Movie Reviewance: the Dark Knight

We were all thoroughly exhausted as we drove our way to Bintang Plaza. Two hours of badminton did knock the crap outta our bodies but since Batman's in town we thought heck with the soreness. Me, Howard, Jayme and Sie Kai reached there at 6.10 and the scheduled airtime was 6.30. Thought we gonna have no more vacant seats left as it was premier day, we rushed up like mad dogs but as we looked into the screen of the cashier when we were at the counter, there were only around 15 people in the cinema...we were all like...lol...

After realising we had just wasted the pitiful remains of our body energy we dully made our way into Star 1 which was oddly cold, i mean very. Our sitting sequence was like: Jayme, Sie Kai, Howard, me. As u all know before every movie starts there will be trailers for other movies. There was this, scary movie which was like The Ring. The trailer was compelling and scary. Howard then nudged me and asked me to look at what's he's gonna do. And so, Sie Kai was 'mesmerised' by the scariness of the trailer. Howard tapped his shoulder and shouted...I thought I saw Sie Kai's head rise 2 inches. He was so shocked that he fell flat after that. Downed.

So the movie started bla bla bla. This dude, Bruce Wayne, was the Batman, whom they called the masked superhero...or villian...or whatever they call him these days. The other hero was Harvey Dent, the superhero of Gotham because at one point in the movie he caught all the mafias, which was in fact Batman's efforts. Stupid opportunist...but I didn't give a damn about him because there's the Joker. If you didn't know yet, the REAL actor of Joker in the REAL life died in January due to drug overdose or something. After watching this movie, you would say it's not surprising that he died. Joker was crazy...all madness...his sinister plans and his crazy laughing and facial style were...one of a kind :O. And so, we came to this conclusion that the director of this movie, Chris Nolan brought upon the death of actor Heath Ledger. Ok great the director punya name sama like mine again...wtf...anyway RIP Heath...YOU WERE CRAZY IN THE MOVIE DAMN IT...but cool though...we're your fan now. Joker's fan that is.

And so the story unfolded with Joker killing people bla bla bla. Reached to a point where Joker kept Harvey Dent and his fiancee locked in two seperate places filled with explosives and gasoline. Our super duper hero Batman has to make his choice to save one of them and of course being a man his hormones must be growling with machoness and he chose the girl. What a fool, the girl was not pretty at all. This was in fact the downside of the Joker...he called the girl Pretty at one point...and we were all like...!@#??!@##?. Anyway, during the countdown of the detonation, we all had the luxury to watch the iloveyou-imsorry-marrymeplease-loveyoudarling thingy. And so this pitiful couple continued to lame around. Dent even told the girl that BABE, DON'T YOU WORRY THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU and the girl replied YALAH I KNOW SO U GO DIE LA...i mean, I DON'T WANNA LIVE WITHOUT YOU*. She even said yes to his proposal, which was proposed in the early part of the movie. So to all the men out there who wanna propose to their partner, hang on tight for the reply because they might just say yes amongst tons of explosives instead of flowers and beaming smiles. Like the oldie: GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN~. yeah you bet on it. But eventually the address from the Joker on both of them were switched...resulting in Batman saving Dent but not the girl. What were you saying again Dent? Nice move man bravo. Well after that incident Dent became the two-faced bad guy as one side of his face was burnt when the explosives went kaboom.

The fighting scenes were kewl. The BatMobil was fast and furious but damn vulnerable. One hit KO wth...i thought there's backup power of something but no...sekali tio bazooka mampus. But Batman got a new toy named...BatBike? First time I knew he had a bike, ejected from his doomed BatMobil. He also had sonar eyes like real bats, transmitted to him via Mr Fox, his office colleague who mastered the invention of all his equipment. Joker also had cool equipment...poker cards which were so kesi that they deal 0 damage as they are practically harmless. For the two-faced Dent, his 'weapon' was the combination of a coin and gun. Earlier in the movie he said he lived his life on chances with the flip of his stupid coin and he was always lucky, because BOTH SIDES ARE HEADS. What kinda coin is that...no wonder he said he create his own luck...but during the explosion one side of his coin got burnt, so it's either heads or 'tails'. Heads you live...'tails' you die getting shot.

