On sleepless roads the sleepless go.

Thursday, 12/05/2010

Went to watch the movie preview of Ghostwriters at Shaw Centre Level 13. How awesome?

Here’s a little something about the movie:

Directed by: Roman Polanski

Staring: Ewan McGregor , Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Olivia Williams.

I was late for the movie but I still managed to catch most of it to get the idea. The movie was intriguing and entertaining, it really kept me wanting to know more about the plot and I think it did a good job of capturing my attention. Although I have to say, there were portions of the movie that were pure conversations that almost put me to sleep but these scenes were necessary. The ending was interesting and i definitely recommend catching this movie. UNLESS, you’re a typical singaporean that likes to find faults in movies and doesn’t like to think much and then complains that the movie is boring. Then I’m unequivocally certain you will not like this. It wasn’t drop dead amazing but it was a good 2 hours or so spent.

If I had to rate this movie, I’d give it a 4/5. I might be wrong though because I haven’t seen such a movie in a long time so it was a good one for me.

I know this is a rather short post but there’s been nothing really interesting to post and things that I want to post aren’t allowed so the post ends thus far.

I’ve been saving these last words for one last miracle but now I’m not sure.

Fathers, Mothers, Brothers & Sisters gather round. A new tale is about to be told.

I thought I’d post differently this week. Well my intention to do a post today came from a dream I had last night. Well, it wasn’t a dream if you asked me more like a nightmare due to the ending but i wasn’t really scared shitless when i awoke. I was more pissed off that i couldn’t really fall back asleep and thanks to my experience of staying up REALLY late during the holidays I knew it was 5-ish… See, staying up does have it’s benefits.

So the content of the dream shall not be revealed only the ending.

The hallway is dark, I have no idea how i can still manage to see. I follow a tall, old and balding man through before i turn right to open a door. As I pull open the door, my eyes focus upward at the flicker light bulbs do before it fully lights up. The door is partially open when this eerie scream with some sort of reverb plays and this grey looking figure reaches out a hand and grabs my leg. I wake up.

As i lay in bed waiting for fall back into slumber, I get an epiphany, if you can call it that. I imagine that the idea of Visual Effects in movies or whatever form of Video is to make the character into a ghost? An idea is imagine a ghost warps toward you. In Visual Effects terms it would be some sort of teleport like in the movie Jumper. Things like that.. But forgive me if this seems a little weird, I thought about it for 5 minutes before i fell back asleep.

On another note, I watched Iron Man 2 today. If you asked me, it’s another one of those mindless movies that are captivating because of EVERYTHING except the storyline. I know I probably shouldn’t be criticizing the storyline because I am , after all, doing this blog post for Storyboard & Storytelling class. However, it proves that there can be good movies that have meaningless story-lines. Apart from that, the movie really fueled a greater interest in the course. How awesome would it be to be part of a movie such as Iron Man. I know that by the end of my 3 years in NP that i would not be able to create effects of that calibre but that’s why there’s always a next level. Hopefully this is my calling. If anyone was to ask me now what I would like to specialize in now? I’d definitely say movie effects. That’s what TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY has got my attention.

See how i used that savage garden song in there? Yep, I totally intended for that.

To those that actually bothered to read all the way to the end, here’s wishing you a good week ahead and curse that we do not have labour day holiday today? Come on, polytechnic teachers need breaks too. Yes, those who didn’t read to the end, probably didn’t see my well wishes and if you skipped to the end, they do not apply to you.

I’m kidding & wasting time.

Goodbye & Goodnight.