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Many instances of what does rhyme with 'hug me', and one of those is 'chubby'. Enjoy :)
Saturday, August 31, 2013
What rhymes with 'hug me'?
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
CSI: Green Day
Am watching CSI: New York right now, and it seems the entire episode is filled with songs from Green Day.
So trippin' right now.
In case you're curious, it's the episode where there's a shoot-out at a political gathering for a senatorial candidate in the beginning, and Lindsay gets run over by cart and has a head injury.
Traffic.
My area just had 19 roads re-routed to one way due to 'traffic congestion'.
Yes, 19. Might as well just relocate the lot of us while they're at it, amiright?
Previously, driving back home is pretty much cut and dry. Now, I have to go round the freaking mulberry bush (so to speak), go through some side lanes and back alleys, before I can reach home.
So it is with a fair amount of glee when I see newspaper write-ins saying that traffic conditions are worst than ever, especially during peak hours because before this, the major roads are two-way. Now, those roads only go in one direction, and you have absolutely no other avenue to which you can weave through or find shortcuts in, because those previously-available avenues (read: roads) are now one-way.
For me, if it ain't broke, don't bloody fix it.
Yes, we complain about traffic jams, but then who doesn't? With so many out-of-towners flocking here with their cars and taking up our parking space, it has become a common fact of life that, no matter where you go on the island, you'd be bumper-to-bumper at some point.
Yet, some-inexplicably-how, people will try to do just that. People will try to bring change when there is no change needed. And in the process, cause irreparable damage.
The thing is, I need to work late at times. With this new system, I'm forced to use a longer route to get home, which in turn, means that I get to spend more time commuting.
By myself. At night. In a tin can. Whoop-dee-doo.
This system is on a three-month trial-run, a period which I believe will be extended because even the bus routes got changed.
I mean, this is like a major re-haul of our locale here. What did we do to the powers-that-be to warrant such an 'initiative'? By right, for big changes like these, you should survey the residents affected and see what the majority is. You can't just go ahead and implement something like this willy-nilly, without regard for what the people affected actually think.
The only upside to this entire crapfest is that I now know my roads far, far better than I used to. If I didn't, I wouldn't be able to reach home in the quickest possible way, which is still longer than my usual way.
This is only Day 5.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
The Wolverine (2013)
Far, far, far better than X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Origins was so atrocious I wasn't even looking forward to this one.
*spoilers. Also, not overdue for once wooo!*
The Wolverine is set after the events in X-Men: The Last Stand, where Logan becomes a hobo loner tormented by his guilt for killing Jean. He is summoned to Japan by a dying literally-old friend, where he gets embroiled in Japanese intrigue and betrayal. His friend turns out to be a traitorous and ungrateful bugger (Logan saved him during WW2) that wants his healing factor whether or not Logan's agreeable to it, and, in one scene, sears off Logan's adamantium tri-claws on both sides (and not at the same time!) and starts extracting the marrow straight from the bone-claws.
Yes, that happened. But let me assure you that that's the only graphic (and butt-cringing) scene in the entire movie, as the rest of other violence is quite PG.
Personally, I dig that the movie actually took it as far as it did. In a sense it's just one more nail in the coffin for him to start appreciating life and to stop moping around.
[I don't know why I'm annoyed with Wolverine in general. Technically, the moping only happened in this movie, but he's been the main focus in the past four movies, so the overexposure probably just blurred things for me.]
My main praise for the movie comes from Logan's self-discovery. In the beginning, Logan briefly considers his friend's request to make to make him mortal, but rejects the request in part because he believes immortality isn't good for anyone. The villains then manage to suppress his regenerative ability, so he's pretty much vulnerable two-thirds of the time, and with this, it sinks in to him that regenerative qualities aren't so bad after all. He finds purpose in protecting his friend's granddaughter, Mariko, who is supposedly a target for the Yakuza (leading to the awesome fight sequence during his friend's 'funeral').
[I'll spare you the details on the intrigue, but it's pretty good, really.]
Unfortunately, this is also where my quibble with the movie comes, as this realisation of his is helped along its way by a contrived Madame Butterfly-like romance. You know, white soldier guy, young Japanese girl? It's made worse by the fact that Logan is still pining for Jean. This subplot is completely unnecessary, as the vibe I'm getting between the two is more paternal than anything, and I can't understand why Hollywood can't just let things between two people of different genders be platonic. Snow White and the Huntsman, though lousy, is the only instance I can only think of where two people don't end up falling in love with each other (except for the stupid scene where the Huntsman kisses Snow on the lips. I mean, he could've just kissed her on the forehead, right?).
