Singaporean's first serial killer ....lol... ????

This guy call me up last week & said he has a great movie at home & ask if I'm interested. I go huh ??? Apparently he heard from some sources I'm into art movies . Ok... thanks for thinking of me, I decided to take up the offer as I didnt want to appear 'high & mighty'. I'm beginning to noticed some people do see me in a certain light & I didnt like that.

So I went to his place with one buddy with me- just in case I luck-out & he turn out to be Singaporean's first serial killer ....lol... 
 
The foreign movie is pretty odd. Ten minutes in, I still don't know what it's trying to say. It's like the director say : 'Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.' Yes it's that strange. 

Even he gave up & apologized profusely. We ended up having tea as his mum is in & she's very nice. She's glad he has got nice friends from school. I hope she don't think any of us is his girl friend. Then my buddy said not to worry, even she cant be that delusional ....lol.....

Tim Burton, Burton on Burton

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you.
 And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.”

Pauline Kael, For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

 If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line.

An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense. Sitting there alone or painfully alone because those with you do not react as you do, you know there must be others perhaps in this very theater or in this city, surely in other theaters in other cities, now, in the past or future, who react as you do.

And because movies are the most total and encompassing art form we have, these reactions can seem the most personal and, maybe the most important, imaginable. The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen. You do meet them, of course, and you know each other at once because you talk less about good movies than about what you love in bad movies.

School reopens & life goes on ......

Yesterday the whole gang came to my place & we watch Tropic Thunder (2008)Goodness I've not laughed so much in a long time. Well just want to watch a great movie to celebrate the end of a great vacation.

I know who I am. I'm the dude that's playing the dude disguises as another dude ...lol...

 Today is first day back to school. Catch up with a couple of friends. Most of them went for some trip, some back-packed (wow... I'm impressed & told them so, they were so pleased!) some went with their family. A couple actually did some temp work! I'm interested in that. I asked a little more & they said it's not for me! But why ? Something wrong with me? They told me it's quite tough & pay is low. I said it's OK & they laughed. Then they highlighted that my car is better than their boss's car. Oh.... I didn't see that coming.

A person who drives a nice car =  can't work for people who drive a lousy car??? It seems to be what they are implying. I check with my buddies. Eye Candy ruffle my hair & said 'Princess you'll not understand the hardship of the commoners' . What ??? Oh I need to mention here is Eye Candy has taken to ruffling my hair for fun lately & it's irritating the hell out of me plus it's messing up my hair, plus I hope he washed his hands!

Back to the princess vs commoners thingie: it's not nice. Is that how they see me? Check with my original buddies (minus eye candy). They said these people are seriously having an inferiority complex & some kind of bias. Right that's it, I feel better, whatever happens I can always fall back to my original buddies. Will head home in a while after I do more catching up. I like those guys that went back packing. Though I know I wont do that, it's just great listening to their stories!

Movies we love & who we are ...

After the Bangkok trip, Eye Candy is officially part of our group. Well he noticed we spent much time watching movies &  talking about movies & he said 'the movies we love & admired are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. Hmmm a pretty astute observation. 

We love the Avengers & Ironman movies. Closer examination of the films themselves leads one to believe that the appeal goes deeper than a basic need for entertainment. Though enhanced by super powers or abilities, the superhero as portrayed in today’s films displays an astonishing level of humanity. Audiences watch superhero characters cope with the human experience through these films, an experience with which audience members can identify. Viewers see a part of their own reality on the big screen through superhero characters. This is what makes the characters so relatable and inspirational to the viewer.

That's Eye Candy's take. I have to say I'm impressed. But for me, it's pretty simple. I like the humor & special effects. Why Ironman is my favorite, he's funny, unapologetic, genius & a billionaire plus Robert Downey Jr is simply my favorite actor. Then there's the 21 Jump Street & Magic mike movies. Boy we love those too- one reason only - Channing Tatum ....lol...