Freaking

I'm a freak. An endorphin and a movie freak. I started to feel the chill from an upcoming explosion come summer. My heart pounds by simply walking the movie corridor turning my head left and right glancing at those coming soon movie posters. There's Russle Crow, Leonardo Decaprio and Robert Downey Jr to name a few. As I lay my butt on the red cozy seat, all hell broke loose. Trailers from sci-fi fantasies ages ago blasted TGVs and GSCs with the remaking of 1981 Clash of the Titans and in fact Disney will be releasing Prince of Persia. Lovely computer game way back 20 years ago. Wow! That long eh? Now my son is playing the PS2 version and he's good at it too.

And so I noticed that heroes of my era are appearing again, one by one as we approach the first quarter of the year. There was quite a silent last month without any good release, but not until now. I took the privilege of indulging myself with a mini vacation. Yep, it's a vacation for me alright. A two hour vacation. What else can I do to cosset myself besides sweat, humid, fatigue legs and ends with a milk shake?

Last week John Travolta blast the screen with his latest From Paris with Love. I only saw five seconds of the snippet on Ebuzz few weeks ago but didn't catch the title, which later got stucked with him for the rest of the 116 minutes. This guy is turning old and evil at the same time. Ever since he appeared in Pelham 123, this one really brought him centre stage. It's Cloak & Dagger stuff but with stylo gun fights slipped with controversial love plot. End of the day, it was always the terrorists and suicide bomber whose the bad guys la.

My most recent dilemma was when I got myself stuck between Danzel Washington, Matt Damon and Mel Gibson. I had to chose the youngest from the list, so I picked Damon with Green Zone. From stylo gunfights of Travolta, this one brought me to US-led occupation of Baghdad. Damon played Borne stuff only with more soldier in uniform scripts and got entangled between intelligence and hidden political agendas in a middle of war zone. Bullets flying around, teeth gritting chases, tension arises. Something almost familiar to Blackhawk Down suspense and Clear and Present Danger's tense. Check out those Oakley M-Frame and camo Camelbak. Cool. Now, I wonder where did they manage to squeeze in so many Arabs into a two hour plot?

Remember Sam Worthington from Avatar and Terminator Salvation? Awesome act eh? Yes, brace yourselves cause he's coming with Clash of the Titans. Remember most yelled about Kraken in Pirates of Carribean? Prepare to see the ugliest part of it. And hey! Tough and macho Top Gun guy Mr Cruise is coming back with super secret agent stuff. Nope, not Mission Impossible - that will be 2011, but in a sort of a comedy action with Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day. Now this could be something to laugh about.

The list goes on and on. With Ironman 2, Robin Hood (Russel Crowe?), The A-team and lots more. I had to push aside George Clooney (Up in the Air) and Tobey Maguire (Brothers) for the moment cause I need all the heart pumping stuff for another 14 days. Yikes! Talking about countdown. Sigh.

My retreat will continue with The Book of Eli and Edge of Darkness very soon. And suddenly all these guys come into sight almost at the same time. Aiya! I might save one of it prior to ENR for anti-race jitters.