The Box

This is a disappointment movie =.= Tommy went for the premier of New Moon with Sandy while I went to watch The Box with Eun, Jia Yi, Tony and Stephie.

It seems like a short story that is being drag long. The ending is like an infinite loop =.= You get a box, you can choose to press the button or not. If you press it, you get 1 million dollar but someone will be killed. If you do not press the button in 24 hours, you do not get the money but you spare someone's life.

How the person is killed, you have 2 choices, the person who press the button's partner is to pull the trigger on him/her or have their child suffer. But I think what the message it want to convey is not to have greed towards money for the ending is not good.

Poker King

This is a Chinese movie but it is full of laughs. It is mostly about Jack who is a poker king in the cyber world. He was called back by Uno for Jack's father has died. Jack is like a puppet where he do not need to do anything and Uno would be the one earning the money for Jack's late father.

Jack went to suggest a poker competition to meet his dream girl but was humiliated as he lost out in the first round. He then lost all him money to Uno when he decided to challenge him in a game of poker to take over his father's company. When he was on the streets, he learn a lot and also learn the real way of playing poker in real life.

In the end, he won Uno in an international competition to be the King of Poker and he too got his girl who is a girl who help him out during his hard-times.

Astro Boy

This is mainly for kids but I feel there are some hidden meaning in the movie. Tommy won 4 passes to watch Astro Boy. I went with him and his other 2 friends to 1 Utama to watch it. The animations were good.

The whole movie was like in the futuristic set-up and quite nice graphics. There is not much of a story line besides the normal cartoon where he is the hero and he save everyone ^_^ But what I like most is the part on how Astro boy was invented by the scientist to look and behave exactly like his son, Toby. Astro was created to replace Toby who died during one of his failed experiment. It is at this part where I learn that, there is no one who can replace who you are even if you can invent something that look and act exactly like you. We are all unique and no matter how much the other person can imitate us, he/she is a totally different person.

It also made me realize, we as humans, we can imitate anyone and be influence by anything. We can deceive anyone we want and only we ourselves would know about it. But there are some who are unfortunate as they have the look where anyone can used them and do not bother whether that person would end up being hurt or not. This is a fact on what is happening in today's world.

2012

This is a long overdue post =.= I went to watch it somewhere in November when it was release. It is a good movie. I was surprise that the tickets were sold out for the next 2 weeks after I went to watch. I can rate it as a very good movie. The story is about the world is about to end. It was like the government's top secret project where everyone play their role to save everyone's life on earth.

Unfortunately, like all movies, everything has been brought forward as no one can predict what our daily activities can effect the earth's magnetic core. The magnetic core began to shift before the estimated date and the world leaders are forced to announce what is about to happen. It also shows that money can buy anything where the rich and powerful people are the one who can get the pass to save their life.

Besides that, it also shows that the saying, "If there is a will, there is a way" does motivates a person to achieve things that they can never imagine. Not to forget that, when you love a person, you would do anything to ensure that they are safe. At times, for them to be safe, you are willing to sacrifice your own life for them. There is also another side of the story that greed does kill a person in a very painful manner.

Overall, the movie does shows different characters of people there are in this world where those who are good and humble are the ones minorities. But is it true that they are the losers as they are being taken advantage of their kindness and good heart? I do wonder, how the world would change after this movie. But I believe, nothing would change as we expect changes for we are waiting for the change to happen and not make the change. Some of us would expect to see results immediately but changes takes time and won't happen instantly. If it does happen instantly, it wouldn't last long as the change was made just for that short time.