Watched this with long-lost friends/colleagues at Powerplant Cinema.  People has been saying that this is a really nice movie so I wanted to watch it to see if it’s really good.

This film is an adoption of a famous novel series, shopaholic written by Sophie Kinsella.  I haven’t read the book so I really cannot compare.  My friends told me that me that it’s very different from the book.  I guess it’s really rare for a movie to be better than the books.  There’s really no perfect adapation, there’s just good adaptation.

Basically, this movie revolves around a girl who’s a shopaholic. She moved to Manhattan to be part of a magazine called Alette but didn’t get the job. She followed the advice of the receptionist to apply to Successful Saving w/c is also a part of the company where Alette magazine is in.  Unfortunately, she initially didn’t get the job as well.  Frustrated, she wrote letters to both Alette Magazine & Successful Savings editors while she was drunk.  She mistakenly exchanged 2 letters.  She ended up being hired to Successful Savings because the editor was very impressed with the article she has written. She was then recognized as “the girl with the green scarf”.  I don’t wanna indulge more details as people who has not watched it might get so pissed off reading my post hehehe.

I can’t really say that it’s an excellent movie.  What I can say is… it is a feel-good movie.  If you had a stressful day and wanna relax then this is the best movie to watch.  It’s funny & light

My Rating for Confessions of a Shopaholic: 3.5 out of 5 stars.

I was planning to watch “He’s Just Not Into You” but apparently the theater that is showing it only has twin-lover seats.  Since I’m with a friend, why would we watch it there right? weird…

Anyway, we ended up watching “The International”. I got word that it is a good movie.  As expected, it is indeed Good!  Since the day before I watched “Confessions of a Shopaholic” w/c is a feel-good movie, it’s time to watch something serious & action-oriented.

It is a story about 2 people (an Interpol agent & Manhattan assistant district attorney) investigating corruption on a bank called International Bank of Business & Credit (IBBC).  This stars Clive Owen & Naomi Watts.  They uncovered several illegal activities that IBBC is doing like money laundering, arms trading & government destabilization.

Pretty well done and I don’t feel the time at all.  It’s just sad that since the movie is about 2 hours long.  I need to go to the washroom, I was really trying to wait for the movie to be finished but I just cannot take it anymore hahahahahaha!  So when I went to the washroom finally and came back to the theater.. I realized that I missed the last 15minutes of the movie!!!!!! Sooooooo saddd

So anyone would like to share what I have missed? awww… I might need to watch this again when a DVD comes out… so sad that I missed the most important part in the movie hehehe.

Verdict: 4/5