One of my close friend, Fazri who was admitted to Hospital Tawakal Tuesday last week due to hypertension dah pun di-discharged kan last Monday. He was also suspected dengan heart problem. Ikut cerita wife dia, dia macam dah nak pitam the day before he was admitted and tulang belikat dia pulak dah sakit. So, disebabkan dia dah tak tahan, his wife took him to the hospital and immediately after that, he was admitted.

Yang membuatkan aku terkejut tu, sebab as far as I am concern, mamat ni sikit lah punya sihat. Main ping-pong tiap-tiap petang, he eats balance food (I think), he plays football and futsal. The only thing is that, he smokes a lot. Yep, dia memang avid smoker. Dan tu jugak yang aku risaukan tu, aku pun merokok kuat jugak. Ada lah dalam a box of 20 tu. Well, I consider that banyak lah kot.

Okay, ni aku nak bagi sikit biology lesson dekat korang. Korang tau tak, for a normal men, tekanan darah yang normal adalah Diastolic tak melebihi 87 (Diastolic < 87) and Systolic tak melebihi 137 (Systolic < 137). Dari apa yang dia cakap pada aku, Systolic dia dah melebihi 200. I told him! Shit! Serius ke beb!

Anyway, mula-mula tu, dia kena buat test ECG. Lepas tu, he underwent angiogram test at Ampang Puteri to see whether he has some heart problem. He also went for an endoscopic test after that. Tapi alhamdulillah, masa aku gi lawat dia kat Ampang Puteri tu, he is not in any kind of danger of heart diseases. Yelah, risau jugak aku sebab before this, arwah bapak dia memang kena stroke sebelum ni pun. So, penyakit macam ni, kalau dah ada dalam family, chances that one of the child kena pun besar jugak.

This is surely good news. Alhamdulillah! Tapi yang bestnya, MC dia dah diextendkan seminggu lagi and he has to come back to the hospital untuk follow-up. Lama tu beb! Lepas follow-up to, sah sah la MC dia akan diextendkan lagi dalam 3, 4 hari. Heheh

Aku pun pelik macam mana dia boleh didiagnosed kan dengan penyakit macam tu. Darah tinggi? Takkan dia makan lembu sampai seekor kot? Sampaikan tekanan darah dia boleh naik tinggi macam tu sekali? Is it because of the peer pressure of work? Or is it because of external factors? I mean, memang kerja dia berlambak pun. Mula-mula tu, arwah bapak dia meninggal pada 31 Disember 2006, pada 11.30 pagi Hari Raya Korban. Tambahan pulak last Thursday, masa dia tengah dok main futsal kat Seksyen 14 PJ, his wife met an accident while she was driving his car going back home.

Not to insinuate, tapi kita tak tau lah kan? Selain dari kesihatan, kadang-kadang benda macam ni pun boleh mempengaruhi jugak kan? Depan kita dia boleh lah hoo hoo haa haa, tapi deep inside, we don't know what is he thinking right?

Yang bestnya tu, dalam sakit-sakit dia tu, boleh lagi dok mengurat nurse-nurse kat Tawakal tu. According to him, misi-misi kat Tawakal tu semuanya muda-muda dan comel-comel belaka. Kawan-kawan aku yang pergi melawat dia pun kata benda yang sama jugak. Hahaha… padahal bini ada kat sebelah tu. So, pada korang kat luar tu yang teringin nak masuk hospital, aku highly recoomend Hospital Tawakal sebab nursenya yang muda-muda dan comel-comel blako.

Apa-apa pun, risau jugak aku! Aku ni pun boleh diconsiderkan heavy smoker jugak. Makan pun jenis yang bantai semua yang ada and I rarely work out. Lepas ni, kenalah berjaga-jaga and amalkan cara hidup seimbang. Blah!

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Yahoo!!! Aku dah hampir dapat apa yang aku ingin kan. Something yang dah lama aku tunggu and something that will be very new to me. I am happy with it and I am really looking forward for it.
Ada antara korang yang dapat teka tak apa yang aku maksudkan ni?

