Valentine's Day

Watched With: My Snooqums @ The Cathay (20/02)
Snacks: Iced Lemon Tea
Genre: Romance / Comedy

Love is in the air. And on screen.

Follow the lives of different individuals on the day that is considered a day of love.
Slowly, the stories of how they are intertwined will unravel and we will see how love affects their lives not only on Valentine's Day.

But one thing is a plus - it's definitely a star-studded cast.

Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Swift, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, and Julia Roberts.

Now tell me that's not an impressive cast.
well impressive or not i guess what this movie lacked was a direction.
yeah sure there are a lot of characters with a lot of stories but it all becomes a bit predictable after awhile.

Watch it for the all-star cast and not in hopes of a riveting storyline.
The ladies will still love it anyways.

Final Verdict:

The Wolfman

Watched With: Mr Rider @ GV Vivo City (15/02)
Snacks: Green Tea
Genre: Action / Horror / Mystery

"I will kill ALL of you!"
Yeah. Death by boredom.

Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) returns home to England to mourn the death of his brother.
His estranged father Sir John Talbot (Anthony Hopkins) is there to greet him as is his deceased brother's grieving fiance Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt).

Some people are saying that it is the work of the gypsies but some are saying that it was the work of a wild beast that killed John's brother.
And when John is bitten by this so-called werewolf, he finds himself slowly changing.

Come the full moon, he transforms into the Wolfman.
Detective Aberline (Hugo Weaving) arrives to solve the mystery surrounding the deaths in Blackmoor.
And somehow he finds that there is more going on than most people are willing to admit.
Is John Talbot really a Wolfman or is something more sinister afoot.

Oh I had such high hopes for this movie.
Mostly because I remember reading that Mark Romanek was attached to direct.
And then when the opening vredits started running, I saw the name 'Joe Johnston' as the director and I knew I'd made a mistake.
That's right. The man who gave us Jumanji, Jurassic Park III and Hidalgo had been entrusted with this project.

Not only was this movie boring.
It was poorly written and simply not gory or action-packed enough.
And to round things off - it was so predictable.

Sigh. At the end of the movie I felt like letting out a Wolfman's howl.

Final Verdict: