Computer graphic disaster movie master Roland Emmerich presents perhaps his best effort to date visually, just not story-wise. CGI is definitely improving in leaps and bounds these days and this film proves it with, what are arguably the hardest things to realize in computer graphics looking about as real as possible in this film – fire and water. Click to continue reading “2012″
Chronicling the life of Henry DeTamble (played by Eric Bana of Hulk, The Other Boleyn Girl and Star Trek), a Chicago librarian with a rare genetic disorder that causes him to keep jumping through time at, usually, the most inopportune moments like his own wedding or when he is most stressed.
Bringing in another romantic comedy to the 2009 roster of films are Katherine Heigl (27 Dresses) and Gerard Butler (300, Gamer). Heigl is no stranger to the romantic comedy, being the central character in 27 Dresses, and plays morning TV show producer Abby whos show is struggling in the ratings and is in danger of being cancelled if things don’t improve.
Depending on your perspective, this is either Deluxe Wave 7 or NEST Deluxe Wave 1 (or 2010 Deluxe Wave 1). In the same way that the first Transformers movie toy-line spawned a secondary line in its ‘Allspark Power’ series to prolong sales, the ‘NEST Global Alliance’ series is Revenge of The Fallen’s way of doing the same thing – and times its release to coincide with the pre-Xmas spending period.
Following in the footsteps of the previous Final Destination movies, ‘The‘ Final Destination (not given the moniker of Final Destination ‘4′ for some reason) regurgitates the plot about someone in a group of people having a premonition about their impending deaths and therefore manages to get the group to safety before disaster strikes.
What do you get when you cross Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and a script that combines drama with comedy? A huge travesty! Seriously, I’d been led to believe that this film was going to be more comedy than drama, but it turns the intent was for it to be the other way around and ended up missing both marks with the drama being so undramatic as to be boring and the comedy was very, very uncomedic thus, even more boring.
Creating one of the most unique films of the year starring a cast of all complete unknowns is probably a big risk on the part of movie companies but I’d have to say that it really was worth the effort in this case.
The middle of August marked Wendy’s xxth birthday (xx will change depending on the day, not the year! Click to continue reading “Wendy’s Birthday Celebration 2009″
Paring back on releases even further than in Wave 5, Wave 6 contains only two ‘new’ figures which are both repaints of previous movie ‘off-screen character’ molds. As well as containing less new figures, the wave also seems to be receiving a smaller distribution with only department stores and, strangely, hypermarkets being good places to pick these up.
The first of two romantic comedies to have been shown in the cinema recently, followed up by the more recent ‘The Ugly Truth’. Both are funny films and as entertaining for the guys in the cinema as they are for the girls, but I’d probably have to pick ‘The Ugly Truth’ as the (slightly) better of the two. |
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), and to celebrate I booked us a nice relaxing spa day and dinner around Mid Valley Gardens with Sage Restaurant being the highlight of the night… Two days before that though, plans changed and we booked tickets and hotels to spend the weekend in Singapore instead!