Movies

I have always been a sucker for martial arts movies. And the movie, The Forbidden Kingdom, comes as a nice watch. Even though not at the league of, Enter The Dragon, it does have good entertainment value.

The story is pretty straightforward, of a Traveler moving between from Earth's dimension to one where the lore of Monkey King exists.

Monkey King had been trapped as a stone statue due to deceit of the Jade warlord, and the only way it can be reversed is when the prophecy of the traveler returning his staff is fulfilled.

The cast has Jakie Chan and Jet Li as the Drunk Immortal and the Silent Monk, with the others filling into their roles nicely.

This falls under the 'must watch once' category, and is also worth getting the DVD for your collection - so you can watch it again on occasions.

Yesterday I watched Dr. Suess' Horton Hears a Who. A nice, 3d animated movie. It was worth the money.

I especially liked the characterizations, the environmental designs of the jungle and the Whoville. But sometimes I felt like they had put fur on everything because they had gotten so good at rendering fur.

This movie almost comes in the league of the Ice Age series. I say, it almost comes, because given a choice I would watch one of the Ice Age movies instead of Horton Hears a Who.

The movie is about an elephant that can hear the voices of the mayor of Whoville, which is a world on a speck. This gets him into lot of trouble, when he tries to find a safe place for the speck.

Bottomline: Watch the movie at least once.

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

About a week back or so, I happened to stumble into a theater and watch Cloverfield. A must watch by my standards, if you are in the camp who like sci-fi movies. The documentary/amatuer camera approach gives it a Blair Witch effect.

If you have trouble with your eye, or your stomach throws up when you watch shacky video, I would suggest you avoid this movie. The full length is about people running from one danger or other, and the camera capturing their experience.