HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!!
(11:41 PM, Dec. 31, 2006)
At the time I’m starting to write this, it’s not New
Year’s yet at my place, but it might already be when I end this post..
depends on how long or short it’s gonna be.
fiuh.. been a
loooong time I haven’t post in English. I dunno..in these last couple
of months, I just felt like expressing myself in Bahasa Indonesia, but
then I rarely blog anyway :p haha
I just watched some of the
special shows in sync with New Year’s Eve. There were some Box Office
Indonesian Films, like "Heart" and "Apa Artinya Cinta?". Good thing I
didn’t think about spending my money on those movies at the cinema, cuz
I just watched ‘em FREE on TV, hahaha 
(pelit banget ya gw?) Talking
about movies, I want to watch "Happy Feet" at the cinema, but I don’t
know with whom I should go, it’s not alotta fun going to the movies by
urself.
Well..anyway, after watching "Heart" there were some
scenes where I cried, but then some scenes (in my opinion) aren’t
necessary. And for "Apa Artinya Cinta?" well..lots of scenes went
realllllllyyyyyy sloooooowwwww…
WAIT A SEC….!!!!
12:00 AM (WIB)
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 FOR THE WESTERN PART OF INDONESIA (WIB)!!!!!!
(back to the topic)
well
lots of the scenes in "Apa Artinya Cinta?" went sooo slow I could’ve
fallen asleep, if I didn’t change the channel. I just hope that, in the
future, the Indonesian cinema industry can come up with movies that
have better plots and better flow of scenes. What I’ve seen from
Hollywood and Disney’s cartoons that made it big in the Box Office in
the USA, is that:
- good concept and plot
- the development of the story and characters are smooth through out each scene
- scenes connect smoothly
- lots of movies that are touchy (menyentuh, bikin terharu gitu lohh!)
- the movies have morals in ‘em
Now,
Indonesian movies are finding it hard to do that. Maybe it’s because of
the market that makes them Production House produce movies without
paying attention to the real essence of movies. And usually movies in
Indonesia follows the movies that came out before (latah).. like there
was a time frame of lovey-dovey-teen-drama movies then another period
where it was all horror (like at the end of 2006, just this December
2006, it was all HORROR!!) They just can’t make a movie without thinking of money, they can’t make a movie with moral inside, can they?
I
mean even cartoons..those Americans and Japanese really put their heart
and head to it. There’s a message that u can take from those cartoons,
and the scenes are well-arranged. I think "movie people" in Indonesia
still need to study more in making good movies.
Sometime in the
near future, I’d like to see a movie at the cinema where it takes up a
"touchy" topic that can be taken from peoples’ lives happening in the
local area, that is… from inside Indonesia itself, but no big
mansions, luxurious cars, and all those other lux things involved.
Topics that happen normally in Indonesia, taking up the positive side not the
negative. Like there were some Box Office movies (which’re lame in my
opinion) where it exposed the dark and negative side of living in a
metropolitan area like Jakarta, which is the capital city where, as
they say, have become "modernized", haha BS.. what the heck is
"modernized"?? I say it’s Westernized, not modernized.. Western stuff
does not mean modern.. Sorry for all the Westerners out there, I just
feel sad for the Indonesian people who have lost their culture. Those
people who have forgotten how being "People of the East" really is..
blinded by the bling-blings of the Western world.
Oh yeah..and another thing that’s been bothering my mind…
MALAYSIA QUIT SAYING OUR STUFF IS YOURS!!! F@#*!!!
Kebaya is from INDONESIA.. Angklung is from INDONESIA.. Gamelan is from INDONESIA..
QUIT claiming OUR stuff is yours….!!!! *sheesh* Where the heck is your brain man, taking other people’s stuff.. *bleh*
(12:40 AM, Jan. 1, 2007)
