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Dry Patch

Hey all hope everyone is well and alive and kicking. Well as the title suggests it been a little dry of late I haven’t seen anything recent apart from Inception which is was awesome so much so I want to watch it again at the cinema and that's rare for me considering I'm a poor uni student watching it the first time meant I missed out on eating lunch the next day or a few less items for grocery shopping that week (I kid but I’m sure there are others for this will be true). But since the general consensus for Inception is relatively the same I feel like writing a review would be pointless, beating a dead horse as they say. So in the lack of movies to watch, that is worth the watching does anyone recommend some really cool, unconventional but interesting movies that they would like to share with me? Actually anything really as this point I'm quite stumped.


On to another thing, years ago when I was randomly googling stuff as one does regularly to keep up with the rest of the world, I came upon Cillian Murphy (guy from Red Eye & Inception), I must have googled him. I have to admit I find Cillian quite uniquely attractive; he's what you call an acquired taste. So anyway I find on the sources from IMDb that he was going to star in the film about Salvador Dali and I got excited as a wonderful actor such as Cillian will be in a movie about Dali. I mean I thought this would be for sure a hit. However to my disappointment this movie never came. So for some reason I just remembered about it now and therefore maybe it was released and wasn't a hit than what I originally thought. So I googled Dali and instead I get a youtube trailer on a little known movie called Little Ashes with Robert Pattinson as Dali. I was like what? How come I have never heard of this before considering how famous he has become all his previous works have been out to hang for everyone to see? It couldn't be new as they would have more media coverage right? Doing a little research I found it was released in 2008, was that before or after Twilight? I don't know but if anyone has seen it drop in a comment and tell us what you think of the movie and of course of RPatts acting skills too.


For those who haven't seen it here's the link to the trailer on Youtbe
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And heres the promotional poster for it.

Does anyone else think RPatts looks like Brendan Fraser here?

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New Blog

Hey everyone

As mentioned in the pervious post I was wondering if I should start a new blog about nothing and with ill-advice from myself and just sheer "why-not" and "can-do" attitude which is very much uncharacteristic of me I decided to go on ahead and create one. It is in its infancy hence is wobbling around with uncertainty but eager to get started, so not surprisingly this post is basically cheap self promotion that is usually undertaken by commercial television and politicians. So cheap that it might actually work. I guess at this point I should be throwing words like "awesome", "groundbreaking", "sheer enjoyment", "get a stitch because its really funny from laughing too much" to really solidify what I’m trying to sell just in case you missed it. But in all serious with all the sarcasm aside please check it out, I hope you like it and enjoy it or you could just hate & complain about it (just the way I like it).

Here's the link to the really "awesome" blog
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Enjoy & much love,
Samira
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Fearless, 2006

I'm no expert on Martial Arts or Martial Arts movies therefore I feel my judgment or critique on this film is unfounded and my opinion is completely unworthy to be taken seriously. But then again in retrospect I'm not qualified to have an opinion on any of the films I have reviewed. Hence with that logic in place I shall continue, first I shall start with a sweeping statement and claim that many of you are in the same position as I am in (I would be pleasantly surprised if most my readers are actually keen martial arts movie buffs and know the ancient art well, I have been wrong before actually several times) that they have very limited experience in watching martial art movies apart from a occasional Jackie Chang movies. With such limited knowledge and expertise in the matter and with really nothing to compare it to, I really enjoyed this film. Different in the usual pace of an American or western film, this film had the element of humour and action all in one.

The general premise of the film follows the rise and fall of the Martial Arts legend Hou Yuanjia. In between his childhood and eventual death there moments of drama and comedy. I really can’t say more with out ruining the movie for you really. It’s a simple enough idea and it’s something that does not requires more explanation than that to be quite honest.

