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So this is another movie that was supposedly based on a very popular (children) book?  I knew it was gonna suck and I shouldn’t have wasted my time watching it.  I wonder whose brilliant idea to cast James Bond to be the centaur leader.  Why him though?  Every time I saw his face, I kept wishing he would put on his tux and started shooting everyone with his mini-super-spy gun..  Hahahahhaa..

The black dude who was half human, half goat really annoyed the hell out of me.  He was supposedly “the protector” – someone who protects Percy from anyone who wants to kill him – however, seeing the way he fought, I was seriously in doubt he could protect Percy.  Dude walked around with freakin’ forearm crutches.  Come on now!  How in the world would Percy Jackson be safe from the evil gods/monsters if his only protector walks around with freakin’ forearm crutches?!  They never really showed us if this guy could fight, shoot arrows or maybe have some sword fighting skills or something.  Throughout the movie, I somehow kept wishing he would at least be able to shoot laser from his eyes or something.

Percy Jackson is half god, half human.  His dad is Poseidon, and his mom is basically a mortal human.  His dad left when he was still 3 years old, because supposedly there was unwritten rule somewhere that says when a god is married to a mortal human, then he/she will not be able to stay with his/her family after the child is born.

So Percy Jackson didn’t even know anything about his dad and him being half god, half human until sometime later when he was on a school trip to a museum, one of his teachers all of sudden turned into a really fugly monster with wings and tried to kill him.  He was like, “WTF IS THAT?!”  Then his other teacher, James Bond (or whatever Pierce Brosnan’s character name is) showed up and said, “Well son, you are half god, half human..  And I think that monster wants Zeus’ lightning because she thinks you stole it.”   Heh thanks to his mom who kept her mouth shut about this for 17 years and didn’t even tell anything to young Percy.  Had he known about him being half god half human soon, at least he would’ve been prepared to face the fugly monster with wings.  So basically that’s the whole plot.  Someone stole Zeus’ lightning and somehow spread the word in the god’s world that some young kid named Percy Jackson stole it.  Come on, seriously..  You think gods are that dumb to believe that some 17-year-old kid who had no superpowers, let alone knowing his dad is Poseidon, was able to go (or fly) all the way up to god’s world and somehow stole Zeus’ super duper lightning sword (or whatever) right under his nose…  Tsk tsk tsk tsk….  Thank God I was streaming this movie for free.

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So I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how good this movie is and how it’s much better than Marley and Me.  I was like, AW COME ON!  Marley and Me is like one of the best movies about dogs that I’ve seen by far..  It’s even much better than Lassie!  OK well Lassie is a TV show, so can’t really compare that one with Marley and Me.  Totally different.  I guess I can just say Marley and Me is much better than Scooby Doo?

Hachiko (or Hachi) is the name of the dog that Parker Wilson (Richard Gere) found at the train station when he was on the way home.  For the next few days, he was trying to find out whom Hachiko belonged to.  He put up ads everywhere, and he was also trying to give him up for donation.  But somewhere along the way, he started to fall in love with Hachiko.  So he decided to keep him.  His friend said, “It wasn’t you who found him..  He found you.”

Hachiko is actually an American adaption of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko.  The dog would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work.  One day, his master passed away and never returned to the station.  Hachiko faithfully returned to the same spot at the station the very next day, and every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master until he finally died.  It is truly a sad story and I was really touched by his devotion, love, compassion and unyielding loyalty.  It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen by far, and I was really surprised that this one didn’t even come out in the theater.

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” – Josh Billings (American Humorist , 1818-1885)

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I think this movie should’ve been called a journey to dreamland because it really did send me to dreamland.. Zzzzzz..  No offense to you, Mr. Tim Burton.  I think you are a fine director, and throughout these years I have very much enjoyed all your movies – starting from Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, all the way to Big Fish and Sweeney Todd.

This recent one, on the other hand, I have to say I’m not really too fond of it.  It literally put me to sleep..  And I actually never fall asleep in the theater.  Ever.  Okay well maybe just once, a few years ago when I went to see the most boring movie ever made in the planet, Thin Red Line.  The movie sucked so bad, I was contemplating on walking out in the middle of it and asking for a refund.  But I’m not saying Alice in Wonderland as bad as Thin Red Line..  Oh no, not at all.  The movie is much much better than Thin Red Line, but they both are equally boring as hell.

I think the only great thing about the movie is Johnny Depp.  Thank God Tim Burton decided to put Johnny Depp in this movie.  I couldn’t imagine what the movie would’ve been like without Johnny Depp.  He really saved this one from being super duper boring.  He was so buried under heavy makeup, I literally couldn’t even recognize him in the movie.  But you know, I kinda felt that Pee-wee Herman would’ve been great playing the character that Johnny Depp was playing.  To be honest with you, I think it would’ve been awesome if they had Pee-wee Herman in the movie.

Okay maybe I should’ve seen this movie in 3D.  Had I done that, that would’ve probably changed my opinion about this movie.  I decided not to see it in 3D because it was always sold out and I was just too lazy to wait until the next day to see it.  Besides, I read the book many many times before when I was a kid, so I pretty much already knew the storyline.  Ah well..  Such a disappointment.

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