Avatar

As so many people have been waiting and dying to watch this so-called James Cameron's highest budget movie, I finally went to the cinema and watch this blue avatar creature that I previously mocked as a disgusting-ugly creatures. And you know what? I was stunned. The animation was just too beautiful and it fit perfectly with the real environment. Even though I found some errors in the animation, but it was barely noticable. =)

The story itself is about an ex-marine named Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) whose gone limp from waist below who were willing to join in avatar program which was designed to learn the way of Na'vi creature (original creature who lived in the planet named Pandora) live. Humans are interested to mine a rare mineral called unobtanium which sells 20 million dollars per kilo. Jake was sent to do research and "undercover" as Na'vi people and soon fell in love to live as an avatar. He then later betrayed his own kind to help Na'vi people defend their homeland.

I won't talk much about the story because it is better watch than told, and also this movie is kinda long, about 3 hours but not boring at all. Even an action-genre hater like me enjoyed the battle. =)

The movie is very much epic, and moving. I give it 9 of 10 stars.

P.S. The deity Na'vi people have is called Eywa, but somehow when pronounced continuosly, it is heard as "Elohim", which means God.

Blood: The Last Vampire

Well, this is an adoption film, adopting the Japan anime named the same.

I personally don't think that this movie will hit big sale because the bloodshed was not real, and also the ake up is a bit much, the camera angle is also kinda not nice. The color tone a bit dark, and the storyline is not much as expected. The acting not too good, monsters' design are ugly!

The only good thing about this movie is that it sometimes can make you shriek. =)

I give 6 stars out of 10!

The Ugly Truth

Okay the truth sometimes are ugly and we can't blame them. This movie teaches us that. Sometimes when we think what we were thinking, the truth is just the exact opposite of it and we couldn't help but wondering, what the hell is this and we can't actually do anything about it.

This story introduces Abby as a successful young woman who has control issue and a very rudely down to earth man named Mike. They both just don't get along. But on day when Abby met this perfectly cute guy, she actually asked for advice to Mike. Mike happily gave it and the plan went well, except the part that Mike is actually falling for Abby and vice versa.

The movie is hilariously funny and witty, yet so realistic in times. I don't know if you noticed, but Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl are most likely the most frequently seen face in this year. Wonder why?

This movie also provides certain sexual jokes, so if you are a minor then don't watch. It's smart, it's funny. I give 8 stars out of 10!

4bia 2

Here it comes the movie that will haunt u tonight! 4bia 2 was released due to the success of 4bia, but the stories inside are not related with the prequel at all. 4bia 2 contains of 5 stories, each with its own uniqueness and thrill.

The first one called Novice, a young priest who ate the food for the hungry ghost. Because of karma he then became the ghost itself. The second one called Ward, where a young man who was in an accident eagerly looked to his "neighboor" in the hospital ward. He then became the old man whom he was so eagerly peeked. The third named Backpacker, which followed the story of 2 backpacker from Japan. They wanted to hitchike and got killed by the ghost the driver's made. The fourth called Salvage, where a boy killed when his mom tried to start the car. The fifth named In the Middle, a joke but quite funny.

Overall this movie is nice but not scary. I give 7 out of 10 stars.

The Love of Siam

A must see movie! The Love of Siam is a Thai movie but unlike the others, it provides us a way wider look of life. It centers the problem of most families: unhappy marriage, lost of child, and love. The movie is very romantic, touching and desperate.

The movie starts with a young kid named Tong who is very active. He and his sister, Tang accidentally threw gum onto neighbor and also schoolmate of Tong, Mew's head. Since then Tong searched way for redemption but never success until there was one day Mew was being bullied and Tong was there to save the day. Since then, they became close friends.

The relationships between Tong and Mew grew intense as they play together, sleep together and spending time together. They are so alike brothers. Tong has this one game alike treasure hunting where he bought a wooden Santa doll and split it, and let Mew searched each part from the given clues. It was nearly complete when the final part (the nose) which was hidden on a tree went missing because the tree was cut down. Tong was very upset but Mew remained grateful.

