In the mood for love.. Part II

I am still in the mood for love.



Who should I blame now? Haha...

Since I am in this current state of mind or emotion or whatever it is that generates such feeling, let's revisit one of my personal favourite love movie which aptly titled "In the Mood for Love". (no co-incidence there) Have you watched this movie before? If your answer is NO, I strongly urge you to do so NOW.

Why I just can't get enough of this little gem? You just have to watch it to know why and you'll thank me later. hehe

Personally I love it because it is a beautifully shot movie. Every single scene in this movie is just like a gorgeous painting. So breathtakingly beautiful. While watching this movie, I dare you to pause at any given time and I guarantee you that you will witness a still, so beautiful, so serene and so mysterious at times.

I do not know how they do it but this movie manages to include so many little things in each and every scene and yet able to make it look so effortlessly done. Everything feels so natural.

Simple story, simple storytelling, superbly crafted. This is simplicity at its best.










Beautiful right?


Extremely and highly recommended.

The Story of Ebenezer Scrooge

I am not a big fan of animation or cartoon. Growing up, apart from Sesame Street, Thundercats and a few others, I don't really watch that much cartoon. I am into movies but somehow, the idea of watching animation does not seem too appealing to me. The reason being is I can't seem to convince myself that they are real. Being animation, it is not supposed to be real anyway but that is just what I think.

As a self-proclaimed movie fan, it is quite embarrassing to admit that I have not watch some of the highly acclaimed animation movie in the past decade or so. It could be a shocking discovery to some people that I have not watch animation movie like, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Monster Inc and a lot more.

On my defense, I did watch Toy Story, Beauty and the Beast, The Ice Age trilogy and Finding Nemo. I know it is a crime to say this but I didn't like Finding Nemo. I don't understand what the fuss is all about the movie. Okay, maybe the colorful animation is quite something and the vegetarian sharks is kinda funny but other than that it is kind of forgettable to me.

So, I was quite surprised last Thursday when I found myself reading the review of the latest animation movie by Walt Disney, A Christmas Carol in New Straits Time and The Sun when suddenly I felt a tinge of curiosity and a slight excitement to watch it. I wonder why. So, when Kak Mie suddenly asked me to join her for a midnight movie at Sunway Pyramid last nite, without hesitation I suggested we watch A Christmas Carol.

Throughout the duration of this animation, my eyes was glued to the big screen. From start to the ending, the animation is beyond amazing. I know that the word amazing is loosely used nowadays but it is indeed amazing. I could not believed my eyes sometime because it looks so friggin real. The opening scene itself is worth all the praises.

I have a basic idea of the storyline but it was just in bits and pieces. I found it to be quite engaging and very thoughtful. It was after all a classique literary story so it is sort of expected to be up to that level.

The story of a supergreedy man named Ebenezer Scrooge is presented in a slightly dark and edgy mode. Too dark and too edgy for animation I think but it is not a bad thing at all. I would not want it any other way. The mood needed to be dark and hollow. There are quite a few scenes in this movie that just gives me the goose bumps. I like it when that happened.



The scene featuring the Ghosts of Christmas Present is my favorite and the scene where Ebenezer took a journey back into his past is worth the RM11 you paid to watch this movie. Please go and check it out.

The journey of self redemption has never looks so friggin cool. I like it. Wait, that is wrong. I f**king love it!! oops!! pardon me!

p/s: The voice of Mr. Scrooge is by Jim Carrey and with that thick English accent I almost didnt recognize it. Two thumbs up.

What A Lovely Co-incidence

I went out with my chambee mates last Friday. We just want to hang out and catch a movie after that. I suggested watching 500 Days of Summer as I had a feeling that it might be a good movie. All of us knew nothing about the movie and we want to keep it that way. I only know that Zooey Deschanel is in it and thats about it. Some of my friend wanted to first read the review from imdb to know whether it will be worth watching but I insisted that all of us should just take a chance and watch the movie without any expectation or any pre-conceived idea about it. I told them, if the movie is good, you will enjoy it more and if it isnt..jeng jeng jeng...matilah aku kena marah dgn diorang..hahaha. They, however give in to my suggestion. hehe.

