Battleship (2012) - Movie Review

Battleship 2012

okes... haritu Battleship trending worldwide kat twitter. especially on its opening day. so.. maksudnya, filem tu menjadi sebutan la. hehe

bagi korang yang tak tau... Battleship ni diamik sempena nama sejenis board game oleh Hasbro. dan memang permainan tu jenis strategy, perang2 kapal perang di laut. kecik2 dulu aku pernah ada game ni satu set... erm, aku da tak ingat camna boleh missing in action bendalah tu. hikhik. tapi permainan tu best!

Battleship classic game

actually movie ni punya promo dah lama... lepas transformers 3 haritu dah ada dah. tapi ramai dok fokus kat The Avengers yang nak tayang bulan May nanti. so, battleship ni tak la disebut-sebut sangat.... sampai la keluar kat wayang dua-tiga hari lepas.

aku sebagai peminat filem aksi sejati, agak ter-excited la nak tengok kan. nak2 pulak citer yang ala2 military, perang2, letup2 bagai nih. oh well, boys will be boys. chewah! hahaha. so punya semangat nak tengok, semalam aku pegi Alamanda, konon2 nak tengok la. wahh.. GSC Alamanda bukak 4 panggung serentak hanya untuk tayang Battleship. pergh~ siap 5 kaunter khas untuk citer ni je!

Battleship (Japan)

aku pon berjaya la selit2kan diri dalam barisan yang padat dengan manusia yang beratur nak beli tiket, nak tengok Battleship. agak2 45 minit jugak la nak sampai kat hujung line beratur tu. sabar punya sabar... sekali aku dah nak sampai kaunter dah - GSC buat pengumuman... seatings utk kesemua 4 panggung tayangan Battleship... sold out. full house beb!. keji siot... =___="

sebab tu la aku culik Yazid ajak tengok citer tu arini... haha. nasib la mamat hensem tu sudi. same place, alamanda. tayangan kul 3. wheee! finally!!

orait. itu mukadimah. ni baru nak masuk isi2 penting pasal citer tu. hehehe

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Battleship citer pasal kapal2 perang, dan peperangan sehari-dua dengan makhluk asing. simple je. citer dia tak meleret-leret sampai 4-5 tahun pon. start perang hari ni, esok dah abeh. hahaha. plot dia? ok. ada pihak yang jumpak planet asing yang kononnya mirip bumi dan boleh tampung kehidupan. so dorang bina satelit apa ntah kat Hawaii, dan hantar signal ke planet tu untuk try berkomunikasi - kot2 ada makhluk~

sekali tu... lepas hantar signal ke sana... makhluk asing kat sana pon reply~... dan bukan takat reply balas signal. dorang hantar rombongan teros ke bumi. 5 bijik spaceship teros. gedebak gedebik gedebuk, alien2 tu sume landing la kat lautan pasifik...

... yang kebetulannya masa tu hari RIMPAC. amende tu? hari spesel bagi negara2 yang ada armada tentera2 laut (Navy) yang berkaliber... senang cakap awesome habis la~ hehe. so masa dorang tengah nak buat latihan peprangan laut tu, masa tu jugak lah kapal2 angkasa alien tadi tu landing kat bumi... betol2 dekat dengan tempat latihan dorang.

so kat situ mula la dorang discover yang alien dah datang nak bikin onar kat bumi. motip sebenor alien2 tu bertandang ke bumi... aku sendiri tak pasti. tah2 sampai je sini, teros buat kacau. macam jiran korang yang takde adab laa... datang rumah orang, dah la tak dijemput... pepandai je masuk dapur, amik nasik lauk2 semua, makan. lepas tu buat semak dalam rumah. hahahaha

in the end... macam biasalah... hero dan perwira perang menyelamatkan keadaan~ sekian saje cerita 2 jam 11 minit ituu~~ hehehe

