Some nice movies I watched recently
I watched a few movies lately, some of them are really nice, some of them I don’t even know what’s the movie about. I’ll just discuss those which I think is really nice.
I’ll start with Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This is one of the best comedy I’ve watched recently. It’s from the producer Judd Apatow, who also produced other comedies like The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Superbad (I quite like these 3 movies as well, super funny :D). It seems that the comedies he produced have really high quality, and isn’t like those meaningless comedy recently with a really stupid plot. Back to the movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about this guy who’s trying to forget about her ex, Sarah Marshall (performed by the hot lightning girl in Heroes Season 2, Kristen Bell). While going for holiday after their breakup, both of them unexpectedly met up at a Hawaii resort, and thus begins the story. As usual, there are certain scenes which I can’t stop laughing and absolutely love em. The movie kinda advices us not to hold too tight on a relationship when it’s long gone. Highly recommended for anyone especially comedy lovers.
The second movie is a really old one, 12 Angry Men, filmed in 1957, having the same age as our beloved country, yay. Movie lovers should need no introduction to this film. It’s a classic , a real classic, ranking #10 in IMDb top 250 explains it all. The film is notable for its use of almost one set throughout the whole film, 99% of the film takes place in one single jury room. The story is simple, a jury member tries to persuade the other 11 members to acquit the suspect on trial on the basis of reasonable doubt. The story is really nice that I just couldn’t press the STOP button. I love their dialogues especially during the argument scenes. The jury’s method of slowly digging into small little things reveal more and more possible mistakes in the trial is really impressive. It doesn’t have heavy action nor does it have any impressive graphics, but it has an excellent plot, which should be the core element of a movie, instead of some fancy computer generated graphics or some lame action scenes.

The third movie is The Machinist. I watched it because it has a decent 7.8 rating in IMDb and features the super duper thin version of the buffy Christian Bale I saw in Batman Begins. The following is quoted from Wikipedia:
Christian Bale starved himself for over 4 months prior to filming, as his character needed to look drastically thin. Allegedly his eating consisted of one cup of coffee and an apple (or a can of tuna) each day (approximately 275 calories). According to the DVD commentary, he lost 62 pounds (28 kg), reducing his body weight to 120 pounds (54.4 kg). Bale wanted to go down to 100 pounds (45.3 kg) but the filmmakers would not let him due to health concerns. He later regained the weight, plus an additional 40 pounds (18 kg) due to weightlifting, in preparation for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins.

The plot revolves around a machinist who has insomnia and hasn’t slept for a year. This causes him to be so terribly thin, like a skeleton covered in skins. A series of incidents cause him to question his sanity. I enjoy the movie’s mysterious stoyline, you just can’t stop watching the movie to know how the story ends. The ending, of course was a surprising one and did not disappoint me. I like Christian Bale even more now, willing to starve himself for 4 months just for a movie. He is a really good example of a professional actor, doing anything possible to portray the character as close as needed. Highly recommended!!
The next and last movie I’m gonna mention here is this new movie from Singapore, Money No Enough 2. It’s a sequel to the successful Money No Enough 10 years ago, and I think is still showing in cinema now. The core actors remain the same, adding other new supporting characters as well. I really enjoy the movie, laugh like mad in the cinema. I like the story about inflation, where prices of goods are increasing but our income has never increased, which is happening to Malaysia right now and our government seems to be ignorant about it. Add a bit of comedy, family issues, and some Singapore society problems, that’s roughly all about the movie. Recommended for people who knows Mandarin and Hokkien. I myself don’t know how to speak Hokkien even though I am a Hokkien, so there are quite some parts I have to refer to subtitles.
That’s all. Hope you guys read this!




