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January Movies

Is there any medication i can take for short term memory loss? ZZZ.

I know i said i would mash January and February movies together because according to my (clearly unreliable) note, we only watched two movies in January. Writing a post for two movies makes me a bit (okay, a lot) lazy so i thought i'll just add the two movies to February Movies. But then i realized there are more movies that we watched than the ones on my list,. if i insist on adding them to Feb movies-the post would be too long and i'd be even lazier to write WTF. So here i am, writing about January movies at the end of February *sigh*.

We actually watched 5 movies on January. If i don't forget any other, that is!

Without further ado, let's just start, for goodness sake.

1. Alvin and the Chipmunks : The Road Chip

I liked Alvin's first movie, i thought it was funny, cute and endearing-but the quality got worse and worse in each movie, i thought the third one was quite bad. I didn't find that one to be funny, the jokes too forced and it was boring. So i wasn't excited at all for the fourth one, but since i have a young son who loves to watch movies in the cinema as much as his parents do, whenever there's an age-appropriate movie playing i'd offer him to watch it, and he wanted to watch this so... We did.

Dave (their "dad") is finally on a serious (new) relationship, when the boys saw a diamond ring, they immediately presumed that he was going to propose to the woman. They have no problem with her, but her son (who's a total troublemaker and became their enemy FTL) is. They also thought they'd get dumped if Dave marry her once he get himself a real family, so they made it a mission (alongside Miles, the son of Dave's girlfriend) to stop the proposal-getting into a LOT of troubles all the way (obviously).

It was actually not that bad! Not super fantastic or anything, but it was quite funny and touching (much better than the last one)! I didn't find myself getting bored, and i quite enjoyed the movie! It's not a must see of course, but it's not entirely horrible either. Totally watchable!

2.The Forest

We just got back from Japan (and wanting desperately to go back hahaha) when The Forest played in the cinema, i was immediately drawn to it when i read the synopsis of the movie taking place at the well known suicide forest, Aokigahara. The reviews were not very favorable, but i think the background itself is too interesting to pass so we went to watch it anyway.

Sara has a troubled twin sister (who always make a mess of her life, and Sara always has to clean it up for her) named Jess. Jess lives in Japan and teaches English at a local school. One day during a school trip, Jess was seen entering Aokigahara alone-that usually means hte person doing it wants to commit a suicide-and never got out. Sara is certain that Jess is still alive, so she went to Japan to look for her. She finally entered Aokigahara alongside a reporter named Aiden and is warned to stay on the path (among a list of don'ts), but there's a sinister power in that very forest that plays with people's minds, especially those who has a sadness in their hearts, and things started getting more and more weird.

It began rather promising, i really like the background (errr yeah, i became obsessed with Aokigahara and browsed about it for hours. I also developed an obsession to go there, not to kill myself of course *LOL*, just to see it. As i definitely have no sadness or any intention to die, i'm sure i'll be alright hahaha), the storyline is also not that bad really, but i think the movie's totally underdeveloped. And the ending was so unsastisfactory, it was annoying. Still, i don't think it's as bad as people made it out to be, it's not a must watch, but die hard horror movies might not necessarily think it's a total waste of time.

They need to explore Aokigahara more and make better horror movies there, i mean... the place's perfect for one! Make a scarier one please (this one's not scary at all)!

3.The 5th Wave

I guess i don't follow movie news much because i didn't even hear about The 5th Wave before, and even when it starts playing, i wasn't interested in it. Even after i heard good things about it, still i had my doubts because... well, it's an alien movie. And i really don't like alien stuffs *yeah yeah, i believe in ghosts but not aliens. Sue me*, but i really really like Chloe Moretz *LOL* and that's reason enough to go watch it.

Cassie is a normal teenage girl, with a normal life, normal family and normal teenage problems. One day her world (and the entire world, actually) turned upside down when a series of alien attacks starts happening. Her family members dies one by one except for her and her younger brother who then got separated from her. Cassie will do anything and everything to reunite with him. Along the way, she meets a (n insanely hot) young man named Evan Walker. Together they try to find Sam and survive the fifth attack of the aliens.

