One wedding and two movies

Recently attended my first ever personal friend's wedding. It may not be the first wedding I been to, but it was certainly the first time this particular thought came to me: Is wedding a lavish way of having yourself to become the main character of a storybook for one day?

For everything of the wedding is about you and your spouse. It is an occasion where others celebrate with you that you have found the love of your life, learnt the true meaning of happiness, becoming whole.

When you think about it, are all these money and effort worth it?

If you ask me, I think they are. And part of me that night was stung by this realization, for I knew I would never have the chance to become the main character of the story like this couple do, at least not in this life.

I guess these thoughts will follow me the next time I attend another one of my friend's wedding, followed by another, and another..

Ok, enough of my sentimentalist crap, back to the two movies!

First would be Narnia, I have not read the books before, but I looked very much forward to the movie.

As things turn out, the simplicity of the story, the 'cliche-ness' of the bible-inspired turns of events got me into a rather sleepy mode that night when I watched it at the cinema. I dunno, maybe I'm just too spoilt by the more dramatic and action-packed blockbusters nowadays, this first movie on Narnia felt like the first movie of Harry Potter, at which I almost fell asleep as well in the cinema.

Somehow I just didn't feel enchanted, engrossed or sympathized with the characters. Hopefully the sequels will fare better, if there are any.

The second movie is King Kong, which I watched at IMAX. I have to say, watching this movie at IMAX is so much more worth it than watching it at a normal cinema, cos everything seem so much larger than life and the film was so clear I felt like watching a DVD on a super-enlarged screen.

For King Kong I carried an even higher expectation, especially cos The Star gave it 4.5 stars, which I dare say is a REALLY rare thing. But even with this very high expectation, I was not dissapointed after watching it.

The movie had no trouble in letting us know that this movie IS about Ann and King Kong. And it really succeeded in showing us the chemistry, expecially with the expressive eyes of Ann and King Kong (computer rendered to almost perfection).

I was moved at certain point, but as the movie reaches the end, I kinda got detached a bit, cos the scenes became sorta draggy. I mean, I can only be touched so many times watching the scenes where Ann looks lovingly at Kong. After one too many of such scenes, I just kinda felt numb.

But who am I to say its not touching? On my way out of the cinema, I can hear plenty of girls having THE 'nasal problem' :-P

One thing just wanna add, I was surprised to see Tom Hanks' son in the movie! Not sure whether he's the one who acted in the Roswell series, but he sure look a lot like his old dad nowadays, which is not a bad thing really :-)