Lame-chop

Saw a couple of good movies recently thanks to my good friend Jason.

Now they're not movies I normally go out to see - so I was quite impressed by how refreshingly amusing they were.

Couple of Fridays ago we went to watch at the International Film Festival at the outdoor theatre in Tamar. Astounded by the size of the huge blow-up screen and blow up castles (there was actually a blow-up Shaolin Soccer field), the Asian in me quickly jumped to the conclusion we could easily avoid going paying to enter the outdoor theatre altogether and watch it clearly from the bridge outside of the cinema. In fact, several other like-minded cheapskates had already leapt to the same conclusion and were happily indulging in a free presentation of "My Neighbour Totoro" from the opposite skyway.

Alas, we had already bought tickets (just kidding guys, I'm not that tight), and went to watch I Not Stupid 2.To be honest, I wasn't sure what to expect - having not seen I Not Stupid 1. The movie is about a bunch of kids in "Singapore's regimented education system ... that and their parents just don't understand lah!" Hilariously funny (though some of us seemed to think it was a tad preachy?), my favourite quote went something like this:

Dad and son are eating dinner. Dad tries to be cool, as dads generally do.

"Waiter, could you get me a laaaame-chop?"
"Oh, waiter? Could you please move this laame?" (points to a lamp)

Kid groans and mutters, "... so lame."


You know what else I've realised? Honkies have a twisted sense of humour. They'll happily laugh away at the troubles of others - and they love to bitch and gossip. In one particular scene where on of the main character's father dies (dies!) from a major head trauma ... and the next thing you see a picture of his coffin, and the entire audience decides it's an appropriate time to piss themselves.

So you'd think - of course, there must have been something somewhat amusing about his death right? No, he dies from a major head trauma. Falling down stairs after getting beaten up by three guys whilst trying to save his teenage son. Coming out of a coma, whilst crying and pleading to the headmaster of the school to give his boy another chance with his studies ... anyway its a sad moment - I'm actually am in the middle of wiping my eyes (yeah real men cry too yer know?) whilst the two girls sitting behind me are in laughing so much you'd think rice is going to come out of their nose.

Last week we also went and watched The Heavenly Kings. To be honest, I'm not too sure how I'm going to go about describing this flick. It's a documentary (I think mock-umentary is the correct word?) that follows a Honky boyband named "Alive" from its humble roots to stardom. Now I know that's not much to go by - but trust me, it was funny as hell (lucky I didn't eat rice) and it was extremely well-made. My mate was actually passing by whilst they took the photo above Watch it if you ever get the chance!

Almost as funny as what's on tv right now - they're advertising for vibrating tummy-exercising machines.