I'm glad we went to watch it because it's really good!!! First of all, the aliens aren't green and they don't have antennas so that's already a step to the right direction *LOL*. Chloe's acting's all solid and likeable as usual, the storyline is interesting and gripping, the action scenes cool and did i mention Evan Walker is H.O.T?

Alex Roe as Evan Walker

The only thing that bugs me a bit is how the chemistry between Chloe and Alex seems to be very superficial, i just don't think they're in love (in the movie, i mean). Maybe that's how it's supposed to be? Should i read the book?

Anyway, I can't wait for the second movie!!!

4. The Boy

Ever since i first saw the trailer, i've been waiting impatiently for this movie to play. I mean... a haunted doll made after a dead child??? So up my alley!!! Or so i thought. The movie turned out to be nothing like i expected and i left sorely disappointed. Oh, and please people, stop writing spoilers on your Facebook statuses! Hunny got so annoyed at an acquintance's status about this movie that i have to unfollow them (not unfriend, i just learned that you can unfollow without unfriending people, bliss!) to prevent this from happening again hahaha.

A young American (is it so wrong that i am gleeful that she's described as young? Because the actress playing her is older than me, this makes me feel less ancient hahaha) woman named Greta takes a job as a nanny (at the same time she's also running away from past abusive relationship) in a remote English village. She thought she's going to be a nanny to an 8 year old boy, imagine her surprise when the "boy" turned out to be a life sized doll. It's apparently made in resemblance to the couple's real son who died 20 years ago and they treat him like a living human. They went away on a "trip", leaving the doll to Greta's care with a list of rules that's to be followed strictly. As expected, Greta does opposite of what she's instructed and soon disturbing events starts to happen.

Thanks to the FB status, hunny already knew what the twist is *LOL* #poorhunny but i forced him not to tell me so i could still enjoy the first part of the movie. Once the twist was out... I immediately lost interest WTF zzzz. I don't want to spoil it for those of you who still haven't watch it, but i can say this : if you're looking for a creepy, supernatural horror movie, this is not it hahaha. No wonder i did not get scared for a sec in this movie. I don't like it, skip skip skip! (Having say that, this movie might interest those of you who likes other types of horror movies. It's just not my cup of tea, that's all. It's actually not bad, it was just not what i expected).

5. The Finest Hours

I have a thing for Chris Pine (oh well, i know i know, i have a thing for a lot of handsome actors. What can i do) so of course i was excited to watch this movie, which is based on a true story.

It took place in 1952, when a crazy storm splits the SS Pendleton ship in two, the first part sunk and gone while the other part held more than 30 sailors with nowhere to go. Without the captain, the ship's engineer (who knows about the ship more than anyone else) took the leadership in order to try to survive until help can reach them. Meanwhile in the Coast Guard in Chatham, there's a young Guardsman named Bernie (with dramas in his own life, involving a wife-to-be and previous failed rescue attempts that haunts him) is ordered by the chief to do a rescue mission-which most people believe is a mission impossible and practically a suicide.

I usually like rescue movies, especially the ones based on true story-and this one's not bad (rated 7.1 in IMDb, which is quite darn high. It's hard to please those people who give their rates out hahaha) but i dunno... I was a bit disconnected with it. The rescue part was gripping, of course, but the part in between was a bit draggish for me. I dunno what's wrong with me, but i found it to be just okay, nothing to spectacular. I'm also quite surprised that it's a Disney movie (hunny voiced his surprise as well so i am not the only one hahaha). It's pretty good, but personally i find it to not be a must watch *shrug*.

Well, that's it for January movies that almost didn't happen *LOL*. Did you watch any of those movies i listed?

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September Movies

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Hey guysss...

It's well passed mid October and i only write my September movie reviews >.<, for once i actually REALLY forgot to! I only realized that the month has changed sometime in the 10th or something hahahaha. THEN i got lazy-and so many things going on, October's totally full of celebration in this household! 5 family members celebrate their (our, coz i am included) bdays in this month.

