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I watched this movie yesterday with my college friends. It’s an average movie with a not very creative story line: a twelve-year-old kid taints his blood with the potion that can speed up the life process and eventually he gets old in just a few days, as you might already guess, he came across to realize a lot of things over the growing period. An interesting point I find is the older the Andy Lau (Hong Kong famous superstar) is in the movie, the better the performance he’s got. But that’s not what I want to say. In Hollywood, everything relevant to the movie (especially the big box office) such as the Movie itself, TV advertisement, Poster, Printed advertisement, Surrounding products and etc. are highly consistent and tightly coupled. In which I mean if you see purple skin on the dinosaur in the poster, you’ll see purple skin’s dinosaur in the movie too.

The hairstyle of Andy Lau catches my attention. Before watching the movie, I’d expect he’ll be having the exactly the same hairstyle in the movie. But what I’ve realized after the movie is Andy Lau doesn’t appear with such hairstyle in any single shot in the movie.

For those who intends to watch this movie, I’d suggest you have it on Wednesday (in Malaysia, cinema ticket on Wednesday is much cheaper). If I must spend the 11 Ringgit, I’d rather go for Purple Dinosaur.