Saturday, July 31, 2004


Excalibur!
King Arthur and the Knights of the round table... or not. The movie King Arthur is a new take on the legend of King Arthur and his Knights, supposedly the newly discovered "true" story. Set back hundreds of years before the previous ones. Interestingly enough, it wasn't a bad movie. Can't wait for the uncut DVD version, with the extra battle scenes heh. Keira Knightley as Guinevere - well, er that was a sight. And whatever happened to Merlin? The end battle scene with Tristan (the dude with the eagle), intentionally or not, reminded me of Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai (which I haven't seen, just thru the trailers), from his battle gear to the facial hair and expressions... and his whole look including sword was more of an oriental soldier than a knight of the roman(british) empire. Or maybe it was just me.

To watch list: King Arthur, The Bourne Supremacy - time to read it now. Finished Bourne Identity which I think I read previously.. last half of it I remember reading just not sure when... damn this short/mid/long term memory loss!

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Sunday, July 25, 2004


I, Sugar High
Watched I, Robot this morning, which is based on the Isaac Asimov's series of novels on a robotic future and the 3 laws of robotics. Set in Chicago in the year 2035, which is only 30 years from now is so not a realistic environment, IMO, as I doubt that 30 years from now we'd be driving Audis that drive themselves, automatic parking, robotic demolitions etc.... aaaanyway. besides all that, the movie as a whole is interesting... jam packed with action amongst all the bias for/against robots. Although it was quite disappointing (for the guys anyway..) to have seen Will Smith in all his glory in the first 5 minutes, and us guys left with a frosted shower door of Bridget Moynahan in the last half of the movie... now where is the justice in that?! Probably have to stick to the cowgirl scene in Coyote Ugly... or The Recruit....

There is this new store open in Westfield Miranda which is a haven for sweet tooths called Sugar Fix. Hot damn there was so many people.. and I don't think I'd wanna go there too often. Although its quite tempting to (maybe after my next dental checkup mmmmm) Stocked with so much golden oldies that I grew up with as a child.. jawbreakers (those everlasting gobstoppers), pez, sherberts, jelly bellies, zours, kinder surprises, giant lollypops, turkish delights, all kinds of chocolates and lollies and a whole lot more. I was being considerate and only bought myself one of them sherbert straws which I haven't had since year 5 or 6.. Saving it for work tomorrow to keep me awake. Heehee. :DD

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Sunday, May 16, 2004


count me out!
bah. the stupid sitemeter counter died. Well, technically speaking, the harddrive containing the statistics of visitors to this site died and they unsuccessfully tried to recover the data from the hard drive. So, I have lost all stats for the last howmanyever days of tracking it provides. Not a great loss, just my way of seein who I dont know visiting my site and where they come from, which is quite interesting to say the least.

Anyhoo, watched Van Helsing Friday night and that wasn't too bad. Underworld vs Van Helsing I think I prefer the former, even though it was in a dark setting throughout and British accents all the way (some how, that's a good thing right? hmmmm) although I didn't mind Beckinsale's Transylvanian accent in Van Helsing. damn. As a friend pointed out, she does look good in them corsets. Guess they know what to dress her in. heh. Both movies left room for a sequel, with Underworld already confirmed for a sequel or two.

Stupid Americans (Sorry you non-stupid ones)
LaToya London was voted out of American Idol - well received the least votes out of everyone else. Good one you guys! These shows are just becoming a farce most the times. and what's with Randy dawg i giva ya props aiiight w0rd dude Jackson. Does anyone take him seriously anymore.

Speaking of which, I hope Kayne Taylor and Miranda Murphy make it to the final 2 of Popstars Live. Otherwise.. that's just so wrong.