Klue : Aku ada benda ni, tapi aku nakkan yang baru!

Hadiahnya? Aku belanja korang tengok wayang termasuk pop-corn combo set !

Serious ni beb!

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Mark Wahlberg has been talking to MTV News (http://www.mtv.com/) and reveals that much like "Infernal Affairs" had a prequel and sequel, so might "The Departed," with Martin Scorsese already supposedly planning one or more films.

"We may do another one, because it's based on a Hong Kong film ['Infernal Affairs'], and there is a trilogy. So we may do a sequel with a new cast, and a prequel and bring back the rest of the guys," the actor tells the site.

Now, without spoiling the movie, there would most likely have to be a completely different cast for the sequel part of it. Wahlberg reveals that Scorsese has been talking to his old friend Robert De Niro (who was going to play the role Martin Sheen played in "The Departed" but couldn't do it due to scheduling conflicts with "The Good Shepard").

It's hard to say whether there's any concrete plans for this, as Scorsese has never done a sequel to any of his movies and a "Departed 2" and "3" in our minds would just be a cheap way to get another buck. Still, stay tuned for more information if it becomes available.

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Nominations were announced for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. Not a lot of surprises here with the likes of The Queen, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima and The Departed peppering the list. (Go Martin Scorsese!!).The big surprise, of course, is that Dreamgirls was shut out for a Best Picture nomination.

Ellen Degeneres will host the Oscar ceremony, which will air on ABC Sunday, February 25th. Check out the complete list of nominees below and

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond)
- Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
- Peter O'Toole (Venus)
- Will Smith (The Pursuit Of Happyness)
- Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland)

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
- Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children)
- Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond)
- Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)
- Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- Penélope Cruz (Volver)
- Judi Dench (Notes On A Scandal)
- Helen Mirren (The Queen)
- Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
- Kate Winslet (Little Children)

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Adriana Barraza (Babel)
- Cate Blanchett (Notes On A Scandal)
- Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
- Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
- Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
- Cars
- Happy Feet
- Monster House

Achievement in Art Direction
- Dreamgirls
- The Good Shepherd
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- The Prestige

Achievement in Cinematography
- The Black Dahlia
- Children of Men
- The Illusionist
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Prestige

Achievement in Costume Design
- Curse Of The Golden Flower
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Dreamgirls
- Marie Antoinette
- The Queen

Achievement in Directing
- Babel
- The Departed
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- The Queen
- United 93

Best Documentary Feature
- Deliver Us From Evil
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Iraq In Fragments
- Jesus Camp
- My Country, My Country

Best Documentary Short Subject
- The Blood Of Yingzhou District
- Recycled Life
- Rehearsing A Dream
- Two Hands

Achievement in Film Editing
- Babel
- Blood Diamond
- Children of Men
- The Departed
- United 93

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
- After the Wedding
- Days of Glory (Indigènes)
- The Lives Of Others
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Water

Achievement in Makeup
- Apocalypto
- Click
- Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
- Babel
- The Good German
- Notes On A Scandal
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Queen

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Dreamgirls
- Dreamgirls
- Cars
- Dreamgirls

Best Motion Picture of the Year
- Babel
- The Departed
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Queen

Best Animated Short Film
- The Danish Poet
- Lifted
- The Little Matchgirl
- Maestro
- No Time For Nuts

Best Live Action Short Film
- Binta And The Great Idea (binta Y La Gran Idea)
- Éramos Pocos (one Too Many)
- Helmer & Son- The Saviour
- West Bank Story

Achievement in Sound Editing
- Apocalypto
- Blood Diamond
- Flags Of Our Fathers
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Achievement in Sound Mixing
- Apocalypto
- Blood Diamond
- Dreamgirls
- Flags Of Our Fathers
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Visual Effects
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Poseidon
- Superman Returns

Adapted Screenplay
- Borat Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
- Children of Men
- The Departed
- Little Children
- Notes On A Scandal

Original Screenplay
- Babel
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Queen

So,mana satu yang korang agak akan menang?

