watched watchmen last night. till lk 1. hahax.. watched 明明 and the lookout tdy. yea, all 3 were quite gd ba.. normal.. the twists were gd. lol. all 3 had twists. right.. hahax.. watchmen had quite some meaning ba.. not bad for a movie about superheroes. no wonder S got the visual novel after watching e movie. hahax.. yea, i agree with you, it's not bad ba.. at the last part of the movie john manhattan decided to shoulder the blame for the world's nuclear disaster, which "killed millions, but saved billions" (according to the villian ozymandias.) the end of the movie shows manhattan, night owl, and silk spectre understanding the doings of ozymandias. he wasn't the typical comic book villian who wants to take over the world.. well, he wanted to be the most powerful person, and then he was, but people hated him for his merciless killing of millions of innocents. but his killing of a few million and blaming it on manhattan (cos he was using manhattan's energy signature), cleared up the tension of the arms race and mutual annihilation in the cold war. so it was a blessing in disguise for man, after the two superpowers decided to make peace to unite and survive a common enemy.
oh, watched transformers tdy. (finally). hey vic, it's not half star film lor.. the critics dun really know how to rate don't they? or they're just not used to the CGI and graphics of things blowing up. lol.. some ppl who have never watched the first film won't know nuts.. and older people who can't follow colours and faces that well, shouldn't comment too much. cos it's not the film's problem, they're just trying to be as close to the original comicbook storyline as possible yea.. so yea, if you wanna know e robots' names, go watch the first film. haha.. but it was quite spectacular ba.. definitely NOT 0.5 star. i give it 4 stars ba.. =) yea, i give the dark knight 5, just a gauge yea. (:
quite like the quotes by optimus prime yea..
"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing." ----- Optimus Prime, Transformers
yea, optimus prime is cool. quite like the way he thinks yea.. the first part of the movie showed the president's envoy disliking the way the military were using the autobots to kill decepticons instead of using their own american weaponry, and for better causes like fighting wars.. and he came up with a postulation that the reason why the decepticons were still on earth wrecking havoc was because they wanted to take revenge on optimus and the autobots for killing megatron. so he wanted them to leave, take their war someplace else, chasing them away after they had saved the earth in the first movie. amazing thing is that optimus insisted on staying, and fighting the war that wasn't actually his, but just between the fallen and the humans. (the fallen wanted to take the energy source fron earth, in the process killing life on earth and restoring it in the decepticons home planet.) yea, despite being despised, he insisted on staying to protect the humans. despite ironhide suggesting that they leave and play safe, (least they are under fire by both humans and decepticons) he decided to stay on earth.
some stark contrasts, between the autobots, and the decepticons. optimus prime decided to stay despite the chance that he would be involved in a war that wasn't his, and might die in the process(which he did, though he was revived in the end) and starscream's decision that cowards sometimes live longer, before megatron left with him.. i guess this is what they mean by honor yea. to protect the things that you know you have to, though you don't get anything from it.
self sacrifice is rarely seen nowadays yea. it's just mutual fighting, and killing.. among our own kind.. like how a decepticon was torn apart to revive megatron.. killing the smallest in the group.. sometimes, a 0.5 star rating movie can give some really profound insights to human behaviour. (oh, i rate it a 4.) well, here we are in our society, where the government has trained us over the ages, to be a people who will fight to be first, since we are a small country and we need that fighting spirit for survival. well, and now it's done, even instilled into the minds of innocent young children, where they compete with each other at a very young age, to become better than each other, to become the best, and employing any methods to do so. doesn't that make us no different from the decepticons? cowardly, self centered, and savage?
well, i thought it over ba.. vic was telling me that sometimes, we've gotta be selfish and love ourselves first in order to achieve our goals, cos no one is gonna work with us together, and in singapore, everyone is a man for himself. i can't study in such an environment yea.. it's different from RI style where everyone is one for all, all for one. but it's the truth out there in the working world, so i guess the govt is preparing us for what we have to face in life. i thought of maybe studying in another country, like the US, where the environment isn't competitive, but united. but well, it's a disadvantage when i return yea? i'd probably won't be able to see the true colours of people as i can now.. since i'd probably believe that the world out there's just like the friends i have, kind, good natured. but it isn't. and we all know that. oh wells. human nature cultivated over the years is hard to change. especially if your parents are the ones instilling those kind of selfish behaviour in you. guess i've gotta thank my dad, and mum too, though she sometimes is quite selfish to some extent. but i've grown up this way, brought up with the right values as a person, to care for others, though i might lose out to the devious people out there, i'll at least go down with honour. yea, maybe autobots have "pure hearts", and it just occured to me that yea, i made teh right decision of choosing a few good members to be in the archery exco, even though i really hated it cos i din get my chair post cosi knew i was definitely cut for the job. selfishness would have led me to either heck care, or even worse, go help some screwed up ppls, to screw up the next group of ppls. well, guess i'm not that bad as i think i am yea. heh. seeing optimus prime does give me some consolation that i've done the right thing, not for my personal self and emotions or hate, but for the good of everyone. yea, i'm happy.
oh, and at least the children who watch transformers would learn a little from their heroes, and become bttr people? hahax.. gd movie ba.. teaches some values, and a lot of meaning behind it. yups..
i finally found the reason why i can't seem to learn to forgive people each time i try. i now know why, and it's cos of the fact that i give myself too high expectations of who i should be. so i use these expectations to shape myself into what i want myself to become. i give myself a criteria to follow. and i use that same criteria to judge people, and in the same way as i treat myself, i'm not able to forgive them, as much as i'm not able to forgive myself. when someting challenges the principles that we hold dear, we tend to reject it, and want it out of our lives. but i realised sth tdy. sth about forgiving. one must first be able to forgive himself, to be able to forgive others. if you can't forgive yourself for a similar mistake that you have made, no way are you going to be able to forgive a person who's committed that same mistake against you.
guess that's some headway ba.. i'll try. slowly.. start by forgiving ourselves, then we'll be able to forgive others yea. we must first be able to feel how it is like to be forgiven, and when we appreciate the forgiveness that we've longed for so much, we'll want to make others feel the same way. since we know how it's like to feel forgiven after doing sth wrong.
i know what went wrong, and why i'm so unforgiving. it's cos i always let logic rule my actions, and always think and carry out actions which are for the betterment of others, and not myself. and in that way, i've not felt guilty, neither have i felt the need to be forgiven. and it's so many years just like that, till life becomes a chess game. logical, and never letting emotions overrule logic. at least not as many times as a common man. hmm.. but i'm learning yea. to my godsis jiaying, i guess we just need to learn to forgive ourselves before we can forgive others. just a realisation yea. but i think it works. makes a lot of sense. (:
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