movie preview of AFTERSHOCK

Firstly some updates of photos from watching “Inception” at GV Grand…the despicable me cutouts and designs around the screens were so cute!!!

Sad that the cutout was blocked by the two stands…

AFTER SHOCK!!!

=D won preview tix from omy.sg to go watch after shock. At first I tot it was some Korean movie haha duno why, but got that impression. Maybe cuz the poster girl looked quite Korean O.o anw abt the poster, yea it looks freaky but its not a horror film…=-=

Trailer…

This is another example of a trailer not doing the movie any justice…haha but then again, this movie is like all about the emotional aspect with a message that would be hard to convey in a mere 1minute. Inception’s trailers din explain much too but its lik a different thing cuz for inception, its just too confusing haha n the most that they could come up with was telling us roughly what inception n extraction is in that 1minute.

Finally watching in the actual gv max haha not the gvmax we tot we were going for inception =-=

We got seats considered quite in front and well it was ok but abit straining on the neck cuz u have to look up quite abit. and…when ure focusing on the subtitles u sorta lose focus on the actors n their facial expressions =-= n trust me, even for Chinese, you might have to look at the subtitles at times…basically they talk in a weird Chinese accent. It’s not the normal accent that you hear Chinese from china speak…more like a kinda dialect tone from rural china? It has a more flat tone rather than the tongue rolling accent heard here…

Ok review abt the movie…

Basically the story a mum’s choice years ago to sacrifice a girl to save her twin brother during an earthquake. The mother thought she was dead but somehow she survived and was hurt deeply. She was reluctant to ever find her family again even with persuasion from her foster family.

Even my dad said that it’s nice! Haha n he started to promote it to his friends XD its quite touching at some parts n I did shed a tear or two haha not sure abt dad though…

Movie was around 2 hours long, though it felt longer. Felt even longer than inception…maybe cuz the storyline doesn’t really set us thinking. U more or less know what’s gonna happen n so on while for inception it engages u on another level n more levels XD thinking abt dreams now…some parts of “after shock” I felt they could cut away…for e.g. the guy senior of the girl. I dun really get wad his presence in the movie is for =-= cuz somehow I dun see the girl getting very sad or wad over him wanting her to abort the child they conceived while they were still in university…n so wad if she’s sad, it sorta digresses from the main plot anyway. Only reason I can think up of is that this was to show that the foster father really does love her. Because after the split from that guy, she left home for quite a while n didn’t contact her foster father, n when she came back he was lik overjoyed n mad that she din even call him at all too…but still, abit redundant IMO. N all the Mao stuff in the movie…wow ahha I noe its ard the mao era there for 1976 but erm actl dunnid to show him oso can de…ltr ppl think trying to promote communism or wad then u see wad happen =-=

After the movie, I started thinking abt the question I asked my mum b4…if other parents loved their children unequally. Favouritism n the like. She asked her other friends n they said that it wasn’t abt loving who more n who less but more of like a different kind of love for each child…im presuming its lik “oh, ure clever, u bring mi face, I love u”, “oh ure so guai, I love you though ur grades shame me”. totally materialistic parental thinking. but seriously, if u have more than one child who’s gonna die, n u cld only save one who would u save? So hard to decide huh.

The farnie thing abt saving whoever is that, lik in the movie, the twin bro who got saved turned out disabled with an arm missing while the girl who is supposedly dead survived, totally intact. N I dun understand how the mother cld not feel her girl’s breathing or pulse as she wailed n carried her to place her beside the dead. Its abit =-= that that girl could survive n everyone thought she was dead…medics useless hor?

Movie is not as dead as it looks in the trailer haha its not ur typical happy ending movie with vibrant colors n stuff. It’s basically quite dark with more grayish colors and although it’s a happy ending kinda story n has a very predictable plot, the acting brings the movie alive n u can feel the emotions of the characters well. My dad praised the mother for her acting XD n make up is good, ahha the movie spans over a period of 32 years by the way. Lik frm 1976 the Tangshan earthquake to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The movie itself does contain bits of humor here n there that gets the whole cinema sniggering for a few seconds. N I actl liked the accent though it was troublesome to keep looking at subtitles ahah cuz it’s a fresh kinda tone I guess…n it makes the movie more realistic…

Wow ok read wiki, think the superb acting lead woman (the mother), xu fan, is like the wife of the director, feng xiaogang O.o n the woman who acted as the twin girl when she was older is really chio sia… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Jingchu haha saw she like got abit of freckles so tot she mixed blood + her English in the movie wasn’t really those Chinese-american accent ones…but I tink cuz she learnt it in some pro institute that’s why ba…

Ok to sum up, really good la, can give it a try. Might be a bit draggy at some parts for some ppl though. N it takes a while before the earthquake starts XD I tink ard 30minutes was dedicated to the prelude of the 1976 earthquake. But its sorta impt to show the relationship betwn the twins n the relationships within the family I guess…