Anyway, better write the review before the month ends :p.

1. Sinister 2

I'm always excited whenever a horror movie's showing in the cinema, but i actually forgot that i watched the first movie-until i Googled it and immediately remembered after reading the synopsis. The first movie was actually quite haunting and eery that the plot stuck to my head, although the title clearly didn't.

Picking up from the ending of the first movie, another family (a mother and 2 sons who are clearly running away from something) move into a rural house (marked for death) next to a Church where a horrific crime just took place. The deputy from the first movie is trying to locate the next house marked for death to try to break the pattern when he found the family and tries to save them from Bhughul (the demon).

Like the first movie, it's still very eerie (there's something about kids killing their whole family mercilessly that'd creep the hell out of everyone!) and strange, but towards the end, i did think it's verging on the cheesy side, this part made this sequel to not be as good as the first movie-however, i don't think it ruined the movie that badly still. So yeah, not as good as the first one IMO, but not bad either. Spooky, twisted and weird, if you're a strange cookie like me, you'd enjoy it for sure.

2. Transporter Refueled

I didn't care much for this movie, it's not very bad or whatever-but the new guy's ain't Jason Statham (i can't believe i said that. Since when i like Jason Statham so much. But i gotta admit, he is pretty cool and almost all action movies are cool when he stars in them :p he just got the swag i guess). It's not that Ed Skrein is ugly (although i do find his teeth disturbing), but he definitely couldn't bring what Jason Statham did to the franchise. According to hunny, his "coolness" is forced, and i think i agree.

Frank Martin is a former special-ops mercenary turn "delivery man", he transports classified packages or person (s) for a living. When his father (who always says that he works for Evian but clearly he was a spy) visits him, their weekend got upside down when Frank is hired by a woman and her sidekicks who ended up using his service as a pickup for a heist. Frank and his father got dragged into the whole mess and must play a dangerous game against a sinister Russian kingpin.

Heh. I know Transporter storylines are hardly believable, but this one is rather.... tangled (for lack of a better word) even for their standard. And why did they use the same character, why not just replace him with a new character? Ed Skrein looks nothing like Jason Statham so it's just... confusing!

It's not super bad, but it's definitely not a must watch, totally skippable i'd say. Got rated 4.9 in ImdB and i agree with the numbers.

3. Maze Runner : The Scorch Trials

I liked the first movie a lot (especially because i went in without any expectation) so i was really looking forward to the second movie (partly for Ki Hong Lee, i'm not gonna lie) and it didn't disappoint! A few seconds into this movie, hunny was like "Hah? Why does it become zombie movie all of sudden???", and yeah-because i didn't read the books before and there's no sign of zombies whatsoever in the first movie, i was also very surprised! Frankly speaking, none of us are zombie movies enthusiasts, but trust me, this one's so much more than your regular walking dead movies!

Picking up where the first movie left off, Thomas and his fellow Gladers found themselves in a facility where they are assured to be safe and protected from WCKD. It doesn't take long for Thomas (ever so sensitive) to realize, the place's much more sinister than it appeared to be, especially when they prevented him to see his sweetheart who they said to still be going through different tests. Soon, he discover that it's still WCKD they're against and their only choice to survive is to run away, but running away proven to be as trying as staying.

Well, i like it! Even more than the first one, i'd say! It's so different from the first movie that it feels like watching another movie altogether, and that's refreshing! It's still action packed, nail grittingly good and you're kept at the edge of your seat at all time! One of my fave dystopian movies for sure! And Ki Hong Lee stole the show once again, do you know that there are memes making fun about the fact that his character's more famous than the main character? LOL.

Ki Hong Lee as Min Ho

And he really is one of the fine example about how Asian don't age, shocked me when i found out that he's not that much younger than me (i'm practically ancient for Hollywood standard, yeah?), i thought he's in his very early 20s instead of very late 20s!

Anyway, a must watch for dystopian/action/popcorn movie lovers, it's very entertaining and worth every penny!

