Can anyone out there find the easter egg? Hee.... If you do, tell me so on the tagboard, but don't reveal where it is... doomo..... ;)

The Shit hits the Fan..... and that's us
Anyway, I finally watched the Matrix Revolutions and gotten closure on the whole Matrix series. If you ask me, considering the hype of the first movie, it's sad to see that the next two just degenerated into the regular action movies that Hollywood churns out mass-production style. I'm understanding why my fren Jubilee says she prefers foreign films. It's cos' they're just darn good..... They're way more creative in terms of storyline and they have so much more impact on the viewer. Watching a film like 15, for example, is like getting hit in the chest by a flaming meteroid. Watching Revolutions was like...... a wadball..... [piece of wetted tissue paper that kids blow thru a straw onto unsuspecting victims] The action's good, but ultimately, the film's forgettable by itself, and can only exist thru the fame of its eldest brother.

Remember from Econs 1001: What happens when you give one company an entire monopoly? THey start producing crap stuff for you 'cos they know you can't get ur kicks anywhere else. It's sorta like the crack dealers. They can mix in baby powder with the crack and charge the crap off you for it, cos they know you just want more........ this is cos in the movie industry, only Hollywood has the clout [$$$] to produce a movie and let the whole damn world know about it. Other pple have to beg and scrape for production and distribution, and then even if it's critically acclaimed, there's the chances that no one wants to see it, cos no one believes the critics anyway. An example of this would be Mel Gibson's Passion, for example. [A film about the life of Jesus Christ].

The same thing's going on in the music industry. Nowadays, if your album doesn't make it big the first time round, the label drops you. They're not interested in the lifetime potential of the artist, they just wanna see the big bucks now. [candle, remember the concept of lifetime value from service? Well, they're not doing it.... ] Instead, they just push stuff like *shudder* Britney Spears at us again and again. Pls, if I wanted to see bellybuttons, I would have just lifted up my shirt and looked at myself in the mirror.

This is soooo sad......... the entertainment industry is potentially going to shit and all of it's falling on us............

Anyway, not that you'll need it or agree with it, but:
Khel's List of Top Ten Movies
In no particular order,
1. Lord of the Rings: Finally! A decent fantasy movie(s)!
2. 15: Teen angst at its best
3. Gangs of New York: I have a thing for gangsta flicks
4. Moulin Rouge: The colour and song.... fantastic mix
5. Battle Royale: Blood + Teen angst
6. Bowling for Columbine: Guns + Teen angst
7. Hero: Loved the cinematography and colour
8. Romeo n Juliet: Shakespeare MTV style
9. Shakespeare in Love: The passion...sigh
10. (vacant) Hey when I think of the tenth one i'll tell you..... :p

Extra thought: Anyone read last week's issue of Newsweek? They had this great feature on human beauty, and the lengths we go to achieve what we deem as physically beautiful. My thought: SHALLOW. All these pple can think about is how pretty they are, and how everyone thinks how pretty they are. They think people think:"Wow! This woman is great! She's beautiful!" when in reality they could be thinking:"Wow! This woman is great! I wanna F**K her!" [ok, this might seem like a basketful of sour grapes] The article is great in explaining what we think is beauty [The Golden Mean and the lifetime average] why our idea of beauty has changed [globalisation and the pan-asian look] and how people are willing to go thru all lengths of plastic surgery to achieve that standard of beauty. My favourite example is this woman, who went thru sooo many operations, the beauty salon is adopting as its mascot. [and when I showed Candle the photo, she said the woman still looked more or less the same. Makes me wonder what exactly it was she paid for] My favourite quotation also comes from that woman. When the reporter asked her who she wanted to look like? She said: "I'm not trying to look like anyone. I'm just trying to be myself."

I'm really wondering if she's serious or just trying to be funny.