Notes of a Desolate Libra

I know for some of these movies are waaaaay old. But I just watched them recently so I’ll give them a short review anyway. Just some personal thoughts, so don’t flame me. I decided to group the argh and meh together because sometimes I can't quite decide and besides, I don't want to write that much about them.

Oh, during the time when I was writing these posts I got lazy with the external links... so if you're interested, look them up yourself :D

ARGH, don’t bother or Meh, I didn't need to see it:

Curse of the Golden Flower - Everyone and everything was wasted in this movie: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, my beloved Jay Chou, Liu Ye... and of course, Zhang Yimou. I cannot fathom what motivated Mr. Zhang to direct this movie. The storyline is from Leiyu (Thunderstorm 雷雨), which is a very famous play set in 1930's China (actually I played the character that was adapted into Chow Yun-Fat's Emperor in my college play - yep... the MAN). They adapted it into an ancient Chinese dynasty (Shu), which I personally thought spun part of the plot out of place. So the main thing I got out of it was - excessiveness (acting, luxury, etc.).

The Day the Earth Stopped - Keanu Reeves. Period.

Twilight - I know I'll get flamed by little fangirls of this book/movie, but I don't care. I spent most of the movie with my head on my forehead thinking: dude, can this dialogue be more contrived? It also erased any desire I ever had (which was very little) to read the book.

CJ7 - I don't know what Stephen Chow was thinking, but I barely made it through this movie. It was... ok, cute, but there really was just no plot! I mean, it's not like Stephen Chow usually has a plot, but this one just plainly didn't involve any thinking and wasn't even funny!

Curious Case of Benjamin Button - I think someone told me it was Forest Gump backwards... yea... that pretty much summarizes it. The plot would've been touching if I wasn't expecting it. But I guess it's worth watching at least once if only for the idea itself - someone growing backwards. Unfortunately I had to run the movie 3-4 times before I was able to catch all of it... I kept on falling asleep. >_<

Sigh... but I made it through these. So now it's time to work our way up the goodness ladder...