Review: The Dark Knight

Warning: Content may contain spoilers.


One word summarizes the movie: SUPERB!

Together with Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sets to wipe out crime organizations in Gotham City. But soon, Joker the criminal master appears. He forces Gotham into chaos and Batman faces more troubles being Gotham's hero.

All the casts were great! Batman (Christian Bale), also known as Bruce Wayne, was great. He was very heroic throughout the movie, although a few misjudgments.


Joker (Heath Ledger) was simply marvelous. He wasn't as silly and crazy as a normal joker should be, but he was seriously and mean villain.


Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) was a distinguished District Attorney of Gotham City but I never thought he would be Two Face. Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) fits the character. At first sight, I thought she was Kirsten Dunst. They look almost alike, don't they?


Not forgetting Bruce Wayne's loyal butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine).


The other characters were pieces and bits that made the movie a success. Overall, the movie was marvelous.

The production was so grand that it has numerous posters for the movie.





Reminder: If you haven't watched The Dark Knight and you don't want to spoil your the The Dark Knight movie outing, read no further. Feel free to read the other posts.

Right in the beginning, the Joker was the mastermind of a bank robbery. He tricked his accomplices into killing each other, killed the last one and took off with the money. Day by day Gotham City became more chaotic as Joker went on a killing spree. All he demanded was Batman to surrender by revealing his identity.

Before Bruce can expose his secret, Harvey announces that he himself is the Batman. It was just a plan to lure Joker out in order to capture him, and it worked. While Harvey was being transported by the police convoy, Joker ambushed. Fortunately, Batman and Gordon managed to stop the Joker and arrested him.

During an interrogation at the police station, Joker revealed that Harvey and Rachel were captured and placed at two different places. Both places were surrounded by explosives and Batman can only save one. Obviously, Batman left to save Rachel because he likes her.

But Joker reversed the address, causing Batman to rush to Harvey's location while the policemen, led by Gordon, headed to Rachel's location. After Batman and the policemen left, Joker managed to escape. Batman was in time to save Harvey but Rachel died as the policemen weren't quick enough. Harvey survived but the left side of his face was burned by the explosion. Feeling so angry over the loss of Rachel, the latest villain, Harvey Two Face, resorted to aggression and vengeance.

Later on, Joker tried to explode two ferries but his plan failed as Batman stopped and trapped him. Joker was then apprehended by the SWAT team. After that, Batman went to another location and stopped Two Face from killing Gordon and his family. Two Face died after he fell off the building.

And that's the end of the 2 hours and 30 minutes action-packed movie.

There were so many exciting and thrilling parts until I don't know which one was the real climax. When I thought it was ending, an unexpected plot emerged. Throughout the movie, it was never boring. Every corner of the movie was spectacular.

Described as a steamroller combined with a motorbike and atomic missile, the Bat Bike was so cool.


For your information, Christian Bale was actually banned from riding a hi-tech motorbike on the movie because it was deemed too dangerous. The Dark Knight star claims the film bosses ordered a stunt man to take his place in case the actor falls off and injures himself. They needed him in one piece to finish the movie. In fact, the machine was so hard to handle that only one stunt man on the set could ride it without falling off.

Even though Bale didn't get to ride the bike on screen, he really wanna have a go at it. He also mentioned "You can't be Batman and not have been on the bloody Bat bike!"


Harvey's left face after the burn was excellent. Although it was rather disgusting, it served the purpose.

Noobie Rating: 8/10 (Watch it!)

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Inception: Lego Style

The famous icon in Inception - Cobb's totem, which was given by his late wife.


Looking for the room to send the team to dream.


The team dreaming within a dream in a room.


Arthur fighting with a man with zero-gravity.


Arthur facing the men when the corridor is rotating.

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Pua Chu Kang The Movie Trailer and Poster

More than a decade after his yellows boots first kicked up big laughs on TV, Singapore's favourite contractor has finally made the big leap to the silver screen.


Now based in Kuala Lumpur, Phua Chu Kang and wife Rosie get a visit from Chu Kang's beloved Ah Ma. But even before she unpacks her luggage, Ah Ma disappears.

