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First Impression: I never really cared for Batman because really…those bat ears always make me laugh, but Heath Ledger died because of this film, how could I miss this?

Afterthoughts: And am I glad I watched it in theatre (full too…on opening night). I never realized the story of Batman is this dark. What I like more about Batman than most other superhero comics/films is that he doesn’t really have any special power. His strength and agility comes from his suit and gadgets, and all of it because he’s just a rich bastard. It is refreshing to know a rich dude actually cares so much about the city as well. But praises aside for Batman, it was of course Heath Ledger’s joker who stole the movie. In films and TV, villains are always the more interesting and fun to watch (Sarah Corvus anyone?) and in this movie especially so. That menacing evilness combined with his playful jokes and “pranks”, thanks to Ledger’s great performance and the writers’ dialogue, really overshadowed Batman’s somewhat laughable turmoil about revealing his identity. One of the best action movies I’ve watched and I probably will watch it again when my dad rent it.

First Impression: I heard about how good this is, but never knew what it was about before watching the movie.

Afterthoughts: The movie goes fairly slow, but the many twist in the story keeps it from being boring. All the actors did a great job in this film, Tilda Swinton really deserved her Oscar win (though in recent news, it seems she doesn’t care for it much and has since given it away to her American agent). One of the few George Clooney movies I liked.

First Impression: My dad insisted on renting this, even though I knew it would suck ass.

Afterthoughts: Wow, this movie was just laughably bad. So a bunch of aid workers went to Burma to “help people”. Despite the warning from Rambo, they believe they can make a difference by giving the local civilian medicine, while they’re in the fucking war zone…without backup…as they don’t believe in violence, even when one of the women (who caught the eyes of Rambo) was almost raped. Then they got kidnapped by the local army, so the aid workers’ manager decided to hire some random mercenaries to rescue them. Thanks for not believing in violence man! So after proving how incompetent the mercenaries are, Rambo pretty much single-handedly killed the entire army and saved the girl he fancied. Insert scenes of moral debate and old Rambo movies in the middle and you have the new Rambo movies.

First Impression: I loved the game series, even though I never managed to finish any of them cuz well, I played the Japanese version, Biohazard.

Afterthoughts: This was my introduction to a movie series I could not refuse! I watched it in the theatre with my brother. It was such a fun, awesome, zombie movie. And I loved this so much I have watched with my dad on rental, on TV, and rented it AGAIN for the zombie night. In fact, the whole movie marathon thing was for this series. The acting maybe sub par and the music a little too loud, but I’ll never forget the KILLER LAZERs and KICK ASS Alice (I wish it’s me). I’ve always liked Milla Jovovich but she just rocked on so many level she became my hero after this movie (fangirl? moi?). If you’re a video game fan, it doesn’t really follow the game plot line at all but does throw in a reference or two. It works well as a regular action movie if you forget it’s a crappy adaptation.

First Impression: It’s the first frakking BSG movie (on tv)! In addition to the big gap between season 3 and 4, there really was no reason to miss this at all. I did wonder whether to write a review on this however, as people who would actually read this review probably know about the show already, and they either refuses to watch or have already been hooked.

Afterthoughts: The movie was a bit of a let down, as it only visually presented what had already been implied about the painful event on Battlestar Pegasus. Plus that big hype about Admiral Cain being a lesbian? If it wasn’t for that Quizno commercial I would have missed the relationship entirely! Tricia Helfer was grossly underused in the film. I mean, hello? She’s Gina, shouldn’t she have more screen time? Plus the fact that a random Six just stepped on the Pegasus just to die and move the plot along didn’t make sense at all. Thanks for exposing your comrade Six. With the complainings done, let me just say that I really liked Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen’s performance. It’s hard to be the lead in a series you just walked into. And the chemistry with Katee Sackhoff! Okay, so maybe Katee can have chemistry with just about anything, including non-animated objects. Ronald D. Moore should have gone with that girl on girl pairing instead :p. Also, could Katee get any hotter?





Ahem…anyway, at least I got my BSG fix over the break.