OH AM GEE! so like every other Lord of the Rings movie, the hobbit is totally epic. EPIC!!!
The story is annoying, funny, not very heartwarming (unless you're into cheesey AWWW-moments) that become hilarious, scary, and you'll definitely end up at the edge of your seat, with a bursting bladder. 3 hour movie people, try not to drink anything, or try to pee after epic scenes where the momentum of the movie takes a chill pill for a minute then flings you back into the world's end.
Bilbo Baggins, starts off like a typical home-dweller. SPOILT like a Singaporean, me. has everything. kind of a really nice life, in a cute little house, in the middle of nature, more nature, and more grass. SO PRETTY.
Gandalf then tricks him into holding a party, which irritated him, which had me so irritated because the dwarves were so yucky and dirty and messy! i felt his annoyance! super kek, but then it became funny with the songs and laughter, and honestly, everything is so detailed it really sends you into a magical world. That's what's so amazing about LOTR, the fact that it looks so real, you almost want to wish it were. =)
I prefer Baggins to Frodo, cuter, more boyish, and Frodo just looks abit creepy. and he does the oddest things. sheesh.
TEAM HOBBIT: company of 14
(i think they were called something else but I can't remember)
The other interesting character was Radagast, who is so quirky and crazed it's so funny, yet endearing because he cares so much for the animals. he's psycho, but his porcupine is so cute!
ish so fluffehs!
Then there's Galadriel, who always moves in slow-motion and talks with an echo. Everything seems to slow down. So chill, as though everything pauses for a moment. and she's so shiny! she looks like an skII commercial, except fairy-esque! She's kind, which matches the vegan diet the elves had. I still think it's amazing how Tolkien created his own elven languages. (O_o)
Gollum of course, can't be forgotten. But the scenes really show his vulnerability, bestiality, his loneliness and his desperation in sadness. Banished and alone, not even sound in his ind, and bullied by his alter-ego, he is both scary, yet pityful.
To have the one thing you thought was precious, taken away.
Then there are the funny scenes, epic battles and almost-getting-killed-then-saved-by-Gandalf. I loved how theres angelic music 'aaahhh~~~~*' when they show the Elve's kingdom HAHA! SO FUNNY. It's just so beautiful, and perfect, and kind of fits so aptly. Its an emotional rollercoaster ride, that had me held to every scene, some beautiful, some scary, some heartwarming, and some gritty.
And then the gay bromance moment. wait for it. it's just. you'll feel like facepalming yourself. HAHA
THEN IT ENDS! because no one told me 'The Hobbit" was a trilogy. so after 3 hours I thought all would be good and well, but noooo. they are only 1/3 through the journey. I can't wait for the next one, LOTR is always so awesome. =))
James Bond. easy to watch, great plot, good filming and lots of action =) I particularly like the Aston Martin. old school, and very shiny =D The plot was interesting too, with twists and a good story. alot of people died too.drama! also, spot the Omega commercials subtly placed in. lol.
Interesting fact: The running on the rooftops in Istanbul kind of looked the same as the running scene in 'Taken 2'. cept dirtier and grittier.
The movie starts off with Adele's uber dramatic song, 'Skyfall' which captures the Bond theme very well I must say.
1) epicness
2) classy
yup, Adele satisfies both, with the chorus soaring into an awesome tune-to-run-in-slow-motion-to.
the visual effects are slightly trippy, very much like falling down a rabbit hole, so it was colorful to watch!
HOT BABES women. if you're into older women, this is the show for you. With Berenice and Naomie at 33 and 36, they look really amazing for their age (with makeup and lighting, of course). They've also got class, which is definitely important for a Bond girl. =)
I thought Berenice was Chinese. HAHA she's actually french, which would explain the strange accent. Her I'm-so-scared scene was kind of feminine and she was a typical damsel-in-distress, but the cig in her hand made it look abit like bad withdrawal symptoms "-_- hot dress, great body, and I love her gothic look. Though her murder scene was much less glam. that, was an ugly dress "-_-
Next is Naomie Harris, who gets extra star points from me cus she could shoot (although her misaim led to the 'death' of 007) at least she knew when to quit, and looked hot when she turned up for 'room service', talk about a great hotel he stayed in! haha! but she looks hot, with less effort than Berenice. hot accent.
