I can be quite a doozy sometimes, and this is gonna be one of those times.
If anyone still cared about Twitter TTs, this was trending worldwide yesterday, amidst the "#stopkony"s and "Invisible Children"s.
#20songsonshuffle
I thought it'd be very annoying for my followers if I were to spam my Twitter timeline and theirs with 20 tweets all at once (thought I do that all the time, like when I'm watching a movie and during the World Cup, HOLY SHIT that was so long ago) but I'm itching to do it.
I have got 2,563 songs in my iTunes (and it's going to take a total of 6.8 hours to go through it all), ranging from rock, pop and jazz to film score pieces, Broadway rock opera and...(hahaha) opera. Goodness, I sound like a music snob.
So let's do it.
1. Avril Lavigne - Remember When (from Goodbye Lullaby)
2. Daft Punk - The Game Has Changed (from OST Tron: Legacy)
3. Coldplay - Till Kingdom Come (from X&Y)
4. Dashboard Confessional - These Bones (from The Shade of Poison Trees)
5. Acafellas - I Wanna Sex You Up (from Glee)
6. Joe Brooks - Feel the Sunshine (from Constellation Me)
7. Coldplay - Up In Flames (from Mylo Xyloto)
8. The Script - If You Ever Come Back (from Science & Faith)
9. Henry Jackman - Rise Up To Rule (from OST X-Men: First Class)
10. Glee Cast feat. Gwyneth Paltrow - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (from Glee: The Music, Vol. 5)
11. Glee Cast - We Need A Little Christmas (from Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album)
12. The Fray - 1961 (from Scars & Stories)
13. Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version) (from OST The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I)
14. HIM - Behind the Crimson Door (from Dark Light)
15. Brad Paisley feat. Steve Wariner - More Than Just This Song (from Play: The Guitar Album)
16. Avenged Sevenfold - Lost (from Avenged Sevenfold)
17. Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights (from OST Garden State)
18. Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance (from Swiss Army Romance)
19. Trivium - Inception of the End (from In Waves)
20. Reeve Carney feat. Bono & The Edge, et al. - Rise Above 1 (from OST Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark)
Well, that was fun.
I'm going to be reviewing the album where the last song from the shuffle came from, so...stay tuned (damn, that's so clichéd)!
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
"Fuck You, You Fucking Fuck": The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
First of all: Why isn't the movie shown here yet? Wait, don't answer that.
I read the books a couple of months before the movie came out in the US so I was SO excited for the movie. The first half of the book was a lot of financial mumbo-jumbo I had to read multiple times before I could actually get it but straight after that, WHOOSH. Finished all 3 books in 2 weeks. And yes, I've got the Swedish version of the movies too, I just never got around to watching them.
So...back to the movie. I just filched a mini summary off of IMDb to start things off.
Sounds simple enough. Not. The movie is, in actual fact, one hell of a roller-coaster ride with plenty of violent twists and brutal turns to churn the contents of your stomach into repulsive acid. Someone stop me before I exaggerate even more.
The movie is about 2 hours and 38 minutes long and I think it's wonderfully paced (I don't know about non-readers, but hey, David Fincher did not read them either and HE MADE THE FRICKIN' MOVIE). I mean, yeah, it got a little confusing when (SPOILER ALERT) Mikael and Lisbeth started rattling off the Leviticus verses and their corresponding murders (SPOILER END) but other than that, I had no problems with keeping up with the plot.
The film's opening sequence, an abstract tar-and-ooze 3-D animation of sorts, was amazing; beautifully haunting yet bizarrely brutal at the same time, thanks in part to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' version of 'The Immigrant Song'. The soundtrack is amazing, as anyone would expect from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (they won an Oscar for Best Original Score with The Social Network). Also, did anyone notice the hornets and flying dragons amidst the sculpted melting faces? Foreshadowing, guys. AW YEAH.
Note: Someone's posted it up on YouTube here. GO SEE IT.
Daniel Craig was surprisingly...normal, I half-expected him to start shooting back when someone shot at him in the woods, and it was weirdly amusing when he began to whine about the bullet wound. Until Lisbeth decided to shut him up (weirdly good chemistry, by the way). The movie has quite a strong cast; there's Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer (Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music! That was so long ago!), Yorick van Wageningen and of course, Rooney 'thank-God-she-got-cast-as-Lisbeth-Salander' Mara.
Rooney Mara brought the character to life with a perfect balance of intelligence, insanity and the straightforward, deadpan charm that is Lisbeth Salander. And man, is she tough. I especially loved it when she beat up the guy who stole her laptop and ran off just in time to get into the train. Talk about perfect timing.
What I love about Rooney Mara is how she gave Lisbeth Salander a kind of quiet sadness behind the tough exterior. Like, when she was waiting in the hospital coz her guardian had a stroke. In the train, all curled up. When she saw Mikael and Erika hugging and shit and she threw his gift into the trash and sped away on her bike. My poor shipper heart!
The book didn't really focus a lot on the emotional aspect of things (it was a lot of technical stuff and long-winded explanations, albeit useful to the plot) and I have a one-track mind, I don't over-analyze shit, I just read 'em. Rooney Mara is Lisbeth Salander exactly as I had imagined her to be. Noomi Rapace was too tall and womanly for Salander, to be honest.
