Both me and FKToo love going to the movies. We would go anywhere for a movie. Here's what we have watched recently.
(*Plot & photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Happy Feet 2
Mumble (
Elijah Wood) and Gloria's (
Alecia Moore (P!nk)) son Erik (
Ava Acres) is reluctant to try dancing as most of the penguins in
Emperor-land do. Erik's first attempt at dancing embarrasses and outcasts him from the rest of the penguins. After Ramon's (
Robin Williams) misguided advice that Emperor-Land isn't fit for outcast penguins like themselves, Erik and his two friends Boadicia (
Meibh Campbell) and Atticus (
Lil P-Nut) follow Ramon back to
Adélie-Land. Upon returning, Ramon learns that Adélie-Land has been ruled by a God-like penguin named The Mighty Sven (
Hank Azaria). Sven is the last of his kind who survived death by his ability to fly. Erik instantly becomes enamored with Sven, who takes a liking to him as well as there are "many brave warriors named Erik" back in Svenland. Sven and Lovelace (
Robin Williams) tell the story of The Mighty Sven, who was rescued by a Russian vessel and rehabilitated alongside Lovelace. One night Sven discovers the "
aliens" that saved them cooking and eating chicken meat. He flees the boat with Lovelace in tow. The two wind up on the shore of
Antartica, where Sven performs his first miracle by revealing moss to the local penguins. Ramon accuses Sven of being a fraud and a false idol, until Sven uses his power of "Sven Think" to help Ramon find a mate. Ramon instantly falls in love with Carmen (
Sofía Vergara), another Adélie penguin who shows no interest in him. Mumble follows the chicks' footprints to Adélie land and orders them to return to Emperor-Land. The chicks refuse, especially Erik, who has adopted Sven as a hero. Sven encourages Erik to believe in himself, because "Sven believes in you", before sending Erik back to Emperor-land with Mumble.
Meanwhile, the story shifts to two krill in the midst of a swarm. Will (
Brad Pitt) is an adventurous and existentialist krill determined to discover what lies beyond the krill swarm. His friend, Bill, (
Matt Damon) reluctantly follows him to ensure his safety. Once separated from the swarm, Will and Bill realize that krill are at the bottom of the food chain, created to be eaten. Inspired, Will ventures out to evolve and "move up the food chain", eating a real creature instead of being eaten.
On the way back from Adélie-Land, Mumble tells Erik that he is unique to the world and that he will someday find his calling. Erik, still inspired by Sven's words of wisdom, quickly dismisses Mumble's advice. While trying to cross a perilous ice bridge, the penguins encounter Bryan the Beach Master (
Richard Carter) and his two young sons, who refuse to let the penguins pass. Suddenly the ice gives away and Bryan is trapped in a deep crevice below the ice. Mumble sets out to free Bryan by antagonizing a sleeping
leopard seal until it chases him down. In actuality, it is the work of Bill and Will "moving up the food chain" and trying to eat a creature with a face that awakens the seal. During the fight, Mumble manages to use the leopard seal to shatter the wall of ice between Bryan and the sea, saving his life. Seeking acceptance from Erik, Mumble is disheartened to learn Erik attributed the feat of courage to Sven Think, Sven's motivational process of achieving what one wants by willing it to happen. Bryan returns to the
Elephant Seal beach, but not before thanking Mumble and promising to return the favor to him at any time.
When the penguins returns to Emperor-Land they are shocked to discover a large iceberg has struck their home, trapping the entire Emperor Penguin population below large walls of ice. Boadicia ventures out to Adélie Land to recruit the help of Ramon, the Amigos and all the Adélie penguins to bring fish to the doomed Emperor penguins. In the meantime Mumble, Erik and Atticus deliver meager supplies of fish to the trapped penguins. Erik, still convinced penguins can fly through Sven Think, attempts to deliver a fish to Gloria by flying and nearly tossing himself over the edge of the iceberg. Mumble scolds Erik for his beliefs, claiming that no penguin can fly and that none of the Emperor Penguins will be able to escape. Once Erik realizes Emperor-Land is destined to die, he begins to break down. Gloria sends Mumble off to hunt for fish, calming Erik and the rest of the hysterical Emperor-Land through song (
Bridge of Light). In the process, Bill becomes inspired to create another swarm of krill but Will refuses, preferring to adhere to his new predator lifestyle.
