Rachel Getting Married

Finally....the movie I have been waiting around for has made the wait all worthwhile. Anne Hathaway has graduated from being a teen princess to Gay man's wife to Miranda Priestly's assistant to actual gifted, talented STAR. She has blossomed into a flower of a million colourful petals. Nothing less than GREAT could be said of her performance. The rest of the cast were just as amazing; Debra Winger, Rosemary DeWitt and Bill Irwin are just to name a few. It's a pity it didn't quite have a big theatrical release here in Malaysia. I love the handheld camera angle director/producer Johnathan Demme created. It feels fresh, making it appear as though it's some sort of mockumentary. Dramentary would be nice. The film had great a wedding as the title role and racial mix turned out to be a good idea. Hathaway and DeWitt made a good sister-sister pair and you should wait till you see some action between Winger and Hathaway. She really did earn her Academy Award nomination. Too bad she was in a league too ahead of her.

Beautifully encapsulating.

A passing of life.

Just this once, it's not going to be anything about movies. I've taken the liberty in this post to convey my deepest condolences to a person I know dearly who has just lost her father. I know it's not easy to loose a parent but I'm not going to go on saying that I understand how it feels because I don't. In times like these, you pray and hope Dear God allows for all the strength and willpower you need to deal with such a terrible loss. With so much still ahead for you and your family, you just think that you shouldn't have deserved this from Him. You challenge to question why but it's all beyond your authority. You find yourself helpless and insignificant before His every doing. It's a humbling feeling so overwhelming you learn time and time again. Indeed, you must however, though how small at times you may feel, you will always find the means to accept His say if you dig in deep enough. Enough to believe that He knows best, better than you will ever imagine for what gracious and rewarding returns He never fails to deliver.

Linda, God speed and May He bless you and your family indefinitely.

Al-Fatihah for Allahyarham Zainal Bin Hj. Romli.

Yes Man

Ahh...yes, man...hmm...plus a girl = A stale comedy that is confused with being romantic. I gotta give it to ya Jim you really had me in stitches- not! Popcorn at the movies could have never seemed more appealing- it was all I was interested in. I mean, seriously, those wacky faces, the getting tangled up in tape, the funny walk and slapstick gone overboard are just not what people want to see anymore, well for me especially. And to think that the producers got hold of Zoey Deschanel (nice name though) who's probably half Jim's age, on and off-screen, to be paired to him is perhaps another reason why not to see this movie. Jim's moving on into his 50's and those "I used to be a loser and after a heck of a breakthrough here's the love of my life and what do ya know, I ain't no loser no more! " comic relief come romance genres are not what you want to associate with someone who's passed half a century. He'd be better off playing Hoffman's character in Meet the Fockers or something like that. They played a very diffrent ball game and more often than not it just does not work. If this was something along the line of The Mask or Ace Ventura than certainly without a doubt it might have got me going...or not. Comedies are treasured collections for nachos or popcorn and beer nights and you want to still be able to watch it 10, 15 years down the line with the same kind of wit anticipation without being put off by sick jokes.