I love trailers.
I love awesome trailers.
These days it’s very common to find mashups and remixes of trailers and movies. So I wondered why is there no re-presentation of one of the best movies ever made, about the greatest man ever lived.

Then in my search, I found this.

I had always intended to make one, but don’t see myself doing justice to such a great film. Maybe in the future, if my film-making dreams do take off. And my editing skills improve, that is.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen this movie, go see it. If you have, see it again.

After watching this video, I knew I had to write a quick post on this movie which I caught few days ago. WATCH THIS!

QoS is, to me, a good movie. I’m not really a Bond fan. I never watched the earlier films fully. I’ve never read a single Ian Fleming book. And I’ve only known about James Bond properly since its reintroduction by Pierce Brosnan.

But the latest reboot, with Daniel Craig, is simply the best. The first movie, Casino Royale, proves that Craig’s Bond is up there with the best of the Bond actors, and QoS just confirms that his depiction of James Bond IS the best.

The action is way more intense than the first, in that Bond finds himself caught in chase scene after chase scene. The fight scenes were really raw, sort of unrehearsed. That could be a good thing, or a bad thing. Good, because it looks really brutal and fierce. Bad, because the shaky camerawork makes you dizzy.

James Bond is the first of its kind. Spy movies. Its been around since the early 60s with Sean Connery playing the role, if I’m not wrong. After that, so many spy movie/series came about. Some are really good, like Mission Impossible ONE, and Bourne Identity, but nothing beats the original. Although its been rebooted more times than any other movie character, the personality of James Bond is still unique.

In Quantum of Solace, you’ll see Bond to be one of the coolest badass characters EVER. All the moves he makes, all the lines he said, all freakin’ cool. Gives you the wow effect on every single thing he did on the movie. From his awesome fights, down to the hard cold stare he gives. All cool.

The only thing I couldn’t really follow is the storyline. Yes, it IS the most important thing in the movie, but, I realise that not fully understanding the story does not make the movie a shitty one. Sometimes the audience couldn’t catch it the first time round. Take Mission Impossible ONE for example. I had to watch it twice to fully understand it. First time round, I only took in the awesomeness. I know all sorts of shit and backstabbing is going on but I dunno what or who is doing them. Only after watching the second time, do I fully realise the awesomeness of the movie. Likewise with Quantum of Solace. I basically follow the story, but I have questions about a lot of the details.

Then there’s Olga Kurylenko! Yay for her for keeping her clothes on this time. Yup, she took em down in Hitman, and almost every movie before that, I think. Even did it in Max Payne, except you don’t see anything. The role is pretty similar to Hitman, except she’s of some use in this movie.

Whoever says the movie sucks because the story isn’t clear, maybe its you who can’t grasp a slightly more complicated movie plot. You can go back to watching super simple storyline movies like umm… Max Payne.

I’m gonna watch it again. Most probably not in the theaters though.

An alternate title to this post would be:

The shit of a movie that is Max Payne.

It is an extremely boring movie. I think we can classify boring movies as the worst type of movie ever.
Because, for a movie that is super shitty bad, there’s at least some entertainment value from laughing our asses off at the stupidity of the writer, director, actors, or whoever’s involved in the production. But for the incredibly boring movie, you have to sit through a dreaded 1 and a half hours. Even a time that short felt like 3 hours.

Why is Max Payne an extremely boring movie?

It revolves around a typical hero who’s faced a great injustice. In this case, his whole family got murdered. That made Payne a brooding detective bent on getting revenge on whoever’s responsible. Usually, when this happens, the protagonist becomes all superpowered (or at least supermotivated) and goes on a kick ass rampage. That would at least be decent enough for me.

But not for Max Payne… the movie is slow in trying to discover who the bad guy really is. Revelations aren’t at all dramatic. The effects, while cool, are totally spent unecessarily and at pointless occasions.

If I’d remember correctly, the Max Payne game is one of the pioneers of in-game bullet time.

But here in the movie, the only bullet time action we get is a cheap crappy shot of him doing some sort of back flip and shooting the bad guy in the most unrealistic way. Or that’s the only one I can remember from the super boring movie.

I’ve been warned not to waste my money on this movie. And I’ve read almost in every trusted website that the movie sucks. But I had to see it for myself, didn’t I? Oh well.

Olga Kurylenko and Milla Kunis. Two reasons that might list Max Payne as a watchable movie. But then again, it’s too boring to be watchable.

If it weren’t for the Natasha character, one might consider putting a gun to his head and blowing his brains off halfway through he dreaded movie. She’s the one from Hitman, and will appear again in James Bond’s new film. Pretty much the same character throughout these movies. Who knows what she’ll play in Quantum of Solace.

Then there’s her in-movie sister, played by Mila Kunis. I thought she looked familiar. I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall quite recently, and it’s the same actress. And then I realised she was that irritating girl from 70s show. Also, she played Meg in family guy. Why did she suddenly get hot? The answer is plastic surgery. Yup.

