tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92176076989457201972011-12-11T17:39:23.573+01:00Blog containing detailed media reviews. Blue Munchkin mainly focuses on movie reviews. Other subjects are news about movies and music.Sukachuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863609518368223993noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217607698945720197.post-86364056607414250102009-01-31T19:31:00.010+01:002009-02-08T11:25:44.407+01:00

Movie review: Red Cliff (Chibi, 2008).Synopsis:Prime Minister Cao Cao (Zhang Feng Yi) sees Liu Bei and Sun Quan as a possible treat to the Han Dynasty, 208 AD. He requests for the Emperor's permission to tackle this problem and fight against the two warlords. After hesitating, Cao Cao convinces the Emperor by reminding the Emperor of his previous contributions and he is granted permission to lead

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As 2008 is coming to an end, it's time to sum some things up. Epic, martial arts and action/war movies seemed to be popular this year in Asia. I'm providing some notes and recommendations here.Asia cinema provided An Empress and The Warriors in March. Remember this piece? Kelly Chen as the warrior princess, not it's not Xena. An Empress and The Warriors didn't seem to impress that much, even

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After a long absence, I'm back. Well, kinda. I know, I know.... it has been months for a proper post or update. Yes, the last review was about The Dark Knight back in August. During Autumn I was mainly busy with my study. Will try to write some stuff for Blue Munchkin once in a while.Like every year, there are bad movies and good movies. Not gonna lie and recommend these movies to you: Fatal Move

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Left: Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne and Batman. Right: Heath Ledger as the Joker. Photo credit: © Warner Bros. Pictures.Movie review: The Dark Knight.Synopsis:With its criminals and corrupted people, Gotham City is still not a better place. A bank robbery doesn't really come as a surprise in the city. But this time one of Gotham's bank is being robbed by a group of masked men, led by a mysterious

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Movie review: CJ7.Synopsis:Construction worker Ti (Stephen Chow) is a poor man who works very hard. Ti struggles daily in order to survive. Despite the fact that he is very poor, it doesn't stop him from sending his son Dicky (Xu Jiao) to an expensive private school. Ti repeatedly tells Dicky important things. He hopes that his son will grow up as an educated person who will be useful to the

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After Nolan released Batman Begins in 2005, he now comes with The Dark Knight. A new Batman movie means a new villain. Yes, the Joker is going to entertain you this time. The Dark Knight proves that there are many Batman fans, some have impatiently waited for its release. Many trailers and posters kept the fans excited till the release of The Dark Knight. The wait is over for most countries (some

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Left: Cop 663 (Tony Leung) waiting for his girlfriend to return. Right: Is Faye (Wong) daydreaming about cop 663?Movie review: Chungking Express (1994).Synopsis:There are two separate stories. The first one is about a heartbroken cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro). His girlfriend May breaks up with him on the first of April. Cop 223, who is named He Qiwu, treats the break up as an April's Fool Day joke.

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Carina Lau (42) and Tony Leung (46) on their wedding in Bhutan. Photo credit: sina.Finally after 14 years, Wong Kar Wai's irresistible Chungking Express has been remastered on DVD. I decided to get a copy last month to check what the improvement is. Due to my busy schedule, I put it on the the pile of other stuff that I wanted to watch. This pile includes 2046, also a movie by Wong.If you have

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The wait is over for impatient fans of Stephen Chow, they no longer have to wait anymore after the release of CJ7. It has been 4 years since Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle movie. With a certain speculation about Kung Fu Hustle 2, I certainly didn't expect something like an alien dog in Chow's recent movie.The alien dog that is green and has fluffy hair, is starring in Chow's latest movie CJ7 (also

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Left: Po (Jack Black). Right: Furious Five. Photos credit: © DreamWorks Animation.Movie review: Kung Fu Panda (2008).Synopsis:Clumsy and lazy panda Po (Jack Black) works in his father's noodle restaurant, but Po dreams of being a great kung fu master in the Valley of Peace. However Mr. Ping (James Hong), his goose father, wants Po to take over the restaurant after finding the right moment to

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Back!Wow, it has been a month since the last post for Blue Munchkin! The reason for no proper updates is that I have been really busy with several things. As the end of the school year was approaching, lots of tests were coming up at that time. After lots of studying, making the tests and getting the results back, I can finally say: VACATION!!!Time sure goes fast, I can still remember doing the

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It happened on the 12th of May, an earthquake destroyed thousands of lives in the southwestern of China, Sichuan. Many people have died and lots of people are still missing. Many people are trying to help out. A lot of Chinese celebrities are helping to raise money for the disaster, including Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Jackie Chan and many others.The media certainly paid attention to this disaster, so

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The free paper you get at the station:This afternoon I got the train. Picked up one of the last copies of a free newspaper at the station, as most of the free newspapers were already taken away by others in the morning.One tiny article about the earthquake in China, not even on the front. That's not the point, the point is that they instead decided to put something irrelevant on the front page.

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Left and right: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Images: Paramount Pictures.Movie review: Iron Man (2008).Synopsis:Wealthy genius and industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) demonstrates his new weapon in Afghanistan, the 'Jericho' missile. During this business trip he gets attacked by a terrorist group Ten Rings, using Stark Industries' own developed weapons. Stark doesn't die because

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New new new!Earlier I received a couple of other dvds, including Mushishi (based on a manga, starring Odagiri Joe, Aoi Yu and others). The box for Mushishi looks great, really happy with this purchase. The movie itself is another story, there are points that are suitable for improvements. I expected a little bit more of this movie when they announced there would be a Mushishi live action movie.

