April Movie ReviewsThe Unborn
Horror: ☺☺☺
Storyline: ☺☺☺
Overall: ☺☺☺
An unborn child wants to be born now. The poster shows the ghostly child in the mirror - but that is not the main villain in the story.
I'll leave the details out. Let just say its more of a movie like "Possessed"
. You'll see interesting "Silent Hill-like" creatures at the near-end part of the movie.
Wanted to grade the Horror with only ☺☺, but my junior colleague jumped a few times in the theatre - so had to believe more into its horror rating.
Knowing
Mystery: ☺☺
Action: ☺☺☺
Storyline: ☺☺
Overall: ☺☺
Disappointingly repetitive kind of plot. Aliens and aliens saved the planet Earth again and again. From "The Day The Earth Stood Still", "War of the Worlds" and now this "Knowing". Is it like a premonition of something that will be happening to Earth soon?
Well, at least we know that Solar Flare could destroy the Earth if the spill span is far enough to reach Earth.
but what is with the Alien's flashlight mouth and all the X-Men superhuman abilities yet again?
Fast and the Furious 4
Action: ☺☺☺☺
Storyline: ☺☺☺☺
Overall: ☺☺☺☺
Due to the economic recession, the cars have lesser stock, so there are lesser cars in this movie? It's okay. Taking your breath away at the start with very tense truck-robbing scene is a kicker. The storyline focused on the 2 characters very clearly - their purposes and their targets and you can see yourself following them through the show.
Lesser cars and no focus on car-babes in this F&F 4 but I feel that its still April's best catch.
Handsome Suit (Japanese)
Romance: ☺☺
Humor: ☺☺
Storyline: ☺☺☺
Overall: ☺☺☺
Personal opinion only. The ratings are not high due to the fact that the show is telling people to pay attention to someone's inner beauty and character instead of looks.
As such, supposed Japan is a leading country with people having a very keen sense for fashion and appearance, perhaps the show is reminding them what is the right thing to look for - for a partner or a friend.
So this movie may not be for foreign audiences.
But the guy is really not handsome enough to be convincing.
The Sniper
Action: ☺☺☺
Storyline: ☺☺☺☺
Overall: ☺☺☺
My rating is not based on Edison Chen's past nude photo scandals. He is one of the main character in the story, and the only one alive in the end. The story is based on the other 2 guys in the poster.
Vengeance and Karma kind of plot you could say. Watching this, felt some similarities to our working society.
Envy became jealousy.
Friends became Enemies.
And I love those sniper guns.
X Men Origins: Wolverine
Action: ☺☺☺
Storyline: ☺☺☺☺
Overall: ☺☺☺☺
The story took place 15 years before "X-Men" movie - before Wolverine's claws were made with indestructible steel, there were mere bones.
I have to say I have a tendency to be biased with X-Men series movies. The whole story is well-rounded and the characters are so well designed, along with Transformers, Spiderman, Batman, etc - As long as its not story copied from Japanese Animations, they make a freaking mess out of it.
This is about Wolverine and another claw-welding man, suspecting its Sabre-tooth but doubting it is. Cyclops is just a kid, Professor Xavier appears at the end, Gambit has a very minimum appearance in the movie and there aren't many mutants with unique powers in this film.
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Commando Orienteering
Haunting at Suntec's Carrefour.
We purposely meet at suntec carrefour to prepare relevant stuffs for our "Topography Course" on Friday late at night. (Prior to the picture above, the ghost had not slept well for the past 3 days due to work issues)
Cat wearing pampers!
The first interesting stuff I've seen that fateful morning, was a cat wearing pampers standing at a 2nd storey's window.
Some of the guys..
..with Lara Croft.
Moved off to the CCI (Cheers Connect I..something) through the Clementi Stadium and towards the side of the West Coast Stadium. Me, Clemen and Weixiang were split up into groups 1,2,3. Jeff and Yuhui were in the 4th group. We had our theory lessons.
All hell break loose from there onwards, well, specifically for me.
