Ok, yeah, it's been one week since American Idol finished, and the whole universe already knows that Jordin won. It wasn't exactly unexpected anyway...especially since Blake totally fell flat on his last performance singing the original song, which was (surprise surprise) yet another sappy feel-good ballad chosen by the AI producers. Sigh...will the day ever come when the producers finally decide to choose a rock song, or dance song, or basically not-so-half-dead song for the two finalists to sing? Only future American Idol seasons will tell.... But anyhow, I do admit that Jordin rose to the occasion and did a fantastic job on that original, which is most probably why she won the contest in the end. But it was pretty unfair for poor beatboxing Blake to be strapped with a song like that, which was so not his kind of song at all, while his competition was more than comfortable singing such ballads. If it was a more edgier and funkier song, I'm sure Blake would've wiped little Jordin all over the floor in the final performance. But anyhow, nobody said life was fair, and thus Blake didn't win. But it a way, I'm kind of glad he didn't win too coz' if that sappy song was going to be his first single as the AI winner, I'm sure I and a gazillion other Blakey fans would be puking all over the place. At least now he has the freedom to choose his own musical direction...and I'm sure he won't be as confined to the ideals of the AI producers as Jordin will now be.
Here's looking forward to more great music from the Blakeman, who no doubt has inspired a generation of future beatboxers to come! :P
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
One more week to a new American Idol!
I've been wanting to blog about American Idol Season 6 for ages, especially when Sanjaya was still in the competition so I could speculate on how on earth he managed to get into the Top 12 and still hang around til he was finally kicked off at at 7th place (and what was he thinking when he decided to get 7 ponytails on his head??)... but I haven't had the time until now, and after this week there wouldn't be much point anyway coz' next week is the finale! And today's episode saw the best vocalist of the lot, Melinda Doolittle, get kicked off the show at 3rd place. I wasn't really a big fan of her, but I agree with pretty everyone else who watched the show that she was such a consistently good singer, I expected her to win American Idol. But surprise, surprise, she got cut in the semi-finals, and now the two left standing are Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis. Now, me thinks Jordin is also a ready good singer, I pretty much expected her to get into the finals too after Lakesha got kicked.
But the contestant I've been rooting for throughout the show was Blake, whom from the beginning I thought was the best of the guys, even though I didn't think he would have a chance of winning with such good black female singers around (asides from Melinda, Jordin and Lakesha, there was also Stephanie Edwards, who was also a very good singer but had one very boring performance in one of the first few rounds of the Top 24, after which she was untimely kicked off the show). Not that his singing is particualarly fantastic, and I still prefer rock to the R&B sort of stuff he likes to do... but I really like him coz', for one, he can beatbox SUPERBLY well, which already sets him apart from the rest, and also, he's the first AI idol I've seen who can dance and sing at the same time... and of course, he's also pretty cute. Hehe! Plus, Simon commented on this week's show that he likes Blake coz' he takes risks by rearranging most of the songs he sings, instead of playing it safe like most of the other contestants. Which makes everyone wonder what on earth he'll do to his next song, which makes his performances really interesting! For example, in his rendition of Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name", he actually rearranged the verses so it was R&B-ish and he beat-boxed, but when it reached the chorus it went back to rock mode... and as strange as the idea sounds, the song actually came out really well! And for some reason, I also loved his beatboxing on his version of "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees, even though the judges didn't seem to fancy it too much.
So suffice to say, I was much elated to find out that Blake is in the finals for the Americal Idol title, and I REALLY hope he wins! I mean, there's already a black chick American Idol who can sing super well, but there's no white guy American Idol who can beatbox to a classic rock song and not only make it work, but sound really good. I'm even considering buying his cd when it comes out!.... Ok, maybe not. There's always the illegal downloads. La dee da di daa...
But the contestant I've been rooting for throughout the show was Blake, whom from the beginning I thought was the best of the guys, even though I didn't think he would have a chance of winning with such good black female singers around (asides from Melinda, Jordin and Lakesha, there was also Stephanie Edwards, who was also a very good singer but had one very boring performance in one of the first few rounds of the Top 24, after which she was untimely kicked off the show). Not that his singing is particualarly fantastic, and I still prefer rock to the R&B sort of stuff he likes to do... but I really like him coz', for one, he can beatbox SUPERBLY well, which already sets him apart from the rest, and also, he's the first AI idol I've seen who can dance and sing at the same time... and of course, he's also pretty cute. Hehe! Plus, Simon commented on this week's show that he likes Blake coz' he takes risks by rearranging most of the songs he sings, instead of playing it safe like most of the other contestants. Which makes everyone wonder what on earth he'll do to his next song, which makes his performances really interesting! For example, in his rendition of Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name", he actually rearranged the verses so it was R&B-ish and he beat-boxed, but when it reached the chorus it went back to rock mode... and as strange as the idea sounds, the song actually came out really well! And for some reason, I also loved his beatboxing on his version of "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees, even though the judges didn't seem to fancy it too much.
