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Babyville 2007-08-05 07:46:00 In Bayville, you’ll meet Julia, a wildly successful television producer who appears to have the picture-perfect life. But beneath the surface, things are not as perfect as they seem. Stuck in a loveless relationship with her boyfriend, Mark, Julia thinks a baby is the answer.. but she may want a baby more than she wants her boyfriend. Maeve, on the other hand, is allergic to commitment. A feisty, red-haired, high-power career girl, she breaks out in a rash every time she passes a stroller. But when her no-strings-attached nightlife leads to an unexpected pregnancy, her reaction may be just as unexpected. And then there’s Samantha -- happily married and eager to be the perfect June-Cleaver mother. But baby George brings only exhaustion, extra pounds, and marital strife to her once tidy life. Is having an affair with a friend’s incredibly sexy husband the answer?Personally, I think this book start a bit slow. But to get turn off by it and keep going, and soon you’ll find yourself
The Simpsons Movie 2007-08-01 03:51:00 Springfield was trapped in a dome. A huge large dome! And it was all Homer's fault. A weird story line, right? Pretty stupid too. But, hey, it's cartoon, so they get away with it!There's nothing bad that I could say about this movie. It's funny, it's crazy, it's ridiculous, but a good kind of ridiculous! I can't stop laughing watching this movie and it kept me smiling even after the movie ended.Looks like they found a way to convey the global warming message with a sense of humour, huh? And I just love the Spider-pig song. Plus, the "I was elected to leeead, not to reeead" was the best line of all!So, I'm giving this movie 4 out 5 because the Simpsons
Movie was incredibly hilarious!
Vacancy 2007-07-19 07:45:00 Actually, I wanted to watch Die Hard 4.0 but I screwed up with the time and missed it by 20 minutes. Since I was already in front of the ticket counter, I though, oh well.. Let’s just watch the Vacancy.Basically this movie was about a married couple (Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson) got lost and their car broke down in the middle of the night so they decided to spend the night at a cheap motel out of no where. Turn out to be the motel was run by a psycho killer/sick movie maker/video tape seller. Wha?!! Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. But then it’s a slasher movie, so I wasn’t expecting anything less on the first place.The acting was good, although the starting of the movie, Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson keep on jumping on each other’s throat and it was annoying. And from time to time Vacancy made me jump a few time. But that was the only good thing about the movie. Other than that, it was ridiculous!For starters, Vacancy got the worst looking slasher killer of all. And t
Swapping Lives 2007-07-18 12:58:00 Vicky Townsley is single, solvent, and seriously successful. Features director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she has an amazing flat, good friends, a fantastic wardrobe. Pretty much, everything! Except the life she wants by all means, marriage, children, and a house in the country.On the other side of the Atlantic, Amber Winslow has a stone mansion in Connecticut, two kids and a full-time nanny, the requisite golden retriever, and a busy charitable commitment for the local Women's League. But she hasn't quite found the fulfillment she had expected from being a wife and mother. When she spots an intriguing contest in Poise!, Amber never expects to be picked.This is about story of 2 women, both thinking that the grass would be greener on the other side, which is what all of us always think to ourselves from time to time. And when Vicky and Amber swap life, both realize what they’ve been missing and learn about themselves in a way neither of them thought what they would. I Read more:Lives
Bookends by Jane Green 2007-07-18 11:55:00 Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, and–since she had her heart broken a few years back–emotionally closed off. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. They live in London’s West Hampstead along with their lifelong friends, Josh and Lucy, who are happily married with a devil-spawn child and a terrifying Swedish nanny, Ingrid.All is well until the sudden come back of a college friend–the stunningly beautiful Portia, who’s known for breaking hearts. Though they’ve grown up and grown apart from Portia, the four friends welcome her back into the fold. But does Portia have a hidden agenda or is she merely looking to reconnect with old friends? Her reappearance soon unleashes a rollicking series of events that tests the foursome’s friendships to the limit and leaves them wondering if a happy ending is in store.Bookends basically is about friendsh Read more:Green
Transformers by Michael Bay 2007-07-18 05:25:00 I was born in the 80’s and I took pride to be the generation that watches Transformers
