Why I think Ratatouille is good

Since I have got the complaints abt my review being too short and also since I also met a friend who told me he's not interested in cartoons when I recommend Ratatouille to him, I decided this movie deserve more praise from me....

Nowadays hardly is there s movie which can entertain you and at the same time make you think...and to me Ratatouille succeed in this degree.... there's much more laughter I got this time around from Pixar and in the end it also make me ponder about how the story unfolds.

I wish more people would give animation a chance, cos these days, some of these animations are made for adults...Just my thought, all the animators are adults, all the voices behind the characters are adults, so I just fail to see why some people still prejudiced against animation, and have this idea animations is purely for kids. Watch Ratatouille and I can quite bet that you would have a good and fun time at the cinema.

Ratatouille

Pronounced as Ra-Ta-Too-Tee, this is a very hard movie to spell, but I implore you to catch this movie while it's still in the cinema where it should be enjoyed at. The movie started with a short clip about an alien trying to abduct a man from his house. It was very funnyly done. That alone put me in stitches



On to the movie which is about a rat who aspires to be a famous chef in Paris. Impossible I hear some of you say, but it's this premise which keep everything interesting. This movie was told with a heart, something lacking in a lot of today's movies. It also made me forgive Pixar for subjecting me to Cars last year(maybe I just am not much of a fan of cars.)

The animation was superbly done with rats scampering in kitchen floors looking so real.

8/10

p/s : My all time favourite Pixar is still Toy Story, I wonder what are reader's choice. Also love A bug's Life and Incredibles.

In Her Shoes (2005)

i didn't know this movie existed at all. i watched it on Astro few months back and second time few weeks ago... (yeah... Astro Recycle Center ;P )

anyway, Toni Collete (as Rose Feller) and Cameron Diaz ( as Maggie Feller) starred in this flick. and, as obviously shown here, it's about sisterhood. first, let me comment on Toni Collete performance. i like Toni Collete the instant i watched her in The Muriel's Wedding long, long time ago. She has always been consistent, she really portrayed her character very well and she's a very talented actress. especially the mother, sisters or close-knit family thingy type of character, I'd say "Toni Collete, bring it on girl!" :) I guess when it comes to a character with personal touch, Toni Collete can give that kind of impact.

okay, back to In Her Shoes. As been said before, Collete(Rose, elder sis) and Diaz(Maggie) are sisters but they are very different in every way. Even with nothing much in common, they get along pretty well but of course little squabble here and there but nothing major. Rose is a stable, sensible and responsible person but has a very dead social life. Maggie on the other hand is everything opposite. She's a carefree, wild and alive, except that she's jobless due to her dyslexic condition. she just refuse to improve herself where she rather use her social charm to get what she wants.

so, as predicted, every time Maggie got into trouble, rose has to bail her ass out. but rose doesn't mind because it's what she always do. looking after her sister, protecting her. until the day Maggie slipped by sleeping with Rose's boyfriend. And 3rd world war started. the 'war' really tested their sisters-ship, dependency on each other and struggling to cope with life without being around with each other.

another part that i like in this movie is the poems. "One Art," a poem by Elizabeth Bishop and "I Carry Your Heart with Me", by E E Cummings. I just love both of the poems and i'll share the URL once i find it later.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)
i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

finally, all in all, i'll give In Her Shoes a fine 8/10.

The lookout ( 2007 )

what do you do when you are confronted with a situation where you have to plan a way to outwit a bunch of guys who has kidnappped your best friends and you even have to write down how to fix yourself dinner because your brain cannot handle remembering more than a few minutes of contents ? This is a damn good movie in my books reminding me a lot of another one of my favorites ... Memento. Joseph Gordon-Levitt play Chris Pratt which who life changes after being involved in a prom accident which damages his brain's frontal lobe ( a loooot of movies are using this as a plot device now ). What is this thing with hollywood movies always centering their plots around a theme for a given season ... before it was aliens .. then it was disasters ... now it's brain damage ?!

Anyways, back to the plot, a bunch of bank robbers headed by the charismatic Spargo capitilizing on Christ's disability tricks Chris into commit a crime. As events unfold, with his best friend in their grasp and being framed for a crime he did not commit, Chris's only way out is to outwit the robbers at their own game.

This is a well written thriller which takes a while to pick up but once going will hold you glued to your seat right until the credits roll. Gordon-Levitt's protrayal of Chris is believable and makes us feel his pain of loosing his life to an automobile accident while Matthew Goode's Spargo is charismatic and dangerous at the same time. Though I think the ending could have been better done especially in terms of Spargo's character, this film still earns a respectable 8.5/10 for me.

Cheering Stand Up Moment : The time when Gordon-Levitt's Chris is on the phone with Spargo screaming "The one with the money is the one with power", I lost it and shouted "Yeahhh !!! Alrighttt !!!". Watch out for it ..

A trailer of the movie ....



A good movie this .... thumbs up !

IMBD page : The lookout

The director also directed ...

What is the most romantic movie scene you wish re-enact with da loved one ?

Just a snippet of conversation I had with anti-gravity ... my most romantic scene I would want to re-enact with da loved one would be from the previous post ...

[14:41] sorcerer_low: hey let me ask you something
[14:41] sorcerer_low: what would be the most romantic thing u thought of doing with your significant other ?
[14:41] sorcerer_low: mine is that post la i mean in moviehonchos
[14:42] liliadandelion: umm..
[14:43] liliadandelion: lemme think
[14:45] liliadandelion: it's gonna take a long time... am not really a romantic person
[14:45] liliadandelion:
[14:45] sorcerer_low: nvm baby u know i can wait for you
[14:45] sorcerer_low: i always wait for you
[14:48] liliadandelion: hmm... i dunno...
[14:48] liliadandelion: to me being with my significant other is enuff
[14:48] liliadandelion: even without saying a word
[14:49] sorcerer_low: hmm
[14:49] sorcerer_low: alright

what would your's be ?

Love Actually - 2003

Well, I have been here in Brunei for a week without tv and without any form of entertainment and it's KILLIN' ME !!!! Thank god for the few movies that I packed along with me when I came here. So far from my stash, I have finished seeing two shows, both with the theme of love, that is Before Sunset and Love Actually. I liked both of them. Firstly let me go into Love Actually. Love actually is starring an ensemble of great actors and actresses which include :

• Bill Nighly of Notes on a scandal fame
• Liam Neeson and the great
• Emma Thompson

with great cameo appearances by Mr-Rowan-Bean-Atkinson himself. This is a movie which follows the lives of a few couples with the underlying theme of love. Love of every level as well as stage is presented to the audience in a light and fast flowing mood. Performances were great all around and it managed to put a smile on my face at the end with just the right touch of that great warm fuzzies you would get at the end of a nice romance movie. Don't expect a traditional romance movie with a hero and a heroine ( if it was that kind I don't think I would have liked this movie ) rather a movie which sees love through the lives of couples ( or couples to be ) at various stages in their lives.

Here are two favorite scenes from the movie, the first, billy mack's ( bill nighly ) rendition of "Chrismast is all around us"





and the next one is something I always wish I could do one day with a member of the opposite sex...


I give this movie a solid 8/10. Definitely a movie to see with the significant other.