Tribute to Brandon Lee

A building gets torched, all that is left is ashes. I used to think that was true about everything, families, friends, feelings. But now I know, that sometimes if love proves real, two people who are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart. - Sarah ( Movie Quote - The Crow (1994))

I was going through my dvd list and saw a movie that was a cult favourite of mine. It's called 'The Crow'. The movie was made in 1994 and was directed by Alex Proyas (whom also directed the film, Dark City).

Brandon Lee played a rock singer whom was murdered on Devil's Night (the night before Halloween) and came back from the dead (resurrected by a crow) to avenge his and his girlfriend's murder.

Below is my favourite part, it's when Brandon Lee (The Crow) saves his young friend Sarah (played by Rochelle Davis) from being hit by a car. He tries to hide his face so Sarah could not identify him but purposely gave himself away by saying 'It can't rain all the time', a saying that is familiar to Sarah. He was hiding from Sarah because Sarah knows that he is dead.



Well, a movie could not be a real movie without some kick ass music sountrack right..? Well, this movie have some cool music from Nine inch nails, Stone Temple Pilots and my personal favourite, Burn by the Cure. The sountrack from the movie reached no 1 on the Billboard Top 100 charts in 1994.




If you have not seen the movie, the video is a good synopsis of the movie.

Brandon Lee was accidently killed on set while filming a scene, he was shot by a squib bullet load (a normal bullet with the primer or gunpowder removed). So ends the life of Bruce Lee's son, Brandon. He was so promising as an actor.

On his tombstone, was inscribe a passage from Paul Bowles book, The Sheltering Sky.

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless...

Rest in Peace, Brandon.

Movie moments...

Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, but not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?

Rose: I can't feel my body.

Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.

Rose: I promise.

Jack: Never let go.

Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack.


Movie Quote : Titanic (1997)

I am a BIG SUCKER for tear jerkers movie moments. Call it my feminine side or whatever.

In reality men do have a softer side in them. It's like ying and yang. Both sides actually complemented one another instead of being opposing. It's perfectly alright for a feminine side to coexist peacefully within a male mind. Instead of running away, you should embrace it.

Remember, my male friends...I said a feminine side exist in the mind and soul.

I'm not advocating cross dressing..

Hollywood has a knack of making it felt at the movies. The trinity of unison between movie plots, images and kick ass soundtrack...you have a recipe for a perfect tear jerker moment.




Remember the movie Titanic..?? The part when Jack was dying in the freezing waters and when he made Rose promise to live fully...that was a killer moment. I remembered watching it with my fiancee back in 97. She was sobbing throughout. I remembered holding her hands...trying to console her.

I have to admit that it does score points with the chicks or in my case the fiancee. Girls JUST LOVE guys that UNDERSTANDS emotional moments in movies. So even if you are trying hard to contain your laughter...keep it to yourself. Laughing or making stupid comments would only enhance your reputation as a cold hearted sonofabitch. That's a sure way of not scoring points with the girls.

You know what happens if you're short of points right..?

Yes, I am advocating FAKING as a substitute ;-)

If you cannot have the ying and yang balance...with all do respect, IMPROVISE.

I can't remember feeling that way in a malay movie though. I just hate the typical boy meets girl, boy gets rejected because he is poor. Then the girl married a fu**ed up rich playboy man that the parents like and manages to screw up her life. Hollywood at least gives a HAPPY ending...that fact is absent in most malay dramas.

I saw one malay drama during Hari Raya that TOTALLY spoilt the hari raya mood. See, the malay movie goes like this. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fell in love. Unfortunately, for the boy every hari raya, someone in his family dies. His mother is kindda loony so she gets tied up literally at home while boy finds a job. Boy becomes disillusioned and left his girlfriend because of ONE stupid misunderstanding. Girl got engaged with his best friend and boy later becomes a near beggar in the city. Girl saw boy one day, chases after him and GET THIS...accidently reverses her car into boy and boy dies. What kind of crap are they feeding the malays nowadays..??

Don't even get me started at the Nurkasih series on tv.

One movie ending that nearly...nearly made me cry was the scene in the movie, Click (2006).


Damn...Adam Sandler can really make a scene work.

Transformers 2 - A very jiggly movie

Last saturday while waiting to enter the movie theater to see the latest Transformers movie, I sms my friend.

Reza : Hey, I am queing up to see transformers...is it any good?

Friend : I saw it 3 times, good but JIGGLY

Reza : Whats jiggly???

Friend : YOU"LL SEE!!


Later that night, another friend sms me


Friend 2 : Hows the movie...I'm seeing it tonite

Reza : Cool but jiggly..

Friend 2 : What's jiggly??

Reza : YOU"LL SEE !!