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Saturday, April 24, 2004


Kiru Biru ni ban o mimashita. dai suki desu.
WARNING: Spoilers! ;)

Watched Kill Bill Volume 2 tonight and it was quite the ending to the movie. There was probably greater Tarantino style direction in #2 than #1, more of a character development and plot than the first. Volume 1 had crazy fighting and to me, better and longer lasting fight scenes than #2 had. The fighting in #2 seemed to go by real quickly in the amount of time they had. What ruined the movie for me was (with a full house), the laughter in scenes where there shouldn't have been. This occured mainly in the Chapter with Pai Mei (White Eyebrows) where The Bride (B..*beep*) learns her Shaolin kungfu. I mean, okay .. the first time may be funny - but do you have to laugh every single time the same words or action is repeated? Especially if you sit in the row right in front of me?! Given that Tarantino didnt explain the background to all the arts, you cant expect most anglos to know that the Eagle Claw and Crane are real Shaolin martial arts and the moves arent meant to mock anything, because that's what it is meant to be - based on the eagle's claw and the crane, that is why the "fists" or palms are held in that way *insert laughter here* and the moves (forms) are like that *insert more laughter here* . The 5 Point Exploding Heart palm strike *insert more snickering* (or soemthing similar to that affect - correct me if I'm wrong :) okay it may be a stupid name (to most people) but theres a reason its called that. Obviously cos it uses 5 pressure points for the execution and kills you pretty much once you move. Also another sticking point was the subtitles when Pai Mei speaks cantonese. Lucky for me, I understand it, but the subtitles at times wasn't anywhere near what he said. And Uma, was speaking a combination of mandarin, cantonese and english (sometimes even in the one sentence) even though Pai Mei refers to her speaking 'Cantonese'. Even her 'yes' and 'no was Mandarin ( no = "bu") and cantonese (yes = "hai").. which is like hm okay. Maybe there was a reason behind that, but thats just minor anyway. Just a gripe :)

All in all, Kill Bill Volume 2 ends the movie well, pretty much a predictable ending. As a whole movie it would've been good, one 5 hour long movie. Volume 2 brought his Western "spaghetti" movie influences out, mishmashed with the other Chinese martial arts and Japanese samurai fighting. It was good to see that Quentin put the effort into the movie to get all the cast into fighting mode, with Sonny Chiba (who played the Samurai Sword/Sushi maker in Vol 1) training the cast in samurai fighting, Gordon Liu (playing head of Yakuza Crazy 88 in Vol 1 and Pai Mei in Vol 2) comin from shaolin background anyway performin his fights, Yuen Wo Ping and stunt crew trainin people up.. and David Carradine from the old 70/80s Kung Fu series (which even my parents remember watching back in HK...). I was surprised to read that Tarantino orginally slated Warren Beatty (?!?!!!!) to be in Bill's role. Luckily, he changed his mind to Carradine.

Quentin is one helluva movie geek and it shows. Kill Bill pretty much played homage to all those movies that had an affect on him and wanting him to become the man he is today. Props to him. To most people goin into the movie blind, with not much of an idea on (mostly) the Asian cinema influences, then it really detracts (is that the word hmmm) from the viewing of the movie as a whole in understanding what he was trying to do - which lead to much of the constant laughter as mentioned above. I don't think this movie will influence the audience to start hiring out the old Sonny Chiba StreetFighter series of movies or the HK golden era Shaw Brother films or much of the Westerns, but it would be good if it did so they could watch it again and understand what Tarantino was trying to do - although this won't neccessarily mean they wouldn't like or understand the movie as a whole in any way, it would just help it if they had the background knowledge.


I'm dead beat. Going to get my RSA (Responsible Service of Alcohol) in the morning which will be fun.
Going into work again on Sunday for a few hours which is even more fun. Hopefully relax on Monday and catch up on all my tv shows I've taped throughout the week. eeek.

