Every once in a while, something comes along to remind me about life. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of these.
It was a beautiful movie, simple and cleanly done. Like Sean Penn said in the movie, ‘Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.’, sometimes simplicity in a movie has its own beauty. There is no need for loud and fast action, violence, sex, gore and scares to entertain.
Thanks, Ben Stiller. Thanks for reminding me, ‘Stop dreaming. Start living.’
We all have one movie that bring me painful memories, that one movie we will never watch again, or even mention.
My painful movie was ‘Chicken Little’.
I wish I could blog in Chinese instead of going through this tedious way.
Just watched ‘Wreck-It Ralph‘.
It is a pretty good movie, based on the plot of someone who is sick of being who he is, and wants to be something that he isn’t. The references to the video and arcade games are plenty, and it clearly mirrors life. At the end of the movie, it got me thinking, which I usually do after watching good movies. Perhaps I should be not worry too much about being someone whom I am not, perhaps I should just be me, and not worried how everyone else perceived me.
Like Wreck-It Ralph said, ‘Because if that little kid likes me, how bad can I be?” As long as someone out there likes me, isn’t that enough?
Shakespeare said, ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.’ Well I think life is but a game, and we are just the characters in this game called ‘Life Game’.
There is something magical about Notting Hill that makes me watch it every time it is shown on TV.
Perhaps it is the chemistry between the actor and actress, perhaps it is the script, the lines spoken. Perhaps it is a simple love story.
Perhaps in this life of mine where good things rarely happen, deep down I want to believe in that a fairy tale ending like in this movie, will happen to me too.
The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don’t. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get…
And the best line from the movie:
I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
In order to regain some sanity in my life, I decided to catch the movie 14 Blades in the cinema.
It is a story about the Jin Yi Wei (Brocaded Robe Guards), a group of soldiers similiar to the modern equivalent of the Special Forces. They are highly trained, takes on covert missions for the Emperor. Donnie Yen is the head of this elite force and he gets to have this box of 14 weapons, hence the title.
The storyline includes evil Prince and Eunuch trying to overthrow the Emperor, betrayal and brotherhood within the Jin Yi Wei, romance between the male and female leads, bandits who dress like Pirates of the Carribean, a highly skilled woman who shrieks like a banshee.
The worst part of the movie is the storyline. The plot is filled with illogical holes, where if you gave it a little thought, you will be asking a lot of questions.
The average parts of the movie are the fighting scenes and the editing. Coming from Donnie Yen, I would expect much more, instead, the fighting scenes here are not the hard hitting ones like those in Ip Man. The movie has people flying around, blades whirling like a boomerang, hidden darts, crossbows, and even ancient bazzokas are all featured. Also I find the connection between each scene seems to be jerky, without a clean flow between them.
Now the good parts of the movie are definitely the scenery, and Zhao Wei. Scenes featuring the vast emptiness of the desert, the green lush forests, and even the busy city within the desert were excellent. Also, Zhao Wei’s acting was really good, and her romance between her and Donnie was believable mainly due to her excellent acting.
Out of a possible 5 stars, I am giving this 3 stars.
One last thing, we also get to see this. Hoping not to risk sounding gay, what a body.
Director Johnnie To and with a cast of Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Chow Yun Fat and Alain Delon. I mean, it is like OMG?!
The TV was showing the movie The Replacements from the year 2000. About a fictional American football team that went on strike, and the owner got in a group of replacements.
Not afraid to admit it, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Always like a good movie about underdogs coming out good in the end. A right mix of comedy, and the scene where they did line dancing in jail and the one where the two gangsters stood up for their quarterback against the professional footballers, were classic.
Now I just have to add this movie to my DVD collection.
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory… lasts forever.