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.

In Time for the conspiracy and Trespass on the Rich and famous

In Time is an excuse for the director to put all of the gorgeous people that Hollywood have to offer in one film, it’s the best of how corporate America have finally made the super-super-major mother load, it’s also a love story of a commoner from the ghetto with the princess in the castle.

The storyline is simple, money is replaced with time, u are given a year to live after you reached 25. And the richer you are the more time you have. Even the market is traded in time.

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The twist is when a rich man who’s lived for ages want to die, he gave it all to a man in the ghetto. After losing his mom just seconds from her time loss, he decided to go to the riches area. Of course to have so many time suddenly, he is hunted by the “Time Keeper”. The symbolism really resemblance today’s markets and corporation darkness. And talk about having all the up-and-coming star in the movie, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, of course, Justin Timberlake finally as the leading man, and suitably this time too. We see Matt Bomer, and Alex Pettyfer. Vincent Kartheiser is always weird to watch in character, Collins Pennie and Toby Hemingway, but one person who actually looked older than the citizen of the future should look like is Cillian Murphy, not that I’m complaining though on the acting, he’s fantastic as the chief time keeper.

the love story side of the movie is really Bonnie and Clyde really, even until the ending. the love bird Chasing the rush of destroying the very "Time institution" and going for the bigger and bigger Timer.

This is a movie that I think everyone should watch, because it actually puts money into perspective with the replacement of it with life time in the movie literally.

Another movie that came out last week is Trespass. And I believe many people have pass by this movie a dozen time and decide not to watch it. Simply, I think for the new generation, the Nicholas Cage-Nicole Kidman combination really isn’t that attractive to them. But I find that Nicholas Cage is simply in great in the reluctant father and husband with money character. But I must say, the chemistry is a bit lacking and I can feel the strain in the acting almost trying too hard. One person I find acting pretty effectively and convincingly is Cam Gigandet. The semi-Psychotic brother of the burglar and conspirator. there’s not much of a suspense in the movie really. Right from the start the adultery is revealed. Or has it?

It’s a pretty straight forward thriller, but maybe it’s too straight forward, the pressure point is too weak and too quickly resolved for audience to register.

Lion King in 3D Vs Paranormal Activity 3 which 3 you’d rather?

Finally the Lion King has landed in Asian soil. The King of the vast land and Pioneer of CGI Simulated 3D on 2D format, is here. It’s proven that the moving spectacle in2D have pop out of the big Screen this year and once again capture and mesmerizes every living children soul in all of us once again.

As I was watching the familiar storyline, I still can’t stop myself chuckling at Pumbaa and Timon’s Joke line. And the love gaze of Simba and Nala still evoke those eagerness for pure love when we are young. And to see the semi-British accent of Scar is simply remarkable, and amaze me about the writing of the 90’s of such animation. What’s lack in visual then is filled to the fullest potential by the script written, every words that comes out of the character are the brilliant still until now. And now it really comes into full cycle with the 3D effects showing such great visual stimulation.

Now we go from a huge budged animated fantasy to the low, very low budget realist approach horror movie. Which one is the best? If you ask the studio, both of this is earning big bucks, to use old footage of a popular animated movie and put in 3D effects surely cost less than creating one from scratch. But still the budget of putting in the effects can be far more expensive than the Paranormal. Because it don’t need much money, hell it don’t even need any famous people for the sound or acting for that matter. It’s realist movie, which means the flaw is the essence to making such movie real.

So the movie only takes a mere 3 mill to make and have been raking havoc on the box office. Would the studio keep producing this kinda movie? Well with the budget and the profit, you betcha.

Is the movie scary? For first timer, maybe, for old timer? Not so much, the first movie is boring for most part, the second is….. mysterious, because using a dog and we don’t see the actors coming out to promote much this time thus making it more real and people does wonder if the studio is using real footage. This time using unknown again, you find that it’s on sub point level on the scare Richter. The Bloody Mary scene is pretty scary. But the ending simply is a short simple and ridiculous explanation to it all.

Real Steel is a K.O. for The Thing

We are on the band wagon too last week. Real Steel, again for 2 weeks in a roll. And the metal keeps rolling.

To tell the truth, the story is good, the idea is refreshing, the effects are amazing. But the chemistry I must say is a little bit off. It’s either the shot is not focus enough at some moving moments or some editing timing lapse that cause the chemistry to strain. There are something off on this one.

However, one great thing that comes off this big boy is Dakota Goyo. Look out for this boy. Man can he act. Every single emotion is on point. Every move he makes is perfectly in sync with every shot. And he’s only 12. Damn. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, he’s the young Thor that we saw at the 20 minutes mark of the Thos movie.

Alright, back to the movie, a story of a slacker, ex great boxer, abandon when the sport went south to using robots. He become the robots pilot and he is not a good one at it. To say the most here comes the son he never wanted. The ex-Wife died and he is left to take care of his son for a while. And as stubborn as the two try to be, they bonded for the first time and the rest is history. It’s a love story, of a reluctant father and an abandoned child reconnected. Using the effects and the fights as a back ground very Rocky and very Over The Top –esque. Very Stallone really, awkward father, smart child, the sports background.

Another movie opening this week is The Thing. I don’t know is anyone still remembers the original. It’s about 30 years back. I was just 10 when I watch it on replay on the big screen. It’s one of those movie that’s far too in front of the pack that people have a hard time to swallow the too futuristic aspect of the idea of a shadow-morphing body snatcher. It’s on the same blazing trail with Aliens, and Encounter with the Third Kind. The John Carpenter Version is totally not gimmicky too.

Anyhow, the Thing is not a remake. Rather it is a prequel to the 1982. If you remember it, the original is more suspenseful. A lot of pre-design plot lay on the station because the station started with burned and charred before everyone realize they are being attacked. Fast forward to the new movie, or rather backwards to the current movie time line before the station is blew up. The new movie, explains all the missing pieces, where did the ice block came from, where are all the people from the station, and why are there are a guy trying to kill a dog and a heli blown up?

This year, going back a couple of days of the original, a science team make one of the most amazing discovery ever. The site is enormous and a group of scientist is assembled to research on the discovery. And they have found the creature that have triggered the signal from the site that lead to the scientist to discover the site, under the ice. And all hell break loose. Before anyone can figure it out. Half of the team is already taken. And suspense ensue when one of them discover the sinister way the alien try to take over the station.