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Monday, April 12, 2004


Toyriffic
My sis returned home from her business trip to HK today and came back with some gooodies I got her to buy for me. After a lil fretting over the ipod, ipod mini, rio, zen, or the iriver digital music players, I settled for the iriver H140 which, like the ipod, has a 40 gigabyte hard disk but also has an FM tuner, voice recording, support for mp3, wav, wma, asf, and ogg... well, it just couldn't compete as much as the others. Even better, the store my sis bought it from threw in the iriver iFP-140 64mb flash music player in for free! bonus. What's good about the H140 is that I can use it as a portable hard disk, plug straight into USB and Windows automatically detects it as a mass storage device, with no software to be installed. Couldn't ask for any more. Now the big test is to see if the internal Lithium Polymer battery lasts longer and better than the ipod ones, which has reported a few problems lately....

Now if only my iriver came along with a few accessories such as this (not including him in the middle :), or these :D
I mean, what kinda homie wouldn't have an iriver or be seen driving one of these babies (and the hummer).


Talking about homies, I watched Starsky and Hutch tonight, and it was quite good indeed. Typical Stiller humour and 70s style action, nice mix.

Kill Bill volume 2 is out in a week. Can't wait til Bill is killed. Sis also bought Volume 1 on DVD from HK, hopefully its the Japanese uncensored version. Gotta love the gore.

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Thursday, February 26, 2004


Mexican or Mexicant?
I haven't blogged for a while as some of you have pointed out, dying for my updates. Why you want me to, I do not know, as there hasn't been much happening. Or if there is, I just haven't been motivated enough to blog about it. Maybe like mukie, I probably just can't be bothered much anymore.

Scored a preview pass to Once Upon A Time In Mexico last week which screened tonight. Took my sister along, which kinda surprised her when I asked her, I think. Haven't really watched a movie at the cinemas with her for a good 5-10 years (yes long time frame, I just cant recall how long :). Considering it is her birthday tomorrow might as well, since I haven't gotten her anything (!) and it was convenient since it was after work.

As the third part in the El Mariachi/Desperado series, OUATIM was slightly more jovial and gory than the previous ones (that I recall, as I havent watched the others for a long time). Johnny Depp providing much of the needed comedy relief throughout all the killing and explosions and flying body parts. Salma Hayek was billed as the leading actress in the movie but didn't really appear that way - she was only in it for a good 15minutes tops here and there. As true to the previous Desperado movie, they had their guitar cases filled with guns, flame throwers and remote control bombs. I'm sure some Latino fans would appreciate Enrique Ingelsias as one of the Mariarchi bandidos.

Had some drinks and a late dinner at the Belgian Beer Cafe last Friday, catching up with some old friends. I still don't know what the sensation is about the Hoegaaden beer. Tastes like wine to me. I'll stick to my spirits thanks. Friends had the Piraaat (arrr arr me aarties!) beer which is 10.5% alcohol ~2.75 standard drinks. One strong beer to last you a while. Note to self: NEVER drink bloody mary again.

I've worked now for almost 9 weeks. Another 3 to go til my probation period is over. I'm still a P-plate professional as a friend called it. Green Ps with a speed limit of 80 if that was the case. Work hasn't been bad, nor has it been great. Lotta project deadlines and a lotta testing to do. The testers there know that I'm a developer more than a tester, and joke around that ever since I've started, all I do is test. Lighten up their workload I guess. Not that me helping them develop would do any good as I don't even know how to code in Informix.

I don't know myself what I'm looking for in this job (or life in general too for that matter..). Where this job is going to take me I am still trying to figure out. Stick it for another 10 months and try to move on, if I even have the experience for anything else. Get to go bowling next month for a "team building" exercise. Looking forward to that at least.

Things to say, things to do, never enough time. (Poor excuse, time is what you make of it, but that's for another day)

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Thursday, November 06, 2003


it. is. inevitable!
Hello Mr Anderson.

Gotta love watching weekday afternoon movies with not much people around, even for a big movie like The Matrix Revolutions (one thing good about being unemployed :). That said, Revolutions sorta lives up to its hype of the cycle of life. The Matrix in Birth, Reloaded in Life and Revolutions in Death.

Reading back the notes I left myself from Reloaded, it appears to some how answer those questions.. and left me wondering more. It sorta gives closure to the trilogy and then some. The end fight scene seemed a bit drawn out for tooooo loong, but what would you expect.