So suffice to say, I was much elated to find out that Blake is in the finals for the Americal Idol title, and I REALLY hope he wins! I mean, there's already a black chick American Idol who can sing super well, but there's no white guy American Idol who can beatbox to a classic rock song and not only make it work, but sound really good. I'm even considering buying his cd when it comes out!.... Ok, maybe not. There's always the illegal downloads. La dee da di daa...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Free stuff from Hitz and Fly!
I have been quite lucky with the local English radio stations these part couple of weeks, meaning that I managed to meet the Fly FM troopers as well as the Hitz.fm cruisers, and I also got a goody bag from an American Idol contest on Hitz.fm. The Fly FM troopers, I managed to catch at Segi college near my place, coz' I just happened to be going home from Giant when I heard the announcement over the radio that they would be there in a while, so I scooted back again towards Segi college and waited for them to come... which took about 20 minutes, so I had a nice personal tour of Segi college while I waited. When they arrived, I was one of the first people to get right up there with them, so I got all the edible freebies, which included two cans of new Sting energy drinks (it really stings your tongue!), Chipsmore butterscotch cookies (which tastes pretty good), andBoh ice tea (dunno where I put it now), as well as a Fly FM car sticker. And for answering a question correctly, I managed to win myself a free cd! Woohoo! Too bad it's from Kaiser Chiefs, the band who sang that song "Ruby", which I don't really like, so I'm contemplating whether I should keep the cd or sell it on Lelong or something. I still haven't unwrapped the cd coz' I'm still thinking. :P
As for the American Idol contest on Hitz.fm, well, for those who don't watch AI, what they do is that they show a password during the commercials of each AI show, and you're supposed to call up Hitz.fm the next day and say the password before you can participate in the contest. Then you have to sing any song, but it must be modified to have the words "American Idol" in it. The best out of three contestants will be one of the 12 finalists who will battle it out to win the chance to go to LA for the American Idol finale. So I tried out a couple of weeks ago and managed to get through to the station surprisingly easily. I didn't even have to say the password coz' JJ (or Rudy, whoever it is I can't remember) just said "I know you have the password, so what song you gonna sing?". Which was lucky coz' I didn't actually remember the password, but I thought it was something like "American Idol Season 6", so I thought I'd just call and try my luck anyway. So I was pretty lucky! And I sang the classic sappy 80's song, 'Superwoman', with the words ' American Idol' in it, and made it really silly-like. I thought it was pretty good, but unfortunately, another girl who called did an even better song (even I thought it was better than mine), so I didn't win.... but I did get a free goody bag, which incuded a set of American Idol earphones (in a cool white colour) and a Star World umbrella. Yippee.
And then last week, I had a just finished teaching a class with one of my colleagues at Mont Kiara, when on the way back, we saw the Hitz cruisers at the roadside. So I parked my car and we quickly zipped across to the other side of the road to see if we could win any freebies. Unfortunately we were too late to get all the free food, but we were just in time for a contest to win some movie tickets for the preview of Spiderman 3. So of course, the two of us jumped right in it. What happened was that everyone participating had to play a game where one of the cruiser guys would yell out the name of a superhero, and we had to do the action for that superhero without making any mistakes. Of course, he showed us what action to do for each superhero, which were Superman, Batman, Spiderman and (I dunno where he got this from) Moo the Cow. And the action for the latter were squatting down and putting our fingers next to our heads to make long ears. And we had to say "Moo!". And to make things tougher, all of us had to look at this other cruiser guy who would try to confuse us by doing an action different from whatever superhero the other guy yelled out. So the game started, and I just did my best to focus on what superhero the guy called out, and totally ignored the other guy's actions even though I was looking at him. In the end, everyone else got kicked out except for me and my colleague, and we both won 2 free passes each to catch Spiderman 3! Woo hoo! I was pretty happy about that! And I actually just watched the movie last night.... and don't worry, I won't reveal any spoilers. But sad to say, I am a tad bit dissapointed with the show, and thought the first two Spidey movies were much better. Some parts of the show didn't make much sense, and in the end, everything just fell into place too neatly so that we could have the token happy ending. The action at the first part of the show was really good, when he was fighting the Green Goblin... but after that I felt it got kind of draggy. And the end fight scene was not particularly exciting. Not befitting of what may be the last installment of the Spidey movies. But there was one part when Peter Parker was dancing on the street, which I found quite amusing. But of course, I can't say any more coz' that would juts spoil it for everyone. All in all, it was just an OK movie.
