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Went to watch Tom Yum Goong on Saturday night with Annabelle at Jurong Point.
We didn't exactly have any plans to do on that day, so the last alternative to spend the night more interestingly would be to catch a midnight show.
Good movies are hard to come by nowadays and most of them are definitely not $9.50's worth.
I have heard from others saying that the thai fighting show is not too bad and it's pretty much entertaining with all the kungfu stunts even though it has a weird storyline with 2 elephants involved.
I decided to watch it not only because of the rather positive responses from my friends,
but also mainly for the reason that a majority of the other movies remaining are still halfway downloading in progress.
I met up with Annabelle after she finished work at around 9.30pm.
We then took a west bound train all the way to Boon Lay and alighted.
I told her that we would be watching a midnight show and she was fine with the decision that I have made. We walked to the ticketing counter in Golden Village and it was the very first time in my life that I have treated the place like a food stall.
'Can I have 2 tom yum please?'
I asked,
with a relatively serious look on my face.
Any new staff who was working on the first day and unawared of the movies that were screening would have pointed to the opposite direction and said.
'Tom Yum at the opposite Food Court.'
'Down here the most also have hotdog and popcorn only.'
'Now so late also closed liao, try again tomorrow morning.'
'Tom Yum Goong for 2, at 12.20am.'
'Is that ok, sir?'
The lady replied with a friendly smile.
The seatings were great and I got the tickets without a doubt.
We slacked all the way at MacDonald's until it was time to go to the toilet one last time before entering the cinema.
Tom Yum Goong kicks ass.
Tonnes of fighting sequences with moves that are somewhat more unique and realistic than the common action flicks.
An estimation of 200 people were involved in the fights and 14,568 bones were broken accordingly.
The whole show is about action, action and even more action.
Even though the story is lame and yet still trying to be complex in a way,
the stunts totally covers up it's entire flaws.
The hero is fucking well trained and his moves make Jacky Chan look like a wuss doing aerobics.
Despite the fact that the lead actor is illiterate and only knows how to say 'Where are my elephants?' in thai, I am sure there are still many big companies willing to sign him up in foreign action movies.
The story is about 2 of his elephants being stolen by gangsters and then going through all barriers in order to save them. One of the elephants was killed and he became extremely furious, unleashing all his might onto his opponents.
I was wondering what would happen if it was his father being killed instead.
He could have gone insanely berserk, pouring out everything from inside and changing into something completely inhuman.
Probably turning into a bowl of hot and spicy cum sour Tom Yum soup.
One of the elephants, which is the baby one,
is named Korn.
Now there's 2 Korns I know.
Same name but of different worlds apart.
I personally liked the movie.
Very well done.
I give it a 9.5 for the action and 3.5 for the story.
Thai is a very complicated language.
Not only is it hard to understand but it's comparatively irritating to hear as well.
I think it's one of the most annoying language along with the Mandarin slang of those from China.
They probably think that we Singaporeans are as disturbing too,
with our Singlish and all so it actually works both ways.
Shawn of MCC Anthro once told me about an incident involving a China guy.
There was a day when this guy went into Room 6.
He was there for his medical checkup but clearly he has not done the other stations before entering there. Room 6 is the last station for a full medical checkup and a person has finish the earlier tests in order to proceed.
Shawn saw this guy who was holding on to a file and wanted to know which stations he had done already. So he asked the pre-enlistee out of curiosity to check if he proceeded to the right station.
'Qing wen ni cong na li lai ah?'
'Ni cong ting li che yan (Hearing test) na li lai'
'Hai shi yan jing che yan (Eyesight test) lai de?'
Shawn gave a few examples so that he could understand easily.
The guy replied.
'Wo cong Da Lu (Mainland China) lai de.'
We didn't exactly have any plans to do on that day, so the last alternative to spend the night more interestingly would be to catch a midnight show.
Good movies are hard to come by nowadays and most of them are definitely not $9.50's worth.
I have heard from others saying that the thai fighting show is not too bad and it's pretty much entertaining with all the kungfu stunts even though it has a weird storyline with 2 elephants involved.
I decided to watch it not only because of the rather positive responses from my friends,
but also mainly for the reason that a majority of the other movies remaining are still halfway downloading in progress.
I met up with Annabelle after she finished work at around 9.30pm.
We then took a west bound train all the way to Boon Lay and alighted.
I told her that we would be watching a midnight show and she was fine with the decision that I have made. We walked to the ticketing counter in Golden Village and it was the very first time in my life that I have treated the place like a food stall.
'Can I have 2 tom yum please?'
I asked,
with a relatively serious look on my face.
Any new staff who was working on the first day and unawared of the movies that were screening would have pointed to the opposite direction and said.
'Tom Yum at the opposite Food Court.'
'Down here the most also have hotdog and popcorn only.'
'Now so late also closed liao, try again tomorrow morning.'
'Tom Yum Goong for 2, at 12.20am.'
'Is that ok, sir?'
The lady replied with a friendly smile.
The seatings were great and I got the tickets without a doubt.
We slacked all the way at MacDonald's until it was time to go to the toilet one last time before entering the cinema.
Tom Yum Goong kicks ass.
Tonnes of fighting sequences with moves that are somewhat more unique and realistic than the common action flicks.
An estimation of 200 people were involved in the fights and 14,568 bones were broken accordingly.
The whole show is about action, action and even more action.
Even though the story is lame and yet still trying to be complex in a way,
the stunts totally covers up it's entire flaws.
The hero is fucking well trained and his moves make Jacky Chan look like a wuss doing aerobics.
Despite the fact that the lead actor is illiterate and only knows how to say 'Where are my elephants?' in thai, I am sure there are still many big companies willing to sign him up in foreign action movies.
The story is about 2 of his elephants being stolen by gangsters and then going through all barriers in order to save them. One of the elephants was killed and he became extremely furious, unleashing all his might onto his opponents.
I was wondering what would happen if it was his father being killed instead.
He could have gone insanely berserk, pouring out everything from inside and changing into something completely inhuman.
Probably turning into a bowl of hot and spicy cum sour Tom Yum soup.
One of the elephants, which is the baby one,
is named Korn.
Now there's 2 Korns I know.
Same name but of different worlds apart.
I personally liked the movie.
Very well done.
I give it a 9.5 for the action and 3.5 for the story.
Thai is a very complicated language.
Not only is it hard to understand but it's comparatively irritating to hear as well.
I think it's one of the most annoying language along with the Mandarin slang of those from China.
They probably think that we Singaporeans are as disturbing too,
with our Singlish and all so it actually works both ways.
Shawn of MCC Anthro once told me about an incident involving a China guy.
There was a day when this guy went into Room 6.
He was there for his medical checkup but clearly he has not done the other stations before entering there. Room 6 is the last station for a full medical checkup and a person has finish the earlier tests in order to proceed.
Shawn saw this guy who was holding on to a file and wanted to know which stations he had done already. So he asked the pre-enlistee out of curiosity to check if he proceeded to the right station.
'Qing wen ni cong na li lai ah?'
'Ni cong ting li che yan (Hearing test) na li lai'
'Hai shi yan jing che yan (Eyesight test) lai de?'
Shawn gave a few examples so that he could understand easily.
The guy replied.
'Wo cong Da Lu (Mainland China) lai de.'
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