The next morning, a large flock of
Skua attack the trapped Emperor-Land. Noah the Elder (
Hugo Weaving) encourages the penguins to stand up to the birds (
Anthony LaPaglia,
Michael Cornacchia) through perseverance and unity. When all hope seems lost, Boadica returns with the entire Adélie-Land, led by Sven, to aid the trapped Emperor Penguins. Sven orchestrates a cooperative effort to feed the trapped Emperor Penguins through hunting and bringing back a flow of fish from the sea.
During this period Will becomes increasingly agitated with Bill's behavior and ventures out alone, into the Adélie feeding swarm, to join "fellow predators". In the process he is whisked away attached to a fish carried by Sven and down into the trapped Emperor-Land.
Suddenly the Adélie penguins recognize the same Russian vessel that saved Sven and Lovelace. Sven, terrified for his life, flees and hides from the humans. Lovelace, meanwhile, swims to the top of an iceberg and dances to attract the ship's attention. He successfully leads the humans back to Emperor-Land, where they begin carving a path up the side of the iceberg to freedom. Halfway through the effort, a large storm rolls in, forcing the penguins to huddle up and the humans to flee. The next morning Sven returns, reporting that the ocean has frozen over significantly and there is no chance of the humans returning or the Adélie Penguins transporting food over such a distance. Tensions arise as the Emperor Penguins become frantic at the lack of food and attempt to launch themselves into the air and "fly" out of the crevice. Erik urges Sven to teach the penguins how to fly, but he reveals his true nature. Sven is a not a penguin at all, but a
Puffin-- and puffins can fly. He admits that after the loss of Svenland, he was lonely and grew to love the penguins who accepted him as a family. Dejected, Sven flies off. Mumble, after watching snow fall into a crevice between chunks of iceberg, begins to tap-dance on the ice and lead the Adélie penguins in a dance to force snow between the ice and weaken it. The plan works well until several chunks break loose, sending a large portion of the Adélies into the doomed crevice. In attempting to save Erik from plummeting over the edge, Mumble injures his foot and is unable to dance and lead the Adélies. Ramon realizes Carmen is trapped below and, risking his own life, jumps off the iceberg to be with her. As he professes his love to her, she immediately falls in love with him.
Sven becomes aware of the dancing and proves himself to be a worthy dancer despite public outcry against him. He leads the remaining Adélies in dance (
Dragostea din tei) while Erik and Mumble venture off to the Elephant Seal beach.
Meanwhile Will, weary from the dangers he experienced as a predator on the surface, ventures back into the sea to find Bill, but not before experiencing the penguin's dancing. He is suddenly forced down a crack in the ice and into the sea beneath Emperor-Land. He reunites with Bill and his swarm, who tell him he has the purpose of changing the world and evolving the swarm. Once Bill told the swarm of their position on the food chain and their lives as pure herbivores, they followed him to the safety of the inaccessible ice below Emperor-Land.
Mumble and Erik arrive at Elephant Seal Beach where Bryan is in the middle of a fight of dominance between another large male. Mumble pleads with the elephant seals to help free the Emperor Penguins. Bryan, initially hesitant to return a favor at such a pivotal time of the year, becomes aggressive and threatens Mumble off the beach. Erik, unnerved by the lack of honor and respect from Bryan, discovers his true ability- a strong operatic voice. He sings an impromptu opera, commemorating Mumble as his hero for his acts of bravery and chides Bryan for his lack of compassion and gratitude towards him. At the end he runs up and hugs Mumble, accepting him as his inspiration. Touched by Erik's song, the elephant seals travel to Emperor-Land to free the penguins (
Rawhide). The penguins and the seals begin slamming the ice on beat, joined by the krill below the ice, to the tune of "
Under Pressure". Finally, the iceberg crumbles enough for the Emperor Penguins to climb out of the crevice and reunite with their families.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
On the night of her wedding to
Edward Cullen,
Bella Swan is visited by her friend
Jacob Black. When Bella accidentally indicates to him that she and Edward plan to consummate their marriage during their honeymoon, Jacob tries to attack Edward but members of his wolf pack hold him back. He then runs off into the woods, and Edward takes an upset Bella back to the reception.
