Tropic Thunder

Get some!!!!

I have no idea where to start this review off… Let’s go with the cast, shall we? Nothing short of a star-studded cast, that’s one thing for sure. We got Kung Fu Panda, Zoolander, Iron Man and Jerry Maguire. Oh wait, Jerry Maguire isn’t in the movie, you say? Nah man, sure he isn’t. Just look closely. It’ll be quite a surprise. Heh heh heh…

The story itself is a joke itself but the shit these idiots do is hilarious. Initially they keep thinking that when they’re dropped into a warzone they’re all alone but only some of them realize that something kooky is going on especially when their director accidently steps onto an old French landmine left in the last war. Only Tugg Speedman (Stiller) doesn’t know that they are dealing with the Flaming Dragons, a ruthless bunch of guerilla heroin manufacturers. The rest of them split with him and turn around but eventually go into the heart of the Flaming Dragons’ base to rescue him when he gets captured. Even when they start torturing Stiller he still thinks he’s still acting. Just hilarious.

Jack Black’s character is doubly insane as he goes on the whole withdrawal symptom thing when his stash of coke gets snagged by a bat and he actually goes to chew the thing alive when it ODs on the coke. Total nasty hilarity right there! The shit he says when he’s going through withdrawal is mad! Just mad, I tell you.

Shit, I can’t say much about the movie ‘cause it’s just going to give everything away.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating: 4/5 – If it wasn’t for the damn Malaysian censors….

Just download it for the full effect but it is funny enough with the censors on full throttle.

Beginning Of An Adventure

64 days to go...

Now to stay injury-free, disease-free and be a good boy… And study hard, of course! Hehehhee… Peace out y’all!

Max Payne

The man with nothing to lose

“They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation point to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger and then it was all over” – Max Payne

They seriously should’ve re-enacted famous scenes from the game like this one, man. The snow whipping around the busted up rooftop and Max Payne just standing there with that silly constipated smile of his.

Instead they fucked up the story. You can count in 3 figures the amount of bullets dispensed in the movie, most being from a SWAT-like team spraying MP5s on Max Payne. A movie adaptation for Max Payne should have as much shooting as Wanted or hell, Shoot ‘Em Up! The only shooting that happens is in the last quarter of the movie.

What the fuck were these people thinking?! The body count in the game racks up to about 400 dead! There were hardly 50 guys dead in this movie! Damn, man… They messed up big time on this movie and I have no idea where to begin. They left out the whole mob war between Angelo Punchinello and Vladimir, the bank robbery at Roscoe Street Station where everything started, the creepy cult part where Lupino is and what the fuck was with the whole black angels thing, man?! Where're the Finitos? Where's Vinnie?! All those guys that I shot so much back in the day... *sigh*

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 1.5/5 – I’m just biased ‘cause I loved that game, man.

They took everything that made the game great away, man. Fuck these bastards. Only thing that I could deal with was the muttering part that Max does best. Mark Wahlberg pulled that one off nicely. Other than that, nothing. Peace out y’all.

That Last One

Phew, I can’t believe we’re up to that damned final assignment of the semester, and the year, for that matter! It’s the Marketing Research one and we need to compile the final report. It has a word limit of 3000 words and is a group assignment. Shouldn’t sound too tough but the lecturer’s a bitch so she’ll chew our ears off even if we try to ask her during consultation hours. Geez…

Anyways, good news and bad news! At the same time, actually, for the same thing. I got my offer letter to VU Melbourne! Feel happy that I made it through (assuming I pass everything in the finals, that is) and also sad that I am leaving so much behind. It feels kinda like I haven’t done enough here yet. It’s unlike leaving Ipoh where you get that, “FINALLY I’m out of this place!” feeling. Ah, whatever. Take things as they come, I guess.

Disaster Movie

This is just one of the many posters out there

At this point, I have no idea what to say about this movie. It’s a spoof of all things recent, popular and mainly centers around the theme of a disaster movie. They have fucked with High School Musical, JT, Hannah Montana, Night at the Museum, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Enchanted and of course, Step Up 2.

I hate High School Musical with a vengeance, truth be told. They should’ve made it worse for those little motherfuckers. Come to think of it, Hannah Montana too, that buck-toothed bitch. Glad to see her pinned down by a huge ass meteor.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 2.5/5 – Download it.

Watch out for those chipmunks by the way. Peace out y’all!

Fury

Some of the moves are just too damn painful to take in the head!

There’re two things for certain that you can rely on the Thais for, good horror movies and good action movies. I remember that horror movie I watched about a year ago, that was about one dead twin haunting the twin that was alive. Real creepy stuff.

