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Jul 11

Movie Review: Knight and Day

Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 in Movies | Viewed 180 times

imageMy friend’s friend won tickets at their company’s competition and wonderfully shared it with his friends.  As a friend’s friend, I was able to watch this movie with them.  Initially, I thought we were going to watch Karate Kid or Toy Story 3, but since my friend watched Toy Story 3 already and Karate Kid has only one showing that day, we decided to watch Knight and Day.

My initial thought was, “Night and Day”?  I don’t even know the movie.  After watching the trailer, I said to myself maybe it’s a good movie since the cast are star-studded.  Reminiscing my crush with Tom Cruise era.  haahah!

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Jun 27

Movie Review: Karate Kid

Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 in Movies | Viewed 134 times

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A fan of the 1984 movie with the cute Ralph Macchio, I didn’t know that it was revived by Jackie Chan until a friend of mine suggested that I watched it.  My friend and I went to The Village and checked the schedule.  Luckily there was one starting in 30 minutes so we had time to walk around the mall then come back for the start of the show.  Ticket costs RMB 80 per head and it wasn’t packed.  The movie theatre itself has nice comfy seats and pretty good sound system.

Sherry Parker (Taraji Henson) is a single mom whose work caused her to move with his son, Dre (Jaden Smith) to China.   While playing basketball, Dre noticed a young lady, Mei Ying, who was listening to music while reading her sheet music.  Dre approached Mei Ying but was later prevented by Mei Ying’s family friend who’s well versed in Kung Fu.  A short fight ensured with Dre in the ground agonizing in pain.  Dre later found out, that they all went to the same school and Mei Ying is applying for a slot with the Beijing Academy of Arts.  As a young man in China, Dre dreams of learning kung fu.  He found a school with her mom one day to only find out that the guy who beat

Feb 19

Movie Review: My Sassy Girl

Posted on Friday, February 19, 2010 in Movies | Viewed 292 times

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It’s the end of our holiday and what a good way to end it by watching a romantic movie ALONE (hahaha!).  In any case, I can’t wait to see if this movie will live up to the Korean version standards.

I’ve watched the Korean version of My Sassy Girl four years ago.  I know they’ve released the American version of the movie but it never was shown here in China or maybe I just didn’t notice.  I remember waiting for it and finding it on DVD today, made me buy this movie.

My Sassy Girl : American Version

My Sassy Girl started with Charlie (Jesse Bradford) standing in one of the trees in Central Park reminiscing about the love story of his life.  It started out two years ago with him studying for a business degree in college and finding out that his cousin suddenly died.  He met Jordan (Elisha Cuthbert) in the park who his friend dared him

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Jan 30

Movie Review: Confucius

Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 in Movies | Viewed 942 times

imageWith a star-studded cast, this movie is bound to be a hit.  My friends and I watched this movie on a Sunday night not knowing what the movie is all about.  Our first question was if it has English subtitles and luckily they do.

The movie started with Confucius visiting the ruler of the Kingdom of Lu where he is the mayor of one of the cities.  The ruler is impressed with how he ruled his city as people were happy with how he govern and they are contributing much to the kingdom’s coffers.

With his rise in fame and how he outwitted one of the other mayors, he gained disciples who follow his teachings.  His disciples are well known for their intelligence, strategy and loyalty.  From mayor, he became the Minister of Law, then Interim Minister of the Kingdom.  A lot of government officials were jealous and upset with him as he’s merely a commoner and not a noble.  In the end, they were able to convince the ruler to let him go.

Oct 5

Movie Review: Yaya & Angelina

Posted on Monday, October 5, 2009 in Movies | Viewed 905 times

Are you a kid?  Do you throw a tantrum if you don’t get your way?  Do you go out of your way to act it out?  If so, you could relate if you watch this movie.  I’m not really a fan of watching Tagalog movies more so comedies which are acted out by Michael V.  However, as I was with my aunt’s family last Sunday, my cousin wanted to watch this Tagalog movie about spoiled brats.

The movie?  Yaya & Angelina the Spoiled Brat Movie.   Yaya & Angelina was only of the segments on one of Michael V and Ogie Alcasid’s comedy show.  As the public masses like it so much, they made it into a movie.

The movie is about Angelina (Ogie Alcasid), an eight year old only child of Daddy (Jomari Ylana) and Mommy (Aiko Melendez).  She’s an angel to her parents but a terror to her yaya.  She manipulates the people around her.  No yaya can stand her and her parents had a hard time looking for one. 

After several attempts of finding a yaya, here comes Yaya (Michael V) who has years of experience taking care of children of both foreign and local families.  Angelina is clever and very talkative.  She knows how to push the buttons of people.  Her ideas brought about the destruction of their home, a supermarket and a pet shop. 

Of course, a story without any villain will be boring.  In this movie, the villain wanted to kill the Duchess of Wellington by planting a bomb on the flowers that she will receive from one of the students at Angelina’s school.  Angelina accidentally found out and was kidnapped by the villain’s goons. 

As her parents were so busy, her only hope was her yaya.  Yaya was able to rescue her and to make the long story short, they were able to spoil the attempt of the villain and save the day.

Verdict:  2 out of 5.  It’s really so cheesy and the story was quite shallow.

Oct 3

Movie Review: The Proposal

Posted on Saturday, October 3, 2009 in Movies | Viewed 184 times

It came as a surprise to me that Philippine Airlines have in-flight entertainment already on their Beijing-Manila route.  Last time I flew with this airline in 2006, there were no radio nor magazine nor newspapers, what more movies right? 

Anyway, I’m quite happy that the movie they showed was a comedy featuring one of my favorite actresses, Sandra Bullock.  This movie is a comeback movie for Sandra after taking quite a long break.  She still look pretty and curvaceous though a bit older.

The Proposal is about a high powered executive, Margaret (Sandra Bullock) who was in the brink of being deported back to her native Canada.  As a way to escape the clutches of the immigration personnel, she blackmailed her assistant, Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her. 

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