Also, I gotta give props to whoever did the editing. I'm not one for technicality and stuff but the way the scenes inter-cut (SPOILER ALERT) to and fro between Mikael and Lisbeth when it dawned upon them who the serial murderers were (SPOILER END) was really clever, okay? There wasn't much dialogue, you have to actually concentrate and focus, it doesn't make you another product of the idiot box. Also, the flashback scenes were beautifully done, especially when Blomkvist was reading through the case files.
Update: The guys who did the editing won an Oscar. =D
So, all in all, I'd probably give this movie...9 out of 10. I'm not giving it that because I loved the books and biased or anything. No, seriously, go watch it, especially if you have not read the books. It sucks when you already know what's going to happen next, coz all you do is watch it go down. So, when something shocking happens, you just go...meh. Not fun.
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| Not for the faint-hearted |
I read the books a couple of months before the movie came out in the US so I was SO excited for the movie. The first half of the book was a lot of financial mumbo-jumbo I had to read multiple times before I could actually get it but straight after that, WHOOSH. Finished all 3 books in 2 weeks. And yes, I've got the Swedish version of the movies too, I just never got around to watching them.
So...back to the movie. I just filched a mini summary off of IMDb to start things off.
"Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), a young computer hacker."
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| Sexy bespectacled Bond is sexy. |
The movie is about 2 hours and 38 minutes long and I think it's wonderfully paced (I don't know about non-readers, but hey, David Fincher did not read them either and HE MADE THE FRICKIN' MOVIE). I mean, yeah, it got a little confusing when (SPOILER ALERT) Mikael and Lisbeth started rattling off the Leviticus verses and their corresponding murders (SPOILER END) but other than that, I had no problems with keeping up with the plot.
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| Obviously, I didn't make this myself. [Source] |
Note: Someone's posted it up on YouTube here. GO SEE IT.
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| "I want you to help me catch a killer of women." |
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| "Hold still, you f***ing pussy. Stop whining." |
Rooney Mara brought the character to life with a perfect balance of intelligence, insanity and the straightforward, deadpan charm that is Lisbeth Salander. And man, is she tough. I especially loved it when she beat up the guy who stole her laptop and ran off just in time to get into the train. Talk about perfect timing.
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| It's supposed to move. But the picture's not moving! |
(MAJOR SPOILER ALERT) But no one wants to know that. Everyone wants to know what went down in the infamous rape scene and the retaliation that followed. It was brutal, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. But I really respect the guy who played Bjurman. It must be so traumatizing (I heard he locked himself in his hotel room and cried for an entire day after shooting that scene, that poor man)! The retaliation is equally horrible, okay? The tattoo...the frickin' huge dildo and when she kicked that thing into his ass, OH MY GOD...I can't even talk about it without feeling a virtual pain in those regions. Owww. (SPOILER END)
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| From this... |
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| ...to this. Um. Okay. |
Also, I gotta give props to whoever did the editing. I'm not one for technicality and stuff but the way the scenes inter-cut (SPOILER ALERT) to and fro between Mikael and Lisbeth when it dawned upon them who the serial murderers were (SPOILER END) was really clever, okay? There wasn't much dialogue, you have to actually concentrate and focus, it doesn't make you another product of the idiot box. Also, the flashback scenes were beautifully done, especially when Blomkvist was reading through the case files.
Update: The guys who did the editing won an Oscar. =D
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| Shit's about to go down. |
WATCH IT.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
Testing 1, 2, 3...?
Yup, there you go. The most epic thing anyone has ever seen in their lives.
The ultimate superhero movie that will make you shit bricks until your underwear rips.
Every Marvel fan boy's fantasy wet dream...and fan girls all over are clamouring to save their exploding ovaries.
I'm actually crying so hard inside over the sheer perfection of that little bitch called Loki, in all of his Asgardian pirate glory. It's going to be interesting to see what Thor has to go through throughout the movie, what with his brother being the bitchiest villain of all time. Seriously, Loki, what the hell is your problem? So what if Odin adopted you? You should be grateful he didn't make you a slave or something. He treated you like his own SON. Geez.
Also, Cap's readjustment to the world is going to be an emo burst of flavour, I mean, look at his depressed little form. All the people he has ever known is dead and he only has the punching bag for company.
I don't know if I can handle all of those feels in the cinema.
The movie opens in 2-D and glorious 3-D on April 27 in Malaysia and...other dates in other countries.
Yup, there you go. The most epic thing anyone has ever seen in their lives.
The ultimate superhero movie that will make you shit bricks until your underwear rips.
Every Marvel fan boy's fantasy wet dream...and fan girls all over are clamouring to save their exploding ovaries.
I'm actually crying so hard inside over the sheer perfection of that little bitch called Loki, in all of his Asgardian pirate glory. It's going to be interesting to see what Thor has to go through throughout the movie, what with his brother being the bitchiest villain of all time. Seriously, Loki, what the hell is your problem? So what if Odin adopted you? You should be grateful he didn't make you a slave or something. He treated you like his own SON. Geez.
Also, Cap's readjustment to the world is going to be an emo burst of flavour, I mean, look at his depressed little form. All the people he has ever known is dead and he only has the punching bag for company.
I don't know if I can handle all of those feels in the cinema.
The movie opens in 2-D and glorious 3-D on April 27 in Malaysia and...other dates in other countries.
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