Counting down 4 more days to the brand new year, 2008! Here, I bring to you my first movie marathon. I will be watching the few latest movies currently showing at the cinemas, and give my reviews about the movie. The second movie I am introducing today is The Golden Compass.
Golden Compass is a movie based on the first novel in Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Material.Before its release, the film received criticism from secular organizations and fans of His Dark Materials for the dilution of the religious elements from the novels, as well as from some religious organizations for its perceived anti-Catholic and atheistic themes.
The story concerns Lyra, an orphan living in a fantastical parallel universe in which the dogmatic dictatorship of the Magisterium threatens to dominate the world. When Lyra’s friend(Roger) is kidnapped, she travels to the far North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her uncle(Lord Asriel).
After Asriel departs, the college is visited by Mrs. Coulter (Kidman), who offers to take Lyra north as her assistant. Before Lyra left, she was given an alethiometer, which is a device that is able to reveal the answer to any question asked it by a trained user. While unable to operate it, Lyra accepts the gift and takes it with her to Mrs. Coulter’s home.
So, what does the alethiometer tells? Who is the destined reader who can read what the alethiometer said?
My Personal Comments
Rating: 
This is one of the movies I could not tell whether is it nice or bad. There are some charming effects here and there, but there wasnt punchline or a great climax in the story. To me, the story was quite dry and calm with no sense of awe. It lacks some quality to allow the viewers to embrace it. It will be more appealing to for young teens but not for the adults.
Counting down 5 more days to the brand new year, 2008! Here, I bring to you my first movie marathon. I will be watching the few latest movies currently showing at the cinemas, and give my reviews about the movie. The first movie I am introducing today is I Am Legend.
I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith who played the role of Robert Neville, the Earth’s possibly only human survivor of a man-made virus. He works to create a cure, but is stalked by nocturnal mutant survivors of the plague.
In 2009, Dr. Alice Krippin invented a cure for caner, but it turns out into a lethal strain. The virus spreads very fast to animals and humans, which caused 90% of the world’s population to be killed. The infected survivors showed the early symptoms of rabies, but then degenerate into an animal state characterized by aggression, skin afflictions and rapid heartbeats and breathing.
Robert Neville(Will Smith) was the last healthy survivor in the world. The infected survivors, we call them dark-seekers, reacted painfully to UV radiation and only comes out at night. Robert never give up on finding the cure for this virus by having a experimental lab at the basement level of his apartment.
One day, his research appears to find a promising treatment, so he captures and treats a female dark, but without apparent success. Shortly after, he is ensnared by a trap after suffering from a fit of delusion. He eventually recovers sometime before sunset and frees himself from the trap, but was attacked by infected dogs at twilight sent by a dark-seekers. Sam, his dog, was seriously wounded and contaminated by the virus. Robert had no choice, but to kill his dog. I was a bit teary when the man’s best companion has to leave the world. Sam was very loyal to his owner, and helped Robert with the research.
Will Robert find the cure for this man-made virus? Will human go extinct by 2012? Watch I Am Legend to find out the ending.
My Personal Comments
Rating:
“Ah..Oh No… ” are the words I used while watching the movie. Imagine watching this movie in the midnight, where all is quiet. Zombies came out at night, and the sound effects from their ruthless actions really freaked me out. It was hanging on my thin vein.
This is my third wordpress designs. I got this inspiration after watching the movie, Stardust. So, I skewed my thoughts towards the genre, Fantasy. Something such as angels, stars, fairies, wings, glitters.
This banner was taken from the artwork Fantasy, designed by
nelle-gfx.
I removed the word Fantasy, and removed some of the flowery designed from the pictures. Feather the whole banner so that it will blend with the background color. The verse in the banner “A star cant shine with a broken heart” is extracted from the movie, Stardust. I used the template Blue_sky_ajax by Samir Kamble and modified it to become Angelic Star.
After that, i created small header pictures for the sidebar( categories, archives etc). I used the hovering html code.Before hover:
After hover:
This makes the website look like it is using macromedia flash to make it. This design allows entries to load within the <body> section.
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Day 5 30 Nov 2007
Hotel>Platinum Fashion Mall> Bangkok International Airport> Home-Sweet-Home
Finally, it’s the last day of the trip. Thought that I can sleep longer for rejuvenation. But, I got to send Mr Teo and his family off from the hotel. They have been great travellers and we often cracked jokes together to entertain one another.
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