As they say, the first is always the best.

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Kiru Biru o mimashita.
Saw Kill Bill Vol 1 tonight and despite what some have said, it didn't seem to be weird or wacky, just a run of the mill Tarantino film (having seen all but Reservoir Dogs, couldn't complain much about this one heeh). Although we got the 'censored' Americanised version which had the black&white scenes instead of in colour (as Japan would have) as it would be deemed to be too gory if we saw the colour red in blood .. as a mental imagery kinda thingymajig... but having watching the Crazy 88 yakuza scene go on for so long, the black and white was a bit overwhelming. I prefer blood and guts thanks. Although all that spurting of blood sorta became over the top after a while heeh.

Quentin, being Tarantino, pays homage to a lotta era of films he was influenced by.. it was good to see Sonny Chiba speak berry good Engrish, having only ever seen him speak Japanese in all the other Asian flicks he's in that I've watched heh. After watching the movie, did I realise woah there was actually quite a lot of Japanese spoken through the whole movie.. and I was focusing on the subtitles and trying to match the Japanese words with the English and some of it came back to me (yay :)

Now need to wait for a few months for Vol 2 to come out. gah!

Matrix Revolutions is currently screening worldwide. w00t. Can't wait, might watch it today too hmmmm.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2003


the league..
of extraordinary gentlemen and a vampiric scientist. just came home from watching LXG (yes its quite early to watch a movie :) after leaving the car to get fixed cos it was playing up... something wrong with the harmonic balancer thingymajig (dont ask me about cars, I just drive em :) making this rattling noise when you start the car up and if its stationary .. so yeh .. we were gonna take it in to service but it was fully booked for saturday, so what better way to jump the queue than having the car stuff up even more and push in early in the morning heehe
anyhow, LXG was good, but not all it was cracked up to be...

updated to watch list:
Bad Boys II, Tombraider 2: Cradle of Life, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Underworld, Kill Bill - Part 1 (and Part 2 released around February), The Medallion, The Matrix Revolutions (advanced tickets on sale now!), The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

I really should delete those I've watched but yeh, nice to keep track of. the past few months I've seen more movies than I usually do on average in a year..

australia has voted
not great idol hopefuls. Paulini got voted off this week, and Guy was in the bottom 2 with her. I mean, what's with that. I would rather Shannon and Cosima to be in the bottom 2 than them aergh! Just hope Guy wins. Was at Sanity today and saw this Australian Idol Karaoke DVD .. where you can sing along to some tracks, which weren't even covered by the Idols.. more merchandise to scum off us. gah.

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Friday, October 17, 2003


bad boyz 4 life
Thanks to the NTEU and the Government's academic reforms, there was a national university staff strike today (which I, of course, did not participate in) and so many students of mine turned up - a big class of one, and me. Ended up watching Bad Boys II and indeed there was quite a lot of body parts flying, shootouts, car chases - one which reminded me of a jackie chan movie when they go down the hill (which I believe the scene was inspired from hmm).. bit long and drawn out .. but what would you expect.

To watch list:
Bad Boys II, Tombraider 2: Cradle of Life, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (er maybe watch), Underworld, Kill Bill - Part 1 (and Part 2 released around February), The Matrix Revolutions (advanced tickets on sale now!), The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003


awakening of the underworld.
Went to the preview screening of Underworld at Fox last night and it was quite good. You could see traces of Matrix style filming and gun & fighting action, mixed with a bit of Blade hunting type of movie.. mixed with a bit of werewolf action. Add dark scenery, as the film was completely based at night time (otherwise .. they'd probably all just die....), and picture werewolves vs vampire scenes throughout, add a bit of an unbelievable love story (fall in love over one night?!), the awakening of the vampire elders as a backplot to the main plot, and well that makes the whole movie. It starts off a lil slow, and gathers pace halfway through til the end scene. phwoar. The filmmakers didn't use much CGI, they relied on old fashion puppetry and heavy make up for werewolves n vampires and that made it that much better.