One day Tong had to go out of the town, and at the day he moved, Mew watched the departure of his friend and cried.

When Tong came back, Tang didn't came back with the family because she wanted to prolonged her vacation. This is no problem until a few days later she went missing. Tong was very depressed, but Mew was there giving his arm and shoulder to cry on.

After Tang went missing and classified dead, Tong's family decided to move out of town. Leaving Mew alone again.

Few years later when they both are high school students, Mew is the lead singer of a band named August and has a loving fan named Ying who lived next door (at the house where Tong's house was), while Tong also already has a girlfriend named Donut. Tong was going to buy Mew's album but there was none left, but then he saw Mew and they both feel the sparks came back. Then they traded phone numbers.

Mew has a manager named June. She looked a lot like Tang, and therefore was hired to disguise as the come-back-Tang by now a work-a-holic Tong's mother to distract her husband from his alcohol addiction. Then the relationship between Tong and Mew was once again renewed. They both are close to each other again.

Ying who has feeling for Mew finally said her feeling out, but Mew answered that she is a good friend. While the relationship between Tong and Donut is also endangered because Tong is willing to buy an expensive gift for Mew (Santa doll).

On the welcome party of the coming-back-Tang, Mew sing a song he made by himself. It was a love song, and he never made any before, even though the producer said to him to make a love song. Mew couldn't, but now he can. The song, is obviously for Tong. After party, Mew asked what he wants to say about the song, and Tong kissed Mew. Tong's mother saw this. Later then she confronts Mew not to see Tong anymore, which is even though denied by Mew, but still he keep distance from Tong.

Tong who knows nothing at all became frustrated. Then his mother told him all. When decorating Christmas tree, Tong's mother gave him a choice. To take the boy doll, or the girl doll to be put on the tree. Tong chose the boy doll.

Ying who now know the relationship the two, became supportive and helped Tong to gain the remaining part of the Santa doll. They went to the shop and Ying begged the seller to only sell the nose.

Last, Mew was about to perform at Siam Square. Tong decided to break up with Donut and he run to the Siam Square, accompanied by Ying. And there the ending scene was. After performing, Mew once again asked what Tong wants to say about the song, and Tong said that he couldn't be Mew's boyfriend, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't love Mew. He then give Mew a Christmas gift, the remaining part of the Santa doll, the nose. Back home, Mew put it back and finally completed the doll. He said thank you and cried silently.

There the story and I really think this is one of the best movie I saw this year. Not by special effect, but by the elements of the story. I give 10 out of 10 stars for this one!

And the lyric of the song Mew wrote for Tong:

It might not be as well-written or beautiful like other songs.
I want you to know that a love song can't be written if you're not in love.
But for you, I can write this song so easily.
You might have heard hundreds or thousands of love songs.
They might be meaningful but their meanings are for anyone.
When you listen to this song, it is written only for you.
If you understand the meaning, our hearts will be together, forever...

Revolutionary Road

I don't really get what is this story about, but since this movie has won Oscar so I guess this must be good.

The story told us about the suburban life of an ex-actress and a guy. Their life is sure jagged every now and then but they'll come across. They both wanna live in Paris but then the husband got promoted. This brought a whole new conflict to the marriage.

I give this one 4 stars out of 10 (because I'm too dumb to understand).

17 Again

Okay, when I first watched this movie, for the first 20 minutes or so I thought that this movie is a joke. The hair style that Zac had, and all and all. But I tell u, after 30 minutes, it all became so awesome! The jokes are pretty funny and the story, even though kinda classic (like Freaky Friday) but still okay.

The story is pretty much about how young Zac who didn't go to college because he wanted to marry his love. 30 years later he spent his life grudging about that decision, resulting in divorce.

Then he wished to be young once again and he did. He then re-work on his relationship with his spouse and kids.

And there's also this character Ned, who was a nerd back in high school, he was in crush with the school's headmistress and the both turned out to be nerds. They even speak elfish. XD

I recommend to watch this movie if you want to have some laugh. I give 7 out of 10 stars.

