly, not completely watching blue, i have another passion lately, swimming and that's make me always skip movie date and left me exhausted, so i have no more lust to watch any movie.

Last tueasday, i watched Wall - E, i'll post to you the review soon. Quite entertaining and a good movie for your children. But what i want to share is (deep breath) for the second time, i was sitting beside 2 gays!! MasyaAllah, please deh! And to make things worse, they both gorgeous!! Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!! What the hell with all the ladies? Why they prefer boys than girls? Ck ck ck
They were holding hand and fed each other. My my..wasn't it a real heartbreaking? I saw more and more gays everyday T_T

Rabu, 20 Agustus 2008

WALL - E

Title : Wall - E

Cast : Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, Elissa Knight

Genre : Animation, family

Rating : Quite entertaining

Pic : wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

In the 22nd century, a megacorporation called BnL (buy n large) rules every aspects on earth, including government. They sponsored 5 years exodus from polluted earth and offers a full automatic robot crews and left units of disposal robots, Wall - E, to clean the earth. After hundreds of years, there is only one small disposal robot left. Everyday, Wall - E and his cocroach pet will gather cans and squared them than stack them in to giant skycrapers, then he will go back to his "home" and play old musics and video, where people sing and dance. One day, Wall - E finds a plant in an old ragged boot. Soon after a huge space craft landedand deploys a beautiful white robot called Eve. Wall - E falls in love at the first sight and quietly following Eve. Once he has the opportunity to get closer to Eve, Wall-E shows her his sactuary, his musics and dancing video and gives her the plant as a present. Eve suddenly freezes after taking the plant inside of her. Wall E tries to wake he up, but it's all useless. The space craft once again landed, retrived Eve. Wall - E races and cling on the outer hull.
The space craft is entering a giant space craft where all survival people of earth stays for 700 years. Eve tries to present the plant to McCrea, the captaint, to place in the ship's holo-detector—a device which will activate an automatic hyperjump to Earth once it scans the plant—only to find it is missing. Eve presumably broken and sent to broken robots divison. Mc Crea sees Wall - E and the robot shake his hand, introduce himself before run after Eve. Mc Crea touches dirt for the first time. He tries to find out what it is and become enthusiastic to find more about the earth. Mc Crea orders auto to finds the plant and go back to earth, but auto refuses his order and shows him the original plan, earth has been very polluted so no body can live on it. Mc Crea insists, since the message was sent 700 years ago and he thinks things will be different nowadays. Auto refuses Mc Crea suggestions and takes over the plane.
Meanwhile, Wall - E following Eve to repairement department, and they cause trouble and release all broken robots. Warning of broken robots escapes is spread out, other robots are trying to catch them. Eve and Wall - E are fugitive now, and they still have yo find the missing plant and accomplished Eve mission.

Comments:

This is a very simple cartoon movie. Quite touching and not to many violent actions so i think it's safe for children. I like the pictures and the old songs. Moreover, you can learn a lot from this film. Wall - E shows unconditional love, big socializer, and a very good friend.
Seeing the movie, i realize, maybe it was right. In the future, all things will be a lot easier, robots will do most of our dailt chores and what people can do is just sitting and do nothing. They shows exactly what people like in the future, anti social (i'm afraid i'll be one of them T_T) and over weight since they don't have to do nothing. Mc Crea even has to try hard to walk since he never move his body. A very good lesson i think ^_^

Fun facts:
  • The sound for Wall - E world is come from Niagara Falls
  • The cockroach chirps were created by speeding up the sounds of a raccoon.
  • Film shipped to some theaters under the name "Sundaye"
  • imdb.com

Selasa, 12 Agustus 2008

ESCAPE FROM HUANG SHI

Title : Escape From Huang Shi aka The Children Of Huang Shi

Genre : Drama

Cast : Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Radha Mitchell

Rating : Not bad

Pic : movieexclusive.com

Synopsis:

The story is based on a true story of a young British reporter, George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) during Japan invasion in China, around 1937.
While covering news silently in Nanjing, George accidently finds out Japanese soldiers brutality, they gather boys and men in a big group then shoot them dead. Unfortunately, before leaving Nanjing, Japanese soldier caught him and seeing his photograps of mass slaughtery, the Japanese bring George to the field and prepare to cut down his neck with a sword. Within a minute before the sword touches his neck, somebody shoots the japanese and rescues George. Soon George realizes, the group of person rescue him, is China's communist army, leadered by a guy called Chen Han Sheng or Jack Chen (Yun-Fat Chow). Jack escorts George to reunite with his two friends Eddie Wei and Andy Fisher when he enters Nanjing. Find the two guys, George sees his friends shot in front him, and they begin to shot George and Jack.
Wakes up wounded, George meets Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) a doctor which suggest him to go to Huang Shi, where he can learn chinesse as his tools to cover news in the front line.
George ends up in an neglected orphanage of 60 boys. They throw stones to welcome him and one of the child, Shi Kai accepts letter written by Jack Chen and tear it. George is not welcome there, the children also wake him up in the middle of the night and beat him. Lee shows up and stop them. The children obey her since she is a doctor and they need her. Trying to show how to eradicate fleas, Lee uses George as her model, pour some talc to show that it won't harm anybody. The wild children bring so much trouble to George, especially Shi Kai whom always do anything to get rid of him, so he decides to leave the orphanage. Lee finds out and assured him that he only has no option but to stay and take care of the children.
Long after, George realizes he has no where but the place. He starts to clean the place, covers holes with papers, fixes generators so they will have an electricity. Courious children then starts to help him, with the help of Mrs. Wang (Michelle Yeoh) George buy some seeds and plants them, he also make a ball ring for the children to play basket ball. Soon the orphanage is changing better. The children are civilized and clean, they become a happy children during the bad time. One day, nationalist army come and ask the place to become their military base. George says no. Once the nationalists find out that it's a boy orphanage, George realize that they wants the boys to join the army. To avoid this, they should leave Huang Shi and go to Shandan near Gobi Dessert where no body wants to go there.

Comments:

One thing i notice at once, Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a male version of Uma Thurman ^_^ hi hi, they're alike aren't they?
Ok, back to the movie, the movie was reminded me of The Painted Veil, maybe because the setting was also in China and there was also disease epidemic. I bet the audience of the movie think that this is a war movie, and it's about escaping from a great battle. I thought so, and not completely wrong, but this is not a war movie, the point is just to save the children to safer place, the war was just an addition. This movie also touching and brave, and at the end of the movie, you'll se the survivor children which said that George Hogg was their savior and because of them, they live.

Fun facts:
  • This is the first official co production between Australia and China
  • The movie uses approximately 10.000 extras
  • The movie uses 3 languages: English, Chinesse, Japanese
  • imdb.com