Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Fame

Watched on 29 Sep @ Cathay Downtown East

This is a remake of the 1980 version of "Fame", I have not watched the earlier version, but I do know that it is in the forum of a musical movie. Just think High School Musical with much more talent than singing and basketball. Well, actually they are actually very similar.

The movie casts a group of relative unknowns which is perhaps similar in the 1980 version, I dun recognise any of the names, maybe i'm ignorant. Dun be fooled by the newbies, they are really talented. The actors can really sing, and they can really dance, though i'm not sure abt the directing and producing roles which they play.

The flow, of the movie is kindda irritating, the movie is broken into 4 acts, freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. The link from 1 act to the other is not show, it only shows cuts of events in each year, which really gives me a VERY fragmented and irritating feeling. Not the way I like to enjoy a movie. I would really rather they split the movie like HSM, I would like to know more. Oh yah, not only fragmented, it also feels very rushing, squeezing 4 years into 1 movie.


Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 6 out of 10 (fragmented & rushed)
Audio & Visual: 8 out of 10 (captivating dance & singing)
Overall: 7 out of 10 (not too bad, just not good enough)

Favourite Lines:

Malik: If someone here is to succeed, why not me? ma?
Malik: I'm talented, I'm better then the others.
Mum: Who in the world said you are better.
Malik: You did, ma.
Mum: I can't deal with this now, I'm late for work.

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WhiteOut

Watched on 26 Sep @ The Cathay

This movie was supposed to be an adaptation from a graphic novel, but it does seem to have the captivating pace and intrigue of graphic novels, or maybe that's just my narrow understanding of graphic novels. :P

main selling point for this movie is actually Kate Beckinsale, and the producers make it SO SO obvious by have this scence at the beginning of the movie which shows her stripping and taking a shower. This scene has totally no value to the rest of the movie, ZERO!! but, for male viewers like myself, it aint bad.. hahaa.. you know what?? You can actually leave after the first 10mins. There's nothing too exciting from then on.

As you can tell, i'm kindda disappointed with the movie. The action was kindda slow due to the cold winter, everything gets sloppy, the mystery part was kindda lame, cos you dun really have to solve it. It just seems to keep unfolding and unfolding by itself, which means "I CAN SOLVE THAT TOO!!".

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 5 out of 10 (kindda slow, too slow!!)
Audio & Visual: 7 out of 10 (cool views of the antartic)
Overall: 6 out of 10 (you dun miss much, if u miss this one)

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Scariest 30mins of my life!!!

What happened in the last 30mins, totally overshadowed everything else that happened in my life so far. here's the basic summary..

I dropped dear off at her place, I was going to make my way home. I realised this car in her carpark which was not parked and headlights off. But the moment I drove past it, it's headlights came on. And started following me. At that point I did not think it was following me, I shrugged it off as meer coincidence.

After a few more junctions I began to start worrying, I sped up and tried to shake him off. I did a few filtering moves and varied my speed alot. He continued to stick with me. I was freaking out and I was considering 101 reasons why he was following me. I concluded he's looney!!

With that conclusion, I need to shake him off before I could go home. There's no way I was going to lead him straight to my place. So I turned into geylang east and turned abt in the hdb carpark, for a moment I almost lost him. The damn traffic light gave him time to catch up once again!!

I drove out to paya lebar road, and started making a few U-turns, I tried to lost him at the traffic light by turning only at amber, but he beat to red to stay on my tail! damn it! He even turned from the 2 lane!! I was totally freaking out and decided I'm not going to lose this lunatic, it was time for me to do the safe thing.

I decided to turn into geylang police station, but the gate was closed. So I turned into the adjacent alley, he followed me in, but when I turned the car around, he turn out and went into the caltex just next to the alley. I saw him stopped his car in the petrol station waiting for me.

I immediately, turn off the engine and went into the police station. I think I was really freaked out, I was stuttering!! Damn it!! I bet those cops think I was the crazy one at that point. Anyway, I somehow manage to paint the picture to them and got them to follow me to check it out.

The moment we walked out of the station, the driver of that car walked past us towards the station, I told the cop that's the driver. The driver immediately, declared he was the one following me. He was in a tone like he had done no wrong, and was very sure he was after me for some reason.

Bewildered, i simply stared at him. He kindda wanted to confront me and told the cop to lead us back to the station, saying that we have issues to settle. I was getting more and more confused.

Apparent he thinks I'm the boyfriend of his daughter, he thought he saw me sending his daughter home. And apparently, he has issues with daughter not going home and coming home with a different guy often.

And so the cops started asking me abt me and my girlfriend to verify the situation, damn and this guy's surname also ng, just makes things slightly more confusing. Basically, it's a case of mistaken identity, but the course of this ridiculous mistake is really killing me!!!

Even though the cops are sympathetic with that guy's situation, they feel he's just worrying abt his daughter. BUT!!! Obviously, this uncle has communication issues. You dun go about tailgating the guy who sent your daughter home. DUDE, those are not the ones u shld worry, it's those who don't send her home u shld worry about!!! I feel sorry for him now, i think he'll never solve the issue if he carries on in his paranoia....

