A night before the movie just when I was about to go to bed, I received a message in MSN. It was wenpink. She invited me for the movie and added "Apparently one winner gets 2 tickets, I just now only know!" All right, I am glad she found out before its too late. Haha.
Besides, I have no idea who is going until I saw the whole bunch of nuffnangers there. We arrived around 730pm and headed to Manhattan Fish for dinner. As always, blogger takes picture wherever you go.
During dinner...
Before movie...
After movie...
Thanks for the 'strategic' seat place, I had neck-ache. Ouch! Anyhow, it was a good movie and you may need to do some research after the movie to really understand it.
I was given the opportunity to watch Star Trek a week before the movie is officially launched. Thanks to AMBPand also Hitomi for the invite.
The movie is really great, graphically and sound is all well developed. Although the music was not really that grand compare to Star Wars, but it does projected the space-environment-feeling.
James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), son of the previous star fleet captain, Christopher Pike. His father sacrificed himself together with the fleet for him and also the people. Kirk started as an arrogance brat but later turn himself seriously into a leader.
Spock (Zachary Quinto) or better known as 'pointy ear bastard' by Kirk and Bones. He is a half-human and half Vulcan heritage, which make him having 'funky hairstyle' and pointy ears. (I cannot stop thinking him as Sylar from Heroes)
'Live long and prosper' sign
Old Spock/Future Spock (Leonard Nimoy) made his appearance in the middle of the show. Appearing in front of Kirk and taught him how to put down his-young-self to take control of the fleet.
Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban), a doctor that continuously encouraging and support Kirk in following his father's footsteps to become captain of the star ship.
NyotaUhura (Zoe Saldana), I think the only female in the team of the fleet. She is a communication officer, which does interpretation of languages from different planets. Uhura is in love with Spock.
HikaruSulu (John Cho), a character that represent all of Asia. He is the pilot for the star fleet.
Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin) is a young and naive as the Enterprise's navigator. He is a guy with funny Russian accents, his appearance in the show is very entertaining.
Nero (Eric Bana) the Romulan villain. After he and his own planet sucked into the black hole, he wanted his revenge and wanting to destroy all the planets under the federation.
However the movie line sort of drags in the middle of the film. Besides that, it is also humorous in certain parts of the show. Some people may find the storyline is complicated, anyhow I think it is okay. It's definitely an enjoyable movie, worth to watch it!
I was looking forward to watch this movie very much after knowing it will be air on April. Anyway, I watched a day later after the movie was officially aired. Fast & Furious 4 is like a must movie for every guy who loves cars and girls.
The beginning of the movie is pretty good. Nice introduction with lots of actions. The whole movie did not really talk about cars, it's more towards the continuously storyline for Fast & Furious I.
Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner
Brian O'Conner was appeared in every series of Fast & Furious except the Tokyo Drift. He learnt about car racing from Dominic.
Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto
Dominic Toretto made his appearance in the first The Fast and Furious and also the third The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Michelle Rodriguez as Letty
Letty is Dominic's girl friend. She just appeared for a short period on the movie. Pretty a waste.
Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto
Mia Toretto, Dominic Toretto's sister and also Brian O'Conner's girl friends. If you ever watch the first Fast and Furious, you should know how they got together. By the way, in this series, they are already separated. I like Mia, she looks so cute with the fringe.
I do like their racing very much especially in the tunnel, but it is a bit illogical. It is sort of impossible for someone who is unfamiliar with the way, yet to control the car and react so fast in the dark. Anyhow it still entertains me.
Overall, it is a really good action movie. The storyline is alright with not extreme graphical usage on the film. A 1 hour and 50 minutes show, worth to watch it in the cinema. Although there are censorship in 2 parts of the movie (Malaysia only).
Ever since the news breaks out about Dragonball Evolution, I am sure a lot of fans are attracted to it, and to see how their childhood fan-comic would turn out be in a movie.
After all the updates and trailer were out, we can ensure the movie is not going to turn out like in the comic book (manga). The challenging parts of this film are finding the suitable people for the characters and also the Goku's hair-do. As expected, it did not satisfy the fans.
As for the storyline, it was expected to be differing from the original story as it happened to any other comic-to-movie, such as Transformers, X-Men and etc... but never thought it would be so different and cramp everything in 1 hour and 29 minutes movie.
This is Goku, to begin with, his hair is just so-not-Goku and he appeared to be a low self-esteem guy in his high school. Btw, this Goku goes to high school. LOL.
This is ChiChi, Goku's future wife, and I would say the most favourable character in the whole movie which even surpressed the main character, Goku.
After watching this movie, no doubt the keyword for 'Jamie Chung' in Google increased twice the amount. Almost all the guys are practically in love with ChiChi and her cleavage.
Master Roshi, the perverted old man who loves young ladies. Overall, I think this character is portrayed as the most similar to the one in manga. Only without the spectacles and his turtle shell.
Bulma, the rich scientist girl. She supposed to be a young sweet looking Japanese girl. I just do not get it why she turned out to be like this. No comment.
As for Piccollo, he became a not-so-greenish-alien. He looks more like a character from Stargate or HellBoy, and where are his tentacles?
Perhaps those who never read the manga before would find this movie better than those who did. The graphic is alright, but the dressing and characters are rather disappointing (no originality). As for the storyline, I think they compressed too much and rushing for an ending.
Overall my rating for this movie is 4.5/10.
Last but not least, thank you Nuffnang for the Premiere Screening Ticket.