4. Hotel Transylvania 2

I gotta admit that i did not like the first movie all that much, i thought it was not that funny, very cheesy and dry... I liked the characters, but i was just not a fan of the movie. So i was not very excited about the sequel (if the original is not that good, how can the sequel be any better?), even after i watched the trailer-but Little O was all excited about it so we went to watch it... And i surprisingly enjoyed it very much!

So Mavis is all grown up and she ended up marrying the human boyfriend, Johnny. All's well, they live happily at the hotel and it gets even better when Mavis got pregnant and gave birth to an adorable baby boy, Dennis. But when Dennis is growing up and reaching 5 (the point where it's the final timeline for his vampirism can appear), Drac's getting more and more restless. Mavis feels like Drac could not accept Dennis for what he is (probably human) and that the hotel is probably not a very safe place for a human boy to grow up in so she is considering moving to Johnny's hometown. Johnny loves living in the hotel so he conspire with Drac to make Mavis wants to stay-all leading to huge troubles ahead!

I love this movie! Personally feel like it's 10x better than the first film (wonder if because it's so family related???), i actually LOL-ed a LOT (and got touched. If an animation movie makes me teared, i am sold!!!) and found some scenes to be totally hilarious (my fave is the You Tube video of Drac going coo coo, coo coo)! I guess it's not the best animation movie of all time and not everybody would love it as much as i do (hunny actually thinks the first movie was funnier, which is the total opposite of my opinion, but then again he does like cheesy, slapsticks scenes)-but it's still a funny, entertaining, fun movie for the whole family! Recommended!

5. Black Mass

I have mixed feelings about this one. I didn't want to watch it at first, the trailer looks boring to me, but hunny insisted to so i relented. As usual, when hunny insisted on watching a heavier type of movie, i ended up getting more interested than him, i had to kick him a few times during the movie to keep him awake (even though he'd never admit it. He never does). I still don't think this movie's all that good (i'm not a fan of mafia type of movies really), but it's still very interesting especially because it's based on a true story.

It is the true story of Whitey Bulger, the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston who also happens to have a brother who became a senator (this part is really jaw dropping for me). In the late 70s, Whitey (who was then still a smaller time-but as cruel nonetheless-criminal, but already is the godfather of the Irish Mob) is approached by John Connoly, an important FBI agent who he grew up with in South Boston (or as they call it, Southie), John convinces Whitey to become an informant for FBI to help the FBI take down Boston's Italian Mafia in exchange of some immunity. The deal spins out of control and Whitey made it to FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.

First of all, Johnny Depp in disguise to become pouchy, balding older guy (well, Depp really is not that young either, but he looks young! Especially for his age. I guess normal 52 year old guys might look more like his character than Depp?) is disturbing (but when i see pictures of the real Whitey Bulger, i can see that the make up department actually did a pretty good job), especially those scary contacts he uses *shudder*. The movie itself is a bit slow, draggy at part, very rough and super brutal (i don't have problem watching ghost movies, but gory, brutal ones are hard for me) with loads and loads of blood and graphic murder scenes. I guess it makes the move more real and serves the purpose of telling the story, but that makes it a heavier type of movie that's definitely not for everybody. But if you like true stories about real criminal, yes-this is the movie for you!

That's the end of September movies list! We also watched Everest but i liked it so much i wrote an entire post dedicating to the movie (read it here), but there's another movie i want to mention, it's an old one and i watched it online : The Pact. It's a 2012 movie but just showed in local cinema last years WTF, then the sequel (which is nowhere near as good as the first movie) is showing in the cinema-of course i wanted to check it out since it's a horror movie, but i decided to watch the first movie first online (and then the second one online too hahaha)-it's SO MUCH BETTER than i expected! Creepy, effective, and with unexpected twist!

