Monday, September 14, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Warning: Movie spoilers ahead!
I didn't manage to do the workout today - ack, not a promising start - because I had to catch a movie in the afternoon but I promise to make up for it tomorrow by doing 2 extra sets of everything!
Anyway, I finally got around to watching Mission Impossible [5]: Rogue Nation (after what seemed like half a year's wait sobs) today and.. meh, it didn't live up to my expectations. Consider me sorely disappointed. I was really looking forward to watching it sooo much because I loved Mission Impossible [4]: Ghost Protocol to bits, especially Simon Pegg (nothing beats British humour) and Paula Patton. Unfortunately, although they replaced Patton with a (equally or less haha) ravishing Rebecca Ferguson, the movie was a pale shadow of its outstanding prequel. That said, I applaud Tom Cruise's courage and professionalism; the plane stunt and underwater sequence were sick! Does Scientology give its believers superhuman powers or something? Religion aside, Tom was basically Superman in the film?!
Dear directors, it's one thing to have your protagonist be exceptionally strong and intelligent but it's another to have him possess supernatural healing or regenerative powers! You can't have him go through a near-death drowning experience (he was dead for a minute -.- when any other mortal in the same situation would have just stayed dead.. forever) and then jump straight into a high-speed car chase which eventually ends with the car flying off a ramp, hurtling through the air and flipping 10 times on the ground. And... (drum rolls) guess what, our lead character emerges almost entirely unscathed woohoo, promptly hops onto a kickass bike and launches into another highway chase, completely possessed by a speed devil. Come on! Air bags deployed or not, you have to be at least a wee bit realistic! Apart from possible brain damage from the lack of oxygen, he must have broken a bone or two?! Sprained a finger at least?! Or suffered from giddiness??! Or should we all be rushing to the car dealers to buy a BMW now? It's virtually indestructible! -.-" I mean, the guy's human (or at least I think he is)! If your protagonist winced in pain when his knee, just his knee(!), scraped across the road whilst bike racing- oh I mean, when chasing the lady friend and taking out all the other gangsters along the way - it has gotta hurt so much more when the car did somersaults earlier right!
Oh, oh and don't forget how the female lead maintained a death grip on her pair of heels (Seriously?) as she slid down a rope, jumped out from a moving car and got bundled away by the baddie's henchmen to meet the villain himself. Speaking of whom, said villain has obviously not read the "Top 10 Dos and Don't for Movie Villains" because he ends up committing the stupidest folly ever in Villainverse. Did you not watch Batman? Superman? Antman? Or even Harry Potter (surprisingly the movie most on point bahaha)?!! Someone even gave a name to such villainous foolishness and stupidity - "Bond Villain Stupidity" - which TvTropes explains to be "a form of Genre Blindness commonly exhibited by villains.. [and which] occurs when a villain fails to kill the hero when he has him cornered, incapacitated, or otherwise defenseless, thus giving the hero a chance to escape and later come back to defeat the villain." HAHA. That makes most of us smarter than the average evil megalomaniac already so yay to us?
I know the MI series traditionally pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction but they went too far this time, to the extent that I had more than a few 'huh, reallllly?!!' moments of disbelief. It didn't help that the pacing was slow, the dialogue occasionally draggy and some scenes were very messily presented - for instance, the bike chase kept alternating between the first person and third person point of view. Fun for an arcade experience definitely, much less enjoyable for a movie experience.
Overall, I give it a 6.5/10 which means it's watchable but rather underwhelming for a MI show.
Anyway, I finally got around to watching Mission Impossible [5]: Rogue Nation (after what seemed like half a year's wait sobs) today and.. meh, it didn't live up to my expectations. Consider me sorely disappointed. I was really looking forward to watching it sooo much because I loved Mission Impossible [4]: Ghost Protocol to bits, especially Simon Pegg (nothing beats British humour) and Paula Patton. Unfortunately, although they replaced Patton with a (equally or less haha) ravishing Rebecca Ferguson, the movie was a pale shadow of its outstanding prequel. That said, I applaud Tom Cruise's courage and professionalism; the plane stunt and underwater sequence were sick! Does Scientology give its believers superhuman powers or something? Religion aside, Tom was basically Superman in the film?!
Dear directors, it's one thing to have your protagonist be exceptionally strong and intelligent but it's another to have him possess supernatural healing or regenerative powers! You can't have him go through a near-death drowning experience (he was dead for a minute -.- when any other mortal in the same situation would have just stayed dead.. forever) and then jump straight into a high-speed car chase which eventually ends with the car flying off a ramp, hurtling through the air and flipping 10 times on the ground. And... (drum rolls) guess what, our lead character emerges almost entirely unscathed woohoo, promptly hops onto a kickass bike and launches into another highway chase, completely possessed by a speed devil. Come on! Air bags deployed or not, you have to be at least a wee bit realistic! Apart from possible brain damage from the lack of oxygen, he must have broken a bone or two?! Sprained a finger at least?! Or suffered from giddiness??! Or should we all be rushing to the car dealers to buy a BMW now? It's virtually indestructible! -.-" I mean, the guy's human (or at least I think he is)! If your protagonist winced in pain when his knee, just his knee(!), scraped across the road whilst bike racing- oh I mean, when chasing the lady friend and taking out all the other gangsters along the way - it has gotta hurt so much more when the car did somersaults earlier right!
