Movie Reviews: of Love and Laughter

Revolutionary Road

When I knew that Leo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet are teaming up again for a new movie named Revolutionary Road, I was quite excited. Mostly because I like Titanic and would love to see the couple again together onscreen. However I cannot find someone as excited as me. Most of the the people I've asked preferred Fast and the Furious 4. I watched Part 3 and all i remember are nice car racing scenes but story is crap. Here's one again of my uncompromised surges, okay fine I watched it alone yesterday. Movie is based on a novel with same title. Initially I felt Leo and Kate look quite mature (probably I'm still stucked in their gorgeous era), eventually the characters sinked in. Kate is really a veteran now, with all the award nominations and wins, she played the neurotic wife so well. It was basically about marriage problems, a wife insisting on living in Paris thinking a change in environment could help salvage their unhappy marriage; and
the husband wanting to stay put and satisfied with his current life. The husband initially gave in but later on backed out because he got a job promotion and another conflict is that his wife got pregnant. Thoughts:
- wives shouldnt think of too fancy, unrealistic dreams
- husbands shouldnt give false hopes
- lastly husbands shouldnt be too dense! my goodness the last scene obvious spells Kate is about to do something unusual. Spills: It was actually alarming that Kate actually committed abortion (with some rubber tubing sucking apparatus yay!) by herself and died. Morbid. Pyschotic. Disturbing. It's the first intellectual film I've watched for this year! :p Cheers.

Warning: the next few ones below are purely no-brainer hehe

Look for a Star

Stars Andy Lau and Shu Qi, romantic-comedy. Somehow recent HK films dont give me the kilig satisfaction that I used to have while watching the 80's and 90's genre before. I did like the setting though, it's based in Macau and that time I just came from Macau so I could relate quite well with the tourist spots.

Detroit Metal City

One funny movie! I joined my friends without a single clue what the movie is. It's based on a popular Japanese manga of a boy who dreams to be a ballad singer but later on ended up as the lead singer of a Satanic Rock Metal band called Detroict Metal City. The actions and mannerisms are quite hilarious, his soft-effeminate personality is totally different with the rockband singer. The tagline: 'No music, no dream!'

He's Just Not That Into You

The title caught me and I earmarked this in my calendar long ago. A bit dragging but it does exhibit the pathetic fact that every woman at some point would commit some stupid things to charm the opposite sex and eventually goes into some hallucination as to why is the guy behaving like this. There are 5 couples in the story. #1: One girl is extreme 'pathetic-ness'. She'll go on blind dates and keeps on waiting for a guy to call, and makes all sort of excuses to calm herself like 'maybe he's busy, maybe he's sick, maybe his fone got stolen, and she'll literally sit by the phone and wait for it to ring and the list goes, and some creepy crawling and stalking to appear in front of the guy. #2: Another was about a 7-year live-in couple, the girl dreams of getting wed while the guy doesnt. 'He's not proposing because he's not interested'. The other couples are not interesting so my synopsis ends here :D

Confessions of a Shopoholic

I've watched Devil Wears Prada in HBO and liked it that's why I'm watching this chick flick. A hilarious serious vain shopaholic addict who swipes $$$ into her numerous credit cards for the sake of vanity. Despite bearing so much credit card loan, she ironically became popular with her financial investment articles. I like the auction scene where she sells off her most beloved item, the green scarf (it was a symbolic item as it brought her to her beau and her job and all). It didnt fail to give a warm ending.