But anyway, with all the goodies I got, maybe I could do some free promoting and say Hitz.fm and Fly FM rocks! Woohoo! But I still really wanna go to LA for the American Idol finale..... *sigh*....
As for the American Idol contest on Hitz.fm, well, for those who don't watch AI, what they do is that they show a password during the commercials of each AI show, and you're supposed to call up Hitz.fm the next day and say the password before you can participate in the contest. Then you have to sing any song, but it must be modified to have the words "American Idol" in it. The best out of three contestants will be one of the 12 finalists who will battle it out to win the chance to go to LA for the American Idol finale. So I tried out a couple of weeks ago and managed to get through to the station surprisingly easily. I didn't even have to say the password coz' JJ (or Rudy, whoever it is I can't remember) just said "I know you have the password, so what song you gonna sing?". Which was lucky coz' I didn't actually remember the password, but I thought it was something like "American Idol Season 6", so I thought I'd just call and try my luck anyway. So I was pretty lucky! And I sang the classic sappy 80's song, 'Superwoman', with the words ' American Idol' in it, and made it really silly-like. I thought it was pretty good, but unfortunately, another girl who called did an even better song (even I thought it was better than mine), so I didn't win.... but I did get a free goody bag, which incuded a set of American Idol earphones (in a cool white colour) and a Star World umbrella. Yippee.
And then last week, I had a just finished teaching a class with one of my colleagues at Mont Kiara, when on the way back, we saw the Hitz cruisers at the roadside. So I parked my car and we quickly zipped across to the other side of the road to see if we could win any freebies. Unfortunately we were too late to get all the free food, but we were just in time for a contest to win some movie tickets for the preview of Spiderman 3. So of course, the two of us jumped right in it. What happened was that everyone participating had to play a game where one of the cruiser guys would yell out the name of a superhero, and we had to do the action for that superhero without making any mistakes. Of course, he showed us what action to do for each superhero, which were Superman, Batman, Spiderman and (I dunno where he got this from) Moo the Cow. And the action for the latter were squatting down and putting our fingers next to our heads to make long ears. And we had to say "Moo!". And to make things tougher, all of us had to look at this other cruiser guy who would try to confuse us by doing an action different from whatever superhero the other guy yelled out. So the game started, and I just did my best to focus on what superhero the guy called out, and totally ignored the other guy's actions even though I was looking at him. In the end, everyone else got kicked out except for me and my colleague, and we both won 2 free passes each to catch Spiderman 3! Woo hoo! I was pretty happy about that! And I actually just watched the movie last night.... and don't worry, I won't reveal any spoilers. But sad to say, I am a tad bit dissapointed with the show, and thought the first two Spidey movies were much better. Some parts of the show didn't make much sense, and in the end, everything just fell into place too neatly so that we could have the token happy ending. The action at the first part of the show was really good, when he was fighting the Green Goblin... but after that I felt it got kind of draggy. And the end fight scene was not particularly exciting. Not befitting of what may be the last installment of the Spidey movies. But there was one part when Peter Parker was dancing on the street, which I found quite amusing. But of course, I can't say any more coz' that would juts spoil it for everyone. All in all, it was just an OK movie.
But anyway, with all the goodies I got, maybe I could do some free promoting and say Hitz.fm and Fly FM rocks! Woohoo! But I still really wanna go to LA for the American Idol finale..... *sigh*....