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huh? aku review macam hampeh? LOL! aku tak kata pon aku nak review bagi korang puas hati. ekeke. ok2, aku nak tambah sket2 lagi. ^^

bagi aku, cerita ni agak lemah dari segi plot. bagi yang kurang rajin nak berfikir, citer ni syok la layan. plot dia simple - alien datang buat kacau --> kita tak suka alien jahat --> kita hapuskan alien tu --> bumi pon selamat. senang kan? dah la perang lebeyh kurang 24 jam je. ekeke. haa.. kemudian, macam biasa lah. bila cerita pasal ketenteraan Amerika ni, kita pon tau macam mana dorang punya gah kan. dan itulah yang nak ditonjolkan jugak - US Navy is the best in the world. =) ok tak nafikan, ada bantuan panglima perang dari Jepun (yeaaayy!!) tapi... armory, fleets, war naval semua tu US punya. yang tewaskan alien tu pon, US Navy, guna battleship US. kapal Jepun awal2 dah karam... hahaha. pendek kata, if it's not an American who saves the day, nobody does. hehe

kalo nak cakap kekuatan cerita... em, tentu2 kat grafik dan aksi letop2 dia la. sape suka cerita transformers, most likely akan suka cerita ni. memang epic laa dia punya kebaboomm segala bagai. kalo ada 3D, mungkin lagi cun. hehe. kendian... citer dia tak serius sangat. ade je part yang korang boleh gelak, or at least senyum - even masa2 kritikal tengah tembak2 letop2 tu. hihi.

oh! erm... nak cerita ke tak eh... kang klo cakap jadi spoiler plak. haha. takpe lah, aku cakap sket2 je. dalam cerita ni, nama Navy Malaysia ada disebut, tahu? seingat aku... yang tersenarai dan disebut dalam citer nih... erm.. Jepun, Malaysia, Australia... ada lagi tapi aku lupa. FYI, angkatan laut Malaysia memang diiktiraf US sebagai antara navy yang terbaek di dunia. ini fakta tau, bukan tipu2. lagipon, Malaysia antara rakan dagang Amerika yang kuat. jadi, tak salah kot dorang nak amik hati kita dengan selitkan 4-5 saat mention pasal Malaysia. at least benda baek... tak macam kisah Black Hawk Down dulu tuu.. if you know what i mean. ^^

tak lengkap kalo tak cerita pasal hero - heroin Battleship. ok la jugak. scene dorang bercium ada 2 kali je... awal2 cerita tu agak rrrawrrr jugak la. kalo yang bawak anak2 kecik tu.. maybe kena tutupkan mata dorang bagi mengelakkan soalan2 lanjutan. hahaha.



lastly! aku punya prediction selepas tengok cerita nih... dan kalau lah cerita Battleship ni meletop kaw2.

1. permainan klasik Battleship akan jadi popular semula. silap2 Hasbro akan keluarkan edisi2 khas Battleship.

2. harga permainan Battleship dan model2 permainan (collectors item) akan naik. sebelom2 ni takde la mahal sangat... siyes.

3. ramai yang berminat nak jadi tentera laut / Navy.

4. ramai yang berangan nak bersuamikan seorang Navy. (sebab hero2 dia hensem~)

5. orang akan kaitkan Malaysia sebagai supporter Amerika. hahaha...

6. Rihanna akan muncul dalam banyak lagi filem.

7. filem2 bertemakan patriotism akan bercambah dan ada market yang lebih baek. tak lupa jugak kat filem Titanic 3D... =p

8. para gamers akan mengagung-agungkan game Halo (kenapa? hehe... tengok cerita ni baru tau)

9. para pengkaji dan extra terrestrial believers akan buat review serius mengenai alien2 yang digambarkan dalam cerita ni. pantang betol dorang nih... ekeke

10. hubungan baik antara Jepun dan Amerika semakin erat, dan Amerika akan terus digambarkan sebagai penyelamat dunia.

wheee~~ puas baca? penat laa... takyah pikir banyak. ada rm 12, pegi beli tiket, tengok sendiri. then reflect. ok? ^^

