{"id":4789,"date":"2009-08-13T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2009-08-13T05:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:00:30","slug":"upcoming-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/13\/upcoming-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching films at the theatre is harder these days now that Hannah&#8217;s around, and yeah no &#8211; watching films alone isn&#8217;t an option for me. Ling gives me dagger looks if I even broach the idea!<\/p>\n<p>Typically, our arrangement though is to catch films only on the odd weekend, and only if parents are free to help look after Hannah for a couple of hours. It helps that parents are all too happy to spend time with Hannah too, and that mum is a confident and sure hand when taking care of little tots. Hannah has also been very well-behaved whenever she&#8217;s at Lentor, though the minute she&#8217;s back at The Rivervale, she&#8217;ll typically begin wailing and grumbling again LOL.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, there&#8217;s a bunch of upcoming films I&#8217;m interested in catching. They include:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>District 9<\/strong><\/em>: directed by Peter Jackson of LOTR trilogy. Unusual in so many respects: the location of the shoot (Johannesburg), the fact that no big names are attached to it, that it&#8217;s being made for a paltry sum of USD 30 million (spare change in Hollywood&#8217;s mega hundred million dollar budgets), and the story of aliens stuck on Earth and just trying to seek refuge.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>2012<\/strong><\/em>: directed by Roland Emmerich, and yep yet another disaster motion picture. He sure has a thing for this genre! This one has a turkey premise &#8211; it&#8217;s based on that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2012_doomsday_prediction\">2012 Doomsday Prediction<\/a>. No, I don&#8217;t believe in that sort of thing, but if it gives good entertainment (and laughs), why not LOL.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time<\/strong><\/em>. This film starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role is still nearly a year away, but there&#8217;s already a lot of interest in it. The film is based on the popular video game character, and this is one video game-inspired film that Ling at least has an impression on since she helped me in one of those games.:)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Avatar<\/strong><\/em>: directed by James Cameron, Hollywood&#8217;s most famous person for spending ungodly amounts of money when making films. But unlike Michael Bay, Cameron has proven he&#8217;s got director chops &#8211; he made <em>Aliens<\/em>, <em>Titanic<\/em>, and <em>Terminator 2<\/em>. The film is in 3D, and looks to supersede what <em>Beowulf <\/em>achieved.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-d9\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blogd9.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-d9\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2012.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2012\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-pop\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blogpop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-pop\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching films at the theatre is harder these days now that Hannah&#8217;s around, and yeah no &#8211; watching films alone isn&#8217;t an option for me. Ling gives me dagger looks if I even broach the idea! Typically, our arrangement though<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/13\/upcoming-films\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Upcoming films<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}