Captain America: Civil War

didn't have too much expectations which made the movie much more enjoyable hahaa.

it was at this point I thought maybe the screen will go blank and set up for a part 2, since i felt like I was in the cinema for agesss... hahaha in a good sense

simple plot yet excellent execution of character development and screen time.

a recommend.

=]

decent humour too in forms of witty lines.

that bromance


marvel has a smooth way of introducing its next movie lines up. good job. *take my money* lols

Xmen Apocalypse

WAHHHH!!!! LEGIT CAN'T WAIT!!!
It's been so many years since this day... am super glad I will be able to appreciate it.

Bryan Singer don't let us down XD

Holds breath eeeeeekkk...

So now that Xmen Apocalypse is definitely in the works for a 2016 release date,

Deadpool, Gambit and the much anticipated and goina-be-fantastically-awesome-X-Force has been delayed.... not even sure if X-Force will actually be made anymore.. niuuuuu

and Kick Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow's script for it was said to be "beyond impressive"

*pic source*

*squeals*

oh please make it!!


further reading
- *link*
- *link*

xmen days of future past..

wow..
very glad bryan singer came back to direct this.
i gotta say even the opening sequence of DNA bubbles got me.
brilliant orchestration of cast members on screen.
could feel the old xmen  and X2 times

as for story, still believable.
action - action with purpose, plenty of it and not mindless like Transformers of PacificRim :P
suspense - plenty of it
humour - to a decent degree aka. quicksilver's sequence
music - hmmm. opening scenes have the glory, thorough the rest of the film didnt pay that much attention to the score.
death scenes - epic and many

i dunno what im goina think when they recast wolverine. jackman is too good :P 
on a side note, which i had this power ...would come great in awkward or sticky situations... :P

Everything is AWESOME!!

lol i just got back form watching lego movie
hmm don't have a time to do a decent full review

but i say over all 7.5/10.
- humour 9/10
- predictability - ZERO lol. that is saying something. pleasantly surprised

The song is super catchy
my reaction : 

jokes, puns and visual humour ran excessively throughout the film, although to the same degree as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, i think it was smoother and less of an ear-sore. Ironically this was due to the fact that lego itself is edgy and stop start in motion, and therefore, the you can get away with jokes that a also stop start in nature. Where as in Meatballs, the animation was 3D hinting at seamless continuity and therefore the really bad puns stood out intensely so.

Hmm. with more time i will flesh this out in a cinema essay one day.

thesis title : the limitations and amplifications of a medium to entertain.

for another day..

back to cramming for physics. eeeeek!!

 Frozen has some great quotes ....

upcoming movie

hmmm..was never really a fan of Spike Jonze. but..i may go out of my way to watch this  one.
*full review*

Xmen Days of Future Past Leaked Trailer!

randomly came across this online.

and some pics to follow ^^

Jackman taking a break on set

they get jumpers!! dah.

Young Magneto!

Band of Outsiders (France, 1964, Godard)

wow

if I thought saturday was entertaining.

sunday trumps it.

midnight text inviting me over to french dinner, with french wine.

to my surprise a lovely meal by mr. chunhin

*pic sourcean*

cheese + wine + ratatouille + fish (BEST) + berry crumble pie + icecream

*pic source*

so flavoursome :P

on the side_

films watched in the last two days:

Pacific Rim 

plot ★
acting negative -★

visual effects ★★★★

action ★★★1/2

THR bottom  line -
A better-and-smarter-than-average humans-vs.-monsters spectacular

World War Z

plot★★

acting -★★★★

visual effects -★★★1/2

action- ★★★★

Bottom line - believable and captivating.
I though it was better than Man of Steel :P

 

 

Review_ Like Someone in Love

So yes, I did manage to get a free entry into seeing this film I mentioned earlier *link*

*pic source*

Alrighty, so let me share my thoughts.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Main characters from left to right: Takashi Watanabe (Tadashi Okuno), Akiko (Rin Takanashi) and Noriaki (Ryo Kase)

First thing. I loved the way the film started. Credits roll with the backdrop of a busy restaurant/cafe noise for at least 4minutes, builds you up to anticipate the opening shot of what dining in Japan may be like. It also felt like we had just finished watching a movie too.

The camera then was mostly in a static position, as you watched what was a rather ordinary happening in a dim lit bar. Who is the main character you wonder? A red head catches your attention but is only a red herring.

Plot - A dilemma comes up for young university student Akiko is faced with a must attend job and her grandma visiting Tokyo only for a brief few hours during her transit. Akiko is a prostitute and it was a job she isn't allowed to refuse. You never meet the grandmother , nor does she ever talk to her, we are introduced to a character simply through a series of telephone voicemail messages. CLEVER! The whole time Akiko is listening to the messages in the taxi on her way to her "job", the camera remains fixed on a close up of her face as the blur of neon japan whizzes pass.