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Carol's Top Ten Cartoons That Should be Movies
If there ever was a time for the 80's cartoon lovers, now would be it, coz' these days there are just a ton of our favourite old cartoons that are being made into big movies. Next month, the world will get to watch Spidey in action for the third time (I'm looking forward to it, not so much because I'm a big Spiderman fan, but because I actually thought the first two movies were really good, and the third one looks quite promising). Not long after that, Optimus Prime and his super cool robot buddies shall come out and save the universe in Transformers (which hopefully will be just as good or even better than the Transformers movie that came out in the 80's. If my memory serves me well, I thought it was pretty cool). And then the Fantastic Four will battle it out with the Silver Surfer in their second shot on the big screen. Just last week, I got to watch the movie version TMNT, which stands for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for those living under a coconut shell. And IMHO, which stand for 'in my humble opinion' for those who don't know computer shorthand, the movie was pretty disappointing. Fortunately, I wasn't really expecting much from it, so I wasn't overly disappointed with the plot that made zero sense and the superbly lame jokes. The only part that I found REAALLY amusing was when this little monster came out and attached Raphael. I just couldn't stop laughing! Haha, yes, yes, I know it's mean to laugh at a poor ninja turtle's misfortune with a creature from another dimension.
Of course, there have been plenty of other good cartoons that have been made into movies, the most famous ones being dem famous comic characters such as Superman, Batman, the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, Electra and et cetera, et cetera... There was even a super corny Street Fighter movie. And dunno how many decades ago, there was an old He-Man movie. So with all the craze of cartoon being made into movies these days, I just reminisced about the cartoons I loved to watch when I was younger, and was thinking about how cool it would be if some of my favourite cartoons were made into movies. So I came up with Carol's Top Ten List of Cartoons That Should Be Made Into Movies! And of course, here they are:
10) Captain Planet and the Planeteers
A bunch of kids running around saving the world with the ability to control the elements isn't particularly interesting these days. What would be interesting is a dude with blue skin, green hair and his red underwear on the outside flying around saving the trees from being chopped down. Never seen that in the movies! And with all the hoohah about global warming and other environmental issues these days, maybe a Captain Planet movie will help to bring more light to the issue.... or it could just amuse everyone whenever the bad guys throw some toxic sludge at poor ol' Capitan Planet, thereby weakening him so much, all he can do is wait for the kiddos to come along and scare the baddies away throwing some fire around or something like that. It would be interesting to see how they could remake the infamous theme song too... Just imagine... Good Charlotte... singing.... "Captain Planet, he's a hero! Gonna bring pollution down to zero!". Haha, needless to say, if there ever came out a Captain Planet movie, I don't think the intelligence level requirement to watch it would be too high.
9) Dungeons and Dragons
Yes, yes, I know they already have come out with a Dungeons and Dragons movie (or more than one, I think), but I want to watch a D&D movie based on story of the cartoon series, and not some other whole new story. If I remember correctly, in the cartoon series, the main characters are teenage kids who are actually from our time (or rather, the 80's, coz' that's when the show was running) who were mysteriously transported into a fantasy dimension, where they had to deal with dragons and strange creatures and an evil dude with one horn. And, of course, each of them developed their own special skills and had to work as a team to make it through the adventures of each episode. And oh, there was a cute little baby unicorn running around with them too. Quite a fun fantasy cartoon, which I think would make a nice classic story for a movie. Only problem would be not making it like all the other typical fantasy movies that have come out in the past. But ah well, that would up to the storywriters to figure it out. I just wanna watch the movie and be entertained!
8) Spiderman and His Amazing Friends
No, I'm not daft. I know that there are already 3 Spiderman movies. But see, this isn't just Spiderman...it's Spiderman and His Amaaaaaazing Friends! I wanna see Spidey running around saving the would with Iceman and Firestar! Now everyone knows Iceman, of course, and he already appeared in the X-men movies.... but Firestar is a character that I really enjoyed but for some reason has eluded the big screen. Why, oh why? I mean, so what if she can do pretty much the same thing as the Human Torch, she's a girl and that makes all the difference to all the girls out there who has ever fantasized about flying around and shooting fire from their bare hands at everyone who annoys her. Bwahahaha!... *Ahem* I, not being one of those girls, of course. But anyway, Firestar would make a cool new addition to moviedom... though the problem would be finding an actress hot enough to do Firestar justice. Too bad Jessica Alba is already playing the Invisible Girl... so again, I shall leave that up to the cast managers.
