Real Steel (2011)
27 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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Been waiting to watch this quite some time. Finally, got the chance to. I’ve never really like any boxing movie except Million Dollar Baby. This is probably the 2nd one not as much as Million Dollar Baby though. Anyway, strictly speaking this is not really boxing. It’s a robot boxing. There wasn’t really much robot boxing in there nor was it about their journey to win a boxing championship. This is, to me, is more of a father-son bonding movie. And it was so well acted in that aspect that I like the movie just for that. Well, aside from that, it’s a Hugh Jackman’s movie of course. So yes Real Steel is definitely worth seeing. You don’t have to go to the cinema just rent the movie will do.
Battleship (2012)
27 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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This movie is kinda special because it’s my first time watching in Cambodia’s Cinema. Another alien invasion movie. Seems like people never get sick of coming up with alien invasion movies. And this time it’s a lizard-like alien. This is probably one of the weakest alien race of all the alien races came out in the movies. Beside great mobility in water, their ships seems to have quite a lousy attack for an alien technology and the defense system is definitely a joke. Even an ancient battleship artillery can destroy this alien ship. (-__-) Well I gotta say the only awesome thing is their isolation shield. But I really doubt that’s good enough for a planetary invasion. So yes if you take all that away Battleship is quite a decent movie to watch. Never it’s forgettable. So watch it or not won’t make much of a difference.
The Avengers (2012)
26 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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Guess what? I watched it twice in 2 different countries! lolz. And both time in 3D. The 2nd time I was supposed to go see it but turns this was the only movie showing at the time we wanted to watch and I was the only one who has seen it, the rest haven’t. Anyway, I didn’t mind even if I had to see it for the 3rd time. That’s how awesome it was. The Avengers is like on a whole new level of awesome. It also sets a new benchmark for action movies. I love Josh Whedon for not only living up to my high expectation for the movie but also exceeding it. That’s really rare for me. On top of that they pick all my favorite actors to cast! How epic is that. The Avengers is probably the only movie that almost every main character in it has their own movie(s).
In The Avengers, we see the Hulk is not played by Edward Norton but instead by Mark Raffalo. I was rather disappointed but after the movie, I thought he too did a terrific job as Bruce and the Hulk. I also was afraid that amidst all the experience and more senior actors, Chris Evan may not play well as a Captain. He might be intimidated, you know. But guess what? I was utterly wrong. He held his ground and did his Captain thing with style. This is like the epitome of superheroes and action movie.
Lastly, the one saddening about it is that it seems quite a number of people (at least those around me) have no idea of the Avengers until this movie is released. So all Avengers mean to them is a title of a movie. This makes them unable to really fully comprehend the awesomeness and epics of this movie and really fully appreciate it. But all in all, Avengers is definitely 1 of the MUST-SEE movies of all time.
Men In Black III (2012)
26 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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Just saw it today. I think it’s awesome! In MIB III, we were brought way back in time to the very early stage of MIB. And of course we get to see new MIB toys. A much less advanced ones. Their jet pack was like the size of mini rocket. I wonder if that’s really their definition of “Jetpack” back then. Anyway back to MIB, I think MIB III offers a complete package─action, comedy, touching storyline, aliens and time travel. Doesn’t that sound awesome!
Will Smith still cool and hilarious as ever. And Tommy Lee Jones is still… errr as “friendly” as ever. If you know what I mean. Anyway, we don’t much Tommy Lee Jones in MIB III because he’s dead in this installment of MIB. Instead, we see Josh Brolin. He plays the young Tommy Lee Jones in the movie. I’d give a huge credit to him. He did a really great job. I think Will Smith partner chemistry with Josh Brolin is as well good as that with Tommy Lee Jones. On top of that, we get a see a lot of truth and story behind J, K and O. I think for me that’s the X factor that separates MIB III from the previous 2. That’s what I paid to see. The story and not just two men in black suit battling Aliens all over again. But well of course the battling part must still be there. Otherwise it’d just be boring. Anyway, I highly recommend MIB III. I won’t say it’s a great movie especially compared to all the super giant blockbusters lineup this year. But in my opinion, MIB is just one of those movies you just gotta see. It’s a classic and a great reminder of our childhood craze.