Nichole Barlow returned to her childhood house to take care for her mother's funeral and asked her sister Annie to help her, Annie refused since she's too traumatized with how their mother treated them. After making a video call to her daughter, Nichole disappeared and Annie had no choice but went back to look for her. Their cousin Liz has Nichole's daughter (Eva), three of them met at the funeral house and Annie asked Liz to accompany her stay at her mother's house but Liz too, disappear that night. Annie witnessed violent supernatural events leading to Liz's disappearance but of course the authority does not believe her and Annie became a suspect instead.A detective, Bill, decided to help her and together they return to the house to try to investigate what's really happening, more danger are waiting for them.

It's not the perfect horror movie (and it's definitely not in Insidious or The Conjuring level!), lots of plot holes (and it's actually an indie movie with a shoe string budget) that gave me a lot of questions, but it's actually very good! One of the most effective horror movie i've seen in a while. If you're a huge horror movie fan like me, i highly recommend you to check it out!

Okay, now we really come to the end of the post! What movies have you watched lately? And what movies are you planning to watch next? I'm planning to watch Goosebumps, Crimson Peak and American Ultra soon!

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June Movies

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Hellowww!!!

So my monthly movies review is a litttle (okay, a lot) late this month, due to my trip and then i got real busy once i got back in Surabaya, but it's here now!

Some of the movies i've seen on June

Btw, any of you noticed that i (for the 4th or 5th time) again accidentally published my raw blog post two days ago? I noticed there were 2 views already before i managed to take it down zzz. Then what's worse, i realize even after i deleted the post the feed's still up in the blogger dashboard WTF zzzzz so annoying. The post's far from ready, i always make the mistake of publishing posts with only photos/a few lines whenever the internet's being a B (which is very very often lately, eff you First Media!!!). I got so mad trying to save the post, i always accidentally hit the publish button instead of save gahhh. Anyway, i hope that post's something you will look forward too since i need a lot of support for that (yes, it's for a competition).

Anywayyy... back to the movies. We didn't watch a lot of movies on June because not only the movies were not super good, Baby Boy was having his final tests and his nanny (i don't want to sound rude or demeaning to the profession, but really... Indonesian nannies nowadays... *(@^&%$&*%@&*T. 'Nuff said. I'm longing to replace her really, my mum is super annoying and loves all of her maids very very much though, she's driving me crazy with all the "poor them" she keeps on repeating every few hours) went back to her hometown (and guess what, she just informed us that she wants to leave early for her Idul Fitri leave. Great. Don't come back, why don't you? Sorry, i'm really pissed right now, i guess only other mommies with annoying nannies/maids can relate)... But wait, i just counted. We watched 8 movies on June, so it's actually not that little *LOL*.

1. X-men : Days of Future Past

Let me begin by stating that while i do not detest X-men movies, i am definitely not a fan. This is the kind of movies that i would never watch before i met my hunny *LOL*. I *sort of* enjoyed all of X-men movies, they're in general quite entertaining but never left a lasting impression on me. All that i can remember is... i actually liked X-Men : First Class better than any of the original ones. Maybe because i quite like James McAvoy? I dunno. But then, i ended up liking THIS one best (so far)! I love the colliding of the present and past, the original casts with the casts who plays their younger selves...

The world is pretty much coming to an end for mutants and humans who are on their side, as the last desperate attempt to change history and prevent an event that would result in doom for them the X-Men sent Wolverine (who's the only one who's physically strong enough to travel that far back) to the past.

Why i like this movie quite a lot is maybe because even though the movie's still has the comic bookish quality in them (like they supposed to be) with all the fascinating mutants, the story is (somewhat) more believable. I find myself perching at the edge of my seat in excitement throughout the movie, something that i could not say about the other ones.

And! There's this beautiful Chinese actress Fan Bing Bing whom i've been a huge fan of for the longest time. Seriously, other than Ayumi Hamasaki, Fan Bing Bing is probably the only other ultimate girl crush that i have. If others are going crazy over K-Pop girls/Korean actresses (YAWN!!!! So sorry, but they all look the same to me and you can actually find girls who look like them at local malls. SORRY! Just my opinion), i find Fan Bing Bing to be far more attractive. For me, she embodies the physical perfection for a female.