7) Sonic the Hedgehog
They made a gazillion games, they had the funny cartoon series, so why on earth haven't they made a movie? Huh? HUH? Sonic the Hedgehog brings back quite a few good memories, coz' when I was a kid, I used to love the cartoon so much, I'd would be drawing Sonic cartoons all the time in class. And I had an old buddy named Adelina, who shared my passion for Sonic, so much that she started learning how to draw Sonic and Tails from me, and she actually nicknamed me Sonic, while she was nicknamed Tails. And we would even write letters to each other which were full of Sonic and Tails pictures (I still got them hiding around somewhere...) !Haha, I know it was lame, but it was fun. Well obviously, if they ever did make a Sonic movie, it would be a CG movie, unless they wanted a guy in a rubber blue suit with spikes trying to run around really fast. LOL. But seriously, I thought the series was so, so amusing, and the stories in the games are pretty interesting too. And there are plenty of interesting characters with which they could write an interesting story around, like bad boy Knuckles and that pink female hedgehog whose name escapes me. And Tails is just the cutest little fox with two tails that I have even seen. So yeah, it would be nice to see Sonic zipping around on the big screen some day....
6) Voltron
I know you remember this one! Didn't you just love the part when the 5 big robot cats would fly up into space, battle the baddies for a while and then merge to form an even bigger super robot before finishing off the bad guys? Yeah, I loved it too. And quite frankly, I don't remember much else of the cartoon, except for that. But it would good enough for me to go watch this movie. Goooooo...Voltron!
5) Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs
I don't think this cartoon was as famous as Voltron, but it was pretty similar. Four characters controlled four robots that also combined to make a big funky robot (I think). What makes it cooler is that each character has different armour that matches their favourite hobbies. Like one guy who like racecar and his helmet designed like an F1 driver's helmet. Another guy who's a cowboy has a cowboy hat helmet. The leader, who is the typical English gentleman that likes to ride around on horse, has a tall hat helmet and gets to ride around on robot horse! And the sole female...well, her armour isn't particularly special. She's just the token sole female that just must appears in these cartoons to rope in the female viewers. Anyhow, another reason why I liked the show is coz' the guys were all so cute, and I had a super crush on the leader coz' of the whole English accent and suave-ness. So if they ever made a Sabre Rider movie, I don't care who plays the other characters, but the lead guy has just gotta be hot, hot, hot!
4) Sailormoon
There weren't many fantasy adventure cartoons around that catered to the girls, so when Sailormoon came around, it didn't matter to me that I could only watch it dubbed in Cantonese, and the characters all spoke in such high squeaky voices.... I thought it rocked! My fav characters were Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter, just coz' they were the most confident among all the other girls, even Sailormoon. And they were both a little bit hotheaded and tomboyish, which made them all the more fun to watch. But of course, the bestest part is when the Sailor chicks would do their super duper powers to wipe out the bad guys in battle... and it would take them about 5 minutes just to twist and turn and look pretty and yell out the name of their super duper power before they finally do it and knock out big bad guy. Ah yes, to look pretty and save the world at the same time. Now don't all we girls just wish we could do that? :D
3) Thundercats
Ok, I reaaaalllly don't understand how they can make a He-Man movie, several Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, but not even one Thundercats movie. Like, hello? Wasn't this, like, one of the most awesome action cartoons ever? Well, actually I didn't love it all that much... but I still think a movie about a bunch of humanoid felines running around battling evil another cool concept for the world of moviedom. And it would be interesting to see who would be able to pull off the muscle-bound male characters without looking like cheesy Mr. World wannabes. Or who would be able to pull off having Lion-O's funky bright orange hair. But we all know what the best part of the movie would be.... when Lion-O brandished his sword and does his "Thunder.....Thunder....Thundercats...HOOOOO!!!" routine. Don't deny it, I know you pretended to do that too when you were a kid. Ha.
2) Jem and the Holograms
I just LOOOOVED this cartoon when I was a kid! Jem and the Holograms was THE show that played on every young girl's fantasy of being a famous pop star.... and had some added coolness in that the main character, Jerrica Benton, could one second be a normal, low-profile person, and just by touching her star-shaped earrings and saying "Showtime, Synergy!", plain jane Jerrica would be transformed into superstar Jem with the hugh cotton candy pink hair. Sweet! And the thing I also really enjoyed was the short music clips that they showed in every episode.... I was so addicted to the cartoon, I would religiously record each episode, watch the music clips repeatedly and write down every single lyric to every single song in a little book just for this purpose. And I would also try and draw the characters doing something related to the song....and since my drawing weren't all that good at the time, I think the ended up looking more like upside down colourful mops (coz' of the big hair). But the story was really interesting, and it was always fun to watch how Jerrica would try to keep her secret ability under wraps, but sometimes, it would almost, almost, be revealed. But it never was revealed, of course. So yeah, Jem would make a awesome movie. I just know it.