Amongst all this she has a boyfriend who intends to marry her, is not sure he can trust her and thinks Mr. Watanabe is her grandfather.

Mise en scène  - ★★★★★  . The way the props/set was arranged in front of the mostly still camera was incredible. It was very purposeful and the background/items/placement of objects told just as much of the story as the script.
Camera -  ★★★★★ The camera did a lot of the talking in the film, in the sense of showing us life in Japan, the streets, the shops, the apartments. Mid shots were used to capture all that was in the background, giving the characters depth since there wasn't too much dialogue or on screen drama.

I cannot reveal anymore. It is a slow moving film and it's what is not shown or said that makes this one worth watching. It you have an eye for detail and are a film student then the happenings are predictable and set up through the mise en scène. But apart from that the ending is still a surprise in some ways.

Overall - ★★★★

Bottom line - Don't walk in with specific expectations, just sit back, observe and enjoy =P

Iron Man 3: mass production

 

 

So you ask my thoughts on the matter?

 

I'm probably not the best person to ask, as I haven't seen the second one. 

 

But lemme put it this way. What I look for and what I give IronMan 3

 

Cinematography- ★

Script - ★★★★ (witty, scored laugh out loud moments)

Plot - ★1/2  (predicatable.. so ..this fails in my books)

Visual Effects - ★★★★

Casting - ★★★★★ (believable roles and characters, although there was very little depth, ironic ...considering the lengthy movie)

Editing - ★★★ (smooth , seemless, nothing spectacular)

Sound - ★★★

In sum - ★★

 

Sorry folks, I'm not a fan of the Iron Man . But going off just the plot, there was nothing new, nothing mind bending in terms of twists and story layers. Found myself asking half way. ..wow not much has happened , this is boring, when will the climax come because there is no build up. 

Dissappointed. Dunno why the cinema clapped afterwards >.>

p.s. Stan Lee could have got a better 2 seconds of screen time too =.- 

on the side_

my unbiased dislike haha. Why I'm not a fan of either. Where is their superpower?!?!! :P

Thor teaser =P

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/marvel/thorthedarkworld/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=AcquisitionEmail&utm_content=MainImage&utm_campaign=ThorTDWTeaserPremiere

ahh a to watch list.

all pic and text sourced from THR =P

"CZ12" (Jackie Chan, 2012)
made $141 million China

At the same time that 58-year-old Jackie Chan scored the biggest box office hit of his career, he made one gaffe after another in the press, from publicly advocating curbs on civil rights in Hong Kong, to dissing his career-making Rush Hour films (calling them the movies he "most dislikes"),  to suggesting that the U.S. is “the biggest corrupted country in the world” (sic).

"Lost in Thailand" (Xu Zheng, 2012),
made $202.1 million in China, that's MORE than Michael Bay's transformers!!
impressive!!!

Actor-turned director Xu Zheng’s comedy, about the misadventures of three Chinese men in Thailand, is not just the highest-grossing Chinese-language film ever – it’s probably the most profitable by a wide margin (the film was reportedly made for just $4.8 million). Thanks to the huge earnings of the film, producer Enlight Media is now the second biggest domestic studio player by revenue in the Chinese market, behind only Huayi Brothers.

Beautiful Creatures (2013)

because I haven't seen a witchcraft centred movie since Harry Pothead.
warning, probably ain't any good lol THR bottom line "Well-made hokum about ill-advised teen love across a species divide"

YOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH

watched this on the Xtremescreen at Hoyts today. It was the best part of the GI Joe movie. lewlllll..
that movie was soo corny and super over the top american.

anywho, we side track.

WOLVERIIIIINNNNNEEEEEEE

YAY!!

+ japan
+ action
+ plot (im sure hoping there is a damn good plot)

= win

heads up on upcoming Marvel Films (US release dates)


- Xmen Days of Future Past (2014)  Rogue is BACK!!! ^^
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Thor 2 (2013)
- Amazing Spiderman 2 (2014)
- Captain America Winter Solider (2014)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
- Avengers 2 (2015) 
 - Ant Man (2015)

+ S.H.I.E.L.D tv series


*droolls 

shock horror! Warcraft movie

well not really. haha.