Typical of Chinese films (at least the ones that I have seen), it pretty fast paced in certain parts and then the tempo and mood of the film changes usually after a dramatic event (tragic most of the time) has occurred, where the next scene is a slow panning scene of beautiful Asian landscape that is well constructed by awesome cinematographers and playing in the background a slow music score whilst seconds before there was fast paced fighting scene with screaming audience as the backdrop. Based in late 19th century China director Ronny Yu and his team have kept the traditional essence of China during the time. Although it is difficult to say how much of the martial arts scenes are true or dramatised for the viewing pleasure of the audience. But to be quite honest it didn't really matter and I didn't care, because the entire experience of the film was to enjoy the theatrics of martial arts and that it’s not just a fight but a performance. It's not surprising that much of the film is spend on a fight but despite that it was really entertaining to watch. I'm not sure whether or not it’s my ability to be easily entertained and amused or whether this is a really well made film (but I like to think it’s the latter). One might argue that it’s not as good as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Hero (here I'm just name dropping other marital art/Chinese films that I have seen) and frankly I wouldn't have a come back and probably just nod in agreement.

So ohk this isn't like my usual reviews which I suppose is more serious in nature than I totally forgot that this blog was a not so serious look at films, whoops. But then again most of the films (not all) that I have reviewed has usually lead me to write annoyed, highly critically pieces that makes me sound a lot more pretentious than I intended but I can't help if people make shitty films. I know I can't make better films that's not the point, I'm sure there are lots of people out there that couldn't do what I do. Which is laze about and waste time which actually requires an amazing amount of effort surprisingly and skills (again surprisingly)?

I know I'm digressing from the point of the entry but I was thinking of maybe starting up another blog for funnies. It would be a blog based on nothing (sounds familiar?). Mostly it would be my daily musings but nothing in particular. I know I'm pretty new this site and not what you call a regular blogger, but I think it would an adventure I might look into. That is of course if people want to read it. So that being said, please comment whether or not I should consider actually following thru with this. It would be much appreciated.
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The Social Network - the movie! Are you serious?

Hey interwebs I'm sure all have you have heard about the new movie about Facebook?! And my first reaction was like no way this for serious like could they really make a movie about Facebook, seriously FACEBOOK!!! Its like the time I watched the trailer for a "horror movie" about the donkey punch (if you don't what this is count yourself lucky), like this has to be some sort of joke, right? With offical websites and release dates announced it seems like this is legit but I'm cynical and usually ill-informed about these things so if anyone knows if this is true then feel free to dis-credit me and my ill-informed ways.

So for the time being here is a link to the trailer from Youtube. Enjoy and was heaps funny coz its so serious and then after the realisation that its not a joke then it becomes a little scary.

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Heres the offically site link

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Samira =D
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Little Miss Sunshine, 2006

Refreshingly different Little Miss Sunshine is a story about a seemingly ordinary and overly average family whom are struggling with the daily problems with life, may be it money or personality clashes. Yet despite these problems even from the first few scenes it has pretty clear that this family really care about each other even though for a large amount of the time they want to kill each other.

This is clearly the modern family, the mother Sheryl (Tony Collette) walks in the house with take-out chicken in the car and they set the table with plastic plates - even with one scene it’s becomes evident that she is a working mother with a lot on her plate. Dinner brings about an array of different topics of discussion but particularly the subject of Uncle Frank's (Steve Carrell) attempted suicide which is honestly explained and discussed to the young Olive (Abigail Breslin). Olive despite the gloom of the subject matter maintains her innocence and demonstrates both curiosity and a child's understanding of the situation and instinctive (surprising for such a young girl) comforting Uncle Frank. The dinner scene essentially builds and develops characters easily and as the audience we have a pretty good idea how each character is like.

The main plot of the film is that Olive has been qualified to enter a beauty pageant for little kids, the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The family with little options decides to take the whole family across the state or whatever for her chance in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant; here of course the family goes through a few mishaps and adventures.

The most interesting and commendable aspect of this film is that its incredibly real, you believe the characters and even tho you can pretty much figure out what these characters are like from the first couple scenes but you see a little more about them as the film progress. Yes, in general the characters don't change much but you do see something really special about them. A commonality with all the characters despite them being different is how much they care for Olive. Each one of them sacrifices something that is worth a lot to them for Olive. As if to hold on to a piece of innocence that Olive seems to radiate. The character of Olive is just completely lovable, cute, positive and well behaved child who lives in her little bubble of innocence - which is incredibly charming. Abigail Breslin as Olive was just a delight to watch she brings warmth and likability that is really difficult to achieve, even adult actors may struggle with. In general all the actors and the characters were likable and had their own individuality yet remained quite charming. I was particularly surprised and impressed by Steve Carrell's character Frank, a self-confessed know-it-all yet with real major psychological issues and Carrel shows depth with Frank and that there is a lot going in his mind but he is recovering. I like it because this is so different from Carrel's other roles particularly because he is usually boxed into his character in the Office and everyone starts to think he can only do that sort of crazy, obnoxious characters and has that standard type of comedy. But clearly that isn't true.

