#-i-wanna-be-a-film-critics-but-successfully-fails. [Super 8]

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio

town witness catastrophic train crash while making a super

8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident.

Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events

begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to

uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of

them could have imagined.

Finally, a really decent movie of 2011!!! After being disappointed by a series of recent movies, this one was refreshing and heart-fluttering. There was never a moment during the movie that I didn't want to be sitting there. The last time I felt that way was watching Inception last year.My expectations for the movie met but it was much better than i thought it would be. Throw in the adolescent battle over the out-of-reach girl, the sensitive kid trying to cope with his mother's death, the somewhat demented kid who goes bananas for explosions, the wise beyond her years girl who is a natural actress, and the chubby, driven boy with a camera and obsession with "production values" ... draws a lot of laughs and startling special effects; awesome scenes of destruction (the train crash).Films like this are the reason why I love movies. At time where trailers give away everything, Super 8 unwraps before us, hypnotizing us in its spell, and never letting go.

Beginners Only

Below is the article i've found, personally written by Jason Mraz himself.
I just thought it was worth-sharing.

A beginner’s mind is a brilliant place to come from. After all, beginners are granted permission to fail. In that sense, it’s not uncommon for beginners to have more fun.


I have the word beginner tattooed in cursive on my right arm. I almost wish it were tattooed across my face so I could remember to breathe when I feel like I don’t have it all together. Oh yea, I’m a beginner at writing 4th albums. I’m a beginner at intimate relationships!


I didn’t start surfing until I was 28. It was with a beginner’s mind that I excelled, not taking flopping around in the water as a sign of weakness. Instead, all that flopping made me more buoyant and a much better surfer.


I didn’t start playing guitar until I was 18. During those awkward college years I could’ve quit as other boys my age already had bands and tight jams. I knew as a beginner I had permission to suck and that eventually I’d rock. And now I do.


So remember this. We are all beginners. We haven’t done this before. You haven’t been you on this day before. I haven’t been someone’s solid rock before. I haven’t been me at 33 before. Each day is new and we’re all allowed to fall down as often as we need to. It is through these mistakes and fumbles that we’ll likely get it right next time.


POSTED BY MRAZ


I've been stucked in my own mentality that i can't do this/that because of my age.
So THANK YOU Jason!!!!!!!!!!
So new beginning begins...

#-i-wanna-be-a-film-critics-but-successfully-fails. [Team Dragon Warrior & the Furious Five or Team X-Men: First Class]

Po is back... with his belly. Hehe. I kinda have love/hate relationship with the first one, but the second man oh man absolutely highlarious --- or should i say AWESOME? It had me & the whole theater genuinely laughing! Jack Black fits comfortably with Po, however the Furious Five barely get any screen time. And Gary Oldman (aka Sirius Black in HP) is fantastic as a villain (He brings that intensity and dark lunacy). The animation in Kung Fu Panda 2 is W-O-W. The action scenes are breathtaking. The landscapes and backgrounds are captivating to look at, artfully designed but still realistic. A great comic moment when Po must sneak through town to the tower and use a dragon costumes to get himself and his Furious Five past the guards. I loved the part where the dragon gobbles the guard up, and drops him out the other end. And a quick Pac-Man reference during a chase is absolutely funny-as-hell. And i was absolutely stunned during the last scene of the movie, a pack(?) of pandas. So moving. All these while Po's family is still alive. Definitely a kick ass plot for Kung Fu Panda 3. *Skadoosh!*

Blurghh.

Cool.

About half-way through this movie, with my heart full of excitements, i instantly realized that I am LOVING this movie. After failing to capture my heart with X-Men: The Last Stand & the god-awful X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the X-Men film series finally redeem themselves with X-Men: First Class. The always superhot-sexy-as-hell James McAvoy plays young Charles Xavier bringing the charms and gorgeousness and Michael Fassbender's nascent Magneto is relentlessly, even heart-breakingly, compelling. The chemistry between McAcoy & Fassbender is superb ( sensing a bit of bromance in there). They band together to start a school for mutants. Among those recruited are the shape shifter-Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), the brainbox-Beast Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult), the sonic-screamer-Banshee Sean Cassidy (Caleb Landry Jones), the plasma-blasting-Havok Alex Summers (Lucas Till), as well as the winged Angel Salvatore (Zoe Kravitz). Kevin Bacon as the villain Sebastian Shaw is utterly impressive, not much i can say for January Jones as Emma Frost is utterly unpleasant. My favourite scenes hands down the Argentina bar fight (Fassbender's acting and the score playing at the time, maybe one of favorite scenes in movie history). And also not forgetting two memorable cameos - which come in the form of Hugh Jackman (who gets a great one-liner as Wolverine) and Rebecca Romijn (with a loud squeal coming from Milk.. hehe).

Pros: Awesome script, fantastic casts (mostly) and James McAvoy.
Cons: January Jones.

kesah ape aku bukan virgin (who's to blame for teen promiscuity?)