Restoran Yang Mengkucar-Kacirkan Pemikiran

tadi lepas maghrib... aku lapaq sangat2... so sementara berselera di kala demam nih, aku decide nak makan.. since aku tak makan apa2 pon hari ni... bukak posa dengan air paip je tadi. ehe..

cut it short, aku pegi round2 taman astakona... err, bukan. taman shah alam 2.. area2 shop-lot dia tu. hm.. banyak gak kedai makan. tapi tetau nak makan apa~

tetiba aku terpandang satu kafe ni... nii... nii~ (tengok gambaq)

macam best... so aku tengok2 la menu dia~~ huih. semua makanan arab dan western. ngee.. dalam wallet ada suploh hengget je. T____T

tetiba aku terpandang kat satu lagi stream kafe ni.. "nasi ayam - RM 4.50" waahh! cara lah! ok masih dalam bajet. set. makan sini. wheee~ ^^. anyway.. itu makanan paling murah kt situ. hahaha

so aku order nasik ayam satu set, dengan barli suam~ 

aku perati la keliling... hensem jugak deco dalam kedai nih.. 

tu kat depan tu.. ada ruang untuk live performance ouh! ok takde tarian tiang , excuse me... tapi live band tetiap malam pukol 10 onwards... tak sure lak tutup kul berapa kedai ni.. 

haa... ingin aku tegaskan. owner/pengurus kedai ni ialah melayu... restoran ni bertemakan arab. tengok contoh2 makanan dia ek..

tapikan... hehehe

yang mengkucarkacirkan otak aku ialah... 

1. restoran ni tema arab... tapi .. dorang pasang lagu (background music) bahasa Spanish! siyesly!! mula2 aku noticed lagu O Sole Mio - nyanyian arwahnye Luciano Pavarotti! lepas tu... lagu Granada nyanyian Jose Carreras!! 

korang tak pernah dengar? sila youtube tajuk2 lagu dan penyanyi tersebut. yes macam sangat awesome aku tahu lagu2 seumpamanya beserta penyanyi sekali... but what can i say~ that's the fact. bwahaha =D

ok. seriously, dorang tak pasang lagu arab, or english, or malay... lol!

2. pemilik orang Malaysia. restoran tema Arab. pasang lagu Sepanyol. tapi jual... air... air...

hahahahahahahahaha. kau hado!??? xD

kalo korang nak merasa suasana international dan multicultural semasa makan... meh la ke kafe nih. tak tau kat mana, takpe... be my guess.. maybe next time dia pasang lagu Jepun pulak? ekeke ^^

Special Report: The UARS! The Debris

Regarding UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite)

MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE SATELLITE TO HIT EARTH

• 27kg High Gain Antenna assembly impacting at 159km/h

• 25kg forward bulkhead fitting impacting at 285km/h

• 61kg Solar Stellar Pointing Platform gimbal impacting at 209km/h

• 158kg Solar Stellar Pointing Platform structure impacting at 209km/h

• 5kg fuel tanks impacting at 95km/h

• 50kg batteries impacting at 235km/h

• 1.8kg wheel rims impacting at 386km/h

• 3.2kg housing impacting at 281km/h

• 1kg bracket impacting at 64km/h

• 5kg base plate impacting at 130km/h

• 500g extension impacting at 76km/h

*Malaysia is among the countries within its impact zone.

Sources: The Aerospace Corporation and The Washington Post

Read more, HERE!

9/11: Numbers & Facts

2,977
Total victims of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

343
Fire Department of New York personnel killed at the World Trade Center.

60
Police officers killed at the WTC.

17,400
Approximate number of workers at the WTC when the planes hit.

21,817
Human remains recovered from the destruction.

9.006
Remains never matched to a victim.

1,121
Victims never identified through remains.

289
Number of intact bodies pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Most families of victims received only body parts - or only death certificates.

2
Age of the youngest victim. Christine Hanson was travelling with her parents to Disneyland in California when Flight 175 was hijacked. Eight children were killed in the attacks, all of them passengers on hijacked airliners.

source: CBC Newsworld

200

People believed to have jumped of fallen from the twin towers before their collapse, according to USA Today survey, witness photographs, videos and testimony.


