Up (2009) November 21, 2009
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Carl Federickson (Edward Asner) was at the cinema watching a movie about his favorite idol Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer), who is a famous explorer at Paradise Falls. Charles Muntz was later stripped of his merits at he later swore that he will capture and return with the tropical bird. On his way back home imitating his idol, he passes by a hut and heard sounds of girl with the same passion imitating his hero. He snuck in and found lots of newspaper cutting about his idol.
The girl named Ellie startle him as he as looking at the info and later made Carl a member of the club. They got a lot well and later both of them got married. The movie then kind of fast forward and they both grew old. Both of them wanted kids but Ellie was unable to conceive a child when they went to a health check-up. However, they move on with it. Ellie’s dream since young was to built a house near a waterfall in Paradise Falls and Carl bought 2 plane tickets to fulfill her dreams and try to cheer her up. The plan fails as she passed away.
After Ellie passed away, Carl lives on his own doing the same old daily routines. However at his residential area, the development has taken place except for his house which he refuses to sell. Later a wilderness explorer named Russell (Jordan Nagai) came knocking at the door to offer him some help so that he can complete his task of helping an elderly and be promoted to the Senior Wilderness Explorer. He was being pestered by Russell and Carl sends him to search for a snipe which does not exist.
A contractor accidentally nudges his mailbox, he ran over try to protect his precious item he built with Ellie during younger days. A worker tried to fix it for him but he refuses and hit the contractor with his walking stick. The worker got injured and he was summoned by the court and was ordered to stay in the old folk home.
At night when he reaches home, he was reluctant to shift there and came up with a brilliant plan. He stood up the whole night and filled up thousands of balloon with helium gases. His house uprooted and sail away. Just when everything was sorted out, someone knock the door. Carl was surprised to find Russell at the porch feeling terrified and later invited him inside the house. Things went bad to worse for Carl and there was a thunderstorm ahead. He fainted and Russell steered them out of trouble.
Russell was relieved when Carl awakens as he thought he was dead. Russell explained what has happened to him and when he looks outside of the window, he found out that they where at some mysterious place. Carl later realizes that they were in Paradise Falls but was quite far apart from the waterfall, the location of Ellie’s dream. They walked all the way there by tying the floating house to their body (I don’t understand how 1 elderly and 1 kid can hold on to a floating house) Russell then told Carl that he needs to ease his nature call and this is when he adopted a tropical bird and named it Kevin which he thought is was the snipe which Carl had lost.
Carl was stunned when Russell brought it too him and later he tried to chase it away but it kept following them. Later they also stumble across a dog named Dug (Bob Peterson) which can speak human language with the aid of a machine. Dug was supposedly tracking Kevin and try to separate itself. Dug also made Carl his master with his consent.
A group of dogs found out that Dug has found the tropical bird and went after them. The group of dogs tracked them using a GPS like system which was installed on Dug. Carl and company were later brought to a cave hideout and this is when he met his childhood hero Charles Muntz. Charles invited him for dinner and later known that he had the bird but when Carl was reluctant to release the information on where he kept the bird, he show signs of murdering. Carl and company fled the scene with the help of Dug but Kevin got injured during the escape.
Kevin was trying to go back to her chicks (yeah, Russell named it wrongly) but was unable to travel due to the injury. Carl felt sympathize and promise Russell to send her back. Charles tracked them down once again using an airship. He sets Carl’s house on fire, forcing him to choose between rescuing an injured bird or the house. He chooses the house while Charles retrieves the bird and left.
Carl succeeded to land the house where his wife wanted all along and settle down. He then found his wife’s memento and took a look inside. It reminds him of the memory lanes and there was a message of appreciation from his wife to him. Russell who was disappointed that Carl’s decision of not rescuing Kevin and later went on his own. Carl later when to fetch Russell and later realized he went after Charles using some helium balloons. He chucked all the stuffs in the house which he treasures very much and went after Russell who is trying to save Kevin.
Russell manages to break into the airship but was caught by the dogs. He was tied up and was about to be thrown down to Earth by Charles but was being saved by Carl in the nick of time. Carl then promised Russell that he will saved Kevin and asked him to stay put in the house as he will take care of the matter with Dug.