Lost
06 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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That’s the very first word that comes up in my brain when thinking how should I title this post. There used to be a time where I had plenty of time and put things down into words was a way to vent out my feelings, clear out my head, and reflect on what happened. But ever since I’ve had these extra heavy commitments, I’ve long since stopped having time, energy or the mood to do any proper writing. Every time I’m thinking of posting an entry the sheer thought of wracking my brain to recount, organize and finding the right words to put it down itself already seems like a tormenting process. So yeah, then I was like “Nah, I need to relax. My brain needs it.”
But this time, I think I’m having too much on my mind to not go through it. Some time, I think I’m strong. Some time, I think I’m weak. But at this point, I no longer can tell. There was once I decided that was who I was, what it was, and the way it was supposed to be and I gave myself up to be the puppet of society. Those were simpler time, I was just practically a walking dead man, an insignificant particle of society fulfilling his role and duty, nothing more nothing less. But eventually, when I was blessed with the fact I’m alive and given what I’ve longed for, and denied of (or at least that’s what I’ve come to feel and accept), every time – Real true love – I find myself fighting a battle that I was never prepared for. “The battle of faith” would be the right cliche to the way it is.
I think it’s not a complicated matter. Well, nothing is ever really complicated to be honest, it’s always us and our stupid ass brain who go around complicating things. One of them is that I think I understand people too much for them to understand me. And by people, I mean my companions, friends and family. When I’m having problem, and I decided to go to them for a talk. From the first sentence they articulate, I can feel that I almost can tell everything they have to say and pretty sure that I can put across the exact same thing in much better words. I could even tell if they actually understand what I’m going through or what I’m needing them to do. I used to think that this ability is my asset that I can use to help friends. And indeed, I have managed to help some friends from emotional suffering. But now I start to see that this is a double-edged sword. Because as good as it is, it’s also a curse on my emotional well-being.
I’m starting to wonder if there’s ever really a person who can reach deep inside my mind tell me “it’s okay” and my brain believe it and relaxed. Most of time, I can tell that people pretend to care (Well, if they’re lousier actor than I am.) I hate people who pretend to care and made a lousy effort at it that I can notice. In that situation, the thinking bubble in my head would be like “If you want to pretend to care at least care enough to do a damn good job at it. If you’re going to make my know that you don’t care anyway, might as well say right away that you don’t give a damn so I can save my time and stop talking to you about it.” That’s another thing about me. After being here for so long, I’ve literally turned into a practicality, productivity and efficiency freak. If I start to find that talking to you is a waste of time, I’d rather not saying anything at all. I’m neither fond nor proud of it. It’s just that 10 years is a good enough time it take for education to nail them down to your personality.
After all the emo ranting and bullshitting, I think in the end it comes down the a few simple things. I know what the problems are. Well, I should say I know what are the hurdles and that it takes times to overcome them but I’m just not exactly sure if I can still be who I am and what I am at the end of the this dark tunnel. Whether I can be a sane saint to my love ones. Funny thing, when I typed that, I can almost picture what happen if I were to say this to people. The stupid ass people would all be like “I know you can do it.”, “You can do it. You’re strong.”…blah blah blah… I can only give a silence mental reply to that, that says “Yeah yeah, whatever you say man. You’re the God you know everything. Now, I feel like dying and you still say you know I can do it. What if, tomorrow I jump down and die. I wonder if you ever going to use that sentence on someone else again.”
All “You can do it” means is just “F*** you. I don’t care. Bring your problem somewhere else.”
It’s been a long and stupid post but I feel that I does help me take out something…. for the time being. Time to sign off till next bullshitting. 
The Hunger Games (2012)
24 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
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Got to see this in GV Max. One of the very few movies that I ended having to go see alone. The Hunger Games based on the first book of the Hunger Game hit trilogy. Well, I will not babble about the plot summary again since it’s more or less anywhere on the net. I think it’s good but not that good. Why? Because I think it’s very lacking in character and emotional development. Watching the movie is like just watching the series of events in the story with very few connections and understanding of each important character. At least that’s how I felt. Then battle scene where it’s supposedly to be cruel and for life and death felt very abrupt. I’m not sure if they tone it down to lower the viewer rating. Whatever it is, it degrades the movie. I was expecting it to be more thrilling, violent, and heart throbbing. Not that I like violence and stuff it’s just that it’s a Hunger Games so definitely I would be expecting to see people fighting desperately for survival. Yeah I that’s the word I was looking for. Desperation. Not enough of that or it isn’t real enough. Despite all that, I think Jennifer Lawrence did a great job as Katniss. After seeing it, I’d have to agree that only she can be Katniss. This is a big plus point for me because my sole purpose of seeing this movie is her since I already knew that as much as I wanted it to be, the movie can never really be as good as the book. In other word, I’m pretty satisfied with the movie.
