Sunday, January 18, 2009

Movies night: Outlander and Yes Man












Yup it’s a Sunday and I’ve gone for another movies session.
This time it’s some of the past USA movies.
Outlander and Yes Man
Outlander is the first return of Jim Caviezel since the Christ movie.
It’s not a bad movie, a pretty original movie about the Viking and the dragon. Only it came from outer space, just as Jim’s character. Capture by the Vikings he tried to explain the existence of the creature. But the tribes doesn’t believe him and the 2 tribe that lost their family and village go to war. While in the midst of the battle, the creature shown itself and only the Jim is accepted as one of the Vikings. And both Vikings and Jim try to kill the creature and hunting of the dragon begins. The story is acceptably realistic. And the battle scene is fantastic.
There’s a small side story to me going to watch the movie. While I was waiting for the show time, I took a walk around the mall, and caught my eye on the DVD that is sold a bit more than the ticket I just bought half an hour ago. HAHA! The same movie Outlander. The shops are already selling the DVD while the movie is still on screening. It’s either the movie have been release for too long before it reaches Malaysia or this is a tactic to try to out run the piracy trend. Either way it is really funny now people have a choice of paying half the price to watch the movie once or pay more to own it and watch it whenever they want as many times they like.

















As for Yes Man it is one of those comedy that is both funny and profoundly philosophical. You have a guy that’s saying no all his life after his divorce and trap himself in a rut. After attending a seminar, he became the Yes Man. Who could say nothing but yes to everything. Online dating, driving a homeless person and giving everyone loan. And in the process he found a new life in doing all the crazy thing by saying yes and not reject everything, even gaining the heart of a girl. It is more of a story of droping your past and start living a life instead of feeling sorry and regret all the time. I love this kinda story that make you think while having a great laugh about it.

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