Forbidden Kingdom
Rating - 1/5 stars
This movie is a fucking disgrace and insult to Chinese cinema and culture. Stop making fun of Chinese in your movies, HollyWOOD!!! I wonder why did Jet Li and Jackie Chan, supposely the pride of Asia Chinese sold out themselves for a big paycheck. Its not like they dun have the money or better projects to be involve with.
I was wondering why other Asian actors get great roles in movies in Hollywood like Rinko Kinkuchi in 'Babel', also earning herself an Oscar nominee, Ken Watanabe in 'The Last Samurai' and 'Memoirs of Geisha', Michelle Yeoh also in Geisha, Sunshine, and Tomorrow Never Dies, but actors like this 2 and Chow un Fatt keep appearing in some dumb Hollywood B-F grade action comedy.
When you heard dialogue like "1 mountain canot have 2 tigers", it makes me wonder the American must be thinking we Chinese English must be really dumb and silly. The whole movie is just making fun of famous Chinese characters in movies, the chinese idioms and language. FUCk You Hollywood.!!
Harold and Kumar 2 - Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Rating - 3/5 stars
THis movies is just like a replica of the first movie, just that from going to White Castle, they are now escaping from Guantanamo Bay. They reuse almost 3 quarter of the jokes of the first movies. But great effort of them making racist and political jokes funny and not really causing abuse to them. And Harold and Kumar are really likeable in these roles.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Recently release posters
Some other recently release posters. (click to enlarge)
Hellboy 2 - Another version of the movie sequel. It keeps getting better and better.
Sex and the City the Movie - This must be one of the worse movie poster ever.
Wanted- The first breakthrough movie into the Hollywood by the Russian blockbusters sequels Nightwatch & Daywatch, Timur Bekmanbetov. Who can ever get this name right? Action thriller starring Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy.
Terra- An animation about a peaceful alien planet, Terra, which faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on it. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
The Spirit - One more new poster.
Noise - A comedy about a man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City and decides to take vigilante action against it.
Igor -The new animation by the director fo Lilo and Stitch.
Hellboy 2 - Another version of the movie sequel. It keeps getting better and better.
Sex and the City the Movie - This must be one of the worse movie poster ever.
Wanted- The first breakthrough movie into the Hollywood by the Russian blockbusters sequels Nightwatch & Daywatch, Timur Bekmanbetov. Who can ever get this name right? Action thriller starring Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy.
Terra- An animation about a peaceful alien planet, Terra, which faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on it. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
The Spirit - One more new poster.
Noise - A comedy about a man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City and decides to take vigilante action against it.
Igor -The new animation by the director fo Lilo and Stitch.
Teaser trailer of The Spirit.
Sin City creator Frank Miller directorial debuts just release a sneak peak at the recent NY Comic Con. The style of the film is similar to Sin City. Get a first look of the film staring Eva Mendes, Guillermo Del Toro.
Click on link to view : http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1585694&vid=225572
Dark Knight new posters!
The Dark Knight just released a damn cool set series of posters. check it out!~ (click to enlarge)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
More new posters...
Ice Age 3 first poster
Beverly Hills Chihuahua - This look like a really dumb movie from Disney, remind me of the recent as stupid Underdog. I bet this will be Paris Hilton favourite movie.
Happy Go Lucky - Winner of the recent Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award, the next movie from the director of Vera Drake and Secret & Lies.
In Bruges - Already getting great reviews is this film starring Colin Farrell & Ralph Finnes about two hit men being held up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs.
Pineapple Express - Here come the next comedy from the guys who brought you 40 year old Virgin, Knocked Up & Superbad.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua - This look like a really dumb movie from Disney, remind me of the recent as stupid Underdog. I bet this will be Paris Hilton favourite movie.
Happy Go Lucky - Winner of the recent Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award, the next movie from the director of Vera Drake and Secret & Lies.
In Bruges - Already getting great reviews is this film starring Colin Farrell & Ralph Finnes about two hit men being held up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs.
