Sorry for the absence! Just started a job and had been busy since ;) 8 months later i'm back :P

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Movie : Piranha 3D

HILARIOUS!

Fast forward this movie till the 45th minute where the REAL action began. Crazy-ass effects, gory CGIs and extravagant make-up that had made me laugh like crazy during the whole feast of the piranhas. Yes, the title pretty much says everything about the movie. Piranhas attacking a community of naked people in a seriously MORBID and no-mercy way.

Filled with naked chicks and bad scripts, this movie just didn't fail to make me ROFL. In fact there was some scenes worth rewinding for the humour. (i.e The floating "penis" being ravaged by two hungry piranhas and barfed out again into a deformed ouch-looking remains of a breeding device) It gets too gruesome (think of a chick's hair got stuck into a motorboat engine and it pulls of her head-skin off) that at one-point you lose all the "ewww.." feeling and fall of your chair just laughing hard.

I just think this movie is made for sick and bored people who have a fetish of watching the human body being scraped down to the bones, alive and screaming, and legs being teared apart from the abdomen. It's just messed up to the point of not making sense anymore. And just like other monster-thriller movies the ending remains unresolved. (Director's technique of a sequel possibility) Instead of eggs being left behind, they gave us the reverse effect. The savaging piranhas were only the offspring, leaving the parents to be still alive and hungry :p

*cough* typical *cough*

Movie : The Child's Eye (Chinese)

Well, I won't say this is a "Movie of the Year" Nominee but it's not too bad. I certainly didn't regret watching it at the cinema, though it did at first scare some crap out of me. The good thing about this Pang Brothers' movie is that they don't leave you hanging in confusion by the end. Well, there were some unnecessary never ending scenes at the end parts but oh well, at least the main plot was solved.

What was kind of messed up is the title. It almost has nothing to do with the movie. At first, the title gave me an impression that someone had inherited a child's gift of seeing ghosts, or something like The Sixth Sense. But it turned out to have nothing to do with any child's eye. I would recommend the title to be "The Curse" or "The Deformed Child" or "A Mother's Sin"... That way it wouldn't give you the wrong idea about the movie, but might give away the ending xD

The moral value of the movie is to NEVER harm animals which I truly support 100%. Kill a dog and the baby in your baby will come out as one. It's a belief not only in Chinese tradition but probably around SE Asia that there are things you are just banned to do during pregnancy, in which most revolve around harming poor critters. This movie shows how a woman was cursed into giving birth to a half-dog half-human child and happened to die and haunt the hotel room, kidnapping residents because she was "lonely".

As for scary scenes, there were a few screaming-worth moments. The first one would be the 3D effect of a ghost hand about to grab the camera. And another is when one of the dudes chewed off his tongue. Yep. It came off like candy... Grosss...

However, after the storyline was revealed, the scary scenario somehow changed into sadness and sympathy. You'd understand why this haunting happened and how. And as i was watching it, the whole audience muttered an "owwwwww...." and the scariness just dissolved.

3 Stars for The Pang Brothers!