3 Idiots is a very booming Bollywood movie on Indonesia’s twitterverse. Currently showing at Blitzmegaplex – Pacific Place, Jakarta, and the show time has been extended around 3 times. At first, I don’t care about the movie nor the positive comments at all. I mean, I read the synopsys and it sounds boring. Or maybe it has the same plot like The Darjeeling Limited.

But at that time I was strolling around Pacific Place pointlessly, and then I decided to watch some movies. So I visited the blitz cinema, dan ternyata ngga ada film yang menarik perhatian saya. Pas ngeliat poster film 3 Idiots, saya iseng aja nanya mainnya jam berapa dan masih kosong apa (well, the movie is ALWAYS sold-out for the 18.40 show time). Ternyata yang jam 12 siang masih kosong. Daripada ngga ngapa-ngapain, saya beli juga tiketnya (mahal lho, Rp. 50.000 on weekdays and Rp. 75.000 on weekend).

Basically, I watched the movie just to find out if the movie really that good, I mean REALLY good, and not overrated? Or is it because all the hype and fuss jadi semua orang ikut-ikutan muji-muji ni film? Intinya: saya korban penasaran.

Akhirnya setelah nonton 3 jam nonstop, saya memutuskan bahwa film ini UNIK. Bagus sih udah pasti, tapi saya lebih suka make kata-kata unik, karena saya jarang nonton film tipe begini. Atau mungkin ini standar yah buat ukuran Bollywood movies hahaha..

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Saya lagi nunggu-nunggu filmnya Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief yang rencananya minggu ini diputer di Jakarta. Karena emang saya orangnya ngga sabaran jadi udah nonton trailernya duluan dan lihat-lihat cast-nya siapa aja. Ada hal yang menarik. Salah satu tokohnya, Annabeth Chase, di novel digambarkan sebagai anak perempuan berambut pirang, and yes, Percy talked about her blonde hair, like, hundred times. Tapii.. ternyata aktris yang memerankan tokoh Annabeth ini rambutnya hitam! Jet black! Okay, maybe dark chocolate or whatever saya ngga pernah nge-cat rambut jadi ngga ngerti warna-warnanya tapi pokoknya gelap lah. Anyway, pastinya ini akan memicu perdebatan seru soal ‘buku vs film’. Klasik sih. Kalau merhatiin komen-komen orang sedunia, banyak yang mencela kru film Percy Jackson karena sangat-sangat-sangat berbeda dari bukunya (not just Annabeth, I think the whole movie is a lot different from the novel).

And here I am now, trying to state my own opinion toward the debate. As an avid reader -and a rabid fan of Percy Jackson after reading the whole 5-books series, yes I have to admit that I was kinda surprised when I watched the trailer. No no no, not disappointed, just.. surprised. And it really caught my attention and interest. I mean, that series has a very HUGE amount of fans. Berani juga sutradaranya bikin film yang hampir bertolak belakang sama novelnya sendiri.

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Great. Just GREAT. I just did something really bad to my blog. I ruined it. Technical faults. Fatal errors. All beloved friends’ links (guys please give me your URL address again..), archives from 2008, everything’s lost. It feels like losing your mobile phone, I just have to redo everything from scratch. *sigh*

Sorry for the inconvenience, I need time to clean up this messy place :(

Note to self: ALWAYS create backup data for your stuff. Never, ever, forget that.