Carl took care of Charles while Dug took care of the other dogs. Carl and company manage to free the bird but Carl lost his house in the process (short summary of what happen as if I elaborate it will be a spoiler). Carl then send the bird back to its chicks and Russell back to home. Carl even attended the Senior Wilderness Explorer ceremony and presented Russell with the merit he has wanted for a long time.
Carl is now residing in the airship with Dug. As for his lost house, it has landed in Paradise Falls where his wife has envisioned it all along.
The movie has a simple storyline and very few characters. The movie can be summarized into 2 old men, a fat kid, some talking dogs, a house and a bird at Paradise Falls. It will be a brilliant movie to watch in 3D has it has bright colors of colorful balloons and some really awesome graphics with fine artworks.
2012 (2009) November 16, 2009
Posted by itsahanzo in Movies.Tags: 2012, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Independence Day, Jimi Mistry, Liam James, Morgan Lily, movie, Oliver Platt, Roland Emmerich, The Day After Tomorrow, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson
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2012 is one of the blockbuster movies of the year which you must watch! Raking in the most money one the first week since it open which surprising not anticipated by anyone or any other directors. The 3 hours long movie is interested and full of actions and rarely has much space for filming errors.
Director Roland Emmerich who is famous for his world catastrophe movies (Independence Day & The Day After Tomorrow) is back with a new exciting idea full with actions with the clock ticking down on dooms day. His latest movie 2012 begins in the year 2009 when an American scientist, Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) travels to India to meet his friend Satnam (Jimi Mistry) who informed and showed him that the Earth’s core temperature is rapidly increasing at an alarming rate.
Adrian immediately flew back to Washington DC an interrupted a high profile charity function to informed Chief of Staff – Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt) on the situation. Adrian immediately got promoted and they went to see the President of USA, Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover) of the situation.
The movie then fast forward to the year 2012. During the 36th G8 Summit meeting, the President informed the leaders of the summit of the situation and their preparation for the world ending. Billionaires are allowed a seat on the ark by paying a billion Euros for a seat to fund the project.
Meanwhile in another scene (yes, there is 2 scenes), Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) who is a writer who sold 400+ copies of his book and also a divorced father of 2 children; promised to bring his children for a camping trip at the Yellowstone National Park. His ex-wife Kate (Amanda Peet) and their children Noah who hated his father (Liam James) and Lily who loves his father (Morgan Lily) is currently staying with their mother’s new boyfriend, Gordon (Thomas McCarthy) whose profession is a plastic surgeon. Jackson picked up his children and headed to Yellowstone.
Upon arrival, he found out that the previous spot he used camp with his wife while dating last time is now a restricted area. They climb over the fence and went to the lake anyway but were being surrounded by the Government military forces shortly. They were asked to leave the area as they are investigating the area (the lake dried up) and Jackson found something amiss. Upon leaving, he was being halted by Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson) who is a radio show host who is kind of bonkers in a way explained to Jackson that the Mayan’s prediction of world ending is coming true.
The apocalypse begins! (I’m not elaborating in full details much as it will be hard to do so and it will spoil your fun watching the movie) From here on, the world is being hit by various disasters and the Earth’s coordinates has shifted (or spun) making the North Pole becoming South Pole. Earthquake, tsunami and volcano eruption taking place at various countries killing millions of people around the world.
The movie also shows all kind of human’s attitude ranging from humanitarian to those who are selfish and hungry for power. It also show a chaotic situation when the news broke out and everyone is trying to save themselves from the disaster. It’s quite touching and it shows the reality of the situation if it really would have taken place in real life.
Towards the end, a minority of humans manage to life on. They now reside at a new world in Africa and they are now heading to Good Hope as it now became the highest continent in the world. Anyway, the world now basically only has Africa as all the other parts of the world are being swallowed by the sea (no more 7 seas).
I highly recommend this movie but do not watch the midnight show as it is 3 hours long. I came out of the cinema at 4 a.m. =.= It’s exciting and the storyline is interesting as all sorts of factors are taken into consideration. Rich buying their seats, human with caliber are given a seat, animal are begin taken into consideration, loves affair, hunger for power, wrong judgment, humanitarian values and etc … I personally believe that this will happen someday in real life. Whether or not some one discovers it and even if they do, will we be informed? The world will be in chaos if let known but if they keep quiet about it, who will be saved?
We were warned! The world is coming to an end!
