You might have already realize what this entry is gonna be about, so yeah, a movie review on The Hunger Games! :D

If you realized I haven’t been blogging about movie previews for eons! Thats because I watch much lesser movies these days, and at the same time, I have lesser time to blog as well. Having said that, shame on me! :( I missed so many good movies I wanted to catch so badly. Well..

So, why did I decide to blog about the hunger games?

Firstly, I honestly had 0 idea about what “the hunger games” was going to be about. I didn’t watch the trailer, lest say read the story books. So, I went in the theaters with minimal (reallllly minimal) information about it. And thats because I asked my friend, C, but she refused to tell me too much too in to leave me in suspense. Heh!

Secondly, everyone was so hyped out about it. It felt like Harry Potter #2, because on twitter, on facebook, I see my lots of friends anticipating the movie.

Lastly, my 2-cents-worth on whether you should catch the movie or not, if you haven’t. And before I continue, my answer is YES! YOU SHOULD! :)

There is always two extreme sides to such things, I think we call it preference. I have friends who loved the movie to bits, while some who read the books felt it was too short, which is always the case since movies can only last THAT long. ANDDD, some who found it over-rated.

I would say I love the movie!

This photo is GORGEOUS. The “participants” of the Hunger Games.

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In my humble opinion, I found the movie really really interesting. Its been awhile that I find myself awake throughout a movie, and The Hunger Games just contributed to my rare-list-of-movies-I-didn’t-fall-asleep-at-all. 

Since I didn’t read the book at all, I didn’t know what the hunger games was about, so I was expecting a game that made people starve.. which wasn’t really the case actually. It was far more captivating than that! And I loved it! :)) The sisterly love almost made me tear too. Gahhhhhh, I want a sister!

One thing I felt that was a tad disappointing was the filming. The initial part of the movie was really shaky, and if the shakiness were to continue for a longer time, I think I would be nauseous. Especially because my friends and I were seated towards the front part of the theaters and we already have to lean slightly backwards to get a better view.

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Anyway I’m so glad I caught the movie. Was contemplating between THE HUNGER GAMES or STUDYING. But well, it was well-worth it! ;)

Gotta go back to catch the books now!

pretty C & I :D

I caught the movie w/ my JB friends. <3 Thank you friends! And special thanks to C for always trying to compromise the meet ups to suit me HEHE. <3

P.S. I just watched Wicked the Musical yesterday!!!! I think I’ll blog about it! ^_^

Its been awhile (okay, just a week) since I went to the theatres, and this time, I caught Rapunzel with Momsie and my aunt yesterday (Friday)!

I absolutely LOVEEEEEEEEEEE little Rapunzel!! But I couldn’t find pictures of her when she was young online. Super cute with huge watery eyes!

& Of course, how I wish I had Rapunzel’s ultra long and nice blond hair!! Keeps reminding me how chui and lousy my hair is.

I’d rate the movie 3/5, because there were some parts they just sang through the scenes. I’m not a really musical person in this sense.. But on the overall, a pleasant cartoon, I’d say! Momsie and aunt loves it though! :)))

Reviews for Narnia next! :DDDDD~

I only had to bring this!!

Awesome much, yeah?? Great deal it was, thus I decided I must catch this! :P

& so this morning, QL and I caught the 1130am movie slot! Before we made our way down to NUS to attend our photoshop workshop at 3ish! ;)

$7.50 for two tickets! :DDD! @ GV Vivocity!

Hello Stranger is a Thai romance-comedy!

(I seriously had no idea they conversed in Thai and we had to read the subtitles!)

BUT. No regrets!!! It was a really enjoyable movie! With the really humorous storyline injected with a tinge of romance, I’d say it was good.  IMHO, I would give it a 4/5! ;)

It was not all funny, parts of the movie were really saddening, especially the ending. F A T E. Nonetheless, it was still bitter sweet at the end. You gotta catch it to know!

Had a quick lunch before we went back to the interchange to catch 963 back to school!

& While waiting… Teeheeee~

I like how I look here. How come my specs always turn out so ugly in 9/10 photos I take?!?!?!

Please let me have a good hair + specs day tomorrow because I’m gonna have a day out with Jiaying tomorrow! <3

Muahaha I’m back! Liberation never felt sweeter. I swear this is the worst exam I ever had. Hope it gets better ;)

Anyway! Headed to town(!!!!) with my girls after our paper & we caught a movie together! :D

Yes, its non-other than the movie, Bruce Lee, my brother!

It was basically a biopic of Bruce Lee’s life before he became a legend, based on the memoir written by his younger brother.

Honestly, I kind of like the movie!! (On the contrary, one of my girls said it was a lil draggy) It was a pretty long one though, 2h 9mins. I guess he’s one interesting person we would love to find out about. Since the story is based on the memoir, I have no idea how to describe the movie!! So if y’all love Bruce Lee’s movies, its another you shouldn’t miss! ;) It kinds of gives us a whole big picture of this man’s life. From his birth till the time he turned really famous. Shall not be a spoiler. Catch it okay!

I’d rate the movie a 4/5! Cos I really like it!!

