January 2007

got this email a while back with a long list of movies supposed to be coming out this year. let’s take a look:

• Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix
• Spider-Man 3 – must watch! 😀
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World Ends – this one also! 😀
• Underworld 3 – since the sequel is better than the first, this one should exceed expectations?
• Resident Evil: Extinction – RE, milla jovovich, what’s not to like?
• Shrek The Third – it’s shrek. nuff said.
• Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer – jessica alba hubba hubba.
• Ghost Rider – nick cage bleah.
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Ocean’s Thirteen – need to watch 12 first. 😛
• Alien vs. Predator: Survival Of The Fittest
• Dodgeball 2
• Meet the Little Focker
• The Simpsons Movie
• Wolverine – hugh jackman as wolverine. what could go wrong? oops. this one is 2008, btw.
• Mr. Bean Holiday Movie
• Under Siege 3 – this series does not help the world peace process.
• Punisher II
• X-Files 2
• Rush Hour 3 – will watch this. probably.
• Live Free Or Die Hard – yippee-ki-yay mother******!
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
• Jeeper Creepers 3
• Daredevil 2
• Butterfly Effect 2 – this came out in 06, but there’s supposed to be a series starting in 07.
• Transformers – looks to be a totally different plot. but there’s optimus prime! 😀
• National Treasure 2
• Harold and Kumar Go to Amsterdam – “Go on inside, boys, and make yourselves at home. You can rest up, get something to drink, **** my wife, whatever you want. Just don’t do anything the good lord would’nt do.” – 2008
• Austin Powers 4 – enough alreadyyyy.
• Brazilian Job – hope it doesn’t involve wax. – 2008
• Silver Surfer – the story of a metallic being who travels through space on a surf board. duh.
• Scooby-Doo 3
• True Lies 2 – arnie raises money for his constituency doing what he knows best.
• Untitled Friday The 13th Project
• Evan Almighty
• Afro Samurai – samuel l jackson as afro. hmmm..
• Splinter Cell: The Movie – see fish, shouldn’t have played all those splinter cell games when you can just watch it. 😛 – 2010
• God Of War – i hope they don’t botch this. game sequel is coming out, but no movie on imdb.
• Castlevania – they’ll probably botch this.
• Alexander The Great – wait, didn’t they already release this?
• Hairspray
• Inkheart – books been good so far. but i foresee it falling into incomplete-series-syndrome, like narnia. maybe eragon.
• Life of Pi – maybe i should read this… – 2009
• Tekken – the first movie was so bad it took em 19 years to come up with a new one. – 2009
• Halloween
• Wrong Turn 2
• Wonder Woman – i’d watch it just for the costume.
• Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time – huh… guess the skipped the original game? – 2008
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Midnight For Charlie Bone – sounds interesting: A young boy has the ability to look at photographs and hear conversations that took place when the pictures were shot. The boy uses his gift to try to unravel the mystery of a missing girl, and he has to deal with all kinds of ghastly relatives and other nasty characters who use their powers to hamper his investigation.
• Pathfinder
• I Dream Of Jeannie – 2008
• Green Hornet – 2006
• Adventures in Babysitting – 2008
• He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe – no she-ra? – 2008
• Cinderella III
• Alvin And The Chipmunks – humans with CG’ed teeth? or chipmunks with CG’ed faces?
• Elf 2
• Golden Compass – another book turned movie. a good book. hopefully a good movie. nicole kidman y0!
• Beowulf
• 28 Weeks Later – i love zombie movies! don’t you?
• Sin City 2 – if it’s anything like the book, or the first movie, i’m in! no alba on the roll though. :O
• Battle for Fallujah – 2008
• Guardians Of Ga’Hoole
• Outlander
• Shutter – with no jap horror movies left to rip off, US directors turn to thailand.
• Population 436 – sounds cool: The psychological thriller concerns an idyllic town whose population of 436 has remained unchanged for 100 years. Sent out to find the reason for this consistency, a census-taker (Jeremy Sisto) finds that something much more sinister may be at hand.
• 10,000 B.C. – 2008
• American McGee’s Alice
• Confederacy Of Dunces
• Young Hannibal – eats puppies and kittens?
• Magnum, P.I. – no mustache, no go.
• Xanth: A Spell for Chameleon
• Hot Fuzz
• The Hills Have Eyes 2
• Turistas – 2006
• Death Race 3000 – centers on an ultra violent, no-holds-barred race with heavily armed Escalades, Ferraris and Aston Martins. i like. – 2008
• Blades Of Glory
• Carmen Sandiego – didn’t play the game. but this makes me want to. 😛
• Alice in Wonderland
• Last Legion
• Cirque du Freak – another book.
• Hostel: Part II – chop chop. again.
• Emily The Strange – 2008
• Giver – plot sounds good.
• Steppin’
• Where’s Waldo?
• 30 Days Of Night
• Gangsta M.D.
• White Noise 2: The Light
• Solstice – 2006
• My Blueberry Nights
• Pac-Man – …
• Goonies 2 – time to watch the first. 😛 wait, and the second as well!
• Black Snake Moan – about a white nympho and a black blues man. not sure exactly how he’s supposed to cure her. – 2006
• December Boys – 2006
• Fahrenheit 451 – not related to the documentary of the almost same name.
• Guilty Pleasure
• Chapter 27
• The Namesake – 2006

