Friday, January 30, 2004

bah.

sickeningggg.
just went to the Gothika official website to check out the story and trailer.
had some luck with the trailer.
saw halle berry in 4 bit colour.
-_-;
suddenly there was a bright flash and a scream.
i saw splotches of blue and pink and i didn't know what the hell was going on.
tried to view the story.
couldn't highlight the text in the flash presentation.
only saw blobs of blue against black background.
bah.
i need a new comp.
*complains*

haiiii
they were burning incense last night.
the hokkien people, i think.
according to my mom.
my sis was complaining last night how she couldn't sleep because of all the smoke.
and i was coughing.
am still smelling smoke.
ugh.
people all falling ill.
ew.
good business for the doctors.
and roy.
sleep more. sleep earlier. =/
even if you don't complete all that's been assigned to you it's still fine
you'll get through fine.
if it's other things that's keeping you awake
show them the finger, yeah?
=/
j2's an important year. take care of your health.
it'll be horrid to be sick during the exam, y'know.

*cough + sneeze*
anyway today's my sis' 15th bdae.
whee.
old old old old liaooooooo.
happy burfdaeeee to herrrr
happi birthdaaayyy to herrr
happi burfdae happy birthdayyyy
happy birthday to her.
xP

she came home earlier than expected.
much much earlier.
she's sick too.
thank goodness there's a stash of stuff at home to be given to her as presents.
>_<
bought much earlier.
heng heng heng.
horrible horrible year.
haiiii.

Suspense/Horror and Thriller
1 hr. 35 min. A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the very same mental institution in which she works, with no memory of the murder of her husband (Dutton) that she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her coworkers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn... which only further convinces all involved of both her guilt and her increasingly stead descent into madness and delusion.
Release Date: November 21st, 2003 (wide).
MPAA Rating: R for violence, brief language and nudity.

ok.. supernatural stuff.
i'm erhh.. freaked? =/
>_<
i think you'll find me hiding under the seat with the mouldy popcorn bits tomorrow evening.
*sweatdrops*
i used to like this genre
now i'm just simply freaked.
T_T

erk.
dith is softttttttttttttt.
bAH.

Parents should know that this movie has intense peril and disturbing, graphic, and grisly images of violence. There are references to extremely violent crimes. There is nudity in a scene of a group shower and a joke about circumcision. Characters use very strong language. One positive note is the portrayal of a strong, intelligent, resourceful black woman

eeeee.
^^;

all the reviews not v good.
o.0

another synopsis from moves.com

A respected criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) hears confessions from a satanic patient (Pen?lope Cruz) and later has an experience with a mysterious woman. This leads to nightmares, but her life really becomes horrific when she wakes up and discovers she's been locked in her own sanitarium for a murder that she can't remember committing. It turns out that the victim is, in fact, her husband (Charles S. Dutton), the hospital's administrator, and all the evidence points to her. While trying to figure out what's happened and separate fact from fiction, her colleague (Robert Downey Jr.) wonders whether she's finally gone crazy.

o.0
>_<~

now, House of Sand and Fog looks less frightening.. ^^;

Drama
2 hrs. 06 min. Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley) is living a lie to fulfill a dream. Once a member of the Shah of Iran's elite inner circle, he has brought his family to America to build a new life. Despite a pretense of continued affluence, he is barely making ends meet until he sees his opportunity in the auction of a house being sold for back taxes. It is a terrible mistake. Through a bureaucratic snafu, the house has been improperly seized from its rightful owner, Kathly Lazaro (Connelly). The loss of her home tears away her last hope of a stable life - a life nearly destroyed by addiction - and Kathy decides to fight to recover her home... at any cost.

erk.
*sneezes again*
stupid construction outside.
screwing me uppp.
i smell joss stick, incense and engine smoke.
@#^$#&$%&#Q%!@#%@$^#&$&%@#%@#%@$@!@%@$@$!@$%@^$@#%&#&*#@#%@$^@%&@$#%!#%!@^$#&*$*(%&($^#$%@$!@$~!#%@%&$*$%(%#$^@$!#!#@&%*&(&^%#$@!$^!@&%&#*%(%)^)%$#$!@#!@#*^%()^%#$$@^
gonna fall ill soon.
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BAh.

i still opt to watch Stuck On You.
heh, senseless comedy by the Farrelly brothers.
whee!
although i never watched Shallow Hal or Dumb and Dumber,
but i've heard good reviews for this.
slapstick comedy i reckon, about cojoined twins.
xP

The Butterfly Effect looks good.
shall anticipate that.

Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
1 hr. 53 min. A young man (Kutcher) struggling with the psychological effects of sublimated childhood memories devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body, but he finds that every trip back has unintended results on his present self, leading him to travel back again and again, trying to repair the damage that he's only making worse and worse.

but it's a concept thought up by erh...
dunno which philosopher.
sci fi stuff.
reminds me of a lot of shows. but hey, it's the top movie in the US now.

and AHhhhhhhhhhh.
ALong Came Polly.
Ben stiller!!!!!!!

Comedy
1 hr. 30 min. Ben Stiller plays risk-averse Reuben Feffer, whose best-laid plans for life and love careen wildly off track when his bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor. Stunned, humiliated and in the grip of acute indigestion, Reuben plans to play it safer than ever. But a chance encounter with an adventure-craving, childhood friend named Polly (Jennifer Aniston) shoots him into a whirlwind of extreme sports, spicy foods, ferrets, salsa dancing and living in the moment.

hahahaha. saw the trailer on tv. damn farnieeeeeeee.

hmm. and This.
the Win a Date with Tad Hamilton movie..
LoL. typical teen dream feel good sorta movie.
sounds interesting, but mundane, nonetheless.

1 hr. 35 min. When a hot young actor, Tad Hamilton (Duhamel) agrees to participate in a "win a date" contest to promote his new movie, his world is turned upside-down when he finds himself falling in love with the winner, a grocery store checkout girl from West Virginia named Rosalie (Bosworth). Showing up in her hometown to profess his love, Tad unwittingly inspires Rosalee's longtime best friend (Grace), who works with her as a bagger at the Piggly Wiggly, to also admit his love for her, putting Rosalee in the middle of a very unexpected romantic triangle... who will she pick? The best friend who's always been there for her, or the guy whose face decorates the walls of millions of girls' bedrooms?

now as for Big FIsh, i don't know what they're driving at.
but the poster looks good and the title so abstract i might just watch it for a kick.
Drama and Comedy
2 hrs. 05 min. Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) has always been a teller of tall-tales about his oversized life as a young man (Ewan McGregor), when his wanderlust led him on an unlikely journey from a small-town in Alabama, around the world, and back again. His mythic exploits dart from the delightful to the delirious as he weaves epic tales about giants, a witch and conjoined-twin lounge singers. With his larger-than-life stories, Bloom charms almost everyone he encounters except for his estranged son Will (Billy Crudup). When his mother Sandra (Jessica Lange) tries to reunite them, Will must learn how to separate fact from fiction as he comes to terms with his father's great feats and great failings.

hmm. Cold Mountain.
stellar cast.
but mm.
the plot is erh..

Romance and Drama
2 hrs. 35 min. Directed by Academy Award?-winner Anthony Minghella ("The English Patient", "The Talented Mr. Ripley") and based on Charles Frazier's best-selling Civil War novel of the same name, COLD MOUNTAIN tells the story of Inman (Jude Law), a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart, Ada (Nicole Kidman). In his absence, Ada struggles to survive, and revive her father's farm with the help of intrepid young drifter Ruby (Renee Zellweger).

and.. WahAHahaha i wanna watch Torque merely for the octane action!
xP

Action/Adventure
1 hr. 34 min. Set in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing, this action movie shows what happens to long-time biker (and non-gang member) Cary Ford (Henderson) when he is framed by a long-time rival, Henry (Schulze), the leader of a biker gang called the Hellions for the murder of Sleepy D, the brother of Trey Wallace (Cube), the leader of the Machine, the most notorious and feared biker gang in the country. Cary and his friends must make a run for it as they have both Trey and his Machine bikers and the FBI on their tails.

eeee. another murder mystery.
but nice and intriguing, and as Tay Yak Keak put it in Life!,
a very serious film.
Mystic River.