Drag Me To Hell (2009) November 1, 2009
Posted by itsahanzo in Movies.Tags: Alison Lohman, Dileep Rao, Drag Me To Hell, Horror, Justin Long, movie, Reggie Lee
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The movie begins back in 1969 with a family seeking help from a wealthy medium Shaun San Dena (Flor de Maria Chahua) at her mansion. The boy is very sick but the family kept the truth behind themselves and refuses to let the medium know anything about it. The family was later asked to tell the truth in order for her to help the boy. They explain that their son has stole a necklace from a gypsy but when they wanted to return the necklace, the gypsy refuses to accept it. Since then, their son has been hearing strange voices. Shaun San Dena informed that their son was cursed and ask them to enter the mansion to perform some rituals to save the boy. However, the parents and the medium were attacked by some unseen forces. The boy was later drag into hell in front of their very eyes by some demons.
Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is a loan officer eyeing for a promotion on the vacant Assistant Manager position. Her Manager informed that the position is still vacant and she is one of the candidates under consideration as her decision making ability is not good enough. Apparently, her Stu Rubin (Reggie Lee) whom is new and is also under consideration.
Sylvia Ganush visited the Bank asking for a 3rd extension for the mortgage. Christine felt pity and approach her boss to asked for an extension but later decided that she has the ability to make decisions and she rejected the extension. Sylvia Ganesh then pleaded and beg her on her knees for an extension to no avail and she later grab her Christine legs and beg for mercy with a bit of force in it. Christine was intimidated and shouted for the security personnel to escort her out from the building. Sylvia was furious that the actions have shamed her despite her begging on her knees. (Don’t ask me why, I was like wtf when I saw this too …)
Christine had finished work and went to the car park to retrieve her car. At the car park, she felt something amiss as she saw Slyvia’s car at the car park too but the person was no where to be seen. She enters her car and wanted to drive home but she saw a flying handkerchief floating in the air which belongs to Slyvia. Suddenly she was shock to find Slyvia at the back seat of her car and Slyvia started attacking her. Christine was fighting for freedom and even rammed her onto cars and wall to fight to freedom. She manages to break free from the attack and lock herself in the car. However, Slyvia smashed the car window with a huge stone and they started fighting again. Slyvia then grab a button of her coat and muttered some strange words to it and Christine was in a dazed.
After reporting the incident to the police, her boyfriend Clay Dalton (Justin Long) came to pick her up and send her home. On the way to the car, they pass by a fortune teller store where she had her fortune read by Rham Jaas (Dileep Rao) after she manage to convince her boyfriend who agrees unwillingly. Halfway reading her fortunes, Rham scrambles away and ask her to leave and will refund her money. She asked what he sees and he explains that she is being haunted.
After reaching home, Clay Dalton has to go out to settle some work. She wanted to cook dinner and the environment went eerie. Some unseen dark forces came attacking her causing some minor injuries. Later when Clay arrives home, the whole situation calm down and Clay believes that she is hallucinating from their earlier incident. Tomorrow morning, she was awakened by a bad dream that Slyvia is attacking her. She went to work shortly but upon arrival her nose bleed tremendously and spewed all over her boss and she fled the building.
Worried about the whole incident, she visited Slyvia’s resident. She was refuse entrance by Slyvia’s grand daughter but later was invited inside to look for her. She was shocked that she was dead. However, somehow the corpse kinda attack her. This causes her to panic and she visited Rham once again. Rham told her that the powerful dark spirit, Lamia, is out to torment her and later drag her to hell within 3 days. Rham later explains that she can negotiate with the dark spirit but she has to sacrifice animals in exchange for her spirit. Back home, she felt some dark auras coming and she unwillingly sacrifices her kitten. (she loves animal and is vegetarian) Clayton then brought her over to his parents place for dinner. She felt the whole situation was over. She was in the middle of conversation when she started hearing strange voices and her appetizer contains some insects. She later left the residence alone and Clayton’s parents were shocked of her behavior.
The following day, she was furious and visited Rham again. She was angry but Rham explained that the sacrificial was not accepted and there is one last way to solve it but it requires her to fork out USD 10, 000 as a fee. She went home and started gathering items to sell to the pawn shop. However, the collection was not enough but Clayton gave her the good news that he had visited Rham and paid him the money.