so many movies. yet i’ll probably only get to watch 10%, leaving the rest for later. a lot of headturning titles but.. will the directors deliver? and it’s usually the title that misrepresents the quality of the show. book adaptations (comics too) have a high botch percentage. game adaptations are even worse. best bets are usually those movies that you’ve never heard of before. otherwise you go in with a certain expectation and then the movies don’t meet it.

This is the official statement of Bloggers United. This statement is jointly drafted by Susan Loone and Sheih of Kickdefella. All those who believe in justice and right to free speech, please sign on and put this up in your blogs. Spread it around; let it grow far and wide. The fight is on! See also Susan Loone.

BLOGGERS UNITED CONDEMN ACTION AGAINST ROCKY & JEFF & DEMAND LEVEL PLAYING FIELD in ALL ACTION AGAINST BLOGGERS

We, Malaysian bloggers, we, who believe in justice and right to free speech, we, who endorse the Bloggers United movement, unanimously condemn the action taken by media conglomerate NST against bloggers Rocky Bru and Jeff Ooi. The action by the newspaper against the duo is an action against all bloggers who believe in their right to free speech, freedom of expression and justice.

The recent event may seem like a grave development in the path of bloggers, but it can never and must never impede or stop us from defending our right to speak, to express, to write and to tell the truth, to be the watchdog, eyes and ears of the people, or simply to share our view, and give fair comment on any subject which involves and affects us as humans, as rightful citizens of this country.

The recent event may very well give the government owned media the opportunity to dictate the so-called ‘truth” but such actions only prove that bloggers must unite, continue to uphold the right to free speech and freedom of expression, fight for justice, even if it is not our own, be more alert, committed to the cause of free speech, relentless and persistence in the face of such persecution like the one which had befallen on the two of us.

What YOU do to any of US, is what YOU do to ALL.

As responsible bloggers, we demand and claim our space on the blogosphere for free and fair comment, where important national issues and prominent personalities are discussed.

Although it may seem as if the NSTP defamation suits will have a chilling effect on freedom of bloggers, as litigation can be expensive and may jeorpadise a blogger’s economic position, we will not be cowed or silenced by those who have no regard for free speech.

If you find our post offensive, you may refute us with correct facts and figures and fair comment, in the spirit of free speech.

The first two cases will have grave impact not only on the internet, but country as a whole as the country celebrates VMY2007. The healthy, mature and democratic growth for free speech and expression in our midst is at stake. The reputation of the nation as it strives to promote our multimedia supercorridor and love for IT will be a national joke for all the world to feast on.

We demand for a level playing field in all action meted out to bloggers and in particular in the defamation proceedings particularly in terms of financial resources and capabilities, and secondly, that the legal rights of bloggers et al are properly protected in keeping with the imperatives of an information society and knowledge economy which Malaysia aspires to become.

For further information, please contact blogger susan loone at susanloone@gmail.com and sheih at kickdefella@yahoo.com

– taken from kickdefella.wordpress.com. altho i rarely rant on national issues and prominent figures (‘cept the hot ones), this may be the start of something that’ll affect all malaysian bloggers in the long run. but anyhow, everyone is entitled to judicial process, including NSTP.