Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

now, i am the happy owner of

the shawshank redemption(blu-ray)
the curious case of benjamin button(blu-ray)
ip man(dvd)
taken(dvd)

ah.....so happy to see these titles in me cabinet free from the curse of the late return fines of video shops.
other shows that i would like to have
(the definitive list(haha, is that word used right?), as in i try to keep the list as short as possible. kind of like a top ten, but cant fit into ten so i just put what i want la.)

this is like...THE list of shows le. if i had to limit my life to just a few shows, these would be them, along with the above list of course(they are part of the collection).

1. a frank darabont show - shawshank redemption.

2. a david fincher show - benjamin button. (over se7en(over fight club) cos i think benjamin button is more beautiful)

3. a ridley scott show - gladiator. (over american gangster cos gladiator has the "rawwwwwr!" feel)

4. a "stylish" show - the matrix (i don't know any show more stylish than the original(hah, maybe that's overated. what the heck.)
(chose this over v for vendetta and wanted, simply cos it's earlier. i would like the other 2 just as well.)

5. an animated film - up (because it's the first animated film that made me cry)(i would choose shrek for laughs though..haha)

6. a christopher nolan show - the dark knight (over the prestige(this was a hard decision) because heath ledger is the joker)

7. a luc besson show - leon: the professional (taken dun really count cos he din direct. and cos i wan taken on the list too. hehe)

8. an imba english show - taken. (haha! who else is as imba as bryan mills(apart from ip man...that's why he's next)? maybe jason
bourne. almost. or maybe tom stall.)

9. an imba chinese show - ip man. (haha! the chinese counterpart of bryan mills)

10. a world war 2(fighting) show - saving private ryan.

11. a world war 2(non-fighting) show - life is beautiful(over schindler's list because this show had laughter. maybe on other days
i'd choose schindler's list)

12. a samurai show(which also happens to be a yoji yamada show) - love and honour(over twilight samurai over hidden blade, but all still good)

13. a clint eastwood show - gran torino (because he sings! (over mystic river over letters over million dollar baby))

14. a crime show - se7en (over mystic river over collateral over the usual suspects over l.a. confidential cos it's grittier)

15. a happy show - forest gump!

16. a gangster show - still undecided cos too many good ones and too many unwatched. shucks.

17. a triad show - ditto

18. a jap show - depatures (over love letter over be with you(haha, actually cant decide...but themes different la))

19. an anime - a ghibli show (cos all are good. just get a collection la. haha. but if must choose, grave of the fireflies for serious show, akira for sci-fi, and whisper of the heart for light hearted(tsuiokuhen dun count cos it's not a movie per se))

ok. that sort of covers it. for now. haha.
pls note if you ever have no idea what to get me for my birthday, pls just refer to this list.
just dun tell me u referred to this list is all.
otherwise just head on down to www.thinkgeek.com and buy me something and i will be very glad indeed. :)

now, time to storm the shores of marberry.