Fury is basically an action film that heavily relies on its perfectly choreographed Muay Thai fight scenes. The story tells of a Thai gang lord’s daughter/lover falling in love and ending up having a baby with a Japanese senior gang member. The Thai gang lord is definitely way pissed at the Japanese dude and he goes out of the way to make life miserable for the two of them.

Eventually the mother gives birth to her child, a little girl called Zen. The story tells us that she is autistic but I think the actresses that played her from childhood to adulthood had no idea what are the implications of autism. They tried hard but it definitely doesn’t add up to the real deal. Anyways, when she grows up, she develops a real fascination for Muay Thai and kicks at a wooden pole for quite some time and does other stuff related to it. She also develops inhuman reflexes when she can catch and dodge objects thrown at her simultaneously. She does all this with the help from a childhood friend called Moom.

Her mother develops cancer when the Zen’s pretty much 20-ish years old. Moom decides to cash in on Zen’s uncanny abilities to make some cash by public shows. Eventually a gang tries to crash in on their show and Zen proceeds to knock the living daylights out of them. Pretty soon Moom discovers that they can’t make enough money to fund her mum’s chemotherapy and luckily he finds a small book that lists down all the people that owe her money from the time she was a gangster.

This is when the fun starts. The debtors start refusing and set their lackeys after Moom and Zen and she proceeds to kick the stuffing out of these punks in painful and acrobatic style. They fight in an ice breaking factory, a packaging factory then in a night meat market. The best sequence was definitely the night meat market ‘cause there were cleavers being thrown around and the way some of the guys were dispatched were just painful. The best part was Zen threw a broken rake that acted like a spear towards the head honcho of the meat market. It missed him but he backed up straight into a nail almost 3 inches into his ass. As he tried to struggle out of the nail, Zen kicks him in the stomach into the nail again.

What happens after all the ass-kicking is just important to the storyline and some awesome moves. Just go watch the damn thing, people!

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 4/5 – The Thai language sounds so annoying! No offense meant. =P

Definitely worth 8/10/11 bucks. I don’t think GSC is filming out although I saw the ad there 1st, in 1 Utama. I watched the midnight show at TGV, Pyramid. Alright then, bet it’s assignment season for everyone so good luck with you work! Peace out y’all!

P.S: Had a minor accident last night on my way to Asia. Damned lady driving an old Honda Civic stopped sideways in the middle of the road right in freaking front of me! I couldn’t brake the Kelisa in time and knocked into the left side door. Dude sitting in the passenger seat looked like a deer caught in headlights. Since I was the one at the biggest risk here if the fuzz got involved, I just paid the mofo 200 bucks and settled that shit. Suheil’ll give me the cost of repairs on his car later. The metal’s scrapping the right front tyre every time I made a left.

You're Never Too Old

Nope. Age is just a state of mind. Like pain. At least that’s what the huge Mighty Duck keeps saying. Well, folks, I managed to scrounge up some cash and I went on to knock off another item in my juvenile shopping list. This time, I went again for Lego!

Bless the Danish...

I was planning to take these chicks to KLCC one day while all these dudes were at Redang/Terengganu and then buy it then but people made plans, got busy and the such. So, I waited for my mum to come on Sunday and went to KLCC after lunch with my grandma. Bless her heart, coming all the way at least twice a week to see us. Damn, that sounded so unlike me. The Toys R Us there only stocked the newer Lego Batman sets such as the Tumbler and a few other sucky vehicles that had other villains like Harley Quinn. Oh yeah, that particular set had a lousy attempt at the Batpod.

Anyways, I managed to get my hands on this, the Lego Batwing. It comes along with Joker’s helicopter too! Check this shit out…

Complete with railguns and Joker Smilex bombs



Classic Tim Burton design



See, the sucker's as large as my laptop!



Back view. It also comes with railguns and a missle launcher at the tail

My brother also bought one set. I would’ve chose it too if I was him. It’s the largest cargo plane in the Lego City series. Check it out.

Old style cargo craft



Plane crew on duty



Joker and his henchman planning some shit to go down

Pretty tight, eh? It’s a real simple set compared to my Batwing set. The nose, tail and the upper body of the plane are whole pieces, so all you have to do is put in the connectors and then snap them together. The little fellas with the car, stairs and cargo lifter are simple stuff, too. The whole set’s so simple that they don’t even offer alternative designs unlike all the rest that I’ve seen before.

Puppies!

Was around SS15 Monday afternoon and Rushdi and I stumbled into some pet store. While he was busy choosing some cat food and stuff for Kundy, I snapped a few pictures of these pair of puppies

Took some effort to rap the glass



Took more effort to get this 2nd bugger to look



Back to their nap

Funny thing about dogs is that they stop being cute when they’re older and can either get really ugly or just… normal, unless it’s one hell of a dog. Cats are cute when they’re small, as always. Still kinda cute when they’re like teenagers and just elegant when they’re older. Either that or they’re ugly from birth. At least they’re honest, in some sense. Hahahahha…

Alright then, I guess that’s it. Got some major assignment ass to get kicking. Wish me luck! Peace out y’all!

