Almost Buddhist - 戲‧論

★★★☆☆ ‘Ant-man’ is very good as a comedy but not as a superhero film or an action movie if you will. The script’s a lot of fun. The actions are not so thrilling but are able to bring out some great laughs since they take place in setups quite interesting and unexpected. The story’s kind of mundane though. A troubled guy is forced to learn to be a hero. He fights the bad for what he believes in and becomes the good. And it ends with a hint that there’s more of it to come for certain, but I don’t think I’ll ever be interested anyway! ‘Ant-man’ is fresh to me as a comedy since I never expected it to be one, and the character has never hit the big screen till now. But feeling fresh has become more and more like a luxury thing to get as we’ve dulled our senses by constantly exposing ourselves to daily gross, sick, hardcore stuff. So we keep buying, spending, hanging around doing stupid things with stupid folks, looking for more stimulation just to stay alive and kicking. We’re so p...

★☆☆☆☆ In case you don’t know, ‘Chapter 2’ corrects what we think happens in ‘ Chapter 1 ’, but it’s nothing fresh! ‘Chapter 3’ is not a sequel to ‘Chapter 2’, but a prequel, preposterous and completely unnecessary. Most of the acts are senseless. The dialogues are tasteless except for one line about love, saying it’s delayed pain, coz we’re gonna lose it sooner or later. We all know it, don’t we? But still it jars our ears! In short, I’m done with ‘Insidious’ series that should be put to rest in peace honestly!

★☆☆☆☆ Said that ‘John Wick’ is a stylish piece of action entertainment. But no, it’s not at all if compared with ‘ The Equalizer ’. The action scenes are kind of funny as they look rather clumsy and childish indeed. The story’s bullshit unless you believe in a The-Man-And-His-Dog fairy tale. Keanu Reeves is still handsome and cool, but his first return to action cinema in years as John Wick is totally a letdown! Well, ‘John Wick’ is not really about a man and his dog. Rather, as you might have figured, it’s about the power of love, or say, the power of grief and desperation after love’s lost. Love, without doubt, is a very powerful force that drives us forward, to whether heaven or hell!

★★☆☆☆ To be fair, ‘Jurassic World’ is not so bad, especially for those too young to have been amazed by ‘Jurassic Park’ and stuff. So let me make myself clear here. It’s just me, not the film. The film itself has certain qualities that are able to bring thrills and constant entertainment to kids who have never seen anything like it before. But to me, there’s just so much of cliché, like how the dinosaurs turn up and end up, how they cross paths with the main characters, and how the main characters are always going to be just fine no matter what! Maybe I’m too mature for simple stuff like that, or maybe I’m too screwed up to be able to appreciate it. Anyways, like I said, it’s just me! We always tend to make things as complicated as they can seem, because we just don’t like it simple. In order to make ourselves feel good, we turn a ‘park’ into a ‘world’. We make not just ordinary dinosaurs, but a smarter, stronger, crueler genetic hybrid. We’re messed up as a result. But we nev...

★★★★★ Well it’s been a while since I was last amazed by a film that is ‘ Predestination ’ as I remember. Nowadays that sort of film is rare since people would like to reboot, remake, rewrite some old stuff instead of recreating something even out of something. I’ve always been fascinated by films that have plot twists, a mind-blowing ending, or say, an unusual way of telling a story, even supposedly a boring one. ‘Triangle’ is a film like that. It keeps playing with your mind throughout. When you feel like you’ve figured what’s going on, it tricks again. When you think it’s going to end like you think it would, it turns again. Trust me, if you haven’t yet checked out the film, the way the story’s told will amaze and shock you, and the ending will sure make you wow since it perfectly explains what seems to have nonsensically happen to your mind’s eye. It demonstrates a tedious, vicious, inescapable and horrible circle of killing and being killed to wish to live, as a result of ...