1) Biker Mice From Mars
And some of you are probably thinking "Biker what from where??!!". Well, even though the title is no less weirder than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, sad to say Biker Mice From Mars wasn't as popular or well-loved as their reptilian cowabunga-ing counterparts. But the show still had (and STILL has) a loyal fan following, which included yours truly coz' I was just absolutely in love it! Admitedly, the storyline doesn't make much sense. And for those who don't know, the story goes like this: Three macho humanoid mice who are actually Martians were escaping from some bad guys who were plundering their planet before they crash-landed on earth and made friends with a human female called Charlene Davidson. One of the baddies, another race of aliens called Plutarkians, was also on planet Earth, trying to plunder its resources as well, and so our three macho mice do all they can each episode to foil his evil plans. Oh, did I mention they ride really cool bikes that understand and obey their commands? Plot doesn't rank high on the logical department, but hey, after all, it's a CARTOON, so who the heck cares about logic? I sure didn't! So why did I love this show? Well, it was superbly funny, for one. I especially enjoyed the ridiculous antics of Vinnie, the white mouse. Their bikes were really hot (made me want to buy a Harley when I grew up!). And they played a lot of rock music on the show, and being a rock music lover me-self, well, that pretty much cinched it for me. Plus, even though the main story is pretty silly, the background story and the issues the characters have in some episodes makes the show more meaningful and interesting. Like throughout the series, you learn how they were tortured by the baddies before they came to earth... so Vinnie wears a metal mask on one side of his face coz' his face got mutilated, and Modo (the big grey mouse) has a robotic arm coz' of some kooky experiments by a kooky doctor, and Throttle (the brown mouse who is the leader of the pack) wears special glasses to help him see, without which he is blind. So the story actually got really interesting as it went on. And so when I was younger, I used to write down the details of every single episode I watched in my journals, so that I could read it again later on and have a good laugh. Yes, that's how big a fan I was.... and still am! :P And so if there was ever a Biker Mice movie, I'd be the first in line at the cinemas to catch it! Of course, the chances of it turning out to be a B-grade movie with more action and less plot is pretty high, but I have hope that should it ever come to the big screens, the storywriters will do it true justice and make me fall in love all over again with these macho mice. Rock and ride! Woohooo!!!
Of course, there have been plenty of other good cartoons that have been made into movies, the most famous ones being dem famous comic characters such as Superman, Batman, the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, Electra and et cetera, et cetera... There was even a super corny Street Fighter movie. And dunno how many decades ago, there was an old He-Man movie. So with all the craze of cartoon being made into movies these days, I just reminisced about the cartoons I loved to watch when I was younger, and was thinking about how cool it would be if some of my favourite cartoons were made into movies. So I came up with Carol's Top Ten List of Cartoons That Should Be Made Into Movies! And of course, here they are:
10) Captain Planet and the Planeteers
A bunch of kids running around saving the world with the ability to control the elements isn't particularly interesting these days. What would be interesting is a dude with blue skin, green hair and his red underwear on the outside flying around saving the trees from being chopped down. Never seen that in the movies! And with all the hoohah about global warming and other environmental issues these days, maybe a Captain Planet movie will help to bring more light to the issue.... or it could just amuse everyone whenever the bad guys throw some toxic sludge at poor ol' Capitan Planet, thereby weakening him so much, all he can do is wait for the kiddos to come along and scare the baddies away throwing some fire around or something like that. It would be interesting to see how they could remake the infamous theme song too... Just imagine... Good Charlotte... singing.... "Captain Planet, he's a hero! Gonna bring pollution down to zero!". Haha, needless to say, if there ever came out a Captain Planet movie, I don't think the intelligence level requirement to watch it would be too high.
9) Dungeons and Dragons
Yes, yes, I know they already have come out with a Dungeons and Dragons movie (or more than one, I think), but I want to watch a D&D movie based on story of the cartoon series, and not some other whole new story. If I remember correctly, in the cartoon series, the main characters are teenage kids who are actually from our time (or rather, the 80's, coz' that's when the show was running) who were mysteriously transported into a fantasy dimension, where they had to deal with dragons and strange creatures and an evil dude with one horn. And, of course, each of them developed their own special skills and had to work as a team to make it through the adventures of each episode. And oh, there was a cute little baby unicorn running around with them too. Quite a fun fantasy cartoon, which I think would make a nice classic story for a movie. Only problem would be not making it like all the other typical fantasy movies that have come out in the past. But ah well, that would up to the storywriters to figure it out. I just wanna watch the movie and be entertained!
