What's with Nasi Lemak 2.0 lah?

Well..there goes the hu-ha again.  Have you watched the movie above?  

Okay, this might be a belated issue already.  But I purposely let the heat cool down first and watched the movie on my own before giving my opinion.  After watching it twice, I came with this conclusion:  I LOVE IT and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT AS A 'MUST WATCH' LIST!  

First of all, Nasi Lemak 2.0 is a story of a Chinese-Malaysian young chef, who believed in making Chinese cuisine to it's best after returning from a culinary school in China, and he didn't understand why some of his customers, even his workers still opt for eating other race's cuisine when he believed that 'original is better'.  As fate had it, he met a Chinese girl who rushed home from America to save her father from losing their family restaurant to her ambitious aunt.  In order to clear the mess in her family, her grandmother, who had been living in abroad so for long announced that a cooking competition to be held - the ones who can produce the best rice-themed food will had the control of the family business.  The girl, have a Malay lady as her godmother, who runs a successful nasi lemak stall, very much to the young chef's irritation.  

One day, out of pride he tasted the nasi lemak made by the Malay lady that he loathed and was surprised that it tasted good, thus prompt him wanted to learn how to make the best nasi lemak from the Malay lady.  He was given a map, where he must go to certain places - and along the way he learnt lots of things he never discovered before, and made new friends.

This movie is a blend of how we live in Malaysia - with lots of comedy lines and so many things that made you  suddenly get the 'Aha!' moment that made you laugh...if you find it amusing to laugh at yourself, it's because this movie is made by a Malaysian to all the Malaysians, including you and me!  

However, it is sad that there are some people went as shallow as below:



Seriously dude...what do you mean that Namewee's movie has political agenda?  Have you watched the movie?  If you did, I wonder if you can point out which part of his movie is classified as 'political elements' 'racist' or claimed as the 'hero of Malaysia'?  It's because the main character in the movie was called 'Hero Huang'?  Come on lah!!!! 'Yellow background as something to do with Bersih 2.0'???  Wah..cannot use yellow colour liao lah?  Funny la you people~~~!!!

Please lah...we know what is right to watch and what is not, ok?

What you scared of him making movie?  

Everything also wanted to politicized,  seriously I am sick of it...when pet's been left starving and died also politicked, religion also politicized....what else next?  The color of the car we drive?  The food we eat?  The house we live?  

Whatever lah...I am still giving my 2 thumbs up to Nasi Lemak 2.0 - it's up to you all if you like it or otherwise.  





Malaysians, the choice and opinion is yours.  Just a little thought, can't we just had something that no one would ever think of trying to connect it with politics please?

The Movie: Muallaf (The Convert)

While everyone busy blogging about "Avatar" or perhaps "Holmes" or any other much more 'famous', worldwide known films that has been released recently, I decided not to blog about it, for I knew, my review will be the same as those you read in others' blogs.

Now, why "Muallaf (The Convert)" you may ask?

I was wondering myself the question too, and my heart almost sank when Tracy and I stared at the screen at the counter to buy our tickets and found that we're both the 7th and 8th customer that purchased the tickets for the movie. Not so much to expect on the late Yasmin Ahmad's movie, huh?

Yes, this is one of the controversial movie that was supposed to release much more earlier (was already released in Singapore in year 2008, and re-released again early 2009 due to much demand). This long awaited movie in this country does not failed me, very much to the late Yasmin's trademark that has elements of our everyday living.

The main characters of the movie, A Catholic school teacher, Brian Goh (Brian Yap) who copes with his traumatized childhood, and the constant begs from his mother who wishes him to come home; 2 muslim siblings, Rohani (Sharifah Armani) & Rohana (Sharifah Aleysha) that was forced to stay in an abandoned bungalow, running away from an abusive wealthy father, while grieving for the demise of their beloved mother.

Brian, the ever skeptical man that doubts his faith, find it interesting to get to know the 2 sisters who has this peculiar habit of reciting passages from the Holy Quran, Bible and Tao Te Ching. Their friendship became closer, that they willingly to share the pain and hardship that they went through. 3 souls - with fate met them together, finding comfort in each other through friendship, love and trust.

As good as it goes, the movie also has some funny scenes that would cheer your soul as you went through. As said, very much to the late Yasmin's touch. These elements - religion, respect, love, friendship and family make this movie a heartfelt one, and you can only reach the message if you watch it with an open mind.

With the title, you would expect any so called 'conversion' of religion? Then you must be narrow minded. 'Conversion' came in more perspective than what we see in front of us. I am sure what the late Yasmin wants is to see the real message behind the movie and it's title. It's a conversion from an old life to the new one.

With forgiveness, you can live a good and peaceful life.

With forgiveness, you can let go the grudge of the past and reconcile with those who hurt you.

So what's in a title when you haven't see the real message behind it? Watch, and you will know.

Thank you Yasmin...for this farewell gift that you had given to us. There will be none like you, and we sure going to miss you and your great works, a lot. Rest in Peace.

Night At The Museum 2

I just came back from Growball Cinema in Centre Point to watch Night At The Museum 2 with my brother and his fiancee.



The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a kind-hearted dreamer who always knew that he was destined for greatness, he just never quite knew how. None of his ideas or inventions has panned out, so with a heavy heart, he takes a regular job as a lowly graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum of Natural History in order to provide a more stable life for himself and his ten-year-old son. His first night on the job, however, he finds that guardianship of the museum is far from stable -- at nightfall, an Egyptian spell brings the artifacts and wax figures to life!