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Cast : Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Sir Ian Mckellen, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina, Jean Reno

Director : Ron Howard

Synopsis :

Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a Harvard symbologist in Paris for a lecture when Inspector Fache (Jean Reno) informs him of the murder of museum curator Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle). This poor man has been shot and will die late at night inside the Louvre; his wounds, although mortal, fortunately leave him time enough to conceal a safe deposit key, strip himself, cover his body with symbols written in his own blood, arrange his body in a pose and within a design by Da Vinci, and write out, also in blood, an encrypted message, a scrambled numerical sequence and a footnote to Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), the pretty French policewoman whom he raised after the death of her parents. Most people are content with a dying word or two; Jacques leaves us with a film treatment.

Sophie warns Robert he is in danger from Fache, and they elude capture in the Louvre and set off on a quest that leads them to the vault of a private bank, to the French villa of Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen), to the Temple Church in London, to an isolated Templar church in the British countryside, to a hidden crypt and then back to the Louvre again. The police, both French and British, are one step behind them all of this time, but Sophie and Robert are facile, inventive and daring. Also, perhaps, they have God on their side.

This series of chases, discoveries and escapes is intercept with another story, involving an albino named Silas (Paul Bettany), who works under the command of the Teacher through a middleman called Bishop Aringarosa (Alfred Molina). Silas, a mysterious figure at the center of a conspiracy to conceal the location of the Holy Grail, what it really is, and what that implies. The conspiracy involves members of Opus Dei, a society of

If you've read the novels, then you know what happens next but if not, then I would suggest you get the DVD and watch the movie.

Aku Kata :

Okay! It took me a bloody long time to review the movie because I just hated it. Having to read the novel and watching the movie (I re-read the book right before the movie premiers), I think that the mood was spoilt at how bad the movie was. The plot of the book memang intriquing tapi aku teramat lah kecewa dengan hasil kerja tangan Ron Howard untuk filem ni.

All right, any movie that was adapted from a novel should strictly follow the book tapi aku dapat rasakan kejanggalan bila aku tonton filem ni. The first time I watched it, aku tengok tak habis pun sebab aku dah terlampau bosan. The second time, aku cuba juga habiskan tengok movie ni. Phew! What a ride!

Eventhough this film maintain its exotic location (exactly like the book, it still lack of some important thing macam startling revelation and desperate chase scene. Both the book and movie contain accusations against the Catholic Church and its order of Opus Dei, the Holy Grail, the descendants of Jesus, the Knights Templar, and the true story of Mary Magdalene. But hey, the book was fiction. Okay, the plot for both the book and movie are ridiculous tapi bukan ke kebanyakan movie made that way?

I know that Catholics hated the book and all the rubbish that Dan Brown created tormented them Again! It's a fiction! What do you expect? Lagi satu, how can someone say that Dan Brown's novel is preposterous and the movie is preposterously entertaining, when it's not? Aku tak tau lah bagi korang yang pernah tengok movie ni, macam mana pendapat kau orang. Tapi ini pendapat aku.

Mungkin expectation aku untuk tengok Robert Langdon in the silver screen was high but who can blame me? What I expected the movie is going to be was quite anti-climaxed to what was in the book.

Mungkin it wasn't that bad after all kot. I only like the movie because of Silas (Paul Bettany) and Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou). They both did an excellent job for the character that they are being paid for.

All I can say, kalau korang belum lagi baca buku tu, korang akan dapat that it's a good movie. Tapi, kalau korang pernah baca buku tu and still belum tengok buku tu. Brace yourself to be disappointed.

Aku kasi : ** / *****

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I am not going to comment long about Anugerah Juara Lagu 22 held last night. I mean, the results are already out and Anugerah Juara Lagu pun dah diketahui siapa pemenang setiap kategori dan Juara keseluruhannya. Aku cuma nak recap balik the show and bagi little comment sahaja.

Opening Show

Pembukaan yang fresh from Man Kidal, Francisca Peter and Quest. Quest who? No idea on who these clowns are but it was a good combination with a fresh arrangement for a very old song. Seriously! What a lift-off for a start. The energy boosted bila Man Kidal did what he does best. Aku suka dengan persembahan pembukaan Anugerah Juara Lagu this year compared to last year when they did an urban hip-hop mix.