Extra star points for being Calypso in Pirates of the Caribbean! great acting.
MEN!
So the evil guy was M's pet before 007, I like the twist how he turned evil, but I guess it's true, he was just a pawn, albeit an important one. He's more brain than braun, but his madness is his downfall. All geniuses are a lil kookie i guess, but i LOVE the extremely gay scene HAHA very funny. goes sumthin like this...
Raoul: how do you know if you haven't tried it before?
(rubs inner thighs of 007)
007: How do you know I haven't tried it before?
HILARIOUS! it's like *facepalm OKAY GUYS cut out the flirting ;) haha. but yes, Raoul's story is about a rat infestation, solved by catching all the mice in a hole, leaving them to starve and eat each other till there are only two left, and setting them free, but they both now eat rat, no more coconuts! an interesting thought. how you can change how animals act, in desperation. doesn't our real selves get tested most when in the most dire situations? not when everything is comfy.
Fav actor: Q
Uber Geek. (geeks ftw!!)
Q: It always makes me feel a bit melancholy. Grand old war ship. being ignominiously haunted away to scrap... The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see?
James Bond: A bloody big ship. Excuse me. Q: 007. I'm your new Quartermaster.
He's rather cute, and he created extremely complicated map looking thingy. that looks cool. impressed, I definitely was. Although his brains seem to be in computer programming only, and not real life, since he got owned by Raoul. but still cool.
Overall, the plot is really nice, sensitive, yet funny. Detached, yet strong in sentiment. Lots of gore and action, not alota romance, but its definitely a good watch.
The Ruby Sparks Effect Definition: after you watch this movie, you'll feel like a rainbow just ran you over. it'd be perplexing, yet leaving a glow on you, like when you remember something fond that you'd forgotten and hadn't had time to recall. Disclaimer: you have to watch it with complete suspension of utter disbelief. don't hog on the fact that it can't be real, it's a movie. LOL take it w a pinch of salt.
People come and go. What's new soon becomes old, and life is like a train, people get on and get off, and you move, experiencing things together, sometimes nice, sometimes not so much.. but this is a story of boy meets girl. How? He thinks of her. Fantasizing a character out of a golden silhouette in a dream. Dreaming up a dream girl. a manix pixie dream girl (MPDG), romantic interests of the male protagonist who have eccentric personality quirks and are unabashedly girlish.. think Zoey Deschanel in 500 Days of Summer. The romance in the film definitely fills up the atmosphere, but the little things keep your mind nibbling on corners of conceptions. Here's the trailer!
Context:
Zoe Kazan, who stared in Happythankyoumoreplease, The Private lives of Pippa Lee, and a couple of other shows, wrote the screenplay for this movie and acts as the main female lead. An actress and a playwright, who graduated from Yale doing Theatre. Definitely talented. and if you're not convinced, watch Ruby Sparks and you will be =) Johnathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who directed Little Miss Sunshine, directed this. So yeah, husband and wife directors, girlfriend and boyfriend (Paul Dano) actress and actor. The cohesiveness of the film means no boring moments nor awkward pauses. very smooth, and I loved it from the moment it started till it ended! And Antonio Banderas was such a caricature of his Zorro self, imagine a bohemian-hippie-Spanish-suave.. very peculiar indeed! =D
The colors and film direction was amazing, I'm not sure how to express or describe it, but the colors blended so well, and the moments were captured just right. not overdone, and so real. Leaves you knowing the movie isin't real, but it's a movie about a book about a book!
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a sculptor who made an ivory statue of a woman, so beautiful and so life-like that he fell in love with it. Venus brought her to life, and the rest is history (but not in reality). The Pygmalion effect is probably the undermining theme of the movie.
Synopsis:
Calvin has an imaginary friend!