Chu Kang's search for Ah Ma leads him in an old folks home and its CEO, Lim Lau Pek, who offers Chu Kang a lucrative contracting job. But he has to beat his arch nemesis, Frankie Foo, who is after the same job.

Things take a surprising turn at the old folks home when Lim takes an amorous interest in Rosie and Chu Kang is accused of killing one of the elderly residents.

Chu Kang finds out a secret about his distant past that Ah Ma has kept from him all these year, and he meets a relative he thought was long dead.

Check out the trailer!


More info at www.pckthemovie.com.

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Review: Karate Kid (2010)

The latest Karate Kid, starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, is a remake of The Karate Kid back in 1984.


Now I've not watched the 1984 version, therefore the review is entirely based on the latest remake without comparison with the original one.

12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) move to China because of this mother's latest career movie. Dre find it though initially but immediately falls for classmate Mei Ying. Mei Ying falls for Dre as well, but cultural differences make the a friendship tough.


Dre was also a bully victim by schoolmate, Cheng. In the land of Chinese kung fu, Dre knows nothing about it and was kept bullied. With no friends, Dre was then helped by the maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who is secretly an old kung fu master.


Mr. Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about hurting others, but maturity and calmness. Dre then realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

As a result, Dre joined a karate competition in order to defeat Cheng and the other bullies.


In the end, as always, the good guy wins.

Personally, the storyline is interesting with Jaden Smith's acting went pretty well for his young age. His character's determination and courage made it all the more interesting!

However, the inclusion of the "kiddy" love between Dre and Mei Ying (Han Wen Wen) was a little unnecessary. The relationship created a little extra hype anyway.

Overall, it's a good movie. Enjoyed it!

Noobie Rating: 7/10 (Watch it!)

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Thor Production Concept Art Poster

Here is another awesome production concept art for the upcoming Thor!


The Thor character is played by Chris Hemsworth, and his nemesis Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston.

This is the full production concept art.


To view the full-size concept art of Thor, click here!

Credits to Yahoo! Movies.

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Captain America Production Concept Art Poster

Here is one awesome production concept art for the upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger!


Captain America is played by Chris Evans and the concept art features on the frontlines of a battle in World War II.

This is the full production concept art.


To view the full-size concept art of Captain America, click here!

Credits to Yahoo! Movies.

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Voldemort Singing Miley Cyrus’ Party in the USA!

Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter singing in tune with hot Miley Cyrus' Party in the USA!


LIKE YEAH!

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Review: Wall-E

Warning: Content may contain spoilers.


WALL-E, a computer-animated sci-fi film produced by Pixar, is a story of a waste disposal robot named WALL-E, abbreviation for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, or Wallie, given by myself, who is created to clean up the polluted Earth. He falls in love with another robot named EVE and follows her into space on an adventure.

Reminder: If you haven't watched WALL-E and you don't want to spoil your WALL-E movie outing, read no further. Feel free to read the other posts.


The movie started with Wallie collecting items that he finds interesting among the trash, takes spare parts for himself from other malfunctioned WALL-E units and frequently watches a video of a dance and a couple singing while they hold hands. By watching the video, he learns emotions and feelings which emphasized more on love.


Wallie was all lonely, except that he had an indestructible pet cockroach. Every time Wallie rolls over it, it gets crushed but immediately pops back into its normal form. Weird huh?


During one of his daily routine, Wallie discovered a seedling plant and he replanted it in an old shoe. Shortly after that, a spaceship landed on Earth and deployed EVE, short form for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator.

EVE is a female robot sent to Earth on a mission: to search for living plants. Well, Wallie eventually fell in love with her on first sight. He was too desperate, maybe.


EVE initially showed extreme violence by blasting her plasma cannon at anything which she perceived as harmful but Wallie managed to gain her trust after he saved her from a storm. Inside Wallie's home, he decided to show her the plant he found. Unfortunately, once EVE saw the plant, she stores it inside herself and deactivates. EVE was motionless after that and Wallie stayed beside her all the time.

