This is surprising..

For countless of years, i had been telling myself and people that i do not see the point of a blog because i do not have anything much to say anyway. Plus, why do people need to know what i did and where i go? However recently, i realized that my memory is failing me. I do not remember events, do not remember dates and names of people, do not recall the fine details of wonderful times spent with close love ones. Therefore, this blog is more for myself than for other people, to document my life so that i can look back to view these memories like a silent movie.

This very 1st post is actually an old post that was originally posted on Friendster, however i realized that i hardly go to that site anymore thus creating a new avenue for storing my memories.
This was written on the 27th January ... for this post it's going to be thoughts of movies that i had watched.

The Mist

This is 1 movie that i was so disappointed with, probably because i read the Stephen King short story and i thought it was a good story to put on the big screen. The most obvious disappointment (and disgust) was the ending. Why can't they just end the movie with them stranded in the car, as in the short story? Why must they end it so terribly and with no taste at all... My friend told me it was a shocking ending...'shocking' indeed. The whole movie in my opinion was too long (2 hrs plus) and the monsters in the MIST are all too CG for my taste. They do not look real and that itself did not help at all with my ratings. As my friend Daniel pointed out, the things that the people do in the supermarket is not realistic at all. Knowing that there are creatures out in the mist that can kill, they kept making decisions to leave the safe confines of the supermarket, for stupid reasons that we normal people won't do in the 1st place. There are a few cheap scares as well that left audience laughing... probably it will work well as a comedy? I can see the spoofs for Scary movie already...

Cloverfield

This other monster movie was widely criticized and scolded at on the Internet. The movie was filmed with a camera and thus in the 1st person's perspective. Watching the movie on the small screen saved me from the nauseousness that other people might experience in the cinema, and thus made me appreciate the movie more. The movie is simple. Monster attacks America and this group of ppl just filmed their experience for that night. As the film is made to look like it was filmed from a camera, i thought the special effects were rather good. Buildings burning and destroyed, the attack from the army and even the monster, the main big one and the smaller scarier ones. Certain scenes are really dark and you can only imagine by hearing what they're saying. The ending of this movie sucks as well but at least i can understand why it ended like that and not feel cheated (unlike The Mist) and i have to say that certain parts were really exciting. Watch this on the small screen eg tv or computer.

Atonement

This movie i loved. It won best film in the Golden Globes and i can see why. Its beautifully filmed with wonderful music. The acting were all very good and the script wonderful too. This also has a shocking ending but in a very good way i have to say. Go watch this, you'll not regret it.

P.S As you can read, i have more to write for movies that are not very good...hahaha

Merry Christmas (Joex noel)

This film won Best foreign film in the Oscars and it talks about how during Christmas eve and day of the world war, the germans, the french and the scotts ceased fire at the frontline to celebrate the festive season. together. They gathered at the 'dead men's zone' to listen to Opera and the mass. They played games together, shared champagne etc. This beautifully shot movie will remind us that ultimately, we're all the same... humans living together in the same world and we share the same worries and joy even when we're separated by religion and nationality. It is really a very heart warming movie that everyone must watch. As 3 different languages are spoken in the film, subtitles are a must.

I will try to constantly update this blog with the movies i've watched this year (2008) be it in the cinema or 'elsewhere'.