8) Spiderman and His Amazing Friends
No, I'm not daft. I know that there are already 3 Spiderman movies. But see, this isn't just Spiderman...it's Spiderman and His Amaaaaaazing Friends! I wanna see Spidey running around saving the would with Iceman and Firestar! Now everyone knows Iceman, of course, and he already appeared in the X-men movies.... but Firestar is a character that I really enjoyed but for some reason has eluded the big screen. Why, oh why? I mean, so what if she can do pretty much the same thing as the Human Torch, she's a girl and that makes all the difference to all the girls out there who has ever fantasized about flying around and shooting fire from their bare hands at everyone who annoys her. Bwahahaha!... *Ahem* I, not being one of those girls, of course. But anyway, Firestar would make a cool new addition to moviedom... though the problem would be finding an actress hot enough to do Firestar justice. Too bad Jessica Alba is already playing the Invisible Girl... so again, I shall leave that up to the cast managers.
7) Sonic the Hedgehog
They made a gazillion games, they had the funny cartoon series, so why on earth haven't they made a movie? Huh? HUH? Sonic the Hedgehog brings back quite a few good memories, coz' when I was a kid, I used to love the cartoon so much, I'd would be drawing Sonic cartoons all the time in class. And I had an old buddy named Adelina, who shared my passion for Sonic, so much that she started learning how to draw Sonic and Tails from me, and she actually nicknamed me Sonic, while she was nicknamed Tails. And we would even write letters to each other which were full of Sonic and Tails pictures (I still got them hiding around somewhere...) !Haha, I know it was lame, but it was fun. Well obviously, if they ever did make a Sonic movie, it would be a CG movie, unless they wanted a guy in a rubber blue suit with spikes trying to run around really fast. LOL. But seriously, I thought the series was so, so amusing, and the stories in the games are pretty interesting too. And there are plenty of interesting characters with which they could write an interesting story around, like bad boy Knuckles and that pink female hedgehog whose name escapes me. And Tails is just the cutest little fox with two tails that I have even seen. So yeah, it would be nice to see Sonic zipping around on the big screen some day....
6) Voltron
I know you remember this one! Didn't you just love the part when the 5 big robot cats would fly up into space, battle the baddies for a while and then merge to form an even bigger super robot before finishing off the bad guys? Yeah, I loved it too. And quite frankly, I don't remember much else of the cartoon, except for that. But it would good enough for me to go watch this movie. Goooooo...Voltron!
5) Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs
I don't think this cartoon was as famous as Voltron, but it was pretty similar. Four characters controlled four robots that also combined to make a big funky robot (I think). What makes it cooler is that each character has different armour that matches their favourite hobbies. Like one guy who like racecar and his helmet designed like an F1 driver's helmet. Another guy who's a cowboy has a cowboy hat helmet. The leader, who is the typical English gentleman that likes to ride around on horse, has a tall hat helmet and gets to ride around on robot horse! And the sole female...well, her armour isn't particularly special. She's just the token sole female that just must appears in these cartoons to rope in the female viewers. Anyhow, another reason why I liked the show is coz' the guys were all so cute, and I had a super crush on the leader coz' of the whole English accent and suave-ness. So if they ever made a Sabre Rider movie, I don't care who plays the other characters, but the lead guy has just gotta be hot, hot, hot!
4) Sailormoon
There weren't many fantasy adventure cartoons around that catered to the girls, so when Sailormoon came around, it didn't matter to me that I could only watch it dubbed in Cantonese, and the characters all spoke in such high squeaky voices.... I thought it rocked! My fav characters were Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter, just coz' they were the most confident among all the other girls, even Sailormoon. And they were both a little bit hotheaded and tomboyish, which made them all the more fun to watch. But of course, the bestest part is when the Sailor chicks would do their super duper powers to wipe out the bad guys in battle... and it would take them about 5 minutes just to twist and turn and look pretty and yell out the name of their super duper power before they finally do it and knock out big bad guy. Ah yes, to look pretty and save the world at the same time. Now don't all we girls just wish we could do that? :D
3) Thundercats
Ok, I reaaaalllly don't understand how they can make a He-Man movie, several Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, but not even one Thundercats movie. Like, hello? Wasn't this, like, one of the most awesome action cartoons ever? Well, actually I didn't love it all that much... but I still think a movie about a bunch of humanoid felines running around battling evil another cool concept for the world of moviedom. And it would be interesting to see who would be able to pull off the muscle-bound male characters without looking like cheesy Mr. World wannabes. Or who would be able to pull off having Lion-O's funky bright orange hair. But we all know what the best part of the movie would be.... when Lion-O brandished his sword and does his "Thunder.....Thunder....Thundercats...HOOOOO!!!" routine. Don't deny it, I know you pretended to do that too when you were a kid. Ha.
