Movies Reviews

Wall- E (2008) - 3.75/5 Stars

Directed By: Andrew Stanton (A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo)

This movie remind me of the old cartoons like Popeye and Warner Bros (Bugs Bunny, Road Runner etc.), or even silent shows like Charlie Charplin and Mr Bean, where there is minimal dialogue inside the stories. Thus this movie can be watched understand by people of any races and ages. The strongest part of this movie definely has to be the main lead Wall-E. The character is adorable, well written, a strong personality and most of all ,lots of heart. The little details they use inside the movie building up the character of the movie like treating the cockroach like your best friend, falling in love with the music and the care and thoughts he arranges all his things and even rubbish. Thats why as the audience you can emphatized with him, seeing him maybe is like looking at your loyal dog, who never leaves your side.

Another interesting point in this movie is we get to see the world through machines point- of view, machines who feel more about Earth and life than the humans do. The humans can just leave the Earth as it is and leaves the world to robots to clear our mess. This in real nature also shows how insensitive we humans really are sometimes. The depiction of humans on the ship could have been incredibly offensive, cheap, and tasteless in concept but the execution here is absolutely perfect.

Thou story is brilliant, having 1 character and maybe 2 (if you count the cockroach), dominating half of the movie without dialogue, its almost put me to sleep at the start, luckily as a former Full Time National Serviceman who gone through one of the main process in army, "Waiting", i manage to hold on till the end.





In Bruges (2008)- 4/5 Stars

Directed By: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Finnes


This little publicized Irish movie had managed to fight its way through IMDB Top 250 movies(currently 237), and I am more happy to find people around the world for their support of this movie.

Escaping and holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a job gone terribly wrong, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs. This movie although sad and poetic in its own way, is actually sort of a dark comedy. Making fun of midgets and using the word fuck in every sentence they can put it in. The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are said 126 times in this 107-minute film, an average of 1.18 'fucks' per minute. With so much fucks in the dialogue, you can imagine how fucking their life are in the movie.

The movie is a bit slow but essential for the first half as it is necessary to set the mood and the contrast between that and the second half. That's all I'll say so as not to spoil anything. It is everything you need to find in a good movie. There's comedy, beautiful cinematography, and awesome action scenes. I'd highly recommend seeing this movie. It's definitely worth the price of a movie ticket while most of the crap out there these days isn't worth the cost of the paper they print the tickets on.

(and you know I am toking to you Kelvin Tong, for dashing my hopes of Singapore Movie industry with Men In White, wasting my 7 hard earned bucks and 2 hours of my bloody time)


2 Days In Paris (2007) - 3.5/5 Stars

Directed By: Julie Delphy
Cast: Julie Delphy, Adam Goldberg

I would define this movie as a Arty-Rom-Comedy. Julie Delphy best known for her roles in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, tells the story of an interesting couple who looks to reinfuse their relationship by taking a holiday in Europe. I love the little details in their love and hate relationship of each other, especially the humor inside the movie (especially the dick with the balloon), you had to watch to know it.



Into The Wild (2007) - 3.5/5 Stars

Directed By: Sean Penn
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt

Based on a true story about a guy Chris McCandless graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete, abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

In this movie you will find yourself in a love and hate relationship with the lead in the movie. As one of the main reasons he leaves is to escape his overbearing parents, he leaves his family without leaving a word behind. Even though you could sympatizes with him and the circumstances he is being led to, and somehow admire those people lives that don't have to work your ass off to pay off your bills and think of your family, you find him entirely selfish leaving your family tinking every minute where are you, are you really even dead or alive.

Also the story is somehow pretendious, you can see the movie is trying to make a hero and paying tribute out of this guy and what he had accomplishes, riding through wilderness and sharing love and fighting for his life throughout the movie, but I of the main thing I hate about people are unfilial selfish bastards and this guy, to me is one of them.


Nanny Diaries - 2/5 Stars

Directed By: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Bulcini
Starring: Scarlet Johansson, Laura Linney, Chris Evans, Alicia Keys

This movie is a nanny version of the Devils Wear Prada. And if you are trying to copy someone idea and someone who have done it before, you better had to make it a better and stronger success. But sadly this movie is not.

The plot is predictable, you know how the story is going to end up from the start and sadly I have to admit I watched this movie just because of Scarlet Johansson.