Nur Kasih The Movie: The Review

Dengan kuasa hebat yang ada pada saya, saya telah berjaya mengajak tiga rakan tidak sebangsa untuk menonton filem Nur Kasih the Movie di panggung bersama-sama. Ini kira macam kerja kemasyarakatanlah dan bertunjangkan semangat Satu Malaysia. Clap! Clap! Clap! Tiada seorang pun daripada kami pernah menonton siri TV Nur Kasih jadi kesemua kami berada dalam kegelapan tentang apa yang akan terjadi dalam movie ini nanti. Suami saya ada prep sikit tentang cerita Nur Kasih ni dan sebanyak itu lah yang dikongsikan bersama kawan-kawan satu pejabat ni. 

Tepat pukul tujuh, keempat-empat kami masuk ke dalam panggung tanpa berbekalkan bertih jagung atau air soda coca cola sebab dah kekenyangan makan nasi di Restoran Assam House. Ada sedikit menyesal juga sebab bertih jagung GSC sedap. Masuk-masuk sahaja kami disajikan dengan promo-promo akan datang cerita Melayu di pawagam. Lantas keluarlah Karak, Toyol Nakal dan 321 Cinta. Ketika promo Karak ditayangkan, kawan-kawan bukan sebangsa ketawa berdekah-dekah sebab menyangka ianya cerita komedi. Aduh! Kemudian Toyol Nakal pula muncul dan terus memalukan saya dengan membawa zaman 80an bersama-sama dengan Mr Os kembali ke pawagam. Dalam benak ada terfikir bahawa orang Melayu memang berani sebab buang duit tak tentu pasal. Ok.. cukuplah tentang itu. 

Berbalik kepada Nur Kasih The Movie. Saya tak nak buat ulasan macam orang lain buat sebab tentu sahaja lebih kurang sama. Jadi saya nak buat dalam format Soalan dan Jawapan. 

1. Apa yang saya harapkan tetapi tidak terjadi? 
Menangis selepas movie start lima minit.

2. Apa yang menarik sangat tentang Nur Kasih the Movie? 
Jalan cerita yang mantap dan cinematografi yang indah.

3. Apa yang membuat saya ketawa? 
Dalam babak kereta api meletup, ada orang Jordan yang berlari dengan serban terbakar. 

4. Apa yang boleh dibuat dengan lebih baik? 
Sepatutnya ada sedikit tension di antara Nur dengan Aidil... mcm ada sedikit lagi chemistry terhalang, barulah parah... at least on Aidil's part sebab dia dah duda. 

5. Scene mana yang buat saya menangis? 
Ketika ibu Adam bercakap dengan Adam di hospital tentang tanggungjawab ibu terhadap anak. 

6. Apa yang buat saya sakit hati atau irri (kata orang muda)? 
Ketika Adam nak pergi cari a pin in a stack of hay. Motif? 

7. Apa scene yang ada sedikit tak logik? 
Kenapa Nur boleh lukis gambar budak kecik pakai serban tu dengan begitu detail sekali. Ke saya ada terlepas mana-mana related scene?   

8. Apa scene yang sedikit menakutkan dan menimbulkan tanda tanya? 
Tangan orang tua yang keluar dalam scene-scene tertentu 

9. Apa scene yang membuat saya suka? 
Ketika mereka dapat berita gembira dan si suami buat kerja-kerja dapur. 

10. Apa elemen negatif yang ada dalam filem ini? 
Sadis sikit. kemalangan demi kemalangan demi kemalangan. 

11. Apa elemen positif yang ada dalam Nur Kasih the movie? 
Hidup mati di tangan Tuhan. Kesungguhan akan membuahkan hasil. Pengorbanan itu perlu tetapi mungkin bukan dengan kerelaan hati. Dan mati itu pasti. 

12. Dialog yang buat saya rasa nak jumpa pengarah 
"Nur takut  abang terbabas kalau Nur beritahu abang yang Nur mengandung"... laaaa, itu namanya cari pasal. Kalau takut.. tunggulah sampai berhenti kereta dulu ye. 

13. Dialog yang buat saya sebak 
"Ibu akan sentiasa memaafkan kesilapan anaknya... itu tanggungjawab"... something like that lah.

