it's the Holiday STylized movie week, The Muppets VS Cheering New Year's Eve NYC Crystal Ball Drop

With the end of the year coming, the movie theater is rolling out holiday movies in drove. First up this week would be the totally star-studded New Year’s Eve. Here you can find the rarely seen Michelle Pfeifer and Hilary Swank. With other big name like, Robert DeNiro, Zac Efron, some original cast from the sister movie Valentines Day like Jessica Biel and Ashton Kutcher with newcomer, Lea Michele and Jake T Austin and Abigail Breslin with Sarah Jessica Parker as her mom. To tell the truth, going into the cinema for this one, I’ve half expected it to be mediocre, because Valentine’s Day didn’t really strike any chord with me. But how wrong was I, New Year’s Eve, beside this star-powerhouse it is, it’s totally a really funny movie. it’s the Garry Marshall Effects stretch to the most optimum. I almost laugh my teeth off for this one throughout. And to cast Sofia Vergara is the most genius decision.

Well, just like Valentine’s day, this one is a whole bunch of people intertwine with some intricate relationship and as a special day comes in New York, everyone have prior plan something for the date or resolution to resolve and plenty of things happen out of plan and closure to be closed.

The next feel-good movie of the week is The Muppet show. All the Muppets is back for one more shot at the big screen. Though the singing and the storyline is a bit weird. But I guess with the Muppets anything can happen. The movie is a really soft touch to the old show where the jokes are rough at times. But this time it’s really heartwarming and really talented people’s cameo makes it even more fun.

So the story goes that the theater is in trouble, the disbanded gang join back once more to save it.

Arthur Claus VS the Lady of Dagenham

As for last week’s movie review, there’s the holiday cheer from Santa himself, Arthur Claus, the 3D Animated movie is quite a fun movie to watch, how Santa reach all the kids in the world to send them gifts and how the job is inherited and how normal and unnormal a family of claus is. Many movie have been made according to the dysfunction of a Claus family, but I think this one is worth a watch for the fact that it’s heartwarming and somewhat easy.

The next stop would be for a little British movie called Made in Dagenham. It’s about the Female Workers in 1968 Dagenham Ford Car Plant Strike. The common and often raunchy and not-really-Good-Looking Lady of a car plant, decided to take a stand for their right and make the first strike ever against Sexual Discrimination. And with that, the whole country rally behind the effort and pass a law in the Commonwealth. This is what I love and fascinated by great British Artistry in Film. They can take a very important issue, infuse it with some fantastic ordinary people that looks blend in, with some fantastic common humor and makes a story worth telling and makes people listen again and again. Here is a bunch of normal looking great actresses, portraying every normal woman working hard in their life and still maintain the dignity to fight for what’s right. And the struggle and the conflict of doing what’s RIGHT.

One more for the little story movie from the Great Britain. And it’s proven again that great story doesn’t need to make a big scene to be art worth appreciation.

The American President and A Lost Valentine

The other day I was watching 2 movies on my LCD Screen. Which moves me and makes me question a lot of what’s happening around the world.

First up is the 1995 The American President, this is a great movie with some of the best actor and actresses in the same place to watch and the writing is magnificent. This is the only place where you’d see Michael Douglas, and Martin Sheen (who later became the President in The West Wing) in the same screen, with Michael J. Fox. Annette Bening is the President’s Love interest. And Richard Dreyfuss is the next election opponent. It’s a miracle that the movie ever been made even. Well to avoid the seriousness of the subject, they interwoven the fictional love story of a widower president with a lobbyist with some humor. (which in reality I’m wondering if it actually is a crime?). Anyway, regardless, aside from the main line of love story, the caliber of the writing is just impeccable. The story touches on a lot of issue that to my realization almost 20 years later we are still talking about the same issues and the issues is becoming more and more real as the time drags on. The Global Warming and Fresh Air issue, the uselessness of some crime bill, the Libya tension with America, the women’s right bill passed unenforced. And one more thing that dawn on me, that how many people in America and the media address the most powerful man in the world today most of the time as Obama, and very seldom do I hear them pronounce him as President Obama. I as an outsider find it strange that so many president before President Obama is often called upon with the title in front but for the past couple of years I’ve heard more “President Elect Obama” in the last year of President Bush’s administration than I’ve heard “President Obama”. This movie is a great reflection of what’s happening today. And makes me thought of a couple things I’ve thought of before. It’s not easy to do the RIGHT thing. But that doesn’t mean that it ain’t Hard to take the EASY way either. If you ride through the turbulence then the Fight for the RIGHT is worth it. But to Dwell in the Hellish chasm of EASY WAY of cowardness and ignorant and self pity and anger for the rest of your life. Which one is Better? Which one that often people takes? Which path u often take? We all have our own answer, but my hope and love was that please, please, take the RIGHT path and wake up and walk straight to your destiny with all my Love and prayers to your success.