Director shall be Duncan Jones
" kitchen-sink approach to fantasy"
well well well... kitchen sink eh? that shall be interesting.
that's film talk for pretty much - telling it as it is, not aiming to be glamrous but realisitc to everyday life.
details
*link*

BAFTA AWARDS!! EXCITED!!?!!

for the non-so informed
ohla _
British Academy Film Awards  

ohlala. Argo has a lot going for it, Les Mis and dare I say Hugh Jackman please get Leading Actor lol.
below are my interest categories *full list*

BEST FILM
ARGO Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
LES MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
LIFE OF PI Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
LINCOLN Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
ANNA KARENINA
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
LES MISÉRABLES
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
SKYFALL


FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AMOUR Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz
HEADHUNTERS Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn
THE HUNT Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann
RUST AND BONE Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
UNTOUCHABLE Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun

DIRECTOR
AMOUR Michael Haneke
ARGO Ben Affleck
DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
LIFE OF PI Ang Lee
ZERO DARK THIRTY Kathryn Bigelow

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
AMOUR Michael Haneke
DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
THE MASTER Paul Thomas Anderson
MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal

LEADING ACTOR
BEN AFFLECK Argo
BRADLEY COOPER Silver Linings Playbook
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Lincoln
HUGH JACKMAN Les Misérables
JOAQUIN PHOENIX The Master


SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALAN ARKIN Argo
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Django Unchained
JAVIER BARDEM Skyfall
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Master
TOMMY LEE JONES Lincoln

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS The Master
ANNE HATHAWAY Les Misérables
HELEN HUNT The Sessions
JUDI DENCH Skyfall
SALLY FIELD Lincoln

ORIGINAL MUSIC
ANNA KARENINA Dario Marianelli
ARGO Alexandre Desplat
LIFE OF PI Mychael Danna
LINCOLN John Williams
SKYFALL Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANNA KARENINA Seamus McGarvey
LES MISÉRABLES Danny Cohen
LIFE OF PI Claudio Miranda
LINCOLN Janusz Kaminski
SKYFALL Roger Deakins

EDITING
ARGO William Goldenberg
DJANGO UNCHAINED Fred Raskin
LIFE OF PI Tim Squyres
SKYFALL Stuart Baird
ZERO DARK THIRTY Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg


SOUND
DJANGO UNCHAINED
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
LES MISÉRABLES
LIFE OF PI
SKYFALL

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
LIFE OF PI
MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE
PROMETHEUS

 

belated 2012 movie list

All the films I've watched + two complete tv series

Boy (2010)     ★★★★
Drive (2011)   ★★★ 1/2
Sin City (2005) ★★★
5 cm per second (2007)  ★★★★
Persepolis ( 2007) ★★★★★
The Lost Thing (2012) ★★★★★
Hugo (2011)  ★★★1/2
Schindler's List  (1993) ★★★
Tintin et moi (2003)  ★★★
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)  ★★1/2
They're a Weird Mob (1966) ★★★ lewl rewatched it
Up in the Air ( 2009) ★★★ 1/2
Avengers (2012) ★★★★  
Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or (1961) ★★★ 3/4 =P 
The Hunger Games (2012) ★
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) ★★ 3/4 =P 
American Pie Reunion (2012) ★
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003) ★
Adventureland (2009) ★★
Duplicity (2009)  ★★★
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)★★★ 1/2 re-watched it
Men in Black III (2012) ★★★
 42 Up (1998) ★★★
Prometheus (2012) ★★ 1/2
The Expendables 2 (2012) ★
Samurai Champloo (2004-5) ★★★★★complete tv series 
The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch (2011) ★★★complete tv series
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)  negative 1/2 ★   (don't ask, for work -_-")
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) negative 1/2 ★
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) ★★
The Island (2005) ★★★
Safety, Not Guaranteed  (2012) ★★★
Argo (2012)  ★★★★
Creation (2009) ★★ 1/2
Pocahontas (1995) ★★★
The Hot Chick (2002)  ★★ 1/2
Tower Heist (2011)  ★★ 1/2
Rise of the Guardians (2012) ★★  
The Man With the Iron Fist (2012)  ★★
Mirror Mirror (2012)  ★
Zombieland (2009) ★
Princess Mononoke (1997) ★★ 1/2
Entrapment (1999)  ★★★
Inside Job (2010) ★★★ 
This Means War (2012) 
The Hobbit (2012)  ★★★ 1/2

Hugh Jackman as EASTER BUNNY!!!

letting that Australian accent riippppp!!

hahaha. too funny

ZOMG THIS IS FRIKIN AWESOME!!!

with 2mins left of my lunch break, i thought i'd share this *link*

new xmen movie updated, the sequel to xmen-first class,
title: X-Men: Days of Future Past if you haven't heard me yap about it already.

Director" Bryan Singer. " is combining James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart"

Plot line to follow Uncanny Xmen 1981 comics..yooosssshhh

WHHEEeee... hmm..okay Singer if you do a good job on this one, I will forgive you for abandoning X3 for Superman. grrrr