Got a free preview screening ticket from a friend to watch Astro Boy at GSC @ 1 Utama yesterday.

It’s a 3D animation adaption from the famous japanese manga of the same title. Those who were born in the 1980s would know about this manga. The adaptation is surprisingly good. Far better than what the others did for Dragon Ball which is a total crap.

This animation features some voiceovers from big names such as Nicholas Cage, Eugene Levy, Samuel L Jackson and etc.

Go watch it if you like animations.

Went to KLCC to watch the movie yesterday alone.

After buying the ticket, I dropped by Sony Style to buy a rechargable battery pack since I have extra time.

The movie was great, with lots of plot twists and humourous as always.
In this installment of the movie, the director seems to put more attention to human values and feelings, which is a good thing. I do not want to talk much here. Go watch the movie if you can.

My favorite actors of the movie goes to Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush. Particularly Geoffrey Rush as the Captain Barbossa.



Oh yar... one advise... Stay until the end of credits. Got some surprise there. I like to watch credits, therefore I didn't miss the ending.

Well it's 1st May today and it's a holiday (well .. to most part of us).

Went to Cheras Leisure Mall to catch a movie with my CG group members. We watched Wild Hogs.



(Quoted from Wikipedia)

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Woody Stevens (John Travolta), Doug Madsen (Tim Allen), Bobby Davis (Martin Lawrence), and Dudley Frank (William H. Macy) are four successful middle-aged suburban men in Cincinnati who find themselves frustrated with the pace of daily life. Woody is a formerly rich businessman who now finds himself alone and bankrupt. Doug is a dentist who can’t connect with his son and misses his college glory days when he was called “The Golden Knight.” Bobby is a plumber who’s often bossed around by his wife. Dudley is a computer geek who seeks to find a woman in his life. Their one collective hobby has always been to ride together on motorcycles around the city. They even have leather jackets with their biker gang name, “Wild Hogs,” stitched on the back.

After Woody finds out that his marriage is ending in divorce and that he's bankrupt, he suggests that the Wild Hogs embark a cross-country road trip on their bikes to seek adventure. After some hesitation from the three others, the four agree to the trip and set off on their Harley-Davidsons.

The road trip is filled with humorous moments. For example, when they cosily sleep close to each other, scantily dressed, a policeman (John C. McGinley) tells them this is lewd and lascivious behavior, but it turns out that he is only teasing: he is gay and actually jealous. Later the four go skinny dipping, but are very uncomfortable when a family goes swimming. When the family discovers that the four men are naked they feel very uncomfortable too and leave. The policeman appears again; he also undresses and joins the four men, showing sexual interest in them; this makes the four feel uncomfortable again, and now they leave.

The fun soon ends when the foursome stops at a small New Mexico bar and stumbles onto a real motorcycle gang called the Del Fuegos. Del Fuego leader Jack (Ray Liotta) tricks the foursome into a bum motorcycle trade, then tells them they should leave before something else bad happens. The Wild Hogs leave the bar without Dudley’s bike, with the Del Fuegos claiming the Wild Hogs are nothing compared to real motorcyclists, such as Damien Blade, the biker who founded the gang and built the bar.

Less than a mile away, Woody stops, disgraced at what just transpired. He tells his friends that he will walk back and reason with Jack for the bike. But when Woody gets back to the bar, he builds up his courage and cuts the fuel lines to every gang member’s motorcycle in the parking lot before exiting with Dudley’s bike. He returns to his friends with the bike (to much astonishment) and explains that he simply threatened the gang with legal action should they not turn over the bike. At the nervous Woody’s request, they quickly leave the area. Jack orders his gang to follow the Wild Hogs, but when he errantly tosses a cigarette, it hits gasoline on the ground, which triggers a chain reaction that blows up the entire biker bar. The Del Fuegos swear revenge, getting to work on repairing their vehicles.

Meanwhile, because of Woody’s insistence that they should not stop for any reason, the Wild Hogs run out of gas and are forced to stop in the small town of Madrid, New Mexico, to wait overnight for the fuel station’s opening. The four are first mistaken for actual Del Fuegos and feared. Once the mistake is cleared up, the Madrid Sheriff (Stephen Tobolowsky) tells the Wild Hogs that the Del Fuegos terrorize the town yearly and the small police force - who received police training by beating the video game Doom - is unable to do anything about them.

At a chili festival that night, Dudley meets Maggie (Marisa Tomei) and immediately is smitten with her. As he courts her, Bobby comes across two Del Fuegos in town (who have spotted the Wild Hogs and informed Jack). Thinking himself untouchable, because of Woody’s previous “legal action” explanation, Bobby humiliates the two bikers. Under orders from Jack, the two Del Fuegos refuse to do anything, but instead get humiliated and simply leave the area. The town praises all the Wild Hogs as saviors, thinking them a friendly biker gang who can protect them.