& I didn’t fall asleep at all! :)))

I really like the main lead who portrayed as Bruce Lee. HE VERY HANDSUMMM LEY. (Then again, probably only to me. My girls don’t agree.)

He has very sharp features! Very nicee and sharp nose!!!

This is super LOL! WATCH TO KNOWWW.

I think he looks good too even in his nerdy glasses! Woahhh love him! :D Okay his name is Aarif Lee.

I know I haven’t been updating this space for a bit. But school work’s been keeping me way too occupied. Much more than I’d like to be. Grrr~

Anyway, Thanks to Omy.sg and Shaw Organisations, I got the privilege of catching the Gala Premiere of Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen! :)))

& I brought RuoYan along!

We met up a little while before the movie time to have dinner!

We decided on going to Wheelock because it was just opposite The Shaw House. Easy to get over there! Walked around and finally decided to have our early dinner @ The Pasta Shop by Sakae! There wasn’t a single soul inside when we decided to step in. Lol!

This was what I ordered:

Spicy Soft Shell Crab Pasta! It was a little spicy for me. :/ I’ really can’t take spicy food!

& darling ordered Carbonara with Bacon and egg! She said its not bad!

Hehehehe. Those were our starters! Edamame and Potato Salad (half seen)! The potato salad was not bad too!

As I was itching for some sweet treats and Big O cafe (?) happened to have some afternoon tea promo until 6pm, we had a little rest at the pasta shop before hopping over to Big O for a piece of cake! :D

We shared this cute little heart shape cake! Mousse based with a little sponge in between! :)

While waiting for the movie… YES, sad uni life!!! We had to make use of the time to MUG!!! D:

& Finally, it was near the time for the movie and we walked over to Lido!

Excited I was as I waited for the start of the movie. DONNIE YEN!  ♥

Thank you Omy & Shaw! It was my first time catching a movie at Lido too! LOL!

Before the movie started! Me & RY!

The theatre was humongous!!!! Serious!

Anyway. If you followed me on Twitter, you’d have known I absolutely enjoyed this movie!! Donnie Yen never failed to amaze me! ♥♥♥

The story was based on the China war times in the olden days.. & when the Japanese took over China. It was quite touching, in some of the parts! I shan’t disclose too much about the movie because YOU GUYS REALLY SHOULD CATCH IT! :D Its gonna be shown in the theatres TOMORROW ONWARDS!!!

&.&.&. Donnie Yen has an ULTRA GOOD BOD!!!♥ I swear. You gotta catch it yourself, seriously! ;) *Drools*

Haha. The only pity was I had the Ip Man feeling in Chen Zhen. It felt like I was watching another Ip Man sequel, but of course, NAHHH. They are all based on different stories. Its just that the fighting scenes brings me back to think of Ip Man! Teeheee.

Okay, enough said. I hope you enjoy the movie as much as I did! :D

(Opps, and I think there’s going to be a sequel for this movie too!)

*editted*

Just casually recalled something I heard over the TV about Donnie Yen when they were interviewing him and the team about the new show.

Shu Qi who was starring in the movie together with him said he’s a perfect man. In the sense that, he has very good control over what he eats (as an actor this is very important, I’m sure you agree), then every morning he’d wake up very early (5am or something?) to train his martial art skills, etc, AND he’s a very sweet husband to his wife.

So he actually inspired Shu Qi a fair bit especially on the control diet part.

WAHHHH. WHERE TO FIND?

It was only in year 2009, when I caught the movie ‘Bodyguards and Assassins’ that I got to know of his (Donnie Yen) existence! (I still remember I blogged about this movie last year!, about how good it was!) I know I know, pathetic I know. It was because I didn’t catch the awesome movie ‘Ip Man’ in 2008! :( I’m a tad slow. I think its alright, because I started appreciating his movies since then! :)) He’s totally admirable!

& then in 2010, it was Ip Man 2! Another biggest box office hit! HEHE. Can’t stop raving how awesome he is!! & I really really love the movie!! I love Donnie Yen!! After catching this movie, I’ll never want to miss any movies starring Donnie Yen! Heeee. =))

I’m sure many of you are probably like me, but I think its never too late to start liking him! I think he’s really good as an actor and he fights really well!! :D

I’m a lazy bum who never bothers doing research on movies; but knowing that he has this upcoming movie, I went to wikipedia a little, and found the whole list of movies he starred in. Amazed, I am, it all started since 1983, and he’s only 47 currently. *WOAHHH* & wiki is so updated that even movies starring Donnie Yen that are showing only in 2011/2012 are already out on the list!

Enough said. Conclusion: I can’t wait for Legend of the Fist! :) I wanna see Donnie Yen! I wanna see him fight!!

Anyway, here’s the synopsis. Its an Andrew Lau film..hoho!

While China is traumatized by military cliques during the World War era in
the 1020s, Shanghai is the cynosure of all eyes. People see it as both Hell’s
Kitchen and Heaven’s Gate/ One of the city’s most memorable heroes has to be
Chen Zhen, who single-handedly avenges his mentor’s death by killing all the
Japanese at a dojo in Hongkou, only to be showered with bullets while making
his legendary flying kick. Vanished from the public eye ever since, he has been
taken dead though his body is never found.

