Movie Marathons and 3rd Rock from the Sun
Posted by Emory on October 4, 2008First off… I’ll talk about the greatest sitcoms I ever watch since The Nanny.
This is 3rd Rock from the Sun. One of the old sitcoms I finished watching! Last year was The Nanny, this year it’s 3rd Rock. I remember watching this series when I was young at my grandmother’s house via Astro. It’s such a good series and the humor with aliens having human body is amazing! A good series in NBC! Heroes are also NBC too…
It’s so nice to see the story develop and how the aliens realize their feelings and thoughts does not comply with the society of human beings. It’s like showing a cake to them aliens and they experiment with it before you tell them what it’s for.
It’s nice to see the casts act more on physical comedy than most of other sitcoms I see. The Nanny is usually more to verbal comedy but 3rd Rock is both verbal and physical comedy. It’s hard to see other sitcoms like these now.
Trivia: The lead actor, Dick Solomon (played by John Lithgow) has his son in his show! The poor student that always being blamed by Dick in his class, Leon (played by Ian Lithgow) is his son.
The ending was a bit sad. I had a hard time parting with good sitcoms. I just can’t believe that it had ended just like that. Nothing more than a memory in my head.
Now, on to the movie marathons!

What Happens in Vegas is a romantic comedy about 2 persons who are messed up in life, met at Las Vegas, had a pretty good time, got married, and won 3 million dollars. The problem is, their marriage was done when they were drunk. So they want to call it off but keeping the cash. But the judge who was in-charge of their divorce thought that this case was too much with them divorcing for the money, forced those 2 to live together for 6 months. Well, the typical messing around with you and me, trying to get rid of the other half, then suddenly became in love with each other type of story.
Sadly this comedy is not all about Las Vegas. Somehow this movie is a bit of a let down. It’s too typical and the mushy mushy stuffs don’t work… Or even to HAVE one scene in the movie. Comparing this to “Just Like Heaven“? Heaven wins over Vegas… Big time!

I haven’t watched The Dark Knight. But now I have, Why so Serious?!
This movie was praised by my friend of being very good. Somehow I felt it a bit of a let down. Well, At least I get to see a ‘darker’ joker, and Two Face. It’s pretty good movie to catch but not good to keep. It’s too real, comparing with the previous Batman, this one was Just too Serious…
The only scene I liked is when Joker dressed up as a nurse and blew up the Gotham Hospital. That scene was too damn cool. And 2 face! That was a thriller! Sadly he died in the movie just like that… The fall of him killed him. Just like Batman Forever…

Eagle Eye is a Cyber Triller that uses normal human beings for a major plot. A supercomputer, built in the Pentagon was made to calculate the probability of a mission’s success. The supercomputer is link to any digital enabled device. Observing things using surveillance cameras and cellular phones, anything wired and wireless that are connected via the telecommunication system. Although the start was a bit blur, but I get to understand the flow of the story soon enough after the revealing of the computer.
One thing about the computer is that, it looks like HAL 9000 from Space Odyssey.
It’s not as thrilling as most cyber thrillers out there. It’s watchable, but cannot be with the best ones out there… Like Die Hard 4.0?

Death Race is a race to the death. The story begins with a guy losing his job, and framed on killing his wife. His baby was sent to foster care. He’s being sent to a prison where the only way to leave here quick is by winning 5 races. But the main character started to suspect that his imprisonment was being set up. The warden of the prison made this race as a Grand Prix of jail. Earning money by selling videos of the race to people. I don’t know what era the movie is being placed but seeing a Ford Mustang being modified that heavy, I wonder if it’s real metal. The movie used a lot of cameras, and most of them were crashed during the filming process.
It’s dark and dull, twisted and a bit like the old school gaming where you collect powerups and shoot other cars. A bit violent with gore, explosions and so so unfair advantages in racing. So predictable storytelling. But the racing is worth the watch.
I’m watching the movie right now as I type this post. Talk about multitasking… Heh heh…
The next few movies that I’ll be watching soon are these…



I hope something amazes me soon. Movies lately so poor…
BRB when the movie marathon ends!