The cast was almost entirely British, with Kate Beckinsale, whos previous movie I only saw her in was Serendipity - a far cry from that role, and she was also in Pearl Harbor which I have not yet seen, and Scott Speedman from Felicity (which, I have also never watched heh) as the main actors. Others, were pretty much unknowns cept if you were a British theatre and movie goer..

Of course, the filmmakers would want to leave room for a sequel .. and that they did. Although with what happens in the movie and the story they tell, how the sequel, if there is one, will turn out .. probably wont be as good. Will wait and see.

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Monday, October 06, 2003


feelin old n blue
at work the other night, there was a bunch of 30 odd teenagers who happened to be this years Year 12 from my old high school. it doesn't seem all too long ago that i was in year 12, sitting for my hsc but here they were, a few weeks away from their HSC enjoyin emselves and partying hard. looking back... those teens would have been just starting at school in year 7 when i was in year 12... probably being knocked around by us seniors whilst walking up and down between school sites. so much fun back then. aah the good ol days.

this morning went for my first movie marathon in a couple of years. only to watch Tombradier 2: Cradle of Life mainly as agreed to watch with a friend.. so we decided to watch it at a marathon since we havnt been for so long heh. along with Extreme Ops and The Core... which was .. not so enthralling to watch. Extreme Ops skiing + snowboarding was good though .. just thinking what I could do if i ever could do it heehe Being at the movie marathon, around these lil teenies .. making us feel so old.. only a few years ago there would have been masses of teens.. and we would just be amongst em all. . but no more...

so now my updated to watch list...
Bad Boys II, Tombraider 2: Cradle of Life, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (er maybe watch), Underworld (I scored a preview screening next week w000t!!), Kill Bill - Part 1 (and Part 2 probably in 12 months time), The Matrix Revolutions, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

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Thursday, September 18, 2003


to do. to watch. to bore.
to continue on from previous post, and since im bored.
current to watch list: Bad Boys II, Tombraider 2: Cradle of Life, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (er maybe watch :), Underworld, Kill Bill - Part 1 (and Part 2 probably in 12 months time), The Matrix Revolutions, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King..... and anything else that seems good enough to watch at the time.

to do: mark assignments (fun!). coding for project work (even more fun!). and work. (yay!)

to bore: drill. pig. to disinterest one.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2003


aye aye captain birdseye
watched pirates of the caribbean: curse of the black pearl at night. also watched finding nemo earlier in the day. nice movies indeeed. gotta love tightass tuesdays :D
friend said orlando bloom looked like luke perry (of 90210 and original buffy movie fame) in the movie. hmm i dont quite see the close resemblance... not that i'd want to remember what perry looks like. ick. although keira knightley sorta looked like kate winslet a lil to me.. slightly.. not that i'd want to remember what winslet looks like either. hehe

and what a cute clownfish nemo is. but they aint funny. what a shame. if only fish could talk. they would be funny joke tellers indeed.

bad boys 2 is out today. well.. 2 days from the date of this post but in reality is going to be released today.
tombraider 2 is out next week. hmmm sequels galore.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2003


Narc'd. Mark'd.
Having to wake up nice and early this morning so I could meet up with the lecturer for the subject I tutor for, I found an sms waitin for me on the fone from my sis, 'wear more clothes 2 uni cos its freezing', which luckily didn't wake me up else I would've been more dead than usual. But it didn't look too cold, til I walked outside and found it rather chilly. yes indeed.

