watched 3 movies today: movie review time...

I watched
TROY
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
ONE NITE IN MONGKOK

*This contains a highly personal and biased review.
You can choose to read for your own entertainment, or even reflect upon my points*

TROY

Now I realise why SL wrote such a long entry on her blog after watching Troy, now, here's mine.

Some different things 1st.
1stly, I thought it's just another history lesson brought alive.
2ndly, I think the trojan house would look much better...

Well, I really wondered if woman is worth so much trouble? When all fingers are pointed at Helen, I pretty much think that it's man (as in human, and not male) that causes all the problem. I strongly believed that it wasn't really Helen that caused all the war and bloodshed. It was the pride of a person and ambitious of a person that lead to war. And Helen is just a good reason (at that point in time) to cover up for notorious ambition and pride.

Which leads me to think if fame and glory, name and legend so important to a person.
- Archillies wanted a name for himself, so that years after years, people would remember his name? So what if later generation remembers you? What do you benefit from there? You would have already decomposed and your bones would have broken down and become nothing.
- Argamo(something) "king of king" wanted glory for himself, how much is glory worth? can it be eaten? SO what if you can conquer and unified the whole of greek? It's all built upon the thousands and thousands of innocent lives lost.

Love and passion
- Paris, this may sound different, but I thought that the undying look for helen was pretty touching. HOWEVER, he's really a bastard to steal people's wife and fucking coward in one to one combat.
- Hectors, his love towards his wife, his child, his father, his brother, his country is unparallel. I admired him in the movie.

Trojan horse looks fucking ugly, and I'm really surprise that the King of Troy actually bring back into his country. I mean even a dumbass would know to at least check the horse for traps or something before bringing into the house mah... For once, paris did the right thing to suggest to burnt the horse.

One thing I really hate about the king of troy is that he would rather believe in god than to believe in himself and his son. Please god is only a spiritual thing. God provides a sense of emotional baggage deposition to remove your distration of fear. BUT at the end of the day, it's still up to yourself to fight for yourself. I never believe in depending god to get my homework done. I never ask god to do my exams for me. I believe at the end of the day, it's still up to myself to make the different.

This might sound stupid, imagine that Singapore is in the time of war, and NS man are put into the war to fight against our country to defend the nation. How many of the people would fougth bravely to defend our nation? Well, I thought it's pretty coolz to like you know fight for your country in such a time (god, NS has infiltrate my brains before I even stepped into tekong.) At the same time, imagine all the bloodshed are lost during wars, it's not worth it. But at the end of the day, who am I to say if it's worth it.

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

Another of those hollywood shows, featuring tons and tons of computer animation, dumb and str8 forward storyline, tons of facts that no one seems to understand.

Actually, it's not that bad a show, I mean I get to watch it for RM10(opps, free coz my aunt treat us.) I thought you know, there are pretty much lessons we could learn from it.

The ignorant of one man (the vice president of United State in the show) could lead to a wipe out of half of it's citizens.

The passion of a father to save the son, reflects very much on kinship. Many people take it for granted inclusive myself to think that parents sacrificing for their kids is a natural thing to do, but I always thought that, we should be grateful to our parents no matter what.

One thing that more or less touched me was that this climatologist's assistants sticked to him even at the price of their life. It's more of loyalty. How many of us have friends that are willing to go that extra mile and stick with you thru thick and thin?

During the expedition to save the son, the team had to walk in the snow and unknowingly they have walked onto a glass-roofed shopping mall. Of course, as many writers will do, create a climate at the point to bring the audience to a tension.

Tada, yes you have it, the glass on the ceiling broke and one of the supply cart fall into the shopping mall, and since the 3 men are stripped together with the supply cart, it pulled 1 man down together with the cart. The other 2 persons dangling dangerously on the glass ceiling.

Minus away details, the guy who was hanging by a rope sacrificed by cutting the rope so that the other 2 teammates will not be dragged down and plunge to the bottom of the shopping mall.

This lead my thinking that, during team work, if you are a burden to the team, how much sacrifice are you willing to give in order to fulfil a task? Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the goal and target?

For myself, I thought, I'm willing to exchange a personal something for something that is equavalent or more than what I am willing to give up.

ONE NITE IN MONGKOK

Fucking stupid show, don't watch!!! Not even worth RM10...