It’s been a while since I watch a movie at the theaters, the last one was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I guess. So the movie today was a good use of the 25.000 rupiahs I spent for the ticket. Narnia may not be as grand as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it is surely fun to see when every animal have names of their own and talk lively. Sometimes, they even have more characters than the humans in the movie.

As it was based on the seven books by C.S. Lewis, the film showed great details on almost every scene. And with Liam Neeson as the voice, Aslan just plain rocks, and portraited perfectly with high-quality CG renderings. That goes to the Centaurs, Fauns, Griffins, and every other imaginary characters you could possibly think of.

As I predicted before, the battle scenes were created by WETA using their Massive software, so rest assured that the scene will have at least the same quality as the battle of Mordor and Helms Deep.

The storyline itself is quite straight-forward, so it’s not really a heavy watch. I can safely assume that it goes along with children as well, except for the stabbing and slashing scenes of course.

It’s been quite a while since I got the chance to watch a Tim Burton movie, and up until now, I have not watched Big Fish yet. And since yesterday, for some reason we were unable to watch this movie, and I was going to go to MediumRare anyway, we decided to watch the movie today, and it was worth the wait. The four of us (Kara, Joshua, Trixie, and Me) went to PIM2 after the ensemble rehearsal at church, and queued for the first show. And at the same time, testing out the new theater, hehehehe.

The movie itself was, well, since I’ve watched the old version, I pretty much knew what was going to happen along the movie. But seeing all the cinematography, the make ups (especially Johnny’s), the sets, and even all the same-looking faces of the Oompa Loompas (Hahahahaha, they remind me of Jango and his clones, in a weird way), the movie was very nice to see. In short, if you watched Tim Burton’s movies before, you’ll pretty much get that, but not that dark.

And BTW, we saw the trailer for Peter Jackson’s King Kong right before the movie… And it’s a potential to be put in our movie-watch queue.

I am really pissed since the Fantastic Four has the same abbreviation with that stinkin’ Taiwanese boyband called the Four Fuckin’ Freakin’ Faggots (F4)… Nevertheless, it’s a good movie. I went to WTC Serpong to watch the movie, together with Kara and Josh, well, the theater is cheap =). Anyway, as far as I realized, most people already knew what happened to them, and all the story since the first comic was published. So this is just an interpretation movie. It may not be as good as the Spiderman series, or Batman (Sans Batman and Robin, of course), but overally the movie is nice to see, and Jessica Alba is also nice to see… Hehehehe.

So, although Fantastic Four, IMHO, is quite a public knowledge already, the following thought of mine could be a spoiler for you who haven’t watched it:

If Reed managed to get that reversal machine worked, that means, they can be the Fantastic Four or not at will? Hmm… An investment indeed, for Ben perhaps.

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My last Singapore holiday trip really does pay off. I finally got a copy of THX 1138, one of the movies I’m very curious about. I finally got to see one of Lucas’ ver first works. What I really like about the movie is the graphic quality, and the exceptional cinematography for such an old movie. Lucas did a good job showing us a possible future for our world, and it’s not even close to what we would like it be. Cold, barren, too organized, to don’t even live for yourself anymore. You live for those who rule you, and sex is the ultimate criminal. Not a very pleasing concept, huh? Although it may not be my preference of the future, but it does have some things that I really like, the clean environment, and the simplistic buildings. I’m not too fond of the jetcars though, it looks too much.

Another movie-watch before I’m off for my holiday week, today at PIM. Finally, after several years of absence, Batman returns with a prequel, and yes! It is indeed far better from that clowny Batman and Robin (Batman with Batman credit cards? What could be even more cheesy than that?)… I really enjoy the movie because until now, I never know Batman’s history, and this is a good chance for me to know what really turned Wayne to Batman. A recommended watch for the week =). Nevertheless, my favourite Batman movies would still be Batman and Batman Returns… Tim Burton rules!

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