time for QUALITY MOVIES!!!

Enough with all big budget movies...now it's time for the movies with really good stories with good performance from all the actors/actresses, under supervision of good directors along with good scripts...perhaps i should change the word 'good' with 'great' or 'amazing'...cause I've seen the previews of the upcoming so-called 'Oscar Movies', and most of them already caught my attention:

1. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

An Indian guy, lives in suburban, undeducated, just won "Who Wants to be Millionaire"...afterwards, he was caught by the police with the suspicion of cheating. The storey evolves where each question of the quiz show brings us the touching story behind the success. This is a MUST-see movie. Based on the book "Q&A", and directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting).

2. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

A love story, but not like the ordinary one. A couple, played by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, has a unique relationships. Benjamin Button (Pitt), was born 70-year old, and start living backward, or in other words, he's getting younger and younger, while Daisy (Blanchett) lives her life normally. The happiest moment for this couple is when both of them are on the similar age. I reckon Pitt, Blanchett, or the director, David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) might win prizes.

3. THE WRESTLER

A really huge comeback for Mickey Rourke, with his character potrays an old wrestler struggling with his old life. Quite funny, the character and the actor has the same condition at the moment, trying to reclaim popularity. Directed by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, the Fountain), Rourke may suprise all the critics when he got an Oscar next year.

4. THE READER

A woman (Kate Winslet) fall in love with a man much younger than her. Unfortunately, the happy moments was ruined when the woman had been convicted of war crimes, since she was the ex-SS of Nazi.

For now, I can say these 4 movies are on my MUST SEE list...try to add again later on if I found some other interesting movies. Perhaps FROST/NIXON, THE REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, CHANGELING, and MILK will be on my next previews.

BANK JOB - Mixed up robbery

I'm a fan of Jason Statham, the accent, the charisma, the easy going and no-nonsense character. Let's say, I missed his latest movie, Bank Job couple months ago. Trutfully, not that interested, i thought it's gonna be like those Transporter rubbish series. But, after reading most of positive reviews, I thought I would give it a look. 

In the end, it's actually good! A decent movie, without big budget spent on CG or special effects. My girlfriend also seems to like the movie, means that this thing worked well!!! no offense there, honey...

A should-be-easy-robbery evolved into fucked-up-and-messy-complicated-robbery, based on true story (with MANY dramatisation and additional spicy things) on the robbery at London's Barker Street, where it involved MI5 or 6 (what the difference anyway??? still dun get it) in order to obtain sensitive + scandalous pics of one of the royals (used by a black revolutionary and so-called civil rights activist, Michael X to black mail the goverment). They conducted a covert op by hiring a bunch of amateurs (led by Statham) to rob a bank with the intention of taking the pics from the vault. 

The movie comprised of several plots with each has its own problems, the robbers, government, the brothel owner, and the black activist himself. Altogether, it was all concluded in the dramatic ending. The plot was straightforward, but still, it turned the simple robbery became a hectic situation where all the different plots came together (Quite similar with the Guy Ritchie's Snatch, but this one is much more serious type). 

What keep bugging me is that the movie was set on 1970's...but its end result looks like 90's. I supposed they should edit the colouring and the tone to match with the initial setting. Statham looks okay, but still, he seems to be a modern and cool guy, transported through time to the 70's.

Nevertheless, it was a good low budget movie from minor studio. I really think Statham should play more roles with this type, rather to continue as the Jet li-too-many-kungfu-DRIVER!!!

Launching in speed less than 12 parsecs

Actually, I've already made a blog couple of years ago, where it was meant just to spill out my opinions bout movies. It was okay at the beginning, but somehow, I feel like to spilll out views and opinions on many other things. In short, this is gonna be the place for me to comment mostly about everything. Sounds boring huh? Well, we'll see, hope it's enough to gather some attention and starting a discussion. 

Updates:

just finished my exams, my last semester...sounds great!!! but here comes the headache, job hunting...In the middle of this f*cking economic crisis, finding a job would be the last thing on ur mind, doesn't it? Oh well, I'm securing a job at NUS at the moment, just need to be confirmed...but I would like to see other options first...

Oh well, I prefer to have short break first...going back, meet my fam and lovely nephew, the doggies, and start making all those LEGOs which I still kept sealed.

In the mean time, I'm enjoying my lazy...really lazy weekend...