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What is a combo post? You are about to find out.. Inception

Almost all the dream/brain concepts I can take it, I mean they sound logical. And to any movie, it is Realism, Reaism and Realism. There must be the click to the viewer, than the show is making sense, even if it is sci-fic, and talking einstein-speak. So how do you steal something in someone's mind? Well you enter their dreams! Fair enough. But the show fails to, didn't explain how the device that they use to connect dreams together, work. None, no explaination at all. They could have 'talked-cock' at least, rather than leaving it blank, which kept bugging me after the show. Second, if the plot is inside a dream, I expect something wierd-ier to happen. After all, it's not reality. Gun battles are too common! Can't they come out with having super powers like in the Matrix?

The Last Airbender

Straight after the movie, I dashed home to go online to take an IQ test, and crap my IQ really dropped. Then I pulled out the YOGA mat to control my breathing and blood pressure. Breathe, Victor, breathe. I told myself, concentrating on breathing. Which is followed by weeks of psychiatric therapies. Ok, I didn't do all that. But.. For years, I've not seen such a terrible movie. The dialogue are cheesy, to the bones! Halfway through the movie, I am enduring, I really wanted to walk out, but the critic in me wanted to finish the show out of fairness. The special effects, are wondrous-ly wasted on this film! If anyone wanted to see (contact)太极拳 or 洪拳, I have several of Jet Li's flicks I can lend you, most of them available in stores too. Is it bad acting of the in-experienced cast? For a movie to go that bad, I would say the bulk of the responsibility goes to the director. I have seen actors go from good for the first, then bad for the second. The reason I could come up with, is probably that a good director will know how to access and capitalise on the actor's abilities, devise the best way to film him, and the rest of the movie. At a time the movie industry is fighting an uphill battle against rampant piracy, this just doesn't gives the people the impression that the industry is in dire straits, and another reason that movies are not really worth our money.

Salt

A little predictable, nonetheless, still thrilling :) Angelina Jolie works her charm around this one as well. When you have a plot that flows/fits quite neatly with some real history, congratulations, you passed the first test. The scary thought that the movie presents is how many spys are among us, constantly reminding us how powerful brain-washing is, post-911. I mean everybody has a choice, or looks like they have. When you get to a Colonel, would you still serve as a spy and kamikaze yourself(volunturily) when the organisation requires? One of the more fun stuff one can look forward to is the ingenuity of SALT. Just one person, no team, no help, she can assasinate a president. Even a locked-down bunker, she can get herself inside! Wow! But it does inspire us that no situation is really hopeless

Liar's Game

When it is a tragic ending, ppl complain. A happy one also complain. Halfway throughout the TV series, it is widely portrayed that Nao-chan will and have to win the game. So the formidable team of top-class-Liar and 馬鹿正直-ばかり! (Shinichi-kun and Nao-chan) blazes on the final, and with some really unexpected help from Yokoya-kun. If he is interested in the 5 billion yen, he would have entered the game himself, but he gave up? But on the other side, the show does a great job, leading to everyone voting red apples in the end. It still bugs me, if realistically and logically, can this phenomenon really happen? That everybody trusts each other and votes red? All it takes is one traitor amongst them, like 'mushroom-head', and all trust is back to rock bottom. Remember this is the final round, all the contestants(that are left) are supposed to be inhuman, cold-blooded.

Phua Chu Kang The movie

Phua Chu Kang movie is another movie (after Airbender) where I don't know where the hell are the QC ppl, and what the hell is the director doing. I expected more from our Gurmit. The dialogue is like a sg-movie-from-ten-years-ago. Many of it ended promptly(very unnaturally), others don't make sense! To think that movie-makers are taking a back-step after all these years! It is not just the plot(which by the way is also horrible). If it is just another episode from the show, it might have been ok, but when we are talking a movie, you can't have thAT standard! The C-class jokes from the cast still works for me however, and is the saving grace of the show. How I miss Jack Neo now.

お前 の 借金, 一億円!

お前 の 借金, 一億円! Now that was some terrifying words to hear. In the Liar's Game, one hundred million yen is the basic unit block of the game. That is 1.56710341 million Singapore dollars(from google). Japanese have quite a talent of churning out very sophisticated; intelligent; detective plots/schemes. Very good examples that come to my mind are Code Geass, Death Note. All these movies have unthinkable battles-of-wits, spectacular and epic. I can safely add Liar's game as one of them Starting off, we have the damsel-in-distress, our totally adorable, 馬鹿正直 の Nao-chan! (played by Toda Erika - who also played Misa in Death Note). Gullible and naive (who could still laugh after being played a prank on!), this character preys plays on guy's protective instincts for woman. Reminds me of Tohru-san. Both characters are so sweet, godly that we belived "存在 しない". Just Erika-chan alone is enough for YOU to see the show! Just loved the moments when Nao-chan annouces: "Aha I've found the game's winning strategy!" その ゲーム わ 必勝法 が -ある ですよ! , only to be stared blankly by her team members for her stupidity silliness, before one of them KINDLY explain to her HER winning strategy doesn't work! LOL!

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More Erika pics Now the "Liar's game" plot progresses into the movie. Everyone is waiting for the producers to awe us again. Who is the creator of the game? What is his motive? Can honesty prevail ironically in a Liar's game? (Hey we got a super rare glimpse of Nao-chan hatching a plot! Naughty Nao-chan! ) But we can all guess the ending, that Nao-chan's gonna win the game - happy ending. Liar Game: The Final Stage Trailer ....coming to cinemas 12 Aug 2010

WTH? Hollywood is doing a re-make on Death Note film? Why can't they leave us alone?