10 posts tagged “movies”
Spoilers ahead, in this situation, 24 months seems a hell of a long time, especially at the age of conscription into the Milatary. In this situation though, the guys can't cheat on the girls. The typical lovey dovey couple has the girl going off with the guys best friend ! I feel bad for the guy. The only couple that seemed to get out still together was the one where the woman was older and had been through a lot of relationships. My feelings it's a tough test and if you come out of it bad you know things weren't meant to be.
I never got this show, having only watched clips of it. I'm glad someone wrote an article explaining what it's about. Some of the comments after the article are hilarious.
I don't often get to go out on courses, but I spent two days in Cambridge last week. I thought it would be good to get away from the traffic congestion in London but getting into Cambridge city centre was just as bad. No wonder all the students and locals are all on their bicycles. I saw two kids perched on one bike, on in the front basket and one behind the rider. Also who would of thought it would be possible to read a book, smoke and ride a bicycle at the same time. Kinda of made me feel old with so many students around.
The hotel the course was at, was an old style place as you can see from the pictures the red leather chairs look like the one Morpheus sat in from the Matrix.
There was a rustic open log fire with the distinctive crackling noise. Which was kind of weird given the restaurant was an extension to the hotel and had a modern contemporary look. The glass dome reminded me of the film Titanic.
I've only come across this song "Wear sunscreen", while listening to the 10th Anniversary album soundtrack of one my favourite movies, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. I'd like to go through the original speech by Mary Schmich, with some of my thoughts of them.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen
would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved
by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more
reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this
advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You
will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until
they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at
photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much
possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You
are not as fat as you imagine.
[I was fatter in my younger days, I guess the message is enjoy today right now, it's the youngest day you'll ever be.]
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying
is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things
that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you
at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
[My mum would do good taking this advice, me too. Things that may or may not happen, endless scenarios ...]
Do one thing every day that scares you.
[I wish I could and I guess I should]
Sing.
[I'm good at singing the Katamari Damacy theme tune to annoy my niece ! ]
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with
people who are reckless with yours.
[yeah I was reckless ... sorry]
Floss.
[Personally, I prefer mouthwash]
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead,
sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's
only with yourself.
[The last sentence truly resonates with me, the race is only with yourself, if I keep that in mind I will be a lot better off.]
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.
[This is like a crime and I am one of the worst offenders, bad images from the past replay themselves in my mind without warning ... argghh]
Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.
[Someone threw away all my old love letters, yet I have my bank statments from years back filed neatly in chorological order ... sad]
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with
your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22
what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most
interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them
when they're gone.
[I'm freaked out whenever I kneel for longer than a minute my right knee feels a pop.]
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children,
maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the
funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do,
don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it
or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument
you'll ever own.
[Body and mind.]
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living
room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
[Always read the label.]
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel
ugly.
[Most of those magazines are photoshopped anyway.]
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone
for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your
past and the people most likely to stick with you in the
future.
[I feel closer to my siblings than when I was a child.]
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people
who knew you when you were young.
[When I meet a precious true friend, I will blog about it. ]
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you
soft. Travel.
[Never been to either of these places, but I plan to]
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians
will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll
fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable,
politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
[There is nothing we can do but do accept these truths.]
Respect your elders.
[Even if you don't believe in what they say.]
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust
fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when
either one might run out.
[Rely on nobody but yourself.]
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it
will look 85.
[If I have still have hair when I am 40, I'll be happy]
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over
the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
Yet another Hollywood remake. The Eye original trailer below:
Hollywood remake starring Jessica Alba Trailer.
The scene in the elevator looks like a shot for shot copy ! I have seen the original Eye, it was pretty scary. I don't think I will be watching the remake. I made the mistake of watching "The Departed", Scorsese's remake of "Infernal Affairs". It was full of cringe worthty scenes and lacked soul, but only because I've seen the original. If I hdan't seen the original before I might of thought better for it. So I've come to the conclusion a remake is not worth seeing if you have already watched the original. There is no way I am going to watch the "My sassy girl" remake.