2) Jem and the Holograms
I just LOOOOVED this cartoon when I was a kid! Jem and the Holograms was THE show that played on every young girl's fantasy of being a famous pop star.... and had some added coolness in that the main character, Jerrica Benton, could one second be a normal, low-profile person, and just by touching her star-shaped earrings and saying "Showtime, Synergy!", plain jane Jerrica would be transformed into superstar Jem with the hugh cotton candy pink hair. Sweet! And the thing I also really enjoyed was the short music clips that they showed in every episode.... I was so addicted to the cartoon, I would religiously record each episode, watch the music clips repeatedly and write down every single lyric to every single song in a little book just for this purpose. And I would also try and draw the characters doing something related to the song....and since my drawing weren't all that good at the time, I think the ended up looking more like upside down colourful mops (coz' of the big hair). But the story was really interesting, and it was always fun to watch how Jerrica would try to keep her secret ability under wraps, but sometimes, it would almost, almost, be revealed. But it never was revealed, of course. So yeah, Jem would make a awesome movie. I just know it.
1) Biker Mice From Mars
And some of you are probably thinking "Biker what from where??!!". Well, even though the title is no less weirder than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, sad to say Biker Mice From Mars wasn't as popular or well-loved as their reptilian cowabunga-ing counterparts. But the show still had (and STILL has) a loyal fan following, which included yours truly coz' I was just absolutely in love it! Admitedly, the storyline doesn't make much sense. And for those who don't know, the story goes like this: Three macho humanoid mice who are actually Martians were escaping from some bad guys who were plundering their planet before they crash-landed on earth and made friends with a human female called Charlene Davidson. One of the baddies, another race of aliens called Plutarkians, was also on planet Earth, trying to plunder its resources as well, and so our three macho mice do all they can each episode to foil his evil plans. Oh, did I mention they ride really cool bikes that understand and obey their commands? Plot doesn't rank high on the logical department, but hey, after all, it's a CARTOON, so who the heck cares about logic? I sure didn't! So why did I love this show? Well, it was superbly funny, for one. I especially enjoyed the ridiculous antics of Vinnie, the white mouse. Their bikes were really hot (made me want to buy a Harley when I grew up!). And they played a lot of rock music on the show, and being a rock music lover me-self, well, that pretty much cinched it for me. Plus, even though the main story is pretty silly, the background story and the issues the characters have in some episodes makes the show more meaningful and interesting. Like throughout the series, you learn how they were tortured by the baddies before they came to earth... so Vinnie wears a metal mask on one side of his face coz' his face got mutilated, and Modo (the big grey mouse) has a robotic arm coz' of some kooky experiments by a kooky doctor, and Throttle (the brown mouse who is the leader of the pack) wears special glasses to help him see, without which he is blind. So the story actually got really interesting as it went on. And so when I was younger, I used to write down the details of every single episode I watched in my journals, so that I could read it again later on and have a good laugh. Yes, that's how big a fan I was.... and still am! :P And so if there was ever a Biker Mice movie, I'd be the first in line at the cinemas to catch it! Of course, the chances of it turning out to be a B-grade movie with more action and less plot is pretty high, but I have hope that should it ever come to the big screens, the storywriters will do it true justice and make me fall in love all over again with these macho mice. Rock and ride! Woohooo!!!
Monday, April 23, 2007
A quick one!
Hey everyone, I know I haven't been blogging for quite a while. As usual, work taketh up my time like nobody's business, not to mention the fact that I dilly dally a lot once I reach home instead of making good use of my time. But I'm preparing my next post by researching through a bunch of pics. For what, you wonder? Well, you gotta wait to find out! Bwahaha! Hopefully not too long though. For now, I'm about to go dozey off coz' it's 1am and I need to work tomorrow, but before I do, I just wanna say one thing:
Sanjaya Malakar is finally off American Idol!! Woo hooooo!!!!! Sorry, Howard Stern!
Sanjaya Malakar is finally off American Idol!! Woo hooooo!!!!! Sorry, Howard Stern!
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