Freaky Friday (2003)

Readers must be thinking what is a dude reviewing a chick flick, but I urge guys who always need to have their fill of testosterone while watching their movies,to give this movie a try. This is a perfectly movie for you to just sit back and enjoy the once brilliant carreer of Lindsay Lohan.

She plays Anna Coleman who is on the eve of her mom's (played equally brilliantly by Jamie Lee Curtis) wedding rehearsal throwing a tantrum and having a heated argument with her mom about how her mom doesnt understands her. How we all could relate to that....

As fate would have it, they went to a Chinese restaurant and was served the fortune cookies and bam the next morning they found themselves transferred to each other's body, and thus they have to endure the whole day in each other's body and in the process learn the hard way what makes each other tick.

This movie is filled with witty one-liners and the speech by Anna (in mom's body) could give a lump to your throat.

Although the premise is nothing new, this movie is still a fun watch.

7.5 over 10

Vacancy (2007)

You know a movie is forgetable when you can't even recall the 2 leads character's name. It started quite promisingly in fact when we see this couple (Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale) in a car bickering over the smallest issue of whether they almost run over a squirrel or a raccoon.

Like all slasher flick in its genre, their car broke down, and they are now stuck in a motel straight from "Phsycho." Surely alarm bells should start ringing when you're the only occupant in this motel, how the heck do the owner survived if not to sell the video of them slashing you?

So we see this movie from the point of view of the couple as they waited in the room to either be rescued or be slashed. To me it just doesnt add much to this genre which we're so used to by now.

5/10 forgetable.

Can readers out there give us their opinion on this?

I have this bright idea to start a conference to discuss among the three of us on a particular movie each month to let readers know what we think of each particular movie which all 3 of us need to watch, but in order to make that work, we do need readers' feedback whether this is workable or not. So please give us comments, cos I cant even convince my 2 fellow reviewers here. Below is what we've discussed.

liliadandelion has joined the conference.
liliadandelion: hola
SP CHU: This is the only time I see both of u online
SP CHU: he's not here yet....
SP CHU: Let's start by asking anti what he like best about transformers
SP CHU: I meant what she likes best
liliadandelion: do we really need to have this...?
SP CHU: I shall do the editing
SP CHU: I shall see how it goes
SP CHU: inconvenient? or not in the mood?
liliadandelion: both actually.
SP CHU: just do it when u have the time/ in the mood
SP CHU: I shall leave this conference open
SP CHU: u can also pretend a friend asking u what u like so much abt transformers
liliadandelion: pretend?
SP CHU: what my intention is to have us chat abt the same movie
SP CHU: what we like and dislike abt it
SP CHU: And readers in honchos see the interaction between 3 of us
SP CHU: cos movie reviews can sometimes get boring, especially mine
sorcerer_low has joined the conference.
SP CHU: Is Low able to read what I typed before he joins the conference?
sorcerer_low: no

sorcerer_low: can't comments already serve that function ?
SP CHU: how many times we post at the comments?
sorcerer_low: as much as you want
SP CHU: but that's the problem we dont do it enough
SP CHU: here we just chat like normal
sorcerer_low: then how are you going to make this work ?
SP CHU: abt the same movie
SP CHU: We basically talk abt transformers
SP CHU: what we like abt it and what we hated abt it
sorcerer_low: yeah i know but technically how are you going to achieve that ?
sorcerer_low: say like this
sorcerer_low: u start a blog post then u let us finish it
sorcerer_low: if one of us daddles and holds it .. it's going to end up the same as the comments thing and worse it won't published
SP CHU: copy and paste what we chatted and then post it on the blog
SP CHU: that's where editing comes in
SP CHU: Things like we say Megan Fox is hot...
sorcerer_low: chats won't work
SP CHU: give it a try
SP CHU: if it doesnt we abandon it
sorcerer_low: i tried it before
sorcerer_low: what happens is ... you don get a good summary of what a person things
SP CHU: thinks?
sorcerer_low: because what he / she thinks is scattered over a few lines
sorcerer_low: thinks == how they felt about the movie
SP CHU: ok let's start by asking u why u give such low rating for transformers
SP CHU: also let our readers be the judge whether this work or not
sorcerer_low: if you want to do this
sorcerer_low: why don u just create a summarizing post for all three opinion blogs ?
SP CHU: There's no interaction bet. the 3 of us that way
SP CHU: this way we argue till kingdom comes
liliadandelion: tho the idea kinda ok, but i dont see any practicality in it. i agree with low that this has already been achieved by having comments
SP CHU: i think what we've discussed here already made an interesting read in itself
SP CHU: even before we discussed anything abt transformers
liliadandelion: prolly u could use this then
SP CHU: can i post this in the blog? and let our readers have their say too?
sorcerer_low: yes. exactly my sentiment
sorcerer_low: we'll do this ... if this blog post attracts > 3 new comments then we'll prolly do what u say
sorcerer_low: if not we can it
liliadandelion: agreed.