Set 1

Hantaran Hati (Bob/Aspalela Abdullah) – Nik Nizam / Rosminah Tahir

Juwita Citra Terindah (M Nasir) – M Nasir / M Nasir

Ku Seru (Misha Omar) – Ajai / Habsah Hassan & Shuhaimi Baba

Dalam set pertama persembahan, Hantaran Hati, Juwita Citra Terindah & Ku Seru was performed. Hantaran Hati was a good performance vocally by Bob and Aspalela Abdullah. Tak kisah lah kalau ada rombongan Cik Kiah yang ambil alih tugas Noraniza Idris sambil membawa dulang pahar kat atas pentas tu. I enjoyed their singing.

Juwita Citra Terindah was a little bit off for me. I am hoping that would do his magic on stage but not to my avail, it was just too simple. At times, aku dapat rasa yang the music and M Nasir's singing didn't really jelled M Nasir didn't present the song well enough dengan karisman dia sendiri. It was too relaxed. Walau bagaimanapun, aku enjoy persembahan dia sebab lagu tu sendiri.

Misha, despite singing the song well, her performance was pretty much lame. It was the same thing and the same move over and over again. Gaya yang sama juga untuk persembahan Pulangkan dan Bunga-Bunga Cinta. Sayang, the singing was excellent but the performance wasn't up to my expectation. Eventhough this song is nothing near to Pulangkan, but vocal Misha malam tadi cukup baik.

Set 2

Zapin Cinta SMS (Senario & Adibah Noor) – Anuar Dahlan / Anuar Dahlan

Diari Seorang Lelaki (Pretty Ugly) – Neves / Neves

Mungkir Bahagia (Hazami) – Rozita Mohd Ali / Hazami

One thing I felt like telling those Senario bunch is that " Korang dah out of date lah". Throw away those act and try to think of a new one. Thanks to Adibah Noor who saved the show with her powerful voice. Kalau nak harapkan those clown, I don't think that song will be that good. Nasib baik lah Adibah Noor is adorable. Walaupun berbadan besar, tapi she's just so cute dengan character tu. One of my least fave of the night, yang menarik tentang lagu ni is because it's funny. Tapi, ada satu kesamaan dengan lagu dari Senario sebelum ni jugak. I forgot the song but it is really similar.

I like the song, I like Pretty Ugly but I hate the performance. Well, one, what's with the suit? You don't sing that kind of song with that kind of attire. Tak kena lah beb! Takde attitude langsung. Ataupun memang TV3 dah tetapkan attire macam tu? Two, they arrange the song so that it sounds a little jazzy with the piano. Melarikan mood lagu tu. One more thing! For goodness sake, take the "T" slang out when you're singing dude!

Mungkir Bahagia was the best performance that night. Lagu yang sedemikian dipersembahkan dengan melodi dan lirik yang baik, memang kena dengan gaya Hazami. Walaupun dia menggunakan konsep membawa anak murid-anak muridnya yang similar to last year, it was still a good performance with a good song. Certainly one of my favourite song to win Anugerah Juara Lagu this year.

Set 3

Candak (Syura) – Suhaimi Mohd Zain / Lokman Ghani

Lagu Jiwa Lagu Cinta (Mawi & M Nasir) – M Nasir / Loloq

Terlalu Istimewa (Adibah Noor) – Azlan Abu Hassan / Adibah Noor

I mentioned Syura because she is the original singer yang digantikan oleh Siti Nordiana. Tak ada cacatnya lagu yang dipersembahkan Siti Nordiana ni. The reason is why it is so simple and straight forward. That's about it. Nothing special to talk about and nothing that bad to say too. Frankly, it's not a winning material for me but it was just okay. Same goes to Siti Nordiana's performance. It was just okay.

