11 hours 5 movies

So I'm in Taiwan now and due to various reasons I am now living in the mountains lol, kinda feel like a hermit going through secret training. Anyway on my way from Auckland to Hong Kong I could not sleep so the only thing I could do was to watch movies. During the 11 hours flight, I watched 5 movies. Here are my thoughts on them and in order.



I started with Inception since it caused a really big hype when it came out. Everyone was like omg omg but for some reason I did not go watch it, I think it was due to the bombardment of assignments. After watching it, I now fully understand why it was considered one of the top movies this year. The idea and the concept of the movie is pure genius and beyond creative. 10/10 from me, strongly recommend movie to watch.



I wanted to watch Ip Man 2 but the movie was laggy so I then pick this. I've seen the first Ip Man so I thought it was weird to find this movie exist. I prefered the story of the Ip Man series better. I didnt like how this movie ended. I'm not saying its bad its just not my kind of ending. 7/10



Unsatisfied with the Ip Man I just watched, I tried this again and it wasnt laggy anymore yay! lol I really like the Ip Man character in this movie. He is alawys calm, friendly and fights for justice, I also prefer his style of kung fu than the other movie. In Ip Man 1, he fought the Jap, this time hes fighting England. My jaw actually dropped in amazement(this never happened in any other movie before) when I was watching Ip Man fighting the other pro kung fu master, really pro stuff, must watch. 9/10 for this.



At this point I was already tired as however still could not go to sleep so I decided to watch another big hype movie this year. Im always a PIXAR fan, was kinda disappointed with UP last year but think goodness PIXAR brought back it's usual standard. Sequel from Toy Story 1 and 2, the 3rd movie shows what happens to the toys when Andy grows up and is about to go to college. Like all PIXAR movies, its packed with humour, adventure, action and sometimes sadness. It actually got me thinking about my old toys when I was watching this lol. A solid 8 or 9/10 for Toy Story 3.



2 hours left until Hong Kong, 11:30pm time in NZ, eyes burning but cant sleep. All other movie would not finish before I land so I picked this one. Just a standard Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie and I was pretty sure I've seen it before. I was right, I saw the last 10 mins of it like a year ago. 4/10, maybe Im too old for this but I found the movie lacking story and action lol~

I then had to wait an hour and a half in HK airport. As soon as I got on the plane to TW, I fell asleep almost immediately. I missed my meal :/ grrr
Got to Taiwan at 12am, 5am NZ time basically overnighted. Arrived home at 3am, was just too insane...

Universe - 2nd Opinion Needed

Omg double post in one day however this is emergency! I need to know... IS THE VOCALIST A GUY OR A GIRL?!



Oh by the way, my favourite song lists has expanded and categorised into English, Jap and Korean! My taste in music covers a wide arrange of area hence the need for an updated system XD

P.S. Just realised its past 12 so its actually not double post in one day

Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky

Another quick movie review, for those who dont know Im a straight up Detective Conan fan. Been watching/reading the movies/manga ever since I was a kid so there was no way I would miss the latest movie. Movie 14: The Lost Ship in the Sky.



I thought this movie took a different route than most of the previous movies. Previous movies always slowly uncover events, build up excitement for the final climax. However movie 14 reveals the exciting part relatively early and then had continous excitement and tension throughout the entire movie. This results in an average-ish ending in my opinion though.



As shown on the poster, Kaitou Kid shows up in this movie and it is always fun to see him in action. He works with Conan together on this one though and therefore the humour level is higher compare to the other movies. I didnt really like the ending theme, it kinda strayed away from the usual Bz or Mai Kuraki. I give movie 14 8/10, 2 off for the ending and ending theme XD

Resident Evil Afterlife

Woot finally an update that hasnt been a month after the previous one. Anyway had dynamics exam today, I tried my best I guess. After the exam, went to the korean place opposite imax to eat, it was pretty good. Then went to watch Resident Evil Afterlife with Dennis, Dixon and Jp.

Now to fully understand this movie (well maybe not fully but MOST of it) you must have seen the previous Resident Evil movie Extinction and to have played the game Resident Evil 5. The first half an hour or so, you would be pretty lost and be going wtf if you havent seen the 3rd movie. I found that this movie focuses more on the journey of Alice rather than fighting fked up creatures like 1st and 3rd movie.



A lot of the monsters/zombies were taken from the game Resident Evil 5, I particularly enjoyed the axe boss scenes. There were definately a lot more humour in this movie or maybe cause I was tired from the morning exam so I laughed at their dry jokes lol. But yeah, I really enjoyed watching this movie right after the exam. They had a few jump scares which got me, yes I admit it.

A downside in this movie is that they used the slow motion scenes quite often, to show how cool the characters are probably. It works well once or twice but too often just overkills it. I know all the critics on the net says this movie is crap but thats what they said for all the RE movies. But since I've always enjoyed watching and playing RE. It was a fun, enjoyable movie for me to watch, I give it 8/10.