INASCIFI BLOG

Hi all!

The Chinese Lunar New Year just passed by early this week. For many Chinese, this day was a cause for hope and gathering with family and kin!

Inascifi wishes you all readers a Happy Lunar New Year!

We dedicate our first review to Mr. David Poernomo, a filmmaker and brother of Jose Poernomo who is currently making The Glitch. Interview source here.

In this time where most Indonesians are either (low key) humor or (uneducating) horror films, Poernomo is creating this, which is meant to educate its audience and an alternative for the smart moviegoers who are sick of the other genres.

“Saya mau bikin film yang selangkah lebih maju, ngga mau takabur sih, tapi pertama kali rasanya sebuah film sci-fi drama yang lebih pintar untuk penonton Indonesia,” Poernomo said in a recent interview.

Coincidently, the number of Indonesian scifi films are very limited compared to the other genres.

“Inilah movie yang kita persembahkan untuk mereka yang tertarik dengan genre lain.”

said David Poernomo.

Anyway, here’s the basic premise: Recent analysis of the 2004 tsunami disaster (which afflicted Aceh, Thailand and others) the Earth’s rotation stopped for 3 milliseconds. These three milliseconds might not seem much, but was enough to cause time-spatial anomalies that screws up the characters’ lives.

As with most Indonesian productions, here are some challenges they will face:
Acting talent, visual effects and the script.
Those three are all connected and SIGNIFICANTLY important.

If either one of them fails, I see no hope for this movie to succeed.

One more thing, David Poernomo is the director of the (ugh) Pocong vs Kuntilanak.

Officially today,
I’ll no longer posting any more on this blog.

Inascifi’s blog is moving to http://www.inascifi.com

The main reason is because we have long had our own domain.
Second is, I don’t want you readers to think of inascifi dot blogspot dot com. Wouldn’t it be faster to just type inascifi.com ?

See you on the other side!
-Arvin

Renovatio.

That’s a very good latin term I’ve learned four years ago from Michael Bay’s 2005 action packed film, The Island. The protagonist (Lincoln Six-Echo) of the story had this dream of being on a ship bearing that name, heading to the Island, a place where all people dream to go.

Renovatio… Renewel. Restoration. Rebirth

That is the sense that I’m carrying as I begin this blog.

The domain Inascifi.com has been around since 2006. Before then, the eGroup ina_sci-fi was established in 2000. Its purpose was to gather Indonesians as well those who speak Bahasa Indonesia (and English) into a forum of science fiction fans.

Yet, my attempts to start up an Indonesian scifi community was met with mediocre results.

Getting the scifi community moving in was a challenge. Biggest among them all is to get the members to particapte. The most reason lack of participation was because the members either have little access to the Internet for leisure activity, or they’re just too busy to take notice of it.

So in November 2008, I started the Inascifi blog (in http://inascifi.blogspot.com) which already contain several posts. If any of you “new readers” would like to catch up with the previous posts, you can check these old links:
November 17 2008: Inascifi blog is online
November 25 2008: Most anticipated (scifi) movies for 2009
December 8 2008: Penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia yang Baik dan Benar
January 2 2008: Happy New Year!
January 2 2008: Movie Review: The Spirit
January 17 2008: My opinions on 2009’s summer (scifi) blockbusters

In the future I’ll probably re-post them all here.

Plans for future project:
- Add more reviews, in these categories of movies, tv series, video games and books.
- Publish articles regarding science fiction concepts (i.e. time travel, cloning)
- Recruit more staff members.

Well, please wish me luck in my future endeavor with this website.

Regards,
Arvin Nathanael Chandra

Okay guys and folks.

This will be my first movie review of this year.

The Spirit. Official link

Watch it: If you like comic movies, don’t mind the combination of live action and colorful graphics.
Avoid it: If you hate films based comics, films don’t do justice to the source material.

Directed by Frank Miller (Sin City, 300).
Casts: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendez

The Spirit is a somewhat a detective noir film, thrown in a masked vigilante/(super)hero (who is working alongside the city’s police department), a nemesis (mad evil scientist), henchmen (who are mostly played by the same actor) and female characters (all except one, does not fall for the masked hero).

The storyline in my opinion is quite decent, and I do like the dialogue and costume styles. Of course, some elements of the film get a bit over the top, like how do every girl fall in love with The Spirit, and the main villain of the movie (played by Samuel L. Jackson nevertheless) is very much enjoying himself as being The Man. The action is alright, but in some cases are more acceptable than the disorienting gritty fights in The Dark Knight.
One thing I should highlight is the humor. In many scenes the dialogue can be very very hilarious! I’m not kidding.

Overall rating: B or 7 out of 10 stars.

Hi Everyone!

I’m back… just wanna say Happy New Year 2009!

Best of luck in this new year.

==

Hai semuanya,

kembali saya mau mengucapkan Selamat Tahun Baru 2009!

Semoga berhasil di tahun yang baru ini.

-Arvin N. C.