Top Reasons to Watch Movies in 2009

1) Fast & Furious (Mar 27 / April 3 - CANADA / U.S.)

Wow. I've always been a fan of The Fast and The Furious, and 2 Fast 2 Furious, with the original cast of Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez. And when Tokyo Drift came out, I was like "WHAT>!?!" How glad was I when i learnt that the original cast are going to reprise their roles in a 4th sequel. Hopefully, this is not the last though; it shouldn't be. Fans of flashy cars, turbo-charged, adrenaline-pumped high-speed racing will definitely love this installment. I know I will.

Brian's R34 Skyline GT-R and Subaru Impreza WRX




Dom's 1970 Chevelle SS



Some other flashy cars from the movie:




The HOT Paul Walker in a still from the movie:



The Theatrical Posters for movie:




2) Terminator Salvation - May 21, 2009

I've always loved the 1st and 2nd Terminator Movies and i think it's definitely the right move to make the 4th Terminator movie a sequel to the first two. I think this is going to be one of my favourite Terminator movie ever: 1) Christian Bale as John Connor? Hell yeah. I've loved him since Rescue Dawn. He was pretty much amazing in it. 2) Linda Hamilton aka the ORIGINAL BONA FIDE Sarah Connor - narrating? This is double orgasm. She may be too old to do action films, but to hear her voice again in this movie, is a fitting tribute to her touching portrayal of Sarah Connor in the previous T-films.

The Theatrical Posters for Terminator: Salvation
(I like the first one better though)

The Actors in Terminator: Salvation
Christian Bale as John Connor
Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright (a decommissioned Terminator)

3) Transformers - Revenge of The Fallen - June 24, 2009

This has got to be one of the most anticipated movie of the year but out of the three, I don't really feel anything for this - it doesn't have any of my favourite actors in it, nor was i a big Fan of Transformers as a child. And considering the jerky camera movements and barely distinguishable action/fight scenes of the first Transformers movie, i don't really know what to expect from this sequel. Well, i'm definitely glad Megan Fox is going to be back for some eye-candy, but hopefully, this time around, we'll be able to enjoy the action scenes more clearly.

The Theatrical Poster:



Being the Transformers non-fan that i am, i can't tell whether this is a autobot or a decepticon...



This is EXACTLY what i mean by a "barely distinguishable" action scene: Most of the times, the action scenes are just a jumbled mess of metal. sometimes, i don't even know who is fighting who.



OMG~~ Wonder why Megan Fox is crying here~ Hopefully Shia LaBeouf gets killed off here. =)

Run Babies run ~~~

Movie Reviews

Over the past couple of days, I've watched quite a number of films and some of them were pretty darn good. Here's my two cents worth on them:

The first one i watched was Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which serves as a prequel to Underworld 1. Considering how shiteous the first flick was, I must say that this third installment was pretty ok to me. The thing was, throughout the film, i find the female lead to be quite familiar, though i couldn't quite pin-point where i saw her before. and i wasn't sure whether she was the same chick in Underworld 1. After doing a little research, i realised she was the detective Kit McGraw in Nip/Tuck, who had an incestuous relationship with her brother, who didn't have a penis. Ahhh. No wonder. Here's Rhona Mitra (Sonja in U3) and Kate Beckinsale (Selene in U1):

*they look quite similar in the film*

The next film i'm going to talk about is a huge favourite of mine: Burn after Reading. Funny title; not the kind i would go watch just based on the title. First, here's the theatrical poster:

Witty. Clever. Great Fun to watch. It brings up a lot of topics about people in a very real environment. E.g. Insecurities, Sense of deluded importance, Affairs, Divorce. The film is so named cos the film is centred around a disk of apparently "classified" information that the characters played by Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand discovered. Special mention include George Clooney and Frances McDormand as Linda. George Clooney was particularly hilarious.

I'm a sucker for horror flicks and even though i'll hide behind my pillow and my legs will turn into jelly whenever i watch 'em, i simply can't resist them. which brings me to this double bundle of joy: Kill Theory and The midnight Meat Train.



I don't think Kill Theory has been released in Singapore yet, and i doubt it ever will. I could just sum it up in a sentence: Typical high school students meets serial killer horror flick. Nothing fancy. Pretty average actors. OK script. The 'twist' at the end was ok also... But here's the thing: it's pretty gory. which going by the theatrical poster, i could understand. but it's just that nowadays, more and more 'horror' flicks are becoming 'gore'y, including the next one i'm going to talk about: The Midnight Meat Train.

OK, let me make this very clear. This HORROR flick is 10 times more GORE-Y than Kill Theory. yup. which as u can see from the stills above. for me, the above scenes were one of the scariest. Dead naked bodies hanging from the hand rails on Butcher hooks in a train. yup. in the beginning first few kill scenes, it was pretty artsy, as well as right in your face GORE. slowly, it began to feel like a thriller, with the conspiracy thingy and i pretty like the cinematography. And the ending was pretty good as well. Though it's pretty far-fetched from reality, as like Hey, what are the odds of getting butchered to death in a railway train in today? but hey, it's fantasy horror flick after all. i had great fun watching it and scared myself to shits.



And currently showing in Singapore is the feel-good comedy, Role Models. Surprisingly, this wasn't produced by Judd Apatow. and just knowing Sean William Scott is in it is enough to rush down to the cinemas to catch it. He WAS funny in it, no doubt, but somehow i felt that his performance in it was restrained, held back. not the kind of outright-in-your-face, Sean William Scott-esque funny. feel very scripted. Sure, this is feel-good comedy, about Sean William Scott and Paul Judd doing community as guidance adults for the 'Littles', who wanted nothing more than to finish their hours as quickly as possible, only to come out at the end to have learnt some much from the 'littles'. However, this flick doesn't feel a single bit cheesy and off-the-mill funny. it is seriously funny. and the poster above is pretty kick-ass.