Rham later brought her to visit the medium Shaun San Dena, who explained that she had waited very long to get her revenge and seal the Lamia. She explains the whole ceremony where they will lure the Lamia out and force it into the goat where they will kill the goat and banish it forever. When the ceremony begins, they were other dark spirits too. It was later banished and the real Lamia appeared. They managed to force the Lamia into the goat but it escapes and went into Shaun San Dena’s assistant body. Shaun San Dena manages to save his assistant and force the Lamia from the place as the whole ceremony failed and Shaun San Dena losing her life as well.
Rham later explained that she can give the button away to someone who accepted it willing as a gift and the Lamia will haunt the other person and take their life in exchange. On the way home being driven by Clayton, she dropped the envelope with button inside. She later panicked and found the envelope. Later that night, she went to a cafe to figure out whom to give the envelope too. She was too kind hearted and she even called Stu Rubin but later hesitated to give it too him. Then she figures that she can give it back to Slyvia. She went to the graveyard and open out the coffin. It was raining and somehow Slyvia’s corpse seems to attack her and pull out some of her hair. She managed to fight back and stuff the envelope into the corpse’s mouth.
It’s finally over? Christine and Clay decided to go on a holiday to relax and recuperate but later the Lamia pull her to the train’s railway track and drag her to hell. It seems that she had given the wrong envelope and the envelope is with Clay.
We (Yen and I) felt that this is kinda like a low budget movie with lots of unrealistic and illogical scenes such as the incident at the car pack. It might be a good way to end the movie and I wonder will there be a sequel to it. If there is one, I might not be watching it as the movie is not truly enjoyable at all but worth watching on your leisure time to cure your boredom.
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (2009) October 21, 2009
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Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) always wanted to become a scientist. Since young he had being creating lots of inventions. Of course, most of his inventions failed. His inventions are like spray on shoe which cannot be removed, ratbirds, walking TV and many more.
One day in school, he introduced his latest invention – the spray on shoe. Since kids were having problems with untie shoelaces, it was a radical invention. However, there is no way to remove it. He was being laughed at school and went home disappointed with the shoe stuck for life. His mother cheered him and asks him never to give up hope like all the famous scientists which he sticks on his walls. She later gave him a scientist coat, the one he always wanted!
Several years past in the town of Swallow Falls. His mother had past away. Flint Lockwood continue with his inventions and his dad runs a bait shop earning a living selling sardines. Soon, sardines were no longer in favor and the economy went real bad leaving sardines as the only food for the people.
The mayor wanted to reintroduce the town with a theme park known as Sardine Land. It was also at the same time that Flint came up with a new invention by using water to convert into any kind of food (the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator or FLDSMDFR for short). His first attempt failed due to the lack of electricity. Meanwhile, Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) was given the chance to be the weather intern for Swallow Falls with Manny, the cameraman. (Benjamin Bratt)
On the launching day of Sardine Land, Flint and his pet monkey named Steve (Neil Patrick Harris), who speaks through a translator (another of his invention) uses the power station to charge up the machine. When it start up the machine, it flew everywhere at high speed causing maximum damage in the town before the machine shot up to the sky. It causes havoc in town and messes up Sam’s debut as a reporter (she fumbles anyway). Everyone in town was outrage and disappointed with the incident including his father.
Flint and Steve hid at the dock and he accidentally bump into Sam. They beginning exchanging conversation and later clouds of cheese burgers came falling down. His first ever invention was a success! Everyone begin to love his invention except for his dad. The next day, the town was raining all kinds of food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The town people beginning to send request for food. Flint and Sam also started dating. The machine is now unable to handle too much request as the danger meter shown 50%. The food molecule is starting to mutate and the food is now becoming larger.
The mayor came up with a new plan. He plans to reintroduce the town as a food theme park naming it Chewandswallow. People from all the around the world came for the launching. The mayor now bloated (obese) is enjoying the food and order a Vegas style buffet. Flint tried to stop him but the mayor ended up destroying the laboratory. However, he went on with the launching of the theme park despite Sam trying to warned him about the weather storm approaching.
