Meeeoooowwww... the Persian Prince

NOTE: Some Spoilers ....

It's been a while since I've done one of these... and it seems that I only do movie reviews when there are rippling muscles to be seen... (OTHERWISE... why else would I watch it???)


As you can guess, this is about the great Prince (Watch me jump and ripple everywhere) Dastan of Persia...

Having never played the game before and not being a big fan of Jaky Gyllenhaal (I keep picturing him in Brokeback)... I was quite amazed that the show was quite enjoyable...

Quite...

And I was wondering why the chick (Gemma Arteton) playing Princess Tamina was so familiar looking...


And then I recalled, she played the rather dubios character of Io in Clash of the Titans as the love interest opposite Sam Worthington...

So it seems she has the same taste in men as I do... rippling muscles trying to save the world... (Okay, I don't really.. but heck!)

And the Great Gandhi.. I mean... Ben Kingsley... who has the role of the evil nemesis



The plot of the movie was pretty easy to follow and entertaining... explains how a rugrat from the streets of Persia caught the attention of the King to become his adopted son... then flash forwards to the present time where the adopted prince (Jake Brokeback) and his two brothers are on the verge of invading the holy city of Alamut...

Now I enjoyed the movie right up to the ending... methinks, the director just wanted to finish the movie off and end it quickly...

If, the said sands of time was over used and went back too far in time (longer than the given 1 minute), then how is it that the movie ending wasn't a catastrophic end of the world scene???

Why do people need to forget the past? Why can't dead people stay dead? Why are they all speaking with bad English accents? Why is Princess Tamina wearing such sexy clothing in the dessert?

So many questions unanswered....

Enjoyable to an extent... but I have no idea how they will ever make a sequel to this movie having erased nearly all of the happenings and relationships at the end of the movie...

So... I give it a 3 out of 5... just for rippling muscles and sexy girls...

Married Life

*Spoiler Alert*

Okay, this is a song from Up!... the part that made me burst into tears!!!

Such a good movie... I kept nudging the Boy at bits where I thought he should follow and he kept laughing silently in his chair at my tear stained face...

*sigh*

The movie is basically about a promise made between a man and his wife, to have an adventure at "Paradise Falls" in South America. This has been their childhood dream.

One thing led to another in life, and their adventure plan always got pushed back.

Until one day, when the inevitable happened, and Carl was left all alone.

Determined to carry out Ellie's wish and to have their adventure (rather than be sent to an old folks home), he hooks his house to many helium balloons (he worked as a balloon man) and takes off...

Somehow, he manages to bring along a cute little fat kid, Russell who insists on "assisting the elderly" to gain his badge in his Wilderness Explorer club.



They eventually do arrive in Paradise Falls, and along the way manage to find a rare bird and an extremely dopey dog, named Dug!

This is Dug wearing the "Cone of Shame"...



Obviously there is more to the movie, with a good guy turned bad, lots of other animals... talking dogs... where no one but the "bad man" dies... etc... classic Disney theme...

I loved it!!... It was a feel good movie, with a message that you're never too old to have an adventure and promises should always be kept.

Obviously as a animation, there are a lot of questions unanswered (e.g. How does an old man needing the use of a walking stick pulls a house [even though aided with helium]?; and How do they have so much energy to do anything whilst not eating for the entire duration?; Dogs talking?...)

The list can go on, but sometimes, you need to put all the adult scepticism aside and just enjoy the movie for what it is...

EXTRA:
I loved the short animation shown before UP! started, "Partly Cloudy".... sooooo cute...

NOTE: There is a much better summary of the movie on Wiki, but I'm just putting the bits I really liked about it =)

Rooster

I feel, this song by Alice in Chains is quite apt as the title, and only as a title of this post.

The day began a little slower than usual. I decided to forego breakfast as it was late and have a little something that reminded me of home and of my Gong Gong. He always has 2 half boiled eggs in the morning with a cup of kopi-o. He is Hainanese after all.

Because I'm still not quite myself... I had it with mango juice... just a little to amplify the fact that I am not in Malaysia at the moment.



As I plodded along the day slowly, I sent a message to the Boy to ask if we were watching T4 tonight, which he replied a brief, "No".