Pineapple Express - Here come the next comedy from the guys who brought you 40 year old Virgin, Knocked Up & Superbad.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Disney and Pixar big projects for the next few years
Latest new off the line. After Pixar joined Disney, they have decided on a list of the coming up projects. Check it out. (sources from Empire movie news)
1. BOLT (November 26th, 2008). Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) is the canine star of a TV show in which he plays a pooch with super powers. When he's accidentally shipped to New York, he has to make his way back home to Hollywood. Problem is he thinks his TV powers are real and his only aids in his journey are unwanted housecat Mittens and TV-obsessed hamster Rhino. Miley Cyrus also lends her voice. This film was originally being directed by Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch), but he's since been replaced by Chris Williams and Byron Howard following creative differences.
2. TINKER BELL (October 28th, 2008). Disney's favourite fairy gets four straight-to-DVD, and Blu-ray, movies. Brittany Murphy has previously been announced as providing her voice (Yes, Tink now speaks), but her name was not mentioned in the announcement and their are stories that her voice may not be used. The second, Tinker Bell North of Never Land, is out in 2009; Tinker Bell A Midsummer Storm in 2010; and Tinker Bell A Winter Story in 2011. All titles are subject to change.
3. UP (May 29, 2009 in). Pixar's big film for 2009, directed by Pete Docter (Monsters Inc) and Bob Peterson, concerns a 78-year-old man who abandons his quiet life and embarks on a series of adventures with an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer that take them to exotic and bizarre locales. The footage shown on this one made the collective hard-hearted journalists at the press conference go a bit misty-eyed.
4.THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Christmas 2009)Walt Disney returns to traditional animation (yay!) for the first time since Home on the Range. Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin) seem the perfect pair to bring about its new life, with this twist on The Frog Prince that takes place in New Orleans. Anika Noni Rose, the first African American Disney princess, provides the lead voice.
5. TOY STORY 3 (June 18, 2010)“At the end of Toy Story 2, Woody and Buzz had accepted the concept that they were toys, things that would some day become expendable to their owner,” director Lee Unkrich told us at the presentation. “And that’s all well and good. Until that some day becomes that day – when Andy finally goes to college. That’s what we’re exploring here.” Little Miss Sunshine's Michael Arndt scripts and we're told that Barbie's long-term beau Ken will be a new character. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 will also get 3-D cinema releases in October 2009 and February 2010.
6. RAPUNZEL (Christmas 2010).The directing debut of master animator Glen Keane (responsible for brilliant work on Tarzan and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, among others). This is a take on the story of the girl with the very long hair and employs a CG look that has the appearance of being an old master painting. Co-directed by Dean Wellins.
7. NEWT (Summer 2011). The seven-time Academy Award winner sound designer Gary Rydstrom – will make his feature directing debut (he directed Pixar short Lifted) with this tale of the last two remaining, male and female blue-footed newts, put together in a science lab to mate. The problem? They can’t stand each other. “Newt is smart but he’s never had to think for himself and is pampered,” says Rydstrom. “Brooke [his proposed partner] on the other hand is streetwise and not to be messed with. It’s fair to say it’s about as bad as first dates can get.”
8. THE BEAR AND THE BOW (Christmas 2011). A second Pixar film for 2011? We are truly spoiled. This one takes place in a "mythic Scotland" where a young royal (Reese Witherspoon) decides that she'd rather be an archer than sit around a castle. She makes a choice that unintentionally unleashes peril on her father's (Billy Connolly) kingdom and her mother's (Emma Thompson) life, and puts her up against the forces of nature, magic and an ancient curse. Brenda Chapman, a writer on Cars and Beauty and the Beast, makes her directing debut and becomes Pixar's first female director.
9. CARS 2 (Summer 2012). Lightning McQueen and Mater return in a sequel to the hit movie, to be directed by Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis. No details on plot, but John Lasseter says "I asked the cast this time to make sure all their passports were up to date. because this time we’re going international.” No word either on which other characters might return. Cars wouldn't have been the Pixar project most people would expect to get a sequel, since it was the least well reviewed of the studio's work. We'd never suggest that Pixar would be driven by profits over good story, because we genuinely consider them much better than that, but Cars was one of the studio's most profitable movies based on the enormous merchandise sales, so we can imagine Disney was keen for a sequel.
1. BOLT (November 26th, 2008). Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) is the canine star of a TV show in which he plays a pooch with super powers. When he's accidentally shipped to New York, he has to make his way back home to Hollywood. Problem is he thinks his TV powers are real and his only aids in his journey are unwanted housecat Mittens and TV-obsessed hamster Rhino. Miley Cyrus also lends her voice. This film was originally being directed by Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch), but he's since been replaced by Chris Williams and Byron Howard following creative differences.