56 & 102 minutes was the time the burning twin towers stood.

12 seconds was all it took for them to fall.

2.3
Magnitude, on Richter scale, of the seismic impact of the north tower's collapse.

93
Nationalities of victims.

29.9 million ounces of silver recovered from a Bank of Nova Scotia vault below the towers.

300
Approximate number of search and rescue dogs deployed at the World Trade Center, Fresh Kills landfill and the Pentagon.

7
Days passed before Christie Whitman, the Environment Protection Agency administrator, said the air in New York was "safe to breathe."

99
Days passed before Governor George E. Pataki declared the fires had been extinguished.

261
Days passed before last piece of steel, a 58-tonne segment of column, was carted away.


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following 9.11.2001.

779 
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002.

26 million
Lighters confisticated at airports in the three years they were banned.

16,000
Names on the US government's "No Fly" list.

US$2.08 million
Average government settlement for families of those killed.

80,680
Service members treated for post-traumatic stress disorder.

13,065
Minimum number of people found to have 9/11-related asthma and other lower respiratory ailments.

10,320
People found to have 9/11-related post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses.

3000
Estimated number of children who lost a parent on 9/11.

36
Newborns named Osama in the United States in 2001.

55
Newborns named Osama from 2002 to 2009.

93
Percentage of Muslim Americans who believe their fellow Muslims are loyal to the United States.

48
Percentage who believe they have experienced racial or religious discrimination in the past years.

2005
The year "jihadist" was added to the Merriam-Webster College Dictionary.

45
Feature films that were postponed or re-edited after the attacks. A Jackie Chan movie called Nosebleed, about a window-washer at the World Trade Center who foils a terrorist plot, was cancelled.

source: New Sunday Times, September 11, 2011.

Remembering September 11, 2001

this is indeed "geez-another-post-about-nineleven-blablabla" kinda thing. well, to most people, it is. i don't know about other bloggers, but all i'm trying to do here... is to deliver my thoughts and feelings upon what happened back in 2001... and what's happening, here and now in 2011.

ten years. one-'O'. big ten, fellas. a split second could determine one's life and death - then how about ten years? on this very date, the world, and especially America - we are all mourning over the loss of lives in one of the darkest hours in history.

by right you should have known the "102 minutes that changed America." hence, i guess my explanation about this 'infamous' history might only bring you the expected boredom. nevertheless, that ain't my intention upon writing this very entry.

back in 2001, the world blamed religious movements upon what happened on 9/11. nonetheless, Islam. why so? because terrorism was claimed in the name of Islam; in the name of "the right thing to do."

three things i'd like to highlight here...

one. the victims of and in the tragedy. thousands of innocent lives were killed due to the attack. working mothers, fathers of children, family guys, happy souls, noblemen and cheerful ladies; you name it. had had them wrong to justify their fate? who were we... are we... to tell to even ourselves, that they got what they deserved? i feel sorry for their families, their husbands and wives, sons and daughters of all ages, relatives and friends... and how i wish they knew, that everybody wishes that time could be turned back, for at least a few minutes before 'it' happened. may God bless them souls.

two. the terrorists. for God sake why did you guys do that?? revenge? unsatisfied, dissatisfaction? redeeming rights and condemning wrongs? the best part was... the attack was proudly claimed in the name of "do the just" and religion. correct me if i'm wrong, but do tell me - why Islamophobia is surprisingly 'popular' after the attack? why every man with beards were eyed and labelled 'suspicious' if not directly 'terrorist'? why women with hijab were forced to take off their face-cover and scanned thoroughly? by right, the 'deeds' that those people committed in the attack somehow have put Muslims and Islam itself in a big cauldron of hot boiling soup. even worse, it's a 'fitna', a false accusation on the holy religion! now who has to shoulder the blame?

victims of 9.11.2001.

