[TV] Gossip Girl

A teenage soap show that I watched during Christmas (see how lazy I am). A story bases on the best-selling series novel Gossip Girl. The script is great, so as the scenes, actors and the clothes.
At first, I was attracted by the cast especially Blake Lively. But then after watching the whole season, I like Leighton Meester most. I just love the way she dresses in the show. So classic and elegant.

It's actually little J, but I like that mask. Kind of elvish.


It will return with new episodes in April 2008.

Juno [spoiler contained]

A 16-year old girl got pregnant unexpectedly and later on decided to give the baby to a couple. End.

The storyline is not unusual. What actually win my heart are the script and Ellen Page (Juno). The dialogue is clever and humorous. I can't hold my laughter throughout the movie. Picking Ellen Page as Juno is a smart choice. She totally acted as the independent, clever and charming Juno that it is impossible not to like her.

Hoping that it will grab the Best Writing in Oscar. Ellen Page's performance is 'good' in this movie but it becomes ' not bad' when compared to her strongest competitor in Oscar . (Honestly, I think Cate Blanchett will be the Best Actress this year.)


Score:4/5

Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street[spoiler contained]

Never Forget. Never Forgive.

Maybe I expected too much from this movie. (Anyway, it's the Johnny Depp and Tim Burton thing.) The storyline is extremely simple--revenge. Benjamin Barker(a.k.a Sweeney Todd) returns to London to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin. He opens a barber shop in the place he originally lives in before jail and cuts the victims' throat and ends their lives. Simple enough. It's not what I expect.

Except form the storyline, everything is just fine. It's like a musical rather than a movie. ( I do appreciate Depp's voice.) Several songs in the movie are from the Broadway musical itself like this one:

Alright! You, sir?/How about a shave?/Come and visit/Your good friend
Sweeney!/You sir! Too, sir/Welcome to the grave./I will have vengenance./I will
have salvation... /Who, sir? You sir!/No one's in the chair come on, come
on/Sweeney's waiting/I want you bleeders./ You sir? Anybody?/Gentlemen, now
don't be shy/Not one man/No, nor ten men/Nor a hundred can assuage me.

It makes me want to buy the soundtrack. I love the cinematography most, especially the contrast between the life of the foolish Mr. Barker and the evil Mr. T. Love the costumes as well. But all these can't cover up the emptiness of the story.

It is rated III in HK for the graphic bloody violence; somehow, I found it not that bloody (when you compare it with Battle Royale). But the scene when Mr. T kills Judge Turpin did shocked me.

(A side note: The beggar in the movie (Laura Michelle Kelly) acts as Galadriel in the Lord Of The Rings play in London.)

Love and Other Disaters

"Maybe true love is a decision, a decision to take a chance with somebody. To give to somebody without worrying whether they’ll give anything back or if they’re gonna hurt you or if they really are the one.Maybe love isn’t something that happens to you. Maybe it’s something you have to choose.We should find out that true love is an event, not a process."

My favorite line from the movie.

Watched this one a few months ago for a very naive reason---the 50-second Orlando Bloom scene at the end of the movie. (I did counted. Don't expect much, though.) But the whole thing turns out to be unexpectedly good. A romantic comedy that really makes a good laugh. Go for it if you like Notting Hill and Love Actually.

Oh...forgot to mention the leading actor--Santiago Cabrera is the one who acted Isaac Mendez (the painter) in TV series Heros.

Dior Midnight Poison

I like the DM very much.

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Location: Opéra Garnier, Paris

Music: Space Dementia by Muse

Dress by John Galliano for Dior

Actress: Eva Green (Personally don't fond of her *coughduetokingdomofheavencough*)

Love the dress as well.

As a result....

grey









以為自是 的我.






no more in sem b.
You will see.

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