Movies I've watched in 2011

Hi! Time to be a movie critic! This post was supposed to be for the new year, to welcome 2012 and look back on how many movies I've watched in 2011! A lot of movies suck these days but some were nice too.

(YAY means good movies, NAY means not so good and KAY means movies that were so-so.The number of exclamation marks also indicate how good or how bad the movie was.)

1. Black Swan (YAY!!!)
An awesome psychological thriller about a paranoid ballerina who achieves perfection at the end. I watched this twice and it was still awesome the second time!! Would totally watch it again. Yay for Natalie Portman!

2. All's Well End's Well 2011 (NAY)
Funny, but not really worth watching. I can't really remember what it was actually about, other than the movie being about make-up and love.

3. No Strings Attached (YAY)
A story about two friends who have sex with each other but are trying to just stay friends. It was good because the script was cute and funny. Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher were awesome.

4. Gnomeo and Juliet (NAY)
A stupid movie. There are two different groups of gnomes who hate each other, and they belong to gardens of neighbours who hate each other. Gnomeo and Juliet fall in love and meet each other secretly and also make friends with a pink flamingo. All of them fight but instead of everyone dying like in the actual Romeo and Juliet, Gnomeo and Juliet actually get married. It's so lame that I don't even think kids would enjoy watching this movie.

5. Rango (NAY)
Watched it for Johnny Depp but was disappointed. It got draggy and a little boring that at some point, I was just waiting for the lizard to save the day.

6. Hop (NAY)
Watched it for the cute bunny! Other than that, the movie was about the Easter bunny's son who preferred playing the drums and didn't wanna succeed him as the Easter bunny and in the end, the human gets the job. Kinda dumb.

7. Limitless (NAY)
After the watching the trailer I thought it'd be cool to watch a movie about eating some kind of drug that allows you to operate at full capacity and use all of your brain or whatever. Half way through the movie, it looked like using the drug wasn't such a good idea after all. But oh wait, at the end, the guy was so smart and had so much foresight and everything that he's already producing a lot more of the drug so that he can keep on consuming it to be awesome. Moral of the story? Do drugs to be awesome. Like, seriously? What a disappointing movie.

8. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (NAY)
Natalie Portman stars as a woman who previously had an affair with a married man and therefore became the stepmother of their son. It is all very depressing because she still hasn't gotten over the death of her daughter, who died when she was only a few days old. She thought she killed her own baby and blamed herself for smothering her daughter with her breasts, which wasn't what happened. Later in the movie things start to look up and she starts to get along with her stepson. Whatever, can't really remember. Don't watch it unless you like depressing movies.

9. Rio (YAY!)
Yay I love this movie! It's about Blu! He was captured by poachers but luckily his crate fell out of the truck and he gets rescued. His owner later brings him to Rio to meet another female blue bird so that they can mate, because there're part of an endangered species. They have to escape stupid animal smugglers again and they meet 2 smaller birds (who can sing), a toucan and a dog. And Blu's owner falls in love with the guy who studies birds and who was responsible for persuading her to go to Rio in the first place. In the end, they escape from the stupid smugglers and Blu finally is able to fly! And they have a family for small blue birds! Yay for Rio!! The music is super nice too, I downloaded the soundtrack :)

10. Thor (KAY)
The best bits were when Thor visits the human world and doesn't really know how to behave properly. Thor and Jane (Natalie Portman) fall in love and stuff but when Thor goes back to Asgard to stop his brother and set things right, he had to destroy the bridge so he can't go back to Earth. But since Jane is a scientist she'll find a way, so it's okay. It's a predictable movie.

