So I had lunch at the most obscure place today with Jareth, Roomie & Gwen.
Except it wasn’t as in-the-middle-of-nowhere as I thought it might be because apparently a lot of people know about this place. But do not be fooled by A Lot Of People. The food here is more like a 3.7 than a 7.3. Please don’t ever order Fish & Chips. I hope it gradually fades into obscurity so they will think about reworking the recipe.
Holy. Shit. I really should’ve read up a review before I went for the movie. I went in thinking the movie’s an action comedy but boy, I was waaaay off. Warning bells should’ve gone off when I saw that the tickets were labeled M18, but man, the violence in that movie? It will make you shit bricks. Not to say it isn’t a great movie, because after thinking about it for a while, the deeper messages beneath the surface begin to sink in. To be honest though, I had my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears for maybe a third of all the “action” (gore, cough) scenes.
Which makes me wonder, am I ever going to be able to go through an entire thriller/gore (no horror because I never watch horror) movie with my eyes open throughout?
Ughhh, this pair of heels is an absolute sex bomb! But I already have 10 dozen pairs of 4 to 5-inch heels sitting around my house, never been worn and never will be. Damn impulse purchases.
The year’s barely started, but this has got to be the cutest feel-good movie of the year. Toothless was so adorable that he turned Jareth into a blubbering ball of “OMG I want a Nightfury for my birthday!” Hur hur :P
On a side note, I totally forgot to get my ticket stub from Roomie! Damn. So much for wanting to keep a movie ticket stub collection for 2010 );
I went and caught Alice in Wonderland with two friends from hall last night – like finally! I’ve been waiting to watch the movie since the previews first got revealed some time last year. It wasn’t as climatic as I thought it would be, but I certainly wasn’t disappointed. My favourite characters, by ranking, are Chessur (The Cheshire Cat), The Mad Hatter and The March Hare. I love how morally ambiguous Chessur is, and it’s a wonder that Alice in Wonderland could be qualified as a children’s fairytale at all with Chessur in the cast, hahaha.
Anyway, Alice ranks somewhere at the bottom, mayhaps above the mushrooms in the background and below the Red Queen. Part of the reason why I didn’t like this movie as much as I wanted to was because Tim Burton kind of pulled a WTF? on me and made the movie into a half coming-of-age film. What happened to the gloriously weird and semi-creepy Tim Burton in Alice in Wonderland? The starting was absolutely lame and a waste of a good half an hour that could’ve went into… I don’t know, character developments for the White Queen or more scenes with Chessur in it (lol).
I do think the movie redeemed itself towards the end, but I still can’t help but think that it could’ve been way, way more epic if Burton had just ditched the whole “I totally don’t fit into this society boo hoo hoo” premise of the show.
In any case! I can’t believe there’s going to be a movie for the Wimpy Kid series. Catch the movie trailer here – my brother’s going to be such a fan, hahaha.