The couple spends their honeymoon on a private island in Brazil. Although hesitant, Edward has sex with Bella for the first time. After Edward realizes that he bruised Bella's arm, back and shoulders during sex, he says that he will never have sex with her again, much to her disappointment; he later gives in to her seductions. Two weeks into their honeymoon, Bella discovers that she is pregnant with a fetus growing at an extraordinarily accelerated rate, and they rush back to Forks. Bella refuses to heed the urging from most of the Cullens for her to have an abortion, and enlists Rosalie to protect her wishes.
Opposed to Sam Uley's plans to kill Bella and her child, Jacob leaves the pack in protest and arrives at the Cullen house to protect Bella; Seth and Leah Clearwater join him. As the pregnancy progresses, Bella's health severely detoriates. As a last resort, she begins drinking blood, which satisfies the fetus and allows her to regain some strength. Soon afterward Bella goes into a very painful labor and gives birth to her daughter, Renesmee. To save her life by turning her into a vampire, Edward injects Bella's heart with his venom, but nothing happens, and Bella is thought to be dead. Greatly distraught, Jacob attempts to kill the baby, but stops when he realizes he has imprinted on the child.
When the werewolves learn of Bella's death, they attack the Cullen house to try to kill the baby. They stop when they learn of Jacob's imprinting of Renesmee, which, under werewolf law, means Renesmee cannot be harmed. Bella's wounds heal and she wakes up with red eyes as a new-born vampire.
In a post-credits scene, the Volturi learn of Bella's conversion; Aro notes that this is not the end of their dispute with the Cullens, as the Cullens "have something he wants."
Puss in Boots
Sometime before Puss (
Antonio Banderas) meets Shrek and Donkey in
Shrek 2, he arrives at a town while escaping a
bounty hunter. There he learns that the outlaw couple Jack (
Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (
Amy Sedaris) have the magic beans he's been looking for most of his life, beans that can lead him to a giant's castle holding valuable golden goose eggs. When Puss tries to steal them from the outlaws' room, a masked cat (
Salma Hayek) interrupts. Both fail and escape, and Puss follows the cat back a club, where they have a dance-off and a sword fight, ending when Puss hits the masked cat in the head with a guitar. He learns that the masked cat was Kitty Softpaws. She is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty (
Zach Galifianakis), a talking egg and Puss' long-estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Overcoming Puss' feelings of betrayal for a youthful misadventure when Humpty tricked Puss into helping commit a crime, they convince him to join them in finding the beans and retrieving the golden eggs.
The trio steals the beans from Jack and Jill and elude the angry outlaws in a canyon chase. As Humpty leads his compatriots to the spot where they must plant the beans, Puss and Kitty's relationship begins to grow from rivalry into friendship. The trio ride the fast-growing beanstalk into the clouds where, Humpty explains, they'll find castle of the late giant. Now, he continues, a fearsome monster called the Terror guards the Golden Goose. When they realize the golden eggs are too heavy to carry, they steal the Goose — which is just a gosling — and escape the castle and the Terror. While celebrating their victory, the group is ambushed by Jack and Jill, who knock Puss unconscious.
When Puss wakes up, he tracks Jack and Jill back to his old hometown, where he learns that the entire heist was a plot by Humpty to lure him home to be captured, as revenge for abandoning him to the authorities when Humpty's youthful heist went bad. Jack, Jill, and even Kitty were involved in the con. After pleas from his adoptive mother, the head of the orphanage, Puss turns himself in to the guards while Humpty donates many golden eggs to the town and becomes a hero.
