Nampaknya dalam bulan Jun 2008 nih banyak filem yang saya tonton ek? Saya sekadar berkongsi keterujaan saya menonton filem2 tersebut dengan you all semua. Sebenarnya saya nih bukanlah seorang yang gemar menonton filem2 cinta namun saya tonton juga filem The Holiday, The Prince and Me dan The Lake House. Touching… jez to fulfill my feminine side, ahaks… but thou no film review for that lovy dovy movies, I must say it is worth watching…
Last week I was on MC on Thursday and Friday, so thanks to Cik Ketumbar for throwing me the idea of killing time with movies and DVDs :P All together I have my eye balls glued at 6 movies which 2 at the cinema and 4 from DVDs. Tu dia… jenuh tau tapi sahaja aku biarkan diri ini melayan perasaan dan merasakan berada di dalam filem berkenaan. Syiokkkkkkkk…
Kali nih saya muatkan sekali synopsis filem di awal review dan bilangan bintang di akhir review dengan jumlah maksimum bintang ialah 5. I must say my expectation is high. (Yer la tu!)
It seem that this summer is for comic-book and graphic-novel movies which continues with "Wanted." I enjoyed "Iron Man," mainly because of Robert Downey Jr. and tolerated the far-from-incredible "Incredible Hulk." Lelaki Perkasa Hijau tu saya review kemudian ok?
Wanted
I have to choose between this movie or Get Smart or The Happenings to watch and action movie won!!!!!! Hahahahahaaaaa jangan mare… :P
Director : Timur Bekmambetov (Russian director)
Synopsis : Based upon Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series (aku pun baru tau citer nih dari novel rupanya…) and helmed by stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov—creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history, the Night Watch series—Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, the world will be introduced to a hero for a new generation: Wesley Gibson. 25-year-old Wes (James McAvoy) was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox (Angelina Jolie). After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad’s death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself. With wickedly brilliant tutors—including the Fraternity’s enigmatic leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman)—Wes grows to enjoy all the strength he ever wanted. But, slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his destiny. --© Universal Pictures
I watched the trailer about a month back and the first thing that cross my mind was… mana ada citer Hollywood yang masuk akal????? Are there no actual human beings left in Hollywood? Is everyone a superhero? They all go beyond the rules of physics…but just throw you logics at the entrance and brace yourself to the movie.
You don't have to like gunplay and fast cars to like Wanted, but it helps. You do, however, need a high tolerance for repetition since Wanted reckons if a point is worth making once, it's worth making several times, from several angles, often in slow motion, whether it's curving bullets or James McAvoy, shirtless, demonstrating that at the end of the movie, he is now a gym member. To me he is not-quite-superhero.
Jolie, assassin with style – you understand if you watched Lara Croft and Mr & Mrs Smith, but this time she is more wit and charm. Mostly, her job is to click triggers and look scrumptious. Awesome in an action role, Morgan Freeman, who plays the intelligent leader guy and he plays it very well indeed.
The action sequences are immensely exciting and enthralling, there’s lots of cool guns and gadgets and it moves along at such a fast pace. It’s like my 2.5 litre Corelle filled with all the necessary ingredients for an over-the-top action flick turned up to the highest heat possible and some fireworks thrown in for that extra kick. As an audience, we get thrown head-first into the mix. There’s plenty of this: knives cut deep wounds, blood flows from gunshots and people get battered and bruised in fights: all in all Wanted shows you the damage the way it’s meant to be seen.
Although I think Bekmambetov is a bit overrated, I still admire the creativity, imagination and fantastic special effects that are on display within such as bullets being bent, people jumping from one building to another and running along a moving train and the like, seem ridiculous and lame but when you’re in the zone of the film and you have been sucked into the action all of those over-the-top elements just add to the enjoyment and excitement of it all.
The movie promises action and I don’t need to tell you that it delivers. Pretty much from start to finish the film is action oriented and even when it stops for a few breaths, before diving back into the deep end, it still leans towards something exciting or nerve wracking in the conversations between the characters. The action sequences are constructed with the help of CGI with minor sequence that you can clearly tell that it’s fake, but for the most part within the context of the movie everything looks good. The scene of falling trains from moutains feet high is exhilarating.