We decided to watch the movie at a slightly later showtime so that we can really have a proper conversation with each other. Good ole way of gettin to know each other. Although we meet each other every day in the office, but due to workloads and our busy-ness, we didnt really get the chance to know each other. Hence, the dinner plan. We chose to have our dinner at San Francisco Steak House at KLCC.

There were 5 of us. Me, Sean, Hanna R, Ainaa and my "apprentice", Natalie. My my owh my, what a dinner conversation. We really talk and we really had a greaaaat dinner conversation. Remember watching one of those Woody Allen movies?? Yes, the conversation that we had was just like that. We really did talk! The topic of our conversation that night was of love and relationship (no surprises there) and it was so refreshing to hear them open up and really talk about it. All of us really did open up. We practically talked about every things that revolves around relationship.

Sean was in my opinion is emotionally mature for a 24 years old guy. His opinions and perspective about life and love is very Dr Phil like.hehehe. Too much Oprah I guess. His insight about relationship amazes me and if it does not change me, at least it makes me want to reconsider some of my own perspective and some of my own view of certain things. I cannot emphasize enough how much about relationship between guy and girl that we have explored that night. 5 people with 5 different personality and with even 5 totally different views of life shared their thoughts and a piece of mind. I must say the dinner was not only gastronomically satisfying, it was also emotionally fulfilling.




Then, we go watch the movie. I have only one word to describe the movie. *drum rolls* AMAZING!!!!! I was having so much fun. I really really really loveeeeeeee the movie. My goodness, it was fantastic. We were so glad that we watched it. 500 Days of Summer is sooo freakin good and I can't wait to watch it again rite after I step out of the cinema.

There is nothing new about the story line I must say. Boys meet girls. Girls meet boys. But the director Marc Webb managed to delve into the soul of the characters and make us root for them, understand them, care for them and most importantly, love them. We cheered for the character when they succeed and we cried when they failed. That's in my opinion is the benchmark of a good characterization in a movie. The audience need to feel for the characters potrayed and this movie excels at that.

The other thing that I really really like about this movie is the cinematography. It is so serene at times and so wonderfully "bright" in another. It implements the script very very very well and I am so glad that none of those shaky camera trick that is currently seem to be the in thing in recent movies was not in this one. Phew!!

Another great things about this movie is the soundtrack. Usually, when you watch a movie, the music and the songs used were heard but ignored. If the movie is not musical, the music was just there and thats it. It was entirely different with this one. I am loving the soundtrack so much. I can't help but wishing and thinking that I'd have to get the soundtrack cd of this movie even while I was watching it in the cinema.

I love the fact that this movie is so natural ( maybe due to the superb acting by the both leads) and it does not feel forced. You can't help but dream about certain thing (at least I do) while watching this lovely and beautiful movie.

The funny things is, or maybe the reason why me and my colleague seems to be enjoying the movie even more was that almost every single thing that we discussed during our dinner, ( yes, almost every single thing!!!) was potrayed in this movie! No kidding!!! We were basically looking at each other in the dark cinema thinking.. "Hey, we just talked about it!! " and "OMG!!! Thats exactly how you said that just now!!!" Pretty weird huh? It was as if, somebody recorded our dinner conversation and turned it into a screenplay!!! haha. What a co-incidence!! Life imitates art or art imitates life???

So, if you want to know what we talked about during our dinner, just watch this movie.hehehehe. I promise you, it will be worth it. While writing this, I promised myself that I will watch it again in the cinema. Sooooon. Mind you, it is on a limited release and you can only watch it in KLCC.

I could not stop talkin about this movie. It is the current IT movie in my mind at the moment. My housemates (Fido especially) is getting bored with my non stop rants about it. I am so sorry peeps, I just can't help it.

Above all, the number one reason why I am so in love with this movie is that I think it gives me hope. Hope of the O.N.E *wink*

*here are some of the screen caps from the movie*