Dudley spends the night with Maggie. The next morning, The Del Fuegos arrive en masse and Jack yells to the townspeople that his gang will slowly destroy the town until the Wild Hogs come out to fight. Woody reveals he lied about the biker bar incident and his friends are disappointed with his deceit. When the Del Fuegos start to wreck Maggie’s diner, Dudley goes out to meet them. The rest of the Wild Hogs arrive to back up Dudley and a four-on-four fistfight begins between four Del Fuego bikers and the Wild Hogs. Easily outmatched, the Wild Hogs are beaten up, but refuse to stay down and see the diner destroyed. With their dignity on the line, they continue to get up and take punch after punch, much to the amazement of Jack. Just then, the townspeople all arrive carrying makeshift weapons and defend their new friends; they demand the Del Fuegos leave the Wild Hogs alone and get out of town. The situation is defused by the arrival of Damien Blade himself (Peter Fonda). Blade chastises Jack and the Del Fuegos for picking on four men and the townspeople, and reveals he actually thought his bar was crap and insured it for twice what it was worth (and we also learn that Jack is actually Damien's son). The Del Fuegos, feeling guilty, leave. In a salute to Easy Rider, Blade tells the Wild Hogs that they need to "lose the watches," referring to the scene when, just before departing on their cross-country chopper-born odyssey, Wyatt (Fonda's character), takes off his watch and throws it in the dirt.

Bobby and Doug’s wives arrive in town. Bobby tells his wife that he dislikes her controlling him and the two reconcile. Doug impresses his son by telling him of the adventures. Dudley says he will return to town soon to enjoy time with Maggie. The four head for the Pacific coast.

During the closing credits, a fake episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where the Del Fuegos are given a brand new bar is shown. Jack holds back tears unsuccessfully.


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I've been quite a fan of Tim Allen since I started to see him in Home Improvement. What caught my attention is that the movie has a good soundtrack. I'd buy the movie soundtrack if they ever release one.

I'd certainly recommend this movie. If you're a person that's lost on your purpose in life and don't know what to do, go for this movie. It will enlighten you up. If anyone wanna go watch this movie and need a company, find me. I don't mind watching it again.


My look today before going out....





David

I just came back from Midvalley GSC to catch a midnight movie with my fellow church members from GEPC. Initially, we wanted to watch Wild Hogs but the show don't have enough seats to cater for 11 of us. So we have to opt for the movie TORNADO.


Just by way of an introduction of the movie. (Quoted from GSC website)

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TORNADO



Berlin is struck by an unusual series of storms and hail stones. In the middle of this unusual phenomenon is a meteorologist named John who has recently returned from studying tornadoes in Oklahoma, in the United States. He returns home to find his ex-girlfriend, a doctor named Eva, going out with his best friend, Bruno, also a meteorologist. Bruno has taken his place as his father's assistant. John has a knack for weather prediction and he learns that a tornado is about to hit Berlin. Together with Eva, he must convince his father to sound the warning for the people of Berlin to stay clear of the path of the oncoming tornado.

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Before we went into the hall, we just realized that it's a German movie with English subs. The film starts with some flashy flashback of scenes with tornado hitting a city in an old film fashion (blurry scenes, webcam quality kind of scene if you get what I mean) followed by a scene of hail storm and then a tornado appeared and ONE was killed. The movie was actually in ENGLISH instead of the German language (Wow... They had English voiceovers. How considerate of them....)

However, after some time, I find the movie very boring. In fact, Bernard and Rodd and some other friends fell asleep half way or rather not long after the movie started. The movie looked like were shot from a webcam or a video phone which has very lousy picture quality compared to other box office movies we normally see in cinema. It's very blurry. Nothing noteworthy of the actors' acting, lack of feel. The voiceovers suck and the script is bad. I think it'd be better they leave the audio language untouched and put an English subs instead. Their effort of combining elements of love, relationship and disaster somehow failed and caused the whole plot of the story to be somehow scattered, no climax, no substance.

In a nutshell, I don't recommend this movie. If I were to rate between 1 (worst) to 10 (best), I'd say 2, which comprises of 1 point for the effort they put into the special effects and 1 point with a scene where a girl was running away from the tornado in a bikini swimsuit.... hmmm..... but I have to minus 0.5 because the girl looks awful. So that makes the rating 1.5 out of 10.

I'd prefer the 1995 movie "Twister" to this movie.