Lately have been busy with work and with life, so last night I watched 3 action movies in a go..from 6pm til 2am, and even managed to sneak a conference call in between movies as I ran to my car parked in a quiet basement carpark in Orchard! Social life has to go on despite work, priorities shouldn't succumb. Anyhow the battle of IM2s, Ip Man 2 vs Iron Man 2.
Iron Man 2 was okay, nothing fantastic in terms of story line but the ending was rather a let down from the fight scenes, but I was impressed with Scarlett Johansson besides being hot, she Kicked Ass! So do watch it for her if not for just Robert Downey Jrs' usual antics.
Anyway a must watch will be Ip Man 2, and that saying not because I am learning Wing Chun, but the story line is great and makes me feel good being a Chinese! All I can say is Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung Kicked Ass too!
That saying, I decided to watch Kick Ass after those 2 highly anticipated movies, as it was starring my fav actor Nicolas Cage. The movie was a surprise, didn't know it was M18 and there was as much gore in there as there was humour. Reminded me of a cross between Superbad and Kill Bill. It was really a good movie. Here's the trailer link, since they disabled embedding. (Seriously what's with YouTube lately, noticed more videos are having embedding disabled).
Anyway a tip if you are driving in to Orchard for a movie. In order to avoid ERP and expensive parking charges without having a pile of bird shit covering your car (parking is free after 10pm at public carparks in Orchard- but it often comes free with bird poo. The trees planted in town somehow point to a rare species classified under Toilet Tree, where birds can poo freely on cars which park cheaply; and you wonder why everyone is willing to pay for expensive sheltered parking in Orchard, the car wash cost is taken into account!). So go watch at Cineleisure, and the nearest non-ERP carpark is at TripleOne Somerset. Enter from Killiney Road and head towards the Singapore Power Building which is now renamed to this fancy name after adding a supermarket and some eateries. But am glad they now allow parking till morning, previously they close up at 11pm or midnight, now its $2.68/entry after 6pm.You just need to enter the carpark from the side staircases, they still lock up the place at midnight.
