November 24, 2009

• Mo’ Movies, MO’ MOVIES!

  I know I’m too late but damn… finally got to see QT’s newest film:

  Inglourious Basterds.

  
  So freaking good.

  I don’t think I’ve been this satisfied watching a movie since The Dark Knight from last year, definitely did not fail my expectation as a fan at all, the only thing that I felt slightly disappointed with was that the film had to end, and the run time is 152 minutes!
   
  Actually the first time I saw it, due to shitty bootleg DVD quality and my lack of comprehension, I couldn’t fully understand the plots, or catch some of the witty dialouges. But the second time made the film so much more enjoyable, despite knowing what will happen.

  And of course the film’s got all the Quentin essentials in there. The trunk view, the Chapters, Witty Dialouges, Mexican Standoff(s), the bare foot, and of course, great music!

  The cast is great, everyone is excellent in it, I found BJ Novak pretty funny, spoiler or not you can expect Ryan the Temp somehow ending up in the Nazi occupied France.

  
  Col. Hans Landa played by Christopher Waltz. Two words, Gang-Sterrrrr.

  Nothing is more awesome than to know that a good movie is going to be made, you know it’s gonna be good, you wait for it then you watch it, and it’s good.

  And finally I’ve gotten to see Public Enemies as well.
  

  Before I saw this movie there were a lot of negative reviews. I was like really?  It’s Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Michael Mann directing, and a freaking crime thriller at that…what can go wrong?

  Well, as it turned out, it’s the negative reviews that were wrong. Public Enemy is no Heat, The Insider, or Collateral, but it is definitely Michael Mann quality.Whatever it is It’s definitely not a bad movie. The gun fights are intense as always, Johnny Depp just being a real badass in it; however, I think the director should have spent some time developing characters besides John Dillenger, I felt that Christian Bale’s character deserved a little more story, other than that, I wish there were more lights in the movie, some scenes I couldn’t see anything.

  Oh well, just glad that I finally got to see these two films, been waiting for both since 2008! And thanks to strict Malaysian viewer protection program, these two weren’t showing in most of the theatres in Malaysia… so I never had the chance to see them on big screen.

  But then as always, we’ve got Plan B, the Basamalams (Evening Markets) that sells massive bootleg DVDs, thanks to piracy I get to “preview” movies in okay-quality DVDs before I cop the original copies.

  Next up is 風聲,

  

  yet ANOTHER movie set in the 1930s, except it’s a Chinese film, from the director of 雙瞳 (Double Vision), I heard a lot of good stuff about it, but then Inglourious Basterds was so good I took the time of watching 風聲 to watch IB 2 more times lol…

  Oh well, I’ll probably finish it this weekend. Haven’t been sleeping well for the last 2-3 weeks…going to make it all back…this weekend.

  Till later.

  (ALL PICTURE SOURCE FROM GOOGLE IMAGE)

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