Coraline

This movie is brilliant! I liked it. Even though a bit boring at the beginning and ending.

This story told us about a little girl named Coraline (not Caroline) who has just moved into her new house. Her parents are not very varing to her and so she one night found a passage into a new, exactly as her imagination parallel world.

At first she was very comfortable in there, but it grew to be a trap to keep her forever there.

You should watch it. I give out 8 out of 10 stars for this movie.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Now, this is my 2009 most wanted movie. And I loved it, even though I was sometimes a bit frustrated at how things were changed in this movie. I have watched it twice and I loved every minute of it.

Harry in this year would dicscover the secret of Voldemort's immortality: by using horcrux. However, it is a very difficult task to search for it, and don't mention destroy it. For retrieving one, Dumbledore ended up died. Killed by Severus Snape. Well, it was one of the saddest moment in the movie.

Magic wasn't very exposed here, and some characters have never appeared such as Vernon, Petunia, Dudley, Cho Chang. Oh, and the kissing scene with Ginny, euw.

I was kinda angry when David Yates told that Hermione and Ron have sparks, and so with Harry and Ginny, because it ruined the very essence of the book seventh. We will not be surprised by the chapter "30 Years Later" because we would've figured who ended up with who. So it's kinda reckless.

The story itself was pretty dark, and so the ones that didn't read the book wouldn't understand and therefore made judgement that this movie sucks. I can't blame them, for a movie suppose to not leave any question.

It's kinda funny that the tagline "I'm safe with you, Harry" actually didn't appear in the movie. I was waiting for that!

Okay, I loved the story, love the soundtrack. Hahaha... I give it 9 out of 10 stars for it.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Well, just like its predecessor, it is a very very long movie. I got flat ass watching this one.

The story centers Sam now go to college, and met his new roommate Leo. He started to see symbols in his head after he touched some sort of allspark fragment. Then there comes the pursuit of Sam Witwicky by the decepticons, while the autobots protected him.

Some interesting stuffs in this movie are that there are actually female transformers, which didn't really get anything important except they're fast. Then one of the autobots had actually a pair of red eyes, instead of blue. And devastator (the emerged transformer from multiple tranformers) had green eyes.

Mikaela Banes a.k.a Megan Fox. Now this one I like. But I was wondering the entire movie, could she keep her mouth shut? She always doesn't really shut her mouth. Hot though. But to be paired again with Shia, kinda awkward for me. I mean, the prequel was just ok, but this time, 2 years later, Megan became much more of an adult but Shia still stays the same with tiny body. So it was like a younger guy with older girlfriend. Uh huh.

Overall this one is good, even sometimes I got confused what am I seeing, a face, a body or what?

I give 9 stars out of 10 for this one.

First I wanna give applause for this one that brings back memories of the past, yet the story itself is not that extraordinary.

This one is pretty much like a prequel since it told us the past life of Captain James T. Kirk. But that's okay. Maybe not all people also understand the future-present time procedure, and also the ridiculous double Spock(s). Silly.

Ummm, some science facts were again ignored, such as the kaboom in space, or that the ship can actually escaped the black hole. Don't you know that regular-sized black hole can even absorb light?

Well, that's why they called it SF. I guess I'm gonna give this movie 8 stars out of 10.

Terminator Salvation

Now this is like the best ever robotic movie. Actually when I watched this movie, I haven't watched any of the other Terminator series, except the TV series. I can quite follow, even a bit confused.

The action stuffs were pretty cool too. Nice one.

And the cameo/short appearance of the governer! Hahaha..

I give it 8 stars out of 10!

Drag Me To Hell

Well, for real-horror movie fans out there, you are going to be disappointed! At least I am. I thought this movie will be very very haunting, since the trailer is so horrific, and also it is Sam Raimi!

But it turned out silly. I mean, this movie exploited to much silly horror like the dead body still appearing out of nowhere, and the eyeballs jumped out, and such. It's like watching Scary Movie instead.

