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[Anime] Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka?

Plot Summary: Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high school boy. One day he is killed by a serial killer and revived as a zombie by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe. He starts to serve Eu as her guard but he happens to deprive the mahou shoujo Haruna of her magic power. Haruna orders Ayumu to fight against the anti-mahou shoujo system "Megalo" in her place.

This is just the first episode of the anime (cos I don't read manga). So I found it VERY funny and ....well, funny. LOL
And then I just finished watching the 2nd episode of it...can't really comment much about it, except having a good time watching it, but yes... I will continue watching it!!!
Highly recommended for shoujo actions and comedy XD

Info Source: ANN

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
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Official Website: http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com/
This movie was premiered in USA on the 1st of October 2010, and only be released in Asia in late November of the same year.

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Trailer by SonyPictures

My Rating:★★★★

My Comment:
I really like this movie, not just because I like Facebook, but the story behind the making of Facebook. In the world of creating something like this is always becoming the war. To get more users, subscribers and popularity, which makes it famous. To be honest, if you're not that geek or understand a little thing about creating and designing a website, you might get confused and bored, just like my sister who was watch next to me and fell asleep.

There was once where we were asked to choose one topic from the list for our technical report for Communication Skill unit. and there are several topics about Facebook. One of them is "Will Facebook replace e-mail?". If I were to answer directly, I would say "WHY?! Isn't you need and E-mail address to login into Facebook?". But it's up to you to decide.

Anyway, enjoy watching the movie. and if you don't get the story, just watch it again or read some reviews online. Maybe you'll get what the story about.

Info via IMDB

Writer-director-producer Luc Besson‘s affinity for megabudgeted, FX-heavy adventure spectacles is well-known and publicized; with his outing The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, he adds yet another chapter to this tradition. An adaptation of a popular French comic book from the 1970s, it stars Louise Bourgoin (The Girl from Monaco) as the redheaded title character, a wisecracking, hard-living adventurer-cum-novelist living in pre-WWI France. As the tale opens, Adele is on a mission in Egypt, attempting to retrieve a sarcophagus and tote it back to Western Europe, but simultaneously attempting to fend off complications wrought by her nemesis, archaeologist Dieuleveult. She succeeds on both fronts, but upon returning runs headfirst into another issue: a Parisian scientist (Jacky Nercessian) with the power to heal Adele‘s comatose sister (Laure de Clermont-Tonnere) has accidentally let loose an ancient Pterodactyl above the Parisian skies. While a zany detective (Gilles Lellouche) and a hunter (Jean-Paul Rouve) attempt to eliminate the creature, the villains turn up yet again and try to thwart Adele‘s long-term plans.
This movie was released in French in April this year, but only released in Asia (Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei) Just recently in November this year.
In French, the movie is known as "Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec", which is The Extraordinary Adventure Of Adele Blanc-Sec, while in Asia it was known as Adele: Rise of The Mummy.

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My Comment:
The funny thing is that the movie id dubbed into English instead of using the original dubbed. One possible reason that is majority people in Asia do not speak nor understand French. But I still prefer the original....with English subtitle that is.

Release Date: 12 November 2010
Genre: Sci-Fi | Thriller
Cast: Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, David Zayas, Donald Faison
Director: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Writers: Joshua Cordes, Liam O'Donnell
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Plot:
After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherwordly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth. Now our band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.

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My comment:

Obviously I like Sci-fi movies, and Skyline had become one of them. Unfortunately, I don't like the ending of this movie. Kinda spoils everything... Survival? Yes... But unique brain (red in color instead of blue like others), is just keep me asking more question..Why the heck the brain is different from others? He was human. And what are they doing with those are pregnant?.. lots of question coming soon after the main characters being sucked up into the ship. And from what I read from Rotten Tomatoes, most comments and reviews are negative.

Popzara's Chris Pandolfi says it was little more than a "low-budget alien invasion dud filled with effects that aren't special and unnecessary human melodrama. A complete waste of resources."

Ouch!~

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In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

My rating:★★★

I really like Resident Evil series, as well the games, yet I wasn't the one who playing the games. I'm just a observer and amateur critique. So for me this chapter of Resident Evil movie is quite expected for the ending except the bombing part where Alice, Chris and Claire were happy to see it. Honestly, I missed the first 30min of the movie. So I think I missed the fun part. Still I'll be watching it again to catch up what I missed for the first 30min of the movie.

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Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Produced by Avi Lerner, Kevin King Templeton, John Thompson
Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, David Callaham
Story by David Callaham
Synopsis

THE EXPENDABLES is a hard-hitting action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things aren’t quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle with an even tougher challenge – one that threatens to destroy this band of brothers.

Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is a man with nothing to lose. Fearless and void of emotion, he is the leader, the sage and the strategist of this tight-knit band of men who live on the fringe. His only attachment is to his pickup truck, his seaplane and his team of loyal modern-day warriors. His is a true cynic who describes what he does as “removing those hard to get at stains.” The team behind him is made up of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), former SAS and a savant with anything that has a blade; Yin Yang (Jet Li), a master at close-quarter combat; Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), who has known Barney for ten years and is a long-barrel weapons specialist; Toll Road (Randy Couture), a skilled demolitions expert and considered the intellect of the group; and Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), a combat veteran and an expert in precision sniping who struggles with his own demons.

