Monday, December 21, 2009
My Girl (1991) movie
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Someone Like You by Cathy Kelly
The three friends in this Cathy Kelly books are Hannah, Emma and Leonie. They met in the same tour they signed up for in Egypt. These three characters are different from each other as light and day.
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Jennifer's Body
I didn’t really plan on seeing the movie because I thought the movie would be boring, the storyline is like so cliché. A super hot girl that every guy lusts after. To top it all off, it was a horror movie. (that I doubted in the beginning. I mean, Megan Fox in a horror movie? It’s strange!) And, I’m so tired of hearing and seeing boys fawning over Megan Fox. I guess this is what men feel when they see us fawning over Robert Pattinson.
In her cell, there’s like a mini shrine to her boyfriend, who is dead by then.
Needy overhears the band talking among themselves and mistakenly assumed that they want to sleep with Jennifer and she tries to protect her best friend by telling them Jennifer is a virgin, hence not very experienced, etc. When a fire breaks out at the bar, Jennifer leaves with them, despite Needy warning her not to.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
The movie starts off with Henry’s mother dying in the car accident and Henry supposedly disappearing for the first time. Which isn’t true, that was Henry’s second time. And the accident was more gruesome and terrifying. She actually got decapitated by a piece of metal. The metal only managed to get Henry’s hat and sliced a bit of his forehead. And the person driving the pieces of metal fainted when he saw Henry’s mum and was run over by a bus, whose driver was gawking at the accident.
Eric Bana plays Henry DeTamble. I had imagined someone younger and leaner for Henry like hmmm,Jake Gyllenhaal? But Eric managed to play Henry convincingly as well as his gorgeous co-star Rachel McAdams as Clare Abshire. I don’t know if Rachel’s hair is naturally red or not but I loved the fact that they followed the book. Except for Alba, I was quite irritated by that. Alba was supposed to be a miniature of Henry.
I wished that they showed more of Henry as a little kid. An older Henry teaching little Henry about his survival skills:stealing,picking locks,etc. I’m sure that would have been entertaining to watch.
There was too much kissing in the movie, almost in every scene. Well, I know it’s a romantic movie but I expected more meaningful conversation to go along with it. Gomez was funny as he is in the book and the part when Henry disappeared on his wedding day and Gomez freaks out was done beautifully.
They wrote out Kimy and Ingrid. They were important characters in Henry’s life but I guess you can’t take everyone in the book or the movie will be too long.
The most funny part of the movie for me was when Henry and Clare went house-hunting. It was exactly in the book, while Clare was asking the real estate agent on the normal stuff you ask when you buy a house, Henry walks to the back of the house, looks around and saying this isn’t the house. Lol..
The scene where Alba tells him that he is dead, should have been one of the climatic points in the movie. It kinda was but if they followed that scene in the book, it would have been more amazing. At the end of the movie, where Clare and Henry run to each other, if Henry disappeared, I’m sure any soft-hearted girl would cry. Sitting in the cinema, my friends were like, don’t disappear, don’t disappear! Hehehe..but I was kind of hoping he did, it makes a better story. Still, it was kinda sad when he suddenly goes and leaves Clare, who looks sad and bereft.
I did tear up at the end of the movie, but if they really followed the book (cutting off his legs, the miscarriages, Henry meeting Clare again when she is 80), I would be sobbing. It was sad but not gut-wrenching sad. Or maybe it’s just me. (It’s hard to get me crying.) And they didn’t really cut all the scenes and replace with new ones. They did follow the book and almost every scene was in the book so I’m not really disappointed and annoyed. Still, like always, the book was much better than the movie. =)
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
I'm back!
Today, I finished my finals. FINALLY! It dragged on for two weeks, and before that a study week. I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't go online but I cheated a few times. Hey, I needed some distraction. ;)
So, I have a month holiday to look forward to. I have a lot of movies that I watched recently in this past few weeks. Will review them next week. 2012, New Moon, Princess and the Frog( just watched it today). As for books, I finished one book before my study week, three weeks ago. So, that book review will come out next week too.
Not to worry, next month, I'll be updating this blog as frequently as I can. You can count on more book reviews since I have one paper bag full of books in my room waiting to be read. Hehehe..Will start my first book of the holidays tommorow.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
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Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs
Flint Lockwood wants to contribute to others ever since he was a kid. He does a lot of inventions but they don’t exactly work out, like his Spray-On Shoes and rat-birds. He also has a pet monkey named Steve. Steve wears one of Flint’s invention, which allows the wearer’s thoughts to be said aloud. Steve mostly says 1 word at a time and he loves gummi bears. =P
Flint’s lab is one-of a kind with the entrance being a sheet painted with complicated buttons. At first, I thought wow, his lab is high-tech but then he flings open the sheet. Lol! And when he does his experiments, he says aloud the action that he’s doing, like mixing!, blending! It was weird but funny. Oh well, you can expect geniuses to be some sort of weird and eccentric.
His dad doesn’t really support his ideas and is not as interested in science like Flint. He loves his sardine shop and wants Flint to help him in his shop. Flint lives in a town called Swallow Falls (I think) and the town’s main attraction is sardines. But one day, the world decides not to eat sardines anymore, Flint’s town is left eating sardines everyday. (Sardine as baby milk, sardine in soup, everything sardine!) So, Flint wants to change this and creates a machine that turns water into food. He tries to do this in his lab but there’s not enough power to power up the machine.
