I watched the movie thrice, on 27 and 30 of April and also 1 of May. It's suicidal to watch so many times, I understand how it feels. I'm not a professional nor a critics, neither have I properly review a movie, so below are just my own experience and feelings.
I'm actually having my finals during the week Infinity War came out. I struggled to study and catch up on the film. The movie opened in Malaysia on 25 of April which is one day earlier than scheduled, and on that day I was having my second paper, I thought I should watched it after that paper, but I didn't because my friends convinced me not to as I have one more paper to go on 27. So I ended up watching the movie with my friends on 27 night.
There's a world premiere on LA at 8.30am, 24 of April in Malaysia time. I was watching the livestream while waiting outside the exam hall as the paper starts at 9am, that's crazy I know, because everyone was reading their notes, trying to squeeze everything in their head in that few minutes of time and here I was ears on earphone, smiling and occasionally speaks to myself looking at the small screen of my phone watching the livestream. That's the day where the movie is shown the first time around the world and the Russo's brother trended the hashtag #ThanosDemandsYourSilence, to warned every people who watched the film to keep their mouth shut, because they'd put in so much effort to keep the plot a secret, even the cast doesn't know what's happening in the movie.
I saw that many of my mutual or fans went offline or go low in social media to avoid spoilers, because you can't really believe anyone. Then on Tuesday, I accidentally saw that one of my mutual got spoil by some brat on Twitter, and I got nervous. She was ruined, she couldn't watch the movie on surprise as everyone waited 10 years for the movie. I quickly went offline, literally from every social media, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. I only used WhatsApp and Snapchat to connect with my friends. Even on Snapchat is sometimes dangerous because I keep seeing my friends snapped about watching Infinity War. Damn. I was offline for at least 3 days till I watch the movie on 27, to avoid spoiler, and my friends said that I was too much.
Now, there's spoiler down there, you might not want to continue reading if you haven't watch the movie yet.
SPOILER ALERT
Read at your own risk
You'd been warned
I was really anxious when I went into the cinema hall. The hall is fully full, from the first row to the last row. I expected that, it's the biggest crossover movie, what do ya expect really. I already felt heartbroken in the first 10 minutes of the movie, just like what the directors have been telling us. Damn. I love Thor and Loki so much, they're the perfect brothers there ever had. No matter what they did to each other, they still address each other as brother. And when Thor met the Guardians of Galaxy, it was funny where Quill tries to imitate Thor and how he get roasted by his own family. Thor is in deep sorrow, he mourns, but he still tries to keep himself up, to smile. He lost his brother again, but he might really be dead this time. He watched his family dies, his home, his people, his friends. And when he said "What more could I lose?" I lost it, the tears betrayed me. That's such a broken thing to say.
Tony's bleeding edge armour is literally some new invention, it's so cool okay. And how Doctor Strange just call him a douchebag. And the science bro finally united and the hug! Peter's new suit too. And the squidward reference is gold. And so they blasted into the space. Thanks to Peter who watched many movies, they saved the supreme sorcerer. I knew it when Tony said Thanos had stuck in his head for 6 years since the battle of New York. He send the nuke into space and saw him, saw death coming, that's why he wanted to create Ultron to save the world. And to think of it Ultron is not all wrong about wiping out the humanity, somehow. Reminder to y'all that when Bruce said to call Steve, Tony literally took out the flip phone that Steve sent to him during the end of Civil War. He brought it all along with him all the freaking time. I'm not okay.
Thanos then took Gamora, threatened her with Nebula's life to tell him where's the soul stone. When Gamora asked Quill to do her a favour of killing her when Thanos gets her, I knew that something's wrong. And the soul stone happened to be guarded by an unexpected person, the Red Skull that appears only in Captain America: The First Avenger. Such plot twist especially when the soul stone demands a sacrifice. I do believe that Thanos loves Gamora out of all his children, he loves her. That's cruelly undeniable.