Yes, the lonely dorkus-extremus nerd-a-geek wrote one book and became a genius. Pet peeve? being called a genius. Then he never wrote again. Writer's block 4eva! His shrink, Dr Rosenthal, tells him to write, write a story about meeting someone, write badly. whatever, just write. Then Calvin has a dream about a beautiful girl, with burning red hair and blue eyes, inquisitive and curious. She steals his heart, naturally, and he writes, consumed by his ideas of her. He writes to be with her, falling in love with his art, his muse. One day, he wakes up and she's there, real in the flesh and bone. Donning purple tights and a bright blue dress, she literally brings color into his world, his world being the inside of his white and washed out apartment. So begins a love story, of boy creates girl. Calvin manifests the girl of his dreams and has the power to tweak and fix her, just by typing on his dingy-old typewriter.
I just don't really like how the aliens bombed his house and they turned into dandelions. JUST KIDDING!! watch the movie for the real story. totally worth the time.
In my head, my brain is like woah:
It's creepy, yet it really reminds you how special people are the way they've come to be, habits and tendencies and bugs and all. What's the point of being with someone perfect? Although Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend) which is a Japanese Drama about dating a perfect boyfriend-robot, might differ! I think one of the most important parts of a relationship or friendship, understanding another person well and accepting them for 'who they are' is probably all you need. the give and take. Fixing someone, to your expectations, is just being chauvinistic and thinking you're right. A little like the white man's dream, that was kinda facetious of 'em wasn't it? but yeah, helping someone fix their problems, or to become a better person for their own sake should be the main thing, not fixing them to your needs. Kinda like the wierdass robotization of Nicole Kidman in The Stepford Wives. People are the most complex creatures, but we are the smartest because we have communication.
Favourite moments:
When Calvin first meets Ruby (twice), she's a quirky, inquisitive damsel, and the angle of the light just sets the mood right. The newness of their meeting, clashes with their overpowering chemistry. They need to meet each other. They have to. They're meant to be. That definitely comes through, that's what love at first sight is supposed to be like.. =D
Another favorite point is when he is finally convinced she is real, but he had just broken her heart, and he whisks her off her feet, hauls her over his shoulder and calms her down, madly, fiercely in love with her. Its the best thing that's ever happened to him and he knows it. He's got it, and he's only got to cherish it because she's his 'now'. Really moving. Have you ever known that someone was right for you, you knew you could never let it go? He did, and he was scared too, but he GRABBED LIFE BY THE BALLS her and held her like he would never let go!
Disclaimer: don't be distracted by his rapist glasses. HAHA he's not a perv, rather gentlemanly!
Rant and Ramble:
We all start as strangers, and do we really like people for just who they are? I don't believe so. I think its a spoonful of opportunity, a whole bowl of chance, a few ticks off the clock of timing, the experiences weathered together, and a dash of magic. In this world of billions of people, these are the ones we had the blessing of meeting and knowing. If you think about it, what are the odds? and sometimes, we just like people, chemistry, inexplicable. funny isin't it! If we could change something that easily, would that change have any meaning? What would we do, what would you change about yourself. Any change would be to satisfy a preconceived notion about what is good or bad, but no one ever is anything, can we be defined by single actions we take? We might react unfairly to something that puts us off, but every reaction we have has an explanation, it's only the extent. We might get jealous of the person we are dating, just because we are insecure because the prev one was a douche. Does that make us jealous by nature? We might not be open hearted to extremes, because the last time we were spontaneous, we ended up getting hurt or in trouble. Afraid to get bitten twice, does that make us undaring? Scaredy-cats?
And how much do we ever know anyone? define 'knowing someone'. I read this once, I can't remember where, but it said that we only ever know things about people, we know their favourite colour, and we can probably predict certain things about how they'll react. But that assumes they don't change. And people change. At least I think and believe so. We grow, and life changes us. Hopefully for the better.
I guess when it's easy to lose yourself and you sense of 'self' when you're in a really good friendship or relationship. you lose your identity in the role you think you are supposed to fit, or other people's expectations of you. A self-fulfilled prophecy sorta.
I loved this movie! Best rom-com-drama of the year I'd say. =) but yeah, here's my take on it. GO WATCH IT NOW, GO GO! Paul Dano And Zoe Kazan, Real-life and on-screen couple. Mega cute.