Oh and after I have read the book I have another disappointment. Peeta in the movie is quite different from the Peeta I pictured in the book. Not the look but more of the personality and behavior. I’m not sure if Josh Hutcherson misinterpret Peeta’s character or the director purposely made it so but anyhow, the Peeta in the book is definitely better. Nicer and more lovable.
Despite all that, I’m still recommending the movie. It’ll be good if you can read the book before seeing it. The book is great.
The Right Time
11 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
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Recently, this somehow always hit me. I’ve been told “I’m waiting for the right time to say it.”
When is the right time? what does the “right time” even mean? Because it never seem to come somehow. Again I was told the “right time” it’s the time when it’s suitable to reveal the truth. But since the truth is always so hard to blurt no matter what time or occasion. Yet again and again the same old excuse is being given. It’s not yet the right time. I’m kinda sick of it. Giving this excuse is like hoping that nothing will ever happen. Personally, I think if you want to let out some hard truth on someone you need to set tone and mood up yourself and just then reveal it. I however do agree that there’s a wrong time to do certain things but never the right one because any can be the right time if you’re willing the take a step forward and say it rightly…. Well, other than writing this post there’s really isn’t much I can do beside believing that things will turn out alright.
Saboteur + Saboteur 2
28 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
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Saboteur is not a board game. It’s a card game. Well, this game was introduced to me by my housemate. It was quite nice but I didn’t like it that much. I think this is because when I introduced it to my other friends they always play idiotically, for the lack of a nicer term. When I played with my housemate they played it like bridge. Seriously. You’re supposed to figuring things out as the game unfold and play your game strategically. The main part and fun of the game is you figuring out who’s your fiend and who’s your foe. However, when I play with my other friends they didn’t give sh*t about the gold or winning the game. Instead all the cared was if you’re miner, make sure help each other find out who’s the saboteur and make sure the saboteur don’t win… and if you’re a saboteur, yeah just make sure you win.
Then they always say play for fun play for fun. What the fun in playing a game that has the a winning object and you can’t careless if you win or lose and refuse to use your brain? I guess probably, I’m too geeky about this kinda stuff. But seriously, I don’t like playing with people like that. sighzzz…. This is why I like my brothers. Anyway, I only played Saboteur but I also see there is Saboteur 2. I thought it’s the 2nd version of the game but apparently it’s the the expansion pack for Saboteur. So yeah I grabbed both together from Bogas.
Kill Doctor Lucky
25 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
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Total never heard of this game before. Got as birthday present. Free board game! how cool. I debut the game with my housemate, it was very entertaining and exciting. The objective of the game is basically to kill Dr. Lucky. It’s played using cards so you can kill by playing a series of card but of course it’s won’t easy. You have to be alone with him out of other player’s sight to kill. And when you make your murder attempt other player can prevent you from killing him too.
Though it can be played up to 7 people, the recommended number of players is 5. Definitely a good addition to my favorite board game edit. I think I somehow just naturally like board game that that play using cards.
Ticket to Ride: Europe
22 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
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After a long long time of longing, I finally got my hand on this game. My first expensive board game. I almost wanted to get it from Decode Cafe which cost about S$ 90+. But luckily, I decide to wait and somehow I stumbled across Bogas, an online board game store. It sells at a much cheaper price. I got it from Bogas at S$ 73. The game is great. So I manage to play it twice only though. I like game art especial their cards.
Anyway, what is Ticket To Ride? It’s a board game playing with a set of cards. Basically the objective of this game is you have to score the most point among all player by building trains across the map on the board. And in order to build trains, you need user a series of cards in your hand. It’s quite simple to learn and play. This can take a long time to finish depending on how familiar the players are with the map and destination cards.
Finally, it’s highly recommended. Replay value may not be very high but once in awhile during your board game night after you’ve cycled through all your game, you can come back to it and it still fun!