Movie releasing today (29^th July 2010) according to this => http://www.incinemas.sg/NowShowing/index.aspx since its past 12midnite now ahha sleepz ZZZZZ

50th post!!! INCEPTION

wow singapore is flooding =-= seriously we dun have to wait much longer till 2012 to die...

now suddenly got a flood of nice movies showing/coming soon T.T shld have kept that free movie tix longer but wq had to go back to america too soon T.T abit wasted on shrek =-=

just watched the 12:05pm show at GV grand with dad n uncle. it costs lik $10 per tix plus the booking fee haiz...at first din wan to go watch until my dad said its inception we're gonna watch if we're ever gonna watch at all. *eyes become O.O n mouth gaps to drool* wah just nice that my stuff for today was cancelled cuz fren got sick, not that im happie that my fren is sick but just happie that things fall into place. nearly went to vivocity cuz i tot gv grand was vivo's =-= i confused it with gvmax. dad n uncle comprained that i chose too close to screen de seats argh. ok i found it ok leh...

REVIEW!!! before i forget =-=
firstly, definitely worth the $10. although i wld have liked it better at the sweet student price of $6.50 T.T but i noe thats not a choice with the job i have...anw, ppl! GV has offer on weekends. if u buy on9 with visa card, buy 4 tix charge u only 3 de price. provided they still have complimentary tix. which means hor, u fast enuff then can get lik weekday night de price to watch on weekend. sadly, my mum din wan to go, n the complimentary tix were no longer available also...
ok reminder hor, not spoiler yet...go into the theatre with a blank mind. dun think too much just watch the movie closely. cuz aft i got home and started googling it to find out that cute guy's name and came across a forum, i realised that there were many details i din bother to ask abt. but somehow it made sense in the theatre anw. i think that the trailers work in a way as they dun really tell u much but then agn its enuff for u to roughly grasp the idea of the movie? as in u noe that its abt stealing/implanting ideas in ppl's brains. though the scenes of my cute guy flying up and then stuff exploding ard leonardo in a cafe doesnt really make sense until u watch the movie. for goodness sake, i din even think it wld be that action.

WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
ok to the main point. i think extraction is an interesting concept. being able to go into dreams n then steal stuff lik ure really stealing stuff in the real world. then inception gets even better. the plan of implanting a thought is so delicate but of cuz the movie din really focus too much on that. it was just briefly said in a discussion, lik those ppl are geniuses n found out very fast how to implant an idea without making it seem lik they're the ones who implanted it n not the person himself thought of that idea de...

n talking abt that, i tink that the whole BIG plot behind this movie quite dumb. wad kinda motive is this to implant an idea into someones mind just for some personal selfish gains. i mean its not even lik taking over the world or something liddat...but its oso good that the initial motive is so simple cuz the idea of the process is hard to digest at first thought. esp the first few scenes that were lik abit confusing cuz they dun really start at the beginning n then during the first 30mins, ure already thrown the idea of a dream within a dream. n then in the next 1hour, u learn of 3 levels of dreams. before they execute the 4th level as well towards the end. n thing to note is that when ure entering someone's dreams, their subconscious does realise that theres a foreign object (you) inside n will start attacking u soon.

loved the fact that the movie isnt all awe-inspiring or touching that ull cry kinda thing. but makes u realise that hmm yea life is delicate. n most of all, loved the effects sia...anti-gravity rocks! the rest is CGI so not really impressed. dun think anti-gravity can be faked ba? not sure. but that was where my joseph gordon-levitt's part is important haha. but the part where the earth became lik flat n square where ellen page n leonardo tried crossing over to the other face of the place was abit fake. but since it lasted lik wad, 0.05seconds? so ppl dun really care...

movie was abit long though but same for those depth kinda movies i guess its lik u have to devote this much time to understand the concept well. n even so, it isnt really enough as after the movie ended do i realise that perhaps i werent all too sure abt some parts of the movie either...like why ellen page's character, ariadne, had to jump together with Fischer in the 4th level dream when they were supposed to just wait for the "kick" from the 3rd level (the explosion on the snow-capped mountains) to wake up. n i dun really understd which level exactly it is that Saito was stuck in and grew old in...cuz the setting was lik his own dream, not really others' so thinking if falling into limbo meant just going back to ur own dreamscape. think it might have been mentioned in the movie but i just missed it...n if it is indeed Saito's own dreamscape. how did leonardo get there anyway? @.@ confusion here...oh n i dun get the fuss abt the ending. i think its really just ended there lik on purpose so that ppl dun get to see if the totem (correct spelling rite) falls n if reality as leonardo's character sees it is actually another dream. i mean, its supposed to make u start wondering if mal (leonardo's character's deceased wife) had the correct theory n that reality isnt reality at all...