Okay, out of the 12, Lagu Jiwa Lagu Cinta was the worst performance that night. Yes, it was entertaining but it was just worse. Okay! I am saying this at the risk of being condemned by his fans but guys, not that I have anything against Mawi (which I really do!) and M Nasir is one hell of a guy, but the performance was just bad to the bone. Don't get me started on it but the wig was bad, those bad free-body move and gaya hilang akal Mawi. I didn't enjoy the performance. It was the performance, not the song. It made the song looked bad.

I like Adibah's performance but using kids as a tool for the performance was cliché enough. Maybe because this song was made for Nurul Huda (which was tortured till death, I think) yang membuatkan persembahan ni menggunakan kanak-kanak. Tapi apa-apa pun, aku enjoy dengan persembahan Adibah Noor and the song is a good piece too. Lagu yang cukup bermakna eventhough it contains a simple lyrics.

Set 4

Warkah Buat Laila(Zahib) – Ayob Ibrahim / Habsah Hassan

Tak Tercapai Akalmu (Elyana) – Aidit Alfian / Ad

Secebis Harapan (Nora) – Zulkifli Mamat / Noor

Zahid started off the the last set with a very commandable performance with Warkah Buat Laila. The feel was good, the singing was good and the song was good. What I like about the performance and the song was a fusion combination between the Indian instruments like talba dengan the eastern sound. It's very soothing to the ears and the lyric is very meaningful.

Aku tak tau korang perasan ke tak tapi aku rasa imej dan penampilan Elyana malam tadi ada banyak elemen gothic., Bila aku tengok kombinasi hitam dan merah tu, it reminds me of Amy Lee from Evanescense .Alah, I didn't know the real thing about it but kalau korang pernah jejakkan kaki ke Uptown, you'll see a lot of these

Nora ended the show with a slow piece. Sesuai dengan kesedihan mangsa-mangsa banjir kat selatan tanah air tu. The strength of the song really rely on Nora's vocal. Lagu tu lagu slow yang mendayu-dayu. Other than that, aku rasa lagu ni biasa aje.

Persembahan Bonus

Persembahan bonus was pretty awkward, if you ask me.Instead of doing a mix of song, why not do a medley on all the winners of the previous Anugerah Juara Lagu? Aku rasa ia akan jadi lebih menarik when all the guest singers sings a medley of the previous winners. It will be more meaningfull considering that Juara Lagu is already 22 years old. Apa-apa pun, persembahan terbaik would go to Faizal OIAM yang membawa lagu Raikan Cinta dengan style rocknya sendiri.

Joe Flizzow and Ima (Bintang Cari Bintang) was okay eventhough goyang Ima tu dah sebijik dengan mentornya, Si Penggelek Gerudi tu. Joe Flizzow, Yassin, Akbar & Daly singing Alhamdulillah? Isn't that song old? Why choose that song? Hmm.. entah lah! Ella? Well, her attempt to rock the traditional song was… Hmm. I'm lost with words. Ulek Mayang tu lagu yang sangat sacred. Singing it in a rock tune, was funny. Nice but funny. Bakal Datin Noraniza Idris was slightly off with her collaboration with V.E. I just don't get it! I don't really like the combination. Aku tak faham apa lagu tu sebenarnya. Period!

Dayang, despite that damn sexy appealing steals the show with her very revealing dress, menyakitkan telinga aku bila dia menghancurkan lagu tu dengan style dia sendiri. Yes, she has her own style, but can't she just stick to the old version? What? Just because the theme was fusion, she has to change the song is it? If I was Datik Orked Abdullah, I would surely be upset over that. Mata aku lebih melekat pada keseksian Dayang compared to her performance

Persembahan Terbaik – Hazami & Mungkir Bahagia.

Hey, even my dad enjoyed Hazami's performance. Walaupun dia tu sedikit anti-Hazami, tapi the first thing that came from his mouth was " Boleh menang persembahan terbaik ni". Haaa! Itu cakap orang yang baru balik dari surau tu! Anyway, the mime act by hazami's students really help a lot.Aku paling suka the closing of the song when the students gathered around him.

Vokal Terbaik - Adibah Noor.

