The City Never Sleeps

After 3 months of separation from Qunetin Tarantino's Death Proof, Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror has finally reached the cinemas in Singapore.

Sad to say, i didn't manage to catch the movie on time last week as i am away from Singapore in Malaysia for a holiday. Compared to Death Proof, Planet Terror has a disappointing 5 prints release here aka released in 5 cinemas, while Death Proof has 8 prints release here.

Rated R21, Planet Terror is definitely not a family friendly movie even though Children's Day is just around the corner. Compared to Rodriguez's Sin City, Planet Terror comes with more gore and violence that is unwatchable, but you will enjoy it if you could bear with it.

And this is the selling point of the movie: a beautiful go-go dancer who lost her right leg to zombies had a rifle gun to replace her lost leg. And she goes rat-tat-tat-tat-tat and kaboom to the zombies, together with the surviving human beings.

Story? about a experimental bio-weapon that was released by the military at a small town in Texas, which turns human beings into zombies. Cherry, a go-go dancer, lost her right limb to the zombies in a road accident with her boyfriend Wray. When Cherry was send to the hospital, they saw several people infected with the virus. Dakota, a lesbian doctor, was shocked to see her girlfriend torn into pieces with brains ripped out by zombies.

Soon, the virus spreads like wild fire and turns Dakota's husband, William, into a zombie. While Wray was mistakenly taken by the police for being the suspect of mutiliating Cherry, the zombies attacks the police station and together with Sheriff Hagen, Wray come to Cherry's rescue.

All surviving human beings hide themselves in a BBQ Ribs restaurant, which ends up in a big fire due to missing reel (Note: Rodriguez do this to bring the gridnhouse cinema culture to moder cinepelx, with scratchy prints, discoloured prints and missing reel, which causes a chunk of the story goes missing.) Together, they kill any zombies among the road by running them over with a truck and firing at them.

When they were captured by the military, they have to escape from the military base using a chopper. And here's where the fun begins: Cherry had a rifle attached to her right leg, and fires at zombies. And oh yes, when the base explodes, Cherry was blown off and she flies, and shoots a bomb at the zombies.

It is ridiculous, bloody disgusting, full of gore and ulitmately delicious. It might be seen as a crap, but Rodriguez has churn out a A+ trash. Compared to the recent D- Malaysian horror Zombi Kampong Pisang, which critics wonder if that is a horror or a comedy or both or neither, Planet Terror has totally beaten Planet Horror.

But Malaysian fans who are expecting Planet Terror to be released in Malaysia might be disappointed, for it might not make it to cinemas due to strict censorship ratings and favourism of Malaysian movies.

Sigh...think i would just stick to pirated DVDs if the movie fails to reach the cinemas in Malaysia.

Today is 25th Sept Tuesday. According to the Chinese Lunar Calender, today is a day that the Chinese calls for a celebration.

Mooncake Festival aka Mid Autumn is back again!

Sad to say, didn't buy much mooncake from the trip to M'sia (where i just got myself a piece of chocolate mooncake and cappuccino mooncake from a roadside stall in Changkat Kuning, the village where my grandparents lived in), so decided to get myself at least a full box of 4 pieces to avoid that yearly everlasting regret.

This is what i bought...

This is what you get inside...

3 White Lotus Paste and 1 Double Yolk White Lotus Paste.

Sigh...Didn't managed to get Season's Mooncake from Swensens, for they are sold out. But nevermind, bo hur heh arh ho. (No fish prawn also can. :P)

And this is a good news cum bad news to me regarding Ang Lee's Lust Caution.

Good News: It will be rated NC16 without cuts.

Bad News: It will be the China's edit (that is edited by Ang Lee personally) that makes it to the cinema, instead of the original US NC-17 uncut version.

Ladies and Gentlemen...

Presenting to you...the S.E.Asia's poster for Lust Caution! (GASP!)

OH MY GOD!

Couldn't imagine that such a sub-standard design poster was created for S.E Asia, instead of the poster used in US or Taiwan. Doesn't look like Ang's erotic war thriller, but more rather, a cheapo-B horror flick.

No matter how fine the Chian's edit was, i've lost part of my appetite for the film.

Zhong Qiu Jie Kuai Le!

Happy Moonie Fest!

Seems that everything that i saw recently comes in pairs.