While in prison, Puss meets the original Jack from the "
Jack and the Beanstalk" story who warns him that the Terror is in fact the Golden Goose's mother, and it will stop at nothing to get its child back. A repentant Kitty helps Puss break out of prison. Puss convinces Humpty to help him fight off the Terror, saying he knows Humpty is a good person at heart, and he will be forgiven if he helps save the town. The Terror arrives, revealing itself to be a giant goose. Using the Golden Goose as bait, Puss and Humpty lure the Terror out of the town, but Humpty and the Goose are knocked off a bridge with Puss holding on to them. Humpty knows Puss cannot hold both of them, and he lets go, sacrificing himself to save the Goose and the town. Humpty's shell cracks open to reveal that he was a golden egg on the inside. The Terror then takes the Goose and Humpty away back to the giant's castle.
Puss is forced to flee because he is still an outlaw, but his efforts to save the town make him a hero among the townspeople. Puss and Kitty escape the guards once more, and Kitty says she will see him again soon, showing that she has taken his boots. In the epilogue, Jack and Jill are recovering from their injuries after being crushed by the Terror, Humpty is shown once again in his regular egg form as he rides the Terror into the clouds, and Puss and Kitty head back to dance at Kitty's hideout, the Glitter Box, where they finally kiss.
Seeking Justice
The film is about Nick Gerard (Cage) who, after his wife Laura (Jones) is raped and assaulted, enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. However Nick discovers some of the group led by Simon (Pearce) demands a favour in return and when he refuses, they frame him for murder, leading him into a world where anyone who is deemed even the slightest threat to this group is dealt with and anyone he knows could be a potential member of the group.
Arthur Christmas
The story of Arthur Christmas revolves around the current
Santa Claus, his wife, his two sons Arthur and Steve, and their grandfather, Grandsanta. Set on
Christmas Eve night, the film opens with a set of elves sitting behind their computers at the commando bridge of Santa's gigantic, ultra-high-tech sleigh. While Santa and the elves deliver presents to children using fancy advanced equipment and military precision, Santa's oldest son Steve is managing the operation at mission control. Suddenly, Santa's clumsy younger son Arthur, who works at the post station answering childrens' letters, rushes into to deliver correspondence disturbing their operation to everyone's resentment.
With the seventieth annual delivery mission under his official command completed, Santa, whose role in field operations now is largely symbolic, returns to give a congratulatory speech to the elves. Much to Steve's frustration, who has long anticipated succeeding his father, Santa announces he intends to continue for the foreseeable future.
During their family Christmas dinner, Arthur's suggestion for the family to play a board game degenerates into a petty quarrel with Santa and Steve proxy arguing about their right to be Santa while Grandsanta, who is bored by retirement, resentfully criticizes his successors' modernization of their calling. Distraught, the various family members leave the dinner table, though Arthur stops Steve with a small gesture to reassure him that he will be a great Santa Claus. However, Steve rejects Arthur's overture, while at the same time their father shares his doubts with his wife about his self-identity if he retires.
Meanwhile, an elf named Bryony finds a wrapped bicycle that has not yet been delivered. She alerts Steve and his elf-assistant to the problem. Overhearing, Arthur is alarmed to recognize the present as a gift for a little girl named Gwen, who had written Santa about her wish. Arthur alerts his father Santa, obviously past his prime, who doesn't know how to handle the situation. Steve argues that one missed present out of the billions of deliveries that night is a minimal error and since sunrise is in two hours with the high-tech sled needing an overhaul, correcting that oversight will have to wait a few days.
The distraught Arthur is stopped by his grandfather, who proposes delivering the gift with his old wooden sleigh named Evie, and the great-grandchildren of his old reindeer. Together, Grandsanta, Arthur, the reindeer, and Bryony who stows away, embark on a journey to deliver the present. They get lost and land in danger including they are mistaken for aliens, thus causing an international military incident and losing reindeer in the various mishaps. Through the group's struggles, Arthur is profoundly disillusioned to learn that Grandasanta is doing this merely to satisfy his ego, Steve refuses to help them out of a petty resentment of perceiving that Arthur is threatening his succession and his own father has gone to bed, apparently content to neglect his duty to that girl.