Anyway, the movie was the longest I've seen so far, finished around 9. It was very very cool and you all should really go watch it. I don't wanna spoil it for you all so I'm not gonna continue much. The title of the movie was very nice...instead of the conventional Batman: something something they name it ''the Dark Knight''. The title was so meaningful that it only came out once in the movie...once and the only time: at the ending, last three words of this 2.5 hour movie.

Movie Reviewance: The Happening

Just yesterday, Rol, Bui, Bel, and I and two of our close friends: Pol & QD, went to watch The Happening scheduled to air in the afternoon. The movie premiered the day before yesterday which was Friday the 13th. What made us watch this movie(QD excluded) was because the director was the same person who directed the satisfactory movie The Sixth Sense. From this we had expectations to know that it's going to be a very eerie and creepy movie. The trailers compelled us to look forward to it ever more.

Alright, the suggested plan was to watch it at night, but since Rol is driving ALL of us but Pol to the Star Cineplex, Rol ruled us out with the afternoon session as the final verdict. For what the reason??

Rol is a person who likes to think things would eventually turn out skeptical. Just imagine if a bunch of people suddenly starts jumping from the top floor of the now-under-construction building just beside Bintang Plaza; or a person jumps in front of a moving vehicle(in this case, Rol's) for no particular reason(scenarios related to scenes from the movie). EEEEEEEeee! THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN :D

QD felt that she was somewhat tricked into going. I gave her warnings about the movie not suitable for her "weak" character. However, another "side" of me told her that CYP was going with us for her assurance. That was a big fat lie of course :x

Unfortunately, we missed about 10 minutes of the beginning of the movie due to the last moment pickup at QD's house(people in the movie started dying already during then! >_<)

Okay, I've been beating around the bush with this. Time for the movie review x)

The movie revolves around a science teacher Elliot Moore; his estranged wife, Alma Moore; Elliot's best friend and colleague Julian, a math teacher; and Julian's eight-year-old daughter Jess.

Basically, when we entered the movie theater, Alma Moore was already watching the news about the deaths of people that are mysteriously caused. In such, the manner of death is only(yes, only) a self-committed suicide. The anchorman explained that the cause of death was due to the neurotoxins that causes the cells to somehow(bla bla bla) make a person lose total control of himself and somewhat automatically seek a way to suicide. (scary o.O)

The plot contains a couple, a best friend and his daughter that struggles to find a way to escape the pandemic self-slaughter that vastly spreads from large cities and eventually to the smaller areas. However, this only occurs around the northeastern area of America. The first speculated thought was that this biowarfare virus is carried out by none other than terrorists(typical thought). On the other hand, a plant expert in the movie who's just damn crazy about hotdogs, believe that it was done by plants that emit chemicals into the air as a form of evolution to cope with the current environment.

Some of the aspects and concepts used in the movie are the unbelievably LOUD sound effects(with screams from QD as an added effect then VOILA! surround-sound to the max!!) There's a lot of suspense in the movie that just makes you hold your breath, sometimes unnecessarily(half of it is because the virus is spread AIRBORNE. With surround-sound in effect thanks to QD, the experience is nearly real enough to hold your breath whenever the movie portrays a large gale blowing by, most likely carrying the virus)

Also, this movie has nothing to do with the supernatural spirits as it is very much relate to reality and QUITE POSSIBLE of happening. I won't list out how each death scene is carried out because it'll spoil the movie furthermore for those who have not watched it. Overall, it's a movie with a theme of survival that consists a quick-witted scientist(possibly), includes family problems and obstacles that tests the love of the couple, a guy who's a plant expertise and totally loves hotdogs, as well as a superficial maths teacher that believes you can earn 10 million in a month with just pennies. It's a good movie, that makes one not be able to eat so soon after watching it as there's a lot of gore and macabre so be warned!. Once again thanks to QD for her presence to make the movie-viewing a very much life-like experience. x)
7.5/10 from hay