2. TINKER BELL (October 28th, 2008). Disney's favourite fairy gets four straight-to-DVD, and Blu-ray, movies. Brittany Murphy has previously been announced as providing her voice (Yes, Tink now speaks), but her name was not mentioned in the announcement and their are stories that her voice may not be used. The second, Tinker Bell North of Never Land, is out in 2009; Tinker Bell A Midsummer Storm in 2010; and Tinker Bell A Winter Story in 2011. All titles are subject to change.
3. UP (May 29, 2009 in). Pixar's big film for 2009, directed by Pete Docter (Monsters Inc) and Bob Peterson, concerns a 78-year-old man who abandons his quiet life and embarks on a series of adventures with an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer that take them to exotic and bizarre locales. The footage shown on this one made the collective hard-hearted journalists at the press conference go a bit misty-eyed.
4.THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Christmas 2009)Walt Disney returns to traditional animation (yay!) for the first time since Home on the Range. Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin) seem the perfect pair to bring about its new life, with this twist on The Frog Prince that takes place in New Orleans. Anika Noni Rose, the first African American Disney princess, provides the lead voice.
5. TOY STORY 3 (June 18, 2010)“At the end of Toy Story 2, Woody and Buzz had accepted the concept that they were toys, things that would some day become expendable to their owner,” director Lee Unkrich told us at the presentation. “And that’s all well and good. Until that some day becomes that day – when Andy finally goes to college. That’s what we’re exploring here.” Little Miss Sunshine's Michael Arndt scripts and we're told that Barbie's long-term beau Ken will be a new character. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 will also get 3-D cinema releases in October 2009 and February 2010.
6. RAPUNZEL (Christmas 2010).The directing debut of master animator Glen Keane (responsible for brilliant work on Tarzan and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, among others). This is a take on the story of the girl with the very long hair and employs a CG look that has the appearance of being an old master painting. Co-directed by Dean Wellins.
7. NEWT (Summer 2011). The seven-time Academy Award winner sound designer Gary Rydstrom – will make his feature directing debut (he directed Pixar short Lifted) with this tale of the last two remaining, male and female blue-footed newts, put together in a science lab to mate. The problem? They can’t stand each other. “Newt is smart but he’s never had to think for himself and is pampered,” says Rydstrom. “Brooke [his proposed partner] on the other hand is streetwise and not to be messed with. It’s fair to say it’s about as bad as first dates can get.”
8. THE BEAR AND THE BOW (Christmas 2011). A second Pixar film for 2011? We are truly spoiled. This one takes place in a "mythic Scotland" where a young royal (Reese Witherspoon) decides that she'd rather be an archer than sit around a castle. She makes a choice that unintentionally unleashes peril on her father's (Billy Connolly) kingdom and her mother's (Emma Thompson) life, and puts her up against the forces of nature, magic and an ancient curse. Brenda Chapman, a writer on Cars and Beauty and the Beast, makes her directing debut and becomes Pixar's first female director.
9. CARS 2 (Summer 2012). Lightning McQueen and Mater return in a sequel to the hit movie, to be directed by Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis. No details on plot, but John Lasseter says "I asked the cast this time to make sure all their passports were up to date. because this time we’re going international.” No word either on which other characters might return. Cars wouldn't have been the Pixar project most people would expect to get a sequel, since it was the least well reviewed of the studio's work. We'd never suggest that Pixar would be driven by profits over good story, because we genuinely consider them much better than that, but Cars was one of the studio's most profitable movies based on the enormous merchandise sales, so we can imagine Disney was keen for a sequel.
ipod on the go list
My latest on the go list check it out
1. Tired by Adele - Adele album, 19 is amazing. She sounds like what i describe as Amy Winehouse singing John Legend music. also recommend in this album are, Chasing Pavements, Best for Last Right as Rain
2. Mercy by Duffy - The hottest female singer in Europe right now. Exotic voice powerful vocals.
3. 4 Minutes by Madonna feat J. Timberlake - Her latest single which I find pretty listenable, but amazing thing is J.T sing more then her.
