KLIPS BEST Movies of 2015

Have you ever wondered what's the all time favourite movie of the year that we tend to watch again and again? Now, your question is answered by KLIPS, Malaysia's very own online movie community. 

KLIPS launched its first-ever movie screening event; the KLIPS Best Movies of 2015 whereby 4 movies of different genres that received the highest number of votes in its own category were featured during this exclusive event. 

Movie buffs nationwide voted for their favorites out of the 31 shortlisted movies released in year 2015 between 18 Dec 2015 to 4 Jan 2016. According to KLIPS, the response for this voting was great that more than 3000 Malaysians voted for their favourite movies which garnered more than 1.5million impressions across KLIPS's website and social media. 'claps'

 Now, this is the excited part - the results from the voting. The Best Movies of 2015 goes to:

1. Fast and Furious 7 (Action)

2. The Martian (Drama/Adventure)

3. Insidious Chapter 3 (Horror)

 4. Spy (Comedy)

Congratulations to the production team and crew of these movies, their hard work paid off. ;)

An exclusive event; the KLIPS Best Movies of 2015 was held at TGV cinemas in Encorp Strand Mall. This KLIPS Best Movies of 2015 was held in partnership with TGV Cinemas and sponsored by Tiger White and Honor. Thanks to KLIPS, I was honored to be part of this prestigious screening event.

I love watching movies and we always go to the cinema to movie the latest movie in town every week. It's the best way of spending time together. :)

"Movies are definitely a great way to bring people together. Our passion for movies is what drives us at KLIPS to do what we do, so we're extremely proud to have pulled off this event for our movie-loving community together with TGV Cinemas." Diandra Nunis, Community Manager of KLIPS said.

During the event, we were pampered with delicious food and drinks, giveaways and the exciting part - the movie screenings. The 4 winning movies were screened simultaneously in 4 different movie halls and we could choose the movie which we would like to watch that night. I'm not a fan of horror movie - thus no Insidious Chapter 3 for us. I had watched Spy and the popular Fast & Furious 7 before thus we went for The Martian movie. 

Thanks for organising this KLIPS Best Movies of 2015!

L to R: Celeste Koay - TGV Cinemas Senior Marketing Manager, Loh Ken Wei - General Manager of Rev Asia, Diandra Nunis - KLIPS Community Manager

L to R: Tan Soon Keat - Honor Business Dev. Manager, Douglas Lee - Honor Marketing Manager, Joyce Lim - Tiger Brand Manager, Celeste Koay - TGV Cinemas Senior Marketing Manager, Loh Ken Wei - General Manager of Rev Asia

Before the screenings, there were giveaways sponsored by Tiger White, Honor and KLIPS. Guess what, the lucky guests walked away with cartons of Tiger White beer, the brand new Honor Z1 bands as well as exclusive movie merchandise such as framed movie posters and Tomorrowland travel bag. 

Our lucky man here walked away with a carton of Tiger White beer :)

Lucky winner with his exclusive movie merchandise. :)

Tiger Beer Malaysia was very generous to bring its own beer garden to TGV Encorp Strand Mall for that night and guests were treated to free flow of Tiger White beers. Cheers!

Not only that, Tiger White sponsored the screening of The Martian movie during this KLIPS Best Movies of 2015. Thus, all invited guests who watched this The Martian movie were also treated to a bottle of Tiger White beer as we watched our movie. Great beer plus good movie = AWESOME. It's not like you can bring a bottle of beer into the cinema and drink all the way while you enjoy your movie every single time you goes into the cinema. Thus, this is just one of the best movie screening ever. 

And we had a special short film screening by Tiger White before our The Martian movie screening. Thus, we kinda watched 2 movies that night. The short film entitled Coaster was about 15 minutes long. Well, it's released on Youtube and do watch the short clip below. 

This Coaster film was kinda interesting but hope that there's part 2 to this film. The Martian movie was interesting where it tells the journey of this astronaut surviving on Mars when he was accidentally left behind.