Next, is where Vision and Wanda met up secretly to spend some time together. I wasn't really fond of this pair at first, but after the movie, it grew on me. Wanda is really powerful. And when Steve Rogers appears on the screen everyone just cheer, me too. Steve with beard is everything you need. Steve said "We go home.", and he means Avengers base. Yes, they never really forget each other. Just that Tony is not there anymore.
"I'm not here to ask for forgiveness and I'm way pass asking for permission" good one Cap, not Cap anymore.
And the awkward moment between Bruce and Nat...
They flew to Wakanda to help to get the Mind Stone out of Vision head. Steve finally reunites with Bucky! The battle of Wakanda is such a huge scene and T'Challa is giving all out to save the world. The fight with Black Widow, Scarlett Witch and Okoye is really the best. And the entrance of Thor with his new axe is really really awesome. Yes, he almost die when building his new Thanos-killing-weapon, and Groot kind of save him by providing him the handle. Groot is always useful at drastic measure.
"New haircut?"
"You'd got my beard?"
Up on space, Tony lead them to fight Thanos. Yes, Quill lost at it when he finds out Thanos killed Gamora. I was mad at him at first, as the others almost got the gauntlet of his hand, and ruined it all, but there's nothing much he could do. Please don't blame him. In the end, it's just a fight between Thanos and Tony. When he stabbed Tony, I gasped, something shattered, I thought he is a goner, I cried, fuck. Everyone gasped and went utterly silent. Then Doctor Strange offered the time stone to save Tony's life. He had saw 14,000,605 different outcomes and only had one way they would win, and I literally thought there will be no way for them to win.
"You're not the only one burdened with knowledge."
10 years of MCU, the only fucking person who respected Tony is Thanos, (probably except Peter, Parker I mean) how irony. Such coincidence that Thanos and Stark knew each other? It's probably the incident that happened 6 years ago in New York.
Thanos arrived at Wakanda and fight the Avengers. Everyone is down. Wanda brokenly successfully destroy the mind stone on Vision's head, but Thanos reversed time to get the stone. How unfair right? Don't blame Wanda, she did her part and have to watch Vision died twice. Thor almost killed him but he snapped his fingers. And everyone started to vanish into thin air.
"Steve...?"
Bucky, Black Panther, Wanda, Falcon, Groot
"I don't feel so good..."
"I'm sorry"
Mantis, Drax, Quill, Doctor Strange, Peter
That's fucking hearbreaking and no one see it coming. That's an unexpected surprise no one ask for. And Tony is left alone again in Space. And we have to wait 1 year to see what happened next. I was like "WHAT THE FUCK" like everyone else in the hall as the screen goes black and showed "Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo"
Everyone is in disbelief. What is that? What happened? I can't believe the ending. As many fans theories I'd read, none of it predicted this to happen. I thought the trailer and the TV spots showed too much, but none of those scenes are critical because it happens the way we didn't expect. Everyone thought it could be the dead of Steve Rogers or Tony Stark or the OG, but it didn't happen, instead all the new characters are dead, such a twist.
The fear of what happen in Avengers 4 is real, because that will be the real death of the OG characters. Captain Marvel will save the world and Hawkeye and Antman and Wasp and Valkyrie didn't even appear in Infinity War, so for sure they will have something to do in Avengers 4. Look forward to watch Antman and the Wasp to get a clue of what happen to Scott Lang.
It's a great experience to watch movie with fans as everyone has the same reaction, we cried and cheered and laughed. But when I watched it the second and third time, mostly are families and such non-fans, they didn't give reaction, and it looks like I'm the maniac who talk to myself, and they left as the credit rolls, they didn't even wait for the post-credit scene. Hate it when I watched it with non-fans.
Plus, the whole cinema is only showing Avengers: Infinity War the whole time as they only have 8 halls. That's really crazy. There's a panel to show the showtime for movies and there's only 1 movie showing, and loads of time slot. That's how Marvel becomes the highest grossing movie all time and breaks all the records.
I have my own theories and read many theories as I finally go online again on social media. I really don't know what to do next. Every morning I woke up to the scene of Infinity War, thinking of it. Maybe that's too much, but it happens.