Oh, oh and don't forget how the female lead maintained a death grip on her pair of heels (Seriously?) as she slid down a rope, jumped out from a moving car and got bundled away by the baddie's henchmen to meet the villain himself. Speaking of whom, said villain has obviously not read the "Top 10 Dos and Don't for Movie Villains" because he ends up committing the stupidest folly ever in Villainverse. Did you not watch Batman? Superman? Antman? Or even Harry Potter (surprisingly the movie most on point bahaha)?!! Someone even gave a name to such villainous foolishness and stupidity - "Bond Villain Stupidity" - which TvTropes explains to be "a form of Genre Blindness commonly exhibited by villains.. [and which] occurs when a villain fails to kill the hero when he has him cornered, incapacitated, or otherwise defenseless, thus giving the hero a chance to escape and later come back to defeat the villain." HAHA. That makes most of us smarter than the average evil megalomaniac already so yay to us?
I know the MI series traditionally pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction but they went too far this time, to the extent that I had more than a few 'huh, reallllly?!!' moments of disbelief. It didn't help that the pacing was slow, the dialogue occasionally draggy and some scenes were very messily presented - for instance, the bike chase kept alternating between the first person and third person point of view. Fun for an arcade experience definitely, much less enjoyable for a movie experience.
Overall, I give it a 6.5/10 which means it's watchable but rather underwhelming for a MI show.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Huff and Puff
Gotta get into shape for the neighbour's wedding, Bounce Off (need to train for the 3km run and lots of bouncing hahah) and the sister's wedding so I've started on a simple exercise regime today! All I did was two sets of jumping jacks, cycling crunches, high-knee jumps and touch-toes shuffles each but I felt like a circus monkey already D: Hahahaha a monkey jumping about crazily at home! I couldn't do the push-up planks and mountain climbers though - don't have enough upper body strength to do the former and I kept slipping on the floor for the latter (maybe it works better with shoes on?) so I just replaced them with jumps.
We'll keep this up for the next uh, 5 months and hopefully, see some results by the time January rolls around ahahhaha (obviously no high expectations). Hahaha and if I have the time and mood (they're conjunctive haha), I'll throw in some running and badminton too! Someone, play and run with me please! Hint hint, Bunny.
Till then, have to lay off the sweets and fast food! (okay, compromise - once a week?)
The Lava short film's song and Bing Bong's tune have been stuck in my head the whole day wahhhhhh (suddenly breaks into song) "Who is the friend who likes to play? BING BONG, BING BONG!!"
"I have a DREAMMMMM~" (argh, stop that, volcano!)
I've been so sleepy and tired the entire day, I'm having a headache. Hahah does that even make sense?! A #firstworldproblem indeed. It's problematic, however, that I have no motivation for classes at all. The thought of them scare me, even. It doesn't help that I'm so disgusted by the characters of some of the facilitators (shame on you really - actually it's mainly that one douchebag's fault but.. it's not like the others are deserving of praise anyway) in the course. I detest the manner in which the course is conducted and the materials fail to engage me as well. I feel like the 6-month course is making a mockery of my 4-year university education. But that's no reason to give up and not try, isn't it? And so we trudge on with life, with the hope that tomorrow may be a better day.
We'll keep this up for the next uh, 5 months and hopefully, see some results by the time January rolls around ahahhaha (obviously no high expectations). Hahaha and if I have the time and mood (they're conjunctive haha), I'll throw in some running and badminton too! Someone, play and run with me please! Hint hint, Bunny.
Till then, have to lay off the sweets and fast food! (okay, compromise - once a week?)
The Lava short film's song and Bing Bong's tune have been stuck in my head the whole day wahhhhhh (suddenly breaks into song) "Who is the friend who likes to play? BING BONG, BING BONG!!"
"I have a DREAMMMMM~" (argh, stop that, volcano!)
I've been so sleepy and tired the entire day, I'm having a headache. Hahah does that even make sense?! A #firstworldproblem indeed. It's problematic, however, that I have no motivation for classes at all. The thought of them scare me, even. It doesn't help that I'm so disgusted by the characters of some of the facilitators (shame on you really - actually it's mainly that one douchebag's fault but.. it's not like the others are deserving of praise anyway) in the course. I detest the manner in which the course is conducted and the materials fail to engage me as well. I feel like the 6-month course is making a mockery of my 4-year university education. But that's no reason to give up and not try, isn't it? And so we trudge on with life, with the hope that tomorrow may be a better day.
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