Tag: comedy

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This evening I saw the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: The World’s End” at UA Cinema, Time Square, Causeway Bay.

The last of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. It is definitely a good one, much better than the second one, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest“. Before I went to see this latest episode I decided to rewatch “Dead Man’s Chest”, but I fell asleep while doing so. I do admit that I did not have too high of an expectation for “The World’s End” before I went to see it.

Again “Johnny Depp” was at his usual best. The character he seems to unable to come out of since “The Curse of the Black Pearl“.

This episode has the usual CGI that we come to expect in Pirates of the Caribbean.

All in all this was an entertaining movie and deserves the 4 penguins that I had given it.

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Tonight I went to see the movie “Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” at Broadway Theater, Olympian City. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list.

Well if you are a true fan of Douglas Adams‘ (1952-2001) book “Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” or the British TV/Radio series of the same name, then you will appreciate this movie. Although I have seen the BBC TV series and had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Adams speak at an Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (1990), I did not find this movie that interesting.

I can tell you that Mr. Adams does speak the way his book is written. Listening to him is like serving the Internet; going from one topic to another as he touch upon each during the progress of the conversation. In a way it is like the way I have conversation with people.

The international version of the official web site is very cool.

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This afternoon I went to see the movie “The Stepford Wives ” at Broadway Cinema, Olympian City. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list.

I don’t know about you but I personally still cannot comfortably accept Matthew Broderick in any mature adult character. If you’re as old as I am, you will remember Broderick in his most famous role “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off“. In Stepford Wives Broderick plays Nicole Kidman’s character’s husband.

Stepford Wives is a movie with a subject matter that not many other movies had ever touched on. That is “the man behind the woman” idea. I do enjoy Ira Levin’s idea. Although I have not seen the 1975 version of the movie I do enjoy Paul Rudnick’s version of it for the screen.

The casting for this movie was perfect. Kidman had always been seen as a powerful woman (“Eyes Wide Shut“, “Birthday Girl“). I guess may be the casting director also have the same stereotyping for Broderick, in that case may be Broderick is the perfect cast for the role of “Walter Kresby”.

This is also one of the few movies with the most name-brand-dropping. Rudnick plays on the stereotypes of these brand names to enhance the characters they represents. One questionable mention was Microsoft. I wonder whether Apple Computers paid for the brand placement or was it done free by the studio.

Rating Legend:
	Not to be missed
	Wait for the DVD
	Buy from iTunes Store
	Rent it on iTunes
	Waste your time elsewhere