Though it wasn't as entertaining as Australia, it certainly spoke much louder to me. Throughout the film I found myself empathising with Georgiana. While Kiera Knightley put in a fairly good performance, Ralph Fiennes amazingly managed to pull off the Duke's role in such an unfeeling, stonewalled manner. One could not tell what was behind that face. No trace of emotions that betrayed what he thought and his motives. I spent the whole movie trying to guess why he did the things he did and I still don't know. The concept of happiness not being an entitlement, and being subjected to circumstances, all hit too close to home.
This movie was definitely depressing. And as qi cham as Little Nonya (which incidentally I do not watch). Initially wanting to avoid watching that tonight at JW's place, the Duchess definitely also featured its fair share of oppressed suffering women.
Quote from the movie:
"I love you in the way I understand love." - The Duke
And something I heard on Class 95 last night:
"It doesn't mean that when someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, that they are not already loving you with all that they have."
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
January 2, 2009
September 12, 2007
No Reservations
Caught No Reservations last night with FY and Evan. FY wanted to watch it for Aaron Eckhart and Evan for Catherine Zeta-Jones and me? I wanted to watch it for the cooking heh. It was a so-so show, just kinda brainless but with few good moments. Anyway, after watching the show, I really feel like I wanna move to NYC and/or cook good food! I realise I really like to watch cooking shows, no surprise that one of my favourite channels is Food Network haha, though I don't really watch much Discovery Travel and Living now.
But watching is one thing, doing is another. I doubt I'll have the perseverence to actually learn how to cook properly in a school, or apprentice in kitchens where a common sight is pots and pans being thrown at you by the chef. I guess I'll just stick to being super amateur hobbyist.
But watching is one thing, doing is another. I doubt I'll have the perseverence to actually learn how to cook properly in a school, or apprentice in kitchens where a common sight is pots and pans being thrown at you by the chef. I guess I'll just stick to being super amateur hobbyist.
July 13, 2007
Potty Over Potter
Yes, I'm on of those must-see-Harry-Potter-movie-as-soon-as-it-comes-out types. So went to catch it with JY last night at Cineleisure. All the theatres seemed to be showing only Harry Potter. Must be super big money-spinner for them.
I was looking forward to it since the beginning of the week, and the excitement mounted as THE day drew nearer (I'm look forward next to the release of the last book).
Verdict? The movie wasn't very 'wow', pretty patchy. Which is not a big surprise since Order of the Phoenix the book is after all the thickest book of the series and Order of the Phoenix the movie is the shortest of the movies, which means they had to squeeze a helluva lot into a short 2 hrs 15 min. Well, I must say that I had quite high expectations, working myself up like that. The movie chose to dwell on certain threads in the original story, while almost completely ignoring others. However, I must admit that JK Rowling does indulge in description quite a bit in OOP. Example, I read the first 20 pages last night but didn't even get past to the first scene of the movie. The classroom scenes and the usual school life scenes kinda get downplayed here but I suppose many would find that passe since the first few movies have dwelled on that sufficiently. Instead, screen time was devoted to building up to the eventual good vs evil fight that will take place further down the line. Oh one more thing I didn't like, Ron didn't really get much of a part in this one. He probably says like err 10 lines in the whole movie.
That said, despite it not being very 'wow', I think it's still worth a watch as part of the Harry Potter experience. Plus if you don't read the books, the movie would probably be pretty satisfactory to you. Oh, the actors have really grown since the first movie huh. Daniel Radcliffe was SOOOOO small and cute last time. He's practically a man now. And I can't stand Cho Chang man. Yeuuccchhh.
Can't wait for the book next week!
Unrelated note, going to play some netball tomorrow or most probably just sit on the bench. Being roped in by Peirui (who's a victim herself heh) to help the organisation play in some netball league. Yay, time to get some sun and move those old bones.
I was looking forward to it since the beginning of the week, and the excitement mounted as THE day drew nearer (I'm look forward next to the release of the last book).
Verdict? The movie wasn't very 'wow', pretty patchy. Which is not a big surprise since Order of the Phoenix the book is after all the thickest book of the series and Order of the Phoenix the movie is the shortest of the movies, which means they had to squeeze a helluva lot into a short 2 hrs 15 min. Well, I must say that I had quite high expectations, working myself up like that. The movie chose to dwell on certain threads in the original story, while almost completely ignoring others. However, I must admit that JK Rowling does indulge in description quite a bit in OOP. Example, I read the first 20 pages last night but didn't even get past to the first scene of the movie. The classroom scenes and the usual school life scenes kinda get downplayed here but I suppose many would find that passe since the first few movies have dwelled on that sufficiently. Instead, screen time was devoted to building up to the eventual good vs evil fight that will take place further down the line. Oh one more thing I didn't like, Ron didn't really get much of a part in this one. He probably says like err 10 lines in the whole movie.
That said, despite it not being very 'wow', I think it's still worth a watch as part of the Harry Potter experience. Plus if you don't read the books, the movie would probably be pretty satisfactory to you. Oh, the actors have really grown since the first movie huh. Daniel Radcliffe was SOOOOO small and cute last time. He's practically a man now. And I can't stand Cho Chang man. Yeuuccchhh.
Can't wait for the book next week!
Unrelated note, going to play some netball tomorrow or most probably just sit on the bench. Being roped in by Peirui (who's a victim herself heh) to help the organisation play in some netball league. Yay, time to get some sun and move those old bones.
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