caught this movie before it got cut at the local cinemas.
luckily i got complimentary tickets from dearest nuffnang for this show, or else i believe you can hear me bellow on and on as you read this post.
HMMMM this isn't exactly a lousy movie, i mean how can anything that has magic and witches and cute animals and talking toys suck. yes it is a fantastical theme but no, it didn't come through as a fantasy.
Parts of it were so slow and boring i could feel my sleep cycle setting in, while some other parts were too hastily dealt with, couldn't actually make up what happened in that scene.
Well there're still redeeming factors! the 3 witches are exceedingly beautiful women/actresses/people and they played their parts well enough. but i can't say the same for the male lead.
there were too much awkwardness and amateur-like execution, i felt myself exclaiming in disbelief several times. i can't exactly say what's wrong with it, but to summarise, it's just another american movie that doesn't make that much of an impression, or joke or story or technical brilliance.
YIPPIEDOOOOOOOOS :D
I WON TICKETS TO WATCH "WRECK-IT RALPH", THANKS TO NUFFNANG (:
thankyoudarlings!
Wreck-it Ralph revolves around the same big concept as with Toy Story -aha!- which happens that both films are from the same creators. Something about childhood, going back in time, about imagination. Things adults choose to dabble less time in, or in most cases, become oblivious to.
Toys and games all alike.
It's about a kind of life beyond living things and gains energy only when we choose to imagine them. of course with knowledge we know toys are plastics and fabrics; and video games are electrical signals of different wavelengths behind the screen that separates them and us. But above all, they are our creations and they do actually reflect what's happening in all our lives as well. quite aptly.
the different arcade games are just different circles of lives but we do cross over to other peoples' lives, intentionally or not, to help or not to.
Ralph questioned the meaning of his digital life and seeks to find it. He ended up landing in the same way of life but everything changed. Some things can't be changed but the attitude you receive will turn out in an unexpected way. Like Ralph, there needs to be a bad guy for the game to go on, but no one appreciates him until they realised his value. there can be no good without bad. and the thing about life is, shiny trophies and medals are revered by most but they are not a good summary of life in its entirety.
the downside is, big cities with big lights and pragmatism, do these sort of stuff to judge people and gives them value tags.
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That aside.
some ideas in the show are ingenious. the diet coke mountain and the mentos stalactites, the popcorn fans in Sugar Rush game, the BAD-nymous gathering, Fix-it Felix and Calhourn (Jane Lynch is A-MAZ-ING).
ideas so cute and so devilishly brilliant.
i'm sensing a sequel for this!
anyhoos, why doesn't mario appears!
the good old times was when children played around playgrounds with sand and swings. when the sun downs, little figures run home for dinner on the tables. then they shared some family tv bonding time when mediacorp was still TCS. omg am i divulging my age?!
anyways, life was simple and social back then. no ipads, iphones, tablets or any gadgety stuff.
Then, children will gather together to play gameboy or playstation after their parents get them the console after eons of pestering. they will invite friends over to play and have a ball of time.
i especially remember super mario, who doesn't rightttttt. i know, the pipes, the music, magical mushrooms, lucky star, darn FUN. on a side note, my message tone on the phone is the tune that rings when mario dies. nevermind my sidetracking~
anyway, super mario is a legendary game all on its own. i can't think of another game which is as mentionable as this. okay maybe pacman, but still, mario wins hands down, however you see it. i know i know, pacman is cute too but...mario is so exciting! i still remember the almost colourless mario running in the square screen of my gameboy. everything was greyscale but it was a whole lot of fun.
there's something about pressing the buttons on the grey toy. so addicting.
and please don't forget Luigi, Mario's twin brother. Sometimes i feel sad when people can't name the green cap person's name. why oh why, he's good too. and another thing i've been wondering, what are the 2 brothers' occupations? dressed in overalls, are they plumbers or carpenters? with the white gloves, they really look fit for either, no?
Then when it was playstation, i was obsessed with Bomberman. i would run home after school to play with my brother, attempting to bomb the other character into a charred mass.
WOOHOO.
and we would snatch for the egg when it was revealed under the bricks because we had to. had to ride on the fluffy big creature with floppy ears. OMG so cute.
Apparently the ignorant me only knew this cute thing's name as i type this sentence. louie is the name he/she goes by. i recalled i referred to louie as mewmew when i was young..-er.
and i still think mewmew is a more suitable name.
so actually sharing all these just brings me to my main point here. there's a movie which features game characters as its main cast, by disney! and it looks interesting, i'd wanted to catch it when i saw the trailer that day i watched "rise of the guardians".
i mean, can you imagine, these characters that we created for entertaining us, taking on a life and mind of their own? and the bad guy is forced to be the bad guy, when he is actually, not so bad at all. it's totally cool if you think about it, the game characters clocking out after the arcade closes, having breaks, maintenance, interacting with one another. it's another world inside. they are essentially like us but forced to take on roles we make them to.
hmm. maybe it's what our world is like too.
omg let me watch this movie and i'll tell more after!
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and just watch the trailer below if you haven't already!