Later on, the spaceship that delivered EVE returned and retrieved her. Wallie was too in love to let her go therefore he clung onto the ship as it took off to space. The spaceship then took them to Axiom, a huge spaceship where humans from Earth are currently living in.

Onboard the Axiom, electronic hovering long chairs transport the big fat humans wherever they go while they talk non-stop with their friends on a screen projected in front of their face. The humans have lost huge bone mass, causing them too obese to stand or move without robotic assistance.

Upon meeting the captain of the spaceship, Captain McCrea, EVE wanted to present the plant but it went missing. The plant was the only item to direct the spaceship back to Earth. But it seemed that Auto, Axiom's internal autopilot, didn't agree with the idea of going back to Earth as it tried to get rid of the plant.


But in the end, Wallie and EVE, with the help of some good robots and the humans, managed to place the plant in the ship's holo-detector, a device which will activate an automatic hyperjump to Earth once it scans the plant. And so, the spaceship went right back to Earth.

Back on earth, the humans discovered that the Earth was still in a very bad condition but the captain was very optimistic about it. They planted the plant on the ground as they venture through civilization again.

And that's the end of the movie.

Well, there was nothing so nice about this movie, in my opinion. It was just about 2 robots falling in love with each other and they can't talk much. Wallie could only say 'eeeeeeeeeeeee-va!' while EVE only knows 'directive' and 'wall-eeh!?'.

The meaning behind this story is more or less about keeping the Earth clean and saving the world from pollution, or else you'll end up like this. But 2 robots in love with each other? Hmm... I don't really see the relevance in it.

Apart from Wallie and EVE, another interesting robot in the movie would be M-O, which stands for Microbe Obliterator. It's one of the maintenance robots who cleans the filth in the ship and inspects incoming deliveries for foreign contaminants.


M-O was always following Wallie due to his dirty body. Its actions are so funny, especially the frustration it shows when it sees Wallie's trail marks on the floor.


Surprisingly WALL-E got an average of A- at Yahoo! Movies Critics Reviews but I don't know why. Many of my friends said it was nice too. But still, the movie was somewhat boring and I almost dozed off during the movie. Yes, the computer graphics and visualizations were great but the plot seemed rather plain. After all, there wasn't much excitement in the movie.

Perhaps a passionate robot love making session would be wonderful. Wallie would go: eva! EvA! EEEeeeVaa! Oh eevaa! *bizz* EEEVAA! EEEEVAAA! *BIZZZ* Millions of positive electrons from Wallie enters EVE through her reproductive port, heads to her one and only negative electron and *poof* baby WALLEVE!

Anyway, this is how I would summarize the movie: 2 lonely robots meet, fall in love, meet humans and they, with the humans, live happily ever after.

Noobie Rating: 4/10 (Everyone seem to love it, but I don't)

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Resident Evil Afterlife Official Trailer and Poster

Resident Evil is coming soon with its fourth installment, Resident Evil: Afterlife, featuring the same star - Milla Jovovich!

Here's the hot new trailer in HD.


In a world infected by a virus infection, Alice (Jovovich) continues on her journey to find survivors and take them to safety. She gets some unexpected help from an old friend and her battle with the Umbrella Corporation becomes more furious.

A new information that states a safe place from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive, the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.


It's available in 3D, so it's gonna be exciting when the zombies (Undead) suddenly pops out into the audiences' face!

So Alice is back, and she's bringing a few of her friends.

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Grown Ups Official Trailer and Poster

Grown Ups is about five good friends and former basketball teammates reunite for a holiday weekend after their high school basketball coach passes away.

With comedian actors such as Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and Chris Rock, the genre of Grown Ups is obviously Comedy.


A very short synopsis would be - old friends meeting up, catching up with each other, meeting each family members, bumping into old basketball foes, lots of funny acts and laughter.


The movie poster sure shows loads of fun! Boys will be boys... some longer than others!

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Review: The X-Files I Want To Believe

Warning: Content may contain spoilers.

Every one knows The X-Files right? It's a well-known television series and is mainly about beliefs of the existence of extraterrestrial life.