On a different day I would have just cornered him and confront him face to face instead of going to the cops. And mind you, I really need to shit then!!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Hari Raya Weekend

First I think I should say "Selamat Hari Raya" to all the muslims out there. One observation I found interesting during this weekend. Dear and I conclude there are much fewer muslims in the streets today. Unlike in the past years when we would see many muslims families going visiting, the streets are much emptier this year. And just know I think we found out the reason why it's so. ----- They drive!! There are so much more Muslim drivers, this show that the car sales at Geylang Serai is actually working. hahaha...

IFG volleyball was over on saturday. I really enjoyed it. I think I played with no stressed, thoroughly enjoyed the game and point winning move that we made. It's simply shiok!! Unfortunately, I think that would be my final "competitive" game in NUS. It's time to think about volleyball after NUS. Yeah, gotta find more avenues to play the game.

meanwhile school work is still piling up, I'm trying my best to keep clearing them, but the piling up never ends!!

The Ugly Truth

Watched on 20 Sep @ The Grand Cathay

This is one of the most entertaining romantic comedy of the year!

Gerard Butler in another romantic comedy, but this time he is the badass. It's really not that hard for him to play this part, imagine this role as, a combination of ALL his previous roles! hahaa.

Katherine Heigl well, I think she's kindda typecast. Typical pretty woman, tough yet sensitive. Same old same old... BUT!! It's still good to see her, if you have watched the movie you'll know what I mean. A guy is still just a guy.

This whole show is simply entertaining, lots of laughs. However i'm not sure if it's really funny or really crude that made me and almost everyone else in the cinema laugh like mad. It's entertaining nonetheless.

What I really really like about this show? laughable and crude as it may be, I think it's still successful in the romantic genre, how so? You just know when everyone in the cinema immediately stops laughing and anticipates in silence hoping for the perfect romantic moment to happen. Yes, that's the hallmark of a great romance flick.

And finally I must add, The truth IS ugly, you may hate it but that doesnt mean you won't enjoy or benefit from it.

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 9 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 8 out of 10
Overall: 9 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Colin: You look great!
Abby Richter: Oh, just doing the dishes.

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Mike: [From red band clip] You're all about comfort and efficiency!
Abby Richter: What's wrong with comfort and efficiency?
Mike: Well nothing, except no one wants to fuck it.

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Abby Richter: My cat stepped on the remote.
Mike: Well, be sure to thank your pussy for me.

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Mike: It's not for you, it's for your bean.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

Gamer

Watched on 10th Sept @ The Cathay

This is a movie about the future of interactive gaming. What's the next step from controlling virtual avatars?? Well, controlling avatar that are real humans. It's really an intersting concept, and a rather attractive one. It seems that a person can control another in this "virtual" world and do watever they one and not be punished for it. Cool Eh??

It seems to me that the future of ours may not be as cheerry as it once was. Degeneration seems to be the path we are wlking into. This is the 2nd movie I've seen that depicts the future and a rather degenerated world. You will notice the emphasis on sex more than anything else. Sex sells... So is porn the faster growing industry in the world now??

Anyway, about this movie. Gerard Butler plays a death row convict who took part in some sort of a lottery to gain his freedom. The catch is that anytime during this lottery he may die. As the story unfolds, it turns out that the mastermind behind the virtual reality, is once again the bad guy!!

I personally find it funny that in this movie, hackers are actually pretty lousy. So they were not the ones who save the day. It's more of bad guys hitting the self-destruct button in the end.

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 8 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 8 out of 10
Overall: 8 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Ken Castle: I think and you do.
Kable: Now imagine me stabbing you with this knife

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Revenge of the zZzzZzzz Monster

It's way way past my bed time and i'm still trying to keep awake... My eyelids are weighing a ton now.

Remember the assignment I was talking abt last week, the one which I supposedly shld have solved the issue. It's not solved!! There are still plenty of problems. I hope I can get some answers to them today. Or else....

Thursday, September 10, 2009

G Force *3D

Watched on 6th Sep @ GV Marina

This is a much anticipated movie, at least for myself it is. I wasnt really expecting much of a fantastic plot of super cool effects. I was just looking for cute guinea pigs to entertain myself with. And I see in that respect, the movie did not disappoint.

The 3D effect in the movie was actually quite cool, cos the 3D was not only on the animated CGI, but also on the real life surrounding and humans. So there was depth in everything. But I have to say, they could have done more cos, that fantastic effect was not throughout the movie, certain parts were 3D pointless, while some parts are just COOL!

These guinea pigs are cooler than the CHIPMUNKS!!

1 thing I really dislike personally, is disney's recent fetish with using cockroaches!! OMG!! why are they depicted like cute and useful!!?? that part totally grossed me out!! TOTALLY!!!
Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 7 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 8 out of 10
Overall: 7.5 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Darwin: Juarez admitted that she likes you, she said she only acted like she likes me to get you to be interested in her.
Blaster: So what makes you think she didnt say that just to make you like her?