Thanks to everyone who worked hard on producing this movie and keeping it a secret, appreciate it very much, Thank you. And to those who spoil people intentionally, you're such a douchebag.
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Monday, 26 February 2018
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
I'd been a fans ever since. I'd read all the 5 books in the series:
The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
The Kill Order
The Fever Code
It's an amazing ride through this series. It could be considered the first novel series I'd finished reading even before Harry Potter. I love the journey with Thomas, Newt, Minho and their fellow Gladers. I'd learned Gladers' slang like shuck, shank, greenie etc.
And now we have come to an end of the cinematic adaption. I have watched the production of TDC until it finally goes on the big screen. I tried my luck and won fans screening premiere in Malaysia which claimed to be the first screening over Asia. I'm able to watch it like 25 days earlier, I lost count actually. Got merchandise for free during the premiere. Yes, I cried during the movie, I wouldn't be afraid to admit that. And I invited my friend to watch the premiere with me, and I cried so hard it's difficult to stop.
And can you believe that I watched another 3 times excluding the premiere? I couldn't believe it either but I did. I watched on that day it show up in cinema, another time with my friend after exam, and one last time with another friend who wanted to watch it. Yes, I cried every time.
The movie adaption is different from the book, obviously, but the director and screenplay did a great job in setting up the story but it doesn't lose track on the book. People who died, sadly still die, just in a different way where the fans can accept it. The story is smooth, thrilled, action-packed, and emotional. Sorry, I wasn't good at reviewing things. I love the cast so much, they portrayed each characters perfectly. And thanks to director Wes Ball and screenplay T.S Nowlin for such amazing adaption with amazing changes from the books which makes it fill with more humanity. Thanks to all behind the scene workers, post-production crew and everyone who makes the movie a success, without each of them, this franchise will not happened.
Just another thing to add on, many review from critics are not as good, they said the movie is made for fans. I believe so, the movie is like 2 hour and 30 minutes long. I don't care what the critics said but I believe this is the best YA novel adaption compared to the others even though there are major changes, and I love that Wes did not care about others and made the movie for fans. A huge thank you for the crew!
The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
The Kill Order
The Fever Code
It's an amazing ride through this series. It could be considered the first novel series I'd finished reading even before Harry Potter. I love the journey with Thomas, Newt, Minho and their fellow Gladers. I'd learned Gladers' slang like shuck, shank, greenie etc.
And now we have come to an end of the cinematic adaption. I have watched the production of TDC until it finally goes on the big screen. I tried my luck and won fans screening premiere in Malaysia which claimed to be the first screening over Asia. I'm able to watch it like 25 days earlier, I lost count actually. Got merchandise for free during the premiere. Yes, I cried during the movie, I wouldn't be afraid to admit that. And I invited my friend to watch the premiere with me, and I cried so hard it's difficult to stop.
And can you believe that I watched another 3 times excluding the premiere? I couldn't believe it either but I did. I watched on that day it show up in cinema, another time with my friend after exam, and one last time with another friend who wanted to watch it. Yes, I cried every time.
The movie adaption is different from the book, obviously, but the director and screenplay did a great job in setting up the story but it doesn't lose track on the book. People who died, sadly still die, just in a different way where the fans can accept it. The story is smooth, thrilled, action-packed, and emotional. Sorry, I wasn't good at reviewing things. I love the cast so much, they portrayed each characters perfectly. And thanks to director Wes Ball and screenplay T.S Nowlin for such amazing adaption with amazing changes from the books which makes it fill with more humanity. Thanks to all behind the scene workers, post-production crew and everyone who makes the movie a success, without each of them, this franchise will not happened.
Just another thing to add on, many review from critics are not as good, they said the movie is made for fans. I believe so, the movie is like 2 hour and 30 minutes long. I don't care what the critics said but I believe this is the best YA novel adaption compared to the others even though there are major changes, and I love that Wes did not care about others and made the movie for fans. A huge thank you for the crew!
