Serendipity

Don’t download movies, it’s piracy! It’s not file sharing, it’s stealing! After all, why download when you can watch it all online? :p

www.movieforumz.com - Remember this link, and you’ll thank me for that! Hehe.

[sidenote: Should I get the 500mb external HDD for $249? For erm, archiving purposes. =x]

Watched a few movies online over the last 3 days, and I’m gonna watch Cashback and The Bourne Ultimatum soon. :p Hiak hiak. Here are my reviews, amatuerish as ever:

1) 1408 - Nice show of a guy acting with himself most of the time. Great acting.

John Cusack stars as Mike Enslin, a famous writer renowned for disparaging paranormal events. Upon receiving a postcard with the only note, "Do not enter room 1408", he decides to leave his hometown to where his ex-wife is living, New York, and check into the notoriously haunted Dolphin Hotel.

Mike specialises in horror, but is agnostic about what he cannot see and touch. Having constructed an entire career on his ability to dispel superstition and "haunted house" rumours, he’s convinced that the afterlife is the average person’s false comfort for the weak minded.

Mike’s latest project is a book entitled "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms," and it seems that in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, this skeptical scribe may finally find evidence of the supernatural. Implored by the hotel manager (Samuel L. Jackson) not to enter room 1408, Mike defiantly procures the key and prepares to dispel yet another spectral sham.

As is the case with many of life’s most profound epiphanies, the writer who thought he knew it all is caught entirely off-guard at the precise moment he least expected it. Subsequently faced with undeniable proof of an afterlife, Mike may have a best-seller on his hands if he can simply survive until sunrise.

2) Wild Hogs - Damn funny, 4 loser-ish guys try to follow their hearts, to follow their biking dreams. They leave town, and came upon adventures they would never have seen themselves getting into.

3) The Ultimate Gift - The best things in life are not seen, not labelled with a price, not felt by anything but the inner souls and the heart. Grandfather leaves Jason with the ultimate gift [as his inheritance], which is a series of gifts that Jason can only receive upon completion of several tasks. He finds that there are other things more important than money itself.

4) John Tucker Must Die - Guy dates 3 girls from different cliques, so that they do not talk to one another and find out. One day a teacher fell ill, and truth be told, they found out John Tucker happened to be dating all of them. The girl who works at the restaurant Tucker brings these girls to, was often unnoticed. Under the supervision of these 3 girls, she transforms into someone she was not, and made Tucker fell in love with her. Can she help these 3 girls take revenge? Or lose herself in the process [forgetting who she really is]?

5) I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry - 2 best friends work together as fire fighters, always there for one another in life and near-death experiences. Widower Chuck finally gets over his grief, but realises he was too late to change the beneficiaries of his insurance claims to his 2 children. In America, there are gay laws that allow the homosexuals to get married. Having no other people he could trust more, Chuck entrusts perfectly-straight Larry with the task of taking care of his kids financially in case he loses his life to a fire-fighting session. Larry agreed, only because Chuck saved his life once, and told him he would do anything for him, in return. Both guys thought it was be a low-key thing, but ended up having to cohabit like a real pair of gay lovers to avoid being found out that the whole thing is fake. Honestly, I find the bathing scene to be the funniest, as the director over-dramatises how one of the fire-fighters slipped the bar of soap out of his hands, and refuses to pick it up. This is a flick about how far true friends would go for one another.

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