Fan Bing Bing

My only complain is that she didn't get enough screen time. LOL. Sorry, i'm definitely fangirling here (i wouldn't trade face with anyone in this world, but if i have to choose then it'd definitely her. I am also very pissed at my hunny who cannot differentiate between Fan Bing Bing and Li Bing Bing. I told her to memorize, Fan = HOT HOT HOT, Li = fugly WTF). Anyway. Back to the movie. It's very entertaining, not boring at all, and exciting. I'd recommend this movie highly and i agree with the 8.4 rate it got in IMDb.

2. Oculus

I got real excited when i saw the trailer (you know i'm a horror buff and all) and waited impatiently for it to finally show (it's an old movie actually, 2103 one. You know, Indonesian cinemas...) and i'm quite satisfied that even though it's not scary (for me), it's actually pretty good (for a horror movie. I have a pretty high standard!).

A young man named Tim was released from a mental institution at the age of 21 (he was convicted of murder when he was just a little boy) and welcomed by his sister Kaylie. She then told him that they need to destroy an antique mirror which she believes to have a supernatural power that destroyed their family, something that Tim as an adult could not remember (mostly due to the therapy he got when he was in the mental institution), when he accompanied her in their childhood house fragments of the past started to come back to him.

Like i said, it's not scary (nothing in "Conjuring" league) but it's very fascinating, thrilling and keeps you on the edge. The ghosts are not particularly scary either and they don't show up all that much (then again i really hate stupid horror movies where the ghosts would just appear every 5 seconds *___*, where's the element of surprise then???), but the story's quite interesting. It's more of a psychological horror where the demon (or whatever) inside the mirror's making you do things that you shouldn't do and that's creepy!

It's probably pretty mediocre but for horror movie junkies dying for a fix, this movie can ease the "hunger pang" a bit. Recommended for horror movies lovers who are in need for a little horror treat!

3. Maleficent

This is obviously a movie that needs no introduction, everybody's going crazy over this movie and the "Maleficent inspired makeup" has been popping out like mushrooms in a wet jungle (WTF am i saying?), there's definitely a Maleficent fever going on and i was infected.

Maleficent tells a story behind Sleeping Beauty's villain (with a twist, of course), how she started off as a pure-hearted fairy who got to know a young human boy named Stefan one day-and fell in love with him (i dunno if she simply has a horrible taste or she never meets any other male male/human to have a better judgement *LOL*). When they grow up, the (not so young anymore) Stefan was consumed with his obsession to be a king, and they drifted apart.

One day, when the human King tried to invade Maleficent's forrest kingdom and failed miserably (mostly thanks to Maleficent who risen to be the strongest protector of the forrest) and he gave his words that whoever slain Maleficent will get to marry his daughter and becomes the King. Stefan saw his chance and tricked both Maleficent and the King by cutting off her wings (then married the Princess and became King) as a proof that he had killed her. Maleficent was blinded by anger, crashed the celebratory party and put a curse on the new King's daughter, Aurora. As Maleficent watches her grow, she began to fall in love with her and saw the potential to unite the human and forrest kingdom in a peaceful way.

One word to say, this movie is AWESOMEEEE. I don't like Angelina Jolie much (oh yes, i definitely take Hollywood dramas personally and i'm forever team Jennifer Aniston, you see!) but she's totally brilliant as Maleficent. The movie was beautiful, funny, touching (i cried a bucket) and super entertaining. This was the first full non animated movie Baby Boy ever watched in the cinema (we usually avoid non animation movies for him coz he got bored of long dialogs with no silly animations doing crazy things on the screen) and he enjoyed it to the max too. Highly recommending this for everybody (well, except for very macho guys who cannot watch movies without blood and gory...)!!! A must must must watch, okay!

4. 22 Jump Street

I really enjoyed the previous movie and that's like the only movie which i found Channing Tatum to be attractive coz he was so funny in it (it's not that i don't think he's handsome, he is. But for me personally, he's just too generically handsome. Right up #Undecided's alley!) so i was pretty eager to watch the sequel. Sadly, it was not up to my expectation...

