Last night, I was one of the few people in Malaysia and perhaps in the world to watch 2012 earlier before the movie opens to the public. It was the Premiere Screening of 2012 in Cathay Cineplex Damansara. Because of we watching earlier, there was security check before going into the movie hall. No camera phones, laptops, pdas, cameras and recorders were allowed to bring in. All of us have to deposit our phones to the deposit counter. Gosh…. it is more strict than Airport security check.

Now lets talk about the movie… I’m sure some of you watched The Day After Tomorrow before. 2012 is directed by the director of The Day After Tomorrow, Roland Emmerich. The scale of the disaster is way bigger than in The Day After Tomorrow and it is very thrilling at the second half of the movie. This movie is worth watching and of course there is always a happy ending to this disaster movie. In this movie, you can see how the Earth plates move that cause massive earthquake, tsunami, volcanic activity and shift the earth land. It is definitely the best Disaster movie of the year.  CAUTION: SPOILER AHEAD.

SPOILER

The movie starts with a group of scientists in India found out that Earth core is heating up due to a huge sun flare in 2009 (time in the movie). Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) found out about it from one of the scientists and inform the US President about it. In 2010 (time in the movie), 42 countries come out with a survival plan where several ships will be built to save the mankind from the biggest catastrophic on Earth. In order to prevent havoc, no one is allow to tell about the disaster to the public. Along the way, few people was killed because of exposing the details to the public.

In year 2012, Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a novel writer brings his kids to Yellowstone for camping but he found out the lake he used to visit is gone due to the Earth core is heating up and dry up the lake. He was stopped by military and from there he met Adrian Helmsley who now work for the White House. After the military released him, he met a guy who tell him about the world going to end and the governments are building a big space ship to save the mankind. The guy told him that he got the map of the ship location. Jackson thought he is crazy to talk about all these things.

After a series of earth quake happened in California, Jackson started to realise something is not right and what the guy told him about the world going to end is happening. He quickly get his ex-wife and children to board a plane in the airport to run away from California. In order to save his family from the disaster, he has to bring them to the space ship that the guy mentioned to him earlier which is the only hope left but he need to find out the location of the ship. So he went back to find back the guy and get the map. The location appears to be in Cho-ming, China which is very far from California.

The journey to China is not very smooth and a very bumpy one. Is he manage to get his family to China onboard the ship? Will the ship able to save mankind? Will mankind wipeout completely? How the earth change after the disaster? To know about it, be sure to catch the movie in the cinema near you.

Next month will have a very interesting movie which I has been waiting to watch. It is 2012. It is about a very big disaster will happen to Earth on December 21, 2012 which will wipe out the entire human race.

Now Sony Pictures is having an online contest which you could win holiday to Colombo, Sri Lanka by upload an item which you want to put into a time capsule which will be useful for human after the disaster. Here is the contest page: http://www.2012.com.my. I uploaded an item to the time capsule.

What item I keep in the time capsule and why?

I keep lighter in the time capsule. Why I keep a lighter? After a disaster at such a big scale happened, most utilities service like electricity, gas pipe, telecommunication and water will be out of service. Without electricity and gas, we cannot use kettle to boil water and cook food. As we know water and food is important for human to stay alive. With LIGHTER, we can create fire to cook food and boil water. At desperate times to stay alive, food and water will be the most valuable asset. That’s why I will keep lighter in the time capsule.

2012 Movie

2012 movie is directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow). His previous disaster movies is very nice. I think this movie will be nice as well. While the world is at the end of its life, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) uses his ancient prophecies knowledge to try to make sure the human race will not totally wipe out. I’m interested to see how he will save the human race from the disaster.

I just came back from cinema to watch Disney new movie, G-Force. It is about 4 little animals (3 guinea pigs and 1 mole) trained to become a secret agent for FBI using high tech spy equipments, animal language converters and… a “super” fly insect that uses high tech fly-sized camera which become their “eyes” during the covert operation.

The little animals secret agent infiltrate a house which they believes a guy call Saber will launch a threat to the whole world. But they infiltrate the house without authorisation and found themselves been shut down by the FBI. The secret agents knows the threat is going to launch and they have find their own way to stop it without the support from the FBI.