All in all Wanted is a jump off the screen from the start . It’s violent but entertaining with wicked unexpected ending.
3.0 star because of the wicked ending… :P
Last week I was on MC on Thursday and Friday, so thanks to Cik Ketumbar for throwing me the idea of killing time with movies and DVDs :P All together I have my eye balls glued at 6 movies which 2 at the cinema and 4 from DVDs. Tu dia… jenuh tau tapi sahaja aku biarkan diri ini melayan perasaan dan merasakan berada di dalam filem berkenaan. Syiokkkkkkkk…
Kali nih saya muatkan sekali synopsis filem di awal review dan bilangan bintang di akhir review dengan jumlah maksimum bintang ialah 5. I must say my expectation is high. (Yer la tu!)
It seem that this summer is for comic-book and graphic-novel movies which continues with "Wanted." I enjoyed "Iron Man," mainly because of Robert Downey Jr. and tolerated the far-from-incredible "Incredible Hulk." Lelaki Perkasa Hijau tu saya review kemudian ok?
Wanted
I have to choose between this movie or Get Smart or The Happenings to watch and action movie won!!!!!! Hahahahahaaaaa jangan mare… :PDirector : Timur Bekmambetov (Russian director)
Synopsis : Based upon Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series (aku pun baru tau citer nih dari novel rupanya…) and helmed by stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov—creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history, the Night Watch series—Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, the world will be introduced to a hero for a new generation: Wesley Gibson. 25-year-old Wes (James McAvoy) was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox (Angelina Jolie). After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad’s death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself. With wickedly brilliant tutors—including the Fraternity’s enigmatic leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman)—Wes grows to enjoy all the strength he ever wanted. But, slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his destiny. --© Universal Pictures
I watched the trailer about a month back and the first thing that cross my mind was… mana ada citer Hollywood yang masuk akal????? Are there no actual human beings left in Hollywood? Is everyone a superhero? They all go beyond the rules of physics…but just throw you logics at the entrance and brace yourself to the movie.
You don't have to like gunplay and fast cars to like Wanted, but it helps. You do, however, need a high tolerance for repetition since Wanted reckons if a point is worth making once, it's worth making several times, from several angles, often in slow motion, whether it's curving bullets or James McAvoy, shirtless, demonstrating that at the end of the movie, he is now a gym member. To me he is not-quite-superhero.
Jolie, assassin with style – you understand if you watched Lara Croft and Mr & Mrs Smith, but this time she is more wit and charm. Mostly, her job is to click triggers and look scrumptious. Awesome in an action role, Morgan Freeman, who plays the intelligent leader guy and he plays it very well indeed.
The action sequences are immensely exciting and enthralling, there’s lots of cool guns and gadgets and it moves along at such a fast pace. It’s like my 2.5 litre Corelle filled with all the necessary ingredients for an over-the-top action flick turned up to the highest heat possible and some fireworks thrown in for that extra kick. As an audience, we get thrown head-first into the mix. There’s plenty of this: knives cut deep wounds, blood flows from gunshots and people get battered and bruised in fights: all in all Wanted shows you the damage the way it’s meant to be seen.
Although I think Bekmambetov is a bit overrated, I still admire the creativity, imagination and fantastic special effects that are on display within such as bullets being bent, people jumping from one building to another and running along a moving train and the like, seem ridiculous and lame but when you’re in the zone of the film and you have been sucked into the action all of those over-the-top elements just add to the enjoyment and excitement of it all.
The movie promises action and I don’t need to tell you that it delivers. Pretty much from start to finish the film is action oriented and even when it stops for a few breaths, before diving back into the deep end, it still leans towards something exciting or nerve wracking in the conversations between the characters. The action sequences are constructed with the help of CGI with minor sequence that you can clearly tell that it’s fake, but for the most part within the context of the movie everything looks good. The scene of falling trains from moutains feet high is exhilarating.
All in all Wanted is a jump off the screen from the start . It’s violent but entertaining with wicked unexpected ending.
3.0 star because of the wicked ending… :P
Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix
I missed the movie at the cinema since Aliyah was born 5 days earlier than its screening. I bought the DVD about 2 months back and now is the only time to enjoy the fifth of HP book transform to film without the little feet screaming Mommy, nak susu!!!!!!!!