Silly romance aside, and apart from a few loopholes (seriously, if his healing factor was switched off, he should be bleeding from his knuckles and feeling it every single time he snikt-ed), the movie does a fantastic job in the story and character-development departments. It's what Origins should have been like, if it didn't focus on mutant-cameoing and Deadpool and more mutant-cameoing.
Acting-wise I've no complaints. Hugh Jackman is the Wolverine, although if anyone still has any doubt, they can go refresh their memories with the previous four he's been in. He's ably supported by his Japanese cast, and thankfully (except for one scene), all the Japanese speak to each other in Japanese and not in English. Special mention goes to Will Yun Lee, whom I haven't seen in forever and kept thinking, "is he, isn't he?", because I didn't know he could speak Japanese.
[But he could!!]
Do stay for the mid-end credits scene, which nicely leads off into the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Now that is one movie that I really cannot wait to see!
Friday, June 21, 2013
World War Z tomorrow!
I don't know whether it's because I've read the book or because the trailer looks awesome (and looks completely nothing like book, by the way), but I'm completely psyched!
Cannot wait for 12pm tomorrow!
Quick update: I still have about five movies worth of backlog, and I'm trying to work through them as quickly as I can. I hope to get at least two up by next week, and hopefully by then I'll have most of the others ready so please just bear with me for a little while longer.
Also, this trailer was brought to my attention earlier this evening and I thought it too precious to not share:
The Lego Movie is totes going on my 2014 movie list.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
*This review is five months overdue. Spoilers ktnx*
I actually enjoyed this film. I actually forgot to nitpick during the movie.
Despite the accent inconsistencies (at least Gemma Arterton’s matched Jeremy Renner’s), the steampunk, the insulin (diabetes!) and all those little niggly details that would normally annoy the crap out of me, I had a great time at the movies that day.
H+G opens with a short sequence summarising the original fairy tale, and moves quickly into the artsy woodcut opening credits, showing how Hansel and Gretel both develop a reputation for hunting witches and saving children. The main story revolves around the siblings hunting the High Witch and her coven, who are kidnapping children to sacrifice to the Blood Moon so that the witches can be immune to fire and etc., for eternity. Along the way, the Americans Hansel and Gretel inadvertently find out more about their origins (unintentional abandonment FTW!), and . In the end, it culminates in a massive bloodbath with machine guns(!!), and a bad-troll-turned-good not getting brain and organ damage despite falling off from a really, really high place.
In the end, they (including that troll) and their fanboy (seriously) kick down another witch's door and have a shoot-out in slow-mo. It looked pretty stylish, actually.
Yes, it's ridiculous, it's even more mindless on paper, but the good thing about this movie is that it doesn't take itself seriously. If it did, I think it'd be completely unbearable.
Also, also... Visuals.
I'm a massive sucker for gorgeous art direction, even though nowadays it's all computer-generated, and this movie lays out the violence and gore like nobody's business. No wonder this wasn't released during summer. It's almost as brutal as Dredd, except I feel it caters a bit more to young adults, probably because of the MTV branding.
[Seriously. MTV Studios is behind H+G. I didn't even know they've branched out into film.]
Despite being an action whore, I also get a kick from watching fairy-tale variations (Oz review also coming soon!! I have many coming-soons, actually :S), and I thought this movie's take on the Hansel and Gretel story was pretty brilliant, so with this and aforementioned awesome visuals, this movie doesn't get too low marks in my book.
[This review is a bit short, because even though I have a good impression of the movie, that's about all I have on this movie.]
Friday, June 14, 2013
Tuar hong lo!
That's Hokkien for (literally), "Big (heavy) - winds - 'sentence-ender'."
[Over here, apart from 'lor', we also have 'lar', 'mar', 'meh', etc., and then the occasional grunt when one is too lazy to speak]
I was having headphones on the entire afternoon, and besides feeling extremely chilly (per usual), it was only until my mom called to tell me about the weather at home (and to drive carefully) that I realised I could hear the wind from inside my office.
So after the internet died and the lights flickered (really), I spent a half hour dallying around the office, looking out windows, seeing partially tile-less roofs (having got blown off), and incapacitated stop signs, my department and I decided to make a break for it.
The winds were so strong even the parking barrier was bent. I tried to tag my season card on the way out (because it's a one-entry-one-exit arrangement), but nothing registered on the screen (even though it was lit up) and that spot was directly in the line of firethe sea (read: where stronger winds originate) so I thought, "screw it," and just drove out.
Over here, there is a tendency for trees, branches, twigs and their ilk falling over and hitting cars and/or people where there are heavy winds, and I was kinda freaked by the fact that my route is 90% lined with trees.
Practical on hot days, but not so much in this instance.
It took me another half hour to reach home, on account of aforementioned fallen branches and the millions of cars trawling home at the same time.
The winds lasted around three hours. It was slightly frightening.
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