Saturday, March 18, 2006
2 in 1
Underworld : Evolution
1st of all, this movie is stupid. 2ndly, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
If you live in the country I live in where Oscar-winning gay movies and movies about Israelis assasinating Palestinians are banned, you would know that the original Underworld was never shown in Malaysia.
I don't know how this sequel made it through our censorship board since it's filled with nothing but crap. yup, this movie is nothing but action, fighting, blood-sucking, killing and Kate Beckinsale. Which is also why you should go watch this movie if you love all of the above.
The whole movie is seemingly shot in perpetual darkness as it's about the neverending fight between vampires and lycans (geek term for werewolves). There's virtually no story-line so I'm not gonna waste my time on that. The 1st 20mins is kinda confusing with lots of references to chracters from the 1st movie, but once you realise that this movie is pointless, you'll begin to enjoy it.
The fight scenes between the wolves and vampires are way cool with lots of CGI effects. Oh yeah, and Kate Beckinsale is super-bloody-hot.
In a skin-tight leather suit throughout, she alone's probably worth paying the movie ticket for. The much hyped about love scene with the forgettable Scott Speedman where she takes off the leather suit for the only time in the movie was expectedly (and dissapointedly) cut off in Malaysian cinemas. Wonder how her husband-director Len Wiseman could stand there behind the camera watching his wife make love with another man. Overall, this movie is complete-mindless entertainment. Why I love this movie:
1. Kate Beckinale looks bloody hot in a leather suit.
2. Cool action scenes..especially the final one involving the big batman (can't remember the chracter's name) and the helicopter.
3. Kate Beckinsale is freakin-glass-melting-temperature hot.
V for Vendetta
caught the premiere of this movie on Thursday, and I just realised that it was the first time I ever saw a movie at Midvalley. =p
"People should not be afraid of the government, governments should be afraid of the people"
A very entertaining show, this was my first outing with college friends..another 1st =p
Based on a graphic novel, it stars Hugo Weaving (of Elrond and Agent Smith fame) as the terrorist-hero V. You won't get to see his face throughout the entire movie though. Set in a future London, where they is a curfew time, the government is ruled by a High Chancellor and the London Underground is shut-down, V tries to start a rebellion against the government with his freaky Guy Fawkes-mask on the whole time.
lots of knife kung fu action inspired by the Matrix's Wachowski brothers, lots of classical music (Tchaikovsky, me thinks?), and lots of the alphabet V (it gets sickening at some point) throughout the entire movie.
The graphic novellist who started it all, Alan Moore thinks it is shit, and even had his vendetta against V for Vendetta printed all over the NY Times.
I THINK it's a must-watch, you get to see the British Parliament Building get blown up (yea, Big Ben included), you get to see Natalie Portman bald, and by the end of the show, you can add a significant number of words that start with the letter V to your vocabulary.
"For anyone looking for something totally different in this most overworked of Hollywood genres (comic-book superheroes), this is it."- Rotten Tomatoes.
