Movie Review: Failure to Terminate

Caught Terminator Salvation over the weekend over at the cathay. kinda pissed that i gotten the first 4th or 5th row from the front. but hey, thankfully its the grand cathay. so its big enough to ensure an enjoyable viewing. i caught the curtains parting and there was such a magical buzz in the air as the crowd was woo-ing and clapping when the curtains parted. though i may have started it. but all in all it was a wonderful atmosphere that everyone there has a wee bit of fanboy (/girl) in them by following the terminator series up to this point.

Having caught all three predecessors, and reading up as much reviews (mostly negative), and asking those who have already caught it, i must say i was well prepared going in to see this disappointment of the year. the plot was sketchy. the character development was sparse. and the details that go into the movie are all twisted up. though it maybe a sci-fi flick, it definitely ignores all manner of physics. a 233525345677-ton harvester manages to sneak its way onto an unsuspecting shack. any human punched by the same steel-crushing arm of a terminator merely has to shrug it off to run away. plus, no Moon Bloodgood's boobies.

stupid cut scene. it like so obvious that there was a gaping hole. i mean, the editting could at least replaced something in there to replace the boobies. but nooo... they decided that a gaping hole would be suitable way to make the young ones believe that no-sense artistic direction are in mainstream. and why is there a young black mute kid anyways, and why is Mrs conner expecting? why are the people so happily making like bunnies to repopulate the earth? unless there's some policy i didnt catch, i dont think feb 14 really matters all that much after judgement day.

but as i knew about all these and more before catching the film, i just put out my hand and said BAH! and proceeded to enjoy myself. the CGI was superb! all the awesome bots. the explosions. really makes u wonder if the robots are gonna switch back to their transportation mode anytime soon. its not a great film or even a good film. but its an enjoyable one if you just throw all logic aside and take everything at face value. when john conner asks u to give him a chance to delay the demise of the terminators so he can go on a suicide mission, you just DO IT! hes the fucking prophet! he knows what's best regardless how vague he may be. Arnold's face CGIed on another bodybuilder's body seemed fairly convincing and that was just one of the couple of references to the previous films. ah, it really takes you back.

the story really is so crappy. but the main reason for this being a huge disappointment, other than McG at the helm of this, is the rushed job that T4 had to go through. but it still seems highly likely that T5 will be well on its way soon. just hope it will be MUCH MUCH better than the turd that we have been waiting six years for.

You cant terminate without the terminator!

the latest TV spot shows the latest unseen footage from the epic movie.
doesnt compare to the previous trailer i uploaded. but hey, its new shots.

plus big news!
Arnold will be having a cameo in T4! there i was, just talking shit, trying to convince my friends that he was in the movie. and holy shit! he really is gonna be!


Astala Vista! MOTHER F***ER!

the extent of his role was not disclosed. but hell, the moment he hits the screen, i ll bet the cinema will go freaking wild! well, at least i know i will. screw the singapore audience!

trailer watch: prepare for salvation

i bet the last you saw of terminator salvation was in the wide screen comfort of the cinema before the screening of the watchmen. well, BAH! wait till you get a load of this! this is the watchmen of all terminator trailers. the only one to give me the willies towards the end. so take a gander a the trailer below and get ready for erecting hairs.



wolverine, terminator and transformers are all gearing up for the summer's release. but i m betting my monopoly money on terminator to be the grittiest and possibly the best summer blockbuster this year.

Comic Movie Trailers

the page for all upcoming or current comic book movies

the original source doesnt have to have originated from the comics.
for example, did you know that transformers originally came out as toys.

but since transformers have its own comic series, they are included here.
tada.. okay, go click click and see see,
enjoy

release dates sourced fromYahoo! Singapore Movies

movie review: watching the watchmen

i have hoped to start this blog of sorts sometime in the not so distant future, however, viewing the awesome spectacle known as Watchmen, i simply could not resist myself from spewing my comments all over the internet. 

first off, i shall blabber off about the movie: it was dialogue reliant, not to say that other films chit chat isnt important, the details was in the words, and if you didnt strain to really hear the words or have an arse sitting next to you, asking you if rorschach's superpower was to change his face, you would be lost at times. so just do wad i did and wave a pointed finger in the buggers face and lean forward to show that though you're being a dick for doing so, he's a bigger dick for talking in the cinema. 

speaking of dicks, this may be a spoiler of sorts. but if u actually bump into my site, you're prolly googling watchmen so u are expected to have already seen the movie. anyhu, Dr Manhattan was like super nudist. and the cropping of the film's camera made sure we were fully aware of his personal preference. and i was really expecting to see some Ts popping, especially with Akerman's big top reveal in the "heartbreak kid". but i was really disappointed when a mere silhouette was provided to satisfy the raging hormones of the average fanboy. 

