Noah (2014 film)

The story of Noah's Ark has been widely popularized in different forms of media but for this year, looks like the folks from Paramount wanted to give it a new spin to a biblical tale of Noah's Ark by creating an "untold story" to one of the most legendary tales as the faithfuls might remember as NOAH making waves to one of the most awaited films to hit this Spring.

NOAH

So, why would they make this film about the epic tale of Noah's Ark? Well, for starters, this so-called untold story of an epic tale wanted to give the new generation a fresh and modernized take so that viewers, sometimes churchy joes, will have a unique idea of what this story is meant to be. It stars Russel Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone (from The Sweeney movie, in case you remember this fella), Emma Watson (Hermione from the Harry Potter franchise), and Sir Anthony Hopkins (the original Dr. Hannibal Lecter), among many others.

Anyway, in this film, Noah was warned by an elder that a Great Flood is coming and it can't be stopped. When the end is near, Noah is on a race against time to save everything no matter what it takes. Well, you may heard that story from all of the versions of Noah's Ark but since this movie differentiates from all the other versions of Noah's Ark, everything about this story will never be the same...as a theory.

I know this movie tries to capture the new generation of churchy joes with its compelling storyline and the theme of courage, sacrifice, and hope but there are some chinks behind the film's defense and when you look at the first half, it feels like there has been some mashup of some fantasy movies you know. Feels a bit like, well, Lord of The Rings, Gladiator, Braveheart, Clash of the Titans, Beowulf, or any other fantasy films you have witnessed through the years. Noah really does had some references of those fantasy films when it comes to the first half but by the time the part about the Great Flood, it now kinda feels like Titanic meets 2012...or Perfect Storm meets Armageddon or any other disaster movie you may know.

In essence then, Noah is purely a combination of a fantasy movie and a disaster movie rather than focusing on being a movie targeted for the religious but despite all of the woes, it's still not quite bad.

I'd rate this an 2.5 out of 5 so it's okay...

Let's Do The News! (March 29, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- STILL MORE BAD CASE ON GM'S MASS RECALL: General Motors added 971,000 more cars in the cataclysmic mass recall regarding the highly fatal ignition switch problems, bringing it a total of almost 2.6 million units recalled by this fatal problem.

- A report states that Opel, the troubled European marque of General Motors, will be exiting the Chinese market next year but plans to produce a Buick model in their plant in Germany.

- Top Gear's on hot water...yet once again as an Indian actress sue the hit motoring show over the "slope" remark as seen at the show's Myanmar special, where the boys build a bridge in the River Kwai.

- BMW will build a brand new SUV at their newly established Spartanburg plant.

- Stability Control problems prompted Cadillac to recall their brand-new ELR PHEV coupe.

- Ferrari is in hot water right now over the legal battle of some 21-year-old's Facebook page.

- To prevent fires, Tesla arms the Model S electric saloon with some complementary titanium underbody shields.

- A voluntary safety recall was announced by Toyota for 119,000 units of the Toyota Pronard saloon over their airbag problems.

Toyota Pronard

- The latest update for Forza Motorsport 5 lets players keep their new DLC cars at no additional costs once they purchased any DLC Car Packs for the first time. When you purchased a DLC Car Pack for the first time, you’ll be given one-time-only access to each car in a pack, which you can add to your garage at no additional charge. This applies to current and upcoming FM5 DLC Packs as well as the recently announced Top Gear Car Pack, coming this Tuesday, which features 10 new rides to the game such as;

1966 Chaparral #66 Chaparral Cars 2E
2013 Holden #10 Xbox Racing Team Commodore VF
2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2013 Audi RS4 Avant
1980 Renault 5 Turbo
1999 Lotus Elise Series 1 Sport 190
2011 Ford Transit SuperSportVan
1998 Nissan R390
2006 Hummer H1 Alpha
2013 Lexus GS 350 F-Sport

-  A Chinese report states that a Chinese aircraft have spotted three suspicious objects in the Malaysia jet search area.

- First gay marriages to take place in England and Wales.

- The popular boyband One Direction will perform the theme song for the Say I Love You live-action movie.

TTFN!!!

Araw-araw ang saya!

On the March 28, 2014 episode of Bubble Gang...

- Concert gags

- Gay dude thinks we're gay...time to teach him a lesson...

- IKAW AT ANG INA takes on...online piracy!!!

- Senate hearing...director's cut.

- Bubble Gang does Sunshine Spaghetti by spoofing this commercial as SOONSHINE SPAGHETTI! No.1!

Bubble Gang does Sunshine Spaghetti

- More wise words from the wisest man in Bubble Gang, TATA LINO!

- Holdapper's got sore throat...

- Antonietta's back...with a vengeance! You'd better watch out!!!

- Istambay, Istamnbay sa Looban, may seksing napadpad sa tambayan, dahil sya ay pinagnanasaan, ang lahat ay gusto ng kan...TAHAN?!

- Don't buy some raw foods. Doctor's orders...

Forza Motorsport 5: Audi R8 V10 - old vs. new -

For the first time in Forza history, I finally got my hands on the brand new Audi R8 V10 or to be precise, the Audi R8 V10 plus. The facelifted version of the R8 looks pretty much the same but with the addition of the V10 plus model, it truly sets apart from the old R8 V10 model, which you can find one on Forza Motorsport 5.





Question is, does the plus version of the Audi R8 V10 really is an improvement to the old Audi R8 V10? To find out, I went to the Top Gear Test Track using both the old R8 V10 and the new R8 V10 plus model. Fastest time is the winner.






For a quick briefing about the new Audi R8 V10 plus; it uses the Audi R8 5.2 FSi quattro as its base. The R8 V10 Plus features a new S tronic double clutch transmission as well as the updated version of the 5.2 V10 engine generating 550HP of power output.