Director : David Yates
Synopsis : As another year begins for Harry, at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry so does the never-ending articles stating that he and Dumbledore are insane. As the ministry starts to invent new and malicious lies about Harry's account on Voldemort's return, Hogwarts begins to change for the worse as the ministry sends in their cure for all the insanity, Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge. As she begins to inflict her rules and regulations on the students at Hogwarts they begin to find that with her as their teacher, they'll never be ready for the outside world. So Harry along with his friends decides to take things into their own hands and begin to learn magic the real way. As Harry starts having visions of terrible events happening with the Ministries very walls he decides to take action, leading himself and his friends into battle, ultimately teaching them what friendship, loyalty and sacrifice really means – Kyle Smith, New York Post
It's not easy to take the longest HP book (840 pages) and transform it into the shortest HP movie, but director David Yates does a bang job with it, creating an Order of the Phoenix that's entertaining and action-packed. Definitely a much darker story than the first four, it is also richer and more compelling and touching… (I was argggggggghhhhhh when Bellatrix ‘avdra kedavra’ Sirius… geram!!!)
Much is explained, much is left hanging and there is nothing like the pace of action that readers had read in The Goblet of Fire. The plot was tampered with so much that anyone who had not read the books would have been confused.
As the HP movies turn more interior and the CGI trickery becomes more reflective of the characters' emotional states. The climactic battle against Voldemort, set in an immense storeroom with thousands of shelves with crystal balls vanishing into inky infinity, is magisterial (is the such word??).
It is far crueller than previous HP movies begins to malipulate properly the idea that wizard and wizadry are no longer in an amusing magical playground but an epic confrontation with real victims.
The acting skills of Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione) have improved but not enough to truly flesh out the characters. Half of the Brits extravagant actors are in this movie. Personally I think there were too much Dolores Umbridge and the villainous Bellatrix Lestrange is a shining but underused talent. I like the Weasley twins’ explosive transfer from the world of academia to the world of retail. Gary Oldman and Allan Rickman acting really fancy me. Cunning and wicked. Simply marvelous.
I have read HP last two books Half Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows and I wonder how Yates going to show off his magic and wizardry at the finale. Surprise me!
3.5 star - DVD worth buying…
I missed the movie at the cinema since Aliyah was born 5 days earlier than its screening. I bought the DVD about 2 months back and now is the only time to enjoy the fifth of HP book transform to film without the little feet screaming Mommy, nak susu!!!!!!!!Director : David Yates
Synopsis : As another year begins for Harry, at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry so does the never-ending articles stating that he and Dumbledore are insane. As the ministry starts to invent new and malicious lies about Harry's account on Voldemort's return, Hogwarts begins to change for the worse as the ministry sends in their cure for all the insanity, Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge. As she begins to inflict her rules and regulations on the students at Hogwarts they begin to find that with her as their teacher, they'll never be ready for the outside world. So Harry along with his friends decides to take things into their own hands and begin to learn magic the real way. As Harry starts having visions of terrible events happening with the Ministries very walls he decides to take action, leading himself and his friends into battle, ultimately teaching them what friendship, loyalty and sacrifice really means – Kyle Smith, New York Post
It's not easy to take the longest HP book (840 pages) and transform it into the shortest HP movie, but director David Yates does a bang job with it, creating an Order of the Phoenix that's entertaining and action-packed. Definitely a much darker story than the first four, it is also richer and more compelling and touching… (I was argggggggghhhhhh when Bellatrix ‘avdra kedavra’ Sirius… geram!!!)
Much is explained, much is left hanging and there is nothing like the pace of action that readers had read in The Goblet of Fire. The plot was tampered with so much that anyone who had not read the books would have been confused.
As the HP movies turn more interior and the CGI trickery becomes more reflective of the characters' emotional states. The climactic battle against Voldemort, set in an immense storeroom with thousands of shelves with crystal balls vanishing into inky infinity, is magisterial (is the such word??).
It is far crueller than previous HP movies begins to malipulate properly the idea that wizard and wizadry are no longer in an amusing magical playground but an epic confrontation with real victims.