Even so, the characters are so weak, and pointless. Including Payne’s own character. Poor Marky Mark, first the Happening. Now Max Pain.

Don’t watch it. Save your money for something else.

I almost spit out my coffee as I was reading the rss feeds today. Angry Zen Master had a post titled Harvey Dent Thanks You For Smoking. Then there was this image.

This ‘ere, ladies and gentlemen, is Two Face, finally revealed, God knows from where. It hasn’t found its way to many websites yet, at the moment of my writing. It looks too real to be fake. And it’s F*CKING SCARY!

It makes you wanna take a poop on Tommy Lee Jones’ version of Two Face.

I was already excited when they revealed the slight scarring on Dent’s face in ONE frame in the new trailer. But this… oh man… it’s too much…

The anticipation for the movie Dark Knight is killing me! Maybe killing me more than the anticipation of my FYP selection results tomorrow.

You’d think Joker’s evil face was scary, but Two Face would probably put him to shame.

This is getting out of hand. It was cool the first few times, but now its starting to get lame.

The new craze of Hollywood film makers (who’re apparently running out of ideas) is to make hand held video camera movies. And with their super rich industry being able to afford expensive CG, they can make something relatively low budget, add in a pinch of special effects to make it look as if it’s part of all that shaky action, and release it as a movie.

The breakthrough came with Blair Witch Project ONE. I thought this was a bloody cool style. Really captured the truth of the moment, makes you feel like watching something REAL. Well, I didn’t really watch the entire movie. I just liked the idea.

Then, many B grade film makers adopted the style. Some of them pulled through nicely, like the movie Alien Abduction, which is made to look like a documentary with ‘professionals’ commenting on the footage throughout the movie. Up till here, it was still ok, although it’s starting to lose its freshness.

Then came the all too cool Cloverfield. I like the movie mainly due to its viral marketing, and how this kinda style can be used to make a Monster Movie. In that sense, it’s new. A monster movie using the shaky cam method.

But the line should be drawn there. Instead, recently, at Apple Movie Trailers website, I saw two movies in the horror category, Quarantine and Diary of the Dead, which are of the shaky cam genre.

And every single one of these shaky cam shits will show some stupid woman in distress with their faces smack closed up on the camera, crying and drooling mucus from their noses. Sometimes, they even show men in such situation, which is seriously gross. They had it in Blair Witch, Cloverfield, and yes, you guessed it, in the two ‘new’ movies, Quarantine and DotD.

Super Scared Women in Shaky Cam Movies. Cloverfield, Blair Witch and Quarantine screencaps.

Alright, I’m not saying I hate this style of movie making. I actually liked it. But the fact that Hollywood’s starting to adopt it, and making more and more of it, when they could be making proper movies with proper camera work and directing, just irritates me.

The shaky cam style is supposed to be a secret weapon for low budget film makers to capture the audience without employing high tech rigs or involving expensive effects. And these Hollywood people are taking it away from such aspiring film makers.

I never knew of these scenes! They’re damn good. Especially the first one. Every star wars fan must watch! The first one was from the original 70s Star Wars. A vital subplot, taken off the movie.

Ok, but seriously, this one from Episode 3 really rocks. It shows a deeper dive into the whole corrupt senate. And it shows Shaak Ti, in the flesh! She rocked in the Clone Wars. And the best part, Yoda comes to Dagobah.

Everyone should watch these. Well, at least, ALL star wars fans should.

I laughed damn hard at some of the videos.

Click Here!

If you have very little time to watch, I highly recommend the following videos (from the site):

1: George Lucas In Love
A parody of Shakespeare in Love, and very cool relations to Star Wars itself. Very well done short film.

6. Ryan Vs Dorkman II
Awesome fan lightsabre duel. I agree, it’s the best choreography done by fans. Effects are awesome too. Very high on cool factor.

9. MUST WATCH: Coming to America Darth Vader
James Earl Jones acted in many movies, and this video is a mashup of his lines from Coming to America (the one with Eddie Murphy). Extremely hilarious… A-HA!

I’m not much of an Iron Man fan. But any comic adaptation movies, I’m gonna give it a chance. I wasn’t paying much attention to Iron Man till today, when I saw the trailer.

One reason why it’s so deliciously awesome is the trailer itself, with all the bits and pieces of clips from the movie. The cool CG… the Mark 1 prototype… the Iron Man song from Ozzy!…

The other reason is that I just watched Zodiac last night. It’s a movie about a killer who kills people randomly in the 60s and 70s. He managed to get a lot of attention to himself and evade the police till 80s. Anyway, there was a really good actor in it who plays the reporter.

And when I watched the Iron Man trailer, he’s the guy playing Stark, Iron Man.

Haha, I just googled Zodiac and found out that it’s Robert Downey Jr. Cool.