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
2018
Hello world, I'm back. I just realized that I didn't update much in 2017, sorry for that, and hope that there's more update this year. And welcome to the year of 2018.
I just finished my 2nd semester in college last week. Semester 2 is not going as well as Semester 1. I was drown, if I would describe it. First, the assignment team is a shit, my friends did literally nothing at all, and I didn't perform my best. I became a procrastinator. I didn't worked hard in my study. I done badly in my mid-term test. Secondly, Bae's engagement news, that was alright but it came together with Jonghyun's death news, suicide because of depression. Thirdly, CCV's charity project, Games Carnival, I was the Assistant Project Manager, it stressed me out. Fourthly, depression probably. Fifthly, dance confidence problems.
The whole thing just got me like I thought I'll never feel alive again. The news of Bae and Jonghyun came before the Games Carnival, I was shocked, happy and sad the same time, but couldn't really do anything. But right after the Games Carnival, all the feeling hit me at once. All the feeling I had concealed for 10 weeks. I talked with WX, she had the same thoughts, I thought maybe both of us have the same problems. I grieved for days. Those days, I grief so hard, so hard it hurts every freaking time. Every time I read the news, listened to his songs, even though I'm not a fan of his. But it hits hard, because I understand what it feels like to be depressed. I remembered crying every night in my sleep. There were weeks I couldn't eat, I feel like puking every time I forced myself to eat. And all I can consume is Milo. I thought I was hard on myself, but it turns out that I didn't have expectation on myself. That feeling when you are finding a way to kill yourself but the same time you don't want to, that hurts more.
Nearing to final exam, I was constantly not in mood for study. I blamed myself but there's nothing I could do. I'm very negative this time. I was really mad at myself even in the exam hall. Although I want a CGPA4.0 very much, I'm not confident that it will happened this time. I never thought I would be so mad at myself for academic matters. And that's how the semester 2 passed by, nothing good. The only good thing happened was to attend TAEYANG WHITE NIGHT Tour in KL.
I wished that everything in 2018 will be better. Hope that 2018 is the year of healing. And wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I just finished my 2nd semester in college last week. Semester 2 is not going as well as Semester 1. I was drown, if I would describe it. First, the assignment team is a shit, my friends did literally nothing at all, and I didn't perform my best. I became a procrastinator. I didn't worked hard in my study. I done badly in my mid-term test. Secondly, Bae's engagement news, that was alright but it came together with Jonghyun's death news, suicide because of depression. Thirdly, CCV's charity project, Games Carnival, I was the Assistant Project Manager, it stressed me out. Fourthly, depression probably. Fifthly, dance confidence problems.
The whole thing just got me like I thought I'll never feel alive again. The news of Bae and Jonghyun came before the Games Carnival, I was shocked, happy and sad the same time, but couldn't really do anything. But right after the Games Carnival, all the feeling hit me at once. All the feeling I had concealed for 10 weeks. I talked with WX, she had the same thoughts, I thought maybe both of us have the same problems. I grieved for days. Those days, I grief so hard, so hard it hurts every freaking time. Every time I read the news, listened to his songs, even though I'm not a fan of his. But it hits hard, because I understand what it feels like to be depressed. I remembered crying every night in my sleep. There were weeks I couldn't eat, I feel like puking every time I forced myself to eat. And all I can consume is Milo. I thought I was hard on myself, but it turns out that I didn't have expectation on myself. That feeling when you are finding a way to kill yourself but the same time you don't want to, that hurts more.
Nearing to final exam, I was constantly not in mood for study. I blamed myself but there's nothing I could do. I'm very negative this time. I was really mad at myself even in the exam hall. Although I want a CGPA4.0 very much, I'm not confident that it will happened this time. I never thought I would be so mad at myself for academic matters. And that's how the semester 2 passed by, nothing good. The only good thing happened was to attend TAEYANG WHITE NIGHT Tour in KL.
I wished that everything in 2018 will be better. Hope that 2018 is the year of healing. And wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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