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[Movie Review] The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Posted by IcedNyior on July 25, 2008  |  4 Comments

OKay, this is going to be short and sweet coz I went out drinking after the movie and only came back around 2-3am then for no apparent reason woke up at 7am this morning. Tired and a bit hungover.

The story is set in a time where both Scully and Mulder have moved on from their lives in the FBI. Scully is a doctor and Mulder is, well, he’s still searching for the truth out there. Then, the FBI comes out of no where and asks for their help because a case they are currently solving involves some out-of-this-world elements. This forces both Scully and Mulder to be involved hand-in-hand with the FBI to solve the case.

Well, X Files fans, don’t expect to see your usual X-Files type of movie. This is a standalone movie which is nothing like the series. So you might be dissapointed. I felt like this movie lack so many elements. The plot is not really thought out well because it felt slow and draggy. Characters were kind of just there for the sake of being there.

It could have been a really good thriller movie with lots of suspense and sudden movements. Or it could hv been a good slasher movie with lots of blood and gore. But it was just somewhere in between, lacking that ‘omph’ factor. All in all, give this a miss. I wouldn’t even download/buy a pirated copy. its *that* boring.

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Rating : (*) 1 out of 5 stars

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On another note, much thanks to +sizekitten for giving free tickets to watch this movie @ Cineleisure. Met up with other bloggers/photobloggers as well there : ‘Uncle’ Frog Prince, Hurley, Joyce (not a tarp!), Tiffany, Ewin and a few others (sorry I dont hv your links and I’m very bad with names). I didn’t know any of them – tho I did know Joyce coz I sometimes comment on his blog – but it was fun meeting new ppl. We should hang out one day :D

Um..this post isn’t as short as I tot it would be. LOL!

Edit : Changed the links to show the reviews from the other bloggers :)

At World’s End : A Review

Posted by IcedNyior on May 24, 2007  |  3 Comments

Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End is the 3rd movie after the original Pirates of the Caribbean Movie. It is scheduled to come out tomorrow. A few companies organized gifts and competitions for this movie but I didnt participate in any.However, I knew cineleisure has shows from 9pm onwards. I dropped by cineleisure after lunch and bullied forced belanjad invited Afdzal to go watch this movie with me – and also go buy the tickets earlier – hopefully around 9.30pm. It was around 4pm and all the tickets were sold out (minus the front seats but of course who wants to sit there) except for the 12.30am show.

After some debating, we decided, oklah we go see the 12.30am show and took the couples seat coz its at the back and has more space (and is the same price anyway). I was a bit surprised at the price tho, RM12. Thats pretty steep for Wednesdays but then again it was the opening day or premiere of a new movie. So he picked me around midnight and we went down to cineleisure, got a popcorn and we went to watch the movie.I was so smgt to sms Evie to ask if the movie was good, coz i tot she was going to watch the night show today. But apparently she was only goin to watch tommorrow and was about to sleep and hv sex (her words not mine). Hehe! I threatened to sms her every 5 mins tomorrow to tell the story.

It was the first time I watched a midnight movie here and I was quite dissapointed by the service. Coz firstly, when they started projecting, the film was blur (but only the intros like the THX and Dolby Digital adverts), lucky it was all right when the movie actually started. Then secondly, the movie suddenly stopped in the middle with a blank screen and all the lights came on and those hotel-lounge-intrumental-music came on which was really potong stim i tell you! Summore it was at an interesting part. Demmit!

So yea, the following is my review and might hv some spoilers (ok in some cases, i kinda forgot names so just describe them)…click SHOW

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So how did Jack get rescued and what did the pirates do to face up to the British? I guess that’s up to you to go and watch the movie to find out!

Rating : 4 of 5 stars!