As much I really enjoyed this film I can see that it may be not everyone's cup of tea. When I first watched this film I really enjoyed it but I felt that it was a little too simple and many would find it slightly boring as there isn't a constant action or drama or even the usual toilet humour that we are use to. But with a second screening, I like it more, there is depth and the plot may be a little thin but it was definitely balanced by the really interesting and likable characters. You have to be patient with the film and let is really sink into you and you find that it's a really funny film and not just a drama piece. At face value it may not seem much but it’s definitely worth a watch.
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Death at a funeral, 2007

Just to clarify this is the British film Death at a Funeral and not the upcoming American version with Martin Lawrence. So the other day I was about to watch Death at a Funeral and I told my family that I'm going to watch death at a funeral, and their reaction was like well no shit there is death at a funeral personally when I first heard about this film I had no such reaction and naturally my family cynically dismiss my attempts to convince them they should watch it with me.

Without a doubt there is something very English about this film, not because everyone has an English accent, is pale and driving around shitty cars but the humour it self is quite English - slightly dark and completely cringe worthy. It's start all serious with a casket being driven to a beautiful green country house. The casket is then carefully place into position and lead character peers into it and finds that they have gotten the wrong person. And that’s when all the fun begins. An hour and half (or roughly) of ridiculous things happening, from drugged up a boyfriend, the blackmailing midget, seedy one night stands coming to haunt you and the overachieving sibling. And of course that rude and inappropriate uncle that shares way too much information


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Be EXCITED

Holy shizzle its been very very very long since i have posted here so I am very very very sorry, I know its totally not an interesting blog =(
And I don’t bring good news either, this isn’t an actual post but more likely a teaser! For the new, cool, up-coming stuff which is really exciting, more so because I don’t even know what the these cool, new supposed cool things are, so anything could happen kids, anything.

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Star War fans?

Ohk the tittle is a bit misleading, but I promise you there is some reference to it. Again on my quest to find dumb shit things that are amusing or in other words procrastinating and waiting for my psych report to do itself. I came upon yet another awesome group just for star war fans and/or anyone with maturity level of a 15 year old boy. But unfortunately tho for you to view this link I think you need to be logged on to Facebook (I know I spend way too much time on it). So here's the link

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Cruel Intentions, 1999

Still surfing the wave of my previous post and my love teen movies again I review another teen movie. A worrying trend? I hope not to make this a regular thing but like I have mentioned before its just that my fascination with teen movies doesn't seem to end plus I have seen so many I think it deserves some recognition (oh wow that sounded a lot more pretentious than it was meant to be).


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A new super hero?

Whilst pondering about super hero movies instead conveniently not studying for an exam, I thought wouldn't it be cool if super heroes existed? Like it world would be just that more exciting. There are some many super heroes out there, super heroes that can fly, swing from building, that turn green, walk through walls, and read minds. All those "skills" are useful I suppose but really what can they do for your average person that needs help. Like I suppose they can save you from a burning building but isn't that what firemen (and women) do?

Considering I struggle quite a bit on a daily basis, I'm constantly falling over, bumping into walls and glasses door, completely missing social cues and generally making an ass of myself. I thought my real hero would be someone can save me from looking like a fool. Someone that could have a sixth sense that could sense when someone is about to fall over or do something that is cringe worthy and save them from complete and utter embarrassment. They would multiple powers/skills to help you. I know what you're thinking all this due to the fact I just can't walk straight and inability to watch where I'm going. Yeah well, you're probably right BUT you think back in your past when you did something so stupid that you wished you could simply melt into the floor, wouldn’t life been better a superhero could have stopped you beforehand


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