The Dark Knight Returns
19th June 2005, Sunday
The start to my long weekend epitomize with the movie outing for "Batman Begins" at Eng Wah cineplax at Suntec City...which I did not have great memories of since the wretched movie session for the woeful Japanese horror movie, "Hypnosis" and the strong air conditioning caused me to tremble the entire movie, dunno issit due to the scare tactics of the movie or the air conditioning...
I stayed home till late afternoon, enjoying some of my "fruits of labour" from the internet...
Managed to catch the latest "SMAPXSMAP" which is a entertaining variety program featuring perhaps the most popular, and successful boyband from the Johnny;s Group, SMAP...
Kimura, Kusanagi, Nakai, Shingo and Goro sure know how to spice up the show despite their prsitine, charming outlook..
In this particular episode, we see the one & only Eguchi Yousuke as the guest judge in the "Bistro SMAP" cooking competition...
You will see how the SMAP members tried their best with their culinary skills to impress the guests week in week out..this week Kimura's "Duck meat Soba" impressed Eguchi who love authentic Japanese cuisine like soba and ramen
Then in the interview session, the guys interviewed the singer of the cult hit "Sakura", Moriyama Naotaro who did a medley with SMAP which is can only be found in the show and no where else...
It was great that the person who recorded the show did not exclude the wonderful CMs (commercials) in between each segments..man how I miss Japanese TV ..heehee
I reached La Tendo at around 4pm and despite the lack of new stocks this week, the crowd still managed to pour into the shop...once again signifying their status in local collectibles market...
It seemed the outing in the evening would be one of the largest organised in terms of attendance...
Eng Kiong brought along his wife, Miyano coming with Vincent, Chan's friends Ziwei and Celine came as well as a couple of Karen's buddies..even Tay chan who did not showed interest in coming, came along as well in a last minute online purchase of extra tickets (in whcih Eng Wah has to allocate an absurd time limit to restrict the booking process such as 48 seconds..)
After dinner, we had the pleasure to take a look of the "Gacha Fair" at Toys Room at "Family Link" and I met a new collector friend, Ryan from the Katoots forum whom LED touch light helped me complete a full normal set of "SR Zoids Action Art Collection" which was just loaded into the capsule machines these few days...
Finally the movie started and to me definitely the movie event of this year...
Director Christopher Nolan surely created the Gotham we all know.. the rotting and corruption in a city filled with gothic architecture at the backdrop with gloomy slumps littering the streets and yes plenty of rain...
He managed to tie up the crucial part of how a wealthy heir like Bruce Wayne would go through the entire transition into the executioner of crime, the one and only Batman...
The cast was delightful.. the brooding Christian Bale sure fit the role as he can portray many facets to perfection such as a man living in his fear and angst, a wealthy playboy, as well as a charismatic super hero....
Katie Holmes whom remind me so much of Charlotte of "Sex and the City" ain;t your normal damsel in distress (actually she just had to be) who is a district attorney who was on her own to crack down the mafia bosses corrupting the entire city
Micheal Caine was great as the witty bulter, Alfred who was an important asset of Bruce Wayne to manage his double life...
Morgan Freeman as a former board member of Wayne Enterprise but been demoted to head a resarch department which provided Bruce with all his accesories and artillery needed by Batman, he did not appear much but everytime he did, his knowledgable humor light up the screen
Gary Oldman as the cop which would eventually become Commissioner Gordon... You would rarely see him as a good guy but he sure did a great job as a man been clamped down with the corroded police organisation, trying to break free of it to seek justice
Liam Neeson as Bruce's mentor, Ducard from the "Brotherhood of the Shadow", the dangerous ninja cult of Ra's Al Ghul whom Batman has a final showdown with...
Ken Watanabe as Ra's Al Ghul, beside a whacky goatee and some gibberish Japanese/English, his total screen time was just 5 minutes...
But the one I really like is Dr. Crane, the psychiatric doctor whom later become Scarecrow...acted by an unknown, Cillian Murphy, he looked a wee bit like my friend, Chan Siang but with a more sinister aura in him...heehee
The entire show lasted 135 minutes and despite the slow narration in front, the high tempo chase scenes and usual blockbuster visual explosives came in later and made non-Batman fans like myself yearning for sequels to come soon..
especially when Sgt. Gordon got promoted to Lt. Gordon made the bat sign light on the rooftop and asking Batman to trace a madman from the Arkham Asylum whom ran scot free from the break through involved in a double homicides and with a theatrics like leaving behind a poker card... the card of "Joker"... and Batman says, "I'll look into it".... urgh I want to see Nolan do a Batman with the likes of Joker, Harlequin, Penguin and Riddler in it
I doubt there would another movie that tops "Batman Begins" this year...period...