In the series, FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are investigators of unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder plays the role of the believer, having faith in the existence of aliens and the paranormal, while Scully is a the total opposite, initially assigned to debunk Mulder's work. As the show progressed, both agents developed a close romantic friendship.

Reminder: If you haven't watched The X-Files: I Want To Believe and you don't want to spoil your X-Files movie outing, read no further. Feel free to read the other posts.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe is the 2nd movie based on the series, after the first film in 1998.


Actually, the movie doesn't feature the conventional X-Files drama series. If you're expecting to see weird-looking aliens and bizarre paranormal phenomena, you won't find them here. It's totally a turn off for those who have anticipated weird hideous creatures or Martians.


Perhaps the inclusion of this famous alien from Alien would have been cool!

Anyway, maybe the movie should be renamed, actors revamped and it'd still be a decent, creepy crime show. Initially I wasn't interested to watch because I thought there would be some scary weird alien plus ghost movie but it turned out to be some crime investigation movie.

In the movie, Mulder and Scully aren't FBI agents anymore. Scully is now a surgeon while Mulder hides away after the agency charged and kicked him out on unexplained, bogus cases. Mulder even grew a beard, a bushy one.


The movie started with 2 scenes switching back and forth. One of the scenes was a search on the snowy ground by the FBI led by a psychic. With the help of the psychic, the FBI found an arm buried under the thick snow. The other scene was an abduction of a woman who fought back with a garden tool, leaving scars on the attacker.

The kidnapped women turned out to be an FBI agent and the psychic, a priest named Father Joe (Billy Connolly) believes that she's still alive. Therefore, the FBI tried to convince the former X-Files agent, Mulder, to help out with the search of their colleague.

From there onwards, it gets weirder or more sickening by the minute. More women were kidnapped and kept away at an isolated animal farm. Remember the attacker during the opening scene? The arm found under the snow was his arm. So, at the farm, there were Russian doctors working on the man by attaching various body parts on him.

Besides that, the attacker is married to another man. Totally gay-ness! His husband (or wife), or whatever his status are, is trying his best to save his partner. Throughout the movie, the attacker was just lying down and was being treated by the doctors.

In one of the scene, the attacker was shown with an attached female arm. But I don't understand why does he use women body parts? Why not men's since he is a man?! And remember the kidnapped FBI agent? The intention was to use her body for the attacker's head. Gosh, he wants a female body! Know why? It's because his partner wants a hole to f***! So NOW I understand why they only want women body parts! Naughty naughty!

Some of the scenes were very sickening. Gruesome scenes here and there. The worst part was when the doctors were getting prepared to transfer the attacker's head. And they completely detached the head from his body! Can you believe it? How can a single head, without blood circulation and a body, survive like this? Perhaps the freezing of the head helped? Anyway, if a head can survive in reality, guys can easily get themselves a female body and vice versa!

Okay wait a minute, you guys out there stop thinking about getting boobs, be straight! And if you girls want a penis, forget it!

The storyline of The X-Files: I Want To Believe wasn't like the usual X-Files on television. But the subtitle 'I Want to Believe' totally suits the movie because I really want to believe that the movie is an X-Files series. But too bad, I don't believe it now.

Perhaps it could have been more relevant if it was a CSI film series.

Noobie Rating: 2/10 (Don't waste your time and money)

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Avatar 3D VS Avatar 30D

Avatar was recently released in 3D, but what about the upcoming Avatar 30D?

Check this out and pick your preferred dimension!


We at Noobie Movies will definitely pick Avatar 30D!

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The Real Iron Man

This is how Iron Man would look like if it's deciphered exactly as the name.


Pretty noobie huh?

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The Many Moods of Batman

Here are the many moods, or also know as facial expressions, of Batman!


We shall call it - Noobie Batman Moods!

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Review: Get Smart

Warning: Content may contain spoilers.

Get Smart is an action-packed spy film. Just a reminder, don't sulk if this movie doesn't turn out like James Bond, the spy codenamed 007 with beautiful seductive girls and sophisticated gadgets.


Well, Get Smart is more of a comedy action movie starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. *girls scream handsome* This movie contains many hilarious and entertaining scenes which would make you laugh frantically.

