X-Men : The Last Stand

I missed my free show yesterday because KL was hit by heavy rain and the road was congested... sigh...

Anyway to sooth my sorrow, i brought my wife and daughter to see X-Men : The Last Stand at 2 pm today.

Lets start with the review... As the title suggested, it is their last stand! I kinda miss the first 5 minutes because my daughter wants popocorn and the line was so slowwwww... but anyway, the team was battling a sentinel, (in the war room of course) when i heard he mutters the now famous quote "The whole world is going to hell and you're just gonna sit there?" fine to say that the team defeated the sentinel robot via a flying Wolvie courtesy of Colossus.

Meanwhile Scott is still greiving the loss of Jean, he took it real hard and James Marsden really played the part well... he looks scruffy and tired and in despair. After exchanging words with Wolvie ride up to Alkali Lake when suddenly Jean appear out of no where... or is it The Phoenix... At this point the movie started getting interesting, with the announcement of the cure by Worthington Labs, we get to see Angel for the first time.

From then on all hell broke loose, Scott gets killed off, then Prof X got blown to smitherines all courtesy of Pheonix.. er Jean,.. err.... Magneto started planning on using Jean and forms the brotherhood of mutants to start an offense against the cure.

We get to see some major character gets a major revamp... this will be pretty interesting to see whether they will continue the franchise since the revamp involves most of the major characters.

Characters get killed:

• Cyclops
• Prof X
• Jean
• and loads of no names mutants

Characters get cured:

• Rogue
• Mystique
• Magneto
• and loads of no names mutants

Towards the end, the x-men survived and so are their enemies.

Not exactly going out with a whimper, "X-Men: The Last Stand," the closing installment of the commercially and critically successful Marvel movie franchise, still fails to generate the satisfying bang created by the first and the second films. probably because Bryan Singer left and Brett Ratner has taken the director's chair. The X-factor is lacking in Singer's absence. The movie is somewhat very fast-paced and didn't indulge more on the characters.

Visual effects are very creative and superb -- notably the dramatic repositioning of the Golden Gate Bridge and a rather extreme makeover of Jean's home.


Rating: 4/5 stars

Go see it... that's it.

Hugh Jackman is 1 cool dude!

Congratulations Taylor Hicks!

Taylor Hicks won the American Idol 5...

he proved himself with each performance that he is the man!

Katharine is great to but like Randy said "you are better than the song" which hampered her chance for a win during the show.

Anyway they are all great - Bucky, Chris, Elliot, Paris and the rest. May you have success for your future.

Congratulations Taylor!!

Soul Patrol!!!

I'm off to see X-Men 3 on Friday

I was endowed by Terra Communication through DELL.

I was awarded a ticket for Friday's show at 730 pm at GSC 1 Utama New Wing.

So see you guys there...

Caution! - Wild Animals

Today, my family and i went over to our local cinema and watched OVER THE HEDGE. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Shandling, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Avril Lavigne...

The story starts with RJ (Willis) trying to get a packet of cheese cracker from a vending machine... to much of his dismay, the packet didn't fell to the hole (Everybody have faced this situation one way or the other - something has to be done about them vending machine makers!!!)

Okay, so RJ decides to steal food from Vincent (Nick Nolte) a big time bear. Vincent is in hybernation and has about 1 week to go, but RJ got caught instead. So Vincent sez that in a week, get back everything that was lost or get eaten.

RJ them stumbles upon a family of hibernators as well. Verne the Turtle, Hammy the Squirrel, Stella the Skunk, Ozzie & Heather the oPossum and a family of porcupine. The family is in panic because their lovely forest is now a housing estate. It escapes me though that... do animals hybernate for like a year? I mean it takes 1-2 years to build a complete housing area in Malaysia... maybe things work a little faster at the states... hehehhe....

So the family is worried on how to gather food and RJ hatches the perfect plan to save his hyde... by utilising the scared family to gather all the food and finally snatch the food from them...

The story is loaded with good values like greed, being in a family... and the animation is cool to with lots of memorable lines and scenes.

This movie is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than The Wild and Ice Age 2... so bring your kids and loved ones... family and friends... grandpas and grandmas... It's a good family fun movie...

rating:
3.5/5

Poseidon vs The Rogue Wave

I watched Poseidon a couple of days ago (Tuesday exactly), and it feels that summer movie has finally starting to excite me!

The movie started with everybody having a good time playing poker, celebrating the new year on the massive god of the sea, POSEIDON. We have the colorful bunch of people on board. Ramsey (Kurt Russell) a former Fire Fighter and NY Mayor is on board with daughter Jennifer (Emmy Rossum) whose decided to marry his boyfriend Conor (Jimmy Bennett) and picked a hell of a time to tell daddy. Then we have Dylan (Josh Lucas) who is a professional card player trying making the big bucks, Elena (Mia Maestro) who is a hitchiker trying to get to NY to see her sick brother...

All is well, we see Captain Bradford played by Andre Braugher (haven't seen him in a while...) toasting happy new year with Fergie (of the black eyed peas... and i mean huge jugs... :D) in the main hall with all the guests, when the wave hit them completely turning the Poseidon upside down. Our main protagonists started scrambling for dear life trying to flee the ship against the captain's good judgment... which is wrong... hahaha...

Make no mistake my friends, this movie is full of action. We can see the efforts that they put in trying to escape their doom. Russell is his usual cool self. Josh was not bad, Emmy was cute... and so on...

Except towards the ending we can see where the sacrifice that had to be made... the anguish, the decisions... it's basically Armageddon all over again... nobody can beat Bruce Willis in Armageddon and Titanic... without the mushy-mushy stuff.

All in all it's great movie to pass the time... It surely will get your heart pumping for the next summer installment which is The Da Vinci Code...

By the way, Richard Dreyfuss is playing a prominent character... a gay architect... and he lives... shit! I was hoping that he'd die a terrible death!

Rating: 4/5 stars...

Go watch it with loved ones... or your cat...