three. those who put in faith that 9/11 was the teaching of Islam. as a Muslim, i can confirm you, that Islam teaches no terrorism. Islam promotes love, peace and harmony. and i believe, other religions discard violence and terrorism from their teachings as well. what was claimed as an act of religious belief was totally individuals'. or perhaps, some misconceptions about their beliefs, and what they wanted to believe. never would a religion command its followers to commit such wrong-doings. in Islam, putting something not at its right place is already a sin; zalim. hence, i beg all readers; i beg the world - don't just a religion by its followers. if you want to know about Islam, read the Koran (al-Quran) and hadith. you'll understand the meaning of Islam, and the true way of living as Muslim.

and you know what - as much as Christians and other religions condemn the recent Norway Massacre, Muslims all over the world condemn terrorism and the wrong-doings committed by those misled so-called Muslims.

read up articles, writings and news about 9/11. learn from the past, today, for a better future. God bless.

and yes, America. In God We Trust.

Antara Kucing dan Hamster, Aku Pilih Rubah

sekarang ni kecoh pasal isu Petknode (ntah betol ke tak aku eja nih). ala, asmara asrama haiwan peliharaan tuuu. yang pemilik2 kucing belaan pilih untuk jaga baby2 dorang time cuti panjang or time dorang takde kat umah.

dulu aku tak pernah dengor pasal petknode nih...sampai la raya tadi - sepupu aku kat Bangi balek beraya kat kampong tanpa kucing2 kesayangan dorang. ajaib bin aneh la aku kan. selalunya dorang bawak balek sama. yelah, kalo bior kat umah tu... mati kering la kucing2 tu tak makan. takde orang jaga.

tanya punya tanya, rupa2nya dorang hantor kekucing tu kat hotel haiwan peliharaan. ooooo... baru la aku tau, benda macam tu wujud. sori la, budak kampung bela kucing takde hotel2 bagai. ada sangkar tikus dengan reban ayam je. hehe

ni bukan kucing. ni Arctic Fox. my favourite mammal. hehe

hm... aku plak terpikir... kalo ada hotel kucing/anjing macam hotel untuk manusia... mesti ada tempat penginapan laen, kan? apsal tak hantor ke rumah pengasih ke, resort ke... ada homestay tak? hehe

balek kat citer pekond. no, ini bukan typo. aku memang suka sebut Petknode as pekond. |pe-kon|. senang, tak tergeliat lidah.

uuuuiih.. kesian sangat la aku tengok kucing2 yang mati tuu... lagi kesian aku tengok owner2 menatang2 yang terseksa tu... tapi, lagi lagi aku kesian bila tengok pemilik dan pekerja2 kat Petknode tu... sebab? sebab dorang jenuh nak menjawab dengan Tuhan nanti.

kemon la. sah2 orang bagi pets dorang kat ko untuk dijaga dengan baek, kan? dah memang tu pon tujuan ko bukak pusat jagaan haiwan, kan?? dah tu kenapa la gamak gi menzalimi haiwan tu semua~... kalo tau tak mampu, jangan terima. dah jadi camni, baru la nak gelabah, nak nyesal bagai..~

siap bold "good care". good la sangat~

ni kes pecah amanah la ni. haa.. Nabi pernah cakap... kalo tak mampu nak pikul amanah, lebih baek jangan terima daripada kita memungkirinya kelak. yang jadi masalahnya kat sini, bila tau tak mampu, tapi nak gak kata "Yes We Can!", you can count on us! don't worry - be happy! your pets are in good hands bla bla bla.

sedih aku dengan manusia2 yang taknak guna akal elok2 nih. duit mau, tapi buat keja takmau. buat lak cincai2. hambik, silap2 haram la jadinye. wallahualam. em... aku taknak emo lebeyh2. Tuhan tau what best for them.

eh kejap...aku melalut apa nih? lari jaoh dari tajuk la!! haha =D

ok2. meh sentuh pasal tajuk sikit.

aku seorang yang suka kucing. tapi aku lagi suka arnab daripada kucing. aku suka bela hamster, tapi aku prefer untuk bela hedgehog berbanding hamster. dan impian aku adalah nak bela raccoon dan musang artik.

sangat Americanized, kan? hahaha ^^