The animal secret agents look cool in the movie… even cooler than any secret agents from all the spy movies I ever see. I do wish I can use the equipments that they use. As we know, Disney movies always got comedy element in it and G-Force is not excluded from that. It is very hilarious and I really has a good laugh when watching the movie. The story is very creative and funny. You can’t expect the whole movie turn out to be this good… I highly recommend you to watch this.. Now here is the trailer:

Halal, another short film released today. This is a comedy film shows the proper Islamic methods of slaughtering chicken in a Halal way. It is very hilarious and you will have a good laugh out of it.

We must not take money too seriously and greedy over it. As long as we have enough to use and support our life is good enough. We instead need to do more charity to gain more merits. If we greedy over money, we tends to forget about what is the meaning of life. Well.. have you all think about what is the meaning of your life? For me, I think life will be meaningful if we do charity and good thing to help out others to have a better life. In return, we also happy that we can help others.

Now here is the video: try to get meaning of what Nik Aziz said in the film.

Freaking Scary… Freaking Thrilling… and… with cold air-con, it freak me out during the whole movie. It is not a ghost story.. I say it again it is not a ghost story. It is about a “9 years old orphan” called Esther who been adopted by a family and she do all sort thing to love the father in the family. There is something really wrong with her. She do all the freaking scary things to people who will spoil her freaky plan. She push people off from a high place, kill a bird and even kill a human. You noticed that I use quote when I write “9 years old orphan”. It is because she is not an ordinary orphan. She is not what I expected to be…. you want to know who she really is.. go see it yourself. I don’t want to spoil the thrill and the horror feeling in the movie by telling the whole story here.

All I can say is… it is a nice horror movie with a very original story. I really don’t expect it to turn out like this. From the beginning of the movie until the end, I was 200% awake because got stunned, horrified, thrilled by it. So go catch it if you are horror movie fan. Thanks to Nuffnang for the free Premiere Screening of The Orphan tickets. Here is trailer of the movie:

Here is the first short film called Potong Saga. This short film is about a chinese boy misguided attempts to open an account in Islamic Bank which will you laugh out loud with the funny actions in the film. Please make sure you watch in a closed door room else everyone will hear your laughing… Here is the film:

G.I. Joe is a must see movie for G.I. Joe fan out there. It is about the origin of Cobra which is bad guy in the G.I. Joe series. Cobra is actually a scientist who perfected a weaponry technology which is far more deadly than nuclear and bio weapon for MARS industry (a weapon manufacturer) using NATO funding. Mr McCullen (boss for MARS industry) want to use this deadly weapon to give fear to all the people. G.I. Joe a special force team needs to stop this weapon by all means using advanced weapons, suits and vehicles.

The story of the movie is good. The action is non-stop right from the beginning and the final battle is nicely done with tons of destruction. One bad part of this movie is the CG scene. Some CG scene is too fake which even a children can identify it. The CG is not as good as Transformers but it still worth watching this movie for the action and good story. The character that I like most in this movie is Snake Eye (some sort like a Ninja). He stand out a lot in this movie and he looks cool as he doesn’t talk at all. I give 8/10 score for this movie. I deduct 2 points due to the poor CG scene. For action movie lover, go watch this movie. Here is the trailer for this movie.

I just watched The Taking of Pelham 123 movie. It is a thriller movie which based on a novel written by Morton Freedgood and a remake of the original 1974 movie. It was about a group hijacker hijack a New York subway train, Pelham 123 and take the passengers as hostages to demand ransom from the New York City Mayor. One of the hijacker called Ryder (John Travolta) which is the mastermind talk to Walter Graber (Denzel Washington) who happen to be the subway dispatch that day and Ryder told Graber his demands. It is Graber that makes Ryder plan gone wrong. The hijacker never expect that Graber will be the subway dispatch that day. How the hijacker know about Graber? One of the hijacker used to a worker of New York Subway before he was jailed for killing people. Ryder main reason for the hijack was not about the ransom money. It was something else which the value is far more greater than the ransom money.

It was really a good movie to watch. Both John Travolta and Denzel Washington really bring out characters very well. John Travolta is very much suitable to act as the hijacker as he can bring that thrilling elements out of the character. Both actors give a very deep feelings and it really give a very deep impact on the movie. The story line is very engaging. During the whole movie, I can’t take my eyes and ears off the movie. I was very deep into the storyline and wanted to know what will happen next. There is some comedy elements in the movie that will make you laugh. All I can say, both John Travolta and Denzel Washington really deliver a very nice movie to us. I give Thumb Up for this movie and I rate it 8 out of 10.

Why not you go watch it in cinemas and feel the thrill of the movie.