Thriller and Drama
2 hrs. 17 min. When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine spent their days playing stickball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham. Nothing much out of the ordinary ever happened, until a moment's decision drastically altered the course of each of their lives forever. Twenty-five years later, the three find themselves thrust back together by another tragic event--the murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter. Now a cop, Sean is assigned to the case and he and his partner are charged with unraveling the seemingly senseless crime. In the wake of the sudden and terrible loss of his child, Jimmy's mind becomes consumed with revenge--and his own plans to find the killer. Caught up in the maelstrom is Dave, now a lost and broken man fighting to keep his demons at bay. As the investigation creeps closer to home, his wife Celeste becomes consumed by suspicion and fear, while Jimmy's wife, Annabeth, draws her family tighter together in order to weather the storm.

WAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
I WANNA WATCH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE PERFECT SCORE
WHAAHHAHAHAHAA.
check it Outtttttt

Comedy and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 43 min. Six high school students band together and develop a plan to steal the answers for the S.A.T. in order to prevent the test from unfairly defining who they'll become. Each student in the group has his or her own set of circumstances that leads to the conclusion that the only way to truly decide one's own fate is to beat the system.

heh, Barbershop 2 : Back in Business looks kewt.
Comedy
Calvin, Eddie, Terri, Jimmy, Isaac, Ricky, and Dinka are open for business again at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time against urban developers looking to replace "mom & pop" establishments with name-brand chains. The world changes, but some things never go out of style--from current events and politics to relationships and love, you can still say anything you want at the barbershop.

hm.
Catch That Kid looks dumb.
eeee.

hahahahahahha
50 First Dates.
YAY A SANDLER MOVIE!

Comedy and Romance
Henry Roth (Sandler), a veterinarian at an aquarium in Hawaii, falls in love with a girl, Lucy (Barrymore), with short-term memory loss, but he has to keep getting her to fall in love with him every time they meet in order for them to have a relationship, since she never remembers the last time she met him.

haha, bound to be lame and Sandler-ish
:D~

and Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii wanna watch THISSSSsssssssssssss
Osama.
Art/Foreign and Drama
1 hr. 22 min. Set in Afghanistan, just as the Taliban began to take over, as women found themselves forbidden from coming out onto the streets unless accompanied by a man or a boy. The story focuses on a mother and a grandmother who have no living husbands or sons, so they disguise a daughter (Golbahari) as a boy named Osama so that she can escort her mother as she leaves the house, looking for work

hrm. Kitchen Stories looks hellava interesting!
wonder if they'll have this and Osama in singaporean theatres?
=/

Comedy and Drama
1 hr. 32 min. In post war Sweden it was discovered that every year, an average housewife walks the equivalent number of miles as the distance between Stockholm and Congo, while preparing her family meals. So the Home Research Institute sent out eighteen observers to a rural district of Norway to map out the kitchen routines of single men. The researchers were on twenty-four-hour call, and sat in special strategically placed chairs in each kitchen. Furthermore, under no circumstances were the researchers to be spoken to, or included in the kitchen activities.

Goodbye Lenin! (tried dling this halfway =/)
Art/Foreign and Comedy
When his mother, a steadfast Communist, has a heart attack and falls into a coma while watching him being arrested during a protest in Berlin in 1989, a young East German man becomes concerned that when she wakes up, the excitement of the fall of the Berlin Wall may be too much for her. So eight months later, as she is returning home from the hospital, he sets about recreating the era of Communist era East Germany in the area around her apartment, but with everyone being so caught up in their new-found democracy, the illusion of depressing Iron Curtain malaise is difficult to maintain.

Eurotrip sounds interesting too.
Comedy and Romance
When the German pen pal that a high school student, Scott Thomas (Mechlowisz), has been using to help him get an "A" in German (by translating his homework over the Internet) for years suggests that they meet, the boy's reaction is to freak out, thinking that "Mieke" is a) a guy and b) some sort of older sexual stalker, looking for a young boyfriend. When he discovers to his delight that his pen pal is actually a cute fraulein (Bohrs), he and his best friend, Cooper (Pitts (who tries to con his summer internship boss into thinking he's still in America), fly to Europe, accompanied by twins Jenny (Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Wester), after graduation to meet her, in an exciting and sometimes wacky trip across Europe (London to Paris to Amsterdam), headed for Berlin.

hrm. holy movie.
The Passion Of the Christ.