14. Watak sampingan yang menghiburkan. 
Budak Jordan pakai aviator dan anak perempuan Aidil yang keletah. 

15. Watak sampingan yang begitu berlakon sekali. 
Mamat-mamat Jordan yang kena tembak dalam adegan slow motion. 

16. Apa yang memelikkan? 
Kenapa anak Aidil lebih handsome daripada anak Adam dan Nur? 

17. Ada satu lagi yang buat saya pelik. 
Kenapa Nur kelihatan lebih tua daripada Aidil dan Aidil tua kelihatan lebih tinggi dan kacak daripada Aidil muda?

18. Filem ini mengingatkan saya cerita apa? 
The Notebook 

19. Adakah cerita Nur Kasih The Movie perlu ditonton? 
Sudah tentu kerana penceritaannya bagus, pengajarannya banyak dan boleh membersihkan mata. 

 20. Berapa bintang daripada saya? **** 4 bintang. 
Sekian, terima kasih. 

"Nur Kasih The Movie": The Anticipation

My husband came back from the office one day and told me that he had seen probably the best Malay movie ever! You HAVE to watch it! I've never seen Nur Kasih the series, why should I get excited about the movie? He promised me that it doesn't matter because what matter is, you are going to cry after 5 mins into the movie and you'll get all your answers in the movie. Some scenes of the movie were shot in Jordan and the director is Kabir Bhatia. Okay.. Kabir's name got me excited because he knows how to play with emotions but if my husband is excited, I should too because he has good taste in film. No way he's gonna say that a movie is nice when it sucks. 

So, the plan is to bring the whole Malay staff in the company for a movie on 19th May 2011 and if some Chinese staff want to join also, is gonna be more fun. And the plan is, to NOT wear any mascara or eye make up for the occasion. And the plan is to bring sufficient supply of tissues in case we decided to cry our eyes out. 

We have marked our calendar to watch the best Malay movie ever 19 days from today!

Unstoppable: A Cool Choice

I'm not into action movies, I'm a drama-mama. I love watching dramas, not making dramas in my life though.  Didn't have much expectation for Unstoppable but this movie has Denzel Washington, based on true events and it's about a train. It could NOT be lame, could it? 

The story is straightforward. An unmanned train is going towards the city carrying hazardous-explosive-materials, and a slide derail could cause a catastrophe to the highly populated city in Pennslyvania. Two train workers, Denzel and Chris Pine are trying to stop the train. Somehow, as a moviegoer, you know that the city is going to be safe and these two are going to become heroes. It's all about the journey, and not the destination, and I'm telling you the journey is EX-CITE-TING!

I like the camera works, it makes you cringe in suspense! This is a race against time and as the 777 train picks up speed, your adrenaline rushes in!  But why do they need too many useless police cars around? Are they going to build a wall that could stop the train or what? Just stay in your stations and eat your donuts please, officers! And the presence of a helicopter on top of the train while Chris Pine is trying to tie the trains together is not helping also, is it? Helicopter blows strong wind, so .... please can you shoo! But overall, I think this is a cool movie to watch. 

Rating: 3.5 Radars

Easy A: Easy On the Eyes

I've always been a fan of movies that have narration, as I feel closer to the person telling the story. Easy A is that kind of movie and Emma Stone, is as cool as a cucumber in this one. She plays Olive Penderghast, a good high school girl gone bad in this movie directed by John Hughes, popular for his Home Alone trilogy. She narrates heavily throughout this movie about how her reputation was ruined for the lies that she told, started with the one she told her best friend. Everybody's convinced that she's a tramp and she has to set the record straight to win the heart of a boy she likes. I bet a lot of people could relate with this movie for high school experience and issues are almost similar worldwide. In Malaysia for example, we are made to wear uniform to school but nobody have any control over students' big mouth. And I believe now is even worse than when i was in school dinosaur years ago with the availability of social networks to spread the news faster. 

I really like Olive's parents in this movie, I think on some level parents need to chill a bit. Kids make mistakes. They do. We all did. Understanding and leniency are necessary to gain trust and respect from our children. When we build that connection with our children, they will return to us for solace and comfort. The overly-religious group of students will always be in high-school no matter where you are and Amanda Bynes as Marianne is irritatingly good! You can't be in heaven if you keep on judging people, you know. Haha! 

Emma Stone shines in this movie, not in Natalie Portman's Black Swan way but in her own cool way. For an easy watch, I highly recommend Easy A. 