I love watching movies in TGV cinemas especially the one in 1Utama because there's a cafe where you can grab some burgers, fries, hot food and munch them in the cinema. And of course the seats are better plus it's only a minute away from home. And being a member of a TGV Club Member has a lot of perks too from collecting points and convert them into movie tickets, exclusive discounts to purchasing early bird tickets for premiere screening. Glorious future, TGV Cinemas.  

And do join KLIPS too because you can get new movie updates as well as be one of the first to catch the movie of your choice in their preview screening sessions. Join KLIPS today! KLIPS makes your life brighter.

KLIPS Premiere Screening: HOME

Every school holidays season; whether it's a short or a long one, there will be new cartoon movies released in the cinemas. For those who are still schooling; one of the must-do thing during the school holidays is to watch the latest movie in town. How fortunate for them - standard of living is getting better from one generation to the next :)

During this super short but essential school holidays, DreamWorks Animation together with 20th Century Fox released a new movie entitled HOME. From the title itself, you can roughly guess what's the storyline about.

Home: is a place where you can lives permanently.  

Thus, this movie definitely related to finding a home/protecting your home and so on. That was my first impression about HOME. And my guess was correct after all when I managed to watch the Premiere Screening of Home recently at GSC 1 Utama thanks to KLIPS Malaysia.

Before the screening begins, OH; the hero in the movie was there to greet us at the cinema. I categorized OH as an alien with jellyfish legs ;P  When there's a mascot walkabout, what do you normally do? Take a selfie!

This movie lasted for about 96 minutes (1 hour and 36 minutes) which is adequate as young kids can't sit still for very long. A 2 hours movie might be too tiring for their eyes.



Here's a very brief synopsis of HOME:

OH is part of an alien race named Boov and this alien team is led by Captain Smek. Unlike the other Boov, OH is very different from his friends which makes him a lonely guy. But he did try his best to be friends with the others. The Boov are very good in one thing they know of ~ running away strategies! They were hunted by their enemy: the Gorg which the Boov characterized as a very terrifying and destructive monster. Gorg posses high technology and could destroyed planets which is why the Boov is running away from them. 
The Boov finally found Earth as a suitable place to call HOME and invaded the planet. Captain Smek told fellows Boov that humans are dumb and they are making life better for humans. All humans were relocated to a few islands and were given new houses, entertainments, parks and others. OH were very happy to move into his new house in an apartment and invited all his neighbors for a house warming party but sadly, no one turns up. He went to meet his friend; Kyle and send him an e-invite to his house warming party but it was accidentally send to the who universe which means it was also send to their enemy; Gorg. OH became a banished Boov and he ran away. On this way, he met TIP; a teenage human and PIG; the cat who were left behind and together they went on an adventure to search for TIP's mum.

If you would like to know what adventures did OH and TIP went through together, you need to watch this movie in the cinemas. This movie has a steady pace which makes it suitable for children of all ages. For adults, do expect that you won't feel the moments of adrenaline rushing through your veins when you watch this movie. If you are looking for some action movie, this cute and entertaining cartoon is not for you.
And I feel that you can't compare this to FROZEN, Toy Story, Despicable Me (Minions) and so on. This movie falls in the same categories as cartoon movies like The Croods, Rango and Rio where there's a happy and mild temperament scene throughout the play. But do look at the lessons learned from this movie as well as the creative graphics scene. The Boov made Earth into a high-tech city with upside-down Paris tower, super-powered flying bubbles and making use of space on Earth for both humans and Boov.

Some of the main characters in HOME:

OH: The main hero leading the storyline.
TIP: The teenage human girl who was left behind in the city while the others were relocated.
KYLE: OH's good friend and is a normal ranking police traffic.
Captain Smek: The leaders of Boov.
Lucy: TIP's mum.
PIG: TIP's pet cat.