Soon a huge hurricane of spaghetti and meatballs came storming the town and everyone started vacating the island. Flint realizes he was a failure and hid among the junk. His dad gave him some words of encouragement and told him that only he can save the world. He regains his confidence and immediately went to the lab to derive a kill code. Driving his Flying Car with Wings, he set out to destroy his FLDSMDFR with Sam, Manny, Baby Brent [Andy Samberg] (the celebrity mascot for Sardine town) and his monkey, Steve. While approaching the FLDSMDFR, he lost the USB with contains the kill code. He called his dad for help to send him the kill code to his cell phone.
Later Flint, Sam and Baby Brent manage to venture into the FLDSMDFR. They were attacked by some human eating chickens and one of it ate Brent. Brent however fought back and later becomes one with the chicken and fought back to allow Flint and Sam to jam the control with the kill code. On the way there, Sam got injured by some peanut brittle and she is swelling up pretty bad due to allergic. Flint asked Brent to bring Sam back to the car for the allergic injections while he went to solve the matter alone.
He reached the control panel and stuck his cell phone in it. However, his dad sends him the wrong one. Instead of the kill code, his dad sends him the video of the kitten and ducklings singing “Fight the Power”. Still fighting and struggling with the control panel, he later uses his spray on shoe invention and spray on the machine. The machine swells up and later exploded.
The world is now safe and Flint is nowhere to be seen. Everyone thought he was dead but a flock of ratbirds save him and retrieve him back on ground. His father finally admits his proud feelings and love to his son through the monkey translator, and Flint and Sam finally kiss.
Flint and everyone else enjoy their new life in a food paradise, renamed Chewandswallow 2. Tim and Flint open up a new business that uses Flint’s spray on shoes spray to repair roofs, and the Mayor is arrested and jailed for his greedy behavior.
I believe the movie will be more enjoyable if it is in 3D. It has lots of humorous jokes but you have to catch the meaning of it. It’s kind of interesting as its story is kinda unique. Did you know that this story existed since I was born dating back to year 1978? Anyway, blogging this makes me hungry and I’m heading off to Chewandswallow, free food anyone?
District 9 (2009) October 17, 2009
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This is an interesting documentary style movie about aliens on Earth. 30 years ago, the aliens landed in Johannesburg, South Africa but did not launch any attacks nor did it appear on Earth. Humans were curious and for precautious reasons they decided to find out what is inside the alien spaceship. When they reached they spaceship, they found out that the aliens were refugees and were living like cannibals (I don’t know why these aliens have low IQ). These millions of prawn looking aliens were then shifted down from their aircraft to a military confined land named District 9, home to millions of aliens.
Multi-National United (MNU) were contracted to look after the aliens welfare. Wilkus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) was promoted to lead the operations of these aliens. Soon, the people of Africa complained that these aliens are using to much of the countries resources and is not contributing to the nation. MNU led by Wilkus decided to shift the aliens to new place location named District 10. However, he has to get the agreement of the aliens to relocate by trading cat food (don’t understand why aliens love cat food -.-) for their hand prints. It was then that Wilkus found a mysterious liquid which he confiscated along with weaponries from other aliens. He accidentally sprayed some of these liquid onto his face while experimenting it. He felt ill and was taken to the hospital for medication.
Back the at headquarters, the armies were experimenting on the high-tech weaponries which were confiscated but failed to used any of it as it requires aliens DNA to operate it. Meanwhile, Wilkus is slowing mutating into an alien where his left hand is fully transformed. Wilkus was then reprimanded and use for experiment purposes starting with the weapons. The scientists were amazed at the technologies as it could generate tremendous profits and decided to vivisect him before he fully transform into an alien. Wilkus was scared and panicked and overpowered the scientist and fled to District 9.
There is a group of Nigerian gang living in District 9. They have been actively trading weaponries with the aliens in exchange for cat food. Their leader soon found out about Wilkus conditions and was very interested to know how he transforms into an alien. A fight broke out and Wilkus manages to escape and he went to look for the alien were he confiscated the liquid previously (somehow this alien has a very high IQ). That Alien named Christopher (yes, unbelievably it has a name!) told Wilkus that the only way to cure him is to return to the mother ship. However, it cannot be done as it does not have the mysterious liquid.
Wilkus still carries hope to change back into a human. Together with Christopher, they gathered some weaponries and attacked MNU’s headquarter to retrieve the liquid. They succeeded and it was also the time that Christopher learned that the humans are experimenting them (a sequel, maybe?). Having seen the experiments, Christopher told Wilkus that he will return to the mother ship and return with solution to save its kind and promise him that he will be cured in 3 years. Not willing to wait that long, he attacks Christopher to fly the ship on his own. While trying to flee to the mother ship, the spaceship was blasted by the MNU’s military slightly damaging it and crashed onto the ground.
