The Raid

I've been waiting a long time to watch this movie, I've heard the buzz about how great this movie is since last year and i missed the first screening in INAFF 2011 which caused me pissed that whole day.  Finally i watched it last weekend, the eager me standing in the ticket line since 2pm and got tickets for the 7pm slot. It's already half full so i didn't really get the best seat but whatever, i just wanted to watch it right now, that's what i keep thinking and if it's that good you bet I'll watch it again.

I know that it's an action movie, since i watched the trailer like too many times, but i didn't expected it to be that fast and brutal. Five minutes the movie starts i was in awe watching the drug lord villain slaughtering a few thugs after that i got a few minutes to breathe before the SWAT team goes inside the apartment building and then the actions just got escalated from there, it's no more a mission to capture a villain but it became a mission to survive and stay alive. There's so many amazing fighting scenes in this movie and some very clever tricks from the bad guys and the SWAT team to try to take each other down, the kind of scenes that would make you hold your breath the way the SWAT team does. I'm trying not to give spoiler here because i think not knowing what would happen in every scene in this movie is the best feeling, your reaction is the thing that makes this movie awesome.

Everyone knows the hero in this movie is Iko Uwais as Rama, the rookie cop, but i have to give a huge salute and bow to Joe Taslim as Sersan Jaka, Yayan Ruhian as Mad Dog and Ray Sahetapi as Tama. I like Sersan Jaka because i can feel the pressure of  being the team leader, watching your men killed brutally, one by one and losing control of what happened. As for Mad Dog, this guy loves to kill, doesn't like guns and he's literally the real meaning of  Die Hard, John Mclane would kill himself trying to beat Mad Dog. The drug lord villain, Tama, first appear in the screen eating noddles, wore sarong with gun in his hands, that is Indonesian bad ass, right there. No questions ask.

I don't review a movie technically, i review a movie the way i feel when i watch it and The Raid is top notch, you'll be getting fast pace adrenaline rush, a few laughs and a gory sights. What more could you ask for from an action movie.

Life is 50/50

So i got curious and watch 50/50. Joseph Gordon Levitt as Adam Lerner, 27 year old guy whose been living a healthy and perfect life, as he assume he is and then he got Cancer, there's a lump in his spine to be exact. For one and half hour i watched how Adam trying to handle his sickness, cheating girlfriend, worried mom and his buddy who seems taking a lot more advantage from Adam's sickness.

 I'm thinking death immediately while watching this movie. I feel pissed at his girlfriend and buddy whose mean to him but it might be because they're having difficulty trying to adapt with him and his sickness. Like all movie besides the mean girlfriend there's other girl that give hope, in this movie it's Adam's therapist, who encouraged him. By the end, i feel hopeful watching Adam, so it was sad and relieved at the same time. The ending was quite fast though, it kinda left me with, "What? It's done already?".

My Cheesiness on Asian Male Actors

Recently i just watched Ninja Assassin, it's pretty great for a hollywood movie starred by asian lead actors. And i thought, is this kind of a trend we'll looking at? are they're gonna be another good role like this for asian leading actors?. In the mean time, i have a confession to make, i never seem to reveal that i secretly had a crush on asian male actors, i guess i'm cheesy after all...here's the list...

1. Sung Kang

He played one of the coolest character, Han, in Fast and Furious : Tokyo Drift, after that i can't stop watching his movies and few of them are Sundance Film Festival material, such as Better Luck Tomorrow, The Motel, and Finishing the Game. Not just an actor he also a Restaurateur, he own an asian fusion restaurant, Saketini, in LA and he's a blogger too.

2. Ananda Everingham

He's from Laotian and Australian parents. People might know him from The Shutter, movie that i will never watch, but when i watch him in The Leap Years, my jaw dropping to the floor (sorry, over reacted) when i seen him acting as Jeremy Harvey, the object of a woman's love proposal.

3. Daniel Henney

He's the Agent Zero from X Men's Origins: Wolverine. He's a model. He's half Korean. He's good looking. He's like the asian male version of Giselle Bundchen. That's it. I said it all.

4. John Cho

He's just a party guy in American Pie, then as a student who got killed at Better Luck Tomorrow and evolved into Hikaru Sulu on Startrek. Trekkie wave to John Cho.






I didn't feel like picking 5 male so i stop at 4...which means i still looking around for amazing looking asian male out there...^_^

The Last Samurai seems comedic to me....

I have this weird habit of watching movie reruns, if i already watch it i'll be glad to watch it again.

Two days ago, it's The Last Samurai that i watch again, i remember watching this movie when i still in college, since i'm in japanese language major watching this movie seems important. And i remember how my friends cry when Ken Watanabe's character died (i didn't cry,since i have an issue for not being sensitive), it was a very sad scene but the thing that really bug me is i can't really believe why Tom Cruise is the Last Samurai. It seems very comedic to me, because i've learn that japanese have a very big pride about their nation and it's just unbelievable that they let this western short guy to lead and actually stay with the wife of a japanese samurai that he killed.

And i'm glad that this movie didn't get really big in Oscar and the only one that get the nomination is Ken Watanabe. This movie pretty much depicted how the western see us all asians and i hope it changed pretty soon. But in the end it's all about Hollwood and money, imagine if no Tom Cruise in this movie, i don't think it will get Oscar nod.

French Movie Stills

These two movies are my best french movie to watch, amazing cast and unusual scenes feels like living a different life.. A Bout de Souffle

Bande A Part

The Roman Holiday

This is one of my feel good movie, movie that could make my self loathing attitude drain away.

And it's always feels good watching Gregory Peck on a bad day.

Heroines

Sometimes I ask myself how I'd stand up under torture.

You wanna be really great?

Then have the courage to fail big and stick around.

Make them wonder why you're still smiling.

Never take it seriously, you never get hurt.

Never get hurt, you can always have fun.

And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.

Try at something for once in your life.

Do something about it, but you know what?

You better do it now, and you better do it fast,

because the world doesn't owe you any favors.

It took me nearly a year to get here.

It wasn't so hard to cross that street after all,

it all depends on who's waiting for you on the other side.

Movie Inspired

Love isn't about ridiculous little words. Love is about grand gestures. Love is about airplanes pulling banners over stadiums, proposals on jumbo-trons, giant words in sky writing. Love is about going that extra mile even if it hurts, letting it all hang out there. Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn't even know was there.

(Little Manhattan)

Feels like in Detention

I watched The Breakfast Club again today,and how much now i still feels like living in high school where people labeled you as one thing and everybody starts to isolated or even hated you because of that label or just because they're personal opinion.

Saturday, March 24,1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed. Does that answers your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.

Before Sunset

Celine : The past is the past. It's meant to be that way. Jesse : What, you really believe that. That everything is fated? Celine : Well you know, the world might be less free than we think. *****