REVIEW: Rapunzel (SPOILERS AHEAD)

Rapunzel!! I'm quite glad I decided to watch this film. While there are some spoilers here, I am not gonna go into much details, since well. I'm typing this after midnight, I'm tired from a whole day of fun. But I still feel like writing a review anyways lest I forget it, so please excuse me.

At first, looking at the characters(well, mostly at Rider and Rapunzel) I instantly thought of Aladdin and Jasmine. From facial expressions, personality to character design. Yup. Sure does. But you don't really mind it after you get into the show, it's not much of a problem.

It's comedic, that's good. It doesn't have any forced humor and it was quite realistic within it's bounds. I was sorta worried after realizing that it's not a Pixar produced film sitting in the cinema. But my worries were put to rest after the film started.

Soundtrack! I didn't really paid much attention to the music, but the songs sang, hmm. They were okay, very Disney-like as usual, but I think it doesn't stand up to the older films such as Mulan. However, the musical parts were well executed into the story and flow. For the first time, I didn't felt like saying "Who the hell would suddenly break into a song in a situation like that?!" while pointing straight at the screen.

Maximus the white horse was very funny, I didn't expect them to give the horse any characteristics when I was watching it actually. The green chameleon is pretty cute and funny too.

The story is nice, the tears are a bit of a cliche, but oh well. It's a tale that existed for a long while already, and there was one version that had the magic tear in it so I don't mind this one.

One of the biggest highlights of this film is definitely the lantern scene, I won't go into this at all though, since it'll just lessen the impact for you. So yup, I highly recommend this film if you wanna enjoy a nice fairy tale with friends, families or a partner!

GARO

For anyone who heard me talking about knights and stuff, well this is the title of that particular show.

First, let us start with the Graphics, designs and visual effects, it's simply amazing for a 2005 series. The designs are perfect. There's nothing I don't love, from the costume of the protagonists to the antagonists, the design of the monster suits are also perfect. Suuuure, call it a kid's show for it's a series about knights slaying demons that eat humans at night, but read on, skip the nudity, gigantic nude fanservices, matured themes, gory graphics, and violent fights. Weaponry looks real and metal-like, the armor the protagonists wears to slay demons from hell called Horrors looks realistic, like really made of metal, it was a very nice touch for them to actually make it look like they were wearing heavy suits of metal that restrain movements a bit. You can get the illusion of that the armors are really heavy.

Secondly the Acting, top notch beside a few here and there. I really like the facial expressions that the main cast of characters manages to do, they look genuine and very believable, big props to Kaoru too, her crying and laughing looked and sounded very real. Even the supporting character, Gonza the butler to Kouga(the main protagonist)had more than just a few lines. He actually was a pillar of the cast as well. I'm not sure of his age, but he pulls off the tone changing very well. Him acting goofy doesn't feel out of place in this very serious series, but when he's pissed, he manages to make people take him seriously instead of remembering him as the "goof-ball" of Garo. The antagonist also composed all the opening and ending songs, and sung every one of those songs too. Kinda shows how they are dedicated to this.

You can get very attached to the characters, the show actually spends time building up the characters and making you feel for them instead of just feeling like you're a third party dude watching the whole thing happen.

Pacing and the balance between the drama and the action levels of the series is also very well thought out. It has some really inspiration and innovative way of filming. Everything fits into place very well, and there aren't any plotholes. The story ties to the epilogue of the series very well, the epilogue is a movie called Garo Beast Of The White Night, and I haven't seen any movie that had such a perfect blend of action and drama in a long while. The fight choreography is also top notch, they don't abuse their armors, and there's a time limit to their usage of the armor as well, and this end up with majority of the fight scenes being the actors themselves(or stuntmen) doing it. I never really thought a story like this could work out so wonderfully. Definitely a very emotional, inspiring and good series and movie.

I could only wish I could write something like this or be one of the protagonist actors in a show like this. This show has just made it to the top of my list along with a few shows.

Grown Ups

Watched the movie today. We all finally decided on watching that instead of Vampire Sucks, though I still want to watch it. =/ Bleh, gotta get someone to go watch it with me. Grown Ups was funny as hell. Pretty nice, a movie with lots of moral value actually. Spent some money at the bowling center and ate some sushi. Ah the holidays! Might as well let loose a bit!!

The Outing

Today, me, Phang, Shing Yee, Kitty Chin and Calvin Tan went out to watch a movie at Jusco. We finally decided to watch The Expendable. Oh god it was worth the 12 bucks. Hm, a little bit of an uneven screen time issue since we didn't really get to know the characters so well like in The A-Team. The action scenes however are definitely better than The A-Team, then again. Although both shows are about mercenaries, they sort of give off different vibes. So you can't really compare them very well. There were some badass fight scenes. But Shing Yee didn't dare to watch any part of those scenes. AHAHAHA. The show's pretty straightforward and has some vulgarity at the beginning but unless you're the type that get disturbed by even the slight mention of vulgarity, I don't think girls would have a problem with it. Worth checking out, I especially loved Jet Li portraying Ying Yang for a reason. God, one more week and I'm gonna go watch Vampires Suck, I wonder who can go out with me. =/

I'd actually ate quite a lot today. Almost non-stop. Bleh, I'm full now. You can see some photos from my Facebook albums of today's activities. :D Hm, what else did I wanted to talk about? I guess this is all? Oh well. Till next time.

