Saturday, April 30, 2011

Thor

The next Avengers in line, Thor made his on-screen appearance. Most heroes are either super-enhanced human, a technological expert or homo-superior but now a god comes into the picture.

By far, the movie follows quite closely to the comics from Asgard, Thor, Mjolnir, the Rainbow Bridge and even up to the costumes. Sadly Jane Foster is an astrophysicist rather than a nurse. I was hoping to see Natalie Portman in a nurse uniform. Helloooo Nurse. Each actors portrayed the character closely up to the viking speech. Spoiler, there's an quick appearance of "Stan the Man" Lee (everyone should know that) and Clint Barton aka Hawkeye.

From the comics that I read, I don't really fancy Thor as a hero. He's a god. Isn't it unfair somehow? But if you can beat the mighty crap out of him, that would be more enjoyable.So I hoping that Thor in The Avengers would be a simple win for the team.

And like all Marvel movie, there's always a post-credit scene. Do wait for it. I don't really see the resemblence to the next movie, neither Captain America nor The Avengers. We'll just wait and see.

Ratings: 3.5

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Source Code

What would you do when you have 8 minutes to spare before everything goes kabluew? Save the world, Save yourself, call your love ones, do the unthinkable, kiss a girl, fall in love? Non of the above for Jake Gyllenhaal's Captain Colter Stevens in Source Code. He had to re-live the last 8 minutes to find the culprit who blew up the train that he has to re-live in.


Similar to Groundhog Day in some way where you re-live the same day or 8 minutes in this instance,  Steven has to find a way to save the innocent life of the train passengers. Not knowing that the source code is only meant to recreate the scenarios within the train, creating different alternate version to different actions and whatever actions will not change reality. The only trigger for him to get off the scene is to die where he will be brought back to life in a chamber, or so it seems. 


The continuous replay of the 8 minutes seems endless even with different scenarios for him to identify the killer.  Till then, just enjoy the continuous explosion of the train.


Ratings: 3.5

Monday, April 25, 2011

Stan Helsing

OH MY GOD! Why did I even bother watching this. As much as I love parody, this is full of s***. Don't bother watching.

Rating: 0

Sunday, April 24, 2011

SCRE4M

What is your favorite scary movie? For sure Scream is one of them. When the first Scream came to screen, it was quite awesome back then. Then came Scream 2 where SMG was in it, I was exhilarated. And Scream 3 became an re-invention which doesn't do justice to the whole Scream franchise. I became skeptical about the forth but the trailer was quite promising so I gave it a chance.

The movie starts off with a movie within a movie based on Stab, Screams version of Scream in the movie. It came to 7 sequels. It became quite entertaining for a horror movie, but when the original Ghostface came into screen, things got bloody. Killings are basically the same throughout most horror movie but what kept me watching them are the motives of the whole killing. Each Scream massacre is a remake of the original, with different killer(s) but the motives are different.

Each motive are "sick" but Scream 4's darn right sick. "You got to live a F***ed up life to be well-known!" or something like that. That's what the motive of the show. LOL... Now go figure who's the killer.

Ratings: 3.5
Not bad for a sequel. Quite a laugh for a horror movie.