Alright Alright

First up the first movie I haven't seen in a while actually never seen it before but undoubtedly the first rental movie that I have seen in a month or so...

Kingdom of Heaven... long story short Orlando Bloom's character died KIDDING!! HAHA you should've seen the look on your face HAHAHA ... ehrm yes... seriously I know Kimmie already did a review on this and I know of her warning and honestly it was an honest mistake... we were in a hurry and my couz just thought "what about that one" and I just say yes knowing that it was the movie but thought "we'll see how bad it is" ok to summaries the whole movie I would like to thank imdb.com for providing me with this info: "Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people." And that is basically the whole summary of the plot... of course... nothing complicated... just a lot of blood squirting, awkward moments, a lot of adrenaline, lust, love and err... patriotism?

Ok... Orlando it has nothing to do with you, hun (did I just say hun?!?) it's just maybe you should move away from all these war-like movie and try yourself into something more modern and interesting to do... I know the pay is probably really handsome since he is the main character in the movie and all... hmm... anyways... Ridley Scott is the director and quite truthfully it was very... err... typical of those type of historical war movies... but quite an interesting storyline... but what it succeed doing to us is probably make us wonder when the movie will end when it approached the one hour mark... nothing offensive I just don't take a like to it... but when we got bored we started talking about the history of the crusaders and as such but honestly it was interesting in its historical aspects but quite boring for it to be 'adventureous'. (-- is that how you spell it?) All in all... a good movie to fall asleep with (no offence)

Next has to be the movie that has been BRAGGED a lot by EVERYONE and not just Marina and Kimmie but err... actually it's just the two of you guys :P hehe...

Crash... let me just tell you that it is what is expected from the writer of Million Dollar Baby... I was TOTALLY blown away by the movie... OMG what can you say about this movie... it has GREAT casts GREAT cinematography EXCELLENT storyline... Look... to be honest the story was rather offensive and yet true that at some parts of the movie I nearly turned my DVD player off just because I didn't like the character!! HONEST!!

Basically the storyline deals with people from different racial backgrounds and how these are stereotypically perceived by others and how they life collide with each other so unexpectedly that you forgot that it was just a movie... It was as close to real-life that it was breathtaking... One thing I found out from the movie is that faith can be so cruel and yet so kind... *sigh...

The story is not dragged and the way the editing has been done is just to me flawless and not predictable at all and what I found is that I was staring in awe at how each story is depicted into its full extend without it being shot in detail... it was such a marvellous and yet melancholic movie... and yes I did cry at one particular scene and I think you Marina and Kimmie knows which scene but maybe I should make sure which scene we are talking about... and fyi I have a rather sensitive spot for dramatic moments... But I was actually captivated instantly by the first line that came up in the movie said by Don Cheadle's character:

"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."

It was so true for any big city dwellers living in such a fast paced life... But what is more troubling about this movie is that the whole concept of racial discriminations and stereotypicalling is actually real in the world we live in today... as much as we want to admit that the country has gone multi-national we can't help but sense some barriers and expectations for that particular race... it is a movie that you either accept of you don't as the director Paul Haggis said it is a movie that you either you laugh at or you think about... or similar... I have no idea what the exact words are... he said that he wants to make a movie that makes people who watched it discuss it after the movie end... not just leave it... so basically the movie did leave an imprint on me and it was a great movie... watch it... I know I love it... :)

So... that is all for today... and come to think of it have I talk about Pride and Prejudice... hmm... ok ok... maybe I should do that next time... right now I am hungry and want to eat FOOD!! food~