11. Beastly (NAY!!)
This movie SUCKS. It's about this guy who's all like, "Look at me! Hell yeah I'm handsome, popular and rich, so I'm pretty much a big deal." So Mary-Kate Olsen is the witch who's all like "Ugh you're so annoying, I'mma turn you into a weird looking tattooed man." but honestly, her spell wasn't really awesome because he didn't become beastly or anything, and he even got awesome tattoos which were able to move when the seasons changed. In order to break the spell, he has to find someone who truly loves him. So cliche. Then the stupid idiot gets all emo and stuff, then he starts liking Vanessa Hudgens and stalks her and then saves her and gets her to move in with him. He gives her a love letter but after that he gets all emo and thinks that she treats him only as a good friend, but she's all like, "No, stupid, I love you too" and she leaves for some school trip. The spell is broken and he regains his looks, then the girl is all like, "Okay I've changed my mind, I don't wanna go for the school trip anymore even though it's all I've been talking about", and so she looks around but she can't find her tattooed boyfriend and she doesn't believe the arrogant handsome guy so she calls him on his cellphone and realises that the arrogant handsome guy was the her tattooed boyfriend and so they kiss. Okay, I know there's a moral to this story but come on, this movie is totally BORING because it mainly shows this arrogant guy being emo and lonely. Beauty and the Beast was so much better. Best part of the movie was the last scene, which shows Mary-Kate who's gonna do the same to that guy's arrogant dad. Yay!

12. Paul (NAY)
Basically a movie about this funny, vulgar alien named Paul who was captured and confined in Area 51. He escapes and meets these two nerds and later on a woman who's super religious at first. Eventually they escape all the people who were coming after them and Paul returns to his home planet. It's a funny movie but it's stupid and not meaningful at all.

13. Water for Elephants (NAY!)
Omg this movie SUCKED. They ruined the novel! Trust Edward Cullen, oh I mean Robert Pattinson, to ruin everything. I'm not going to elaborate on what the movie is about and how they had changed certain parts of the story and how they didn't include certain parts or characters which they should have included. I'm just going to say: READ THE BOOK, DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE.

14. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (YAY)
Yay Johnny Depp! He's always so awesome as Captain Jack Sparrow. This movie isn't linked to the previous POTC movies. It's basically about searching for the fountain of youth. Okay, maybe some people are getting bored of POTC but to me it never gets old! And I'd prefer movies like this rather than long, draggy POTC movies which keep you in suspense until the next movie.

15. Kungfu Panda 2 (YAY!)
Omg hahaha I love Kungfu Panda! He's so funny and fat! And in this movie we learn about his past and saw his cute younger self! And he was found in a radish crate! No wonder his father is a goose! Oh yeah, and in the end the panda was able to achieve inner peace so he kicks the peacock's butt!! YAY!!^^ I just hope they don't go overboard with the third movie.

16. X-Men First Class (KAY)
I can remember this one, so this movie was quite okay. The prequel starts with people being cruel in WWII and after that the good mutants get together while the bad mutants are planning to destroy the world via the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the end Magneto kills the evil dude who had killed his mother (Yay), and becomes the leader of the evil side (Boo). No wonder Professor X always sits in a wheelchair.

17. Green Lantern (KAY)
Why so many movies about superheroes? Another OK movie. It starts with this alien who's a green lantern who dies and chooses this human to be the next green lantern. He plays with his lantern and ring, meets other green lanterns like Sinestro who's all like, "Eww, a human! He's probably weak. Let's get this big tough alien to train with him." And the human green lantern was all like, "Whatevs, I quit!" While that was going on, this scientist gets to examine the dead alien body but this yellow thing causes him to have super powers and go crazy. Anyway, the yellow thing is controlled by this ugly thing called Parallax and the Guardians were all like, "Kay let's create this yellow ring in order to get rid of the yellow substance and Parallax.", but the human green lantern was all like, "Noo, I'mma kill Parallax by bringing it towards the sun so that it can BURN." Then Parallax is gone and everyone's happy! Or not, because at the end Sinestro puts the yellow ring on his finger and starts looking evil.

18. Hangover Part 2 (NAY!!)
GROSS. And very pointless. There is no point to everything that happens and these guys never learn. Oh and did I say that the movie was gross?

19. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (KAY)
Does this movie need any further explanation? Like all the other Harry Potter movies, it doesn't live up to the books but it was okay I guess. It wasn't as boring as Prisoner of Azkaban or Order of the Phoenix, but it wasn't as good as the first two movies (Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets) either. And if you haven't read the books, don't talk as if you know shit because you're not a real fan.