If you like what my idea is about, readers need to greenlit it by commenting on it...If your comment is as negative like my fellow reviewers, we would also can the idea.... Hope to hear from readers...

What are the best movies or series to bring on a long working trip ?

I will be going on a long working trip to Brunei end of this month and internet there is not guaranteed and at best spotty, so I will be bringing my stash of dvds of series and movies to digest of the course of 2 months ( yes it's that long ! ). So far I have singled out the following dvds :

1. Lost ( Season 1 ) - Hey sue me I didn't catch it the first time around.
2. Veronica Mars ( Season 1 )

Need some help from ya loyal readers of this lil' blog on other interesting movies or series I could bring along, essentially think along the lines of what are the titles you guys and gals would bring along if you were stranded on an island ( with electric supply of course ! ) for two months.. mucho gracias for the help.

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Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

HP5 directed by David Yates is to me by far the best in the series, Some may complain that a lot has been left out from the book, but then I would also complain the book is too long-winded, to the point I couldnt care much less towards the last chapter of the book. The movie doesn't suffer this fate, I guess clocking at about 2 hours 20 minutes.

As the book got darker, so does the movie, gone are the innocence we used to associate with the series. It is even quite intense and Daniel Radcliffe prove to us here that he can really act.

Harry Potter uses magic in the presence of Muggles when 2 Dementors attacked him and his cousin. Dumbledore came and defended him in a special hearing. When school started all the kids in school avoided him like the plague because no one believed him that "he who cannot be named" is back. Dolores Umbridge's character was hateable in the book and this carries to the movie as well when she tortures HP and yet still can keep a cheery smile on her face. HP also started a class and kissed his dream gal. All this while he struggles with the fact that there is a tight connection between him and Voldermort especially during the dreams sequences.

I read the book sometime ago, and this movie made me realised what I enjoyed about the book most....

So I guess this should be the best in the series for me... So what is yours?
8/10

Crank ( 2006 )

Some movies are good, some movies are bad, but rarely will you see a movie that can claim the moniker ... "it was so bad it's actually good". Crank is one such movie that lives up to it. It stars Jason Statham as Chev Chelios. Only Statham can play such roles like this with so much conviction that he actually pulls it off by making it believable.

Crank is about our hero Chev Chelios who has had a chinese designer poison pumped into him by some baddies and wakes up grubbily to a video informing him of this unfortunate turn of events. This designer drug has a twist in that if his heart slows down under a certain level he will die. Picture the movie speed's plot but exchange the bus for a man and you have a pretty fair idea of what this movie is about. The movie speeds off from the bang. About the only slow scenes is during the beginning and once the action picks you up by the throat it never lets go until the very end.

Technically side this movie has a lot of jerky hand held camera works which fits in well with the high speed chase scenes and the pacing of the movie.

This movie made it for me because it never took itself seriously. Action scenes are dipped in humor to produce and hour plus of the most entertaining movie I have seen in ages. This is one which you have to leave your brain home to really appreciate. At an age where every cockamimi action movie tries to be a thinking man's piece but falling flat on their faces crank is like a breath of fresh air. Oi Bruckheimer ! Take some notes !