The fast march from West Coast to Bukit Timah Hill
Participants were screwed because they were told to assemble 5 mins downstairs after the CF (Course Facilitator) instructed them, but some of them were a minute late or so. "Guys! I am trying to be a GENTLEMAN here!"
I was like, wow, why so serious? Why are there no considerations for activities to lag behind time, which is normal, instead we got to go with the CF's timing because he wants it. Seems familiar to me, the regimentation that we had back in military. I wanted to start fuming, but I calm myself down and think it was probably he was from Commando and that he was brainwashed to talk and lead that way.
Upon reaching the starting point, I heard, "Who SAY you can wear EAR STUDS! Take it out before I DROP everyone!" and saw another trainer shouting at a participant.
Well, who said cannot? One of the participants were already drained upon reaching the hill with gastric pain or whatever. Like I will even DROP for him. Most of the time, who would expect to be punished after paying $20 for a course that haven't even started.
Walking through uneven terrains
Lost our way.
Bottomless,topless flight of steps.
It was hours of meaningless navigating through the woods with a map with resembles street directory. One or two of the checkpoints given to us were wrong, as in, the MGR given was wrong. I cannot see the purpose of this course from the exhaustive walking and climbing.
One guy was on the verge of collapsing
Jeff was carrying his bag, as well as yuhui's. They were both his team, and luckily my team is around with them. So, what would really happen if they fainted, suffering from heat exhaustion. There will be no ambulance that is capable of driving through the mazed-like tracks to search for casualties. Will Jeff and his remaining teammate capable of carrying them to wherever the ambulance will be - through the long flight of steps and hills. What if they stopped breathing. Conducting CPR without a cert is an offense because you might kill the person if you do it wrong, just to let you know.
I am asking about safety here. Exhausting everyone is a big problem.
"Wa lau.. we also travelled 3 times here before you all did!" Says the garang army officer to a 20 year old girl.
My thighs were cramping from the 4 hours of trekking slopes already, as everyone else, "Move faster! Encourage one another!" rang throughout the final rounds of upslopes and downslopes. I'd just felt like I've paid $20 for a BMT training all over again - on top of I-am-not-prepared-for-this.
My last picture.
I thought it would be a fun topo course which I can take pictures of the surroundings, atmosphere, plants, anything interesting and old. Walking with fume through the 7km meaningless, guided route by CF. I was wondering what objectives we achieved so far.
Jeff, "Chong, stop and stretch your legs abit."
I, saying loudly, "Cannot 1 leh, behind will ask you to move forward, push one another! My leg tear nevermind one."
Trainer, from behind, "Move faster, cover up!"
"You HEARD it?" to Jeff.
The very lousy safety measures, the lousy planned checkpoints, the military style applying in a civilian course, the wrong target audience, the injured participants, the unhappy CF who vent his anger on the participants by driving them recklessly from one place to another - after spending $45 on the course and preparation.
Dinner was around 8pm. 2 pieces of bread, plain water and a few sips of redbull was all that I had - Eating outside a cemetry, not a really bad setting I thought.
"Guys! Gather up!"
2 seconds later.
"HEY! Is this the FUCKING ATTITUDE you all give to your trainers! You want me to DROP you all a not!"
Walking through the cemetry was a rather enjoyable experience despite my painful legs. Although I'd find it disturbing when I had to walk through some overgrown grasses and bushes, just to realise I've stepped on some grave. The whole trip was guided too. Thankfully, cos we're at least being watched.
My team won and had collected all checkpoints. The guides told us that there will be reward if we win, so I chiong up with my crampy legs and say, "Rewards! Why not!" Thinking that there'll probably be cold drinks, or stuffs like that available if we reach, is really boosting my morale.
Upon reaching, there's nothing. One Ah Beng was mopping the cafeteria floor, the shop is closing. Nobody is there. So I had to guess the reward was - able to rest longer. Totally rubbish, so my legs cramped again.
Before a spot check on the equipments, most teams' maps were taken by trainers who sees them being placed on the floor or tables when they were resting and gone to the loos.
"KNOCK IT DOWN!"
I simply fuck-off myself back home.
Hey.
Even Lara Croft also cannot take it ok.
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Story of the Question Mark Man
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