090810 - Movie Outing

Went to the movies last night, for the first time in 2009. That says a lot about the movies that have come out this year.

Even when we went to Thailand a few weeks ago, only Transformers 2 and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince were out. And we always like watching movies in Thailand.

Anyway, finally broke the 2009 duck with G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Movie was alright. Action-packed, great effects but with a few annoying characters and corny moments.

Best thing about the movie is Sienna Miller. This chick's hot!!

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Movies
Have caught up on a few movies recently. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was the only good one.

Blindness sucked. But I'm still not sure what the hell those blind rights group were complaining about. Everybody (except Julianne Moore) went blind anyway and obviously some of them were nasty but that doesn't say anything about blind people in general. Those rights groups are always kicking up a big fuss about the smallest things.

The Day The Earth Stood Still sucked too. Silly story, just some 90-minute sorry excuse of an ad for Will Smith's annoying kid. That kid would have been reason enough to kill off all humankind.

TV
Finally completed BBC's Robin Hood. Nice little series. Richard Armitage (Guy of Gisborne) and Keith Allen (Sheriff of Nottingham) steal the show. Honourable mentions to Joe Armstrong (Allan A Dale) and Harry Lloyd (Will Scarlett).



Just started watching True Blood. Not bad so far.

Fun Bit 012 - National Day idiots

News:
An article in the my paper dated 30th July 2009 about idiots who'd pay rates of $408-468 a night at Swissotel The Stamford, $780-1800 a night at Mandarin Oriental and $1000-1400 for 2 nights at Ritz-Carlton to watch the National Day parade and fireworks.

Fun:
FFS, who the hell is that damn stupid enough to spend that kind of money on this crap when a better, longer holiday in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam or even Hong Kong at better hotels can be had for even less money? I just spent 6 nights in Thailand and spent less than $1000 on the whole thing.

I find this so unbelievable I have to wonder whether idiots Long Li Yann and husband Jimmy Liew quoted in the article even exist.