On Sunday, me and Ariel spontaneously decided to book and catch the dragon movie; How to train your dragon. It was quite last minute and weird being able to book the tickets online at Cineleisure about 2 hours before the movie. Though, I’m very much thankful for it. 🙂
Being an animated film, DreamWorks brought the best out of this movie. With much thanks also to the great designers, animators and actors/actresses who lent their voices.
I was seriously impressed by the character designs. They were very detailed down to the tooth and the dragons were very well thought about. It would be really cool to find out what inspired the final designs of the dragon characters. Because I don’t think it’s the actors/actresses.
I did read in the comments of the YouTube video below, a dragon was designed similar to Stitch from Lilo & Stitch because it’s the same director.
It didn’t have a Disney ending
Disney prefers to keep their movies very happily ever after. Well, this movie doesn’t really follow it. Your kids might be a little shocked, but truth be told, it’ll be like a reality lesson. But if you’re not a kid, you’ll seriously enjoy this entertaining movie about dragons.
I know I did. 😛
Would I rewatch the movie?
That’s a yes from me. Though I’m still pondering if I should check out the 3D version of it. So if you do watch it in 3D, please let me know and tell me why you liked it in 3D. 🙂
I’m not a war movie buff, and that goes even for the TV series; Band of Brothers. The last war movie I watched was either about history or strategy. For example; Red Cliff. The Chinese seem to make strategic battles very charismatic as compared to many other Hollywood war movies.
I’d consider The Hurt Locker a documentary drama about the soldiers in the Iraq war. Specifically, the squad which handles bombing inspections and defusing. This story is about their life and how these life-threatening instances change them.
The camera handling was a little shaky but I guess that gave it the documentary feel. Including the inconsistent zooming parts during the movie.
Ladies may not enjoy this movie
Because most of the story was very male oriented. A quick share with a tiny spoiler is, you’ll find them beating themselves up to see who’s tougher.
Now that I think about it, I noticed there weren’t any female characters as soldiers in this movie too. This may have been done on purpose but I wouldn’t know.
End said, now I felt why this movie won Best Film in the Academy Awards and not Avatar. Check out the trailer if you haven’t.
Would I watch it again?
I’m going to pass this. Simply because as I mentioned earlier, I’m not a war movie buff. 🙂
I was sitting in Starbucks at Sunway Pyramid. They too were in support of Earth Hour. Or at least, doing their best to support it. But then, I was pondering.
Is this how you really support Earth Hour?
Let me share with you the real story of how Earth Hour came about from the official website.
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change.
This might sound cynical or from a hypocrite but though it’s not mentioned you have to turn off all the lights in your home or business, shouldn’t that be the ideal action for all Earth Hour supporters?
While sitting in Starbucks, I could still see the mall corridors and stores brightly lit. So I thought again, how much energy would they really save by only turning off the outdoor lights?
Is this communicating the wrong message about Earth Hour? Or, even if I switched off the lamp beside my bed, I can say I support Earth Hour?
Well, I definitely wasn’t happy forking out RM15 for parking to KL Life Centre at Zee Avi’s concert. But paying for her performance and her debut album; Zee Avi, was every penny well spent.
And the pennies were lucky ones. I won an invitation to the exclusive Meet & Greet session with the sultry voiced artiste; Zee Avi. 😀
Okay. I know most of you are not here to read what I thought of the Meet & greet session. So I’ll save it for later. Here are the selected photos taken by me on the day. Oh, photos have larger (800×600 ratio) versions so click ’em to view ’em. Enjoy!
Rock CornerMaking last minute arrangementsHawt Universal lady, no?
Getting everything in orderSigning in for the eventSomeone got his guitar signedBrother waiting with his little sisterFans taking every opportunity to photograph ZeeSlowly having a space to photograph ZeeZee was very happy to see a very young fanEven Zee Avi drinks Starbucks 😛Zee enjoyed meeting a father and his very young daughterI'm not sure what were they looking at but must have been interestingI'd say this was the best shot of the day
The event was suppose to start at 8pm but it only began around 8:30pm. There were actually 2 sessions because one of the fans I met the day told me, there was a newspaper advertisement saying anyone with a Zee Avi album may come to get an autograph too.
Because of this, the sessions were split into an autograph session followed by the meet & greet session. I’d say it was pretty well organized though weird because we queued on the right to sign in then moved to the left to enter for autographs later.
This was my first ever autograph session in my life. So embarrassing moment came when Zee Avi stared at me, waiting for me to tell her my name so she could write it on the cover. Though I was glad she did ask me:
What’s your name, luv?
*swoon* 🙂 LOL!
Once I got the autograph, I joined the rest of the non-media photographers gathered at the middle entrance trying our best to snap a photo of Zee Avi. Before the event, I did ask the hot Universal lady if photos were permitted during the meet & greet. She apologized and said personal photographs weren’t allowed.
However, can’t blame me if I joined the revolution which started. All I wanted were photos for this blog and spread word to people who still hasn’t heard of Zee Avi.
And I was really lucky to have grabbed these photos first. Because moments later, non-media were disallowed to get near the middle entrance to snap any photos of Zee Avi. Alas, some just stood further away. 😛
Once the autograph session was done, the invitees were asked to form lines of 10 people to go in and meet Zee Avi. We shook her hand and chatted for less than a minute before we were asked to huddle together like a school yearbook photo. No personal photos were taken here because of time shortage and it wasn’t allowed.
The group photos were going to be emailed to us and posted to the Universal Music Malaysia Facebook page later. However, I’m still waiting for the photo.
And I just had a thought, how will they identify which group we belonged to if there was more than 1 group photo with Zee Avi. Uh-oh.
Well, I’ll share the photo here once it’s been distributed. In the meantime, I’ve published the full album of Zee Avi photos on my photoblog and here’s the video again of the concert night. 🙂
See you when you came back home again, Zee. 🙂
Updated: March 25, 2010 – 8:35pm
Universal Music finally uploaded the photo to their Facebook. This was the photo from the album. Though I did some minor touch up.
Today was the Meet & Greet organized by Universal Records. It was hosted at Rock Corner, Gardens. There was quite good a turnout of fans. Some I saw at the concert and some who wanted to meet her cause she was there.
Anyway, here’s a teaser photo for you.
The full writeup will come, soon. Just need to process the photos.
By the way, Zee is flying off to tour Australia this Thursday (I think). God speed, Zee.
