Movies Review

(1) Men in Black 3 (3D)
 

Last Friday I went to the cinema to watch Men in Black 3. The ticket was free due to that a bank has offered free tickets to its corporate clients. It also provided free popcorns and a can of coke (so thoughtful).

It’s been a while since I stepped into a cinema and it’s the first time I got to watch a movie in 3D. (Yes, first time…). Hence, I was rather excited.

The movie is about Agent J (Will Smith), in order to save his partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and the earth, must travel back in time to 1969 to prevent an alien criminal from killing the young Agent K (Josh Brolin).

It’s very entertaining - the lines are funny; the aliens are ugly and there’s an unexpected scenerio at the end that may bring tears to your eyes.

As for the 3D effect, I saw the depth perception between the foreground and the background. However, I feel that this makes the background look somewhat unreal. And oh the 3D glasses, not too comfortable.

Check out the official site here: http://www.meninblack.com/

 

(2) Mirror Mirror (2012)

I watched Mirror Mirror on the internet (thank goodness I didn’t pay to watch in the cinema).

Mirror Mirror is an adaption of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It’s about an evil queen (Julia Roberts) who seized control of her husband’s kingdom right after his disappearance. The dwarfs taught Snow White (Lily Collins) to fight when she’s hiding in the forest. She ultimately saved the dwarfs and the prince (Armie Hammer). The poisoned apple was only offered to Snow White at her wedding to the prince by the queen who has lost her power. Oh, and the dwarfs wore stilts. Perhaps the director is trying to break away from the traditional story here.

 

At the end of the movie, Snow White performed a Bollywood song and dance. Seriously, a Bollywood dance for a Snow White movie? A check with the cast and crew list at the end explained it – an Indian director, Tarsem Singh. I wonder if the movie were directed by China’s Zhang Yimou, would he end it with a Chinese song and dance.

 

Check out the official site here: http://mirrormirrorfilm.com/#/home

How bad is your boss?

After reading blogger Gintai’s “How to nurture your boss”, I feel inspired to write about bad bosses. Gintai has also encouraged me to blog again and hence I take a break from my project to do so.

The following are some examples of bad bosses and when should one quit the job. Please feel free to share your personal experiences too.

1) The boss has PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) everyday. She communicates with her staff by yelling.

2) The boss dares not make decisions nor takes responsibilities and has the clueless idea all the time; always asking “what do you think?”

3) The boss gets mad when a staff resigns; he gets someone to occupy the staff’s work station while the latter was serving his remaining weeks in the company, leaving the staff to find elsewhere to sit in the office.

4) The boss asked the staff to jump out of the window when the latter could not meet his sales targets.

5) The boss micro-manages his staff; warning the staff when they’re late for five minutes (when they had worked late till 2am the previous night). But when his own boss gets out of town, he’ll go for long lunches including golf-playing.

6) The boss is always abusive to his/her staff often calling them stupid.

7) The boss always send his/her staff to run personal errands like collecting laundry, going to the banks, etc., when the boss himself/herself is also the employee of the company.

8) The bosses sent a team of staff to their house over the weekend to decorate because it was their father’s birthday. The staff were not paid nor invited to stay to enjoy the party and food.

9) The sales boss (with no sales experience at all) accusing the staff of pretending to make sales calls (because he saw the staff was not talking when in actual fact, the line on the other side was ringing and no one had come to pick up yet).

10) Having a scheming and vicious boss is no easy life in the work place, especially in sales environment where sales persons’ income is based on commission for closed sales. A good boss would define/assign clear sales territories to the staff. A bad boss would act blur when your coworker starts to contact the companies that were supposed to be your sales accounts. This would create “bad blood” among coworkers.

When does one decide to “divorce” his/her boss (to call it quit)?

1) When you bring your emotional package home; throwing temple toward your loved ones; being impatient to them; easily agitated over the most minor things.

2) When you starting doubting your own intelligence; hearing voices in your head repeating what your abusive boss has been telling you “You are so stupid.”

3) When you start falling sick frequently and develop psoriasis, eczema, gastric, etc., which are stress related. This is your body signaling, telling you that your immunity is going down.

4) When your boss requires you to work onsite on Sundays (which both of you are responsible for the project) but he will not show up because he needs to spend time with his family.

5) When you start to doubt your existence in this world. (Dude, this is seriously dangerous).

The above are tell tale signs that you should seriously consider resigning, for the interests of you and your loved ones.