My bid to win the category after watching all the performance was either Hazami, Adibah Noor, Misha or Nora. And Adibah's victory was nothing than proving that she is something that should be taken seriously. I am sure that the audience was stung by her voice last night.

Kategori Etnik Kreatif & Irama Malaysia - Warkah Buat Laila

Well, it was a deserved victory for Warkah Buat Laila after winning at Anugerah Industri Muzik and Festival Filem Malaysia. Aku meamng dah agak yang Warkah Buat Laila yang akan merangkul kategori Etnik Kreatif & Irama Malaysia. Saingan terdekat pun mungkin datang dari Bob & Aspalela Abdullah dengan hantaran hati. The rest 2, aku rasa sekadar pelengkap korum aje.

Kategori Pop Rock - Juwita Citra Terindah

This is of no shock for me because M Nasir has quite a good record in his previous participation in Juara Lagu. So, memang dari awal aku dah pilih lagu ni untuk menjuarai kategori ni. Yang boleh bagi close fight pun mungkin Diari Seorang Lelaki aje. Aku memang jangka yang Lagu Jiwa Lagu Cinta takkan menang. Not unless it was judged by SMS. Then, without a shadow of a doubt LJLC will win.

Kategori Balada - Terlalu Istimewa

My top choice would be Mungkir Bahagia or Terlalu Istimewa. Dua-dua lagu boleh diterima gegendang telinga aku ni. Komen lain, sama macam kat bawah ni.

Anugerah Juara Lagu : Terlalu Istimewa (Azlan Abu Hassan / Adibah Noor)

At last, Adibah Noor got what just she deserved. Walaupun I am aiming for M Nasir to win, tapi kalah pada tangan Adibah Noor wasn't that bad Malam tu memang malam yang TERLALU ISTIMEWA buat Adibah Noor. Segala perit jerih dan penat lelah Adibah Noor selama 15 tahun didalam industry finally paid off. Mesti Adibah cakap dalam hati "Dapat jugak aku modal balik buat album guna duit sendiri". Well, swapping about RM 47,000 was really nothing compared to the satisfaction on Adibah's face when she grabbed the award. Aku rasa it was a sweet victory for Adibah Noor that night.

Sememangnya pemenang Anugerah Juara Lagu selalu datang dari kategori kategori Balada. Pop-Rock tu jarang-jarang jugak. Jarang sangat datang dari kategori Etnik Kreatif & Irama Malaysia (Well, not after Siti Nurhaliza left Anugerah Juara Lagu). Keputusan tahun ni tak ada lah menimbulkan kontroversi sangat kalau nak dicomparekan dengan tahun-tahun sudah. Well, that's what I hope! Juri dah tentulah lagu mana yang lebih layak digelar Juara Lagu. Tak perlu nak "rumah siap, pahat berbunyi".

P/s : Hahahaha!!!! ade aje yang tak kena dekat mata aku ye. Jangan baca entry ni dengan perasaan benci dan mengutuk. Cuma baca dengan sikap nak membina. That's all. I am just a fan and not a highly commendable critic.

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[ This entry is not in anyway related to IronBoard's Babes of the week entry. Aku cuma baik punya cilok ide beliau sahaja. With the permission of IB, that is]

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Pelakon : Saiful Apek, Yusry Abd Halim, Fasha Sandha, Aznil Hj Nawawi, AC Mizal, Adlin Aman Ramli, Yasmin Hani

Pengarah : Yusry Abd. Halim

Sinopsis : Hairi and Danny are best friends and both of them are working as scientist at Klon Technology owned by Professor Klon. (if they really are scientist, they bring a whole new meaning of 'em). Set in a metropolitan city named Metrofulus, yang bersalji (kelakar pun ada sebab I find the salji ridiculous!), Hairi and Danny, walaupun kedua-duanya saintis, but they are any other normal Samaritan yang lead a very normal life. Going to work with public transport, makan nasi bungkus.. that sort of stuff.