The military is gaining on him and he has not much hope to flee the scene. It was then that he decided to help Christopher return to the mother ship while he will wait 3 years for his return to cure him. Badly wounded, Wilkus manages to help Christopher escape with the mother ship. The people of South Africa were rejoiced about the situation.
At the end, Wilkus’s wife receives a hand made metal flower at her doorstep. She was curious but suspected it was from Wilkus. Wilkus now a fully mutated alien was seen in a garbage junk making hand made paper flowers before the movie ends.
This movie has a very unique storyline unlike any other alien movies out there. Have you seen any dumb alien movie before? No, right? The way the movie was made is also interesting and it contains lots of fighting / war actions as well. Well, this is it. I’m now waiting for the sequel to the movie to find out lots of things about this movie such why aliens are dumb! It’s not a scary movie and it’s extraordinary!
The Proposal (2009) October 16, 2009
Posted by itsahanzo in Movies.Tags: comedy, love story, Movies, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
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This is a romantic comedy movie directed Anne Fletcher. The storyline is the norm, nothing special which you could predict what goes next. Having said that, it is the normal love story movies filmed in a different way which is really enjoyable and hilarious.
Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company, Colden Books. Everyone hates her including her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) who labeled his boss as “The Witch”. When she moves around the office, everyone else will be notified via msn-like tool around the office.
Margaret is a Canadian citizen but is currently working in New York. Her visa was rejected and and she has to be deported by to Canada and thus losing her job as well. Not willing to let everything go, she came out with a plan when her assistant, Andrew Paxton budge in during a meeting. She wittingly announced to her Management that she and Andrew is getting married and soon she will have the legal rights to stay there and work.
Andrew confronted her boss on the situation. Margaret bribes him into marriage. It was supposed to be a temporary marriage and she will promote him to be the Editor and will publish his book. So they went to the register their marriage. However, it came to the officer’s consent that they are faking the marriage and he informed Andrew that he will be fined USD 250, 000 and will be jailed if found guilty of the fraud. Andrew still insists that the marriage is due to pure love and it is not a sham. Mr. Gilbertson (the Immigration’s officer) said that he received information about this marriage sham from Bob Spaulding (an employee who was sack by Margaret Tate) and he will investigate it.
Andrew and Margaret then flew off to Alaska to attend Gammy’s (Andrew’s grandmother) birthday party. During these 4 days, both Andrew and Margaret have to learn about each other and prepare for the interview to proof that the marriage is pure love. Margaret Tate was living a life as an orphan since her parents past away in a car accident. Since then, she has been living alone and is kinda a snob. While in Alaska she was unused to the situation and slowly she blend in with the family and friends. She felt real love and fell for Andrew.
Andrew’s parents decided not to celebrate Gammy’s birthday but instead to hold their wedding dinner. Mr. Gilbertson flew over to Alaska and gave them a last chance but Andrew still denies it. On the wedding day, Margaret felt guilty and reveal the truth. Margaret apologized and then follows Mr. Gilbertson to be deported back to Canada.
At the same time, Gammy had a heart attack. Andrew’s family rushed her via a plane to the hospital. Gammy ask both his father and Andrew to fulfill her last wish before she goes to heaven. Both duly agreed. She then sprung back to life and change the course of destination to the airport (she was faking it). When they arrive at the airport, it was to late as the plane just took off. Andrew never gave up and flew back to New York and proposes to Margaret in the office. Their colleagues were shock but at the same time happy for the both of them.
The proposal will contain some funny jokes and acts which will bound to make you laugh (it is a comedy movie). It was also filmed at a very nice location with beautiful scenery but carries some urban looks. I wanna be there too if I could! This movie also has a interesting tagline “Here Comes the Bribe” so it more or less tells the whole story.
Land of Lost (2009) September 26, 2009
Posted by itsahanzo in Movies.Tags: Land of Lost, Will Ferrel, Anna Friel, Universal Studios, Danny McBride
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Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Farrel) is flopped scientist who wasted 50 Million of tax payer’s money researching on time warp. No one believe that his research except a student, Holly (Anna Friel) who got kicked out from school for believing his researches. Together they tested out the time machine build by Dr. Rick Marshall and they were warp into the Land of Lost.