Since I had about 3.5 hours to kill between the meeting and class, I decided to catch a movie. Contemplating to watch movies by oneself is always a tough choice, especially when you can't share laughs, jokes and ideas with other people. Decided to Narc it, as I had heard what an indie film it had started off to be then ending up being backed by Tom Cruise's production company, so it must've been something good. Rated R for heavy violence, language and drug use, probably not something you'd like to share with others hehe but the acting and filmwork and storyline was pretty good. Ray Liotta beefed up for this role and you could see why. Funny to see Busta Rhymes in it too, but he was playing the part of a Detroit nigga so what else could you expect. The whole story leads right up to the end, twisting you round and spitting you back out. Was quite good indeed. Compared to the last cop flick I saw, Training Day, which would probably be more worth watching but is more predictable, Narc .. is jus .. different. More in your face than anything.

Going into the cinema it was still nice and sunny. Coming out it was starting to rain. Still is. Damn this weather.

Having never needing to mark others work before, I don't know whether I should be a harsh, brutal picky marker, or the nice, easy marker for these assignments due this week. I see myself as the easy marking type, since I'm an easy person (read: easy going person :), but if I aint harsh nuff then people arent gonna learn so hmm Luckily theres a standard marking criteria which gotta tick off on to award marks so it shouldn't be that bad. Bring. it. on.

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Wednesday, August 06, 2003


Terminated.
Saw Terminator 3 tonight and it was pretty good, despite what one or two of my friends have said, although not comparable to T2 which was much better probably because it was a James Cameron film. The storyline was hmm alrights, differnt to the previous one, which if I recall correctly (and correct me if I'm wrong) was to prevent Judgement Day, whereas this film brought about Judgement Day as an unavoidable day, and the Terminator was brought back to keep em alive. But now that John Connor's alive and knows that he will die, won't he know that and will try and keep himself alive and not have to face sending a Terminator back in time again to the past of the future of the current time. hmm yes all this time travelling gets thinkin about time-space-continuum events of the past, present and future, which is too much to think.

Haven't seen a Claire Danes film for a while, so it was good to see her, albeit weird in a Terminator film, as she aint the linda hamilton Sarah Connor type of action chic, that I'm use to anyway. Unless her role as Juliet in Romeo+Juliet is counted cos she was using a gun hmm Wonder what her next film will be after her few years oasis from the industry. She'll be back.

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Saturday, June 28, 2003


The Angry Man
Saw The Hulk tonight. My first Friday night off work in quite a few years and needed to go out and relaxxx. Didn't realise Broadway could be so busy that time of night (8-9pm) but then again, its partying night so what would you expect. Stupid me. The movie wasn't too bad, the special effects (of the Hulk) were quite good, and as my friend mentioned, it turned into 24-esque style split screen and we were imitating the clock ticking effects from 24 as it did that hah we were up the top right corner where noone else noticed, so it was okay. Overall the movie was quite good.

Now I've only got one more on my watch list to go, Matrix Revolutions. Although now T3 and Charlies Angels 2 and few other movies are coming out, guess I'll have to watch them to see the hype, but Matrix Revolutions is definate. Another 5 more months to go and counting. Think I've seen more movies at the cinemas these past 12months than I have in the previous few years combined (not counting movie marathons hehe) hmmmm

Oh and the topic The Angry Man jus refers to a line in the movie if you were wondering or hadn't guessed already.... hehe

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Sunday, May 25, 2003


w00t watched X-Men 2 just before and it was prettay goodo .. few less action scenes than the first which had way more character introductions and all .. n this concentrating more on Wolverine's story and background .. my friend got upset since Cyclops was outta the movie since the start as he's a big Cyclops fan so he wasn't too happy hahe Someone correct me if I remember wrong .. but was the X plane (can't remember what it's called now) able to turn invisible in the comics? Or am I thinking of another comic strip hmmm... If it did .. it would've saved a lotta problems in the movie hehe The mazda rx-8 wif suicide doors.. nice car too, too bad they only had like 2 mins if at all of it but mmm nice and of course .. the ending would leave room for X3 as usual .. this could turn into a good franchise .. if only it doesnt take so long to produce a movie ...
To watch list Matrix Reloaded, X2, The Hulk, Matrix Revolutions only to go ... altho the Hulk seems to have so much CGI in it sorta spoils it but being an Ang Lee film wif Eric Bana as Bruce Banner it would be a quite interesting mix to see how it turns out mm

