Movie Review - The Prestige

-
From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Batman Begins"), comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (HUGH JACKMAN) and Alfred Borden (CHRISTIAN BALE) were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them.

I went to watch this movie with Jason at Bishan Junction 8 but not before I went to the Olympus Service Centre @ High Street Centre at the request of my mum, to see if my old digital camera, the Olympus IR300 can be repaired at without service charge or low cost. I knew that she wanted to give the camera to my that group of cousins that spolit the camera and she told me that she wanted to give me $150 as reimbursement for the new camera. WTF. The old camera I spent about $500 to get it 6 months ago, and now I have to send it for repair and buy a new one just because someone was too urgent to see the pics and can't find the pics & spoiled the slider of the camera. The camera will be sitting for at least 5 working days as the slider is part of the back portion of the camera & it is not confirmed if the internal organs are affected. If it is, the cost of the repair is more than $30 as quoted. Just a while ago, before she went to bed, she would use the camera as a spare. But I think I will bring to cash converter and sell the camera to recover my partial cost. Which is a better idea? Please advise.

I called Jason after the service centre trip. At J8, we had the Sakae Sushi buffet, which was very filling for us that we had to cancel a portion of our serving of fruits.

Now the movie review :-

Robert & Alfred are 2 magicians who are always fighting with each other, about how to dicipher each other's tricks and make the tricks fail? Innocent lives were lost and virgous plotting against one another led to both parties being hurt.

Although the story flips back to the past every now and then, I feel that it shows the reality of life nowadays. This show is like office politics being moved to the big screen and how are the nasty ways to handle them.

Overall the movie is riveting and captures your attention, cause you wish to know what happens next. I will give the movie 4 out of 5 rating.

After that, it was our usual Coffee Bean session, which we had before calling it a nite at 9.30pm.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dinner @ Bacchus @ Dempsey

-
Image
I joined the Facebook Foodies Club for dinner at Bacchus last night. Yesterday was with a smaller group of people with 11 people. It meant that I had a chance to interact with people and enjoy good food at the same time. I certainly had a good time knowing Deborah, Rene, Wenna, Chris & Catherine. The good part was having my singing buddy, Jonathan around as well, making me able to enjoy the dinner and making friends with relative ease. I must say I enjoyed the food, that I ordered. I ordered the Flumuken,Bawhrust susages and tiramisu cake. You must be thinking that why I ordered so much food. I must say I was very hungry as I didn’t have a filling lunch. Although, it burned a hole in my pocket, but it is certainly good to indulge in myself sometimes! I like the ambience of the restuarant. After the dinner, we indulged ourselves in some German wine before we were asked to pose for photos. After that, we adjourned to Harry’s Bar for a drink and chat session. Jonathan was so afraid
Read more

My Hosting Script for The National Day Event

-
I just managed to work out the draft hosting script for the National Day Event I am hosting. I am thankful for all the comments that I have received from my fellow RC members and friends. Just feel that sometimes, no matter whatever you do, some people, no matter for what reasons, will not be happy with the arrangements. I just wish to say that I am already trying my best to try to get this event going, considering the fact, that this is the 1st time I am organising an RC event. I have also tried my best, despite the fact that I would like to have a free hand to organise the event, just like what I usually do for the KTV events I have on Facebook, I accommodated to the requests that I should somehow follow the past years’ format to do the event. I know that I am not very familiar with how things are run at the RC, therefore in the end, my organising committee only made some changes to the event as we had a limited budget to work on. I even volunteered myself to do the hosting for the
Read more

June Musings

-
Image
 It has been a while since I last blogged. Since then, I am settling well into my role, although there were some incomings and outgoings, which are common in any workplace.   I managed to catch a last glimpse of Yishun Orto before it closed on 30 June. I would like Leonard, Wendy & Michael, as without them performing at the Happiest Hour Bar & Bistro, I guess I would never go to this place, as I had not so fond memories of a nearby place during my NS days.   I did not manage to get A* Mei or Jacky Cheung concert tickets this round. It could be a sign for me to build up my savings again after an unstable 3 years on the job front. I hope to stay on this job for a while despite its lack of transport amenities and lack of shelters for rain as it is not often that you can have great teams of colleagues and bosses with whom you can get along well. I guess having a boss who is differently abled helps me to settle in well as colleagues tend to be more understanding and caring.
Read more