another life blog

For those of you who don’t know (I didn’t know), The Kingdom is Saudi Arabia, a holy place where unbelievers like us aren’t supposed to trod upon with our unclean feet. For some Muslims, even the minor presence of Westerners in the Kingdom was too much to bear. Knowing no amount of negotiation [...]

Made famous by Ong-Bak, Tony Jaa is back as The Protector of elephants! Yeah, elephants.
The story is nothing to brag about… basically, some crazies from Australia kidnaps Tony’s precious elephants and he goes after them with Muay Thai. It’s a lot of ass kicking by Tony ~ but I think this time around, [...]

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about what’s been bugging me about Reservoir Dogs and why I don’t like it as much as I “should.” I don’t know why it rubbed me the wrong way ~ was it the soundtrack? The way the story was presented? Or… maybe it was just [...]

I’m a little surprised that I haven’t seen Memento until now ~ it sure was unique enough to arouse my (and colleagues) interest that I’d rent it way back when!
Leonard is suffering a lot of hardship. The last thing he remembers with 100% certainly is his wife being killed in front of him. [...]

Pan’s Labyrinth is best described as an adult fairy tale except in the adult world, kids aren’t so stupid as to eat the grape they were… … mm… come to think of it, they probably would ~ just to be stupidly defiant of the powers that be. Damn kids…
Pan’s tell the story of [...]

The world can be described as a sleeping bull when it comes to taking action against annoying happenings. Floods, hurricanes, droughts, floods, landslides, heat waves, etc… all are attributed to mother nature, and we all know that global warming is pissing her off. Described as a green house effect, it’s a rather simple [...]

“Hello, is this the missile base?”
“No, you got the wrong place.”
“No, you guys got the wrong place!”
Are you laughing? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
In a family where a young boy was too afraid to jump from a tower into the water below, father made The Return after 10 years of absence. The young [...]

“I suffer without my stone. Do not prolong my suffering.” -Galbatorix
What can you expect from a movie after such a statement? Even though I expected the worst, I couldn’t sit through Eragon without having it on 1.5x. The story itself wasn’t exactly terrible… but I just couldn’t stand Eragon the actor. [...]

Two years after making his extremely controversial The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson returned to the scene of directing with Apocalypto. From just the title and bits of preview alone, I gathered the movie was about days after the Apocalypse where everything returned to mother Earth and it’s once again the age of [...]

I remember calling Po one night, and he told me he was watching Curse of the Golden Flower ~ I was already interested in the movie long ago – but I always forgot to rent it. Now, I watched the movie with both Ricky and Mo, and they have a vastly different opinion on [...]

It’s weird, but watching any movie on an airplane makes it 100% better, even if it’s utter crap! Using Full of It as an example ~ it’s a movie that if I had watch it anywhere else, I would’ve said, “damn, this is one terrible movie!” But, on the plane, it’s like… the [...]

Transformers, robots in diguise! There’s not much to say about Transformers except I thoroughly enjoyed it! The story is really simple — there exist a gigantic cube called Allspark that grants unlimited power to whoever possess it. Decepticons have been looking for it for a long time in order to gain the [...]

The Deer Hunter is one of the more famous movies by Robert De Niro and I’m sure many of you “enjoyed” watching it. To refresh your memory of what the movie is about – De Niro and co plays a bunch of steel workers from the great state of Pennsylvania. They are Russian [...]

I can’t believe Idiocracy got such a high rating from IMDb.com ~ it’s just unreal! I know it’s a parody of today’s society and what some of us are turning out to be… but damn ~ this is a film with acting so bad, it makes Dracula 3000 looks good!
The story behind Idiocracy is [...]

The premise behind Knocked Up is quite simple and from just the title, you know it has to do with accidental baby making that leads to hardship… lots of hardship. I saw this movie with Thuy the same day as PotC 3, and I have to say this is the better movie even though [...]