Leverage

Been following a lot of tv shows over the years. And to tell you the truth, I stop following lots due to the show going sour, astray, repetitions etc. The show writer's strike last year might have affected and contributed to the derailment of a lot of the tv shows.

I still follow some shows like Supernatural, Hustle and few others. Heroes and Prison Break got ditched from my viewing list a long time ago (they should rename the title "Prison break" into "Prison Break Specialist".


Anyway, this March a new show is showing at my fav channel AXN and it's called Leverage. The cast line up is pretty good, featuring the likes of Timothy Hutton and a few others.


Yeah, I know that this show is like already shown last year on December on other TV networks and already pass it's first season but thing is, I need more shows on tv to kill my time while I'm working on my laptop and stuffs. Otherwise it gets boring, good tv shows are kinda rare these days.

Final thoughts. I just hope this show is not a direct copy of "Hustle", shown in BBC1 last time. We all know how Americans "like" Brits so much eh ;) and how they love to have their own version of anything good. This better be a good copy ...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Spent some time watching this movie just now. Not bad, especially when you get to see your childhood hero being turned into the big screen.

Origins explains the early history part of Wolverine, that tells us how and why he becomes the Wolverine that we love to see but don't know much about his dark past.

The story starts with James Logan aka Wolverine and his brother Victor Creed aka Sabretooth running away together as children in the mid 1850's after Logan accidentally kills their biological father who had murdered Logan's step father. After that, both of them served together in many wars and takes care of each other. If you're wondering why they don't age, it's because of their super healing abilities, most probably came with their other mutant powers.

After wandering here and there for a while, they are recruited by Major William Stryker to serve in a special military unit made up of mutants. Logan quits the special unit after the team wipes out a whole African village in search of a special metal and then goes off to live a quite life of peace in the Canadian Rockies with his school teacher girlfriend. She was actually a mutant called Silver Fox but Wolverine doesn't know that.

Wolverine and Silver Fox lives a quite live for 6 years when suddenly Major Stryker shows up in their lives and asks Logan to come back and be a part of a new project called Weapon X. Logan refuses the offer but when Creed shows up and murders her girlfriend he agrees.

Logan accepts the offer to be infused with Adamantium so that he can be indestructable and go after his revenge but is double crossed by Stryker and hears him give the order to wipe his memories. Escaping before this can happen, he goes searching for Creed killing anyone who gets in his way.

The best part in the movie would be the adamantium process. In Marvel Universe, adamantium is a special metal that cannot be destroyed in any way. Wolverine, having himself infused with it, becomes the ultimate indestructable weapon. His ability to heal himself rapidly helps a lot during the infusion process.



Sabretooth was played by Liev Schreiber, which manages to impress me with good acting and definetely good performance, to some extent even shadowing Hugh Jackman himself. His perfomance in the movie, Der Untergang aka Hitler : The rise of evil was also one of the best I've seen so far. If you haven't watched that one, you'd better. It's a good movie too.

Iron Man review

Was watching Iron Man The Movie just now. All I can tell that the movie was quite impressive, laden with special effects and gripping storyline.

For those in the dark about who is Iron Man, here is some info. Iron Man was a popular comic book character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His name was Tony Stark, head of weapons manufacturing company called Stark Industries. He was a successful businessman, dealing mainly with genius weapons designs and gadgets. He was a genius inventor, graduating top in his class at MIT and the heir to his dad's company. Both of his parent perished in a car crash.


The movie version was a bit different from the original comic version that I use to read when I was a kid. Instead of being an anti-communist and fighting Vietnamese agents (Hey, it was vietnam war back then) in the movie they changed it to pre Gulf War era. Robert Downey Jr. was given the role of Iron Man in this movie, and believe me, he's damm funny in the movie, good job there ;)

Okay okay, no no no I won't spoil the story for you guys out there. Better go watch the movie for yourself. This is one of the most anticipated movie of 2008 and it's worth your money, seriously.

I'd give it a rating of 9 out 10.

Next incoming movie review, the sequel to the Indiana Jones series ... stay tuned!

Updates

Went to Kuching last week, spent a few days there. Was shopping stuffs for my my new computers. Bought a decent intel LGA775 motherboard packed with e4500 2.2ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 gigs of Corsair memory modules (not high performance thou), 160gb hardisk (meh, I dont need that much space after all), a EN8500GT Asus 3d card and AVF computer casing. The whole setup ran good and I was satisfied with it. Got it for RM1.5k which is quite cheap already. Anyway, next month I might go to Kuching again, I have some more parts that I want to get and to settle some unfinished business.

While I was there, Hitman the movie was showing at the cinema so I went to have a look. Not bad, the whole movie is packed with action scenes that is gonna guarantee you will sit down still in your chair. But, that's my view as a movie goer. Hitman was adopted from the famous Eidos game bearing the same title. The game has 4 series, which I have played all and totally enjoyed. Looks like the storyline in the movie version differs a bit when Hitman aka 47 got himself entangled in a relation with a women. Meh, maybe it's to spice up the movie I guess. A hero must have a heroin sort of thingy.

Resident Evil Extinction

Meh, was feeling bored so I went to the cinema ...

Synopsis

Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is on her own, aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her, she struggles to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker (Jason O'mara) and head researcher Dr. Isaacs (Ian Glen). Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), L.J. (Mike Epps), and new survivors K-Mart (Spencer Locke), Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) must fight to survive extinction against hordes of killer-flesh-eating-zombies, starving flocks of killer crows and the most terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has killed millions of humans.

My review

Tis a good movie. I like the special effects, cool and authentic. Sound effects are nice too, scares the shit outta me especially the surprising moments. Storyline is direct and intense, making you want more and more. The only weakness? The film was bloody short, around 1 and a half hour? WTF? I felt cheated on that, why couldn't they make it standard like other 2 hours movie. -Sighs- But one thing for sure, Milla Jovovich is sure hot ... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm :P
Nick, who went with me to the movie, made some jokes about the actors, saying there are too many "Heroes" around, catch my drift? ;)

I'd give this movie 8 out of 10.

Till next time ...

Movie Review : Transformers 2007

Went to the cinema just now to watch Michael Bay's Transformers. Was excited to see a part of my childhood heroes comes to life on the big screen. The robots are very cool as much as they can be, in fact, funny - especially Bumble Bee and that lil evil robot.

No comment on the CGI effects - it was so breathtaking and mesmerizing. The movements were fluid, cept for the color, I think it's better if they tone down that blue on Prime a bit, so flashy :P. So, Transformers is really more than meets the eye! By the way OPTIMUS PRIME RULES!!!!

Owh yeah, judging from the end of the movie, I would say that there might be a sequel to the story, but errr that's just my guess. Who knows, maybe some bad person/country/company will atttempt to revive Megatron's and his cronies remains. Well, let's just hope they continue it, shall we?

PS: By the way, any of you guys out there that knows where to get Transformers action figures? -Drools- :P