Check out the trailer here :






Scenes to watch out for : You have a gf by your side ... you need to get your heart rate up ... you are in public ... so what do you do ?! ....

7 out of 10 for keeping me well entertained ... is a crank2 on the way ? Bring it on ....
imdb page : Crank ( 2006 )

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What is your favourite romance movie ?

For me my all time favorite romance movie has got to be Vanilla Sky. This movie has got just the right mixture of sci-fi and I am a sucker for those movies which features a lost chance at the love of a life time and how a fleeting moment of love no matter how short can turn out to be the moment you have been waiting for all your life. This is not a rottentomatoes favorite earning only 39%but who the heck cares ? I like it and that is all that matters ... So, what is your favorite romance movie of all time ?



This is a movie which i will fall in love again over and over again everytime I watch it ... ( only the right person reading this will know what I mean ... :) )

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Die Hard 4.0 (2007)

Also known as Live Free or Die Hard, Bruce Willis is back as John Mcclane....and before you can mutter the word same old, same old, the action came in thick and fast when the terrorist came in the form of computer hackers who ran amok with all things related to computers from the traffic Lights to the tv station.

I love the first quarter of the show where we're introduced to the new character played by Justin Long as a computer hacker and how Mcclane saved his life time and time again. The action were slick and kept you on the edge of your seat. Love the car chase scene too.....

but then it start to get repetitive, and by the third quarter you sort of have a feeling how it's all going to end, and John Mcclane just can't die (hence the title),...or else there wont be anymore sequels.

A pure escapism movie which you should just enjoy without thinking too much...

Die Hard 1 is still the best among the 4.

6.5 out of 10

Perfume story of a murderer

I saw this movie quite some time ago .. and sorry to say I saw it just because this movie had an interesting title as well as an interesting trailer ... check it below.

This is an interesting tail about a uh ... murderer. What is central and interesting about this flick is all to do with the killer's obsession with smell and of course the olifactory device ... the nose. Check out his reason for killing the women he encounters. Talk about having something to remember her by. The first half of the act is superb for me and did really well to flesh out the beginnings of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from his humble beginnings as a slave to his eventual rise to fame and notoriety.

The second third of the story sort of takes on a whole different supernatural turn which is supposed to be some kind of social commentary but doesn't seem to work on me. All in all the last one third of the movie spoils the initial build up of the movie for me. However director Tom Tykwer shows promise and I eagerly await his next project ... the international. It reminds me a lot of From Dusk to Dawn directed by the venerable Quentin Taratino ... once the vampires came out, the movie went to hell literally... same here. Once it reaches a certain point it's like the director lost interest in the movie. Too bad it was a pretty good build up to that point.

Score : 4.5/10

Perfume story of a murderer ...

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Transformers (2007)

Just saw it....I am a fan boy been a fan of the cartoon in the 80's and it is indeed cool to see my boyhood heroes comes to live in this movie. From a movie lover stand point, the story aint much,.... Some of the scenes were too disoriented, so much so that I cant even tell which was the autobots and which one is the decepticons, recall not having such problem telling the villains and the good guys apart in the cartoon. As I recall all the bad guys were airplanes and all the good guys were automobiles, and Megatron was nt a plane, it was just a gun...... All these flaws aside, this was still a movie to be enjoyed on the big screen, as it should be....After the movie, going to get my car, I sort of half hoping that my car would transform....

7/10

Jurassic Park (1993)

The movie which started it all. We all knew the appeal of dinasours when we were kids and this movie managed to capture that magic.

I guess I wont have to dwell much into the storyline here, as I am quite sure nearly every reader have watched this famous movie before, some may even recalled that they have to wait in queue for the tickets when it first came out.

When viewers were first exposed to the dinasours the moment was magical. It make us realised what something we cant see in real life we can see on the silverscreen, that's the power of movies.

After a lapse of 14 years, this movie is still worth watching. It managed to stood the test of time, this I give kudos to the director : Steven Spielberg.

When I searched for the year, I saw they're making Jurassic Park 4 (slated for 2008) with Kiera Knightley and Sam Neil probbably reprising his role.

8/10


I probably rate it 9/10 when I first saw it ;)