September 2009

G-Force

When I first heard of G-Force, I thought it was the 70s-80s cartoon, Battle Of The Planets, aka G-Force. So it was quite disappointing to find out this is actually a guinea pigs in Mission: Impossible.
But these rodents were pretty well engineered and looked real enough, and definitely cute enough. Yes, even the mole. But [...]

Frost/Nixon

What’s great about this movie was the performances by Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, more so with Sheen. Even though I’ve never seen Frost or Nixon before, but what the actors brought to their roles were so in-character that you would believe in these characters, didn’t matter if they existed in reality or not.

Frost when [...]

Mongol

The early life of Genghis Khan. This picture boasted beautiful scenery and costumes that gave a sense of the nomadic lifestyle of that era.

But the story, however close to the truth, was a little dull. Much of the time we see Temudjin got captured, escaped, ran, captured again, and so on and so forth. It [...]

Haeundae

What’s typical about the story was its style like many other Korean movies, the first half was filled with humour before the drama and disaster set in. What’s typical was like many other Hollywood disaster movies, the story first focus on a few group of people and their individual stories first, before going into the [...]

The Ugly Truth

The lewd jokes were all I can remember from the movie. So lewd sometimes they became uncomfortable to sit through. They were talking about “flicking the bean” for a good five minutes and our local censorship board was oblivious enough to let it, and among other such innuendos, slide.

But what the movie talked about very [...]