ununoriginal (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ununoriginal) wrote2007-01-07 10:49 pm
ununoriginal) wrote2007-01-07 10:49 pm
Entry tags:
a window to the rest of the world
weekends back in jb usually follow a set routine - gaming, movies, current affairs mags on the porcelain throne, repeat. guess i'm not back often enuff for it to devolve into mundane boringness. apart from engrossment with final fantasy XII, which i shall elaborate on when i FINALLY complete the game, i went thru a fair list of movies!
1st off was clerks II, kevin smith's follow-up to the cult hit tat made him famous 12 years ago. tho not as brilliant as some of his other movies like 'dogma' or 'chasing amy', it still has a lot of the wacky, smart-ass, potty humour tat characterises all his films - plus all the old gang of characters is back, even if it's jus to drop a cameo, like ben affleck and jason lee. there are some truly geeky yet hilarious moments tat i can scarily relate to, like this particular scene where randal, a star wars fan, gets into a whole 'philosophical debate' about SW vs. LOTR. and omg jay & silent bob! go them! lolz!
after tat was this movie bt the death of a president. the title's pretty self-explanatory, wat's intriguing about it is tat it's supposedly about the assasination of george w. bush on 19th oct 2007, the events leading up to it and the aftermath and subsequent impact. the makers did a very good job blending in real bits of news/public footage and combining it with their filmed sequences, and it's very like a documentary, yet fairly riveting. there are certain speculations on the part of the filmmakers tat might actually be a possibility, like the implementation of an act tat would give the intelligence agencies even greater reign to check one's email/phone/electronic transactions. a very scary orwellian dystopia... hopefully now tat the democrats are in power again, this will remain fiction for quite a while yet...!
then to pass time while my dad was hogging the tv tat my PS2 was connected to, i watched this disney channel movie called high school musical. i only bought it cuz it was supposed to have song & dance in it, since i'm a sucker for anything liddat. but it turned out to be surprisingly good! the entire cast of teenage kids are so humoungously talented - wat is it about young ppl and talent tat's so fascinatingly impressive? and the soundtrack is pretty good too :) really fun to watch!
this morning i checked out a hk movie, 放逐, whose poster i had on my wall for like 2 months - anthony wong is one of my idols and i try to not miss any movies he's made cuz he is so brilliant :) hk still makes the BEST gangster movies - guns and secret societies must be its movie industry's lifeblood. not even martin scorsese can hold a candle to making 'bad' people look cool. it's always about the 义气，the 浪子回头 and it's all so, so tragic, but filmed so beautifully.
back in sing, i watched pumpkin, starring christina ricci as this perfect sorority girl type who ends up falling in love with an intellectually disabled person. it's hysterical, melodramatic, and totally reflects the bigotry and prejudice tat ppl who want to step out of the box face, as well as the double standards tat pervade everyday life; the segregation of different groups of ppl (be it race, ethnicity, 'normal'/disabled), which is perpetuated not only by the majority, but also the minority, or the representatives of ppl who are supposed to be giving the minority their voice. if this film ain't a spokes-piece (is there even such a word? lolz!) for social role valorisation, i dunno wat is. watch it if u have the chance! :)
1st off was clerks II, kevin smith's follow-up to the cult hit tat made him famous 12 years ago. tho not as brilliant as some of his other movies like 'dogma' or 'chasing amy', it still has a lot of the wacky, smart-ass, potty humour tat characterises all his films - plus all the old gang of characters is back, even if it's jus to drop a cameo, like ben affleck and jason lee. there are some truly geeky yet hilarious moments tat i can scarily relate to, like this particular scene where randal, a star wars fan, gets into a whole 'philosophical debate' about SW vs. LOTR. and omg jay & silent bob! go them! lolz!
after tat was this movie bt the death of a president. the title's pretty self-explanatory, wat's intriguing about it is tat it's supposedly about the assasination of george w. bush on 19th oct 2007, the events leading up to it and the aftermath and subsequent impact. the makers did a very good job blending in real bits of news/public footage and combining it with their filmed sequences, and it's very like a documentary, yet fairly riveting. there are certain speculations on the part of the filmmakers tat might actually be a possibility, like the implementation of an act tat would give the intelligence agencies even greater reign to check one's email/phone/electronic transactions. a very scary orwellian dystopia... hopefully now tat the democrats are in power again, this will remain fiction for quite a while yet...!
then to pass time while my dad was hogging the tv tat my PS2 was connected to, i watched this disney channel movie called high school musical. i only bought it cuz it was supposed to have song & dance in it, since i'm a sucker for anything liddat. but it turned out to be surprisingly good! the entire cast of teenage kids are so humoungously talented - wat is it about young ppl and talent tat's so fascinatingly impressive? and the soundtrack is pretty good too :) really fun to watch!
this morning i checked out a hk movie, 放逐, whose poster i had on my wall for like 2 months - anthony wong is one of my idols and i try to not miss any movies he's made cuz he is so brilliant :) hk still makes the BEST gangster movies - guns and secret societies must be its movie industry's lifeblood. not even martin scorsese can hold a candle to making 'bad' people look cool. it's always about the 义气，the 浪子回头 and it's all so, so tragic, but filmed so beautifully.
back in sing, i watched pumpkin, starring christina ricci as this perfect sorority girl type who ends up falling in love with an intellectually disabled person. it's hysterical, melodramatic, and totally reflects the bigotry and prejudice tat ppl who want to step out of the box face, as well as the double standards tat pervade everyday life; the segregation of different groups of ppl (be it race, ethnicity, 'normal'/disabled), which is perpetuated not only by the majority, but also the minority, or the representatives of ppl who are supposed to be giving the minority their voice. if this film ain't a spokes-piece (is there even such a word? lolz!) for social role valorisation, i dunno wat is. watch it if u have the chance! :)