4. Billie Jeans by Chris Cornell - THis is the rock version of Michael Jackson, Billie Jeans. I knew of this version when i saw David Cook (my favourite American Idol contestant this season) sang it during the Final 9 performance.
5. Bye Bye by Mariah Carey - Her new album is pretty listenable.
6. Elevator by Flo Rida
7. Love in this CLub by Usher feat Young Jeezy
8. Break the Ice by Britney Spears
9. Great Big Sled by The Killers
10. One moment away by The Afters
1. Tired by Adele - Adele album, 19 is amazing. She sounds like what i describe as Amy Winehouse singing John Legend music. also recommend in this album are, Chasing Pavements, Best for Last Right as Rain
2. Mercy by Duffy - The hottest female singer in Europe right now. Exotic voice powerful vocals.
3. 4 Minutes by Madonna feat J. Timberlake - Her latest single which I find pretty listenable, but amazing thing is J.T sing more then her.
4. Billie Jeans by Chris Cornell - THis is the rock version of Michael Jackson, Billie Jeans. I knew of this version when i saw David Cook (my favourite American Idol contestant this season) sang it during the Final 9 performance.
5. Bye Bye by Mariah Carey - Her new album is pretty listenable.
6. Elevator by Flo Rida
7. Love in this CLub by Usher feat Young Jeezy
8. Break the Ice by Britney Spears
9. Great Big Sled by The Killers
10. One moment away by The Afters
Definitely, Maybe
Director: Adam Brooks (writer of Bridget Jones 2 & Wimbledon)
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin, Rachel Weisz, Isla FIsher, Elizabeth Banks
Rating: 3.75/5 stars
This movie is pretty much like a guy's chick flick. Ryan Reynolds amazingly never strike it big as a Hollywoodpowerhouse, being dabbling more in comedies like Van Wilder, Just Friends and Waiting.... . But this movie might just give him his big break.
The whole movie is really sweet and nice, especially Abigail Breslin! How i wish she's my daughter. The movie is about a guy on the verge of a divorce, telling his love story of the 3 women in his life to his daughter (Maya), who had to guess which one is her mum.
The movie would really score even higher if the movie haven't been so predictable. You sort of guess who Maya mum is and who he ended up in the end with through the middle of the movie, as the director make one of the 3 female leads much more likeable then the other 2 in the movie. But what the heck, its still a good movie to watch and how I wish I had a love life fill with pretty babes like Rachel Weisz and Isla Fischer.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
New Posters
Some latest movie poster i spotted recently. Enjoy. (click to enlarge the pic)
Fireflies in the Garden - Based on a poem, this semi autobiographical drama stars an amazing cast comprising Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, William Dafoe, Emily Watson, Hayden Panettiere and Carrie Ann Moss. Definely the movie to watch out this year.
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden - The second poster of this mockumentary from the guy who brings you Super Size Me.
The Spirit - The first theatrical release poster.
Penelope - Starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon about a modern romantic tale about a young heiress born under a curse with a pig-like nose, that can only be broken when she finds true love with "one who will love her faithfully."
Series poster for Tropic Thunder and The Spirit
After my introduction of Tropic Thunder last week, now here came the first set of posters for the movie. Downey Jr looks hilarious! And another set of poster is the directorial debut by Frank Miller (creator of Robocop, Sin City and 300) who interestingly adapt another guy comic Will Eisner about a Rookie cop Denny Colt who returns from the dead as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City. Starring an talented circle of cast comprising Scarlet Johansson, Samuel Lee Jackson, Eva Mendes, Jaime King and Paz Vega. Set to release on Jan 2009. (click to enlarge the pic)
Tropic Thunder
The Spirit
The Bucket List
The Bucket List - 3/5 stars
Director - Rob Reiner (prev work: When Harry Met Sally, Rumor Has It)
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, 2 of the best actors of all time starred in this drama about 2 terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
I can only use a single straight line to summarise my thoughts of this movie. Yap a veri straight 1 drawn with a ruler.The movie is like a line, no ups, no downs, its like when you were young you sit down and heard your grandpa talk non stop for 90 mins. But ths time is 2 grandpas.
The movie is quite a bore especially dragging down by Morgan Freeman. Jack Nicholson as usual in another great performance otherwise in a boring movie.
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