Monday, June 29, 2009

Size matters

Since the beginning of my stay in Melbourne, I have planned to reserve my IMAX experience for the Transformers sequel. Actually the IMAX theather is just right outside my apartment, but since one ticket costs a whoooooooping 17.50AUD, I wouldn't risk it on some random bla movie. They actually show stuff like Night in the Musuem on IMAX.


The IMAX theather here is definitely much better than the one in Time Square back home. Basically, it boasts a screen which is 7 stories high, and the cinema condition overall is much nicer. For 17.50AUD, we thought we'd get the best customer service but apparently the tickets do not come with seat numbers!! So being the kiasu people that we always are, we started queueing up for entrance at 215pm when the show was supposed to start at 3pm! Btw, the locals are pretty kiasu as well :P I thought we'd be the earliest birds.

The theather was full to the brim on a Friday afternoon! Don't people need to work? There were people sitting right in front. Imagine arching your neck up a 7 story high screen for 2.5 hours.

The movie was alright for me. I thought that there were too many I-love-you scenes between Megan Fox and lover boy. Sorta like a mushy script between two teenagers in a sappy love story. Come on man! Plus there was waaaay too many Megan Fox slow motion running in the desert scenes and sometimes it feels like their trying abit too hard to put in some unessecary humour into the movie. Nevertheless, watching the transformers transform and do their thing never fails to put me in awe. I would watch it again anytime, but in Malaysia of course! :P

On a different note, I was ordered by the alpha female authority at home not to visit crowded places eg. cinemas (failed), clubs (failed), bars (failed) before returning home to Malaysia. Just 3 more days to go before I fly home and get looked upon as a threat to the country coz everyone's freaking out about H1N1! Woo hoo, welcome home to my home country where I'm supposed to feel safe and secure. Can't wait.

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