Star Trek

Star Trek (the movie-3rd generation)

Star Trek (the series-2nd generation)

Star Trek (the series-3rd generation)

I must start the review for this movie with "This is absolutely a worth-watching-at-cinema movie". (at least this is what I think. ;p)

Before watching this movie, I wasn't having much interest to it. I did watch Star Trek (I believe is the 2nd generation) when I was young. Although my English is so poor that time that I can't really understand what were they talking about. What I did is just watch them every week with the help of the Malay subtitle. But I stop following this series when I started to feel that the story was getting a bit too far from the beginning story and it is like quite lack of new ideals. Thus, the movie version of Star Trek did not attract me much.

However, HC's colleague gave a very good review after watching this movie and we decided to give it a chance. To be very frank, I did not have high expectation on this movie (maybe was too disappoint with X-men Origin: Wolverin).

Unexpectedly, I like this movie very much. The flow of the story is good and the pace of the whole movie is just nice that keep your eyes and mind focus to movie. In fact, I think the whole movie is full of excitement, a little of laugh and some surprise. There isn't much time for you to release your breath. HC was so kelian that I hold his hand very tightly almost 40% of the movie.

Besides this, I also like the effect (visual and sound) of this movie. Visual wise, although it is confirm that there are a lot of computer touch up, however the visual effect team for Star Trek is just much much much better than Wolverin's. You might think that what they did is very "childish" or "funny" or "fake" in future if you re-watch the movie, at least they did very well for the mean time. As for sound, this is one of the reason I put it as worth-watching-in-"cinema" movie. Maybe because the sound system of the cinema we watched is very good, I felt like I was enjoying a 3D movie (the 3rd D is the sound. hehe.. my own theory. ;p;p).

Lastly, I quite enjoy watching the 3rd generation young Captain Kirk (Chris Pine). Hehe... Maybe he has the "man" look or "yeng(cantonese)" look. I won't compare him with the previous two Captain Kirk, as I can't really remember the first two already. I guess three of them are all good actor.

In the nut shell, I enjoy watching it. Bought yourself ticket to watch it in cinema and hope that you will like it also. ;)

X-Men origins: Wolverine

This is a movie which a lot of my friends wanted to watch so much that make it a must watch in cinema movie to me as well. The movie was on screen since 29th April 2009. HC is kind of cannot wait too long and thus suggested we watch it on 30th April 2009. As this is in my must watch list, we deal to bought 2 tickets on 30th April 2009.

X-Men to me is a very cool and exciting movie. I can't remember well what is happening in the X-Men I, II and III. In fact, I think I only watched one of the three and still trying hard to recall which is the one I watched. However, the recent "comics movies" are so well-done (like Ironman and Dark Knight) which make me having very high expectation on this show, especially I quite like Hugh Jackman. ;p;p

Unfortunately, I am a bit disappointed and told HC that luckily they filmed the other 3 before this after leaving the cinema. I would say I quite like the story and also some of the scenes are quite impressive. HC said the story in the movie does not follow the comic version. But, for a person like me who didn't read the comic, I think that is just fine for me. However, the computer graphic of this movie is almost totally cannot make it (cause some are still impressive). It is just so fake that very obvious it is filmed in studio + computer graphic effect.

Anyway, just my opinion, I do enjoy some of the scenes but I guess it can be better produced.

17 again

Months ago when I went to Shaw Cinema at Orchard for a movie (can't remember what movie we watched) with HC, I saw the poster of this movie "17 again".
My very first impression to this movie is that "hmm... I am not gonna pay for this movie.". The reason is I always think that the main actor of this movie Zac Efron is the kind of idol type of actor who like to act cool and make me related to groups of ladies who will shout for. Sorry to those who like him so much. ;p

Last week, HC and I were thinking to watch a movie in the cinema. We reached the cinema and found out that we have limited choices. HC then suggested this movie"17 again". Due of no more other movies better than this (those better than this during that time already been watched.), we bought ourselves two tickets on this show.

This show is about the young Mike O'Donnel (Zac Efron) was a star on the high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But instead, he decided to throw it all away to share his life with his girlfriend Scarlet and the baby he just learned they are expecting.

Almost 20 years later, the present Mike (Matthew Perry) glory days are decidely behind him. His marriage to Scarlet (Leslie Mann) has fallen apart, he has been passed over for a promotion at work, his teenage kids think he is a lose, and he has been reduced to crashing with his high school nerd-turned-techono-billionaire best friend Ned (Thomas Lennon). He is blaiming to everyone around him (especially Scarlet) and regretting the decision he made 20 years back.

But Mike (Matthew Perry) is given another chance when he is miraculously transformed back to the age of 17 (Zac Efron). The story start there when he tried to rescue himself (life, marriage, kids and everything).

This is not a movie with new idea or storyline. This is also not a excellent show if were to compare to movies like "Departure", "Ironman" or so. However, I like the movie as for the reason it shows some behaviour/thinking which is very close to us, human. Human like to remind themselves of some decision which they made in the past. "What if I didn't...", "What if I..." or "I should have...". When things in the present don't go well, blaiming to others start. "If it is not because of you...", "All because of you that I...".

In the story, Mike has the chance to back to 17 which allow him to recall back why/what is so important during that moment when he made the critical decision. Of course, the important reason still valid, just being covered by all the -ve feeling when things come out to be not to their favor. "-ve feeling always brings -ve outcome", this is what happened to the present Mike and also something I learned from someone who is important to me.

In reality, we won't be given any chance to back to any time in the past. However, we have ourselves to remind us all the people/things which is important to us. That makes us human. ;)