Movies At Our Second Home

We'd took the day off to get a few things done today, and since we were going to have dinner at 1U we thought to ourselves, it's been a while since we spent quality time at our second home (we've been spending loads of time at our third home, Curve). So yeah, we parked the car at Eneos for servicing and prowled the corridors as we once used to.

MPH proved to be evil - now that our MPH Card has expired, they'd gone and put up the lot of Agatha Christie books for sale at 15% off for MRC members while non-members have to make other purchases of a minimum of RM10 to be eligible for the discount. Gah. Don't need it. Don't need it. Don't need it...

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We're now 1 book closer to completing the Jane Marple set - gotten us A Caribbean Mystery. Got 2 more greenback Penguin Classics to get the bloody 15% - The Importance of Being Ernest and Frankenstein. Just our luck they didn't have Wuthering Heights (we've been recommended that as a follow-up to Pride and Prejudice). Gah MPH be evil.

Oh yes, been breaking out the popcorn (Twisties, actually) as the summer brings in the slew of movies. Shrek 3 was good although not as satisfying as Shrek 2, but we guess that's because there wasn't much to parody about this time. Minor things we caught: the mural behind Shrek and Fiona when they were dressed in full royal togs featured an ogre as well; and Prince Charming used Danse Macabre as a song for his musical :s It was still funny, but not as funny as it used to be - we couldn't really pinpoint any particular 'highlight' joke (like Puss' cat-eye act from 2). And we thought Artie looked more like Doogie Houser than Justin Timberlake. Although you can never go wrong with Shrek :D

We broke our code of 'not watching anything with Nicolas Cage' for the fact that the movie was based on a Philip K. Dick novel (The Golden Man) and the premise of the story looked good. Next showed off Chris Johnson's ability to see 2 minutes into the future to good effect, but the ending felt...well, somewhat to the same effect as how Sunshine made us feel. Good buildup and then a twist to leave us hanging. Not memorable...except that during our first screening, there was a power failure throughout 1U, sometime 3ish to near 4ish.

Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End. Now this is, so far, the movie of the summer. Has Johnny Depp ever failed us? Spider-Man 3, move over. It even had more laughs than Shrek 3. The only thing about the whole Pirates series is that in order to fully understand what's going on is to rewatch the earlier movies or be left wondering "Who's Captain Barbossa?" or "Who's that soldier in love with Elizabeth?" kinda thing. Also, the other pirate lords were really quite calefair characters, but it allowed for the focus to be where it is - on Cap'n Jack, Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa and Davey Jones. The final battle - very nice - although interestingly enough when Liz and Jack was rescued from the ocean they were very dry looking :s didn't they just fell into the ocean?

Pirates really put us in mind of Pride and Prejudice though - everytime we look at Tom Hollander all we can see is Mr Collins :s and Keira Knightley as Elizabeth. Prolly need to get that out of our system.

Oh. Take note. Shrek 3 we sat for quite a bit during the credits - even after the bit where the subs go 'Sarikata drpd...' and Puss waving goodbye. Then we gave up. STAY BACK FOR PIRATES. DON'T LEAVE.

Wild Hogs isn't gonna be memorable and so we shan't comment (although trying to remember what Dudley said that his Mac misinterpreted to 'Alternative Sex' tho'), and while Blades of Glory might look good we were told it isn't as funny as Wild Hogs. Waiting on Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Transformers and Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (oh, hopefully the movie's better than the book) now.

Trailers that got us excited? Neil Gaiman's Stardust. And to think we just picked up the book at the just-recent Times Warehouse Sale. Fracture also looks intriguing - Anthony Hopkins at it again.

Now we've got the Sony Ericsson W880i jingle in our head, 'Want You To Know' by Freelance Hellraiser.

Want you to know, you make me happy
Want you to know, you make me sad
Want you to know, you make me happy
You are the best thing that I ever had

Want you to know, you make me happy
Want you to know, you make me happy