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Saturday, May 17, 2003


It's been a while since my last blog since I came back from Cairns .. but nothin much exciting happening anyhows. Friends graduations, riss' graduation, work .. uni .. assignments - 2 yet again due on Monday argh!
But o course I would only blog if there was something worth blogging about.
The Matrix. Went and saw Reloaded this arvo, even though I had assignments due Monday .. it was too tempting an offer when I got asked to go .. even tho was planning to watch it next week wif uni friends altho it probably wont eventuate since nothing was planned and everyone else had prior plans to watch it with other people lol so yes, I went and watched it even though uni work is more important (yeah right!). and did it rock my world. Not as much as the chic in the restaurant scene I don't think (watch the movie and you shall understand haehe :) Watching the movie leaves you wondering and asking more questions about the whole Matrix thing .. what the go is abuot Neo and The One. I shall write the spoilers in white so unless you highlight it you wont be able to read it :)
Is the beginning of the movie scene the same scene as the end, or is it all a dream that Neo has .. or is he dreaming back of his predecessors or something .. hmm he wont know the answer til he makes a Choice.. so I guess he made it in the end.
After their ship gets blown up .. how does Neo manage to control the machines outside the Matrix - when he aint plugged in? Is this in relation to him becoming one of them? As Agent Smith keeps referencing that he and Neo seem to bump into each other, that he might have some of him in Neo or something to that affect.... so in the machine world Neo is also able to use his powers - but to what avail .... what will happen to him *shock horror*
So do they only have less than 24 hours before mankind is destroyed? Will Revolutions be based on the last 24 hours .... is the whole thing a lie.. will he just wake up from a dream yet again? And how do the people he fight, die? If they're all programs wouldn't they just replicate or something like that. Neo, after all is just human.
Who is The Source? Source code from hell.

Did anyone else also think that when they did the slomo bullet time effect .. that Neo and Trinity and them seemed to be a bit CGI'd .. if they weren't which I think they weren't .. looked a bit shoddy but I think that was the whole effect of it all .. who knows .. but the action was pretty good .. til they start to fly and bullet time it and it goes slow for a while.. onyl good scene was between Neo and the Chinese dude protecting the Oracle ..

To Be Concluded..
Okay think I've spoilt and asked nuff questions to myself hehe and to whoever may have watched Reloaded or just read the above .. more notes to myself than to anything so I can come back in 5months time to remember what I was thinking about Reloaded when I go watch Revolutions :)
Maybe I shall watch it again next week hehe .. in a more comfy zone besides the 4th row from the front getting a neck strain .. and catch more of the action hmmm hehe

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Friday, April 25, 2003


Lame. Aunts at cousin's cousins place playing mahjong. They have 8 people, enough for 2 tables. They only have 1 set of mahjong tiles. Uh oh. No problem. Ring sis up and ask to borrow a set. Now mums a lil annoyed cos she rung to see if she could borrow the mahjongg, and not to call her to ask her to play, but since they aint missing a "leg" (a person to play) then she aint needed. So she comes over, and brings her cousin-in-law or some crap like that ( I wasnt there for the intros as I was being rude hiding in me room hehe) who came from HK. Now mum got really peeved off when they left, saying stuff like knowing better to bring someone from HK into our house, who knows if they got SARS n crap heh. So shes wanderin round getting stuff to spray n disinfect the doorway where they were haha man my mums a lil bit paranoid. Now shes like wanting to disinfect the mahjong set when they bring it back. oookay then.

Now Hero was pretty good to watch. Sorta agree with other folks with regards to Zhang Zi Yi's role .. was pretty minor and not much in it. Only probably used in the beginning for Jets story and that was it. I would've thought Donnie Yen's (Sky) character was more than that but obviously not. Really wanted to watch a matchup with people who can really fight, but it only lasted for about 5mins. I think I'm gonna have to watch it again to watch it without reading the english subtitles.

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