17 Again review

So I'd watched another western movie. Not much of a surprise isn't it? XD. Anyways, Zac Efron seems to be the actor, to be honest I didn't really recognize him. I'm kinda a sucker for slick of life movies when it comes to real life shows. But I really hate chinese tvb drama shows with a passion. Anyways, it's about a guy who's getting into a divorce given a second chance in life to set things straight. It's a bit on the funny side and kind entertaining. It's rated 18 on HBO, but there's just kissings and a tiny bit of violence involved, the show dealt with family issues(obviously)and sex and relationships I guess. I don't really think there's anything else to say about it really. Not a bad watch. At least I don't regret watching it.

I had a long chat with Seng Hoo just now and currently, I think I have a good idea for some pictures, time to start drawing =w=

I'd got "nothing" to lose!

I just watched a comedy movie just now entitled "Nothing to lose." It seems to be a 1997 film remastered and has very very good quality. It's not the best damn thing out there, but it sure is crazy, fun, very laughable and crazy. Okay, maybe not as crazy as animes and all that. But still crazy nevertheless. I'd laughed through the whole show, and I'm the type that frown at Chinese comedy shows. So yeah, I think it's pretty good. Basically, it's a story about a goody-goody CEO white guy, Nick Beam who loves his wife and discovered that his wife is cheating on him. He saw her having sex with another guy in his room, so he drove off into the streets, a black guy T.Paul tried to rob him but it resulted in Nick going crazy and driving his car into traffic and all that stuff.

You should watch the rest yourself so that it won't ruin most of the fun. I honestly enjoyed it thoroughly. It does end with a very predictable happy ending and the white guy has a pretty predictable personality of those goody-goody-two shoes, the events also end up being light hearted at the very end, but oh well. If you want something dark, go watch Black Lagoon, loli vampire sex slaves, a drinking nun that shoot at people with guns, a hot red head Chinese girl with two pairs of gun, a guy who reminds you of Barrel from FF7, drugs, crimes and all that.

But really, somehow it just doesn't make you feel tired of it with this one movie. For more info on this you can read it here. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119807/ and no, it's not a black and white flick, I don't know why the pictures on it are black and white.

KAMEN RIDER W : Forever! A to Z; Gaia Memory of Fate!!

Kickass trailer! Skull?! Weather!? Hot Heat Dopant!! Cyclone Dopant!! Trigger dopant owning Accel!!? Kamen Rider Joookah!! Kamen Rider(?) Eternal!? Philip seeming to be brain washed! Joker Rider Kick!! OMFG FANGASM!

I'm gonna be expecting a lot from this. W has never disappointed. The second song playing on the trailer is also pretty awesome. The second part of the trailer is the trailer for Goseiger and eh...I can't say I really care that much about Goseiger. I'd heard others said that it's a pretty oldschool feel heavy show, but I just can't keep up with the inconsistency in it. Anyways, back to the main focus of this blog entry.

Based on the title of the movie for Kamen Rider W. I'm expecting something that has to do with the determination of the heroes, life and death decisions and the will to continue to be the hero. Like how Batman Forever was like? Well, at least that's what I think anyways. I certainly hope that it can dark in that sense though. I wonder why Eternal is called a Kamen Rider, he may had claimed to be a Kamen Rider himself, but he's a villain, Kamen Rider is a title given to heroes who ride bikes, kickass with the bike, look awesome on the bike, is riding under a mask and is a person who is willing to sacrifice himself or herself to save the world. I hope Shotarou's going to get mad at Eternal for calling himself a Kamen Rider. Based on the show itself, I don't think the new writers and crew will make the same mistakes as the previous series that came before W.

One Piece! Movie 9! Review!

I'm glad I'd downloaded 9 instead of any others. So I found out that each movie is a rehashing of the story with all other cast members that exists currently in the manga to be involved in meeting the one friend that they have yet to meet. In this case of Movie 9, Chopper was the one that the crew has yet to meet, but Franky and Thousand Sunnies' already there. I gotta say, I don't really like it much, it's boring as a movie. I mean, I'd watched that through around 10 episodes and around 15 chapters of the manga. So yeah, just adding Franky and an short awesome fight didn't really help much to make the movie interesting. I finished the movie in two sittings. Usually I finish my movies in just one go. I never pause, cause the mood would be gone. Hm, come to think of it I also didn't really felt the impact as much as I'd felt in the manga about the events of the Chopper Arc. I'm not going to check out the other movies there are before Movie 9(I bet a Franky movie is gonna be supah! boring.). Movie 10 seems promising, since Brook is there already, and it doesn't seem like a rehash or rewrite of past events with every character thrown inside.

Man, there goes my idea of an awesome fight between Luffy and Ace. I got that idea since the Save The World OP had a scene where it seem like Luffy was going to fight against Ace. But I guess I read that part wrong? Raja said a scanlator did something wrong by translating the word "nakama" but I see nothing wrong with that. Honestly, dude do you really need to use japanese terms to show the meaning of the word? That doesn't really make much sense since both "friends" and "crew" are what "Nakama" means. Then again, I used to be a wapanese so I can't really be talking about others for that. x.x Aha, I used to be japanized, now I'm a self-proclaimed westerner born Chinese in Malaysia with Chinese blood-related parents.

But the good thing about this is that One Piece's not getting boring. Bakuman's getting super boring, the small suspend is lost once again now that they are published once again. It can only be so entertaining for a while. Might as well make tutorial videos or something if you plan to write about everything in your opinion regarding drawing comics. Writing a manga about writing manga that is so long without the story progressing much is not the most entertaining thing man. There's nothing much that will keep you waiting for the next release. I just go "Oh, so a new chapter of Bakuman? Might as well go read it since I'd followed it till now." whenever I see a new release. I don't even try to keep track of it. Just make it end it by jumping through time or something.

MSN is becoming useless for me since nobody ever talks to me on MSN anymore.