If you love Night At The Museum 1...then this surely be yours to watch too! I really recommend this movie. =)

Movie: X Men Origin: Wolverine

Poster from Wiki

If you had always been a fan for X-Men then this must be your cup of tea. Starring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan, along side with other co-stars such as Liev Schreiber (Victor Creed/Sabretooth), Danny Hudson (Stryker), Will I am (John Wraith), Lynn Collins (Kayla), Kevin Durand (The Blob/Frederick Dukes), Dominic Monaghan (Bolt/Chris Bradley), Taylor Kitsch (Gambit) and many others.

The story started from the beginning of Logan and Victor, siblings whom were born mutant with their own abilities. After a tragic incident of having killing his own father, the boys ran away to pursue their own lives and soon joined a troupe of mutants lead by Stryker. It was then, due to Victor's uncontrollable killing includes the innocents caused Logan left his group and begin his life as a humble lumberjack in the Canadian mountains where he lived peacefully for several years with his girlfriend, Kayla.



However, the peace didn't last long when Logan's former team mates was found dead one by one, Stryker seek to search him for help to eliminate Victor whom was behind all the killings. Logan refused, but soon after, Kayla became the next victim. That's where Logan reaches his limit of tolerance to Victor.



What's next, you say? Go and watch lah...haiya.... =p



This movie has a combination of humor, action and surprises. A recommended movie to watch with your friends and family.



I would give it 4 out of 5 stars. =)



Here's the trailer:

Movie: The Shinjuku Incident

If you are a Jackie Chan fan, you might not want to miss this. However, please be prepared people, this is the first time I saw Jackie Chan starring in a movie that doesn't involve his super duper kung fu kicks, just a regular guy with no kung fu whatsoever trying to achieve something for his own people in a foreign land called Japan.

This movie is about the yakuza (mafia) in Japan trying to outlive each other in order to hold power among the society, while Japan is facing problems with Chinese illegal immigrants that is increasing from time to time. Steelhead (Jackie Chan) went to find the love of his life, while trying to survive in the country where he has no knowledge of their language and life style finds his old friend, Jie and make more friends whom was also Chinese illegal immigrants that came from different parts of China. Together, they trying to make their living as decent as possible but 'a decent living' was hard, so they opt to do some underground business as well...but it turns out to be bad when the innocent Jie was mistakenly accused of modifying the pachinko machine and had his face slashed and his hand cut off by the Taiwanese gangster.

Steelhead finally found his girlfriend, Xiuxiu (Xu JingLei) that has already changed her name to Yuko Eguchi, the wife of Eguchi, one of the well respected Yakuza in the Shinjuku district whom Steelhead later saved his life and worked for. Steelhead finally found the 'victory' for the Chinese illegals alright, but as time goes by, it turns to be something that he was unexpected of.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars. =)

You can watch the trailer here:

Quarantine The Movie: Sucks!!!!

Last night, we went for a late night movie at 1Borneo with my sister, Kirstin, my brother Aaron and my 2 cousins, Nazarius and Ronnie. My brother insisted that we all watch Quarantine. Off we went to get some tickets and lots of goodies to munch in the cinema (there goes my dinner!). The movie, Quarantine is supposed to be like this: (I got this synopsis from a website)

Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.

Well, here's the truth of the movie that I saw last night:

The movie started just like that, where the cameraman and the television reporter were filming outside the fire station, then there is a series of lots of talking, and talking, and talking...all nonsense things doing a documentary (I think Anthoney Bourdain or Ian Wright can do better). Then after the long agony of waiting, suddenly there is a 911 call to an apartment where the firemen responded and the TV crew were following them. (This is when the part where you see the screen moving all around, worst than any 'cetak rompak' VCD/DVD).

So, they were attending one of the old residents there, who behave weirdly and start biting one of the guys who tried to attend her, and when they are bringing the injured guy to the lobby of the apartment, out of no where, one of the firemen dropped from one of the floors of the apartment. Everyone screamed, everyone yelled at each other and the screen keeps on turning here and there (the movie was filmed through the TV crew's video camera.) - at this partI had stopped eating my popcorn cause it starts to make me feel sick. There are some parts of this movie where I can dozed off for a second or two cause it's too boring!!!!

Guess what, the authorities came, but sealed the apartment from the outside, not allowing them to go anywhere (we didn't see any key person outside). So whoever that is, they didn't allow these poor people going out for no apparent reason. Owh, also there are few more residents who were trying to escape from the window were shot from a supposedly sniper.

Then, there goes the series of the remaining residents there turn into zombies, (that gives the shrieking screams and look exactly like the ones you saw in Zombie or Resident Evil) killing each and everyone of the people there, with one dog or two appeared here and there. The TV crew, how can I not forget, there are lots of crying, screaming, running and hey, they can even kill the zombie with his camera!

So, as the movie goes, there were only 2 supposedly survivors left - the TV reporter and her cameraman. They went to the basement, found a series of documents that supposed to lead to the answer of the question "Why things goes wrong?" at the first place. Then, came the last zombie (supposedly), clad in underwear, frantically throw things aside here and there, got the cameraman. Unlike the other zombie killings, this time it's fast and suddenly it went quiet. When the reporter took the camera, viewed around here using the night vision mode, found her friend already became the zombie's meal. She ran frantically, tripped and fell on the ground, and as she wanted to reach to the camera again, was pulled into the darkness, screamed and that's the end of the show.

On the way home, I noticed few things about this movie:

- There is no soundtrack, background music or whatsoever;
- We don't know what the hell goes on for the people outside the building (cause they promised they will come inside and see what's wrong 'later')
- There's only a handful of actors and actresses;
- It's some kind like a remake for Cloverfield, only that it's much more worst.

I give it 1 out of 5 stars. It's the worst movie ever in year 2008.