Space Cadet BLing

So, Star Trek did manage to help me forget the agony of that ManU Arsenal game. Well… maybe not exactly. It was seeing the way Chelsea got knocked out by Barcelona that made me feel not so bad about my team. For Chelsea fans… OK. Now, THAT’S really painful.

On that note, on to the reviews… have been bingeing on movies lately, so here they are:

1. Role Models – My friend Kitt asked me to watch this coz one of the characters reminded him of me, and that’s the Dungeons n’ Dragons geek kid. (yeah, right! May Stromgar’s Hammer strike him for spreading these lies!) Overall, it was a really fun movie and I was actually pretty surprised how much airplay the roleplaying aspect got throughout the whole movie. Good juvie fun. 7 out of 10.

2. Yes Man – pretty well done comedy, but pretty darn similar I think to Role Models, in that Carrey & Rudd play really down and depressive blokes with girlfriends that left them because they’re so negative. Also has a little bit of that geeky roleplay element in the movie with the Harry Potter lovin’ Aussie boss. Love the chemistry between him and Zoey Deschanel. They make one of the cutest on screen couples I can think of. Also a solid 7 out of 10 for me.

3. Star Trek – has the best ever opening sequence of any movie I can remember. Never have I cried in the 1st 10 minutes of any movie, and I did! Whatdaheck????? I’m talking about the scene where James T Kirk’s dad sacrificed himself to save his family and crew from the Romulan bad guys. Overall, I thought this was a great movie, not as great as what Dark Knight did to the Batman franchise great, but still classic nonetheless. Felt like it started really awesome and started to plateau somewhat after that. Wasn’t too keen on the characters playing Chekhov, Sulu and Scotty (Simon Pegg’s comedy relief is a little too deliberate, that overdone Russian accent from Yelchin… Yeeelllch! and Cho’s a little awkward in his fight scenes) I really did like what they did to Kirk, Spock and Uhura though.Sorta lukewarm with Karl Urban’s Dr. McCoy though. Felt he was trying to push the comedy button one too many times. But for me, the worst was Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack. Too clangy clash of cymbals jarring, not a hint of a recognizable theme in it until the original score hit the end credits, and then when there was the soft moments, I had LOST flashback literally. The main theme also seemed overly dramatic. Sigh. I would’ve preferred someone like John Powell or maybe George Fenton if they can’t get John Williams. OK, after all that, my score? 8.5 out of 10. Still like it a lot!

4. Gran Torino – Loved this one from Clint Eastwood. Such a modest and underwhelming movie, I mean, an ageing racist Korean Vet, a Hmong community, no big special effects, not much action whatsoever, but the thing is that is the charm of Eastwood’s movies. He can point the lens at anything and anyone who no one cares about, and makes audiences cry over them. 8 out of 10 for me.

And that’s 4 for now… wanted to make it a rounded 5, next one up I think I’m gonna catch is JCVD. But gotta catch up on my work. Well, I’m off. Gotta draw some stuff for Men’s Health Magazine.

Feeling really down lately since Arsenal’s loss to Man Utd… to the point of being numb and sort of going through the motions of the day in a rather dazed mood. Yeah, I expected them to lose, I’d say. Even before the match I didn’t really have a good feeling, I’d say. If we lose, Star Trek is coming up on Thursday, yeah, and my sorrows would be washed away by great escapist space battles and visual effects spectacularrr… I’d say. Well, who am I kidding? I said all those things to convince myself that hey, it’s okay Arsenal lost. Well, it’s NOT okay! I’m sad, I’m angry, but I don’t blame anybody for that. I’m just disappointed that they didn’t put up much of a fight and wipe that arrogant grin off that &#*(!^@ Ronaldo’s face, anything… so that I can say I’m proud of my team that day.

To rub more salt into our wounds, Nicklas Bendtner was literally caught with his pants down at a nightclub after drinking his sorrows away at a nightclub after the loss. Disgraceful. More gloat ammo for Man U fans.

And if that didn’t get any worse, Suleiman Alphonso Omondi, a 29 year-old Gooner in Kenya, hanged himself after the game. He died wearing an Arsenal jersey. Even as I believe whole heartedly that life is too beautiful for one to take, even his own, I’m not gonna wag my finger and say he was stupid man to have done that to himself. I’m not gonna preach my opinion about how we all shouldn’t take this too seriously, this is just a game, yada yada. All I’m gonna say is that it just bloody breaks my heart to hear this.

That’s it for now. I poured my sorrow out and I’m gonna go back to being numb again. It’s a coping mechanism.

Ben out.

Went to check out GSC’s website to see if I can do a prebooking for Star Trek. Couldn’t find it. So I went to check out what’s coming soon.

Then I got really frustrated. Why aren’t they showing their upcoming movies? I mean, Terminator Salvation, Star Trek, all that… where they be? Then I looked closely…

Apparently, there’s a Thai movie called “Coming Soon” directed by a Mr. Sopon Sukdapisit. Confirmed it on IMDB. But I mean, whadahelllll? Coming Soon? Why not call it “Coming Attractions” while you’re at it. Or “Reservations”… way to go for confusing people. I wonder if the movies are more successful because people like me are checking out upcoming movies and accidentally coming across this movie… or less so because people are always skipping the Coming Soon, thinking that it’s still coming soon… Coming Soon coming soon to a theatre near you. Heh.