The Changed Man smsed me saying that he bought three DVDs and was hoping to watch it together at The Married Soldier's place so we booked his house a few days in advance and The Married Soldier's wife prepared a nice home-cooked dinner for all the four of us.
The Saturday night home-cooked dinner consisted of ABC soup (which had carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, onions and cabbages), beancurd with pork floss, fried scrambled eggs with vegetables, asparagus with minced pork and Ribena drinks. It tasted absolutely delicious after a hard week's worth of work even though The Married Soldier's wife kept wanting us to stop eating the asparagus as she thought it was too salty (we finished it hungrily anyway).
After dinner, The Changed Man and I washed the dishes in reciprocation and the four of us gathered together to watch the three DVDs for our DVD marathon at the living room. It was fun as there were intermittent laughter at some of the jokes in the movie (we took some silly crack at the dumber parts of the DVDs and conjured stupid jokes to kept ourselves going). We were also not hesitant to jeer when the storyline was somehow lost in translation and when the subtitling went totally crazy.
It was a good evening's worth of food and fun and we stayed at the Married Soldier's place from 5.30pm all the way until 12 midnight, munching at potato chips dipped in some strange green salsa sauce. I hitched a ride back home on The Changed Man's car and he headed off to another gathering of late night social drinking after dropping me off.
Here are the DVDs that we watched, laughed and jeered at throughout last Saturday night:
DVD Review: Meet The Spartans
How dumb and lame is the movie? To the power of infinity. Besides the expectation and the spoof of a baby Shrek vomitting on an old Spartan as well as Xerxes stapling his nipple chain back using a staple gun, there isn't any brains in the movie.All you see are totally warped characters playing parodies of celebrities and doing some dance competition at the Gates of Fire. The ultimate scene ends with Xerxes transforming into a huge robot and then came crashing down onto the Spartans (who skips around) and crushed them flat on the cold hard mattress (yes, not cold dusty ground).
How bad can a movie go? Watch this to find out. Hahahaha.
DVD Review: Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution is about a Chinese female spy who deliberately becomes a secret mistress of a top Japanese agent in order to gather intelligence for the anti-Japanese resistance and eventually finds a chance to kill the Japanese agent. However, the female spy became increasingly physically and psychologically involved in the male agent that she had second thoughts about assassinating the latter and eventually paid the ultimate price.The DVD movie is peppered with Chinese dialect and barely intelligible English, making it really difficult to understand the subtle conversations but the physical love-making scenes between the male and the female leads were pretty well-directed and were the highlights of the otherwise dull and colourless movie. I also liked the carefully-controlled facial expressions of the two lead actor and actresses who were able to convey the very fine emotions involved in sizing each other up again and again and trying to conquer each other with their wits as well as their bodies.
As the movie was set in an era beyond my years, I could not understand how the whole intelligence and counter-intelligence plotline works and thus lost most of my attention even though I heard many good things about the movie. Perhaps I am not that artistic to understand the nuances in the movie. Shrugs. Hahaha...
DVD Review: Rambo 4
This movie, like all Rambo movies, are about a lot of bullets and blood. The story is about John Rambo, a highly-trained killing machine who decided to live out the quiet life of a boatman at the border of Thailand and Burma after three blood-soaked military adventures and campaigns (as depicted in the previous three Rambo movies). However, his peaceful life was disturbed by the successful request of a group of Christian missionaries who insisted on travelling upriver to Burma to deliver medicine.When this group of missionaries were captured after Rambo finished his boat trip, the pastor hired a group of mercenaries and requested Rambo to go and rescue the missionaries from the hands of a group of sadistic Burmese soldiers deep in the forest. After some serious show of prowess with his bow and arrows against a small group of the soldiers, Rambo won over the group of cynical mercenaries and began a daring rescue.
The plot is very linear and there were plenty of blood-spilling in the movie, especially in the final showdown where Rambo took over a heavy machine gun atop of a vehicle and started firing away at the hillslope full of Burmese soldiers who were about to capture the mercenaries escaping with the missionaries.
It was still good fun to watch as Rambo does what he does best - not talking but shooting but don't go out looking for any serious depth in the movie.
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