everyday. So, when I heard that they’re making the Transformers’ movie, I couldn’t contain myself. What took them so long is the first thing that came to mind.The movie was grand, I give you that. Very! But I wish they would show a bit more of Megatron. I’m the kind of person whom treasure a good villain’s role in a movie, and to my disappointment, Megatron came out a too late and it kind of give people the impression that he’s not that big of deal anyway. I mean, he was supposed to be the biggest villain in Transformers, right? Then how come there’s so little of him in the movie? Another thing is, they sort of portrayed the good Autobots to be cute. Like when they’re hiding from the parents scene. Other than bumblebee, Transformers aren’t suppose to be cute!There’s a lot of funny dialogues in this movie which wasn’t so bad if it’s not too much. I have nothing again Read more:Michael
Spiderman 3 2007-07-18 05:23:00 The thing that I hate so much with this Spiderman
movie is how helpless and annoying Mary Jane is. I mean, after the third movie and after being kidnapped for the third time you’d expect her to at least take some self defense class or something instead of just screaming helplessly with that annoying girly shrill. All she does is screams and get in everybody’s way of saving the world!And what’s with the American flag scene? Oh my god! That was just too cliché and totally unnecessary. Not that I have anything against the American flag or something, but I can’t help rolling my eyes during this scene.Spiderman 3 is a disappointment, I tell you that. For me personally, it’s not about the story itself, because pretty much we all know what’s going to happened from the comics. Although I do think that all of the villains are all a bit ‘soft’ and not as ‘villainish’ as they’re suppose to be. You know what I mean?Venom’s role was too little for my satisfaction. I kn
NEXT 2007-07-18 05:22:00 I don’t really like Nicholas Cage because of his sleepy retarded look. But I guess, in certain movie, I could tolerate him such as this one. Although I like this movie, for some reason, I don’t have much to say about it. Probably because it is a good action movie but nothing more. The whole movie was about the FBI trying to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack and Nicholas Cage, using his ability to foreseen the future eventually agreed to help them. And off they go, scouring around town and some shootings involved, but then, that’s about it. Like I said, it was a good action movie, period. Nothing more. How much would I give? Well, hmm.. 3 out of 5? Yeah, whatever.
The Brave One 2007-09-25 12:54:00 At the beginning, the movie started a bit slow. Trying to portray the main character, Erica Bain as happy, in love and set for life. Thinking that New York is home, a city with it goods and bad, but never horrifying. And then, one unfortunate night, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, Erica and her fiancé was attack by bunch of thugs. Erica survived but her fiancé did not. Living her, alone, scared, traumatized, and changed. This is a movie about a normal citizen, affected by the ever growing crime that has been happening all around the world. She finally had enough, feeling that the authority isn’t doing enough and decided to take matter into her own hand. I was a bit turned off by the slow start, but it picked itself up again about 30 minutes after that. Right after that, it shows how someone doesn’t simply recover from such heinous experience, but they change. They carry grudge, anger and bitterness inside them toward all ‘bad guys’. I admire the way they Read more:Brave
Happy Feet 2007-09-24 05:38:00 Mumble can't sing. And for a bird that I can't sing, he immediately became an outcast. He can't graduate, can't pick up chicks, can't party.. Well, in their own penguin ways, i mean.However, Mumble has a pair of happy feet. He, in our world, we call it tap dance! For real! But the elderly in the penguin society thinks that it's bad luck. And Mumble's dad in a way think that way too. And one day, Mumble met 5 crazy funky 'latino' penguins and they became friends. With those penguins, Mumble went out to a new adventure, trying to solve a mystery about "where does all the fish goes?"That's it. That's all I'm going to tell you about the movie. Too much then it'll be a spoiler, right?But what I can tell you is, this movie has a lot of good and fun song in it. When they sing and dance, you just want to clap your hand and dance with them. And I'm talking about bunch of penguins here. You may think, how can you feel like dancing and clapping by watching bunch of penguins. Yep, th Read more:Happy
Pixar's Animated - Cars 2007-09-24 05:14:00 Some of you may think that this is a kiddie movie. Maybe, but I urge you guys to give it a chance. You might enjoy it. I know I did! This is what you want to watch when you feel like kicking off your shoes, lay back and just enjoy a few laugh from a simple joke.What's the movie about? Well, it's about friendship. About being humble no matter how successful you are. It's about loyalty and helping each other. Sappy, you might think. Well, think again, my friend.The animation is beautiful. The characters are colourful. The storyline was wonderful. What more can you ask? For parents, your kids going to love this movie, no question about that. As for the rest of you, give it a chance. You won't regret it.I hereby award this movie 4 stars! Read more:Pixar
2007-09-23 13:31:42 This is a blog for old movie reviews, new movie reviews, film reviews, dvd reviews, book reviews. We watch, we read, and we'll share it with you!If you like the pictures on the movie posts, simply click on it. It's actually a poster!Have fun, guys!