Dr. Rick Marshall, Holly and Will (Danny McBride) arrived at a dessert and they rescue a primate named Chakra, the prince of primates who got chased by its tribe. Together they embark on a journey documenting the Land of Lost and searching for the time machine to bring them back to the real world. They were chased by dinosaurs, encountering aliens, bitten by bugs, feeding on a giant crabs and many other events.
At the end, they manage to set the time machine and return but will prefer to stay. Dr. Rick Marshall became famous and his book became a top seller.
I do no recommend this movie. It is quite lame and I wonder why Universal Studios produce it in the first place. It is not enjoyable at all or maybe I never liked Will Farrel’s movie made me become slightly sarcasm. A schooling kid can communicate with primates from Land of Lost made the movie more illogical and even Will Farrel commanding a T-Rex (because he removed something stuck in the T-Rex’s bowel) made the ratings for this movie went down the drain, at least for me.
Bring It On – Fight to the Finish (2009) September 24, 2009
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Lina Cruz (Christina Milian) is the captain of East Los Angeles cheerleading squad with a dream to win the Spirit Championship. Her dreams went awry when her mother married a rich man and the family has to move to Malibu. She left her cheerleading squad temporary to her best friend to take charge. However, the whole squad quit the team in her absence.
She begins to learn living her new life in a mansion with her new sister. On her first day of school, she clashes with Avery, the All Star cheerleader captain. She challenges Avery that her team will win the Spirit Championship until she found out that the new school team sucks and her team disbands. It was also the time when Evan fell in love with Lina.
Lina call upon her best friends for help and they moved over to Malibu. They begin schooling and reshaping the cheerleading squad together. Avery however feared that they might make it and created lots of troubles out of them which include getting her best friends expelled from school. Feeling real down and depressed, Lina gave up but was confronted to stay and fight on.
She then came out with a brilliant idea to combine East LA squad and the squad together to compete in the Spirit Championship. Together they choreograph a new routine which include some boxing moves. They compete in the Spirit Championship and won!
All of the Bring It On series, I feel that the screenwriters is getting lost with the ideas. The storyline is getting too predictable and the dance moves are not interesting at all. It does not make you wanna watch the movie again or even recommend it to your friends saying “Hey check it out, this movie got some awesome dance moves!” It still worthwhile to watch on DVD if you are not looking for something to hype you up or expecting something huge out of it.
Bruno (2009) September 23, 2009
Posted by itsahanzo in Movies.Tags: AIDS, Angelina Jolie, Bono, Borat, Brad Pitt, Bruno, gay, Madonna, nudity, Sacha Baron Cohen, U2
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After Borat took over America in 2006, Sacha Baron Cohen creation arrives on the big screen again. This time with Bruno, a gay Austrian model bringing his antics to the States.
Bruno has his own fashion based television show, Funkyzeit, the most popular German-language show of its kind outside of Germany. After he disgraces himself in front of his Funkyzeit fan base, he is ruined in German speaking Europe.
Feeling dejected and heart broken when all is lost, he met Lutz (his former assistant’s assistant), who still believes that Bruno has something special in him. Together they travel to United States searching for the fame that he desperately desires.
At the States, everything still went wrong for him. So they (Bruno and Lutz) left for the African nations because he found out that every famous person has to do a good deed to the world like Bono (from U2) contributed to AIDS. So he set on a journey to get a peace treaty sign between the Israel and Palestine which obviously failed. While on the way back to the US, he adopted a son which he traded with an I-pod because Madonna, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has adopted child!
He was invited to a talk show that discuss about “Single Parents” and there were lots of commotion about it. His son, OJ, was later confiscated by the welfare department. Feeling empty once again, this is when he makes out with Lutz and Lutz confessed his love for him. Bruno however oppose that he was high and will never fall in love with him. They parted ways!
Bruno decided to lead a healthy life and to become normal. He wanted to be straight and seek professional help. He attended swinger’s parties (sex parties), martial art classes with dildo actions and etc to adjust his life. Several months later, he was a part of a wrestling program host. He was campaigning that “My asshole is for Shitting!” and one of the audience confronted him. Bruno challenges him on stage and a fight broke out. When Bruno realized that it was Lutz, he make out to him in the ring and the audience were surprised. They later got married and they had OJ back.
