Ibnu Asad

Set in 1765, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is an eccentric adaption of Steven Sondheim’s musical. The dark arts begin when Sweeney Todd (Johny Depp) glides up the Thames, in the dead of the night, camouflaging himself with his pale face against the pale water. As the ship sails under an eerie London Bridge, it becomes quite clear that Tim Burton was born to direct this film. With many morbid yet humorous productions under his belt, such as The Nightmare before Christmas, The Corpse Bride and Beetlejuice, who else should take on Sweeney Todd but Tim Burton himself?

The masterpiece unfolds like a ‘Grimm’ tale. Sweeney Todd returns to London after 15 years of torture. Eyes dead, voice silent, his painful life story emerges through haunted, hollow songs and expressive off-key melodies, uncovering his intent to murder the man who condemned him and his family, to a life of sadistic suffering. Wearing his past like the sentimental shield, encapsulating his soul from the rest of the world, Todd finds himself back at Fennel Street above Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pie shop, where he and his family once lived their over-joyous lives, unaware of the evil events to come.
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There was a survey once. A thousand people were asked, if they could know in advance, would they want to know the exact day of their death. Ninety six percent of them said “No”. I always leaned towards the other four percent. I thought it would be liberating, knowing how much time you had left to work with. It turns out, it’s not.

The words of a dying cancer patient, Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), in one of the best films lined up for 2008. “The Bucket List”, directed by Rob Reiner, follows the final days of Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), both of whom share a room in the Cancer Ward of Edward’s Hospital.

“The Bucket List” is a fantastic film about friendship, faith and determination to fulfill life’s greatest potential, following the superb duo across a list of events that would entertain any audience. Filled with dark humor, Reiner manages to portray the image of a self-centered billionaire and a blisteringly clever auto-mechanic very well. Freeman and Nicholson are both able to handle their parts with ease and it’s a wonder why they weren’t teamed up before. Freeman plays the dignified role, as always, of carter, the auto-mechanic with a lovely wife, and well-educated children, who finds out he has cancer, while on the job. Nicholson, still with his bad-man attitude, certainly finishes the job of portraying Edward as the billionaire who builds his business from the age of sixteen, self-taught to care for only himself. Upon meeting, Edward demands his own room, as the hospital owner, but is forced to settle into sharing a room with Carter, tho his greatest dislike.
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Blog Theme
I guess most of you already noticed that I’ve change the blog’s theme to a Military Wordpress Theme called “Milblog Woodlands Theme“. I’m a fan of the military and I really like the theme.

Biography Page
Also, I am currently in the midst of updating my Bio page..especially the “Movies” section. The section was too cluttered and I decided to sort the movies by Year of release. There are many movies that I’ve yet to include and I think I’ll finish the list by the end of this week. I’ve seen a lot of for the past year and most of it I downloaded it from *w4r3z* forums I like to download movies from the forums because in the Cinema, they cut a lot of scenes. The movies that I download are full and some even Unrated. If you really want to enjoy the thrill of watching a FULL MOVIE, downloading it off the net is the best way

Navigation Link
When I changed the blog theme, I forgot to place the link to my gallery I’ve added the link

In Other News
I’m helping Shafeeq (Feex) to start-up his photoblog at http://www.feexfoto.com It’s not done yet..I still have to clean up a few codes to get the photoblog working.