Oh yes, definitely.
I’m addicted to watching movies alone at theatres. :D
I caught Black Swan on first day of CNY alone, then The Green Hornet on third day of CNY, alone as well, and today I caught The King’s Speech, alone too. All three times at Plaza Singapura. LOL. They have those single-person seat-row in most of their halls, so it’s really cool to be sitting there alone without worrying about latecomers going “excuse me, excuse me” and stepping on your toes while they tried to toe their way past you to their seats.
Black Swan was brilliant. The plot kinda kept you guessing on who’s actually doing this and that (although one would be half-guessing the end already, especially if you have watched the trailer and read the synopsis), and there were a few scenes in the movie that made me jumped. Psychological thriller – that’s how most have classified it to be. The end was kinda heart-wrenching though, after you pieced everything together. Natalie Portman really, really held it in together in her and delivered through and through in this film. I only remembered her in that Star Wars movie (sorry, I didn’t watch that many movies in the past), and I don’t have much of an impression of her back then even though I remembered the name. But yeah, she definitely showed her awesome acting chops in Black Swan. Brilliant.
The Green Hornet was more like a … filler movie, for me. I need to spend the rest of the credits in that HSBC GV card that I have because it’ll expire by end of this month. So yeah, I went to catch The Green Hornet, and to be honest, I was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining the movie was. XD I mean, just leave your brains at home and go to the theatres to catch it. And I’m pretty proud that Jay Chou was given quite a meaty role, having almost as much screentime as the lead actor. Even though Jay’s English suck like hell (I couldn’t catch what he’s saying most of the times – thank goodness for subtitles), he was pretty convincing as The Green Hornet’s sidekick. I wonder why Hollywood seems to love to cast Chinese actors/actresses as martial arts expert. Being stereotyped about Chinese Shaolin or something >_>? Well anyway, I had some good laughs in the cinema, so I guess it’s still good. :P
The King’s Speech. Oh man, just like Natalie Portman in Black Swan, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush totally blew me away with their solid acting skills. Both guys have this charismatic screen presence (okay, Geoffrey Rush more, actually), and even though The King’s Speech is not a movie that sets you thinking, I was still totally drawn into the movie. There were some scenes where it was supposed to be boring – like the two actors sat there and drank some whisky (or whatever alcohol thing) and talked about their lives and stuff – but I just can’t bring myself to be distracted by anything else. There’s just something about these two actors that made you wanna sit through and listen to their stories, listen to what they have to say, watch their facial expressions, and you really feel it. You really feel what they are trying to say. And they were so darn convincing in their roles. My bladder nearly burst at the end of the movie, and that says a lot about it because I almost always go to loo in the middle of a movie. I’ll just find some boring scene in between and slip to the ladies, but no, not for The King’s Speech. I just can’t bring myself to stand up and go to the loo, because I know I’ll definitely miss something. Predictable plot and ending, of course, but it still left me a little teary-eyed, with a little upturned smile on my face. It was so heart-warming. Definitely one of the best non-action/non-thriller films I’ve ever caught.
You know, movies like Black Swan and The King’s Speech are something that I wouldn’t have caught in the past. Maybe because I’d think it’s too boring for me, nothing interesting, yada yada, you know. And The Green Hornet will definitely be one of the blacklisted movies on Reko’s list (if it was in the past) as well. So I won’t be able to catch it either, if he’s still here. But you know what? I’m glad I’ve caught all three movies this time. I think I’m slowly getting my liking for movies back. Maybe I should buy more of that GV card so that I will force myself to watch more movies (and hopefully, I’ll actually like them – like these three times – after forcing myself to go for them), in order to broaden the genre of movies that I watch.
All right, some movies to catch next… let’s see. The Mechanic seems good for an action movie (I only took notice of Jason Statham in The Expendables, damn!); I’ll force myself to watch True Grit (not only because it has Matt Damon… but he’s one of the reasons :x); The Adjustment Bureau (Matt Damon again! <3 and it’s almost like Bourne… in a way); I Am Number Four (I don’t like the romance part of it, but the theme seems slightly dark enough to pique my interest); Unknown seems interesting too.
Oh yeah, besides going for movies alone, I think I’m addicted to singing KTV too. D: This is crazy, but I’ve been going KTV every week since last year’s Christmas Eve (save for the weekend when I was in Finland in January). And my urge to sing doesn’t seem to be stopping, at least not anytime soon. XD Maybe it was all the pent up desire to sing but not doing it as much as I had wanted to for the past few years. :x
Onwards to other stuff.
This weekend was jam-packed. I just had to squeeze in some time for my karaoke practice, so I went darn early to PartyWorld KTV at NEX, because I had planned to drop by my sis’ place after that to see if she needed any extra pair of hands to help with the kids as we had planned to celebrate Dylan’s birthday at the Airport. But halfway through my KTV session, Kelvin messaged to tell me that my sis was having a sudden high fever, and the celebration had to be called off. So after informing my parents about it, I dropped by my sis place to check on how she’s doing and stuff, before heading back home. And today – well there was The King’s Speech in the morning, and I went to Ka Wai’s place for a small CNY gathering. Too bad Fong wasn’t able to make it. =(
Next weekend will be packed too. I’m meeting a couple of friends (lovely people whom I met from EDMW :D) next Sat for another KTV session and probably a late movie session as well, and then there’s the postponed birthday celebration for Dylan on Sunday. Busy busy busy! But… being busy’s good. :) Keeps the mind off stuff… >.< Well, at least I think I’m starting my Year of Rabbit in the right way. Are you? ;)