i feel so weak

Friday, March 23, 2007

omg yesterday finally get to watch dorm the yard...pretty pretty good show..i mean if u love dancing u defintly gonna love this show...

What I loved most: Great choreography
What I really hated: Predictable storyline
Well, the step dancing and street dancing in this movie are definitely powerful and full of energy, great directing. Not much development in the characters (other than the lead actor). But the dancing and choreography is fantastic. Full of wit and talents.theirmoves will knock you off your feet.

rating for this show:4/5

the next show i wanna watch music and lyrics and my bean holiday!!

this is a preview which i got it on the internet for music and lyrics

After Christmas, Valentine's Day is one of the most commercial days in the calendar, where prices of roses quadruple and pink hearts are adorning every corner of the shopping mall. Hence, we have "Music And Lyrics", starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore - another romantic comedy to bring the mushy, feel-good moments to the surface.

The movie kicks off with a music video, made up in a very cheesy manner as a sort of a tribute to the early days when we had Duran Duran and Wham singing on MTV. This time, though, we are introduced to the '80s group Pop doing their hit single Pop Goes My Heart, with velcro and rouge make-up and heavy-on-gel hair. And really tight pants. Later, it cuts to a scene about 20 years later, where we see Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant), who was the bassist and pianist in the group, sitting in a boardroom being pitched a new TV series idea called "Battle of the '80s Has-Beens". He looks tired, older, greyer but still wears tight pants. He's now singing at amusement parks and nostalgic events, just a shadow of his Pop heyday.

Alex's manager, Chris (Brad Garrett) tells him of an opportunity to make a comeback, by writing a duet song for the biggest pop star in the industry - the slightly insane diva Cora Corman (Haley Bannett) who is "bigger than Britney and Christina put together" - and performing the duet with her. The problem? He is terrible at writing lyrics, and has less than a week to find a lyricist to put the song together.

Enter his plant lady, Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore) - quirky, eccentric and talks without a full stop or a pause in her sentence - who, to no one's surprise, just so happens to write 'astoundingly good' lyrics. But Sophie is haunted by her own past -- a relationship with her college professor Sloan Cates (Campbell Scott), who broke up with her and wrote a best-seller based on her. So Alex needs to convince her to write for him in all ways possible, yet it's curious why doesn't he just pay her to write? No wonder she's hesitant.

Director Marc Lawrence, who wrote the script as well, creates a nice little story about the music industry's 'dog-eat-dog' world, where just about anyone is replaceable, and image is the key thing to this. There's a underlying story, about how lyrics form the backbone of the song, and how music complements the lyrics - without one, the other cannot work - but sadly, the message gets trampled under a lot of boring, unnecessary discussions between Alex and Sophie. The story might have done better as a novel, rather than a movie.

Alex, being the English gentlemen, has his dry humour and witty lines to make him seem charming, yet it seems so forceful and fake that you can't help but cringe. It seemed that Hugh Grant had to undergo professional training to sing and dance in this movie. If that's the best he could come up with, well, in the words of Simon Cowell, "You can't sing; you can't dance; so what do you want me to say?"

Drew Barrymore starts off in the movie by being an eccentric and funny Sophie, but sort of mellows down in the middle. At this point, we see Sophie's walls crumbling, her layers of eccentricity breaking down and what remains is, well, rather boring. With her acting, Barrymore sort of revisits her role in "50 First Dates", so there isn't anything new here.

Supporting stars Brad Garrett and Kristen Johnston are always a delight to watch. Garrett (who plays Robert in "Everybody Loves Raymond") and Johnston (as Sally from "3rd Rock from the Sun") are true comedians, and their roles here are the saving grace to the whole film.

The scenes which may stand out for Asian viewers would be the statue of Buddha, and the backup male dancers dressed in saffron monk robes gyrating with a barely covered Cora Corman during her song "Buddha's Delight", in front of the statue. The director seems to have crossed the line between artistic expression and tackiness.

The 'Pop' music video is just about the most entertaining part of the movie. For the rest of the film, we see Alex working with the eccentric Sophie to come up with the lyrics and music for Cora's hit song; gtting writer's block, taking walks to stimulate the brain, getting to know each other. At this point, you know that they're going to kiss, sleep with each other, and then there's going to be a conflict, with a climax point, and then the finale happy ending where there's a song and dance and they kiss. At this point, if a movie-goer knows exactly how it's going to pan out, all he or she can do is just sit. And wait.

yup is pretty long...i think watching the show is so much better then reading all this preview right?haha...gonna watch it pretty soon...i hope....

as for my day today...i am going out to TOA PAYOH...haha..to check out if that stupid shop is still there...and shop ard for my sch things...bleah...i think i need to go and get ready if not i am gonna be late...

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