So i was minding my own business, reading tweets from others, and then something has caught my eyes...

a tweet from Milk to Soph... (but aku masih tak curious lagi, maybe it's about Juliana Evans's sister? So i couldn't care less)

So upon meeting Milk, he fills me in with the story of #Adindaevans (sampai trending kt twitter). It's about a 14-year-old girl who lost her virginity and wrote about it in her blog for the whole Malaysia to see/read.

OMG. Jaw Dropping. The first thing that came to my mind is her parents. Poor them. Look, i know for a fact there's a lot Malay girls/boys who had lost their virginity , we're not in denial. Some of them are my friends, so no judgement here. But none of them parade it on the internet and proudly stated in their web "AKU DA PERNAH MAEN!" To me, confessing no-virginity-policy still kinda a taboo thing to do (well in Malaysia at least).

A lot of people including myself thought that AdindaEvans is associated with Juliana Evans. She couldn't bear the embarrassment and hence the statement from Ms Evans herself. (Kesiannyer..haha)

But how do we know for sure? Is it a desperate cry for attention? Have you guys seen Easy A? Its about a girl named Olive, a lonely heart who lies about losing her virginity and soon (false) rumors involving lots of (fake) sex with guys.

Haha. Wut do i know, kan?

I'm cool dad, that's my thang. I'm hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face.

Modern Family is the new series (to me anyway... it's been showing in the States since 2009, maybe?) that I absolutely adore. Told in a mockumentary or faux-documentary style that's clearly influenced by The Office or Parks and Recreation, it was about three related, fictional families: a traditional family led by Phil and Claire Dunphy; Gloria and Jay Pritchett, a May-December couple; and Mitchell and Cameron, a gay couple. I was completely captivated by the pilot episode, and can’t stop watching it. Ever since Arrested Development got cancelled, I’ve been trying to find a comedy about a family that is wacky, neurotic and idiosyncratic.

Mitchell: Ahhh we have been together for, guh, five-- five years now? And uh we-- we just decided that we really wanted to have a baby. So we initially asked one of our lesbian friends to be a surrogate but-
Cameron: Then we figured, they're already mean enough, can you imagine one of them pregnant?
Mitchell: Don't think so.
Cameron: No thank you, ick!

Gloria: We're very different, he's from the city, he has big big business and I come from a small village, very poor but very very beautiful. It is the number one village in all Colombia for all the, what's the word?
Jay: Murders.
Gloria: Yes, the murders.

Phil: I'm cool dad, that's my thang. I'm hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face. Um you know, I know all the dances to High School Musical so..

Jay: Manny thinks his dad is like Superman. The truth? He's a total flake. In fact, the only way he's like Superman... is that they both landed in this country illegally.

Gloria: I always wanted a daughter: to dress her up in pretty dresses, do her hair, her nails, her makeup. No one knows this, but for the first year of his life, I made up Manny like a girl and told everyone that he was my daughter [laughing]. But just for a few times, I didn’t want to mess with his head. When he found the pictures, I told him that it was his twin sister who died. [cut to Jay giving her a horrified look]

Jay [to Manny]: If you put on a puffy, white shirt and declare your love for a 16-year-old, you're gonna be swinging from a flagpole in your puffy, white underpants.

Phil [about Desiree]: Am I attracted to her? Yes. Would I ever act on it? No, no way. Not while my wife is still alive.

Mitchell: my name is Mitchell and I'm a lawyer
Cameron [trying to sound straight]: My name is Cameron and I am currently not working, which gives me more time to grill and shoot baskets.

Dede [about Jay and Gloria]: I knew they were perfect for each other when I saw his wallet and her boobs.

Claire [on her mother]: You know how growing up we all have that voice inside our head that tells us we're not good enough? Well, mine was outside my head driving me to school.

Phil: Jay and I are buds, for sure, but with kind of um, an invisible, asterisk. Um, he's not the, he's not a talker, or, or hugger. Once he ran over my foot with his car. But in his defense, he had just given up smoking, but basically we're buds.

Phil: If things have gone differently in my life I could have been a pilot.... What would happen if you turn the remote off and on right again?
Jay: Yeah, you would have made a great pilot.

Gloria: The poncho by itself is fine. The poncho plus the flute plus the stupid dance? My son will die a virgin.

Haley: Hey mom?
Claire: Yeah?
Haley: Can I have forty dollars for lunch?
Claire: Forty dollars?
Haley: I also need a book for school.
Claire: A book?
Haley: I want a dress.
Claire: Do you have any idea what a bad liar you are?
Alex: I'd be more worried that she couldn't come up with a single book title.

Gloria: Jay, I'm home. Did Manny call?
Jay: No, because he's fine. It was a slumber party, not a gang fight.

Sal [about Lily]: Show me some pictures of Yoko... cause she's asian and she broke up our group.

Mitchell: You had your own moments. You had cheerleading, and high school plays, and making out with the quarterback...
Claire: Oh come on, you made out with him, too.
Mitchell: Yeah, but we had to keep it a secret.

Mitchell: We were called "Fire and Nice." I was "Fire" because of the red hair and Claire was "Nice" because it was ironic and she wasn't.

Claire: I have this theory that Phil purposely installs complicated technology so he has a reason to talk to me like I'm a child.