Capital Letter No. So I grumpily decided on the night's menu. Prepared all the ingredients, put the rice on the cooker walk to the table, and 'lo and behold, a message on the phone saying... "Get Ready".

*SIGH*.. why why why does he always do this to me... Rushing to keep the food and turn off the rice cooker, changing clothes, the phone rings.

"Where are you? I'm outside!"

Obviously he got an earful from me.

So we got to the cinema and got readied to be "Terminated" ^_^ (It had to be said)



Now, the two main actors in the movie, Batman, I mean Christian Bale and Sam Worthington were mostly covered with dirt, grime and sweat... ooh and muscles...



It had to be said though, Sam Worthington completely... COMPLETELY upstaged poor Batman... I mean Mr. Bale... Any moment in the movie, apart from dramatically waiting for the music tempo to change and announcing, "I am John Connor", you could almost think you were watching Batman in his training years. A pity.

Poor man upstaged again by an Australian (from Perth!). Will he ever learn?

I liked the movie, despite the many questions left unanswered (to me) and the headache it gave me in the beginning with the camera angles all over the place.

The Boy was laughing at all the wrong bits... I don't think he enjoyed it much... He was exclaiming "2 hours of my life" over and over at the end of it...

But.... Jeng Jeng My name is John Connor Jeng Jeng Jeng... was a fun movie. Not a great movie. Not even a good movie. But a fun movie... because I could laugh at it... and enjoy... so I was entertained!!

I was wondering why the boy in the movie, "Kyle Reese", played by Anton Yelchin looked so familiar... and I just got it... He was that extremely funny Russian dude in Star Trek...!!

See, here he is as Pavel in Star Trek.



And here he is as Kyle in T4!!



Dinner was a round about trip to, you got it right, Maccas!!! Yumm... Give me the McChicken in this country anyday... I've had a few around the world.. and I must admit, we have one of the best McChickens... yummmm... must be the chickens..

Mmm Papi

*SUPER SPOILER ALERT*

Cheap Tuesday, calls for a night for WOLVERINE!!! Ahh.. I love cheap Tuesday's, although I remember a time when cheap Tuesday was really cheap at $5, and now it's $10 - $11... *sigh*

Oh holy mother of all Gods... Thank you thank you thank you...

To the well crafted body of Hugh Jackman, THANK YOU!!!

I really had my eyes wide open like the owl in the above... GOSH.. there can be no hotter Wolverine than Hugh. That was probably the only thing they casted 100% for the x-men franchise (apart from Xavier).

Look at those muscles.. glistening... shiny... *Drooool*


I think there was drool on my cinema seat and floor with that man running around fully naked in the movie!! GOSH!...

That was the only good parts of the movie. When Wolverine was in the scene, it was all good.

NOW...

Ryan Reynolds played a pretty cool Wade Wilson



But.. but.... Look at the picture below... how is this even possible????


WHY OH WHY DID THEY DO THAT TO MY DEADPOOL???!!!!!!!!!!

I Am outrage! I am so angry!!! I CAN't Believe it... HOW ON EARTH COULD THEY SHUT UP THE FUNNY GUY??!! AND THEY KILLED HIM!!! AND HE USES KATANA CLAWS AND CYCLOPS OPTIC BLASTS??!!!!!!! WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF....

IN which planet does that look anything like DEADPOOL???

Apart from that, I thought the actor, Taylor Kitsch that played Gambit, was super duper hot!



BUT again.... A NEW ORLEANS GAMBIT??? HE'S FREAKING FRENCH!! ARRGGGHHH!!!!

(My Bad. I should have checked. But I was wrong. He is New Orleans born. But he IS missing his Creole Accent.... so.. I got some parts right ^_^)

Okay, and I know they were being politically correct here when they cast Will. I. Am as John Wraith...



That still doesn't justify it...

I thought Lynn whatshername played a pretty good Silverfox. Very pretty!!!


So, they look good standing together for promo shots... but...


Oh, I didn't comment on Sabretooth, because he did a good job. To me. And I'm too devastated to go into what they did to Emma Frost.

GAWD.. I hope Transformers will be a better movie.. but looking at the trailers and realising what they have done to Devastator... *silence*

I only hope.. *fingers and toes crossed* they put Soundwave in, and they DON'T do to it what they did to my Deadpool... *SIGH*