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read between the lines
outdated world news i have free time to spare on my hands, and i don't feel like sleeping just yet, so i've decided to put up some old news i wanted to put up some time ago but never found the time to or just plain forgot about.1. yet another unfortunate victim to the sweeping trend of bastardisation that good-looking men worldwide have succumbed to. (see ballack's pre-botak look here.) previous followers have included matt damon, brad pitt, leonardo dicaprio, george clooney and...just look around at your local community. my personal belief is that they get chased by too many women that they have to bastardise their looks a bit to attract less attention. he (ballack) still looks quite hot though. the lip/ tongue action never quite left him, thankfully. (photo credits: sports network) 2.  the real guy who inspired nacho libre. and no, unlike the movie, the real Fray Tormenta (as he is called) wins more times than he loses, and is a serious inspiration to his children in the orphanage which he literally wrestled to get donations for.the movie was pretty funny, even though most people didn't quite get that kind of comedy. (if you were one of our rare locals who appreciated the movie napoleon dynamite, which made jon heder totally rock by the way, you'd probably appreciate this.) the following lyrics come to mind everytime i remember the movie: "i tink i yam, i tink i yam, a reel reeligious mann." hahaha. (photo credits: the star) 3.  despite its cliche title and tacky UK-released poster, the prestige is actually a smart movie, one of those rare ones you'd wanna shelf up next to the matrix and the truman show. (i found out online that the US-released posters are so much cooler and way more attention-grabbing.)the only reason i went for the movie, without knowing anything about the above comments i made about the poster, was because it had the dashing and charming hugh jackman in it, and i even waited a few weeks for the ticket sales to go down because i thought it would just be the usual crap that movies these days are made of: forgettable plotline, predictable ending. but i came out feeling i had gotten way more worth out of my rm7 ticket than just eye candy. this movie actually makes you think, long after the movie has ended, about who actually did what, how they managed to do that and other stimulating questions. i won't go into a rave about the whole movie here, but basically it's a very sophisticated whodunit tale of which magician can outwit the other, back in the days before photoshop and television existed. what makes this movie so engaging is the fact that it has so many twists, right till the very end. just when i thought i'd guessed the ending and that was it, a twist to the story came round the bend. and if that wasn't enough, yet another twist appeared in the final 5 seconds as the camera panned away into the walls at the side. (photo credits: chud) -- yawn. okay now i feel satisfied enough to go to sleep. |
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