Schmidt and Jenko come back for another assignment, now they went undercover as college students and the roles (from the previous movie) were switched. Jenko found soul-mate/bromance in the football team while Schmidt felt left out and it put a strain in their partnership (which is more like lovey dovey relationship actually haha). They had to both crack the case, and find a balance (in their partnership) for a more mature relationship.

I laughed nonstop at the first movie, but while the first one was HILARIOUS, the second one's very forced, slapstick (in a bad way) and it just feels very repetitive. For example, the joke about them looking very old (they do. Channing Tatum looks really tired, is it sleepless nights because of his new baby affecting his look? LOL)... well, it gets old after the 5th time being repeated.

While it's still has its moments and i don't entirely detest the movie, i think it's nowhere (not even half) as good as the first movie. I wouldn't really recommend this except if you're a die hard Channing Tatum fan, or if you have a lot of free time and wants to spend it on a silly, mindless movie. I would prefer to rewatch the first movie myself.

5. How to Train Your Dragon 2

This movie is quite widely expected, but i was not very enthusiastic for some reason. While lots of people stated the first movie to be one of their favorite movies, i didn't actually remember much about it! I'm sure i enjoyed it and all, it's just nothing special to me (or else i'd definitely remember more!). The reason is probably because it's more of a boy's movie, i guess? I'm very girly and it reflects to my taste in animation movies (but i'm not into Princesses and i am crazy about horror movies, and that's not very girly-right?) and i definitely have no desire to have a dragon as a pet *LOL*.

Berk's citizens are now dragon lovers and has dragon races as their favorite sport but Hiccup and Toothless who are now inseparable BFF prefer to have adventures of their own, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. One day they stumbled into a secret ice cave which is home for hundreds of wild dragons and the mysterious dragon riders (okay, we all know that she turned out to be his mother), while also had an encounter by dragon catchers who work for a scary man who wants to collect all dragons to be his possessions. Now Hiccup and Toothless must work hand in hand to stand up for what they believe what's right and defend the future of both men (particularly of Berk) and dragons alike.

I thought it was just me who found the movie to be a bit draggish and boring but apparently Arman (who loves the first movie), feels that way too! Well, it's not horrible (and Baby Boy enjoyed it a lot) or whatever but yeah... i find the story to fall flat and not that special. It failed to fascinate me (like most good animation movies can) and i actually got bored a few times during the movie. I'd only recommend this for those who has young kids, especially little boys.

6. Lay the Favorite

We didn't know that this is such an old movie (2012 WTF), it was just one random night before our Bandung trip-Baby Boy and my 'rents were already in Jakarta (can you believe they actually drive there? My mum, the road trip junkie. She HATES flying, nothing shocking from someone as paranoid as her) and we just wanted to go out and feel like a young couple again *LOL* (coz we're actually still quite young, okayyy) so after a dinner date at Holycow (which i will review!) we decided to watch whatever seems interesting that's showing in the cinema and since this movie's totally star studded, we just went "Okay! Let's watch it!". LOL.

Unbeknown to us, this movie was actually based on a true story about a woman named Beth who lap dances for a living before deciding to move to Vegas to be... surprise surprise, a cocktail waitress *LOL*. She then met Dink, a professional gambler who turned his gambling into a professional thing (with subordinates and an office) who hires her (coz she's like a number's idiot savant), she fell for him and comes to him strong (i wanted to punch her in the face by this stage) even though he's married. He then threw her out (by his wife's demand) and went on a losing streak. Things got crazier and crazier from then on that i think you should watch it yourself to know what happens next because i don't want to type 10 pages long *LOL*.

I don't know why but movies based on true stories/events are usually a lot crazier (manic would be the word) than completely fictional ones! This movie's no exception, i kept on thinking "This could NOT be happening in real life!" throughout the movie *LOL*. This movie is fast, crazy, OTT but very entertaining and quite funny too. I think Bruce Willis is always, always charming and Joshua Jackson was so cute. This is not like a crazy good movie or whatever, but it's worth watching in my opinion (which totally opposed to most people's since it only got 4.7 in IMDb). If you like crazy, laugh inducing, silly movie that's based on real stories, rent the DVD or something, give it a chance. It's pretty entertaining.