This film tells the story of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus (Caviezel), on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. This film's script is based upon several sources, including the diaries of St. Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) as collected in the book, "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ", "The Mystical City of God" by St. Mary of Agreda, and the New Testament books of John, Luke, Mark and Matthew.

arty movie!
Distant.

Art/Foreign and Drama
1 hr. 50 min. Set in Istanbul, Turkey, during a snow-covered winter, this is the story of a lonely (and yet hermit-like) photographer who lets one of his relatives from the remote village he grew up in live with him for a while in the city while looking for a job on a transatlantic ship.

and hai. i'm still dying from the engine exhaust and the smoke and my never-ending sniffles.
x_X

OMG LOOK AT THIS
SO CUTE
robot stories
Four stories about robots make up Greg Pak's inventive, comedic science-fiction film. In My Robot Baby, a couple of aspiring parents go to an adoption agency, anticipating their first child. However, instead of the human baby they expected, they are given a robot baby as a parenting test. Equipped with computer sensors, the robot baby monitors its parents' caregiving, recording such crucial information as when it is fed and how often it is cuddled. However, when its father is called away on a business trip, mom is left with a significant burden--a very bad robot. Next, in The Robot Fixer, which is the most effective and moving story of the bunch, a mother and daughter tend to their son/brother, who has fallen into a coma after being hit by a car. Going to his apartment, they find a neglected collection of Microbots, and they decide to reassemble the bots piece by piece--finding arms, legs, and other accoutrements at garage sales and in toy stores. Machine Love is the most outrageous of the vignettes. It is the story of a G9 iPerson, the newest model of personal computer in the year 2007. The computer appears to be an actual person who looks like an office worker and is programmed not only to perform work, but to adapt to office culture. When the iPerson meets his love interest, his programming proves to be very multifunctional. In the final installment of ROBOT STORIES, entitled Clay, an old man living in 2027 prepares to die. Longing for the wife he lost long before, he debates whether to die a natural death or undergo "scanning," a process by which his consciousness may live on after his body is gone. ROBOT STORIES is a unique and truly entertaining film.

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i wanna watch!
xP

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Comedy and Romance
This is the story of a guy, Joel (Carrey), who discovers that his long-time girlfriend, Clementine (Winslet), has undergone a psychiatrist's (Wilkinson) experimental procedure in which all of her memory of Joel is removed, after the couple has tried for years to get their relationship working fluidly. Frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn't remember their time together, Joel agrees to undergo the procedure as well, to erase his memories of Clementine. The film, which takes place mostly within Joel's mind, follows his memories of Clementine backwards in time as each recent memory is replaced, and the procedure then goes on to the previous one, which is likewise seen, and then erased. Once the process starts, however, Joel realizes he doesn't really want to forget Clementine, so he starts smuggling her away into parts of his memory where she doesn't belong... which alters other things about his memories as well.

The Reckoning
Drama
In 14th Century England, this powerful tale of redemption follows a fugitive priest (Paul Bettany) who falls in with a troupe of travelling actors (led by Willem Dafoe). As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover that the townspeople know the woman did not, in fact, commit the murder. The stage becomes a place where vital human truth is told. The fugitive priest comes to terms with his own crime and makes a powerful sacrifice, thereby redeeming himself.

Monster. omg CHarlize THeron
Crime/Gangster, Drama and Thriller
1 hr. 49 min. Aileen Wuornos (Theron) had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan, becoming a prostitute (and pregnant) by the age of 13. Wuornos eventually moved to Florida where she became a highway prostitute, servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. This movie focuses on the nine month period in 1989 and 1990 during which she had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby (Ricci), and during which she also began murdering any of her clientele who tried to rape her.

i wanna watch Lost IN Translation too~
Drama
1 hr. 45 min. This is the story of two Americans, a washed-up TV star (Murray) in town for a TV whiskey commercial shoot, and the (very) young wife (Johansson) of a photographer, who meet in Tokyo, Japan and end up spending a weekend hanging out there together on a "soul-searching mission."

zZZZZZZZzzzzzz.

...and dith babbled on at the insane hour of 2:35:00 PM