Movie Writings: December 2010

Monday, December 27, 2010

Box Office

Little Fockers beat two Jeff Bridges movies...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-27/-fockers-tops-u-s-christmas-weekend-box-office-with-34-million-in-sales.html

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah Ngangkung

Two horror comedies almost back to back released? Coincidence? Hmmm... and now there are at least three horror movies coming out soon... horror phase now?

Anyway, one's from the director of Zombi Kampung Pisang and the other's from David Teo...

Kak Limah tells the story of the same people from the movie Zombi Kampung Pisang... but this time they're dealing with the death and subsequent haunting of said Kak Limah... while Ngangkung tells the story of three guys who uses the supernatural to get a winning lotto number, with some consequences of course...

I saw Ngangkung first... to be honest, it does nothing for me... nothing much anyways... it's a pretty decent movie, a little laughing here and there... Shaheizy Sam's charms were kinda muted in this one... seems like a vehicle for Azad Jazmin...

Hantu Kak Limah on the other hand... very entertaining... and there were plenty of scary situations but interspersed with comedic moments and there were many scenes that would make you burst out laughing...

Although I don't like the part where Mamat Khalid tricks us at the end... it's the same like Zombi Kampung Pisang... they had to die in order to turn into zombies so how could you just inject a serum and have them all miraculously get back to being alive? Sigh...

And this revelation... about Kak Limah... cheated us out of the whole movie experience... a lot of the scenes doesn't make sense anymore... It's not a good practice to do that... you made something out to be one thing and then at the end, you say it's actually something else, so many scenes have been rendered useless and irrelevant now... sigh...

In this case, Ngangkung won because it did not do a 180 and declare it was just a dream...

Top 25

Inception and Johnny Depp tops IMDB 2010 Top 25 List...

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/12/20/johnny-depp-inception-imdb/

Monday, December 20, 2010

Box Office

Tron Legacy beats out its competition!

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1654595/20101219/story.jhtml

Friday, December 17, 2010

Nominations - SAG

Pretty soon, it'll be Oscar nominations...

http://www.sagawards.org/media-pr/press-releases/17th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards-%C2%AE-nominations-announcement

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Nominations - Golden Globes

The Golden Globes have announced its nominations...

http://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2010/12/the-68th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/

My faves are The Social Network, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, Tangled, Toy Story 3 and of course Glee! :)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Review - My Soul To Take

Wes Craven is definitely the king of horror. Wait, maybe it's Stephen King... but anyway, I kinda did not know this was Wes Craven's work.

I first saw the trailer on Trailer Addict and was instantly captivated by it. So I was looking forward to catching it when it comes out. Yes, yes, I am a horror/slasher movie junkie. One of my favorite movies is Scream (which is incidentally Wes Craven's handiwork as well).

And just like Scream, this movie started out with an intense scene, very bloody and kinda scary.

My Soul To Keep, the phrase, is a part of a classic children's prayer... also because the movie is all about souls... :)

The movie tells of a person with many souls in them... like multiple personalities... and that once the person dies, the souls linger on... the night the Riverton Ripper was finally killed, seven babies were born... and in each of them, the parts of the souls of the murderer lies in wait...

But only one of them got the evil soul... every year, on their birthday, the Riverton Seven does a ritual in which they defeat the 'Ripper' so that the Ripper would not be able to come after them in real life...

This year, they were interrupted... and the Ripper appears and offed them one by one until he gets to the one he wants... his own son...

The plot sounds great to me... hehehe... and so was the execution... unfortunately, the killings were a bit sudden and abrupt... like there was no milking of the tension and suspense of a cat-and-mouse scene between the slasher and the victim...

For example, one girl's throat was slashed immediately upon encountering the evil guy... not even allowed a scream or running away...

But I think all these quickie murders are setting up for the final showdown, which was quite a long one... So guess it works... :)

Acting-wise, everybody was not too bad considering they're a bunch of unknowns... except for the mother, who was Susan (Ross' ex, Carol's life partner) on FRIENDS.

All in all, it was a nice outing for me... I enjoyed the movie very much... being the horror/slasher junkie that I am...

Have a good weekend guys! Tonite is Hantu Mak Limah Balik Rumah at Midvalley...

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Trailer - I Am Number Four

I Am Number 4 is based on a book of the same name... about aliens on Earth, hunted down and killed in sequence... even mentioned Malaysia... starring Alex Pettyfer, better known as Alex Rider from the Stormbreaker movie... also starring Timothy Olyphant and Glee's Dianna Agron.