today i actually watched 2 monster movies, cloverfield and the mist for the price of one!!! heres what happened:

me and a couple of friends bought tix for cloverfield, timing afternoon. after the show, the staff ushered us to the exit. we visited the washroom first, and after that... we noticed there was another theater just outside the washroom, doors open. i thought, probably no show in there, but decided to take a look anyway. and.. there was a movie showing. we even took the best seats(last row, by the aisle)! then we were trying to figure out what show was it and how long it had been running, when the image of an oncoming mist came onscreen. at that moment i was like hey! isn't this movie the mist, which i intended to watch another week! and watching further on, we realized the show had just started!!! so yea thats how it went.

speaking of which, cloverfield, with its oh-my-so-shaky-and-jerky handheld camera view was actually quite good. yeah, there were people leaving the show midway, probably feeling sick, but i thought the right-in-your-face experience was very exciting and intense. you can literally feel your heart pounding... especially in one of the more memorable scenes, where the helicopter the characters were in was damaged and descending towards death. not for the faint-hearted.

the mist... was good as well. I mean, a movie based on a Stephen King book can't go wrong. weirdo monsters on the loose, and townsfolk trapped inside a supermarket, great premise. add that to the showcasing of the ugly side of human nature, and a nice product. but the ending... well, it was certainly very unexpected and twisted (which was different from the novel ending).

After the double movie, we went to the health exhibition at the expo, where we caught sweetie-pie Felicia Chin in action.



and finally... saw this poster at an arcade



it initially seems a little confusing, but i guess it means shooting, driving and musical games allowed on weekdays whereas other video games aren't. but why?

me at 11:46 PM