This movie will be banned by many countries and Malaysia will be one of them. It contains sexual explicit scenes which include gay activities, nudity, offensive and religious discrimination acts. This movie is definitely not for the young and religious people but if you are looking for a good laugh and not entirely offended with gay activities, this movie will brighten up your day. It is even better and more violent than Borat!
Where Got Ghost? (2009) September 12, 2009
Posted by itsahanzo in Movies.Tags: Jack Neo, Money Not Enough 2, Where Got Ghost?
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This time around, Jack Neo released a scary ghost comedy titled “Where Got Ghost?” and we watched it early this morning at 12.05 a.m. at Cineleisure Damansara. The movie is divided into 3 short snippets, each telling a story of its own.
Roadside Got Ghost
The story is about 3 swindlers scamming money out of people. One day, the Chief asked his 2 subordinates to buy supper and some fruits and meet him back home. Both of them bought the supper and totally forget about the fruits. Not wanting to be scold, they took the oranges by the roadside after asking for forgiveness indicating that the oranges were meant for their Chief.
After supper, they came out with an awesome plan. They plan was to call 10, 000 people everyday and tell them they have been blessed by God of Wealth and the winner has to donate 20% of the winnings to the temple. If they winner is reluctant to donate, they will hire gangsters to collect the winnings by beating the crap out of them! From a 3 man con-job, it became a huge company with girls calling out to random people giving the lucky numbers!
One day, the Chief received a called with the same gimmick with the lucky number 6666. He was reluctant to believe it, thinking that someone has copied his idea. However, he bought 100 big and 100 small on the number which strike 1st and 2nd prize, he won SGD 80, 000.00. He was then approached by a guy asking for the 18% donation for the grandmother as she was the one who gave them the lucky number. They made fun of that guy whom later curses him to be killed in the car accident! Not wanting to believe it, he ran to the streets and proved that no car will bang him but alas an accident from the above highway crashed and trampled on him. Before the chief died, he was given a flashback why the ghost was after him!
Forest Got Ghost
The story is about national servicers recall for topography training. This pair of soldiers was warned not used short cuts in the forest. When they were lost, they decided to use shortcut as either of them knows anything about topography.
When shortcutting, one of them stumble across a beautiful girl’s tombstone and gave some comments. In the evening, both of them had stomachache and they had no choice but to do their businesses in the forest until the met the female ghost. They ran their lives but returned to gather their belongings the next day.
The set out their journey to complete their topography mission and stumble across a fat girl selling drinks at their trail. They bought and plan to continue their journey but heavy rain came pouring. They took shelter at the girl’s house. After several incidents, they both died at the house.
House Got Ghost
It was a reunion dinner, approximately one year after their mother past away. The movie is the continuous from the movie “Money Not Enough 2″. While praying for their mother, everyone blame that their mother did not blessed them well enough and they are sucked into the economy turmoil.
While having dinner together, an extra chair appeared. Ah Hui, the eldest son, then removed it and placed it in one corner of the room. However, the chair appears but this time at a different location. It scared the hell out of the family! They were skeptical about their mother joining them for dinner.
A few days latter, the 3 brothers keep having nightmares about their mother. One day, they met a friend whose mother past away also but he end up filthy rich. He says that his mother blessed him from above and he can stop winning lotteries. From the short conversation, they found out that their mother pass away at night which will not blessed them with wealth and fortune.
So they decided to send their mother’s praying statue (I don’t know the exact word for this, sorry) to the temple to avoid further bad luck. After sending it to the temple, they head down to Johore for a business meeting. While driving in the rain at the highway, the three of them saw their mother’s ghostly figure at the road which caused them to crash their car. They managed to escape unhurt cursing their mother for hurting them. They later realized that their mother saved them as the mountain the mountain collapse and will crushed them if they pass through it. They were blessed and they return to the temple to retrieve their mother and met their filthy rich friend again who is down with cancer and 3 months life left.
It is a horror comedy which will provide you with scary moments as well as laughing moments! If you are the type for extreme horror, this movie is not suited for you. It is a good entertainment movie if you want to have some thrill and laughter. The movie is verse in several Chinese dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien including English.
