Movie Marathon
Jay and I broke our previous movie marathon record on Thursday; the record now stands at four movies in a row. The show times are so tightly packed that we practically have to run from theatre to theatre, and still miss the first 15 minutes of two movies.
Big Fish
Edward Bloom, the lead character in Big Fish, reminds me of my own father who is a great storyteller himself. But unlike Bloom’s son Will, it doesn’t matter whether my father was telling the whole truth or he spiced the stories up to make them more interesting; my sisters and I were certainly kept entertained by him recounting his adventures when we were young. To me, my father is just like the giant Karl: he is larger than life.
You Got Served
The dance sequences in You Got Served were amazing, especially for the last dance battle between the two rival crews. I’m not sure whether You Got Served will be shown in Singapore, but its trailer is definitely worth a look. The plot is predictable, and the acting is mediocre at best.
The director could’ve deleted all the redundant scenes away and make You Got Served into a brilliant hip-hop dance video, but it wouldn’t make as much money as a feature-length film. At the end of the day, profits still matters most to the movie studios.
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect tells a story about a guy who has the ability to change the past; but things usually turn out worse than before whenever he tries to alter an event in the past. Interestingly, the movie borrows its name from a key component of Chaos Theory.
The Butterfly Effect is used to describe the phenomenon discovered by Edward Lorenz, which would come to rock the scientific world: Some systems are so complex, even making the smallest change can lead to practically unpredictable results or chaos. Its poetic name came from the title of Lorenz’s talk at the December 1972 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC: Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?
Would you like to have the ability to change the past? I wouldn’t advise you to take your chances at correcting a past wrong. Trillions of events had to occur exactly the way it did for you to have been conceived, otherwise you wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t want to lose a good friend like you.
The Perfect Score
The Perfect Score is your usual teen flick complete with high school stereotypes, but this time it’s a group of high school kids trying to steal the SAT answers. Flimsy plot combine with bad acting make a lethal combination; don’t waste your time and money on this movie if you have better things to do.