tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23233894012779247532024-03-13T11:19:07.559+08:00BIG MOVIE FREAKBrief movie recommendations for casual moviegoers.THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796623925532181573noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-32232639327230014562021-05-27T11:27:00.000+08:002021-05-27T11:27:11.548+08:00X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2Finally, I can check this off my list! Expecting the cinematic train wreck of the century based on how a lot of people had reacted to it, I was surprised to find a pretty decent X-Men outing, albeit a tad too vanilla. The story and script is a little weak, but not exactly the worst offender either. There are pretty decent performances here, especially from Sophie Turner who got to do quite a bit THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796623925532181573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-11643099653618723032021-04-15T08:28:00.003+08:002021-04-15T08:32:06.575+08:00Review: Mortal Kombat (2021) ⭐️⭐️1/2Take a franchise filled with grotesque characters, plan a couple of gory money shots, and tie them all together with some superfluous plot fillers - what do you get? It’s a horror flick that also happens to be a video game adaptation. I knew it when I saw James Wan credited as one of the producers.
The good: the money shots delivered. Some of it were even pretty clever. As a Mortal Kombat fan, THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796623925532181573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-74967191940303261032017-02-11T17:35:00.002+08:002017-02-11T21:08:52.258+08:00Review: Arrival
My most anticipated movie of 2016. It's a "pure" science fiction movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Martian where the emphasis is more on the science than fiction. Just like how The Martian made botany cool, Arrival does the same for linguists. The fun thing about the movie is trying to figure out what the aliens want, and to do that you need to figure out how to communicate with them. THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796623925532181573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-84024610778561248392013-01-20T00:33:00.003+08:002013-01-20T00:52:50.871+08:00Review: Taken & Taken 2
I'm taken by Taken, and Taken 2 too. The first one plays on every father's paranoia about his daughter's safety in this dark and cruel world. Imagine having to reluctantly agree to your 16-year-old daughter's parentless trip to Paris, only to have her kidnapped by human traffickers immediately after landing. But what if you're an ex-CIA operative with "a very special set of skills"? What THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796623925532181573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-36438174312505582652013-01-14T00:49:00.000+08:002013-01-20T00:52:26.083+08:00Review: Resident Evil: Retribution (Part 5)
Despite what the critics say, I really enjoyed the Resident Evil movies. Silly, but still darn creative in finding ways to present zombies and to eliminate them (guns, missiles, sidekick to the head, psychokinetic powers, coins, etc.) But the fifth one, Resident Evil: Retribution, is probably the first one that I didn't enjoy. The creativity level dropped so drastically in Part 5 that they THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-91130179072711299462013-01-08T01:10:00.000+08:002013-01-20T01:11:09.494+08:00Review: Dredd
Dreading to see Dredd? Dread no further! Turns out to be one fun, violent sci-fi action pic that also manages to stay faithful to the original source material (the comic book). It's true; there are quite a few similarities between this and the most highly-lauded actioner of 2012, The Raid, but Dredd's world and its inhabitants are compelling, and the action is a little different from The Raid'sTHE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-57341618795951672442012-04-29T14:53:00.001+08:002012-04-29T15:16:38.937+08:00Review: King Hu's Dragon Gate Inn / Come Drink With Me / A Touch of Zen
Chinese film director King Hu made three "wuxia" (or the adventures of Chinese swordsmen/martial artists) movies that became very influential in the making of future wuxia movies. They are "Come Drink With Me", "Dragon Gate Inn" and "A Touch of Zen". I think Ang Lee said that his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon took a lot of inspiration from King Hu's films.&THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796623925532181573noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-61034798087749207352011-11-27T17:52:00.006+08:002011-11-27T18:41:38.927+08:00Review: Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch is a live-action anime with pretty actresses in sexy cosplay taking down samurai monsters, dragons, robots, medieval knights and even the Nazis. It has most of the right elements to indicate a fun time at the movies, but all it got were lacklustre reception at the box office and poor reviews from a majority of critics instead.
