Angels & Demons

Another great book by Dan Brown featuring Robert Langdon. It’s rather ironic that in The Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon was helping the Church’s opposition but in this book he is helping the Church. And he has a new female lead… sorta like James Bond but with a higher IQ and less action… hahaha… This time, it’s about a professor/priest who discovered a way to prove the theory of big bang and how God plays part in it, fusing science and spirituality, who was murdered and one of his creation (anti-matter) was stolen and is now on the verge of explosion. Robert and Vittoria Vetra (the female lead, daughter of the professor/priest guy) go to Vetican City to find this anti-matter only to find a whole big scandal behind it. Comparing this book and the other I would say The Dan Vinci Code is slightly more interesting because of all the connection between artwork and Christianity and all that, but in this one it’s basically about the Illuminati (you know the one in the movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) and a poem. The phrase “Let angels guide you on your lofty quest” repeats over and over. But none-the-less… it’s still a good book… so read it… Cheers…

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown is a genius… or at least I dare say… The details of the whole mystery is so well researched and written, it’s almost perfect. This is one book I cannot tell you the story because you HAVE to read it. Initially I thought it would be difficult to understand but I was wrong. Everything you need to know is explained in the book. The story gives you excitement and keeps you on the edge of your seat and the book glued to your hands and your eyes glued to the book!! One of my favourite books, definitely. Bravo!! Please… you’ve really got to read it if you haven’t yet!! Or maybe you would rather wait for the movie to come out. It will star Tom Hanks as the leading man Robert Langdon, Audrey Tautou (who starred in French movies Amelie and current A Very Long Engagement) plays eading lady Sophie Neveu and Jean Reno (who starred in one of my favourite movies Wasabi) plays Captain Bezu Fache, due to be released in 2006. But I still recommend you to read the book… Cheers!!

Closer

This movie stars Jude Law, Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman. I won’t talk much about it because it’s rather a SX18 subject but it’s basically about attraction, love, scandals, heartbreak, pain, revenge and sex rolled into one. A movie meant for the relatively older generation… I would say 18 above… But it’s a good movie… I do recommend it… after all Natalie Portman who plays a young stripper in love with Daniel (Law) won an award for it… Cheers…

A Series Of Unfortunate Events – Book 11: The Grim Grotto

Count Olaf’s Diguise: None

Situation: The Baudelaires were saved by Captain Widdershins, captain of the Queequeg submarine and member of V.F.D. The mission of the Queequeg was to find the “Sugarbowl” which was in an unknown destination but they had to find it before Count Olaf does because that was the only thing standing in the way of Count Olaf and triumph over V.F.D. After much research, they decided to head towards the Gorgonian Grotto. But when they got there, the found that the place was infested with Medusoid Mycelium, the most poisonous fungus in the world. But it was too late, it had started to infect Sunny and it was a race against time to get back to the Queequag. When they got back, they got even more bad news. The were now captured by Count Olaf and time was running out for Sunny…

>Ending: For the first time, a good one

A Series Of Unfortunate Events – Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Count Olaf’s Disguise: None

Situation: The Baudelaires are now separated as Sunny was kidnapped by Count Olaf and taken up to V.F.D (Valley Of Four Drafts), while Violet and Klaus were left to die. But of course they manage to get out. But because of snow gnats (insects that sting), they had to take refuge in a cave, only to find out they were not alone. In the cave were a group of Snow Scouts were camping and one of the more prominent scouts was non other than Carmelita Spats the girl that had made the Baudelaires’ lives miserable during their time in Prufrock Preparatory School. They later meet a mysterious person within the group of scouts who turned out to be Quigley Quagmire, the third of the Quagmire triplets who was supposed to be killed in a fire. Their mission now is to rescue Sunny and find out where on earth was the V.F.D headquarters to seek refuge…

Ending: A bad one

A Series Of Unfortunate Events – Book 9: The Carnivorous Carnival

Count Olaf’s Diguise: None

Situation: In order to escape, the Baudelaire children had no choice but to hide in Count Olaf’s car trunk. Now they had arrived in Caligari Carnival. This is the home of Count Olaf’s resource to find everything he wanted, a gypsy named Madame Lulu. In order to find out more, the children dressed up like freaks so that they could work in Madame Lulu’s House Of Freaks. Violet and Klaus dressed up to be a two-headed person and Sunny was a wolf-baby. They later find out that they wee in over their heads because they were to be fed to lions as part of the new act in Caligari Carnival. In fact, Count Olaf already knew it was them and had planned this…

Ending: A bad one

A Series Of Unfortunate Events – Book 8: The Hostile Hospital

Count Olaf’s Disguise: Mattathias (The director of Heimlich Hospital)

Situation: The Baudelaire children are now on the run, wanted by almost everyone in the country. They hitch hike with a volunteer group V.F.D (Volunteers Fighting Disease) whom had the weirdest mottos like “No News Is Good News” and their way of fighting disease is singing and handing out heart-shaped balloons. When they get to Heimlich Hospital, they were stationed to work at the hospital’s library of records. They find out that there is actually a file about them and set out to find it. As it turns out, the file had been taken away, all except the last page, page 13 which hints of a survivor in a fire. However, Violet gets caught by Esme Squalor, Count Olafs girlfriend. She was given a fake name and set to have a cranioectomy, the world’s first ever. So Klaus and Sunny has to find a way to get her out…

Ending: A rather bad one

Elektra

Starring Jennifer Garner, Elektra as you would have known if you have watched Daredevil (which they had banned in Malaysia but I watched it anyway), is a comic character. For comparison, Elektra’s plot and storyline was not as good as Daredevil but the movie overall was better, for me at least. I definitely enjoyed Elektra more. Back to the movie, the storyline lacked depth and energy… The introduction was too long, limiting the time for action and thrill… which I want more of… though it’s much better than Spiderman to me… I’m not too big of a fan of that movie… which I also thought the intro just just way too long… Anyway… I think the best thing about the movie was Elektra or rather Jeniffer Garner… who played her role well… and she was… well HOT… hahaha… her outfit made her look cool… but Garner has a really weird walk… I think it’s all the training for Alias and all these action movies… hahaha… as for the other actors… they didn’t actually have to do much… just a bit here and there… easy stuff… the only other person who had to do some major acting was the bad guy who was after the good guys… mostly action though and yeah that’s it… So what’s the movie about… Elektra is an assassin for hire and is the best… she was trained by the best but because she only had hate and violence in her mind they had to “let her go”. Now (quite sometime later), she is given a new target, a man and his daughter. But before she knew she had to kill them, she got to know them and the conflict between personal and business starts to roam around in her mind. No, she did not have the heart to kill them. In fact she ends up protecting them and saving them from the bad guys. Yeah there are more bad guys after them. It turns out later that she was hired by her old sensei… a wise, blind and powerful old man, a master in the art of ninjutsu… and the girl that was initially her target was the “The Treasure”… legend to bring a balance between good and evil (yes just like Anakin Skywalker)… and “The Treasure” exists every generation and every generation, the good and evil will battle to get hold of her (yes, it’s always a her). Anyway, the story behind this movie is basically about self-discovery and you should look deep inside and of course the classic “good triumphs over evil”… I say… watch it… Jennifer is worth it… hahahaha… Cheers…