Movies Summary for 2010

4 days into the last month of the year, December.  December is always the month to recap your year, whether it is a good or bad one, and get ready for the new year.  To some, it is also the month of eating, festive and hopefully, giving back to the society.

I will start the recap by looking at the movies that I have watched in 2010.  (Movies not in any particular order)

1. Inception
2. Eat Pray Love
3. Ip Man 2
4. Iron Man 2
5. Clash of the Titans
6. Unstoppable
7. Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
8. Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest
9. Sex & the City 2
10. Despeciable Me
11. Salt
12. Expendables

Total of 12 movies, meaning i watched 1 movie each month!

If I would to rank, my top 3 favourite movies of the year are:

1. Inception
2. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3. Salt

Inception was the most orginal plot of all.  Though someone had use similar plot in the book, the movie brought it to the next level.  Leonado DeCarpio did a great job, i started to like him after his Blood Diamond in 2007.  I thought that he has improved a lot since his Titanic days, and he looked better as he aged.  The open ending left me frustrated, and had quite a discussion with my friends whether he was in a dream or reality. 

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a movie adapted from a book written by Stieg Larsson, a swede.  It was a trilogy, and there were two more books, that were also made into movie.

It was not your typical hollywood movie, and it had all the exciting and a bit dark theme, yet not too disgusting.  It talked about incest, homosexuality, rape & SM, murder, hacker, social morality etc...The movie opened with intriguing mystery, and you were totally absorbed into the movie as you followed the charcter to track down the murderer.  The only complaint that I had was it ws in Swedish, so I had to follow the subtitles, and in some scenes, it was white background with white subtitles.

Hollywood is making it, and the lead is Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara as my heroine Lisbeth. 
I hope they would not destroy it!

Salt- a typical Hollywood flick by Angelina Jolie.  Why I like it?  Simply because i like Angelina Jolie!  She was Salt in the movie, so cool, so heroic.  And her russian accent was just so sexy.  Salt is a James Bond, spy movie, with a female spy.

The most disappointing of the 12 was the Clash of the Titans.  It boasted 3D effect, and the only 3D thing was the subtitles.  Looked like one of those who just wanted to jump into the 3D bandwagon.

Look forward to more good movie in 2011..

Oilo Cafe with the Girls that have no dragon tatoo

I had not met the 2 Michelles for a while.  Always enjoyed their company, both of them love food, and one of them love photography, so it was always great to meet them, of course for food!

We did not plan for some exotic places, as we were booked for a movie in Marina Square- Girl who kicked the hornets nest!  I was so thrilled when I knew that the 2 michs were fellow fans of Lisbeth!  Lisbeth was my new heroine, and she had my dream job - Hacker.  My secret fantasy was that I could be the best hacket in the world, hacked into any network and best of all, banks, so that I could transfer other people's money into my account! hahahhaa
Girl who kicked the hornest nest was the last part of the Trilogy books by Stieg Larsson.  I watched the first moive - Girl with a Dragon Tatoo and i fell in love with the character, Lisbeth.  She was not your typically kind of goody heroine.  She had character, and style, hmm, well, some might not agree.  I missed the second movie, somehow there was no advertisement on this movie, and was exclusive to Golden Village.  I made it up by reading the book...Man, it was mind blowing!!  If you have not read it, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee  read it now!!

We settled for Olio Cafe in Marina Square.  Had not been to Olio for proper meal, my impression of them was that they served decent coffee and desserts.  Our mains:

Grilled Fish with Salsa.  The Salsa was great, served as a great appertiser, and it took away any fishy taste..

 Chicken Pie.  It was big, but it was not crisy enough.  I think that Country Manna was still the champion of this type of pie.  The curry was good though.

 Grilled Chicken, rather average, the fish was better.

 Cheese cake

 Ah, this was the star of the night!  Brownie on hot plate.  First time I saw brownie served on hotplate, sizzling hot plate.  The waitress poured the chocolate sauce onto the brownie, creating the sizzling effect..ssiiiiiiiissssiiii..and Mich went "  WOWOWOWOWO, i want this"  Mich and I bet that she was secretly delighted when the pie that she ordered was sold out, because without battling her eyelid, she said " Then I will change my order to the brownie"  Can you see that the peanuts were flying??  Special effect.. :-)
We went for our movies after the dinner, not without some road blocks as one of the Mich were lost, in Marina Square...Hahhaa

 Can you see the bubbles?  The white piece of block was Ice Cream!!!  Hot and cold, perfect contrast, challenging your taste buds.  A bit too sweet for me, but i love the sizzling hot plate.

 Secret to the special flying peanuts effect