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A Streetcar Named Abdullah |
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Posted by admin
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 18:02 |
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Just imagine. You have been bombarded with this movie trailers for months on end. In it you saw the hero running away from some really massive guys brandishing uzis and hand grenades until he came to a 200 meter cliff. He then jumped off it! Then as he was almost mid-air another scene swooshed itself on. This time the hero was surrounded by 8 ultra muscular guys who had knife, guns and what have you. And the hero was to kick their ass silly.
As the 8 guys jumped on him, another scene came on. Car chase. The hero was driving this old looking Mustang and he was being chased by 4 cars. He was zig-zagging his way through a busy street and he was going to enter a no-entry one-way highway. Then another scene came on, yet again. This time ..... oh well, you all get the picture. And so, you were taken by the trailers. You went to the cinema, lined up for 3 hours, bought the ticket and the cola plus the obligatory popcorn and in you went. As it turned out though, it is the worst movie you had ever watched. The jumping-off-the-cliff scene was actually a scene from a movie which our hero was watching, a movie-within-a-movie scene. And the scene where our hero bashed up 8 guys with his own bare hands was actually a dream scene. The car chase. Well, the hero's girlfriend finally drove the car to safety. Talk about misleading movie trailers! You came out of the cinema feeling cheated. And upset. If only you could catch hold of the movie maker and the chief spinner! In more ways than one, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's premiership was like one bad Hindi western starring Datuk Shahrukh Khan and Datuk Michelle Toad....erm sorry, Todt! He was made out to be the nice guy; the guy who will sit and listen; the guy who will be fair; the guy who is actually a true Muslim with an ulamak credential to boot; a clean kinda guy; a guy for all seasons, for all Malaysians bla bla bla... READ MORE HERE: http://art-harun.blogspot.com/
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