Finally, while stranded in Cuba after losing the sleigh, Arthur gets an renewal of purpose that the girl needs him and the field team manages regain control of the sleigh. Meanwhile, the Elf staff are collectively alarmed at learning of this neglected delivery and Santa's befuddled excuses sends them into a panic that their organization's ideals have been violated, threatening their whole existence. In response, Mr. and Mrs. Clause, and belatedly Steve, take the high tech sleigh to deliver the present. Unfortunately, they are seriously delayed by a basic mistake by Santa with the craft's navigation system which causes a embarrassing incident that reveals Steve's lack of empathy and compassion with his poor handling of the mistaken child while the elder son, humiliated at the misunderstanding, loses his temper at his father's aged incompetence.
After much difficulty with Mrs. Claus and Bryony's help, all the male Clauses arrive at Gwen's house before she awakens, only to have all but Arthur quarrel about who finally places the gift. Noticing that only Arthur truly cares about the girl's feelings in the Christmas spirit in this situation, the elder Clauses realize that he is the sole true worthy successor. As a result, Santa gives Arthur the honor and Steve forfeits his birthright to his brother.
Ultimately, the problem of who will be the next Santa Claus is settled to everyone's satisfaction: Santa goes into a happy retirement with Mrs. Claus while Grandsanta's desire for some traditionalism is satisfied with the compromise of the high tech sleigh being pulled by a 5000 reindeer team lead by the original eight reindeer, who all managed to return home after that difficult run. As for their sons, Steve finds he is content being CEO, overseeing the operation's technical matters with Vice President Bryony's help while Arthur happily guides the enterprise in the proper spirit as the new Santa
Surely there are more movies awaiting to be seen. Missed a few but I'll be looking out for its DVD.
1. Reel Steel - Got DVD.
2. Abuya - a controversial movie. Missed it but a must find.
3. Aku bukan tomboy - Going soon as FKToo wants to watch this.
4. Ombak Rindu - Going soon with housemate.
5. Tintin - one of my favorite toons when I was younger.
6. Immortals - wanted to but a friend commented that its not so good so 50/50.
7. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
8. Muppets - My favorite puppet show when I was younger, love Kermit the Frog.
9. Songlap
10. Alvin and the Chipmunks 3
11. StarWars Ep 1 on 3D
So many movies to see and will keep us busy. Not to mention the trips to waterworld, zoo, aquaria, skating rink, karaoke, amusement park, Genting Highlands, Taman Negara, Perak ... all planned for our holidays. But first!! Mummy have to heal her ankle and clear her exams. Hmmm....
Okay readers... We are at the end of 2011. So much has happened in the year. Happiness & sorrows, hope & betrayals, disillusionments & disappointments, love & hate, friendships & family. Time to reflect back on what I have gone through in the year before planning my steps ahead to 2012. Hopefully, this will help me in paving the path of my life journey. 
My first semester in OUM was a success. I've managed to achieve Dean's List for my 1st semester as targeted. Not only that, I've got a 4flat. (o.0) I even shocked myself. Never thought I could get that score. It inspired me to continue on, telling myself... I really could do this.
For all who knew me personally knows that this is a never ending battle for me. My highest for the year is 78.2kg. Last I weighed myself I was at 74.6kg. My final effort for the year, joining a bootcamp, was a disaster as I sprained my ankle on the 1st 2 minutes of session, resulting to a bench sitting session instead.
Okay. This is the tricky part. Having flexibility in time is great but working on your own means no stability. Something that I could not afford to have. So, I've started job hunting since November without any luck yet. At my age, I know it is not easy to get a job with so many competitors out there. Plus, not like I have any technical abilities that can make me stand out or specialized. Any freshie can do administration/secretarial work. I had to bank on my past experiences in various industries to make me more unique. Although it might scare off potential employers as it seems that I change jobs frequently, all I need is an interview to be able to explain myself why. 
Reflecting back, the whole year was a year of ups and downs. New found friends, renewing old friendships, lost of trust, rekindling old flames, forgive and forgets. 