On the day Flint is supposed to help out in his dad’s shop (his dad went to the opening of sardine land), he sneaks out and tries to power up his food machine with the town’s big wires. He succeeds but the machine ends up being fired up into the sky. The townsfolk are all angry at him for ruining their sardine land, which I don’t really get, it looks kinda boring and digusting to me. Haha.
Flint sits at the pier, sad and is joined by Sam Sparks, a weather reporter. Sam secretly is a genius but hides it from people to get them to accept her. They exchange a few words and Flint finds himself attracted to Sam but when Sam recognizes Flint as the person who ruined her career, Flint was saved by his machine. Burgers started falling out from the sky!! At this point, I felt like eating a burger myself.
Over the few days, it rained a lot of things. Eggs, bacons, hotdogs, sushi, steak and the machine snowed ice-cream! Now, that was interesting!! On the day the machine went overboard, there was a spaghetti tornado! LOL
Then, when Flint lost the pendrive to kill the machine, he asked his dad to send an email to his phone. Sounds simple? Not to Flint’s dad who never touched a computer in his life. That was entertaining to watch. When Flint was trying to teach his dad to drag the mouse, his dad dragged the mouse across the screen. I was practically rolling on the floor, laughing.
All in all, it was an enjoyable movie. I hated the mayor but loved the town cop. He was like jumping all the time and he loved his son very much. Like all the townspeople, he doesn’t really like Flint for his inventions(this was before the food machine). There was this scene:
Cop: You see this contacts lens?
Flint: Yeah?
Cop: The contacts lens represents YOU and my eye represents MY EYE. (puts on lens) I got my ‘eye’ on you.
That was so funny! Oh, so, Flint and Sam got together in the end and Flint, who’s a total nerd doesn’t know how to kiss. So, he puffs out his cheeks and Sam, who sees this, also puffs out her cheeks and they kiss. That’s a new way to kiss! Lol!
I’m sure anyone who watched this movie will get some food cravings. For me? It was pancakes with maple syrup. Yummm. =)
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Michael Jackson's This Is It
Watching the music videos, what I remember most is trying to imitate his dance moves with my brother. I tried moonwalking and the dance in Remember the Time. It was successful but I slipped and fell down a lot. =P
It was during my holidays, and I was on my way back from my aunt’s house, listening to the radio playing Michael Jackson’s songs. I enjoyed it until the host said MJ had died. I was shocked. The moment I got home, I turned on E! and I watched Jermaine Jackson telling the world his brother had died.
I was sad and I teared up watching his memorial service when Paris Jackson spoke. It was so heart-wrenching.
Anyway, back to the movie. It was excellent. Two thumbs way up and five stars! If I could give more stars, I would because it was that good! Michael was in his own element. He was in control, he sang brilliantly. To those people who said he couldn’t sing anymore due to his nose, well, you’re wrong. And his nose looked perfectly fine to me. There was no hole in the middle of his face.
He did all his signature moves and his footwork was flawless. At one point, I just stared at his feet when he was dancing. It was light, smooth and perfect. He was 50 something but man, he still danced like he was young!
If he didn’t die, I have no doubt in mind that this concert would have been one of his greatest concerts of all time. Watching Michael in the movie, I had a sense that he was a perfectionist. And he was hands on with EVERYTHING. He knew all of his songs and he knew what he wanted to do in his concert. He even taught his dancers and he choreographed his own moves. (His dancers were amazing. They learnt their dance moves in just about 10 seconds. AMAZING!)
Michael was funny and also humble. He was telling his guitarist that this is her moment to shine and she was sharing the stage with him. The guitarist, a 24 year old Scarlett Johanssen look-alike, was awesome.
I knew that Michael Jackson liked to do mini movies for his music videos and he did a few for this concert, like Smooth Criminal and Thriller. The mini movie for Thriller was better than the old one! It was scarier, I actually got creeps watching the ghost hanging from the chandelier. The mini movie was intended to be 3D and the ghouls and mummies were scary.
The concert was all about bigger and better. There was fireworks, dancers jumping out from under the stage, Michael standing on the cherry picker (that was funny, we got a glimpse of Michael’s personality when Kenny Ortega was telling him to hold on), and fire blazing through the stage.
While watching him perform, I noticed that he had very nice jackets. Some of them were shiny, there was a pointy leather one (my brother liked that one! But i was more into the pinstripe one) but this was Michael Jackson. All of them had an expensive look on them. I also noticed he wore a watch, and for some reason that made me happy. He is normal like the rest of us. I was particularly annoyed with some of the people in the cinema who were criticizing Michael. Hey, if you watched this movie to insult him, you just better go buy the DVD and stayed at home.
Watching this made me want to attend one of his concerts LIVE and to those people who did, you’re very lucky. But at least I get to watch his last concert and it was amazing. He was passionate and enthusiastic. I also believed that he didn’t commit suicide, he was fit and healthy.
Michael Jackson, even though you’re not here anymore, your music still lives on in thousands of people. You’re undoubtedly the King of Pop and you’re the greatest performer in my eyes.
Rest in peace, Michael. <3
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Hey everyone!
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