What will be shall be

Memoirs of a King Kong, the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

There haven't been many good movies recently. It has been pretty disappointing because traditionally, the approaching of Chinese new year always promises many blockbuster on the cinema screens. The usual suspects were all missing this year, Jacky Chan, Stephen Chow and so on. I am already accustomed to watching their new shows during the new year every year. But not this year.

For the past 2 to 3 months or so, I have only watched three movies, a low record for an avid movie freak like me. Perhaps its the lack of time as I am only free during the weekends as the remaining of the week I will be at Tekong.

But I must say that the three movies, King Kong, Chronicles of Narnia and Memoirs of a Geisha have been pretty much of a flop in my opinion.

Watching King Kong was like watching Jurassic Park 5. King Kong VS T-Rex. King Kong VS Rest of the world. And this even goes one up better. King Kong falls in love. Perhaps its because I have never been fascinated by this big monkey when I was small and thus the lack of interest. Most people who like this movie are those who have been fascinated by him during their childhood. The first hour of the movie was a bore and there wasn't even the sight of the King Kong. The remaining 2 hours saw our hero jumping and flying here and there mainly because of the female lead. And our hero King Kong even knows how to act cute in the movie. Spare me.

Chronicles of Narnia is the small kid version of the Lord of the Ring. Children holding swords and attacking goblins or whatever you call that. A small girl chances upon an old wardrobe and enters another fairy-tale dimension and the adventure starts from there. The fighting scenes pales so much in comparsion with those ancient war movies. Of course, how much can you expect from kids? And the magic enchantment is not even a fraction of what Harry Potter provides. And wait, there are talks of a sequel or even more for this movie but you can be sure I will not be there for its sequel.

The movie Memoirs of a Geisha did so much injustice to the book. I went to watch the movie because I was totally hooked and fascinated by its book. A section mate of mine happens to have that book and after starting to read, I simply can't stop. But the movie was very disappointing. It misses so many important details which can be said was the climate of the book. The credit I can give was the acting of the 3 Geishas in the movie, Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeo and Gong Li. Each was pretty in their own right. The only question was why Zhang Ziyi gets laid in every movie she acts in. From Crounching tiger and hidden dragon to House of flying daggers to Hero and to today's Geisha, she gets laid. Doesn't she ever get sick of getting laid?

2 movies worth looking forward to in the next few months are The Da Vinci Code and Mission Impossible 3, both coming out in May. Hope both will be good and anyway, happy Chinese New Year.

posted by malmoncolo @ 2:00 PM