circled for emphasis

seeing as to how you can get more reliable movie opinions from sites such as rottentomatoes, or bla, i m just gonna rant on my movie experience for now. first of all, this is to me, the biggest movie of the year! i get erections watching the trailers before other movies. sure i've seen it countless times online, but having it enlarge in full HD glory where the range of your eyes simply could not shut out the visuals unless u turned ur head away, the sheer awesomeness of it gave me goose-bumps and sometimes my pants got a little wet (prolly cos the coke's sweat dripped.. but thats nt important).  

entering the cinema,  just got blown away by amazing trailers of Transformer2, Terminator4, StarTrek! sure, i've seen em online. but just seeing them with friends is a different matter altogether! and commercials weren't shying away too. there was like a good 20 mins of random shit tossed together, long enough for me to drink half of my drink, realised its a three hour show, get off to take a piss, realize i was looking good in the mirror and skip down to my seat to where my fag friend was covering his eyes since the thai trailer, "coming soon" was on. then the movie starts.

the shit starts with an incredible opening sequence retelling the tales of the minutemen, a superhero group, similar to the Avengers or JLA, who was a generation before the watchmen. then it drives straight to the intense scene of the comedian getting murdered (there, that scene where the window shatters cos some guy got thrown out lo). and everything else being just sheer awesomeness that will leave you wanting for the movie never to end!

and now the shitty part! i was in one cinema with another of my friend in the other cinema, cos he bought his ticket late, bla bla bla.. well, my cinema wasn't full, which ticked me off to a certain extent. (dark knight was full of cheena poks entering the cinema confusing themselves and enduring the three hours so they can tell their other cheena friends that they saw the dark knight and its damn good le! solid!) but it was still bearable. but my friend over at the other cinema had to endure SEVERAL people leaving their seats at the scene where Dr Manhatten leaves Earth. WHATHEFLUB?! where the f did they get the balls to leave the cinema? maybe their ah lian gfs finally realized that mr da long's long(dragon) wasn't the biggest thing they could get after comparing to Dr M. and mr da long just have to remind missy ah lian that it was too bad for them in the nearest toilet! BAH! how can this even happen? was it that bad to endure? how bout trying ghosts rapping in hokkien? perhaps they could relate more to that.

it was very even more disheartening to see that for today's lifestyle section in the straits times had bad reviews for the watchmen. wanna know the even better part. it was feature on the front page of that section. i dont have a copy with me but i glance through it and it was saying that it wasnt being true to telling the message that the original graphic novel had. and how the original shaped superheroes and yadayadayada! and wanna know the better part? Outta 5, 2 FUCKING STARS! if the number 2 could be caps, it would be! on a newspaper that singaporeans take seriously, you give a shitty 2 star rating on the anticipated film of like forever for comic geeks. whatheflubbbbbbberrriouciouslllyyy??!?! 

i quote filmschoolrejects.com when i say that it will be the greatest vision of the watchmen ever made for screen. all this hype about how the watchmen can never be made into a movie and it has all been flushed away thanks to mr snyder. and i understand he emitted several things and added several things to make the entire movie experience an enjoyable one. there are alot of things that needed to stay true to the book and i fully appreciated that mr snyder let them be and i never felt shortchanged after the credits rolled. (except for the jailbreak scence, which was my fav in the book. i felt it should have been much more darker and more gore-y) 

on a side note, Rorschach had hair! like in the book! cos i never saw jackie earle haley with any real (by real, i mean long enough to consider it hair) hair. so tada, big pleasant surprise for me. 

jackie earle haley as Walter Kovacs

here he is, with my enhanced photoshopping skills, showing u how a sample of him with hair

on another side note, zack snyder really love his details, and google the eastereggs for the watchmen film, theres plenty that will make you look out for. examples include, James Jean Art! and when Ozy files are open, they reveal a folder entitled "boys". 

HAH! -raises eyebrows repeatedly and suggestively-

also, My Chem Romance plays their cover of "desolation row" at the end credits. check out their music video if you will. 

to wrap things up, 

i give the film an

please note, that this is totally my opinion as a comic book fan who enjoyed the original literature a shy 4 years ago after getting pissed that all the batman books were done reading in the library and that yellow book is taunting me with that eerie smile. i definitely look forward seeing the film again and hopefully, it will be in my fav cinema, the grand cathay! yup, thats the one where the curtains part!