Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

TV Dramas

As I had started to write this post, I had titled it Another Untitled Post. But as this developed, I ended up calling it drama. No, not lots-of-things-going-on-in-my-life drama (though there are aspects of that), but I just couldn't stay away from one of my favourite hobbies of all time: TV drama. 

I have my theory driving test tomorrow =) When I pass that, I can book my practical driving test. So I should really be revising for that right now. That was until I decided I needed a cup of tea, then decided to write a post. So all was going well until I had decided to let myself get distracted. 

As most people know, I'm a big fan of watching TV, whether it's movies, TV programmes/dramas (American, Taiwanese, Korean or Japanese). I've actually been pretty out of touch with dramas recently. I'm a big fan of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory, and I have been up to date with those for a long time, and each week is an agonising wait for the next episode. 

Last year, a friend of mine who is also an avid fan of How I Met Your Mother recommended Modern Family. After a very busy year, I've finally caught up to all the episodes of Modern Family. Yay! I realised how much I hate being up to date with all of the latest episodes. It always feel so empty once I've finished watching something. And usually for the next few days, I keep on finding things to watch. 

So I've finally watched Looper yesterday. It was pretty much how I expected it to be, except that I have a very, very, very bad and annoying habit of spoiling things for myself. After a short while into the movie, I Wikipedia'ed it. (I'm sorry for turning Wikipedia into a verb.) Any how, so not long into the movie, I know what happens. I did save the last bit of the movie as a mystery... I stopped at the last two or three paragraphs. As I watched the movie, it didn't take me long to give into temptation and just read the last few paragraphs. So I even knew what would happen at the very very end.. So... that's the story of how I spoiled a movie. 

Oh oh, I also finally watched Kung Fu Panda 2. Ohhh, why have I waited so long to watch the second one! The first one was alright, not my favourite, but definitely worth watching once. But the second one is totally amazing. Maybe I was just in a weird mood, but it made me laugh so much. I enjoyed it so much that I wished my little cousins were next to me so I could watch it with them (though I do think they may have already seen it). 

Recently, I've also been watching a Taiwanese drama called Once Upon A Love. I know it sounds corny, that's what I thought at first. This was a few months back, if not longer, but I've seen the name of this drama a few times, then I finally gave it a try. And man, it's pretty good stuff. I've been a bit out of touch with all these Asian dramas, especially the idol ones just because I think I've grown out of them. I'm no longer that teenager who watches all these idol dramas about love and everything where I can predict the whole storyline within the first five minutes. Once Upon A Love is totally different, it's not about this young girl who meets this young, good-looking guy, where they have a misunderstanding upon their first encounter, then they somehow become more acquainted and then starts liking each other, etc, etc. I don't really know how to summarise it, but if you have like twenty hours to spare or something, it's definitely worth a try =) 

That's enough of talking, or writing, to be accurate. I think I better get back to my theory revision. 

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Mulan

Mulan is actually one of my favourite Disney films after The Lion King (and maybe Cinderella and The Little Mermaid). Actually, The Lion King is my ultimate favourite, then the others don't really have a ranking. 

Mulan (2009)

This evening I watched Mulan, but the real people film version. It's usually not my type of film, I say I don't like war films, but when it comes to it, I actually really like them. But I guess I say I don't like them because they're always really sad and epic, and I think it's really painful to think that something (or something really similar) actually happened and this is how millions of people died in real life. But Mulan actually turned out to be really good =] It's the 2009 version (and apparently there's another version coming out this year). But the main is this actress I quite like, she was also in the little sister in this other film called 'Closer' (or something on the lines of that), it's actually called 'So Close'. (It's also a pretty good film, some bits are a bit weird (not in a bad way and not that weird, but it used to make me cry. And it was because of this film that I fell in love with the song 'Close To You' ^^) Anyway I think she was really good in Mulan, so if you have two and a half hours spare, I recommend it ^^ 

The main dude was alright too. He looks familiar for some reason, but I haven't seen him anywhere (as in, in any films..., not literally anywhere xD) I'm checking out his Wikipedia page (as I do, when I discover someone new). He's in a lot of olden time/historical-y films. As much as I like history films and stuff, I can't take too many of them. They require a lot of concentration and understanding. 

P.s. As I was Googling the real version of Mulan I just watched, I realised that the Disney version was made in 1998... woah so long ago. I was only six years old... Time flies by. It really surprises me when I realise how long ago these Disney films were made but it feels like it was only last year or something... it's just such a childhood thing and it doesn't feel like it was that long ago because I don't feel like I'm growing older (or shall I say, I'm still quite immature xP)