Step Up 3-D: Review

Step Up 3-D! Or as someone with a brain might call it.. Step Up 2: The Streets. But this time... IN 3-D!

What do you want me to tell you about this movie? It is what it is. It's a no brainer dance movie. And I give the people who made this points for recognizing that and do not try to make Step Up 3-D be anything more or less than just a spectacular dance flick.

The plot of this movie is pretty much every run of the mill, "We need to dance/kung fu fight/sing to save some institution/orphanage/home/village from the bad guys who dance/kung fu fight/sing better than us" movie. Only this time, the director thought, "Hey! What if we took X-Men and made all the mutants dancers?"

It's about Moose who was in Step Up 3-D's precedent, moving to New York with his best friend, Tyler Gage's sister (who kinda has a thing for him) to study but ends up being adopted by a local New York filmmaker.dancer who brings him to live in this loft where he fosters a tight-knit group of dancers. But the group faces a financial crisis and are in danger of losing their loft to their arch-nemesis dance group. So they must do battle at some prestigious dance competition so they can win the money and save their loft.

Step Up 3-D is what you would call X-Men with dancers, only Adam G. Sevani is Kitty Pride, the mutant academy is some loft in New York and Prof Xavier is one of the Jonas Brothers. Everything that is non-dancing in this movie is whimsically laughable. The screenwriters clearly don't understand the basic concept of continuation in a film, resulting in Step Up 3-d to have some very very careless goofs.

For example, this dancing group is facing money issues right? "Oh, we're so poor, we're surviving on our passion alone, Oh, we're gonna lose the rent and we'll be homeless." The movie beats you over the head at how poor all these dancers are. But then in some scenes you see them dancers wearing expensive limited edition Nike shoes, they even have a fucking wall of boom box equipment ranging from Sony to Bose. And for poor kids, they dress really really really well. Like Gossip Girl well. Maybe if you get your pretty heads out your ass and sell all that useless shit, you could actually afford to meet your rent.

The writing and acting is dreadfully generic as it comes. But when the movie is showing it's dance scenes in full 3D effect, all that crap is easily forgivable. They really bring out their best in those dance sequences, all of them are memorable, innovative, contagious, dangerously electrifying and the best part is they get better and better with every dance scene.

The final dance number in this has to be seen in 3D. They come out with LED lights and start popping and locking and flipping with those lights blasting in your face. Absolutely amazing. But in comparison to the final dance scene in the second Step Up, it relied to heavily on a technicality level whereas the second Step Up was raw body movement.

And Adam G Sevani is great. He has a likable charm to him, he is a good actor and his dancing is really really sick. I like it that they made him the main character of the film instead of once again going for the generic white pretty boy and girl as the two leads, whom practically will be forgotten about long after the movie has ended. I just hope that Sevani doesn't paint himself into a corner where every movie he does do from now on is either a dance or a frat boy flick because he can do so much better than this. Indie comedy perhaps.

Step Up 3-D is enjoyable for the most part. And all the horrible acting, insurmountable gear-grinding narrative and bad writing can't derail this film from ringing it's sole message through, that the human body remains one of if not the most engaging big screen special effects there is.

RATING: 5.5/10

Taylor Swift's Mine music video released

The long awaited music video of Taylor Swift's Mine has been released finally!

Taylor Swift's Mine was released earlier this month and it's the first single from her upcoming album, Speak Now, which drops Oct. 25.

The singer told CMT the track is close to her heart.

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Check Taylor Swift Mine lyrics here.


In case you just want to hear the song, you might want to listen Tyler Ward's cover embedded below.

Going The Distance: Review

Okay, the people who are calling this movie the next (500) Days of Summer really needs to go and shove their heads up their asses. It's like comparing masturbating and orgasm-ing.

But let me be clear that this movie is somewhat tolerable for a chick flick despite still having some major major flaws which I will get to in a bit. Aren't you just sick of seeing Justin Long and Drew Berrymore do these sappy romantic comedies? No one writes good rom coms anymore. They are compiled, cut and pasted together from bits and pieces of other romantic comedies and then are tailor made to fit their two A-list stars.

Going The Distance is basically about Erin and Garret, two lovers in New York who after a 6 week romantic whirl together has to try maintaining their relationship over long distance when Erin leaves to finish her studies in San Francisco.

Though the film does has some light moments of heart that I really liked, I couldn't help but leave the theatre feeling somewhat underwhelmed by it. First of, this movie is really long. Raking up to about 2 hours 15 minutes. And there's only so much the long distance storyline that you can talk about in that amount of time. Imagine that one single plot point which could work fine within an hour and a half being stretched to fit two hours. That's when the problem starts.

Going The Distance fails to live up to it's tagline of being a realistic adult romantic comedy. Yes, it is more realistic than most rom coms out there, but there are still things that happen in this film that is totally impossible in my opinion. Or maybe it's just me. No wonder she broke up with me. Heh. Anyway...