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A stressedful week turns out not bad..

This week started off as super stressedful as I was totally stuck on one of my assignments. I was stucked at one step and really couldnt figure my way out of it, I just got so pissed, so frustrated, I stared at it for hours and hours and I'm still stuck!!! I stared at it so much and so long that my other assignments snowballed! That simply compounded my stress further.

Good thing I decided to do this assignment early, I set an assumed deadline for myself on monday, which I COULDNT meet. But I managed to remind myself I would still have time for submission so I let it go first and decided to find some groupmates to discuss the assignment later. It turned out to be a good decision.

I worked on my other assignments and more or less got them done pretty fast. So I was quite happy with myself on that.

When I got to discussed my 1st assignment with my groupmates, I realised I was not the one who's most lost. Others are worst off, that made me feel slightly better but that still doesnt solve my problem. But during my lesson just now, somehow a edison's light bulb lighted up for me!! Eureka!! I realise what I could do to resolve the problem, that totally made my day.

Although I've not start rectifying the assignment yet, but I'm now confident it can be done much easier now. I'll leave that for tml.

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Heads up, Chins up, Look ahead....

This week is by far the week which i've spent the most time in school. Even my mum knew i've been home late everyday, but I usually do come home late anyway, so.. watever. I've been in school ALOT!! So much more can be accomplished in school den at home. And I do feel i've done quite abit of work, which is WONDERFUL!

Had IFG training on friday, not the fierce kind of training, which is good for me. I enjoyed the matches, felt abit more in touch as compared to last week. I just wanna enjoy playing, not the trainings. Though as a coach I do know the importance of training up for a sport. I KNOW!! I'm trying to keep the weight off, so please dun bother me abt that, I'll bother myself!

But I do feel that I'm not spending enough time with dear. She's busy, i'm busy.. Either one of us is dead tired when we meet. So kelian, the both of us... Maybe I should start buying TOTO... :P

Oh yah, G Force, have not watched it yet, cos all the cinemas are only showing 1 3D session today, and they are full. Tml as well!! WTH!!

Dance Flick

Watched on 5 Sep 09 @ Funshion

This is a spoof movie by the Wayans. sometime back, I thought there was only shawn and marlon wayans, this movie made me realised they are huge!! thay have a whole family in the business. Oh they were the people behind scary movie too!!

Anyway, it's a lame, funny, pure senseless movie. Wanna have a good laugh?? go see it. I would not pay $10 on a weekend for it though.

Here's a list of spoofs they did, see if you can spot them if you ever watch this movie. That's always the fun part abt watch spoofs, identifying the links.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Free Willy (1993)
Bring It On (2000)
Honey (2003)
1 Night in Paris (2004) (V)
Catwoman (2004)
"The Biggest Loser" (2004)
"So You Think You Can Dance" (2005)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Step Up (2006)
Employee of the Month (2006)
Stomp the Yard (2007)
Flashdance (1983)
Mean Girls (2004)
High School Musical (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Hairspray (2007)
Superbad (2007)
Juno (2007)
Enchanted (2007)
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Twilight (2008)


Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: kindda lame, but makes some sense
Audio & Visual: not bad... good for laughs
Overall: 7 out of 10

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Thursday, September 03, 2009

No more short weeks for me.. SobzZ

I started off the semester with only 3 days in my timetable. Happy days did not continue for too long. My 3 days school week is not effectively extended to 7 days. Thanks to the following commitments.

Tedious counting exercises for traffic flow...
Researching and reading up on transportation planning
Readings and writing essays for geography
Being the "tech" guy in my new venture creation group

FYP video-ing to start asap..
Training for IFG, though not very tough, it's quite shack for me in this condition.

so basically there goes my free days... time to camp in school more and time to learn to like that... !! :P :( :)

I wanna watch G FORCE!! :)

Year One

Watched on 27 Aug @ The Cathay

This movie is so forgetable I totally forgot abt it, until now.

Story wise, it's really not abt the story, the flow of the story is ridiculous. It plainly just for laughs. Jack black is on the verge of become the comedian with the least number of tricks in his bag. His first few comedies, yeah great & interesting. Well It seems he he no other tricks to show. I was disappointed with that, utterly!

It tries to fill the movie with a few spoofs of biblical characters which I'm not really familiar with, perhaps due to the fact i'm not christian. But I doubt christians would be happy abt it too.

Micheal Cera on the other hand gave a pretty ok performance, I think it's cos of the role. It's just so much like his previous few roles. Just the nerdy guy. Not too bad.

Watch it, only if you have nothing better to go for.. But beware of the excessive amounts of sexual jokes, not too advisable unless you want your partner to know how u know abt horny jokes... :P

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: Lame but funny
Audio & Visual: nothing exceptional
Overall: 6 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Oh: I'm a virgin by choice.
Zed: Ha. Not your choice!

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