movies watched in the month of july:

war of the worlds
tom cruise is really cute! hmm, despite short; but sher will find this trait of him appealing even more ;p
anyway. he's a supposedly bad father in the movie, get divorced with his wife, leaving two kids-a daughter and an older son- in the mother's care. the son grew up disliking him, while i suppose the daughter was too young to feel hatred towards her daddy. there were certain scenes where it was shown that the daughter felt closer to her brother instead of her daddy; and such scenes kind of break my heart.. coz.. dunno, can't imagine when i grow up having kids next time knowing that they opt for someone else but me; while i'm their flesh and blood. can't imagine tom cruise's feeling as a daddy, too.
surprisingly enough, what caught me about this movie is the message displayed about family ties instead of the special effects of the movie. but since most people will expect me to talk about the special effects as well (hey after all it's spielberg's movie..), i think the effect was.. hmm, okay lah. average. spielberg-ish. it looks natural, not fake, but there's nothing impressive. except that, like sher, i kinda agree of how they visualize aliens.. sticky thing with realllyyy thin limbs and big heads. higher intelligent beings are supposed to look like these! yeah spielberg rocks after all.
don't really like the ending, coz it was said that the big, spider-like killing machines that were supposed to exterminate human beings "went out of control" by itself without real cause; it was later told that they had no immunity against bacteria on Earth which had evolved and had not been expected by the martians. weird ending. no victory no losing--actually there was hardly any war to begin with.
by the way, tom cruise is still a bad father at the end.

batman begins
expected this movie to be a darn good one, and yupp it is! the movie began with baffling scene of bruce wayne being a prisoner. me and er were wondering "eh why is he in prison?". the way the scenes move back and forth from the wayne's prisoner days and childhood days were rather confusing, but it was all revealed by the time the movie reaching mid-point, so it was okay.
bruce wayne i.e. batman is cool. he's got no superpower, no superman/spiderman/x-men kind of ability. he's just a man who trained a lot and a scientist who knows how to make full use of technology and human resources he have; thus he could become a batman with all the cool gadgets. could become a hero. hmmm.. hardwork pays off, doesn't it?
the hunk is handsome, too :D er and i were drooling over him throughout the movie!
anyway, can't say much except that i recommend everybody to go catch it if you havent done so!
on a 'deeper' note, it really sets me thinkin. you know sometimes, people do things that aren't right, aren't fair to others but think that certain justifications could actually make it fair? after watching this movie, i am more inclined to think that there's actually no way one could make such things justified. selfish is selfish, no matter how much you coat it with sugar-sweet reasonings.

fantastic four
i don't really like the movie... hmm..
except that i love some of the lines featured in its radio trailers, such as:
1. dr. doom: let's not fight.
invisible woman: no. let's.
2. human torch: maybe this is some kind of higher calling.
mr.fantastic: like, getting girls and making money??
human torch: is there any higher?
3. invisible woman: look at me.
mr.fantastic: i can't.
4. human torch: now picture this... everywhere!
character i like best: ben a.k.a. the thing. because he's such a sad character with lotsa controversy. like being left by his wife because he turned rocky-ish and ugly. like being trapped by dr.doom into thinking that his friendship with mr.fantastic is bullshit. like being able to pull himself together, sacrifice his perfect life as ben to turn to become the thing again to save mr.fantastic. he's the most real character; most confused.. i mean nobody is actually as idealistic as mr.fantastic, as self-denying as invisible woman or as gamesome and as into merry-making as human torch? okay there is laa, but not most ppl?