As a movie for the masses, it is a failureTHE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-56152074680419536222011-08-30T08:07:00.001+08:002011-08-30T08:07:39.630+08:00Review: Source CodeSource Code is the kind of brainy science fiction movie that is best enjoyed while knowing as little as possible about the movie. Directed by Duncan Jones, who did another good sci-fi, Moon, Source Code is about a man who finds himself waking in a body of another man and reliving the man's last eight minutes of his life, over and over again. The plot involves finding out why this is all happeningTHE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-51779175190831559142011-08-26T00:49:00.001+08:002011-08-26T00:58:15.764+08:00Review: Rise of the Planet of the ApesI had no hope that this movie would work, until I saw the reviews, which were unexpectedly very positive. Like X-Men: First Class, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (ROTPOTA) is a 'prequel' to the 40-plus-year-old Planet of the Apes. Not a familiar movie to these parts of the world, but familiar with most Americans and considered a science fiction milestone by some. A prequel of a decades-old movie THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-30154018152967648132011-08-24T00:24:00.001+08:002011-08-24T00:27:44.078+08:00Review: Cowboys and AliensAn OK Western science fiction hybrid from the director of Iron Man and Zathura, the best thing about it is having James Bond and Indiana Jones occupying the screen together. The title suggests a gimmicky, pandering-to-the-masses type of movie, but instead surprises with its serious tone and gritty, sweaty portrayal of the American Old West. This is one instance where a movie could have done with THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-62079010564745388902010-11-28T17:25:00.000+08:002010-11-28T17:25:24.528+08:00Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part IHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Movie is brilliant - brilliant in squeezing every last cent out of fans and moviegoers by splitting into two parts. I can't think of another good reason for doing that. I have not read the book, which is supposed to be the last chapter in the series, but judging from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I (or Harry THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-1995984845649877432010-11-28T15:49:00.001+08:002010-12-12T23:35:27.960+08:00Review: MoonIf you like your science fiction smart, you can't go wrong with "Moon". In the near future, when mankind has depleted all sources of fuel and energy and put the world in turmoil, The Lunar Corporation concocts a brilliant solution - harvest the untapped source of Helium 3 from the surface of the moon. One brave astronaut miner Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) has the unenviable task of THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-40710583831122458922010-11-28T14:48:00.002+08:002010-11-28T14:55:33.067+08:00Review: The DetectiveA good take on the well-worn detective genre, brought to you by the people behind the Hong Kong horror hit, "The Eye". Following very closely to formula, the movie starts off with an odd character named Lung (Shing Fui-On) who engages the help of private investigator Tam (Aaron Kwok) to find a mysterious woman named Sum, who may be trying to kill Lung. Typically, the P.I. follows a trail that THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-87658123211363593552010-09-05T23:39:00.001+08:002010-09-05T23:43:27.408+08:00Review: The ExpendablesFor those who are born after 1990, you may not be familiar with Sylvester Stallone, who was one of the action movie kings of the Eighties, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Van Damme, etc. Stallone was most famous for playing slow-witted pugilist Rocky Balboa in the Oscar-winning movie, Rocky, and its five sequels. His other famous role is John Rambo, whose name is now synonymous THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-17205796744289630322010-09-05T20:21:00.001+08:002013-01-20T00:55:19.296+08:00Review: Resident Evil (Part 1)
With a silly name like Resident Evil, it could not be anything else but the name of a Japanese video game. Ironically, the game is originally called "Biohazard" in Japan, which is significantly less silly. The game puts you in the roles of police officers investigating the source of a viral outbreak that turned the inhabitants of Raccoon City into reanimated corpses, also affectionately THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-20157362855571903062010-09-05T16:35:00.000+08:002010-09-05T16:35:19.810+08:00I like the Resident Evil movies. Does that mean my standards are poor?It's not in the game: Gun-tottin' Milla JovovichTHE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-37141154328608338322010-07-25T22:43:00.001+08:002010-07-25T22:58:47.210+08:00Review: InceptionWarning: There may be spoilers!
The moment I knew that it was all just a big fantasy was when I realised that a bunch of guys could earn tons of money just by sleeping all day long.
Perhaps only director-writer Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) could make such a snooze-worthy premise become a hugely entertaining movie. Inception is a sci-fi thriller about a bunch of people who THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-27025375501065216862010-07-01T00:10:00.002+08:002010-07-01T00:20:26.210+08:00Review: Where The Wild Things AreWhere The Wild Things Are is a children's fantasy based on the very illustrated 1963 book of the same name by Maurice Sendak. It is set in the comtemporary world, following the adventures of a young and angry boy named Max (the actor is also called Max, Max Records) who disappears into the world of the Wild Things after running away from a fight he had with his struggling single mom, THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-38892222474593337572010-06-27T17:11:00.000+08:002010-06-27T17:11:53.685+08:00Check this out! - Inception
Even if it's Christopher Nolan ripping off The Matrix, I still want to watch this piece of plagiarism.THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-61133460194638057242010-06-27T16:43:00.002+08:002010-06-27T16:46:44.491+08:00Review: The Book of EliWhat happens when you combine Blade with I Am Legend? You get another science fiction actioner for another prominent African-American actor, Mr. Denzel Washington. The million-dollar question is, is it any good? For a sci-fi actioner based on no existing franchise, The Book of Eli exceeds general expectations.
Set in a futuristic post-apocalyptic world (Which movie world nowadays isn't?), THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-7772639139792952622010-06-21T22:43:00.002+08:002010-06-21T22:43:43.748+08:00Five more to go...THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-55328478505211686212010-06-15T00:28:00.003+08:002010-06-27T17:12:55.588+08:00Anamorphic problems even in U.S. releasesThe anamorphic woes continue. Previously, I have written about how the Red Cliff Part I DVD was not "anamorphic" and the image quality was not worthy of a high-definition LCD TV presentation. Inspired by a discussion on Facebook, I rummaged my DVD storage for my copy of Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer thriller that popularised the character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-46164857979483798792010-06-09T23:23:00.000+08:002010-06-09T23:23:50.451+08:00MUST WATCH: A brand new test footage of MORTAL KOMBAT!THE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323389401277924753.post-1548527791312478822010-06-06T15:46:00.000+08:002010-06-06T15:46:02.069+08:00IRON BABYTHE BIG MOVIE FREAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897275064035748482noreply@blogger.com0