Three
movies!
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100 Days
With Mr. Arrogant
Disgustingly funny movie. Like it is funny due to some
disgusting scenes as well as some not so very innocent scenes, which I doubt I
would have understood the humor behind it if I had watched it like in secondary
school. See how my mind has become polluted over the years? =-= I am afraid
that next time kids will have no problem watching NC16, M18 comedies and end up
understanding them perfectly fine. I think the way they determine movie ratings
need to be constantly updated.
SPOILERS
Anyway,
both the leads are eye-candy, so even when the acting becomes overboard act-cute for Ha Ji Won’s part, you
overlook it. You can also overlook the not so good CGI at the bungee jumping
scene thanks to the pretty enough faces of the characters.
I don’t
like the build-up of their love story. It is similar to BOF’s Jan Di and Jun
Pyo in a way, Like I do not get to witness the growth of their love, how it was
nurtured. There weren’t enough scenes to show the changing attitude of the two
towards each other, in my opinion. Although it was shown that the male lead
started to be nicer to the girl but I don’t know leh, there is a lack of feel? The
only sweet scene besides the happy ending scene was the part where they were
saying good night to each other through sms and the guy was gonna type a reply
in a similar sweet tone as the girl’s but ended up deciding against showing his
true feelings. That part to me is more significant and is more useful to the
plot than the rest of the story which doesn’t flow too well. It made me go
“Ah-ha! Caught you! You have fallen in love with her.” There was supposedly
this other scene (the bungee jump one) that is supposed to have a similar
effect but it fell flat because of the pathetic CGI and cuz the lack of
interaction between the two while the girl lay in hospital downplayed the whole
significance of that scene. They spent like a few seconds filming in that room
with the guy sitting there and then getting up, then the girl finally open her
eyes. They could have planned for the guy to like hold her hands at least, but
no. Or better yet say some mushy stuff that reveal his feelings but then the
girl was still knocked out so didn’t hear. I thought that is the standard
formula of most romantic shows? Maybe the director is trying to break out of
the norm but ahem, the whole story is still sorta predictable, so...haiz.
I did like
the flow of things after their 100-day anniversary though. A try at a plot
twist there, and the twist made sense. And those lights near the river was so
cool!!! I do wonder though, why the girl never start hitting the guy (jokingly,
of course) after learning the truth of him ganging up with her mum, her current
tutor and even her college to trick her. Thought that is a good formula to
follow – girl hits guy although she is obviously relieved and happy and then
the guy grabs her hands and they kiss. Feels very standard kinda thing to me.
And since romantic shows are usually very predictable to start off, might as
well go on and follow the standard formula and have fans go aww and cry at all
the specific moments in the film. I guess can just watch this very predictable
movie for eye candy and to while away time when you feel like doing nothing at
all.
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Choose
This was
supposed to be some thriller film. Not a horror or scary kinda film but also
not very thrilling.
SPOILERS
The twist
wasn’t a very OMG-WHAT-THE-HELL twist, but an ok twist. I do get the motivation
behind the psycho’s actions, trying to take revenge (as it mostly is). The whole movie feels like a failed
SAW-impersonating movie, where victims are forcibly asked to choose between two
impossible choices, both which brings pain and suffering. It is also shown that
the victims were all chosen for a reason, but I think that the torturing parts
were not enough (3, 4 if you count the sheriff) and the connection was made
late and wasn’t strong enough an impact. And the ending confused me a lot. I
understood that the creepy guy Fiona saw in the hotel was the lover of her
mother but I am confused as to if he had a part in egging her half-brother, the
torturer, to take revenge or if he was part of the action all along., cuz the
movie ended after his identity was revealed. The actors did a decent and
believable job though.
Overall, I thought it was a waste of my time as not only was the plot weak but even the scares and torture wasn’t deliciously evil or disgusting.
Overall, I thought it was a waste of my time as not only was the plot weak but even the scares and torture wasn’t deliciously evil or disgusting.
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2012
The effects
were good, and all the close-calls when it came to running away from the
disaster made it nerve-wracking as the audience is made to sit on the edges of
their seats hoping the characters could get out of the place in time and then
heaving a sigh of relief along with everyone when they do succeed.
SPOILERS
There was
some like “humans should fight for each other” message but then like the
vigilant citizen website (http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-hidden-symbolic-meaning-of-the-movie-2012/)
said, it was more of “the rich will survive and the rest of you shall die”. The
movie makes sense in that indeed, a lot of capital is needed in order to build
all these humungous ships. The website is correct in pointing out that although
Dr. Helmsley made a speech about how humans should fight for each other, he
didn’t volunteer to like give up his seat whatsoever to those other poorer,
less-privileged people who have all been left behind to die. He only “realizes”
his wrongdoing perhaps, near the end and takes action. But so many are already
dead, a bit late huh? But I guess this is where “it’s never too late for
anything” comes in. After all, his speech saved the rich, who were the one who
funded this whole thing. I think it is dumb that they wasted so many precious
seconds debating and voting on the ships whether or not to open the doors for
the rich who were almost left behind because there was no time. And I want to
know what happens afterwards. Do the rich simply forget about how they were
almost abandoned and make peace to continue life on Earth or will they bear a
grudge and only start the quarrelling etc after they reach Africa safely and
cannot be threatened by the ship’s controllers to be thrown overboard?
The
vigilant citizen complains that disaster movies always depict the layman as a
bunch of irrational, rowdy people that required shepherding, but I think that
this is not entirely untrue. People do panic and forget how to think rationally
in times of despair and this isn’t something to be ruled out.
I think
just watch the movie without reading too much into anything is good haha
hopefully you won’t be subconsciously trained to think a certain way about
certain stuff after watching movies with supposed “hidden meanings”.
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