20. Bridesmaids (KAY)
Okay, the main character is a lady who becomes the maid of honour for her best friend's wedding. She used to own a bakery too and she meets a guy who loves her baking and they obviously end up together. Anyway, she screwed up as the maid of honour and this bitch takes over but in the end everyone apologises to one another and everything turned out fine. Yay! Typical story about friendship but at least it was funny and kinda meaningful.

21. Captain America: The First Avenger (KAY)
Another superhero film. So this scrawny looking dude wants to enlist in the army and serve the nation or whatsoever real bad, but he got rejected until this random doctor allowed him to enlist. An experiment is performed on him and scrawny dude becomes bigger and more muscular. He was made a lame icon for a while until he rescues some soldiers. Then they give him a pretty shield and he goes on another mission. At the end he wakes up in an old looking room with a radio, runs out and finds out that he's been sleeping for a super long period of time. Oh yeah and of course there has to be a pretty lady officer whom the protagonist falls for. Can't really remember what the Nazis were up to.

22. Cowboys and Aliens (NAY!!!)
You know the movie sucks when you start shifting in your seat and wondering if it's ever going to be over. A totally predictable movie. I mean, come on, from the title you already know that it's about a bunch of cowboys fighting against aliens. No prizes guessing who would win this fight.

23. Zookeeper (YAY)
I enjoyed this feel good movie. Somehow it was so nice and funny to watch a bunch of animals trying to help the zookeeper with his love life. It was expected that the zookeeper would eventually realise that he wasn't happy with what that woman was turning him into, and he wasn't happy being with her either. Yay, happy ending for him and all the animals who get their zookeeper back!

24. Crazy Stupid Love (YAY)
Okay there're too many characters to talk about so I'm not gonna tell you what the movie was about, but it was definitely crazy and funny! The best scene was when the husband was trying to get his wife back with the help of his kids but everyone else comes over and everything is revealed and it was all chaotic.

25. Smurfs (NAY!)
I honestly thought that this movie would be good! It turned out to be as lame as Alvin and the Chipmunks, where you have a super lame plot and you see animated characters running around in the real world, causing trouble for the humans. Such lame movies are really not worth watching.

26. A Little Bit of Heaven (NAY!)
Omg this movie is so dumb as well. As if we don't have enough cliche movies about people dying from terminal illnesses.

27. 1911 (NAY)
So disappointed with Jackie Chan. I was so excited for this movie! It's Jackie Chan's 100th film and also the 100th anniversary of the 1911 revolution! I thought I'd actually get to learn something about the revolution and at the same time watch Jackie Chan in action but noo, this movie was so boring and messy that they didn't have a proper storyline. They just show you random scenes and throw a bunch of historical facts at you. The movie doesn't do the revolution, or Jackie Chan, any justice at all.

28. Friends With Benefits (YAY)
See No. 3, except this time it's Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake. They should stop making movies about the same thing, though.

29. Change Up (NAY)
Okay, this is precisely what I was talking about. If they continue making movies about the same thing, it'll definitely get old. I mean, how many shows are there about people switching bodies? Then they start to appreciate their own lives and they also appreciate the other person better. Okay whatever, we've seen enough here, time to move on.

30. What's Your Number (KAY)
This lady reads some shit in a magazine and realises that she had slept with 20 men and is probably unlikely to meet someone new who would be the one for her or something, so she tries to find all these 20 guys and see if they're right for her. She has the help of her male neighbour and they fall in love. Typical. At the end, one of her ex boyfriends calls to tell her that they never had sex, so her neighbour was actually her 20th and yay, she didn't go beyond 20. Okay, this is more like a movie that'd make people go like "Meh, whatevs" but at least it was funny.