I Know Who Fucked Me

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Damn, that movie was more than just a waste of time, it was horrible in every aspect, it creeped the fuck out of me, it was messy and it had the cheesiest soundtrack that I can remember.

To relieve you of your curiosity towards the movie’s plot, I will give you enough. First of all, Lindsay Lohan goes back to basics and redoes her twin act! She plays exotic dancer (and possibly hooker) Dakota Moss and also good girl Audrey Fleming. They are twins separated at birth and they have a rare paranormal condition called stigmata. Or something like that. It basically means that they can somehow peer into each other’s lives if they concentrate hard enough and share the same pain if one endures it.

Basically the thing here is that Audrey is kidnapped by some psychopath who is actually her piano teacher. This guy is sick and so is the director. They had bleeped out every swear word save for 2 “fucks”. Anyways, this guy had kidnapped beautiful girls, roughly late teens or early 20s and then he amputates them. However, he can’t finish the job and he always leaves them for dead some where. The amputation part is nothing short of sick and twisted and it’s not in the way that we get impressed at. They didn’t censor ANY of that sick shit.

Anyways, Audrey gets kidnapped by this dude, gets her hand clamped with a huge block of dried ice, gets frostbite, and then he amputates her without anesthetic and she’s wide awake and fully aware of what’s happening. Meanwhile, Dakota’s limbs start falling out as well. The scenes are all jumbled up like while editing the sequence of the scenes, they used a bingo machine to determine which scene comes next. A task force is set up for the search of the psycho and Audrey and then some woman discovers Dakota near Audrey’s hometown so she gets transported there. She gets mistaken as Audrey and the cops and her parents think she has post-traumatic stress.

Fuck, this story is fucked up. I’ll just spare you guys and skip to the ending. Dakota finds Audrey and they both lie together in a graveyard with identical missing limbs. Oh, they lose their right hand and right leg. Not the whole leg, just whatever is below the knee. Oh, and Dakota gets robotic prosthetics. Quite crucial in killing that psycho piano teacher. Oh, and the freakiest shit I’ve seen is when Dakota has sex with Audrey’s boyfriend. Damn man… that’s some nasty ass shit.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 1/5 – Just because Lindsay Lohan was stripping in the beginning.

Mother of god... I’ve seen bad post-summer movies but this is the worst one to date. Don’t bother downloading, don’t bother wondering, just fuck that shit and wait for Disaster Movie, which should be coming before anything like Quarantine, Max Payne and Tropic Thunder. Peace out y’all!

There Are No Sides

Note: This post does not target any specific religion nor does it intend to diss religion. It is a casual and personal observation and interpretation of religious issues and contexts.

People look for answers in what’s available to them, and when they’re particularly desperate, they latch on to the closest answer available. It may make them wrong, but not necessarily evil. – Alan Eppes, Numb3rs

I particularly enjoyed this episode of Numb3rs (Season 4, Episode 16, for those interested) ‘cause they dealt with a Christian association with a cult status. I do love cult busts, especially Christian ones. The way that they quote the Bible and sometimes twist it to suit their own agendas is just hilarious. I seriously should go to one of their sermons to just get a good laugh.

But I digress. What Charlie’s dad said about the struggle for answers that particularly deal with faith just struck a chord with me. I’ve had plenty of these moments where I’ve constructed interesting observations and the kind about religion but I have never been able to write it out in words. Perhaps this time I can get my point across. Anyways, the chord that it struck has led me again to my own decisions regarding the placement of my TRUST, not faith. However, I put my need to discover, learn and understand over the placement of my trust. What I want to share today is how you can find the answers that you need and not blindly embrace something and call it “having faith” in it..

I want to extend a bit on what Mr. Eppes said and go on to say that when people do latch on to those alleged closest answers and also putting aside that desperation bit, I am glad for them for finding something to hold on to, as intangible and unfounded as it is. That last statement would lead back to my personal definition of faith – trusting in something that is intangible, unfounded and has no grounding to prove that it is worth trusting. Basically, I would say that faith is a kind of blind reliance.

As I have mentioned before in several posts before this, I have decided not to pick sides… because there are no sides, only different observations and methods of man attempting to understand and communicate with the world that man lives in. Not only have I not decided to pick sides, I have decided that I shall, one day, hopefully, experience and truly learn all that I can of these observations and methods and then from that, find the right questions to ask and the answers to it.

The “how” here is pretty simple. Never be content with what you know. Do not believe/trust/have faith in anything until you’re damn sure you’ve learnt and experienced everything that is necessary in regards to the religion.

Pretty simple, ain’t it? I doubt it. The method may be easy but the application may be the death of you.

If this all really makes no sense to you, feel free to go ahead and holla at me through the chatbox or MSN, for those that have me on their list, that is. That’s all for one morning. Peace out y’all.

Raya Holidays!

Eid Mubarak and a Selamat Hari Raya to everyone! This year’s Eid is going to have a little twist! Everyone’s up for a trip to the East Side! From what we all perceive, the east side is fucked up because of well, Malaysians damn well know why and those of you that are unaware, just ask any other Malaysian.

Anyways, initially it was a plan to Pulau Tioman and crap. Sounds pretty amazing and shit, eh? Plans didn’t settle to the state that we wanted to and then it got changed. Instead of Tioman, now these guys wanna go to Terengganu… East side… and foreigners that can’t speak Malay… I just hope that whatever perceptions that us west side Malaysians have about the east side Malaysians are going to be proved wrong when these guys get there.

Anyways, whatever the case is, everyone else is going and I’ve decided to sit this one out for personal reasons. Don’t ask, please.

When these guys were all praying at the mosque, I needed to go to CIMB to withdraw for the day. I passed by Mohamed’s, a mamak restaurant that would deliver anytime of the day every day of the year, except on Eid, and that was like, “woah” when I took this picture.

Shit man... It's like... the end of the world, dude!

I actually forgot to get someone their gift and then in the end managed to get it last minute via Jaafar’s delivery. Hahahaha… Yeah, odd, I know, but whatever, dude. Anyways, Eid morning came and went with the usual wishing and stuff. Piumi made everyone breakfast that morning. It consisted of some kind of rice with coconut milk which sounds a hell lot like how nasi lemak should be, some chilli onions (which they all asked me to eat, thus increasing my suspicion that it was lethal), some potato dish and chicken curry. Damn, the chicken curry was nice. Heh heh heh... So was the faludda! Choiy~ I got one huge bottle in my fringe like, right now! Fuck, the uh, dessert was a sort of egg custard which is FUCKING amazing. Yeah~!

Well, before any chow down happened, I had to distribute my Eid gifts to all these dudes first! Funny thing was that Piumi made me buy the red wrapping paper only whereas I wanted red and blue. So, all the presents were wrapped like a Christmas present sans the ribbon. Funnily enough, the random shirt I wore this morning was red. Hahahaha… They had to make Santa jokes…

Rahul just woke up and came to chow down



Halfway through the breakfast session
 

Couldn’t get more shots ‘cause everyone was definitely having way too much fun! After Piumi’s breakfast, we had a li’l siesta and then it was off to the 4th floor to Ashik’s (did I spell that right?) for Eid lunch. The spread was pretty decent, huge pot of chicken briyani, some uh, cutlets, I think, some veges, drinks, dessert and some sort of gravy. Yeah, it’s during these festivities I decide not to freaking care what the hell I get served… As long as it tastes edible and is amazing, hell fucking yeah. There WAS this one particular hot chick over there in a brown dress. Fuck… She looked freakin’ tight, man!

We bounced from Ashik’s place right after we were done and then me, Rahul, Rushdi, Taqi and Shradda went to 1 Utama to chill a bit, seeing as it is Eid! Couldn’t get a damned cab ‘cause they were all too afraid to run into cops seeing 5 people in a cab. Fortunately, one of those huge premium taxis rolled by and dropped some people off at Lagoonview and I took the chance to ask him to take us to 1 Utama. Charged us a decent price of 25 bucks seeing as there were 5 people already. He was even nice enough to give us his number and shit.

Once we were there, Shradda wanted to go get something to eat. She and Rushdi went to Thai Nudle whatsis place while the rest of us went to Burger King ‘cause Rahul wanted to eat there and me and Taqi had bought Cinnabon and we thought that BK would give less of a fuck about outside food than Thai whasisface. The stuff that we talked about at BK was just hilarious, man. Real X-rated shit that I think that is best left to the reader’s imagination.

It's a rogue software! Or is it?

We went for the 7 pm show of Eagle Eye at the GSC there… It was an entertaining movie, download it. Not worth the petrol, popcorn and ticket to watch it.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating: 3.4 outta 5.

It just features Shia doing what he did best in Transformers – running like a motherfucker. No uber hot chick this time to accompany him like Transformers and Disturbia.

Alrighty then, I’m going to have my breakfast and these guys are still waiting for their ride to Terengganu which is approximately late by an hour and a half right now. Eid Mubarak once again and happy holidays! Peace out y’all!

P.S: I don't give a FUCK about work this week, so if you got any ideas about asking, save it.