7. Transformers : Age of Extinction

Hmmm yeah, read the first line i wrote for X-Men, i feel the same way about Transformers. Never a fan, don't hate them, watch it for my hunny (and now, my Baby Boy-who we didn't plan on taking but a few days before he said to his dad with his puppy eyes "Papa, aren't we going to watch Transformers in the cinema?" which of course, we couldn't say no to and ended up watching in Imax for the very first time. Love the experience! Please be available in Surabaya too, Imax!) and again i'd say this is my most fave Transformer out of all the franchise, probably because i kinda love Mark Wahlberg while i cannot stand Shia Lebouff.

After the huge war between aliens in Chicago, humans started seeing all robot aliens as threats and now there's a special unit whose job is to hunt all robots down-but turned out they are aided by another robot race who's hunting for Optimus Prime (WTH). Cade Yaeger (his name kept on reminded me of Pacific Rim...) is a "inventor", he found an old truck in his usual hunt for "treasures" which turned out to be (you guessed it) Optimus Prime on a guise. The special unit showed up and blew his home to bits, Optimus (who's always as loyal as a puppy) helped him and his teenage daughter escape (really, it's unreal to see Mark Wahlberg has a teenage daughter, i kept on thinking she looks more like his gf) but kept on being pursued by the men. Yaeger, his daughter and her bf then joined forces with the autobots to uncover what's really going on and as usual, try to save the world.

Yeah, nothing new on the story department, i have no expectations when it comes to robot movies though (even though i surprisingly loved Pacific Rim, but that's like the only exception). As all of other Transformers movies, i find this movie to be quite exciting, fast, entertaining, and it's also funnier than the previous movie-in short, a good popcorn movie. Nothing more, but of course, my boys would be quick to disagree. A must watch for (young and old) boys, it's tolerable and actually quite enjoyable for the girlfriends/wives. Nothing extraordinary though.

8. Legends of Oz : Dorothy's Return

Sooo... This movie we watched just for our Baby Boy, of course. I mean, we've seen the trailer a million times and it didn't look appealing except for the *kinda* diabolical Jester who couldn't take off his costume, ever. But that's like, the funniest scene on the movie and like i said, i've seen it a million times in the trailer already so... Yawn. But i didn't have any expectation going in (and i shouldn't).

Dorothy woke up to a post-tornado torn Kansas city but immediately whisked back to Oz to save her friends : the tin man, scare crow, lion and Glinda because there's a new villain, yes-the Jester. Her adventure was joined by Wiser the owl, Marshal Mellow (i kinda like this one, i do love punny names you know. The name's MELLOW, not SHALLOW! Ha! Hands down my fave line in the whole movie), China Princess (who's a bit of a B) and Tugg the tugboat.

Actually to be completely honest, i can't see the point of making this movie. Sure, it's not one of the worst movies i've ever seen (and it's not that exciting but at least it's not crazily boring. I love the China Country and Candy Land, at least those "places" are very nice to see and give me feasts for my eyes), but you know-it's really pointless. We all know the original Legends of Oz is really classic-even though i cannot remember the movie coz i watched it once on TV when i was little and i'm not into old movies, and i even liked Oz the Great and Powerful, but this movie. Is. So. Bleh. And the animation is not even that good mostly (Dorothy was really ugly and stiff *LOL*), the scenery and weird creatures are okay, the Chinas were even cute, but the humans looked... well.. weird.

The only thing i liked out of this movie would be Lea Michelle's singing (yes, it's a musical), even if the story and scenes after scenes couldn't move me one bit, her beautiful voice did. It did entertain Baby Boy though, so maybe this is a movie you can watch with your younger kids (no one over 9 or 10 though) when you have really free time. Otherwise just skip it.

And that's all we have today, folks! Have you seen any movies that i've listed above and did you like them?