It’s about deliberation, countless sleepless nights, weighing the pros & cons, nagging thoughts, heart-wrenching arguments, and having the guts to step into the unknown.
Ultimately, it’s about to actually give it a try to know what the outcome of it is to satisfy your curiosity. So at last, you can sleep soundly at night.
Curiosity killed the cat, they say. I wonder if it’d kill me too.
I know Borat is racist, gross, stupid, obscene, anti-Semitic, sexist, offensive, insensitive, disgusting, and other adjectives. Sounds like a movie to avoid at all cost.
But I like it. Is nice, great success, and I have sexy times.
High five!…NOT!
I’m rushing for home tonight. I don’t care for my screaming empty stomach, instant noodles should keep them quiet later. I don’t have time to stop at another place. Every minute is precious. I don’t want to be late as I have an important date tonight.
With Randy, Paula, & Simon.
They’re back for the sixth time and I contribute myself as a tiny dot in making up the hundred million people worldwide or so, according to those guys whose job is counting people watching TV. I just can’t resist the invitation to laugh my ass off at those hapless, tone deaf, weirdos looking to crush their bathroom singing career in return for 15 minutes of fame.
You might say that we have no right enjoying Simon’s nasty insults about them as it’s cruel. But hundred million people can’t be wrong coz they leave their collective conscience at the door, once they pick up the remote to watch the show.
For the last several weeks, I’ve been involving in this DVD-renting craze. It’s all started since the Year End holiday and continues till now as the vendor keeps coming in with great package deals. I can’t help it, movies have always been my Achilles’ heel and it’s a cheap ticket to the sanctuary I always yearn to visit.
I’ve managed to catch on some great movies that I’ve missed before, and probably I’ll write about them here whenever time & mood permit. But now, it’s time for The Shawshank Redemption.
The movie was originally released in 1994 and not really successful in the box office, until several years later it became more popular in the video rental store and the buzz caught on ever since. Adapted from a Stephen King novella, it told the story of a man who tried to survive while serving his time for a crime he never committed and at the same time finding his way for the redemption you’re supposed to get for being in prison.
The story was narrated by Morgan Freeman who played the man’s best friend in prison, and together they brought the audience to many memorable moments that would remain in your heart as the movie slowly worked its way to your favourite movies list.
That’s what I like in a movie, a good story telling that relaxes you and sticks like Peter Parker’s web.
It’s quite funny how stories revolving prison’s life become Stephen King’s most successful books-to-movies. The Green Mile, anyone? And I think it’s not coincidence if both of them have the same director in Frank Darabont.
Rent the DVD, wear your most comfortable tee, get the snacks out, and you’ll have the recipe for a perfect lazy Saturday afternoon.
I may not be able to finish the novel due to numerous excuses, but this time I was more than determined to finish the DVD on the last day of the first long holiday in 2007.
All systems are go as I joined the adventure of one William of Baskerville together with his young novice, Adso of Melk in the 14th century as they deduced their way out to solve a series of mysterious deaths in a Benedictine monastery in Italy.
One would be terribly wrong if he believed the whole movie was just about finding the culprit who killed those hapless monks. More subplots were discovered as our heroes weaved their ways through the labyrinth of secret library inside the thick walls of the abbey. At the same time, viewers got to discover the true state and issues of Catholicism during the medieval period. Who would’ve thought that the men of God were also capable to do the works of the Devil?
My only complaint is that I didn’t get to hear as much Gregorian chants as I like in the movie. I mean you must have the chants as much as possible if your setting is a Catholic monastery, right? But I guess I just can never get enough when it comes to Gregorian chants.