Evan Almighty 2007-09-07 16:13:00 Honestly, the main reason why I wanted to watch this movie is because I wanted to see Lauren Graham since I'm a big fan of the Gilmore Girls.Evan Almighty
is a straight forward movie, reenacting Noah's journey about building an ark. Showing you how a congressman, chosen by god to save people and the animal from the big flood. I enjoyed it nonetheless. It's silly and funny. The animals are fun to watch. Plus, to see Morgan Freeman as god was pretty entertaining.This movie is light and relaxing. Portrays a family that's falling apart because of the madness but still managed to find their way back to each other. Suitable for parents to take their kids to, I'm sure they will love it. But for the others, other than a few good laugh, it's just another movie.For this one, I'll give 3 stars as this is a good kiddie movie though. Kinda remind me of Jumanji.
Rush Hour 3 2007-09-07 14:21:00 Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan have this bond between each other. When they act together, it put a smile on your face. Chris's wit and Jackie's innocent look. It made you laugh uncontrollably. And this time, they're going to Paris!It has good action scene as the Rush Hour
1 and 2 always delivered. However, i must say, I'm a little dissapointed with this one. Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie and I enjoyed it very much. But as the third Rush Hour you expect it to be better than the prequels right? Sadly for me, it's not. In fact, I think it's the weakest one.It's hilarious and I had a good laugh. But once a while, I can't help but feel that some of the jokes are a bit cheap and desperate which I expect better from Rush Hour. Maybe this time they're trying too hard. Or maybe you just couldn't make the movie any better the one before was already the best. I don't know.. All I know is, Rush Hour 3 is the weakest one compare to the Rush Hour 1 and 2.So, I hereby give this mo
Rogue Assassin 2007-09-28 12:10:00 Rogue Assassin
or in the US the title of this movie is, War. Not sure why it got different version of tittle for different countries, but hey, I'm more interested about the movie. So, here goes..Ever since The Transporter, I have this fascination over Jason Statham. I always picture him as this cool cold dude, hit man like, with dangerous quality and swift moves. And if you ask me, I’ll say he should be the hit man in the Hitman movie instead of Timothy Olyphant. Seriously!And I’ve always like Jet Li. I think he’s the next Bruce Lee. And off I went, to watch this movie because my first impression was; this movie has the coolest casts’ combination.Rogue Assassin was about a war between the Triad and the Yakuza. Here’s a simple picture, the Triad go around and killed the Yakuza. The Yakuza go around and killed the Triad. The FBI enters the war and killed everybody!Sounds simple right? Well, pretty much. The main reason why this movie was good, at least, the most part of it, wa Read more:Rogue
Resident Evil: Extinction 2007-10-05 13:30:00 The third Resident
Evil which humanity is facing the extinction. The T-virus has wiped out almost the entire human causing them to turn into mindless, barbaric and disgusting looking zombie and causing the world to become some kind of a wasteland. Oh dear, I hope that would never happen in the real world.Anyway, Milla Jovovich played Alice as usual, now possess a new upgraded psychic power. And she’s kicking ass! The way she escaped from those crazy zombie dogs. Super cool! Ops, there’s a tiny spoiler. Sorry.However, I must say that I still like the first Resident Evil
better. Resident Evil the Extinction doesn’t have as much combat scene which what makes the movie rocks on the first place. Plus, half of the movie, Alice was more of a loner and it made the movie a bit.. quiet. I like it that she has psychic power, though.The ending was exhilarating but they just love to leave you hanging, don’t they. I honestly hope that there’ll be the fourth Resident Evil although I doubt t
The Invasion 2007-10-03 11:18:00 I read in Yahoo’s News about a group of scientist that brought a type of virus to space. This virus that they brought is the culprit that usually causes food poisoning. Their study shows that being to space and back on earth causes the virus to become more dangerous and fatal. This is real, guys!The Invasion