31. One Day (NAY!)
Watched this because of Anne Hathaway but this movie seriously sucks. I heard it was good but I really don't get it. I mean, what's so nice about this movie? It's just about this guy and girl who graduated from the same school and they'd meet up once a year or something. The girl likes the guy but he's such an asshole and a flirt and a playboy or whatsoever. She tries to not like the guy by dating this other guy, but it didn't work out because that other guy could tell that she didn't really like him back. So the girl is mainly sad and whiny in the movie because the guy she likes is a douchebag. Then the jerk gets married because he got some woman pregnant but that woman had an affair so they got a divorce. After what seemed like a century, that idiot finally wakes up and realises that she's the one for him and they get married. And at this point I was like thinking "OMG FINALLY! The movie will end happily soon." They try to have their own baby and stuff but suddenly she gets hit by a truck while cycling home and she dies. WTF. So meaningless.

32. Footloose (KAY)
I don't know how the original 1984 film was like, but this one was like some movie on Disney channel. Like, "Do what you love! Follow your heart! Dance wherever and whenever you want to! Be free!" or some message like that. Basically a bunch of teenagers died in a car crash after partying, so dancing was banned. When the new kid moves into town, he finds it ridiculous and tries to change things. Quite a normal movie. Nothing special. The music wasn't even catchy.

33. You Are the Apple of My Eye (YAY!!!)
SUPER AWESOME MOVIE! It's so nice and cute and funny and everything!! It only thing that was a little disappointing was that the main characters did not get together in the end! But it's okay since the guy genuinely felt happy for her at her wedding and went to kiss the groom (LOL). The movie totally reminds me of secondary school days. A MUST WATCH.

34. Puss in Boots (YAY!!)
PUSS IS SO CUTE AS A SMALL KITTY! HE AND KITTY SOFTPAWS ARE SO CUTE TOGETHER! I WANNA WATCH AGAIN!

35. Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (NAY!!!!)
UGH why did I even watch this? We just ended up laughing at the movie. Jacob is all like "WTH Bella's gonna have sex with Edward while she's still a human? Dangerous shit!" Bella and Edward get married and after having sex Edward is like, "Look at those bruises!" but Bella's all like "It's okay, I like it rough" (HAHAHA quoted from Whatthebuck) Anyway she gets pregnant which is gross and she becomes all bony. Oh and there's the whole Werewolves vs. Vampires thing and the Jacob vs. Werewolves thing and whatsoever. Bella's bent on keeping the baby and has to drink blood and later she's thought to be dead but Edward bites her numerous times and she eventually becomes a vampire. LAME. Twilight is probably the most pointless story in the entire universe.

36. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (NAY!)
Omg I feel like I've just talked about this! See No. 25. The chipmunks and the chipettes get stuck on an island but later they are saved and as always, the movies ends with the chipmunks and chipettes singing and dancing on the stage. Boring!

37. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (YAY!)
Sherlock Holmes is just so awesome. The action, plot, and the witty dialogue: they have it all. What more can I say?


Whew that was a long post. I've watched so many movies! Maybe I should less movies this year. But I like watching movies with my friends anyway, even if the movies suck.

I'm 19! (late birthday post)

I turned 19 on December 13 this year.

When I was 18, I had new experiences.

I got my first job. (Relief teaching)
I was the top arts student. (Tyco)
I got 2 scholarship rejections.
I had stomach flu for the first time. (I don't wanna keep vomiting like a Merlion EVER AGAIN!)
I got into NUS. (Uni life is so different!)
I went overseas with my friends for the first time. (School trips not counted)
I went to KL/ Langkawi/ Genting/ Cameron Highlands for the first time.
I went to JB/ Hong Kong not for the first time, but the first time in a long time. (I can't remember overseas trips I had with my family when I was little)
I gave private tuition for the first time.
I survived on my own money and did not have an allowance for the first time. (Until I became seasonally unemployed).

I think that's it. I liked being 18!

Been going out almost everyday during my birthday month. Exhausted but joyful.

Edit: People keep telling me that they smsed me to wish my happy birthday but if I didn't reply, it means that I didn't receive your message because I was in KL. Thanks to those who tried to sms me anyway! Let me know if you did so that I can thank you personally as well!