The Long Holiday Part 2: KL Trip

Okay, the main reason for this trip is to attend my the wedding of the daughter-of-my-dad's-friend.

Still exhausted from the Redang trip, i slept 80% of the drive to Kuantan. There we ate a dim sum dinner and watched some TV. I slept quickly because I haven't slept enough during the camp.

The next day we were off to KL. Me, my sis and my mum went to KLCC while my dad went to check in the hotel. My mum said watching a movie was impossible due to inadequate time. I was lucky to get a ticket for Terminator Salvation. Which brings us to movie review number 1.
The movie had brought a lot of promise and potential. The critics either gave it a negative or mix response while fans gave it a positive review. My brother Jimbo said it was awesome. So I had to see for myself.

The Good Stuff of Terminator: Salvation.
- AWESOME! special effects.
- Plenty of scenes which show naked(without the skin) T-600 and T-800 endoskeleton.
- Gives the fans the highly anticipated Post-Apocalyptic setting.
- A good cast unlike Star Trek. Christian Bale as John Connor.
- One of the best scenes in the entire series. The T-800 goes after John Connor and Marcus Wright.

The Flaws of Terminator Salvation.
- No Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although there's a CGI Arnold face.
- Predictable plot.
- Lame dialogue.
- The concept of Marcus Wright being a endoskeleton robot with human heart and brain is kinda stupid.

- Many scenes in Terminator Salvation is similar to scenes in previous Terminator movies.
* There's a scene where the T-800 gets a molten metal bath(In Terminator 2, the T-1000 falls into a vat of hot metal and dies) but survives.

* Moments later, T-800 gets a bath of industrial coolant aka liquid nitrogen(Also in Terminator 2 The T-1000 crashes his liquid nitrogen truck and gets frozen.)

* The line "Come with me if you want to live."

* The line "I'll Be Back" is spoken by John Connor.

* A damaged T-600 who has lost it's legs crawls after John Connor(In Terminator a T-800 damaged in the same way crawls after Sarah Connor.)

* In Terminator, The T-800 chases Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese in an industrial factory. In Terminator Salvation John Connor and Kyle Reese are pursued by a Terminator in a Terminator making factory.

However, the appearance of the T-800 makes the film worth watching. Although we get a glimpse of the CGI Arnold Schwarzenegger, the T-800 skin is burned off after a minute.

I hoped Terminator Salvation could bring back the franchise to the quality of the first and second film after a disappointing Terminator 3 but it failed. It was a little bit better than Terminator 3 compared to Terminator and Terminator 2, it sucks. Kinda like how you compare The Godfather Part III with the first two movies. I give it a 5.5/10.

I then ate a Beef Sandwich for lunch and we went to that wedding. It was a Malay wedding held in a Putrajaya Convention Centre. Sounds big! Yea, the grandest Malay wedding I ever attended. But there was not enough food unlike Chinese dinners. We needed supper after the dinner so we went for Imbi Road Hokkien mee.

The next day, we went to Pavillion. We went to get some movie tickets and my friend works there. We chose Night At The Museum 2.
There the strangest thing happened. My friend said he would give the tickets for free. Me and sis got into some good seats. Even the drink and popcorn was free... WOW!... The movie was good but the first Night at the Museum was much better. But it wasn't all that dissapointing because I never had big expectations for this one unlike Terminator Salvation. I rate it 5.5/10. It was full of laughter and fun but the lack of involvement from characters from the first film brought it down.

There was a scene where the evil pharoah was recruiting bad guys. He already had Mafia Kingpin Al Capone, Napoleon Bonaparte and Ivan The Terrible. he rejected Oscar Grouch(From Sesame Street) and Darth Vader. The pharoah heared Darth Vader's iconic breathing and called him an asmathic. Vader then tried to force choke the pharoah but failed. He's just a wax figure.

The Jonas Brothers made a fairly entertaining appearance as 3 cupid fairies who are always singing. The first time I enjoyed anything regarding the Jonas Brothers.

After the show ended I went book-hunting at Times Pavillion. There was a discount on Angels and Demons but I couldn't be bothered. I looked into some Stephen King and Tom Clancy but most of all I was looking forward to add into my collection of Godfather novels and found just the thing....
The original The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo. This was the first of 4 Godfather novels and is definitely the best novel in the series.

That brings my Godfather collection to 3 out of 4 books.

Knowing I can't collect the 50++ Star Wars novels out there, I think I might have a complete Godfather collection in the near future. That's an offer I can't refuse. LOL.