There is fierce debate of whether a remake should be done or not.
One agrument for a remake was that the cultural references in the original foreign film are lost. Some argued for the eye which is set in modern times it didn't matter. Well it does matter somewhat, when Jonathon Ross reviewed the film on the BBC, he was puzzled by one scene when one of the ghosts was eating a candle. It's Chinese tradition to burn incense and candles for the dead.
Some people cite they are too lazy and don't wish to expend energy reading subtitles. I always prefer subtitles against dubbing and does it really take that much effort to read lines on a screen ? (Ironically I had to read the subtitles in the scene "The Departed", where they were selling "Microchips" to the Chinese. Yet they had some American Born Chinese ? guy speaking broken Cantonese instead of Mandarin. I couldn't make out a word he said.
I can understand the majority cannot be bothered reading subtitles, most films have things spelled out right to the audience without any intellectual thought required. I like films with an open end that does require thought. I am for a remake, obviously the remade version of the eye will have a much wider audience than the original. Will it be better maybe not, but more people will look at the original one too.
You've seen the movie, now turn yourself into a Simpsons character with Simpsonize me. The face recognition software on the website is a bit hit and miss, though you can tweak the results a bit. I think I will Simpsonize the rest of my family there too.
The new Transfomers movie is out in the states, it's had generally favourable reviews score from metacritic, that was higher than Spider-Man 3. Even Robert Egbert gave it three stars. I'll have to wait until the 27th to watch it. There is going to be a sequel, hopefully it will feature some of my favourite transformers.
I like the original designs better, but I reserve judgement until I've seen the film. They did use some of the classic designs in the viral marketing ad. I like this one of grimlock the dinobot, he looks like he's leaped out from the cartoon !
I remember watching the first animated move as I kid, I still have the soundtrack on cassette tape somewhere. The scene with the death of Optimus Prime was so emotional, sniff sniff. The tune "Death of Optimus Prime" is one of my favou
I remember my sister stole one of the minbots Huffer from a supermarket.
"We're gonna crash, we'll be destroyed !"
The third Spider-Man movie is coming out this friday. I am going to wait until I can get to an IMAX theatre to watch it in a few weeks time. Spider-man is a childhood hero of mine. I have lots of comics, issue 300 is probably the most valuable on I have.
There is new film out last week called ghosts, it's about the deaths of the Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe bay back in 2004.
I've only watched the trailer but it's sad to see how they were tricked to coming here and then exploited into working for pittance. It's disturbing to me to know I inadvertently support this kind of slave labour by using some of the major supermarket chains who employ them for so little. It made me think when I buy things cheaply clothes or food, has somebody else been exploited in the process of that product. And how they died finally because they went out to pick the cockles at a different time to avoid racial abuse. There is a review of the film here.
A bittersweet life
One late autumn night, the disciple awoke crying. So the master asked
the disciple, "Did you have a nightmare?" "No." "Did you have a sad
dream?" "No," said the disciple. "I had a sweet dream." "Then why are
you crying so sadly?" The disciple wiped his tears away and quietly
answered, "Because the dream I had can't come true."
It's the little touches in the film that I like. Stuff
that is not integral to the story and an ending that is open to
interpretation whether intentional or not. It's not an original story but the neat little touches do it for me.
Nobody knows
"Sh*t. I'm 10 yen short. Lend me 10 yen"
This
is a quite a depressing film about Children forced to live by
themselves. I watched it at a time where I was going through a bad
patch myself.
It's loosely based on a true event which is quite shocking.
About Love
Three different stories set in Shanghai, Tokyo and Taiwan. Each story has a subtle story and the combination of the three make for great viewing. I liked the Shanghai story the best, I have a thing for unrequited love.
Windstruck
"Sorry is not in my dictionary. If you want to hear it, change your name to Sorry. Then I'll call you Sorry."
I
think this movie is always unfairly compared to "My Sassy Girl", it's
not a prequel to that at all. I like the nice comedic moments and
touching story.
It is sometimes over melodramatic but other moments more than make up for that.