Phil: You know how in a fairy tale there's always a potion that makes the princess fall asleep and then the guys start kissing her? Well, this is like that except you don't wake up in a castle — you wake up in a frat house with a bad reputation.

Phil: Cheerleading in my college was cool. The football players were so jealous they wouldn't even let me and my buddies, Trevor, Scotty and Ling go to their parties.

Haley [on her biggest fear]: Never getting my driver's license, or getting one and the picture sucks.

Alex: Luke has ADHD.
Luke: No I don't... what is it?
Alex: I'd tell you, but you'd wander off before I get to the (Luke wanders off) H.

Claire [about the iPad]: They're getting more in next week.
Phil: Next week? That's like the worst thing you can say to an early adopter.

Phil: The iPad comes out on my actual birthday. It's like Steve Jobs and God got together to say, "We love you, Phil."

Dylan: I don't think we'd like the same music.
Cam: Because I'm gay and only like show tunes?
Dylan: Because you're old.
Cam: Well, that hurt more, Dylan.

Phil: A Realtor's just a ninja in a blazer. The average burglar breaks in and leaves clues everywhere. But not me. I'm completely clueless.

Mitchell: Why did you dress her in jungle print?
Cam: Because I thought it would be cute!
Mitchell: She's going to think she's back in Vietnam!

Phil: "My wife won't let me go to Vegas." Trust me that is not a phone call you want to make to a group of ex-college male cheerleaders. They will mock you with a hurtful rhythmic taunt.

Claire: Little kids can be friends with old people, right?
Phil: Of course they can, there's tons of examples: Up, Gran Torino, True Grit..."
Claire: Cartoon, kills himself, she loses an arm. We've gotta go talk to that guy."

#-i-wanna-be-a-film-critics-but-successfully-fails. {Jack Sparrow needs help from Doraemon because Priest is busy reading the Bible (even during fighting-scene) }

So I’ve been super busy lately – code word: super lazy; so I couldn’t manage to do a movie reviews. Ever since the last review, I’ve watched Doraemon: Nobita Dan Perang Ikan Duyung & Laut (I know… say WHAT?!), Priest & of course Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Ang, ang, ang…hehe. Tersangatlah kelakar tengok cite ni. The reason I agree to watch this with my sayangs Shamil and Acap (both avid lover of the cute cuddly creature) watched previous Doraemon’s film few years back and didn’t even invite me!!! (Even though they strongly denying it) Pfft… I don’t want to be left out anymore. And also there’s nothing else to see. So with zero expectation, the movie it’s not that bad. To be quite honest, I have nothing to compare to. And sempat lagi bagi my other sayangs (that couldn’t make it) their own characters. Shamil as Nobita, Acap as Doraemon, Me as Shizuka(is that how you spell it?), Dr Reene as Sinyu (is that how you spell it?? I tak tahu!), Hamiz aka Artis as Giant and lastly Sophia (currently in Ireland) as Puteri Sofia… hahaha. Suke bagi watak kat org. Hehe. Anyway, I have a blast watching it albeit there is some cheesy and corny line. Well, what the hell do you expect?

Priest. I would say it’s a study in clichés. Far worse than expectations which were low to begin with. The action was okay but nothing I haven't seen before or seen done better. It wasn't enough to save this movie. The plot was non-existent and laughably hokey. All the way through the movie we found those annoying "ooo… you will get scared now" moments. Damn, macam mane nak dapat balik my RM 9 ????!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, now Pirates 4. I’m a massive fan of the Pirates of the Caribbeans franchise. Jack Sparrow is back for his new adventure along with his out-of-control persona and with new cast member in hand like Cruz, McShane and loads other. And also returns, the memorable performance of previous Pirates flick – Rush as Captain Barbossa. So of course, I’m like super giggly and excited to see this movie. But then, truth be told, I am a wee bit disappointed. I like the first three so much better. So so much. On Stranger Tides is not bad or good. I feel it have perhaps had too many moments of exposition and clichés. I also felt the romantic subplot(s) felt involuntary, and while there are some droll, bizarre and witty quips mainly with Depp, Rush and Cruz there is a bit of filler that could have been crossed out. But one thing I absolutely love is the scenes with the mermaids. The scenes are beautifully shot and intriguing. I just wished there’s more of it. And the chemistry between Depp and Rush is excellent. And also I just found out that there is a scene after the end credit. Angelica is sitting on the island (where Jack left her) and found Jack’s voodoo doll. What kind of shenanigans would she do with the doll? Hehe. Just have to wait for Pirates 5!

kill the pigs!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pure awesomeness!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..

CAMERON:

Excuse me, meryl streep could play batman and it would be the right choice. she’s perfection. whether she’s divorcing kramer, whether she’s wearing prada, don’t even get me started on sophie’s choice. get emotional just thinking about it. [pause] she couldn’t forgive herself.

*from Modern Family*

LOL. Still makes me laugh for days.

the truth will set you free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So many movies, so little time.

A tad confused which movie to see this coming season??

Hope below posters help to tell you something the studios don't brag in their marketing material.

Image via http://www.theshiznit.co.uk