, on the other hand was about an infected space shutter with some kind of alien microorganism. The space shutter crashed and infected every human that came in contact with the virus.. microorganism.. well, whatever you want to call it.Those who are infected will turn into an emotionless and cold creature. However, in order for the virus to take charge and change the human, they need the human to fall asleep. And pretty much that was the movie about, seeing Nicole Kidman trying to stay awake so that she wouldn’t turn into an alien and keep her son away from harm.The story line and the concept may sounds a bit ridiculous. But I was very surprise to found that it wasn’t bad at al
Knocked Up 2007-10-02 15:34:00 This is a gentle reminder about those party animals out there. One night stand could haunt your entire life. Having said that, let’s talk about the movie.Obviously, Knocked Up is about Katherine Heigl playing Alison Scott got.. well, knocked up! And in this movie we get to see how it being knocked up affected her life and how she dealt with it. Ok, I would like to stop using the word ‘knocked up’ now.The strength in this movie doesn’t lie in the story line. It’s in it comedy and humours. The storyline is average although they do have a good concept. And I liked the way they showed how men and women think about each other in a relationship. Not to mention that they showed it in a light and humorous way. And I kept laughing all the way till the end.Katherine Heigl paired up with Seth Rogen seems like a ridiculous looking pair, right? It’s like beauty and the beast. I guess, it was kinda the whole point. But at the end of the day, they pulled it off and they do look like they
Bee Movie 2007-11-17 04:29:00 I’ve watched this movie a week ago, yet only now that I could post my review. The thing is, I’m having trouble trying to come up with any opinions about this movie. When people ask me, “Have you watched the Bee Movie
?” I said, “Yeah.” But then when they proceed to asking me “So, how was it?” I said, “I don’t know.”It’s not like I had a bad time watching the movie. And it’s not like the movie was very bad. That’s the thing, if a movie was bad, I can write a review telling you that it sucks or it’s not worth your money watching it.. etc. And if a movie was good, I’ll write, 5 stars, go watch it or something like that. But the Bee Movie.. Hmmm..You know what’s worst than a bad movie? A forgettable one. And that’s why I don’t know what to write or comment or say about Bee movie. It’s extremely forgettable. I had a laugh, I watched it ‘till the end, but the minute I stepped out of the movie, I forgot about it. Not like I forgot what was the movie ab
Lions For Lambs 2007-11-23 05:46:00 From the trailer, I thought Lions
for Lambs is an action movie. But I couldn’t have been more wrong.This movie is more like a propaganda talking about the war in the Middle East. They talked about it from every angle, well, almost every angle. They showed the government, the media, the troops and the American citizens’ point of views.In Lions for Lambs, you can hear how the government tried to justify their act. And you can try to understand why some boys volunteered to be drafted. You can also see the media’s suspicions and their ignorant. And you can hear the American debate between a professor and his student about the war.Lets see.. How do I write this review about being blatantly obvious about how much anti American government I am? I mean, when it comes to the middle east war issue. Forgive me, honestly, I never agree with the war on the first place and let just admit, we all know that this war is just a power struggle and greed for the oil. And I think it's pointless. It
Beowulf 2007-11-25 00:18:00 I remembered a long time ago, I was watching Ellen DeGeneres talking about expectations. She said that by having expectations, you’ll easily get disappointed. Without having any however, if something goes well, you’ll be surprise and delighted. Typical Ellen, she made me laugh before she proceeds to dancing around with her audience. I didn’t think much of what she said until after I watched Beowulf.Buying the ticket to watch Beowulf, I have no expectation what so ever. Not for a second that it crossed my mind if the movie will be good or not. I wasn’t curious about the movie at all. Sitting comfortably in my seat, all that I could think was, what on earth does ‘Beowulf’ mean? And then, the movie starts…Beowulf was actually a hero. His name, Beowulf actually meant, be wolf. More like Achilles, legendary and well known all over the world. He was obnoxious, arrogant and confident with his ability and reputation. And he came to aid a country that was in terror for being const
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