Sunday, March 13, 2011

hang out with wawa,iqha and dyna..

after class,.hari khamis,.

kteorang g wangsa walk..

frist ieyra and k.wa smpai dlu..

then kami gossip2..

pkul 2 bru iqha and dyna smpai..

then kani trus g kt movie nk tgok crte pkul bpe..

then kami tgok crite 127hours..

after that kami g mkn dulu kt TGI FRIDAY...

lepas da kenyang kami naek atas nak tgok movie lhaa..

yeah..

“At War With A Rock”

It would appear that Danny Boyle is incapable of doing anything on a small scale. His attempt to make an action movie where the hero can’t move has resulted in a loud, brash, punk-rock film about a solo rock climber who gets stuck in an isolated canyon with no hope of rescue. This is the true story of Aron Ralston who, after being trapped for 127 hours, had to amputate his own arm with a dull pocket knife in order to escape.

James Franco plays Ralston and it’s the best performance of Franco’s career. In fact, much of the cast and crew on this film deliver top quality stuff. That’s why it’s incredibly disappointing to see how director Boyle has let everyone down in the way he has chosen to assemble all this great work in the post-production process. Boyle employs an annoying split-screen effect that makes the film look like one of those forgettable psychedelic party movies from the 1960s. His choice of music and ear-splitting sound effects seems at odds with the environment this story is set in.

Everyone has gone to such great lengths to re-create the authenticity of Ralston’s ordeal. But I doubt there was this much noise associated with the real events.

“127 Hours” is at a disadvantage coming so soon after “Buried”. Here’s a groundbreaking film in which our hero, the only person in the movie, finds himself trapped in a casket buried somewhere in a desert. The entire movie takes place inside a box. The actor is Ryan Reynolds and he has only a cell phone with him for contact with the outside world. Therefore, the mystery of why he is there and how he must escape is entirely dialogue-driven. If only Ralston had a cell phone with him, Danny Boyle might have had an easier time with this movie.

Instead, Boyle constantly removes us from the core of his story with unneeded flashbacks, hallucinations and premonitions, with no way of knowing which is which. Characters appear and disappear without introduction or purpose. There’s a scene with a massive orgy of naked bodies piled into a small car during a snowstorm which is completely inexplicable. CGI helps a rainstorm look more like a nuclear explosion. A story that should have served a film experiment in minimalism is instead steeped in excess.

DVD Double Feature:

Ralston’s story of survival is quite fascinating. But it should have been made as a documentary. 2003’s “Touching The Void” comes to mind as a great example of a documentary about mountain climbing and survival in the wilderness against all odds. It’s the harrowing true tale of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates who climbed the 21,000 foot Siula Grande. But when Simpson shatters his leg in a fall, getting back down the mountain is the tricky part. This is an extraordinary documentary about how they did it.