The comedy in this really fluctuates here and there. There are moments where Going The Distance is really funny and there are moments where it falls flat. Particularly when it comes to the two leads who are really great at having no chemistry with each other. Didn't Long and Berrymore date in real life or something? Those two just didn't seem to care much for each other.

But what was great in here were the supporting cast. Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate and Ron Livingston really made up some ground the leads lost for me. They were sort of the in-laws for Erin and Garret, each having their dysfunctional, unorthodox personality ranging from flat out toilet humor to OCD mannerisms. It's only when those guys were on screen  felt Going The Distance was the raunchy adult comedy it said it was.

But don't get me wrong, this movie as an overall romantic comedy is pretty okay. Perhaps a change in the lead roles would have made the film more affable for me. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deshcanel. Yeah, they're what this movie needs.

RATING: 5/10

Lindsay Lohan's Tweet after rehab

Anyone missed Lindsay Lohan's tweets?

After 23days of stay in rebab center as court-ordered treatment, Lindsay has returned to Twitter.

Lindsay tweeted "Clearly.. Paparazzi shouldn't be allowed to take pictures or video while someone's driving or at a stop light. 4every1's sake #trafficpolice," Check here Lindsay's Twitter.


Let's just wait if Lindsay Lohan fully changed in the coming days. Hope she'll be more in control after being jailed and spending days in rehab.

Vampires Suck: Review

Thank God for this movie. Not since The Last Airbender have I gone on a fuck rampage this severe.

Good ol' Friedberg and Seltzer. The dynamic duo who brought us such instant classics as Meet The Spartans and Disaster Movie, have returned once again to present their latest piece of shit, Vampires Suck. Actually, coming from someone who has seen all their films, these fuckers are getting better. Too bad it doesn't mean a God damn thing. It's like saying I had a good bowel movement instead of diarrhea, it's still shit at the end.

Vampire Sucks is basically a parody of the Twilight and New Moon. And just to solidify how fucking awful this movie is, Vampire Sucks is is no league better than the movies it is spoofing. This is going to be the only time I say this. Twilight is a better film than this one. Hell, I got more laughs watching Twilight than sitting through this piece of fucking shit.

I'm putting out the call to all you readers right now. The only way we can save this industry is to end the rot that is Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. If it takes death to stop them, so be it. I am offering the money I have earned from Waktu Rehat (my television show) to the first person who chokes the life out of those two motherfuckers. Friedberg and Seltzer, fuck you! Fuck you, fuck your mothers, fuck your fathers, fuck your wives, your sons, your daughters.

These men don't practice the same craft as P.T Anderson or Frank Capra or Christopher Nolan or Steven Spielberg or Jean-Piere Jeunet or Uwe Boll or the Wayan Brothers or Brett Ratner or a 12 year old girl taking shaky videos on her camera phone or a bear who turns on a video camera by accident while trying to eat it. They are not filmmakers. They are evil doers. Charlatans. The symbol of modern day civilization's decline in intellect.

Throughout this whole movie, they were just blatantly making references to pop culture figures and trying to pass it off as fucking comedy. There is an Alice in Wonderland scene that wasn't funny, made no fucking sense, didn't fit in any fucking way into the context of the film and wasn't even delivered properly. For one hour, it was just some douchebag pointing offscreen and going, "Oh look. It's Alice from Alice in Wonderland." "Oh look. It's Lady Gaga." "Oh look. It's Jersey Shore." What any of these things have the slightest of affiliations with the Twilight series is beyond me.

And if it's not a pop culture reference joke, they'd have people either being hit by a shovel, hit by a door, farting, burping, girls dancing in their underwear, people dancing to the latest pop song and more farting. How sad is it if the finest quality of humor your film can offer is a fart joke. These guy's aren't even trying. I swear to God anyone of you could come up with a better joke than these motherfuckers.

And despite how shitty their movies are, they will still be made and there will still be a large multitude of fuck faces who will go to see them. I saw with my own eyes last night in the cinema. A room full of dumb as fuck Malaysians laughing and cheering for this movie as if it was the greatest piece of entertainment they have ever saw. Normally I don't judge unrelated people in a review, but MY GOD. YOU PEOPLE ARE SO FUCKING STUPID. I am literally ashamed to breath the same air as you fuck shit assholes. Uneducated, uncultured pieces of fuck.

It's times like these  wonder why I even bother with a movie blog trying to get people to see movies that are actually trying to make their mark. Genuine filmmakers and craftsman who work long hours with little to no pay to make something that would matter. And here comes these two idiots, banging out a script written by a 4 year old, and they get the theatrical releases. They get the audience laughs. They get the money. Where is the justice people?

I'm not even gonna bother with a rating. I just want to say to whoever who actually find this funny. I pity you.