Cinema part 2!

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On Thursday evening we had a grand total of ZERO girls show up in the Games room to play with us, so Jacqui and I went to the cinema at the rather-posh Pavilion shopping centre in the Bukit Bintang area.

We saw a great film called Gone Baby Gone. It's a story about the kidnapping of a young girl in Boston and the search to find her. I don't think it's out in the UK yet but I'm sure it will be soon (I read last year that it's release was being held back due to some of the obvious similarities with the real UK news last summer). It's the directorial debut of Ben Affleck (yes I know lots of people don't rate him as an actor - although in my opinion he was great in Hollywoodland last year too - but even if you don't rate him as an actor that just makes this movie a pleasant surprise). Casey Affleck is just brilliant in the lead role. There are some great scenes, and some well-shot scenes, and despite the subject matter and some inevitably cliched moments, there's a nice ambiguity to the story. Just thought I would give you the recommendation to catch it when it comes to the UK!

This means I have now beaten the Malaysian average of 1.3 annual visits to the cinema too!

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[Jennifer Yellow Hat]

censorship!
I forgot (but was reminded when we went to the cinema again this weekend) to mention the very heavy and obvious censoring of film content in Malaysia. In Gone Baby Gone there were loads of really poor cuts to the film, where the shot suddenly ended, or it jumped about a metre to the right where they had poorly cut some seconds out of the film. Not exactly subtle! Lots of dubbing of the f*** word too. It all seemed rather arbitrary though as there was still plenty of bad language allowed - they even kept in the worst example! I reckon there must be an allowance of how many times there can be a swear word in every minute of film. It makes for hilarious viewing anyway!