Reminder: If you haven't watched Get Smart and you don't want to spoil your Get Smart movie outing, read no further. Feel free to read the other posts.

The storyline is about Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) and his partner, Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), trying to save the world from domination by the evil crime organization known as KAOS (Kill All Obese Scumbags). Initially Smart was working as a report analyst for the U.S. spy agency CONTROL (Company Of Nations To Rectify Obesity Level) but when the headquarters has been attacked, Smart was promoted as an agent and was given Agent 86 as his codename.

The scenes are mainly in Russia where Max and 99 went after the nuclear-fanatic members of KAOS. That's where all the funny parts come in.

Besides that, it's packed with various creative gadgets such as explosive floss (do read the floss container before you floss if you don't want to lose your head), shoe phone (doesn't it smell?), tooth transmitter (anyone needs a tooth replaced?) and piano bomb (always look under your piano!).

My favourite gadget would be the Swiss Army Knife. Besides the usual scissors, magnifying glass and can opener, the unique components of the gadget are the flamethrower and the crossbow.


Unfortunately with this gadget, Max hurts himself many times. He shot himself with the crossbow several times and tranquillized himself, and it's just hilarious.


I love the part when the KAOS huge guy jumps and swings from one building and crashed into the window of a room of the opposite building. A guy and his granny are watching some exploding scene on the television and when the KAOS guy smashes through the window, the guy excitedly yells at his granny "Woooowww, the real surround home theater is so real!" They didn't even notice that their window was smashed to smithereens!

However, there are some mild violent scenes too, such as the picture above. Even so, these scenes don't undermine the hilarity of the movie.

Oh yeah not to forget, this is especially for the The Rock's fans, a picture of Dwayne Johnson, known as Agent 23 in Get Smart.


Noobie Rating: 6/10

Get Smart is indeed funny. If you need laughter, watch it! =)

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Disney Tangled Official Trailer and Poster

Disney's production Tangled is based on the literary origins of the famous fairy tale Repunzel - with some modification, or a different new style of its own.


The trailer is about the long-haired Princess Rapunzel who has spent her entire life in a tower, but a bandit just picked the wrong place to hide - at the tower itself!

Then, she falls in love with the bandit and finally venture into the outside world for the first time.


Also based on the trailer, the quote that will be famous is - BEST DAY EVER!

Catch Tangled when it's out!

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Toy Story 3: Inception Trailer

An well-integrated parody trailer made with videos from Toy Story 3 and audio phrase from Inception's trailer!


Now toys can dream too!

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Street Fighter: Legacy - Short Fan Film

A very cool short fan film of Street Fighter.


Really a legacy, not noobie at all!

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Baby-Version of Iron Man - Iron Baby!

This is how Iron Man should be when he's still a baby.


Pretty cool and cute!

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The Expendables Trailer [HD]

The Expendables is a collaboration of various action-movie actors! Woohoo!


The Expendables is a massive action movie about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things aren't quite as they appear. It's roughly about being caught in a dangerous matters and betrayal.

Certainly sounds exciting!

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Official Vampires Suck Trailer

Tired of all those vampire frenzy caused by Twilight? Fret not, the movie Vampires Suck is here to save you!

Here's the hilarious trailer of Vampires Suck! Totally for the guys who couldn't sit through another vampire movie!


It's a spoof of Twilight - where teenager girl Becca finds herself torn between two boys - Edward the vampire and Jacob the werewolf.

Woots! It's so gonna be an awesome noobie spoof!

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Review: How To Train Your Dragon

The title How To Train Your Dragon isn't really attractive to many when the movie was released. But since it's a DreamWorks production, it must be worth watching.


The story is about a young Viking, Hiccup, who wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small and clumsy son to do so.


Nevertheless, Hiccup tries to help in a battle and manage to hit a mysterious Night Fury dragon, but wasn't willing to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he named Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both worlds as the boy finds out that his people have misjudged the dragons.


Overall, the movie was great! It was a wonderful animation, and the accompanying soundtrack was amazing. The learning process between Hiccup and Toothless was the most inspiring part of the whole movie.

Noobie Rating: 8/10 (Must watch)

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