The acting skills of Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione) have improved but not enough to truly flesh out the characters. Half of the Brits extravagant actors are in this movie. Personally I think there were too much Dolores Umbridge and the villainous Bellatrix Lestrange is a shining but underused talent. I like the Weasley twins’ explosive transfer from the world of academia to the world of retail. Gary Oldman and Allan Rickman acting really fancy me. Cunning and wicked. Simply marvelous.
I have read HP last two books Half Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows and I wonder how Yates going to show off his magic and wizardry at the finale. Surprise me!
3.5 star - DVD worth buying…
Cloverfield
I like the idea - a mysterious and gigantic creature attacks New York in document-style monster movie. This is totally not Osama Laden’s ok????
Director : Matt Reeves (Mission Impossible III)
Synopsis : Director Matt Reeves (THE PALLBEARER) and producer J. J. Abrams (LOST, ALIAS) turn a mysterious monster loose in Manhattan in the disaster flick CLOVERFIELD. The movie begins at a party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who has accepted a promotion that will send him to Japan. Hud (T. J. Miller) is entrusted with the responsibility of videotaping the party--and as the trouble grows, he holds on to the camera, recording everything that happens. In fact, the entire movie is seen through the lens of his camera, reminiscent of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. As terrified people in a post-9/11 New York City take to the streets, Rob decides to head uptown to try to save Beth (Odette Yustman), the woman he loves, though he's afraid to tell her so. Rob is joined by his brother Jason (Mike Vogel), Jason's girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas), Lily's friend Marlena (Lizzy Caplan), and Hud, who has a thing for Marlena. Rob is determined not to give up, even after almost being crushed by the Statue of Liberty's head and as the military shows up to force evacuation of the city. Reeves and first-time screenwriter Drew Goddard, who previously has written television episodes of such series as BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, ANGEL, ALIAS, and LOST, focus in on the central aspect of the story: people trying to survive the monster attack. Very little else is explained, since the story is told completely through the video camera. And there is no additional score to heighten the drama; the only music is that which is picked up by Hud and the camera's microphone, including snippets of songs by Kings of Leon, Parliament Funkadelic, Of Montreal, and others. The anticipation of CLOVERFIELD's release was enhanced by a viral marketing campaign that included Web sites built around the main characters and even the fictional drink Slusho – rottentomatoes.com
This document movie may not be revolutionary as it is not the first time and one can’t stop comparing it with The Blair Witch Project but it's just story from an 'ordinary person's perspective of apocalypse' from different from Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. But I seemed to recall Mr Bean Holidays on some scenes, why huh?????
Anyone with a dislike of hand-held shakycam should also consider themselves warned. Some tupsy turvy scenes minght bring nausea thou you are not pregnant hahahahahahaha It opens with some official-looking United States government text claiming that the following images were retrieved from what was once known as Central Park. The big (or rather only) idea here is that almost everything we subsequently see is the presumably unedited video material shot by Hud, who, though initially reluctant to pick up the camera, develops a mania for documentation once the monster strikes. So this is Hud’s version of cinéma vérité that he keeps the camera recording while he’s running through hailstorms of debris, trying to cross a fast-collapsing bridge and witnessing friends melt down, bleed out and even die.
Time spent introducing characters takes first 20 minutes to show that these are the people we care about and wanted to avoid any unpleasant end. Then the story building up the tension to a harrowing level as the story accelerates towards its fateful climax in Central Park.
The plot is thin and the characters are forgettable but the cast bring their roles to life even when they're doing little other than running away. The night vision scene in the subway is something. On top of this, Cloverfield gets its monster right. A reptilian creature with a slithering, smashing tail, multiple grabby appendages and have an appetite for destruction
But the monster was shown later. There were long moments of screams and the images of smoke billowing through the skyscrapers make you think what cause the attack and you (me???) curse the director for insensitivity or lack of imagination or low in budget. Then… a brilliant piece of creature design, the monster is believable, look like an alien and there are only a few moments where the CGI work is anything other than exemplary. Unforgetable scene would be the nice simulation of panic as the people sees the Statue of Liberty's head roll down the street.
Cloverfield is canny enough to have been designed for the YouTube generation... exciting, terrifying and breathlessly entertaining.