Rating: 4 Radars

Aftershock, The Great Chinese Movie & Jay Chou Better Stay in Chinese Movie

My husband told me that he's going to watch a movie about earthquake. I suppose he'd told me earlier about this movie but my mind works in a mysterious way. I was picturing a documovie about an earthquake in China so I was feeling so-so about it. 10 mins into the movie I was hooked. 30 minutes into the movie, I had a box of tissue on my lap and as the movie went on, I was a mess! A mother was made to choose between saving her son or her daughter and losing the other. And she chose the son, believing that the daughter was dead. The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 took the lives of nearly a quarter of a million Chinese and this movie's premise is the life after that quake. The injured girl woke up to find her father dead besides her and that her mother and brother had abandoned her. She's adopted by an army couple who didn't know anything about her past. 32 years after, another earthquake brought this family together in the most heart-wrenching scene ever. A daughter believed her mother had chosen his brother over her, and a mother who believed that her beloved daughter had died for 32 years. And the movie also depicted the unconditional love of an adopted family to the victim of the earthquake. 

Rating: 4 Radars

On another tone, I was really disappointed to spend time and money on The Green Hornet in Gold Class with my husband. I never thought the movie could be this bad. This is a movie about a son (Seth Rogen) of a newspaper mogul who wanted to be a badass but at the same time wanted to be a good guy (confuse confuse). First, what had the father done to him to make him hate the father so much until he decapitated the father's statue in the cemetery? Just because your father threw the head of your action figure into the dustbin, it doesn't mean that he's a jerk. Maybe you are a jerk! Then entered Kato (Jay Chou)... the father's mechanic. Apparently, he was also forced to make good coffee for the son -- that's why he hated his master so much? What a wuss!!  Then these two whiners plan to get some justice (for what?) and the series of stupidity continued.The movie plots were so weak I didn't know where to begin. A superhero who's not good at anything. A villain who's not good enough to be a badass. A sidekick who couldn't mutter anything correctly. Seriously folks, Jay Chou can't act in English!!!! Even one simple line he couldn't deliver properly. I could give him a break for his mother tongue is clearly NOT English but the acting....? who's going to defend you for THAT? Better stick to what you know best, watching movies and singing Chinese songs. You are not ready to take on Hollywood no matter how cool you think you are!

And please please please do not make The Green Hornet sequel..... I beg of you. 

Rating: 2 Radars

Eat, Pray, Love: Did You Expect An Action Movie?

It's been such a long time since I watched a grown up movie and I'd been kinda waiting for this one to show. However, after reading tons of reviews in the Internet, I was a bit scared to watch. I like the book, I was afraid that the movie is going to screw it up. Haven't watched New Moon yet and most probably would not and I was utterly disappointed with Kite Runner, the movie. So, I went into the cinema, ready to be let down.


First of all, I found the husband of Liz in this movie rather too disconnected to her in every sense. Julia Roberts is huge and when you put her besides someone trivial, it's just awkward. If I were watching DVD, I'd fast forward whenever the husband appear, plus he's not good looking. Don't judge me, I have eyes. Perhaps, it's meant that way but I maintain that it's a casting mistake. After a rather stoic divorce request by Liz, entered James Franco as David, her love affair during her divorce process. And when everything else in her life didn't excite her (including sex with a 28 year old hottie) she's so afraid of being zombie-like and decided to take off to three different places, Italy to eat, India to pray and Bali to find love. Obviously she has money and for those who don't,  you can try local towns. 


What surprise me was the fact that there were 3 guys beside me watching this movie on a working day. What's up dudes? Your wives or girlfriends refuse to join you or you prefer to cry alone? They were in their complete office attire, I swear.


I wasn't exactly sure what's Liz looking for in her life or what's she afraid of. Afraid to forgive? Afraid to let go? Afraid of trusting? Not sure. Whatever they were, she had issues. If not, she wouldn't end up abroad for a year, looking for herself. I think people in the West prone to overthink stuff, as if their souls are always empty and they appear constantly wanting something. Thinking is good on the one hand but on the other, you can't find answers to everything. Life itself is an unplanned journey. Though your parents may have planned to have you, YOU itself was the result of something random. If it's well planned out, God would tell you your mate(s) name(s) or deliver you your date of death somewhere along your life. 


And for those who trashed this movie like nobody's business, why did you watch it in the first place? If you are into action movies, James Franco would not be Spiderman's nemesis in this one. Javier Bardem would not kill even an ant in this movie. He's crying so hard when his 19-yr old son left for college. This is a movie about a woman's journey in discovering her (love) life. First of all, most guys would stay out of the way. Second, most girls would not want to torture their guys for 2 hours plus. Third, at the end of the day, life would work out fine when the writer is a woman (unless it's a japanese writer, I can't be certain) :)


All in all, I found myself liking the movie and thinking that Ketut would take a plane someday to Hollywood.