Seven years later, a wealthy entrepreneur called Koo returns from abroad
and makes a grand entrance on the Shanghai social scene by befriending the
notorious mafia boss of the city. This mysterious man is none other than Chen
Zhen in disguise who dwells in a world of nefarious means in order to infiltrate
the criminal empire. He soon discovers a clandestine collusion between the
mafia and the Japanese.

Disguised as a caped crusader at night, Chen sets out to dismantle with his
martial arts skill the evil collusion that plaques the country. One of his foremost
missions is to ferret out the assassination list prepared by the Japanese…

if you wanna know more about the movie, head on to their official website: http://mediaasia.com/legendofthefist/

Remember to catch it 23rd September onwards! I’ll be sure to, too!!! :))

& I’ll definitely do a review after I do! Pretty sure it’ll ROCK, because Donnie Yen is also the action director of this film! HEHEHE!

I managed to catch the movie I’ve always wanted to, which was Au Revoir Taipei. The reason why I wanted to watch was, firstly because of my extreme-fascination/fetish for Taiwan. Its a country I’ve been wanting to go, to nom-noms at their night market, to shop till I drop. Secondly, the poster was really intriguing, nicely designed, deceiving enough.

You see, nice or not!?!?!? Nice right??

Anyway. The whole duration of the movie was 83 minutes. The whole flick was really slow, so bad that it felt like I had been watching the movie for 2-3 hours already, but in reality, it was only around an hour. It was the first movie (from what I could remember), that I had the urge of leaving the theatres half way. (OH, I remember, the other movie I really left the theatres was ‘PERHAPS LOVE’, it was a musical-like movie, few years back.) But well, I stayed on of course..

I’d give this movie 2/5 stars. My friend said I’m already very generous. HAHA!

At the end of the 83 minutes, I felt like I wasted 83 minutes of my time, and 6 bucks on watching the movie!

I was so jealous of the person who was queuing infront of me at the ticketing booth. They bought tickets for Step up 3. :C :C :C I think any other movies which was showing would be better than this lur!

Okay, this was their funny ending scene..

But well well, this movie was good in the sense it was able to portray some of the highlights of Taipei/Taiwan. Like their food street etc. It’d probably be better as a tourism-related advertisement instead of a movie, except that its too draggy and long.

No matter what, I’d still love Taiwan, and someday in the near future, I hope my dreams will come true. I want to be on the lands of Taiwan for a short trip soon!! :]

I LOVE THE MOVIE.

I’m not a ‘magical’ (& cartoon) person. I never liked Harry Potter. But I was intrigued by the storyline of this movie, even though it was ‘magically-based’, so to speak, as its about Sorcerers.

I didn’t fall asleep at all. :) *proud*

I especially love it because it had a sweet and happy ending! :DDD~ It makes me smileeee. & The apprentice is sucha hunk! ;)

I’d rate this movie a 4/5*! *There are still many timing slots available in JB and probably the whole of Malaysia, so M’sians, this movie is worth watching! :D*

My favourite characters! :DDDDD

I wouldn’t reveal much about the storyline, else I’d be a spoiler. Since it isn’t even released yet..

But on the overall, I quite like the movie. Except that it probably lacks a climax? And.. I’m pretty sure, uhm, I mean, I’m expecting a Salt II sometime later.. HAHA!

I hope I’m not revealing too much!

Anyway, I’ll rate the movie 3.5/5.

Not forgetting, Angelina Jolie’s HOT STUFFFFFFF!!! (I want 20% of her HOTNESS PLZXZXZX)

SEE FOR YOURSELF! (& her role in the movie just made her more attractive. brainy.!!!! opps I’ll stop for now!)

HOTTTT! :}

Hope you like the moviee like I did too :D

I’m never a cartoon/anime person. I wouldn’t catch these movies unless its highly recommended, and now, I’m going to highly recommend those who haven’t caught it, to CATCH IT IN THE THEATRES before its gone!!!

The movie was awesome. YOURS TRULY didn’t even fall asleep for a second!!!! Another achievement YAY! The flick was captivating and superrrrrrrrrr cute!!!!!!!!!!

And my favourite character is non other than AGNES!!!♥♥♥ I love her innocence, her humongous-round eyes! I LOVE AGNES! and I believe many others who caught the movie LOVES HER TOO!!

Photo source: http://jaiho.tumblr.com/post/871505855/despicable-me

photo source: http://jaiho.tumblr.com/post/786249741/despicable-me-tomorrow

HAHA, the super dad!

The minions in the movie are so cute too!!! They speak some weird minion language its quite comical!

I love to see the 3 of them and the baddie, who turned good! :D:D SUPER #1 DAD!!

On the overall, I’d rate this movie a 4.5/5!! :DD

A very light hearted movie, for you to laugh your lungs out! :DD

FASTER GO CATCHHHHHHHHH ^^ No regrets!

Other photo sources are from: www.watchmoviee.net/ :)