What is not told is the untold, so how can something not untold be not told or in other words, be untold? Somethings are untold when they have been told but you thought the told was untold or it passed by unheard or it really was, untold...
Long time since I last did a movie review. Finally a movie spurred me back into doing one. It's none other than Battleship!
To be honest, the first time I saw the trailer, I labelled it as a no go. I labelled it as a Transformer rip-off. However, the second trailer made me changed my mind and there I was, watching it the first day it hit cinemas.
Forget about thinking of it as a rip-off from Transformers. It makes Transformer a distant memory, judging that The Dark Of The Moon wasn't really up to standards for me. I'd say absolute plot and storyline, maybe a bit negative where the transition period between where he was unemployed, nabbed and then suddenly a naval officer with tidily cropped hair.
Graphics and firepower are at their best. Again the only fake part of the graphics or lousy parts are the scene when the aliens attacked the city "Sonic the Hedgehog" style, destroying the overhead bridges and causing traffic mayhem. Other than that, I'd definitely say best movie so far.
How would it rank up against The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises? Well I have faith in Christopher Nolan for not screwing up DK3, so it should kick Avengers off my top 3 list for best movie of the year.
And who would have thought the movie was inspired by this game...
After wiki-ing it, I just found that it was a 2009 film... It broke the box office in India and is now the highest grossing film in India of all time.
Farhan, Raju, and Rancho are 3 friends who got into an engineering college. Farhan however wanted to be a wildlife photographer, and is forced by his father to be an engineer. Raju aspires to be an engineer, but pressure from his family made him unable to really focus on his studies. Rancho however, was a genius from a wealthy family, and always tops the class, while his friends settled at the bottom. Despite the wide gap, the 3 of them are very close friends, despite quarrels happened.
Rancho's passion is for knowledge and taking apart and building machines rather than the conventional obsession of the other students with exam ranks. With his different approach Rancho incurs the wrath of dean of college, Professor Viru Sahastrabudhhe (ViruS). Rancho irritates his lecturers by giving creative and unorthodox answers.
They humiliated their classmate Chatur while trying to prank on Prof Virus during a convocation speech, leading Chatur to challenge Rancho to see who will be successful in 10 years time. Note that the film is a flashback of their university life.
In the present time, it was revealed that Rancho disappeared and lost contact with his friends after graduating. The story mainly revolves on finding him back after sources that he may have been alive was found. Farhan, Raju and Chatur went from place to place to search for Rancho, as the flasbacks of their University life making the story clearer and clearer.
As this film is horrendously long ( 2 hours plus), I'm finding it very difficult to write a full-fledged account of the plot. But in the end, all ended well... XD
A must watch... Easily the best film that you watched for this current year, and probably one of the best in your life time.
It is in Hindi and English. Do not be afraid for not being to catch the phrases or dialogues. With subtitles, I tell you, you're gonna enjoy this film...
Absolutely mind blowing, funny and 5 star rated movie from me!!!
And the soundtracks ROCK too! although it's in Hindi, but still, oh man, fantastic and wonderful!
Okay, I watched this like 2 weeks ago. But since Lee Hom Wang is my idol. My one and only Mandarin Idol (我的唯一 XD）I think he deserves a spot on my blog, since that I haven't been blogging anything about him!
The movie is about a pop star 杜明汉（pronounced as Du Ming Han) portrayed by Lee Hom, who saw visions of butterflies when 宋晓青（pronounced as Song Xiao Qing) played her 古筝（Gu Zheng). So weird was the scenario that he stalked her down by posing as a student to enroll in the oriental musical academy.
Not a bad 二胡（Er Hu) player himself, plus with his band guitarist as his sidekick, Ming Han succeeded in joining the team who are to perform in front of the audience. He succeeded in befriending Xiao Qing, and continue to have visions of splendor everytime Xiao Qing played the Gu Zheng.
Through a lecture he found that in Ancient China, there was a sublime Gu Zheng musician named 伯牙（Bo Ya）. Magnificent was his skills, but only one person, 子期（Zi Qi) knew the meaning he conveyed, able to see the images and pictures he sculpted using his music, known as Bo Ya's 知音（Zhi Yin) (Zhi Yin means someone who knows you very well, consider to be your other half in love, but can also be a perfect partner in other aspects). But sadly, after Zi Qi passed away, Bo Ya never played the Gu Zheng again. This led to Ming Han to think that Xiao Qing is his Zhi Yin.
As he got to know Xiao Qing, only did he realised that Xiao Qing had a crush on one of the seniors. Hiding his sadness, he sacrificed a lot for her, even motivated her to be brave and make the first move. Sacrifice as in Ming Han put his super star career on the line as he spent most of his time going AWOL from the actual life he had.
But in the end, Ming Han and Xiao Qing eventually fell in love with each other, but Xiao Qing is still not clear of Ming Han's superstar status. Aftr spending a romantic night under a tree (Yeah it's true!) too bad Ming Han's manager found out what he was up to and forced Ming Han to give up on his disguised life.
And of course, Xiao Qing was heart broken when she found out about this...
But all' well ends well. After hearinf Ming Han's story and felt his sincerity, Ming Han was allowed to rush back to do a promotion for Xiao Qing's musical school, which is owned by her father. After making a dramatic entrance by falling from onto the stage, he played a changed version of Xiao Qing's poem as in the theme of this song, 你不知道的事（Ni Bu Zhi Dao De Shi）（The Things You Never Knew)
Story ends with Ming Han and Xiao Qing in a relationship, with paparazzi snapping pictures all the way. Finally, Bo Ya and Zi Qi met each other and lived happily ever after...
The theme song, is in my playlist, plus the lyrics and of course, rough translation... =)
蝴蝶眨几次眼睛 How many times must a butterfly rub it's eyes 才学会飞行 Then only to learn how to fly 夜空洒满了星星 The night sky is laden with stars 但几颗会落地 But how many will fall down to the ground
我飞行 但你坠落之际 I'm flying, but you're on the ground 很靠近 还听见呼吸 We're so near, I can hear your breath 对不起 我却没捉紧你 I'm sorry, because I did not held you tighly
你不知道我为什么离开你 You never knew why I left you 我坚持不能说放任你哭泣 I will never tell you, no matter how hard you cry 你的泪滴像 倾盆大雨 碎了满地 Your tears are like the raindrops, falling to the earth 在心里清晰 Heard so clearly inside my heart
你不知道我为什么狠下心 You never knew why I was so cruel 盘旋在你看不见的高空里 Hovering above the sky where you can never see me 多的是 你不知道的事 So many are the things, you never knew
