Some of The Movies I Watched That I *erhem!*

One of the reasons for my perpetual presence online was due to my continual *erhem* of movies. I used to buy new original movies. Then I downgraded to 2nd hand original movies. And then...

There were 3 films I watched that made me somehow want to blog about them. 1st, is the show "Into The Blue", by who, but the guy who couldn't act: Paul Walker. Frankly speaking, he really can't act. But too bad the show I had was a poor quality, filmed-from-the-cinema-screen version. ie. No matter how good Paul Walker's bod was, it looked so dull in the show.

A still pic shows his great bod better than the movie did

The show startedf slow and boring. I guess Paul Walker's acting really had to blame. It was so boring that I stopped the show, went to shop, slept and waited for another few days before I made myself finish the film.

And boy was I glad I did.

The pace picked up soon enough to live its name up as an action flick. It literally ended with a bang (the only explosion in the show) and that's it. I was quite satisfied with the adrenaline rush it injected within me for the last 30 min of the show, which somehow made me feel my hours of broadband was not wasted.

As for the plot, since it was a stupid action flick, it really isn't important to waste the space here.

And then there was Elizabethtown.

Elizabethtown

It was weird watching the show. Not only because the characters are weird, but also because they are weirdly like ME. Talking to themselves aloud when they're alone, asking rhetorical questions and telling jokes to make themselves laugh. And acting hysterically as if they were on a stage and the other people around them were audience. erm... I somehow felt as though someone put a hidden camera and filmed me instead. eerie...

The show's about a guy (Orlando) who fell from grace when a product he he spent years developing flopped. All the years of fighting and sacrificing family time went to waste. And just as he was about to kill himself (he actually improvised a killing machine just for suicide!), he received news that his father was dead in his hometown. So he had to go there (Elizabethtown) and retreive his father's body.

And well, Elizabethtown is somewhat like our chinese' home village. ie, all the closely related relatives live in a village. And the whole village are as strange as the guy himself (well, I suppose such traits are genetically linked). So it was a fight between his family and his EXTENDED family to settle on what to do with his father's body.

And, the main part of the story is actually the blossoming love between Orlando and Kirsten Dunst. Unfortunately, they were chatting for the most part, and boring conversations they were. So much so I didn't know what they were talking about. And since it was the main part of the film, I didn't really understand the film real well, if there was ever a message to be brought across.

The only thing I understood: the film had a lot of beautiful scenery of America.

Elizabethtown 2

The next show is the best show of the 3. I was so... captivated and my adrenaline level was at an all time high throughout most of the show (when the real plot starts to roll out).

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Halle Berry acts as a psychiatrist in a prison. Treating patients who commited crimes due to their mental disability. One night, after a near-miss accident, she went unconscious and when she woke up, she was herself in a cell in where she worked. Turned out that she was accused of murdering her husband and went gaga for a few days.

gothika berry w cruz

But she couldn't remember a single thing about that incident except for the girl whom she nearly knocked down. She started to believe that the girl was a ghost and tried to convince her colleagues, who as scientists, treated her like the other mental cases.

downey jr as colleague

Being marginalized from all sides, she started to solve the mystery on her own, trying to escape from the prison and unearthing all the dark secrets that led to her killing of her husband.

cruz as one of the patients

the only comment I have for the show is: WATCH IT.

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