dreams of a pretty place far far away

rebel without a cause was a really boring movie, despite all the editorials, recognized magazines hailing it as one of the best coming-of-age films in hollywood. granted, it might have been ground-breaking and amazing for the kids back in 1955 but they don’t make teenage angst like that no more. the life of the angsty teen is now stereotyped into either that of the spoilt rich kid of gossip girl, the annoying blonde of miley cyrus or the you-need-to-lay-off-the-white-face-makeup vampire of twilight. oh well. at least i learnt something about teenage angst from the movie: james dean is very extremely hot (can you even put 2 emphasizing words together like that?). pity they don’t make them like they do back in the day, haha. if only he were still alive and didn’t have do die so young.

well at least we still have james franco :)

okay my super long movie ramble start here so you can skip it if you wanna –

hmm over the week i watched a bunch of movies. there was this almost b-grade movie called frankenstein unbound which i watched with bj and mom. basically it is:

a) scientist invents ray to vapourize stuff but causes rifts in the space-time continuum of universe and thus
b) gets transported back in time to meet mary shelley, author of frankenstien
c) scientist meets the real slim shady aka frankenstein but is unfazed by its ugliness
d) stuff happens (we also meet 2 gay looking guys who live with mary shelley, i think they are her stylists)
e) scientists zaps frankenstien, his girlfriend, the scientist who made franky, and himself to some place that looks like antartica but in the future
f) everyone dies (long story) except scientist dude
g) scientist dude walks into sunset. end

special mention to the ugliest frankenstein ever; it looked like a cross between davy jones from pirates of the caribbean except it had tentacles for hair instead of a beard, and arnold schwarzenegger from back in the first terminator movie. AND it had stiches in its eyeballs!! plus he was pink and reminded me of corsola (the pokemon), which made it all the more worse! it looked just…. wrong!! it couldn’t get any worse than that. but despite all of that i love watching b-grade horror movies, they are really funny because they take themselves too seriously, haha.

hmm i also caught the avengers. it was this pretty cute pseudo-english (which i assume, since it was most probably made in hollywood) movie whose genre wikipedia describes as “campy nostalgic”. it is one of those movies reminiscent of the 60s, whose villains are highly stylized, and the main character is a james bond-type of persona (complete with corny gadgets), whose dialogue with the supporting female character almost always involves some sort of sexual reference. in this case the chief villain is a woman called Father, who opposes the head of FBI, a man named Mother (lol). the james bond-type character is played by ralph fiennes (who was totally rocking the suit and the ‘do btw) and his female interest is Mrs Peel, or uma thurman. PLUS the villain villain (like the boss guy) is played by sean connery. the main premise of the movie is that ralph fiennes and uma thurman must stop sean connery from wrecking havoc on the world because he can control the weather and is sending hurricanes to wreck buildings and stuff. yup and as per usual a whole lotta stuff happens (like cloning, running around in a maze made of hedges, swordfights, hot air balloon exploding etc etc). the whole thing ends with everyone drinking champagne. how classy :D

lastly there was red dragon. which starred the ever brilliant anthony hopkins, edward norton and ralph fiennes (who looked mad with a cleft lip but still looked hot……………ish). anyway it’s this film about a guy who copycat murders people a la hannibal lector, and the cop has to consult hannibal on this new guy and the type of victims he’s gonna kill next. it was a great movie, but apart from that i hated the part when ralph fiennes (copycat murderer) was flashing pictures of the corpses of the women he killed to another guy he kidnapped on a screen, and i was totally unprepared for the pictures shown, and spent the night having gruesome nightmares because of that. didn’t help that i watched the 2nd half alone!! at 2am in the morning. :(( LOL, but for once i was grateful for the singapore censorship because if not there’d be more violence/gore in the movie and i’ll have more sleepless nights. plus there was this funny part (which was not meant to be funny) in which i was reminded of pam: hannibal lector serves his victims to his party guests, so there was this shot of people eating the food, and it looks EXACTLY like puffin meat!! seriously. same consistency and colour and everything as that gordon ramsay video.

and in between i saw bits and pieces of other films but meh. this post is too ramble-ly already. haha. i’m turning into some sort of omega movie geekazoid.

p.s. gg out to study tomorrow guys, wish me productivity! :D (and restraint to not buy anything)