Aunt and cousin came down to Singapore recently for a holiday. They brought us 2 boxes of mooncakes. Gosh, how sinful it was to have 2 boxes of mooncakes in a week.

Yesterday morning, catch Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2 on DVD. Double the thrill for Basic Instinct, double the frills for Basic Instinct 2. Despite being released 15 years ago, it was still thrilling to see Michael Douglas trapped into a labyrinth created by Sharon Stone. And Stone was beautiful...

13 years after Basic Instinct was released, we have Basic Instinct 2. Stone is now older, with David Morrissey as her victim. Rather than having more thrills, it was more boredom and frills that send audience falling asleep.

In the afternoon, i catch Rogue Assassin for the second time in Lido. While i told myself i would never watch a movie that has been edited for a lower rating (original rating is M18, which has been edited to NC16 to draw younger crowds) , i made an exception for Rogue Assassin. The reason(s) is because:
1. It stars Jet Li. Before his The Warlords opens in mid December this year, this is the only offer that is worth watching in theatres twice after Royston Tan's 881. (in fact, i believed there are people who catch 881 more than 3 times.)
2. I missed the first 15mins of the show when watching it in GV Marina last weekend. In fact, the whole experience in GV Marina was totally ruined. While GV had the practice of starting the movie 20mins after the stated showtime, GV Marina starts the movie punctually! And that explains why i did not get to see Singaporean actress Steph Song making an apperance in the movie. The only Asian babe that appears throughout the whole movie was the eye candy, Devon Aoki.
3. It's not that often you get Jet Li and Jason Statham kicking ass on the big screen together. Sad to say, you will be disappointed if you watch the show. You got 2 great actors that sparks no fire in the end.

At night, Ch 8 had a repeat telecast of SBC Telemovie entitled Dark Obssession. For those do knot know what the heck is SBC telemovie, this is the explanation: When the first TV station was founded in Singapore, it was known as RCS (Radio Cooperation of Singapore.) Then, it was named SBC (S'pore Brocasting Centre) before known as Mediacorp today. Telemovies are movies shot in drama series style which last less than 2 hours.

And Mediacorp has made a bad choice for making a repeat telecast of their telemovies, which shows that the standard of their telemovies was just like some B HongKong flicks made in the 90's, or some Hollywood ripped offs. Dark Obessession was a mixture of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction. Francis Ng plays a artist who takes a ah lian (Mainlander actress Xu Qing) home and wants her to dressed like her sister, so that she looks like a model he is long looking for. With several murder taking place around him, with Ng as the prime suspect, we get to see that in the end, the murderer was a lady who loves him, played by former SBC actress turned housewife Chan Hui Fen aka Zeng Hui Fen in Mandarin.

In this place, Chan has become the next Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. She kills the people around her, minus the cooking of a rabbit in Fatal. And when Ng confronts Chan, she cuts herself with a kris (a Malay dagger) on her thigh, just like Glenn Close did when confronting Michael Douglas. She was shot once by the police when she attacks Ng and Xu, and everyone though she died. However, she stands up after lying for a while, and slashes Ng. Once again, she was shot. This time round, she died.

Close slashes Douglas with a kitchen knife and Douglas had her drowned in a bathtub. It appears she died. But when she stands up from the bathtub and attemp to stabbed Douglas, she was shot dead by his wife (played by Anne Archer.)

Did i smell body double in it?

It's not a very good week from the start.

First of all, the arrest of Cpl Dave Teo due to AWOL (absent without official leave) during guard duty had cause a big storm going on in the Army. It's not very nice to let ya fellow mates suffer right?

Secondly, i am on 2 days MC for cough, flu and severe sore throat.

Ahem!

Ahem!

Ah Chooooo!!!!! (sniff sniff)

Rodney turned and looked at me, wants me to play alphabets bricks with him.

Me: Rod, i am not feeling well.
Rodney: Papa, play with me, please...
Me: Rod, papa is not feeling well. Go play with doggie k?

Rodney left with disappointment, and he was dragging his pillow on the floor.

Me: Rod, papa buy you ice cream later k?

No response from Rod.

OK, i think i've spoilt this kid. So no ice cream for him.

Talking about Rod and ice cream, Tash flashes on my mind. Now, it's been ages since i hear anything from the flying nun. Wonder if he is busy with his work, that he neglected Zambonie and the 2 English immigrants from Harrods.