Wednesday, May 14, 2008

SPEED RACER movie
Watched it with BY on monday at E! Hub Downtown East~
It surprising to see the place with so many people on a weekday early afternoon, it isn't a school holiday rite? But there's loads of young people hanging out there. It's the latest 'in' place to be at perhaps?

Yeaps.. according to my prev post, i supposed to have caught the 1pm show of Nim's Island. As we aren't too early (i am a self-professed latecomer... BY too~) the queue at the cinema's ticketing counter's a lil long. The movie started long before we could reach the front of the queue =x so we decided to change plans to watch Speed Racer at 135pm instead. I arent a fan of Rain, but i think this movie should be quite 'watchable' with all the nice nice digital effects (it's directed by the Andy and Larry Walcxxxxx brothers who directed Matrix -i dunno how to spell their surname.. oops!)

The movie's hilarious at times, esp the scenes with Speed's little brother and chimpanzee. The chimpanzee wore cute clothes and it's like part of the Racer family. Yes, Speed Racer is the name of the protagionist of the story. It's a human being, i thought it was a race car/race track/racing game initially =p *blush*
The theatre's filled with giggles and stifled laughter whenever the animated imaginative thoughts and actions are played onscreen. Multiple horizontal stripes used to denote speed while the main characters aren't exactly moving. Like a freeze frame. It's the manga comic style of portrayal. It's really funny to see them in a movie. So cartoonish! So cute!

Rain starred as Taejo a Japanese racer whom Speed and his brother Rex (in disguise.. nobody knows he's Rex.. after some plastic surgery blah..with some story behind it..) helped to win a cross country race in exchange for some vital files to sue some evil, crazy, filthy rich, big-time racing company boss. But Taejo didn't keep to his promise, just made used of the both of them. Cos winning of races can help to jack up the prices of his family's company stocks and in turn, help his company earn big bucks. A bit of a baddie eh?
Haha.. but in the end after a series of events, he eventually (it rhymes!) used the information he had to help bring down the big-time racing boss who manipulated races. So he's not such a big baddie after all.
There's a scene whereby he pretended to be his sister to prevent his sister from being kidnapped. The scene's so short, one can easily miss it. He just wore a nice white outfit (knee length skirt) with a big hat to cover his face. Well.. He didn't look like a lady.

The movie's kinda long at around 160min, both of us were the first to stand up & head to the washroom after the credits started rolling. Chiong arh!
Didnt expect it to be so long, but the three races are filmed in great detail -Thunderbird (Speed's fav track), dangerous cross country race track (where Rex Racer supposedly perished) and the final Grand Prix. But no complains about the races cos they are excited enough to make me stay glued to my seat.

BY and i ate a whole box of Kokokrunch Duo (the new Kokokrunch with milk chocolate) 1st time eating so much cereal without milk =p
Hehe.. it seemed that we ate a lot, but when we took the packet out of the cereal box, we realised there's still half a bag left. Lol.. 200g only leh.. How come it seems so much neh?~ Hmm.. good thing is, it isnt too overwhelming sweet, so i could finish it.
If it's potato chips, then nah.. i've low tolerance for salt and fat laden potato chips.



After the movie, we walked around Downtown East~
Since i brought my camera along, must take some pics before leaving =p
From this pic, can't see BY's hot pink and deep purple extensions.. haiz.. she looked quite cool with them~ I wanna get extensions too!!!


Me carrying my new white-silver bag (a few days old^^) and BY's rabbit bag.. she personalised her rabbit -see that black glove? hehe.. can give it some clothes to wear..


Artistic shot of the new ferris wheel


Can't really see my face that clearly cos i was standing against the light, though i tried lightening the picture already =x

After that, BY headed home before going out in the evening to catch Ironman at night with another fren.. Hoho.. Monday's her movie marathon day^^

While i walked to Pasir Ris Ctrl for a haircut... Hoots.. haven't gotten a haircut for more than half a year, getting split ends alrdy..

yunn. at 3:03 PM