upcoming movies.

these are a couple of movies coming out soon. can't wait.


The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button














































































































Eagle Eye

wow..its been too long. monkeys messed around with the telephone line and so..it took 2 weeks for TM to fix stuff.

well..i saw the happening..i feel really bad for the actors especially mark wahlberg..terrific actor(the departed, a perfect storm), he actually made me laugh during the scenes where something's supposed to be happening. i blame shyamalan. he probably retook the scenes too many times till mark got too tired and decided to act funny. i actually didn't hate the movie that much...i just couldn't understand why he had to make the movie. zooey deschanel was absolutely gorgeous. i mean she didn't look bad in even the most 'disturbing' scenes. i loved all of shyamalan's previous movies especially the village but this one was the best movies of all times. heard he was going to direct the avatar trilogy next. lets see how that goes.

got a lot of assignments to complete. supposedly dvd's in singapore cost 1.20 a piece.

can't wait for metallica's new album supposedly out in september. hetfield looks old as hell. lars is balding. they said the albums gonna be like black album and master of puppets, solos are tougher, riffs are grittier.

kirk before a show.

''Gone are the extra staff and all the excess that comes with them. It was quite mellow backstage and I was made to feel welcome. Everyone seemed to have grown up a bit...'' ross halfin, a rock photographer.

marc streitenfeld is scoring the upcoming thriller by ridley scott, body of lies. dicaprio and russel crowe are acting in it. marc did a good year(last few tracks), and american gangster(whole score) previously. here are some pics during the scoring session of the upcoming movie.


marc and ridley in the control room.

at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. in Burbank, California.

indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull.

just watched indiana 4 last night with family. you can tell how old harrison ford is. it's cool that he wanted to do all the stunts himself. he said the audience can tell if someone else did them. this is the 3rd time my brother is watching this. he said he couldn't wait till indie picks up his fedora in the end before the credits. he really enjoyed the movie by the way. just that 3 times is kinda too much. unless its batman begins, the prestige and coming soon..the dark knight.( which he probably will).

anyway cate blanchett played her role as a russian dictator quite well. but i assume this was nothing to her compared to her more challenging roles like queen elizabeth , and the more recent, bob dylan in "i'm not there".

shia labeouf played the rugged/james dean/rebel without a cause/greased hair/harley kinda teenager, mutt williams. he was ok. now the reason i say ok is that he wasn't quite in his element. ...as the usual comic role he plays in even stevens, disturbia and transformers. but i respect his breaking out of the stereotype role and trying something different. he even said in an interview that he was tired of playing the teenager. he wants "to be a bad guy". at least this is a start. a BIG SPIELBERG ONE.

there were a few scenes which seemed more than familiar.
1. the temple which collapsed in the end was like in the mummy returns when the jungle gets sucked into the pyramid.

2. also in the mummy, the big giant ants ate the russian soldiers. only in the mummy, they were bugs.

and my bro spotted some catchy lines at the end.

indie: where'd they go? into space?(referring to the aliens)
ox: not into space..into the space between spaces.(whatever the hell that means)

ah..theres one more scene at the wedding when indie gets married. he kisses the bride. mutt licks his lips. and his mum is the bride. they focused it ..like it's supposed to mean something.

anyway, on the whole i enjoyed the movie. 7/10. got nothing really much to say about the score by john williams. cause, the previous movies..i was too young to remember the music. but listening to all of it now...i realise his music has also grown as well as indie has. the difference to me, this score compared to the previous ones..the raiders march is much longer and fans can really enjoy that. raiders march is the theme song for all the movies. hopefully no one is scratching their heads right now.

iron man and once.

so i watched it the day it came out.. the acting was great, expecially robert downey jr, and jeff bridges. but somehow i felt the beginning was a little draggy.

and i felt it was kinda bull that during capture, tony stark(r.d.j.) could make the entire suit without being detected. its like the terrorists are a bunch of assholes. the terrorist fellas even had a cam to monitor.

anyway, r.d.j's dialogue was pretty cool throughout. thank god he got the role for iron man..seriously he's like one of the most underrated actors in u.s and he did an incredible job with the character. i think it was kinda dumb saying 'i am iron man' at the end though. only wish i didn't leave the theatre during the credits. heard there were some stuff after that.

and i think they were trying to promote audi.. heard somewhere that if audi is so great, how come there are so few or no old models on the road compared to bmw.

anyway, one of my favourite things about the movie was the score. composed by ramin djawadi(pronounced java-dee), a fairly new composer who managed to combine rock guitar and an ochestra to bring out something different compared to most super hero movies. although sometimes distracting during the movie but it works well as a stand alone. djawadi is most known for his work on the tv series prison break.


a week ago i went to the theatre with my brother to watch the orphanage but ended up watching an indie movie, once. it was a very low budget, no lighting, kinda musical. actors weren't actors, they were singers. but as i was watching..and new songs were sung..i realised that the songs were so good that no real dialogue was needed. glen, the guy and marketa, the girl had so much chemistry that they even got together after the movie..or was it during..??


the thing is..some time back..february or march..when i was working in a music/movie shop..rock corner, one of my mates ordered this soundtrack cos of the overload orders that we got. i never even listened to the album once. all i heard about the movie when it came out was that spielberg loved it. oh i just remembered..DO NOT watch this movie at the theatre because they censor the dialogue more than needed. so fucking retarded. download it or get it at your local distributors. or better still.. buy the original dvd. this movie isn't a chicks movie. if anyones wondering. you just need to have an open mind and enjoy the simplicity of it. the guy plays a broken takamine by the way.