When the mysterious Church offers Barney a job no one else would take, Barney and his team embark on what appears to be a routine mission: overthrow General Gaza (David Zayas), the murderous dictator of the small island country of Vilena and end the years of death and destruction inflicted on its people. On a reconnaissance mission to Vilena, Barney and Christmas meet their contact Sandra (Giselle Itie), a local freedom-fighter with a dark secret. They also come to learn who their true enemy is: rogue ex-CIA operative James Monroe (Eric Roberts) and his henchman Paine (Steve Austin). When things go terribly wrong, Barney and Christmas are forced to leave Sandra behind, essentially giving her a death sentence. Haunted by this failure, Barney convinces the team to return to Vilena to rescue the hostage and finish the job he started. And to perhaps save a soul: his own.

Cast:

Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross
Dolph Lundgren as Gunner Jensen
Mickey Rourke as Tool
Eric Roberts as James Munroe
Jason Statham as Lee Christmas
Jet Li as Yin Yang
Steve Austin as Paine
Randy Couture as Toll Road
Terry Crews as Hale Caesar
David Zayas as General Garza
Gary Daniels as The Brit
Gisele Itié as Sandra
Charisma Carpenter as Lacy
Amin Joseph and Senyo Amoaku as the leaders of a group of Somali pirates
Bruce Willis as Mr. Church (uncredited)
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Trench (uncredited)

My Comment
This is a VERY INTERESTING action movie ever from this year. I was like 'AWESOME' when watching this at the cinema with friends. My favorite actor from this movie is of course Jet Li, cos he's so cute and handsome, and bla bla bla!~ haha

Overall rating from me for this movie is ★★★★ out of 5

Click here to read my review

Synopsis:

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a 2010 fantasy adventure film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the team behind the National Treasure franchise. The story is loosely based on the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment in Disney's Fantasia, which in turn is based on the late 1890s symphonic poem by Paul Dukas and the 1797 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ballad.

Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) is a sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan fighting against the forces of evil, in particular his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina), while searching for the person who will inherit Merlin's powers. This turns out to be Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), a physics student at New York University, whom Balthazar takes as a reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling apprentice a crash course in the art and science of magic and sorcery, in order to stop Horvath and Morgana le Fay (Alice Krige) from destroying the world.

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Ayumi Hamasaki [浜崎あゆみ], also known as Ayu, was born on October 2, 1978 in Fukuoka, Japan. She is an award-winning Japanese singer, and one of the most popular and influential artists to come from Asia.

Apart from being a singer, Ayumi is also a songwriter, a model, an actress, and a composer. Ayumi started her musical career in 1994 and released her first album “NOTHING FROM NOTHING” in 1995; the album was not successful, and she was subsequently dropped by her record label. In 1998, Hamasaki released her first single, Poker Face, via the Avex Trax label, after being discovered by label head Masato “Max” Matsuura partying at the avex-owned club, Velfarre. Hamasaki’s debut album, “A Song for ××”, was released in 1999, and won her a Gold Disk Award.

She has since sold more than 50 million records in Japan alone with the releases of her 9 full-length studio albums, 1 mini-album, 4 compilation albums, 45 singles, and 17 remix albums, becoming the top selling solo and female artist and the 4th top selling Japanese artist in history. With the release of her 40th single “BLUE BIRD”, Hamasaki’s single sales passed the 20 million mark, making her the first solo and female singer to reach that milestone.

With the release of her 45th single “Rule/Sparkle”, Hamasaki currently has 20 consecutive #1 singles (starting from “Free & Easy”) and 32 #1 singles in the Japanese ORICON charts. In addition, she is the first Japanese artist to have her first original 8 studio albums top the charts.

Hamasaki released her ninth studio album, GUILTY on January 1, 2008. Shortly after the release, Ayumi revealed that she had become completely deaf in her left ear, and that it is inoperable. It is believed that she suffers from tinnitus, and Ayumi has known about the condition of her left ear since 2007 after an examination. She also stated that she would continue on with her career for her fans, explaining that “nevertheless, I would like to continue as a singer. That’s why I would like to continue singing

until I reach the limit with my remaining right ear”.

In addition to serving as background music for television advertisements, some of Hamasaki’s songs have been used as themes for video games and film productions such as television shows and motion pictures. “Depend on you” and its b-side “Two of us” were used as the opening and ending theme, respectively, of the video game Thousand Arms, while the video game Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams used “Startin’” and “rainy day” as its opening and ending theme, respectively. The dorama My Little Chef featured “Voyage” as its theme, while the anime InuYasha featured “Dearest.” Finally, Hamasaki’s songs “HEAVEN”, “Secret”, “fated”, and “Rule” have been used as the themes for the movies Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, Confession of Pain, Kaidan, and DragonBall Evolution, respectively.

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