It's the closest a film has ever gotten to a roller-coaster ride. It will definitely nauseate, it feels claustrophobic and there are sudden scares that make me half way to screaming.
A must see for giant monster fans everywhere!
3.0 star - DVD worth watching, different perspective…
I like the idea - a mysterious and gigantic creature attacks New York in document-style monster movie. This is totally not Osama Laden’s ok????Director : Matt Reeves (Mission Impossible III)
Synopsis : Director Matt Reeves (THE PALLBEARER) and producer J. J. Abrams (LOST, ALIAS) turn a mysterious monster loose in Manhattan in the disaster flick CLOVERFIELD. The movie begins at a party for Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who has accepted a promotion that will send him to Japan. Hud (T. J. Miller) is entrusted with the responsibility of videotaping the party--and as the trouble grows, he holds on to the camera, recording everything that happens. In fact, the entire movie is seen through the lens of his camera, reminiscent of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. As terrified people in a post-9/11 New York City take to the streets, Rob decides to head uptown to try to save Beth (Odette Yustman), the woman he loves, though he's afraid to tell her so. Rob is joined by his brother Jason (Mike Vogel), Jason's girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas), Lily's friend Marlena (Lizzy Caplan), and Hud, who has a thing for Marlena. Rob is determined not to give up, even after almost being crushed by the Statue of Liberty's head and as the military shows up to force evacuation of the city. Reeves and first-time screenwriter Drew Goddard, who previously has written television episodes of such series as BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, ANGEL, ALIAS, and LOST, focus in on the central aspect of the story: people trying to survive the monster attack. Very little else is explained, since the story is told completely through the video camera. And there is no additional score to heighten the drama; the only music is that which is picked up by Hud and the camera's microphone, including snippets of songs by Kings of Leon, Parliament Funkadelic, Of Montreal, and others. The anticipation of CLOVERFIELD's release was enhanced by a viral marketing campaign that included Web sites built around the main characters and even the fictional drink Slusho – rottentomatoes.com
This document movie may not be revolutionary as it is not the first time and one can’t stop comparing it with The Blair Witch Project but it's just story from an 'ordinary person's perspective of apocalypse' from different from Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. But I seemed to recall Mr Bean Holidays on some scenes, why huh?????
Anyone with a dislike of hand-held shakycam should also consider themselves warned. Some tupsy turvy scenes minght bring nausea thou you are not pregnant hahahahahahaha It opens with some official-looking United States government text claiming that the following images were retrieved from what was once known as Central Park. The big (or rather only) idea here is that almost everything we subsequently see is the presumably unedited video material shot by Hud, who, though initially reluctant to pick up the camera, develops a mania for documentation once the monster strikes. So this is Hud’s version of cinéma vérité that he keeps the camera recording while he’s running through hailstorms of debris, trying to cross a fast-collapsing bridge and witnessing friends melt down, bleed out and even die.
Time spent introducing characters takes first 20 minutes to show that these are the people we care about and wanted to avoid any unpleasant end. Then the story building up the tension to a harrowing level as the story accelerates towards its fateful climax in Central Park.
The plot is thin and the characters are forgettable but the cast bring their roles to life even when they're doing little other than running away. The night vision scene in the subway is something. On top of this, Cloverfield gets its monster right. A reptilian creature with a slithering, smashing tail, multiple grabby appendages and have an appetite for destruction
But the monster was shown later. There were long moments of screams and the images of smoke billowing through the skyscrapers make you think what cause the attack and you (me???) curse the director for insensitivity or lack of imagination or low in budget. Then… a brilliant piece of creature design, the monster is believable, look like an alien and there are only a few moments where the CGI work is anything other than exemplary. Unforgetable scene would be the nice simulation of panic as the people sees the Statue of Liberty's head roll down the street.
Cloverfield is canny enough to have been designed for the YouTube generation... exciting, terrifying and breathlessly entertaining.
It's the closest a film has ever gotten to a roller-coaster ride. It will definitely nauseate, it feels claustrophobic and there are sudden scares that make me half way to screaming.
A must see for giant monster fans everywhere!
3.0 star - DVD worth watching, different perspective…
I'll be back with Duyung, Hulk and Jumper... tunggu yea...
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