I am Thompson Boy

Typically unimpressed with anything, I watched the trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty just to find out what's with the marketing buzz and to me it was all fuss and nothing else. Sure, the scenes look great and I am sure there will be some funny moments here and there but I am surprised that people are still impressed with the same good old Americana movie formula: Loser + Pining for love + suddenly something happened = life changing experience / chance of a lifetime = happiness. Now didn't you watch that before somewhere? Yes, plenty of times. But it never gets old for some people. And what better time to release it than year end/new year when people only review how terminally boring their life is only to revert back to doing the same thing all over again come February. Of course it will resonate with people. Kar-ching! I only have one thing to say - Stop dreaming, stop watching another movie and put those money to good use or to support your dreams. Photo cr...

Some things never stay the same, this is something that I've realised when I finally hauled my ass out from the couch to do abit of wardrobe organising and in my case it's time to finally say goodbye to those clothes that I either used to think was cool or fit me back then. Ok, so I was practically a size zero back then and I have hold on to clothes that used to fit me like most of the good memories of yesteryears. But things change, people change and what people used to like isn't the same as today. Case in point, it really baffled me when I was trying (mind you the keyword here is TRYING) to watch this so called popular movie from last year - Bridesmaids. I mean, it is supposed to be funny? Really? Am I supposed to laugh at the mishaps and the loser type lives of some of these women? I mean should I be expecting something considering this is yet another gig from the Apatow money making machine? They make movies like this and Knocked Up and this is supposed to be female em...