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Good superhero movies do exist.After The Hulk, I was a little bit disappointed. When Spiderman 3 got released, I didn't have much fate anymore in comic adaptions for the big screen. Spiderman 2 was nice, but Spiderman 3 was kind of OK-ish, some people even really disliked Spiderman 3. Do I also need to mention Daredevil and Fantastic Four to illustrate things here?2008, maybe it's time for a

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Movie review: Fatal Move (2008).Synopsis:Lung (Sammo Hung) is holding a party for his baby who is one month old. Soso (Lung's wife played by Tien Niu), Tung (Lung's brother played by Simon Yam) and Hung (Wu Jing) are all attending the party as well as other triad members. The event quickly comes to an end when the police decides to pay triad leader Lung and the other triad members a visit at the

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New layout.New layout for Blue Munchkin, I made some changes to the site this week.Two side columns are light blue.Added new navigation buttons.Added a recent comment widget.Added a favicon!Just some minor changes as you can see. The two columns were of unequal size, fixed the background colour for both of them (they are equal now). As my friend advised me to add a favicon a while ago, I finally

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The first movie marathon.This weekend me and my partner held our first own organised movie marathon. We both picked some favourites, we watched the following movies:... ing.A Moment To Remember (director's cut).E.T.: Extra TerrestrialThe GooniesI know the movie ... ing has been out for quite a long time, but I never watched it before. To be honest, I quite like this movie, the chance is big that

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Movie review: Your last breath (aka Soom by Kim Ki Duk).Synopsis:Criminal Jang Jin (Chang Chen) tries to stab himself to death with a sharpened toothbrush in jail. Jin fails and doesn't die, instead he's mute after this failed attempt. This incident reaches the news, as Yeon (Park Ji Ah) watches the news, this catches her attention. Yeon's husband tells Yeon to stop watching the news and this is

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The one and only cute family in Springfield:As I was early off today, I managed to avoid my busy schedule for a little while. Went to the city after uni and picked up the Simpsons season 8 dvd box. This reminds me of the Simpsons movie that came out last year. It has been released on dvd in a short time after the movie was in the cinemas, I haven't seen a really nice release though. I have heard

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Updates:I wrote a review about Hero a little while ago, I mentioned there weren't many extras and that more extras were put on the bonus discs. It totally slipped my mind that I have two copies of Hero, one regular and one special edition. There is even a bonus movie on the bonus disc for the Dutch special edition. I may write a review about the bonus movie in the future and add it to the current

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Movie review: Rainy days with you.Synopsis:One year has past for Takumi Aio (Shido Nakamura) and his 6 year old son after Mio's death. The house is a mess after his wife Mio (Yuko Takeuchi) has died, Takumi can't cook properly, but Yuji doesn't mind. Yuji hears villagers talking about his mother's death and even starts to think his mother died because of him. Mio has left a book for Yuji, she

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Movie review: Sacrificing heroes.Synopsis:The story takes place in ancient China, divided in seven kingdoms, there is no real peace among these divided kingdoms. The king of the Qin kingdom is the most feared among the other kingdoms, many assassins have tried to kill the Emperor of Qin.A nameless man, called Nameless (Jet Li), arrives at palace in the Qin Kingdom. The Emperor constantly lives in

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Movie review: Can't Catch A Big Fish.Synopsis:On Will’s wedding, his father Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) tells a story about catching a big fish with his wedding ring. Will (Billy Crudup) is unhappy and leaves the wedding reception, he’s sick of his father’s stories. Outside Will tells his father that he tells the same story over and over again, after this argument outside, father and son don’t

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With a lot of help from a good friend I received the Tekkon Kinkreet DVD boxset today which was OOP at most sites. I got the HK edition of this and I believe there are also other versions available for sale (Japan and Korean versions).I'll move on to why this box is a must have (probably debatable for others), I will discuss the movie itself later in a review. But for now I'll discuss the

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Movie review: Pom Poko (2003).Synopsis:The movie begins with a song about raccoons and after this the title appears and the intro ends. We see that some raccoons were living next to humans. They find an empty house and decided to move into the house, it had a beautiful garden and the raccoons liked it. One day we see that the house gets destroyed. This can be seen as an important scene and it

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Left: Yosuke Kobozuka as Peco. Right: ARATA as Smile and Peco.Movie review: Ping Pong.Synopsis:The movie begins with a scene where the viewer can see a guy with a weird straight hairstyle, wearing a white shirt and a red star on it. We later learn that the guy is Peco. As he talks to an police officer, he jumps off the bridge and this is where the music starts. After the short intro the viewer

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I will post possible updates here, mostly these are little updates only. More information about other updates can be found here.15-02-2008: First review available here, for the movie Ping Pong.20-02-2008: Added the review for the movie Pom Poko here.05-03-2008: Added a search function!26-02-2008: New domain, more information here. 25-04-2008: New layout and widgets added, more information here.

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Here I will post possible upcoming reviews, I will update the list once in a while. I didn't put any dates behind the titles, because I'm not certain when the review about a certain movie will be done.Upcoming reviews are listed below, plus all previously and newly released reviews are also listed below.Released:Be With You (JP), updated: 22-03-2008, available here.Big Fish (EN), updated: 05-03-

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About Blue Munchkin.This site will mainly focus on movies and therefore most reviews that you can find here in the future are about movies. Occasionally there will be a review about music if I feel like doing one. The movie reviews are mainly about Asian movies.If you're looking for movie reviews, just look for the category [movie review]. Other categories can be easily accessed in the list below

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