This Never Happens (bonus inside!)

As we all know, Indonesian movies has now hit a new level of quality. With The Raid still going strong in its fourth week, next week we'll going to have Modus Anomali directed by Joko Anwar on April 26. However, in every good apple, there's a bad apple. Do behold of this trailer of the film titled Amphibious or the Indonesian titled Angkara Murka below:




This film kinda erases all the goodwill of recent Indonesian cinema. Look at the effects! The monster is a rip-off from that scorpion creature from the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans. The plot feels like Anaconda. The silliness feels like your average Indosiar sinetrons [Indosiar is an Indonesian TV channel which constantly makes and airs cheaply made monster movie with warriors set in ancient times]. The trailer is horrible, I mean, I don't want to watch this film after seeing that trailer. And dude, it's Indonesia's first 3D film! It's a shame that a film titled Angkara Murka is actually that cheap. So I went on to have a research about this mess and here's what I got:

- The director, Brian Yuzna, once collaborated with a production house in Spain. nice start
- The film was English-languaged, badly scripted, badly acted, bad story.
- The creature effects are incredibly cheesy but the make-up effects are good.
- The 3D was surprisingly okay
- Not the kind of film you want to watch after you're still in awe with The Raid


I'm posting this so that people won't feel robbed after paying the tickets. I'm just giving a heads up. To be honest, I'm quite interested when I heard about the title and the film is Indo's first 3D too. But after you saw the trailer, damnnnn forget about what I said before. Which got me thinking, I once thought that the best way to watch a film is to avoid all trailers so you would be surprised (in a good way of course). Maybe it is still the best way, but you might actually want to read the premise of the story, rather than just "going commando", if you know what I mean (don't include the meme)

But you know what, throw this post away because never fear to try something new (even if you fail in the end)


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BONUS!
Since I have decided to not check out Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror, I took the liberty of including my friend's three-sentence-review of the film [I might squeeze something out for more though]. This is what she said about 2012's first Snow White film: "It's quite entertaining! The starting pace of the film was a bit childish and corny, but I can live with that. Julia Roberts is too angel-faced to be an evil queen and Lily Collins is soooo beautiful."
You can always check out my friend's amazing fashion blog right here -> isleofview

And my only response was: let's wait for Snow White and the Huntsman. Mentioning SWATH, look at the bloody nice new theatrical poster below compared with the best poster for Mirror Mirror

Gotta give the hats off to Mirror Mirror aka Blanche Neige sans Le Chasseur for not putting Julia Roberts in the center of the poster just because she's handsomely paid. Also for having a decent shot of Armie Hammer looking cool. But dude, Snow White and the Huntsman aka Blanche Neige et Le Chasseur is better in every way. Look at that cool poses and an actual face of a beautiful, yet evil queen! But one thing for sure, Blanche Neige is French for Snow White.