Movies for the Season


Happy New Year!

For many, New Year is a sign of making things new: forgetting the old and bad ways and welcoming strange adventures but not being quite cynical, New Year for me is just a continuation and what must to be done, well although it would be hypocritical to say that New Year somehow brings larger opportunities, some exciting news and to tell to you the truth I'm quite excited of what is going to come for me. I just pray that God will grant the desires of my heart.

I was afraid that for the last days of the season would make me bloated. I only go to the gym twice a week coz, I'm so lazy to carry my own ass and pump some iron and oh yeah, my mum keeps all the sweetest cakes, salads and sweets inside the ref., just within my reach. But what keep me sane these last days are the movies I watched from our private (pirated) DVD library inside our house. Highly recommended are the movies which will melt your heart and will burst your guts out laughing.


    

"Love Actually" is a story collection of different people (Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson, Liam Neeson, et. al) who are loosely interrelated set in modern London during the Christmas season. The the stories varied in kind and in nature they are there to show us, audience that Love actually... is everywhere. When I first saw this movie, I was "bored" with too many characters involved and too many situations to digest but if you get to watch this movie the 2nd time around, maybe you'll appreciate it this time, like what it did to me. Nothing in this movie is overly dramatic, nothing much to be excited about but it will surely makes your heart stop and think and realize your capacity to love in your own unique way. "Big Fish" is a highly touching movie not intended for "all too literal" minds. Big Fish is a life story of a father (Ewan McGregor), who tells life in a fantastic, enchanted, surreal and exaggerated way. His son feels detached from his father since he though that he was living a lie of made-up yet exciting stories that never really happened. However, as his father is dying because of sickness, he realizes that his father is not really lying and all those events that happened to him were true. What was dramatic was that he himself in the end finished his dad's story for him in the most delightful way. Prepare yourself for the "biggest" laugh in your life as the Wayan brothers again entertain us with their another "critically un-acclaimed nonsense movie", White Chicks. The brothers played as two policemen who were to escort elite sisters, Britney and Tiffany Wilson (who kinda reminded me of Paris and Nicky Hilton) to the Hapmton's Weekend party. However things got screwed up and they end up disguising themselves as the two sisters. You don't have to think too much, just sit, relax, grab some chicharon and drinks and you'll have a good time.