The words were flashing orange.
The legend was scrolling below:
Available Selling Fast Sold Out
Phew, just in time to get the seats for "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"
I step into the queue. 2 people are in front of me. I guess I'll be lucky once again. I'm pretty sure I can get that seat.
The queue moves.
YES! 1 more person in front of me.
A quick glance up.
Sold Out
WHAT!? FARK!
I ended up having to settle for TMNT. The geek in me was satisfied. The movie buff wasn't.
03 August 2006.
I said I wanted to watch Pathfinder since I assumed that it was going to be out the following week.
Forward to present day and I have just watched Pathfinder.
Can I now once and for all say that it sucked? It was so not worth the wait. The action scenes were mediocre, the plot non-existent and the dialog (other then the parts where the Vikings were talking), sleep inducing.
Why on Earth did I wait so long only to be disappointed?
Hula Girls or Hula Garu (said in typical Japanese way with all the stressing and shouting) is your typical tear jerker cum feel good movie.
It tells of a coal mining town, which facing the onslaught of the changing times, finds it self getting relegated to the back seat of history with the advent of the use of oil. What used to be termed as black diamond is slowly being phased out.
So some people in the village come up with a plan to revive the village, by making, of all things, a Hawaiian village.
The story then goes on to record the trials and tribulations that the daughters of the village experience in trying to learn how to be pro dancers (from being called strippers to getting beaten by abusive dads who have lost their jobs) and their teacher who hails from Tokyo.
Unlike a typical feel good movie, where they keep making you feel good before putting you through a big fall, only for it to have a rousing rise in the end, Hula Girls goes up and down in an emotional roller-coaster. It's been a long time since I cried so much in a movie since "Be With Me". But it's a feel good movie in the end, and you know it'll be a happy ending, but that doesn't detract from the way it ended. I did feel good after it.
Major plus point?
Yuu Aoi, who is one of the leads, looks awfully cute!
Next up? 13 Tzameti/ Pathfinder/ For Your Consideration/ Man of the Year.
OMG! I can't wait.
Awww.. Trailer has been removed. Too bad. I'm sure those interested will be able to find it. Somehow.
Have got this sudden urge to start learning German so I can take a month off and tour Germany and play unicycle hockey with all the teams there.
I was thinking if I should come up with some pun for the title, then I realized that would make me just as bad as the script writers for this movie.
Make no mistake about it, this movie was mediocre. In fact, at certain parts, it was just plain cringe worthy.
Sure, she's pretty hot, but was that really a valid excuse to try and squeeze her into the movie? Her English was bad (though slightly improved from her Miami Vice days) to that point of making me cringe in my seat (that and the glorious amount of violence in the movie). Her inclusion in the movie as Hannibal's aunt and lover (wait.. isn't that incest?) just doesn't really make much sense other then to use her star power in hopes of more box office earnings.
The dialog in the movie was another gripe. It looked like it was written by some 'O' level student for his English essay, not for some movie.
Some particular ones that I found amusing were
"...there is only one word to describe him - Monster."
"...love is like a knife. It can hurt you."
Was reading Soccernet when I came upon this gem of information.
He never seems to have quite recovered from his early days of fame in the late 1990's, when he discovered that his new girlfriend was in fact a transvestite. Not that one wishes to be transvestist in any way, but it did take Guti an alarmingly long time to find out.
Just watched this show recently and was pretty impressed by it. I did however feel that it was a bit too intelligent for me and that a ton of things just flew above my head. This is one of those movies that probably get better with each viewing as you get more and more of it.
One thing about this movie was that you would watch this movie for the plot. If anything the plot is terribly shallow and predictable.
No. You will watch this for the ideas that this show brings out, you will watch it for the sheer irrelevance of the things being said, you might even watch it for the errr homosexual content. But you're not going to watch it for the plot.
But enough about the plot. As mentioned before, it was the ideas that were brought up that were interesting, with one of the main ones being knowledge no matter how worthless it might seem, is worth learning because it is knowledge. The boys take lessons from Hector in , off all things, general studies. It's broad, it's irrelevant, it's general and it's damm bloody interesting. It's not something that you might find a use for (which is why it probably isn't taught in Singapore, what with results orientated focus and everything). The headmaster of the boys would probably remind you of YOUR principle and how he/she kept on reminding you to study hard and get the results.
One particular quote from Hector
Hector: The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
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