Movie Mania

I was on a sort of movie marathon last week having watched the following shows, 3 on DVD and 3 in the cinema.

Super Model - Cantonese Zoolander rip-off that's damned funny. Actually, the direct translation of the chinese title is "I want to be a model".
Super-Size Me - The McHating I wrote about previously
The Ladykillers - Incredibly.....BORING (and to think I was looking forward to it). Tom Hanks can play dumb eccentric people very well, but he seems to Bomb playing a "smart" eccentric charcter.
New Police Story - Not bad but no cigar. Some of the young actors just plain suck.

And here we go on two the highlights. The following "Guy Flicks" proudly holds up and even surpases my expectations. Needless to say I watched both back to back in the cinema and came out a very happy "Guy".

Resident Evil : Apocalypse
Zombies - check, Monsters - check, Guns - check, Gore - check, Hot Chicks - check, Hot Chicks Kicking Ass - check, Hot Chick Nudity - check. I don't really have to go on do I? If you watched the first movie, you would know at the very last scene, the heroine Alice, wakes up from a medical facility to find the whole town in chaos. Well basically it just continues from there. As with the games, the location is Racoon City, and the Umbrella Corp's T-Virus has been leaked out and infected the whole city. So instead of the small underground facility in the first movie, we now move on to a large city area. You can imagine that would mean 3 times the zombies, 3 times the action and the directors opted to provide us with 3 times the hot chicks too. Yes, besides the gorgeous Milla "Muulti-Pass" Jovovich as Alice, we have a tough cop chick Jill Vatenline (character from the game) and tag along journalist chick (don't know name). Of course, there is your "Resident" black guy LJ providing us with some pimped out humor. No he doesn't die, some Other Black guy dies. Go Figure! The central storyline actually builds the background for Milla's character and even sets it up for another installment. As long as they follow the same formula. I will watch it AND I will like it.

One thing I learned though, females are more resistant to deadly zombie viruses. If they do get infected, they still maintain their looks and body without horrible grosteque growths or mutations. Guys are basically screwed right off the bat.

I'm going to watch this shit again before it's taken off the cinema.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
While Resident Evil would appeal to the "Man" in you, Sky Captain will stir your inner "Child". This movie is a 30s/40s science fiction comic book dream come true. Think blocky square robots and bubble ray guns. You will see radio waves when it's been transmitted and map overviews when travelling, references to Wizard of Oz, Superman, Indiana Jones, Doc Savage, King Kong...etc. Theres even a Jedi. It's a homage to the Golden Age and even the cinematography reflects this. The whole movie has a musty look to it that really takes you back in time and is expecially apparent in the metropolis areas during the beginning.

The story is pretty basic, character development is minimal. Kinda like picking up "Squidman #253 Double Sized Special" out of the blue. You're thrown right into the fray and it's up to you to figure out the connections. In Sky Captain, top scientists have been abducted, wierd machines appear to be attacking all over the world. It's now up to our charming, cool, composed hero who can still belt out witty repertoire with a straight face under extreme duress (see I couldn't even keep a straight face writing that line) to find out who is behind these attacks, what they want and save the world from immenant destruction. The acting isn't much. I mean, it's one of those entirely blue screen things some people might be put off with. I wasn't really paying much attention though, vaguely following the plot since I was having too much fun with everything else. I liked how they ended the film too, it kept with the mood of the movie.

Of course, no Guy Flick would be complete without some hot chicks. Here we have Gwyneth Paltrow, Bai Ling (you'll see) and Heaven.....uh I mean Angelina Jolie... Jolie get's too little screen time if you ask me but she has the BEST equipment. "Alert the Amphibious Squadron!" Just plain kickass.

Sky Captain is tricked-out to the brim with outlandish gizmos and eye candy that will make the nerd in you have an orgasmic fit every 5 minutes. I have one word for you, "WHOA!" I probably uttered that expression 20 times throughout show. I felt like a kid again getting my very first "Laser blaster with 50 different sound effects. Lights up when you fire!"......."WHOA!!!" There you go, I Loved it and I'm not ashamed of it. I'd go see it again even if the whole demographic is 8 year olds.

Now I'm off to see Exorcist The Beginning and Wimbledon. Two shows I did not plan to see in the beginning but hey, I saw the trailers and I'm intrigued.