It's a basic routine for any normal people, I guess. Until one day, something changes Hairi's life forever. Hahahah… bunyik macam gempak aje padahal dia cuma terminum air dan terus tertelan cicak yang sepatutnya jadi bahan ujikaji dia. Dari situ, hidupnya berubah sebab dia mendapat superhero power macam seekor cicak. It became more interesting bila Hairi, Danny & Tania mendapat tahu tentang rancangan jahat Professor Klon (Like any other evil-doers in a superhero movies would do!). Professor Klon is actually the owner of Klon Technology who makes money by an evil scheme. He is the one responsible to dispurse out viruses and finding the cure himself.

Danny, kawan baik Hairi yang sanggup buat apa saja untuk kawan dia. Sampaikan he was mistook for being Cicakman himself oleh Tania, The Ginger Boys and Professor Klon himself. Danny yang cuba mencari the cure for Hairi and ended up in the clutches of Professor Klon and the Ginger Boys. Danny in the movie, I find him a little bit sissy. Kes yang sama dengan semua lakonan Yusry yang aku pernah tengok.

Hairi ni in person is an introvert person. Walaupun dia suka pada Tania, tapi disebabkan perangai malu-malu kucing kurap dia tu, dia pun melepaskan awek dia tu yg sudah dimisunderstood the whole situation.

Tania is the secretary for Professor Klon yang nak aku kata the girl next door, mungkin kot. But she is to blame for being too vulnerable. She overheard about Klon's evil plan to kidnapped the 5 minister of Metrofulus and take over the city.

See the misadventure and mishaps of Hairi and Danny when they are both in trouble.

About the Movie:

Saiful Apek (Hairi & Cicakman) – Bagi aku, Apek punya lakonan biasa aje. What you see in Apek in all of his movie, will be just the same. Tapi kali ni it's just a wee bit more. He has to do some serious act in the movie. Menjadi? Well, A for effort, I think. Mungkin kalau dia nak go on taking serious part, he has to work harder kot. Sebab aku tengok dia serious pun aku nak gelak. Heheheh…!!

Yusry (Dannny) – Yusry.. Yusry… Yusry, you my boy, can't really act. Lagi baik menyanyi aje lah. Anyhow, he has add something in his portfolio, pengarah filem. A very good effort for a first timer I guess. On the Danny's side, lakonan dia still tak strong enough. Well, not as bad as Cinta Kolestrol lah pun. But still weak. Lakonan yang agak lemah dengan body language, expression & penhayatan yang kosong.

Fasha (Tania) – As what I've said in my post about CINTA, Fasha is just Fasha. She can act but that's about it. There's no x-factor that will make me really be awed dengan lakonan dia (besides her good look la, beb!). Mungkin Fasha still belum dapat watak betul-betul mencabar. I want more from Fasha. I know she is more than just beautiful look.

Aznil (Professor Klon) – If he was meant to carry the character like that, then aku boleh kasi dia 4 bintang dalam lakonan dia. But the fact is that, what you see in Professor Klon is Aznil himself. Wacky, crazy, chaotic & hectic Well, that is how I can describe Professor Klon. Aku tak pernah tengok Azlin serious. Kalau serious dalam AF pun, serious yang dibuat-buat. So, I don't think it's hard for him to act as Professor Klon but lakonannya biasa aje. Nothing that great. In fact, up to a point, it's pretty annoying. Annoying sebab watak tu sendiri requires me to be so.

Adlin Aman Ramli & AC Mizal (Ginger 1 & Ginger 2) : A very funny but humorously irritating act by both of them. Adlin is playing dumb and AC is just plain. Adlin yang berwatak Ginger 1 bisu tak berapa menarik perhatian aku. In fact, I find it rather awkward seeing Adlin Aman Ramli acting out as Ginger 1 without a voice. Mungkin watak macam ni lain dari benda yang selalu dia bawa, but it's pretting much annoying. AC as Ginger 2, macam mana nak cakap ek? I just can't make out the words. Okay but quite disappointing, I guess!

Yasmin Hani : Watak tempelan sahaja. Nothing much too say about her character but if she is polished and groomed well, she can be a good actress.

