R.I.P Jacko and Farah Fawcett

Today, the world just lost its two icons...The King of Pop and a Charlie's Angel. Although I didn't follow Farrah Fawcett career track, I knew that she made other decent movies apart from the hit TV-series (move over Drew, Cammy, and Lucy, the original was way much hotter...). Yes, she's a legendary icon.

I wasn't surprised with Fawcett passing, since she's struggling with cancer for the last couple of years. While Jacko...whoa, that struck me early in the morning when I read the headline news.

I grew up with MJ, bought his albums from Thriller until HIStory, this one is irreplaceable. Through all controversy and the child-molester issue, no other pop artist (perhaps apart from The Beatles and Elvis) is bigger that him at the moment. All his songs, the style, the gimmicks, the moonwalking...has become a popular culture of the 80' s and reached its peak at early 90's.

My favorite song is the 'Smooth Criminal', I remember when I was a kid, I played over his 'Bad' album, and repeat this track over and over again. Other memorable tracks are 'Thriller', 'Billie Jean', 'Man In the Mirror', and list can go on and on. Apart from the controversy, his attempt to unify the 'white' and the 'black' color should be appraised. His contribution to several social activities has sent messages to all different kind of people. Even the term 'Heal the World' is still often used for social ads. Too bad for Jacko, he's just several weeks away from his comeback world tour. Just too bad...

In the end, may they rest in peace...and let's still hope that still continue to send the message for our next generation....

Heal The World

Make It A Better Place

For You And For Me

And The Entire Human Race

There Are People Dying

If You Care Enough

For The Living

Make A Better Place

For You And For Me

another night, different museum, looks all the same...

I really enjoyed the Night at the Museum few years ago. I think the idea is fresh, you got Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke, and Robin Williams, along with some cavemen, monkeys, annoying Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan, etc...Yeah, the story where all the exhibits come to live became a really good family movie.

The BAD:

Now here comes another installment...the sequel, different places...but I see little added value. But, it has 93 CHARACTERS all along...whoa, i say even if you have 50 different people in a single movie can be considered too much...but now we have almost a hundred...

Another sequel recipe was implemented, bigger, longer, more people, and...still no good. Using the idea where the exhibits come to life during the night was okay, but if you just added more people to join the rumble without giving more incentives, it tends to become boring in some parts. The old dudes didn't give much (cavemen, Attila, Dexter, etc)...even the new ones such as General Custer acts like an idiot (Bill Hader can do more than that!!!)...Stiller's kid was underused, and I think he should play some parts in the museum also. Ricky Gervais was also suffered the same thing...only plays in the beginning and the end, c'mon...he can be funnier than Owen Wilson..!!!

Amy, oh Amy....

The GOOD:
AMY ADAMS !!! yeah, this girl rocks...I can't say I could enjoy the movie without her. I know it may sounds absurd, but everytime she comes on the the screen, it added the interest value...call me strange, but this girl is hot !!!

Luckily, we got helped by a good performance by Stiller and Azaria as the main focus of the story (although I still felt that Azaria accent was strange). The cameos also played well, especially in the beginning where Jonah Hill had funny conversation with Stiller. Other cameos came up from different TV sitcoms (30 rock, the Office, and SNL). Robin Williams, as usual, always entertain us with his adequate performance.

Overall, it's an okay movie, but I can see that making a 3rd installment will be a stupid idea.

My Rating : 6.5/10

Thanks for wasting my time, Dreamworks

This message goes to....wait for it...MONSTERS & ALIENS....

I'm not gonna write too much about it....cause it's too bad and ugly to watch....

No plot, not funny, stupid villain, the heroes are even worse, no alienS, just ONE annoying alien with too much eyes, crappy 3D, and the list goes and on and on and on....

Dreamworks, my gosh...spend ur film budget to hire an appropriate scriptwriter, rather than to spend it on A-class actors...just to talk 2-3 liners...

The only good thing about this movie is Seth Rogen as B.O.B, his jokes were the only one to make me laugh a little....

My Rating : 4/10

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Star Trek, the new frontier..

The main challenge of making remakes, especially if it already has a solid homebase fan and is a part of sci-fi culture...(such as STAR TREK)...is how to satisfy both ends...the loyal and the new generation. Mind you, in recent years, sci-fi seems out of interest, I can hardly recall any good sci-fi movie nowadays (especially dealings with outer space).

Talking about the Star Trek, their recent movies could not live up the hype also. I even skipped the last one (Nemesis) since I knew that Data was dead at the end (they even used it for promoting the film...dumbheads)....The latest decent Trek movie was First Contact, cause they got the story right, and all the Enterprise crew got their on-screen portion equally.

How about the new one by J.J Abrams? In short...BEST 09 summer movie so far...(I haven't watched Transformers, Harry Potter, Public Enemies, and UP, but still, this flick will stay at my top 3 for this year).

Abrams got all the ingredients right, especially by changing the mood and Star Trek style of story telling, by injecting the modern cinematic experience (which I mean by the story pace, action, handsome casting, sexy moments, etc). Just like a typical Bourne movie, the new Trek movie didn't leave us much for a break. I like the proportional of the action sequences and the sci-fi elements, they were combined perfectly (at least I knew lots of girls like this movie, means this works not only for nerds!).

The opening was awesome...you got the Villain, the action, the touching elements, the motives...then you know that this flick got a STORY to tell. What a good recipe for a summer movie afterall.

Spock + Kirk = the dynamic duo

The casting, oh my oh my...Chris Pine (Kirk) did his job well, Zachary Quinto (Spock) really resembled the old Spock (yesss, they spoke to each other on-screen), Eric Bana was hardly recognized, but really he was an annoying villain (which is good), the rest...John Cho, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, and Simon Pegg (damn, his part was quite brief!!!)...get their parts proportionally...

Can't wait to watch this movie all over again...

Kirk : So what type of combat training do you have?
Sulu : Fencing.

My Rating : 9/10

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