The start to my long weekend epitomize with the movie outing for "Batman Begins" at Eng Wah cineplax at Suntec City...which I did not have great memories of since the wretched movie session for the woeful Japanese horror movie, "Hypnosis" and the strong air conditioning caused me to tremble the entire movie, dunno issit due to the scare tactics of the movie or the air conditioning...
I stayed home till late afternoon, enjoying some of my "fruits of labour" from the internet...
Managed to catch the latest "SMAPXSMAP" which is a entertaining variety program featuring perhaps the most popular, and successful boyband from the Johnny;s Group, SMAP...
Kimura, Kusanagi, Nakai, Shingo and Goro sure know how to spice up the show despite their prsitine, charming outlook..
In this particular episode, we see the one & only Eguchi Yousuke as the guest judge in the "Bistro SMAP" cooking competition...
You will see how the SMAP members tried their best with their culinary skills to impress the guests week in week out..this week Kimura's "Duck meat Soba" impressed Eguchi who love authentic Japanese cuisine like soba and ramen
Then in the interview session, the guys interviewed the singer of the cult hit "Sakura", Moriyama Naotaro who did a medley with SMAP which is can only be found in the show and no where else...
It was great that the person who recorded the show did not exclude the wonderful CMs (commercials) in between each segments..man how I miss Japanese TV ..heehee
I reached La Tendo at around 4pm and despite the lack of new stocks this week, the crowd still managed to pour into the shop...once again signifying their status in local collectibles market...
It seemed the outing in the evening would be one of the largest organised in terms of attendance...
Eng Kiong brought along his wife, Miyano coming with Vincent, Chan's friends Ziwei and Celine came as well as a couple of Karen's buddies..even Tay chan who did not showed interest in coming, came along as well in a last minute online purchase of extra tickets (in whcih Eng Wah has to allocate an absurd time limit to restrict the booking process such as 48 seconds..)
After dinner, we had the pleasure to take a look of the "Gacha Fair" at Toys Room at "Family Link" and I met a new collector friend, Ryan from the Katoots forum whom LED touch light helped me complete a full normal set of "SR Zoids Action Art Collection" which was just loaded into the capsule machines these few days...
Finally the movie started and to me definitely the movie event of this year...
Director Christopher Nolan surely created the Gotham we all know.. the rotting and corruption in a city filled with gothic architecture at the backdrop with gloomy slumps littering the streets and yes plenty of rain...
He managed to tie up the crucial part of how a wealthy heir like Bruce Wayne would go through the entire transition into the executioner of crime, the one and only Batman...
The cast was delightful.. the brooding Christian Bale sure fit the role as he can portray many facets to perfection such as a man living in his fear and angst, a wealthy playboy, as well as a charismatic super hero....
Katie Holmes whom remind me so much of Charlotte of "Sex and the City" ain;t your normal damsel in distress (actually she just had to be) who is a district attorney who was on her own to crack down the mafia bosses corrupting the entire city
Micheal Caine was great as the witty bulter, Alfred who was an important asset of Bruce Wayne to manage his double life...
Morgan Freeman as a former board member of Wayne Enterprise but been demoted to head a resarch department which provided Bruce with all his accesories and artillery needed by Batman, he did not appear much but everytime he did, his knowledgable humor light up the screen
Gary Oldman as the cop which would eventually become Commissioner Gordon... You would rarely see him as a good guy but he sure did a great job as a man been clamped down with the corroded police organisation, trying to break free of it to seek justice
Liam Neeson as Bruce's mentor, Ducard from the "Brotherhood of the Shadow", the dangerous ninja cult of Ra's Al Ghul whom Batman has a final showdown with...
Ken Watanabe as Ra's Al Ghul, beside a whacky goatee and some gibberish Japanese/English, his total screen time was just 5 minutes...
But the one I really like is Dr. Crane, the psychiatric doctor whom later become Scarecrow...acted by an unknown, Cillian Murphy, he looked a wee bit like my friend, Chan Siang but with a more sinister aura in him...heehee
The entire show lasted 135 minutes and despite the slow narration in front, the high tempo chase scenes and usual blockbuster visual explosives came in later and made non-Batman fans like myself yearning for sequels to come soon..
I doubt there would another movie that tops "Batman Begins" this year...period...
Japanese word of the day: 映画~ei-ga~ (movie) Watched the best of 2005 last night!
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