The ending is the best, since it was unpredictable. But Justin Long (played as Christine Brown's fiancee), his mimic is two thumbs down. Especially when Chistine was dragged to hell. It's as if he already knew. And the spanish chick that was the medium, irrelevant.

The sound effect is also awesome! It shocked me!

I give 5 stars out of 10.

Inkheart

Okay this one sucks. I thought it would be some sort of box-office but it ridiculously sucked. The story itself couldn't hold the secret for 30 minutes. After the boring first 30 minutes it just became lamer and lamer.

Brendan is fine but not to right for this role, and the other characters are all trash.

I recommend not to watch, I repeat, not to watch this movie! I gave it 4 stars out of 10.

21

Okay, I just watched it yesterday and first I thought that the storyline was cliche, but it actually not. In fact, after some cliche-ness going on for about an hour or so, the story twisted itself into the unexpected way. For example, when the main character Ben Campbell wanna re-co-operate with his teacher, I thought it was for real. And when it wasn't, I thought he woyld get the money but he didn't. Well. Nice though.

Tension built gradually. Some event that was pretty much cliche were everywhere like the main character got money, he forgot his friends blah blah because of cute girl blah blah. You know.

About the stars, not really well known except Lawrence Fishburne but that's okay. Give it 8 out of 10 stars!

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Okay, this is a sequel, and I haven't watch the prequel but still I enjoyed it.

It's still funny, as I thoght. But some jokes were just too lame.

The Khamunrah, also funny. He likes to brag and to exaggerate, which is cool. And the others were just also as entertaining as hoped. Not bad, just the ending that was a big no.

Exhibiting the living sculpture? The dumb Abe? No no no.

Give it 7 out of 10. =)

He's Just Not That Into You

A chain love story where the characters are all have connections with each other.

The story itself told us that when they're small (actually this movie is for girls, and by "they", I mean the girls) and a boy treat you bad, that usually means that the boy like you. And that's how they see the world now. When a guy doesn't call, maybe he lost your phone number, or just too busy to call, or was out of the town, or maybe just simply got hit by a car and in a koma.

Girls, he's just not that into you! Watch this, and the drama queen even, could get a real lot of info about a guy's behaviour, and also some relationship tips.

6 stars for this, but since there're a lot of stars in this movie, I might as well give 7 out of 10!

The Duchess

I wacthed it recently and I would like give a few opinion about this movie.

First, Keira Knightley is so-not-duchess-material. She is too skinny and her eyebrows just killing me to watch! Although throughout the movie she successfully built the sorrow and sad duchess environment.

The story itself was pretty much like Marie Antoinette, but this duchess actually gave birth to a male heir. So, that's the difference.

Ralph Fiennes, so emotionless, maybe that's just the Duke of Devonshire's personality. He can be said like an animal, he wants everything that's within his grasp, and so and so forth.

This movie, I give 5 out of 10 stars.

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine, I watched it 3D at Blitz Megaplex at Mall of Indonesia, with the so much expensive ticket fee, I thought the movie and the experienced I'll get are worth it. And now I doubt it.

The story begins where a small town was terrorized by the serial killer Harry Warden. He then confirmed dead after the attacks at the Hanniger's mine. A decade later Tom (Jensen Ackles) came back from nowhere to sell the mine. Then the murders returns.

I should say the ending is a bit surprising so it is not a bad movie at all, but the typical 3D story element (camera-hitting orientation) sometimes became so annoying.

I give 7 out of 10 stars!

Angels and Demons

After waiting for so long since The Da Vinci Code, the newest religious thriller Angels and Demons is finally released today in Indonesia! Still using Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, the story takes place way before the time setting of The Da Vinci Code. And of course the story is not as controversial as The Da Vinci Code, except the same thrilling sensation dan will not let you look at the other way!

I've read the book and very disappointed to know that the producer made some changes especially the name for the camerlengo Carlo Ventresca, which is alright European name, and it's changed into camerlengo Patrick McKenna which is so American! And still, I don't like Tom Hanks to be Robert. He is not the way I imagined Robert. Robert is more like Harrison Ford than Tom.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to see the movie though. X3