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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$ell Out

Watched on 20th May 2009
@ The Cathay

This is an interesting movie. No regrets watching it, only regret there aint more movies like this. This is shown at the Venice Film Festival, but trust me when i say this movie is pure entertainment. It's a malaysia movie, in english, with some lame references to singapore. The acting is, well somewhat like a musical. In fact it's really close to a musical.

But!! the storyline does feel a little ridiculous. It started out as a serious movie, slowly changing to a comedy then a musical came in somewhere along the way accompanied by a tinge of fantasy or shld i say classic asian ghost genre.

Spikefire ratings: 7 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Big Boss of Fony Conglomerate: no buts! i hate people who "but" me. Did u just "but" me?

Coolest Item:

10 in 1 soya bean product maker, includes soya milk, bean curd, tau pok, tau hway, soya sauce.. blah blah blah..

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