Alah, ni dah kira tipikal plot and storyline untuk mana-mana movie pasal superhero ni. This guy dapat superpower, and then saves this damsel in distress, berlawan dengan orang jahat yang plan to take over the world and someone died. Heck, isn't that what a superhero movie is all about? Superman ke, Spiderman ke, X-Men ke, Fantastic Four ke, the plot basically revolves around that.

As I've said, the movie has the normal ingredient that any superhero movies had. Cuma kalau nak dikira, yang buat filem ni really stand out of the crowd is because it uses CGI in most of the movie. Aku rasa ni julung-julung kali filem Malaysia dibuat macam ni and From Metrofulus, Klon's mansion, the buildings, the action sequence. Semuanya made out of the green screen behind it. I have to say, it's a pretty good job done by the KRU Brothers. Alah, biasa lah ada loopholes here and there and effect dia yang nampak sedikit kartun, but aku rasa untuk filem ni, aku tolak tepi tu semua. So, lets put aside the lack of things in this movie sebab aku tabik spring kat Yusry KRU yang berjaya bawak something different kepada penonton kita.

And remember in mind that this is the first movie in Malaysia yang menggunakan such technology at a rather big scale. Kalau dulu Aziz M Osman dah jadi perintis untuk penggunaan special effect dalam XXX Ray sahaja. Itu pun hanya dalam beberapa shot.
Banyak benda yang buat movie ni menarik.

1. Bandar Metrofulus yang one of a kind. Ia direka tanpa mengambil mana-mana bangunan sedia ada. Kalau tak silap aku, diorang cuma gunakan Putrajaya as the fundamental structure for Metrofulus tapi diorang totally turn it into a new city. Siap dengan salji pulak tu.

2. Rumah Professor Klon yang bloody damn big tu meningatkan aku pada Count Dracula's mansion dengan pokok-pokok kering and the weather which 24/7 seems very dark and cloudy all day long.

3. The opening and early credit of the movie ni ada element yang sama macam cerita Fantastic Four and Sin City. Infact, some of the scene dalam movie ni pun ada sikit lebih kurang macam tu.

4. Ginger 1 & Ginger 2. Okay, walaupun ia adalah lakonan yang agak bodoh dari AC Mizal & Adlin Aman Ramli yang memang tak reti bermain dengan ruang, tak move dan takde ekspressi muka, isn't it similar to the Twins dalam The Matrix? Suratan atau kebetulan?

5. Walaupun ia adalah percubaan pertama the KRU Brothers, tapi I have to tap their back for doing a good job with the CGI effect. Siapa sangka anak Melayu boleh berfantasi macam tu kan?

Ada lah lagi tapi korang tengok sendiri and judge for yourself lah.

Aku Kata :

Masa mula-mula tu, aku memang ada sikit reluctant nak tengok movie ni sebab because of Apek and Yusry.. Not to misjudge Apek, tapi aku takut akan tengok dejavu dalam lawak-lawak Apek yang hampir stereotaip dalam semua movie lakonannya. Yusry pulak, as I have mentioned earlier, acting isn't just his thing. Lagi baik dia duduk belakang tabir aje lah. Doing the stuff that he normally do.

So the 2 main reason that pushes me to watch the movie would be the CGI effect and Fasha Sandha only. Lantak lah dengan lakonan stereotype Fasha Sandha tu. (Hope she'll improve in the future) but I just love to see the beautiful face. And the CGI effect was brilliant for a new-comer.

Puas hati? Up to a certain level, YES. Sebab aku bangga filem Malaysia dah capai a new era. Aku tolak tepi sikit lakonan yang biasa, plot yang longgar dan takde sinematografi menarik sebab aku seronok tengok effect CGI dia. Not that I've seen better but it's the effort of a Malaysian tu yang perlu kita banggakan.

But hey, itu aku!!! Itu persepsi aku pasal movie ni. I am not saying I am right nor I am wrong. That's my opinion that I am entitled to give. Korang pulak macam mana?

So, In conclusion aku kasi : ***1/2 / *****

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