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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Birthday

I celebrated my birthday with my wife watching 2 movies - Ghost Rider and The Holiday. Being a GSC member does have its advantages (by the way, membership is FREE). For one, I get to redeem a free movie ticket during my birthday month. Used the coupon to redeem for a free ticket for The Holiday (can't use it for Ghost Rider since it is not on the free list).

I was quite disappointed with Ghost Rider. It was not as exciting as I had hoped. Among the recent comics-to-movie adaptation, I still like Constantine and Hellboy (both are from DC's Vertigo). Superman Returns is also quite good, I guess. Can't say the same about X-Men III. I would rank it together with Ghost Rider. Nothing really memorable.

What was interesting is the Malay title for Ghost Rider - Penunggang Motosikal Hantu. I don't know why, but Malay titles and subtitles can sometimes be really funny. I guess Penunggang Motosikal Hantu is correct since it is literally translated - word for word (OK, maybe it should be just penunggang hantu). But the 'feel' just gets lost during translation. If it was up to me, I think I might just follow the footsteps of Putera UMNO which seems to idolise Mat Rempits and name the movie as:

Don't you think my title captures the 'feel'?
Speaking of Mat Rempit, if you check out the wiki entry, I think they missed out something else. Mat Rempits also pimp their girlfriend for rm5 (USD1 = rm3.6) per bonk (read that somewhere in the newspapers recently).

The Holiday was quite entertaining... I just love feel good romance movies. We should have more movies like The Holiday, Sleepless in Seattle, etc...

Each time I see Jack Black, I think of wrestling... Eeew! But he's good here. Kate is still lovely.


The other couple in The Holiday

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