Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

I'm glad I had the chance to watch the advance screening. The movie started with too much humours, especially from Sam's mother. Some stuff are quite annoying. I hate the introduction part. I only enjoyed the last half of the movie. There are humours which made everyone (including me) laughing out loud in the cinema hall.

Although it's huge blockbuster, because of the story line, it's not worth the wait. I was expecting an exciting story line. Other than that, it has the best of actions and explosions but there are too much unnecessary elements and material.

Basically, good movie should receive around one year to complete the script. However, I heard this movie script took around one month to complete. The writers then was paid USD 8 million. I believe there are people can write better story and can negotiate for half price.

The visual effects look real and there are plenty of robots involved. According to the visual effect supervisor, Scott Farrar, "After one hard night of rendering computer-generated footage, some of the hardware actually exploded."

The explosions are awesome to watch and the battle between robots brings the action sequences to the top. Micheal Bay has made into Guinness Book of World Records for biggest explosion on film with the actors present.

Mikaela Banes (played by Megan Fox) is hot in this movie. I have not seen Megan Fox that much hot. Actually, Mikaela Banes is improved version of Megan Fox, by using CGI. Thanks to some CGI crews who worked on this movie. They really pushed it to the max when it comes to CGI, until Michael Bay satisfied with it. By the way, I realize Megan Fox had too much make up.

The good news, there will be Transformers 3. Michael Bay will make it again. Shia LaBeouf said it's going to be darker than the previous two. Either darker or not, I only want good action movie that I can recommend to every Transformers fan, of any age.

Rating: 6/10

Mikaela Banes: How you know it will work?
Sam Witwicky: Because I believe.

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Deadline (Post-It Stop Motion)

Watch this wonderful stop motion video, created by Bang-Yao Liu and his team for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Almost everyone can relate to the story on the video, either they are working or studying.

Now here's the "Making Of" video. I'm amazed by the team. They are patient and hardworking. I believe the video was not an easy made.


Every time when I'm busy, I feel that I'm not fighting with my works. I'm fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulate the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its. - Bang-Yao Liu

Terminator Salvation

I love this movie. It's better than the third film. This one, being the fourth film, has the best effects and higher budget. Still Terminator 2 remain to be the best action movie ever made. This movie has new and stronger machines. The missing part was, they are not good enough to give you the same feeling you get when you watched Terminator 2.

Every Terminator fan have been waiting for this movie, to see the future battle between human and machine. In this sequel, Christian Bale portrayed John Connor perfectly. He's really dedicated to it, yet his Batman voice acts are quite annoying. Marcus Wright, portrayed by Sam Worthington, was the coolest character. He deserves the most notable performance. Another young character Kyle Reese, portrayed by Anton Yelchin, he's more than you can imagine he is. He has the spirit of Kyle Reese, which can be seen in The Terminator.

I went to watch this movie with less expectation because of the reviews on the internet. The movie was released about one week earlier in certain countries. After watching, I realized most of the reviews are wrong. This movie is extremely awesome. Most of the reviewers compare it with Terminator 2. I do agree... Terminator 2 is brilliant work, but this movie is no longer the old Terminator. It's new Terminator trilogy. Most of the elements are changed, maybe to bring freshness into the new trilogy. Anyway, I would say the film crews made it. It's just... they changed the original theme music, I still prefer the old one. :)

Another defect in this movie, there's no Arnold Schwarzenegger casting anymore. So, there goes another element missing. It's the future, John Connor must protect himself and others, especially Kyle Reese. Thanks to Computer Generated Imagery (CGI). They were able to bring T800 into the movie. It had the exact look of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The movie sets in futuristic world, lots of special effects are involved and it remains realistic. The explosions are marvelous and so does the action sequences. I'm glad they made this movie... Terminator is my favourite franchise. Terminator Salvation was worth the wait and money. I would still enjoy it for second time. The ending was excellent and the movie was satisfying, though most of the scenes are fast paced.

Rating: 9/10

Everyone deserves second chance. This is mine. - Marcus Wright

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Like most people, I got attracted by the trailer. However, the movie was not greater than I expected. It's less than I expected. Fast & Furious 4 was better and they should have exchanged the release date. That would have be better opening for summer movies.

Wolverine is the coolest superhero character ever created and movie about his origin can achieve high potential of success. That's the reason this movie made huge profit at the box office, although it's not satisfying. Most people I know are not happy with this movie, it's very less amount people like this movie. Those that likes this movie are not X-Men or Wolverine fan at all.

I do not know the budget of this movie but I can say, the special effects are not helping, especially Wolverine's claws does not look real enough. I found it's better in previous X-Men movies. I have no idea what they have done with Wolverine in this movie.

The aspect that deserves respect from the audience is the acting skill. Hugh Jackman portrayed Wolverine better than previous X-Men movies. The other actors/actress was okay too. However, too bad, it's all ruined by the other aspect of the movie especially the script.

This movie should not have been made or at least should have been great movie. Somehow, it achieved success in box office and sequel already been planned. I'm hoping they would improve and consider the reviews and critics. I know its comic book based, yet look at Dark Knight, Spider Man or Iron Man. Those movies are marvelous.

Rating: 4/10

Logan: I'll find my own way.
Remy LeBeau: Good luck.

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Bought Nokia N73 Music Edition

I bought Nokia N73 Music Edition. It's brownish. Actually wanted to buy black colour one. However, the black version contains old firmware and I do not really like blue keypad LED. This one comes with firmware updated on Sept 2008 and white LED. Only the LED at light sensor is blue colour. Could not post photo of the phone.. no other good camera except this phone itself, haha.

The specification are good enough to meet my requirements. It would be better if it can access WLAN. I did not know the importance of it until I got this phone. GPRS/3G access are expensive.

The coolest part, it comes with Symbian OS v9.1 S60 3rd Edition. Most of the applications I want runs perfectly on it. That's the reason I chosed Nokia N73 instead of Sony Ericsson or any other Nokia phones. That's my answer if anyone ask me, "Why you did not choose Sony Ericsson?"

The memory card capacity only 2GB. That's not enough actually. At the moment I'm writing this, I have used 1709 MB, the free memory is 230 MB. Total capacity is 1938 MB. I hope 230 MB will be enough until I found compatible 4GB memory card. Ok... maybe that will not happen. Everyone told me N73 phone only support maximum 2GB.

I actually tried some 4GB cards, it did not function on this phone, sigh. Anyway, I'm happy with this phone, I bought with money I earned by myself. Really wanted good phone since long time. :)

See new. Hear new. Feel new. - Nokia Nseries

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