With those improvements, the R8 V10 Plus can accumulate a 0-60mph time of 3.5 seconds and a top speed of around 197mph.


The old Audi R8 V10 finished at the time of 1:22.314 while the new Audi R8 V10 plus finished at 1:21.675, a second quicker. So, there we have it. The new R8 V10 Plus really done some improvements to keep Audi's first bonafide supercar with some Lamborghini components in it fresh and ready having aged through the years. Well, I'm glad I finally got behind the wheel of this facelifted R8 V10.

Let's Do The News! (March 28, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- Toyota revealed their contender for this summer's 24 Hours of Le Mans and this TS040 Le Mans racer is a hybrid-engine wielding one capable of unleashing over nine-hundred horsepower combined from the 3.7L petrol engine connected to a new motor-generator on the front axle as well as the unit in the rear.

2014 Toyota TS040

- As Japan's dreaded 8% sales tax hike draws near, most companies are bracing themselves for the tax hike with new and not-so-exciting ways to keep their businesses as usual. Bandai, for instance, revealed their capsule figure cans to counter the tax hike.

- Mark Gatiss confirms to write two Doctor Who episodes featuring Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor as production for Series 8 continues...

- Before The Pirate Fairy, the newest original video continuing the adventures of Tinker Bell and the Disney Fairies, comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray this April 1st, the journey continues as the teaser trailer for an upcoming Disney Fairies adventure, Legend of the NeverBeast, has arrived.

- The Season 5 finale of A&E's hit reality series, Duck Dynasty suffered low ratings. Why?

- Cedric Lee, the businessman who was one of the alleged suspects behind the mauling of Vhong Navarro a few months ago, gets charged by the P194-million tax evasion.

- Senator Manny Villar mulls running for the 2016 presidency.

- Metro Manila is one of the riskiest cities in the world in any event a natural calamity strikes according to a Swiss firm.

- Long lines outside the MRT stations to persists until the next two years.

- A judge from Makati City grants Janet Lim Napoles' request to undergo surgery.

- The MMDA revealed two new bicycle lanes in Quezon City.

TTFN!!!

Let's Do The News! (March 25, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Subway collaborates with Disney once again to promote Muppets Most Wanted by featuring limited-time-only Muppets Most Wanted backpacks, free for every Subway Kids Meal while supplies last. Ask your parents first, kids.

- Despite the political crisis happening in Thailand, it's business as usual as the 2014 Bangkok Motor Show opens to the motoring public until April 6, 2014. They'll be featuring Thai premieres of concept cars and production cars that I can't tell you what's what due to search engine reasons.

- After last year's launch of the lightweight 4C, Alfa Romeo plans that they'll be doing yearly updates to their sportscar.

- A Democrat wants the Department of Justice to create a compensation fund for those who are fallen victim to the General Motors-made cars that were recalled for lethal ignition problems.

- Also...a test drive with the new 2015 GMC Yukon XL at Anaheim ended in cinders due to the leaky gas tank.

- Ukrainians hate Russia over the annexation of the nation of Crimea and there's a rather bizarre stuff going on around as Russian-made cars or cars representing Russia or stuff with Soviet Union-related or whatever you can call were attacked by the Ukrainian people for protest reasons.

- Next Fast and Furious movie, set for next year's showing, will use Paul Walker impersonators and some computer graphic trickery. Quite an odd challenge since Paul died late last year in a deadly car crash.

- There is a report from PEP that just before the year ends, actress Bianca Gonzalez and basketball player JC Intal plan to get married. It's been quite a while after JC proposed to Bianca in front of the airport people a few moments ago.

- Mila Kunis (the actress behind Meg from Family Guy) and Ashton Kutcher are expecting for their first child...

- PHLPost released postal stamps with Megan Young in it in honor of her last year's win at the Miss World pageant.

- Malaysian newspapers have been shaded to black as a tribute to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

- Chinese families, mostly relatives from the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, slams Malaysian authorities for their lack of responsibilities.

- The world's top scientists are gathered in Tokyo, Japan for a week-long meeting regarding global environmental catastrophes that can heavily damage the global economy and ignite conflicts.

- The 2014 reboot of Fate/stay night TV anime series will retain the same cast as the original version.

- UP Diliman approves the proposal for their August opening of classes.

- Calum Worthy from Austin and Ally, listed the top 18 reasons why this show should be renewed for a new season...and here's why.

TTFN!!!

Let's Do The News! (March 24,2014)

The big scoop today...

- As the Malaysian Grand Prix of the 2014 Formula One season draws near, it seems the headlines are made before the race as members of the Scuderia Ferrari team booked themselves a stay at Kuala Lumpur's Cyberview Hotel, which in fact where relatives of the people remained missing in the Flight MH370 were staying. Because of the bookings filled, the relatives of the MH370 passengers were forced to leave. That's not right...

- The Hollywood version of The Grudge horror movie gets an update courtesy of producer Sam Raimi.

- It appears that Crimea's new Attorney General, Natalia Poklonskaya, gets a high liking from the Japanese people.

- IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Disney announced that The Incredibles sequel and a third Cars movie are in the works.

- Packages of condoms filled with drugs were intercepted by German customs officials.

- Senator Ralph Recto wants names and photos of the Philippines' most wanted criminals posted on social media.

- During the search for the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Chinese jet spotted floating "white objects". Could this be the debris from the missing MH370?

- A South-Korea bound Malaysian Airlines flight was diverted due to electrical failures.

- The family of embattled PMA cadet Aldrin Jeff Cudia consider bringing his case to the Supreme Court.

TTFN!!!