The next one is a more recent TV movie. The Lost Valentine, a Cynical journalist interview the main line of the story, an old lady waiting every year on Valentine Day for the past 40 years for her husband who is MIA in the Vietnam war to come home to her. Through the journey, the Journalist found love and the Lady attain a closure in the end.

My thought is that the choice of waiting til the right one comes along and falling in love and waiting for him forever which one you’d rather. And it’s pretty clear that everyone would rather fall in love and then with that love in your heart and wait forever to reunite than never experience it by not letting go and putting yourself out for the “Perfect” one. And in my opinion, “Perfect Circle” comes with Black and White and Good and Bad, only by that will it becomes complete and will only by accepting it that we would elevate above the circle to see the “Whole Truth”.

Love is the main title here, and when Betty White fall crying at the return of her husband at the end of the movie. I find that regardless what happened and what’s missing, time or the person for all those years, true love and the experience of it is the “Eternal” remain in our soul and I want that.

Twi-hard suck the blood out of the Cutie Cat

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Breaking Dawn would become the highest grossing movies of the week, the month or even maybe the years. As the Harry Potter Saga draws to an end, the Twilight Saga ending have just begun. And everyone is glued to the screen for that one and only Sex Scene and Baby birth (unfortunately both of the climatic of the Part 1 is censored from Islamic countries version due to religious offensive reasoning.)

So with the beginning of the end, the Twilight Saga is well on it’s way to it’s dooms day this coming summer. And all the twi-hearts will be broken with the largest and craziest Battle in Vampire history….. On Screen that is.

While everyone is watching the vampire movie of the year, there’s still some great movies on the marquee now. Puss in Boots is one of them. While the kids isn’t old enough to watch the Vampire, they can watch the cute cat instead. With Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek at the helm, it’s proven to be a big spender of Dreamworks budget this year putting all it’s effort they put into Shrek into this one cat spin off. It’s proven to the a great and fun to watch movie all together with the new character and all.

the Immortals battle, Tin Tin goes on a worldwide investigation, The Darkness brings Forth small demons and robbing a Tower!!!!

Last week is a roller coaster Ride

First Tin Tin tries to solve a mystery in 3D then Katie Holmes and family is attacks by some small terrible creature, and the Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller tries to rob a man climbing up and down a 100 stories tower, and then at last the Gods comes down to earth to battle the Titans again. Whew!!!!!

Alright, Tin Tin has come to town this month in full 3D Animation. The story as usual is simple and funny with some very suspicious and interesting characters.

The story happens after Tin Tin bought a model ship. And the mysteries ensue when again another person died on his doorsteps. The Interpol is not helping much, so the investigative journalist go on a trip to find out why is the ship so important that people would wanna kill for it. So the adventure begins and brought everyone from the street of London to the Monaco through land, sea and sky.

The next movie is about the most haunting little girl. Discovering a secret about the huge old mansion they moved in. While the media makes it so much about Katie Holmes, I think the honor should be given to Bailee Madison. The sweet little girl has turn into the hateful almost scary rebellious misunderstood child. Anyhow, the reversed tooth fairy story is not the first. But this one along with a house as one of the character have created an almost Exocist dimension of horror to it. It’s not Katie Holmes best performance, but it sure not a bad horror movie to watch either. The Remake is much more haunting that the TV version.

Want to climb a Tower everyone?! Tower Heist is witty and funny. But with the combination of Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller I’ve expected it to be funnier than that. But anyhow it’s probably the most amusing movie for the year. So Ben Stiller and his brother working in a Service apartment, and then when the rich and wicked got arrested for fraud, their little pension fund is screwed. So out of rage, they decided to get back at the rich man. So a Heist is devised and executed. So as all comedy goes, the funny bone is in the action not the storyline. And everything gone wild along the scheme.

Last but not least of course is the mother-of-God of the whole autumn movie lineup.

Immortal, the 300 stylized movie of the year. The director did it again. The cruelty, the Gore, the dirty, the ugly, the blood, the raw sexiness.…. Well compare to 300? This is nothing. There’s no crazy nudity, there’s the muscle, but the men are more covered this time around, the slow-mo is a little bit out of focus, not as saturated and pin-point focus as last time. The blood this time around because of the Gods aspect of the character, felt more like CGI imposed. But there’s no other movie that’s the same. I went to the movie with one person that has never seen 300 (can you believe that) and he still felt the urge to puke as all those that watch 300 for the first time. So well done to the director and everyone in the movie.

Immortal is about Theseus, stopping the Hyperion’s King from releasing the Titans. Everyone who is familiar with the Greek Mythology, the dramatic twist of the Immortals is a combination and reinvention from several Greek Mythologies, anyhow, it doesn’t matter as long as it fits. So, The Hyperion King in the Quest to gain the Epirus Bow to release the Titans, killed many people and invaded many villages, and Theseus family is killed in the process and to revenge his family, Theseus decided to help protects the city that traps the titans. And with his brave act he is inaugurated as one of the Gods and Immortals.