ok there were some farnie parts, those usual small jokes inside the movie that lightens the mood of cuz haha i especially loved the "kiss me." *kisses* "they're still looking at us" "well, it was worth a try" and the "i bought the airline. what? it just seemed more appropriate" XD ok u nidda watch the movie to actually get it and i din get it word for word. the first one is the convo between ellen page's and joseph gordon-levitt (squeals) 's characters. oh, but i din really lik the fact that there were a few scenes that were used lik more than once. one scene is that of the ppl's hands flying as they're sleeping in the first dream, in the van. n one other one is the children. duno how many times they reused that footage...

somehow hor, the movie succeeds in keeping us on the edge of our chairs as they show the impending kick for all the 3 levels of dreams going to happen n then leonardo's character hasnt finished up the business. although perhaps half the theatre din really think too much abt why it matters so much that leonardo is not finishing his stuff n he's falling into limbo. the sound effects are good. the varying volume n stuff. n abt sound, the scores were by Hans Zimmer but i din really take note anyway hahaha pirates' soundtrack was nicer =D

main thing ure supposed to learn frm the movie is that u carn just mess with other ppl's thoughts i guess. how dangerous it can be when an idea that u just insert in their brains can grow lik a cancer n take over the person, as the movie puts it.

ohya i went on the internet n only read parts of pages 8 n 9 of this forum (http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1958&start=80) b4 i wrote this post n i realised the weird part abt ellen page having to jump to kill herself at the 4th level when she's supposed to be waiting for the kick itself...Saito's part i tot of it myself while watching the movie, bet there must be some good explanation somewhere on the site but i haven read it yet...now off to read wikipedia~

ok back frm wiki. wow. so the idea was from so long ago de...n they say wad the director had influences frm movies of that time that was abt our world being a fake O.o ok really inspiring material huh =-= n inception was supposed to be a horror film O.o ok wld have loved it anyway i guess...

ok spent enuff time on inception ahha n reading wiki abt its effects of hte anti-gravity thing wow stil dun really get how they get the flowy feel but yea kudos...n high-speed cameras rock!!!

♥ 3 for $1 ♥

we came across this offer while looking for food trail for LX's return...i think i was the one who saw it first, "3 for $1" was too good a deal...it so happens that the article was a while back but the offer has been renewed due to overwhelming response. it's really $1 for 3 dishes with no hidden GST or service charge although it's offered at the restaurant in hotel ibis along Bencoolen. but of cuz, the dishes are smaller in portion but well its still worth it. we had to wear red or have something red n say the "password" which was "soshiok" haha. pics coming up below...see it to believe it =D

we actl wanted to go for the lunch offer but ended up queueing for the dinner offer. tsktsk singaporeans all so kaisu~ we arrive lik 15mins earlier than the time that they said the lunch offer started but ended up being told that the first duno how many customers has been filled up. lik their orders n stuff have been taken down n that they cld not let us in for the lunch offer anymore. T.T saded, we just walk walk ard bugis somemore n ate under the bugis junction the small shops here n there...then ard duno 1/2/3 pm we went back to ask wad time does the dinner offer start when we rmbed that there was a dinner offer too...then the person told us that it actually starts ard 6 i think, but got ppl queueing up since 4pm liddat. so we were lik...erm ok, then we walk abit more first. so we went to national library, looked up travel books n borrowed some then went back to wait n slowly read the books. apparently when we got there, the person at the reception has changed n so that current person say the queue starts at 6pm WTH. but end up wait till almost 5pm liddat got a whole bunch of ppl who din really look singaporean came n another person started taking their orders!! STUNNED we quickly go n queue n just nice we were the last few to get that offer =D so accomplished de feeling *SMUG*

PICTURES!!!

APPETIZERS

and look at that glass bottle that is filled with water...ownself fill one. looks nice haha

so artistic =D

cuttlefish with kangkong

chicken rice

bak kut teh (the other two were going crazy over it haha)

laksa (can tell that the bowl is damn big in proportion to the portion of laksa? XD)

roasted duck

stingray (i guess my 1st time actl trying it minus the lil bit i perhaps tried when at bbqs, not bad leh)

chilli crab (so kawaii~~~) i loved the mantou n the gravy ♥

satay. ok la 3 sticks abit...but just nice for the 3 of us. n if u calc its lik ard 11cents for each stick =D

roti prata

just the roti prata curry. we agreed that this is the best dish =D

full setting of 9 dishes total $3 total bliss sia ♥

there's my arms right there at the top left. gosh i look thinner =D nice

ok too bad the offer i think is over le...aww~ but yea haha the dishes quite nice. so if any1 doesnt mind abit pricey de...or have those HSBC card to get discount. can give it a try wor! its behind the guanyin temple in bugis...for this offer, there were lik alot of dishes for us to pick from...so if we went with more ppl, we cld have tried more dishes just that everyone will get half a bite only. 3 ppl just nice. w/o the offer im not sure if all the dishes are offered. most prob yes ba..with other additional stuff.