Sunday, December 30, 2007

Shutter Shudders

It's funny, given all the hype (and we were very interested after seeing the trailer) we never did get to watch the romantic love comedy Shutter when it came out in 2004. Sis almost spoiled the show when she told us about it but thanks to terrible memory and distracted moments we never did hear how the show ended.

Fast forward to last week, as we celebrated Christmas with the sis by going on a movie spree, watching Warlords on Christmas Eve followed by dvd shopping and watching I Am Legend and National Treasure 2 on Christmas day itself before the family dinner at night. It's a thing for us, quality sibling time to be spent watching movies, browsing dvds and general shopping.

Anyways, while perusing the dvd shelves we finally snagged Shutter (and the japanese Ju-On 1, still can't find japanese Ju-On 2) and last night we settled down with some expectations for a good show. And we must say that we had quite a fair bit of expectations.

We must have also softened up over the years. For one thing we didn't think we would watch the show with the lights off (unless we were watching with company, bravery in numbers kinda thing). And we also had a pillow to hold at times. Egads, malu only. The imagination did wonders at making things up.

And to be honest it wasn't really scary, but they did a good job with the suspense buildup. Definitely a good Thai romantic love comedy to watch. It won't change the habits of a camwhore (or would you prefer to be called a shutter slut?) nor will you lose any sleep. Promise.

By the way, you know how in Thai romantic love comedies their spirits and death scenes have this budget look certain quality that identifies them as Thai romantic love comedies? So happens that we came back home earlier on and walked into the toilet to see this.

Tell you, we honestly had a wtf moment, wondering just what our mum was thinking (although the first term that ran across our mind was "What did the cat drag in?!"), preserving a cat dog corpse (oh we knew very well it wasn't the Wee Wog, it was too small). Upon first glance it really looks like something from a Thai show.

Then it struck us just what it was.

9 comments:

hrugaar said...

Sympathetic magic - washing the toy wog makes weal wee wog all clean and fresh one. :D

Sam said...

Isn't Shutter a horror movie? o_O

Ganymede said...

Ah now I know what that is is! Hahhaha. Scary la... :P

N.J.A.P.F. said...

OMG, before reading the comments I actually thought it was Midget in the pail! *CRINGE*

Jason said...

Shutter = romantic comedy!?
Ooo... auntie preserving cat :P

David The Man said...

The white furry thing in the pail (the last pic in your blog) isn't the real animal la. After you have told us in that last sentence, now we know what it is exactly. At first sight, it looks scary though! Anyway, it was a relief for all of us knowing that it's just the stuffed animal toy waiting to be washed, I guess!

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hrugaar said...

PS - Happy New Year. *huggles* ;)

Janvier said...

Hrugaar: Hmmm. Too bad it doesn't work the other way 'round too! Happy New Year!

Sam: Yes. It's a 'romantic love comedy'.

QR: Bumped into it without the lights on! The question was really, "Why is whateverthatis there?"

NJAPF: Thankfully we knew the thing was smaller than Wee Wog, so we could wonder what else it was. :D

Jason: Oh yes, very good romantic love comedy.

David The Man: Yep, that's right. Everybody got it.