On the flight back from China I decided to give “Knight and Day” a shot, because my sister sitting next to me tells me it’s a great movie.
After watching the entire film I realised that I had been utterly duped.
But it was on hindsight that I learnt that one can never trust the opinion of a female on a movie that stars both Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
You just cannot expect an objective opinion when Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz happen to be in the same film.
I honestly thought it was one of the most disappointing movies I had watched in the last two years.
The real mystery is not why it was so bad.
The real mystery is how the script was even given the approval to be filmed in the first place…and how Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz got convinced to hop aboard this trainwreck of a show.
On to better things…
Anyway, during my visit to China I stumbled upon a Korean serial on the local television, and it immediately caught my attention.
It caught my attention because I happened to see one of the most impossibly beautiful female leads I had ever seen in my life.
How “impossibly beautiful”, you say?
Let’s just put it this way – if I were given free rein to create the perfect female face, hers would be it.
And thus, I was hooked.
(It’s true, y’know.
We watch movies and TV dramas because of the beautiful people.
Beautiful people make us immediately like them.
Beautiful people make us immediately attached to them, in an emotional way.
The human body is programmed to be naturally attracted to beautiful things.
We just can’t help it.
That’s the way we are programmed.)
I shan’t let on as to what the drama series was, but after a bit of hunting around the last few days, let’s just say that I am now a faithful follower of a particular Korean drama series for the first time in my life.
All because of the lead actress.
It’s true what they say about Korean actresses…they look impossibly beautiful.
Watching Korean drama is kinda like watching sports such as cycling, baseball, swimming and athletics.
At the back of your mind, you’ll always wonder just much work these people had done on them.
In the same way that we will always wonder how many of the Tour de France riders are actually clean, we also can’t help but wonder how many of these near-perfect Korean beauties are actually natural beauties.
As in, they never had any plastic surgery done on them before.
I mean, we look back at the Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa era and we wonder how we were so blind as to not see that they were on steroids.
But none of us wanted to think about those things back then.
This is what sports and TV entertainment has become.
But we enjoy it nonetheless.
It’s fantasy, it’s make-believe.
Even though you suspect it may not be real, at the back of our minds we just prefer to hope that it is.
It’s simpler that way.
I enjoyed “Knight & Day” leh, not because it has Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz. I wouldn’t say it was a fantastic film, but it was enjoyable, for the action and humour.
Haha…*raised eyebrows* for your new interest in K Drama. I’m not a fan of K Drama due to their dragginess, but I must say they do have some good-lookers, whether for real or not.
Yeah, the action and humour was enjoyable I guess. That I can’t deny. But the question is…was there a point to it all? I felt it was all very pointless and irrelevant, and thus I was quite turned off by the meaningless-ness of the whole movie. I was very surprised that Cruise and Diaz actually agreed to do such a badly-written movie.
” I’m not a fan of K Drama due to their dragginess, but I must say they do have some good-lookers, whether for real or not.”
Oh, trust me, they have more than just some good-lookers, haha!
aiyoh, there are some shows that no need to analyse too much, and this was one of them. It was a frivolous, for-fun movie.
That’s absolutely true. But I just can’t help but wonder why they chose to spend so much money to rope in these two MEGA-stars for this frivolous movie. Surely they could have saved much more by not doing that.
well, then it would have less viewership.
Anyway, most of Cameron Diaz’s shows are frivolous type.