Characters in HOME

Here's a tip for you. Before you go into the cinema to watch HOME, do watch this short clip below. This short 4-minutes video tells you the beginning of the movie HOME and what you watch in the cinema is the continuation of this video clip.

When you watch the movie, do look out for these few scenes:

1. Super flying car with slushies and fuel!
Very clever of OH to modified TIP's car with flying capabilities and uses slushies as fuel. And there's nachos with cheese, hot sausages as well as ketchup flying out of the car as weapons too or eat it as your snack while you drive ;)

HOME

2. OH changed himself to become a better him.
Everyone makes mistakes and the most important thing to do is how to fix your mistakes. Being a Boov, they were taught to run away. TIP makes OH realized that what he needs to do is to fix his mistake - to stop his e-invite from being sent out to everyone (it takes the system some time to send out to millions of recipients). And instead of running away from Gorg, he is the only one who fights back.

HOME

3. Always a happy ending. 
Open your heart and mind to adapt to your surroundings. If you are different from the rest, don't be sad because you don't have a companion. It's just that you have not found the right partner

HOME

4. A leader is not always right. 
A leader does mistakes too. In this case, Captain Smek who invented the running away strategy needs to rethink his strategy. Perhaps he should investigate why the Gorg keeps hunting them? The key is that the Gorg hunts them because Captain Smek stole something from the Gorg.

HOME

5. Never give up in anything you do.
TIP has a very strong will to find his mum although it's gonna be a hard and mission impossible journey. She never gives up and keep to her positive attitude whenever they faced difficulties.

HOME

Do watch HOME in your nearest local cinemas today! 

Here's the movie trailer if you can't wait till your movie date. 

DreamWorks Animation has posted some HOME related fun activities and mini online games on their website too. Do visit their website for more fun activities such as printable colouring sheets, activities sheets, wallpaper as well as characters animated gifs visual.

Here's some preview on the fun activities which you can find on their website:

KLIPS Premiere Screening: Little Big Master 五個小孩的校長

24 hours ago, I watched a very touching movie with pig at GSC Pavilion KL. I classified it as 'touching' because this is the first time our tears drop from the start till the end of the movie. Not because we are someone who can shed tears easily (definitely not us!) but in fact, we heard other patrons sniffled throughout the movie too.

This movie has a touching song too.. Listen to this song before reading further :)

Well, thanks to Klips Malaysia and RAM Entertainment, we were invited to the Premiere Screening of Little Big Master (五個小孩的校長). This movie is based on a true story and at the end of the movie, they did show all the real character's pictures in reality life and how they are doing now. 

The plot of the story is quite simple.
Ms. Lui (Miriam Yeung) is a famous tutor/teacher in the education industry and had taught in many elite schools. She resigned from her recent headmistress position at an elite school due to conflict of views with some parents on the meaning of a good education system. She does loves teaching and eventually took up a HK4,500 job as the only teacher and headmistress of a old and poor kindergarten in Yuen Kong Village, Yuen Long. Even though the kindergarten only has 5 very poor students, she insist in restoring the faith of the old kindergarten so that these 5 students will be able to continue schooling even though no one in the village actually supports her. The accompanying character is Mrs. Lui's husband; Tung (Louis Koo) who supports her all the way and always be there for her. 

This touching movie lasted for about 1 hour and 53 minutes and you'll be taught the importance of children's education and what is a good education system to your child.


Here's some touching moments that you can look forward to in the movie ...

1. These students come from very poor and complicated family background. Their parents makes very little income and works very hard to feed themselves. Due to their lifestyle, these kids had a communication barrier with their parents and guardian. You'll see the super headmistress gives a warm touch to the relationship between the parents and their children.

On one occasion, the headmistress gave them an assignment to know about their parent's dream and makes these parents open their heart to their kids. These poor parents had faced many hardship in life that their mission is to earn money and live a better life. This assignment give the parents a chance to remember what their dream was when they were young and it eventually put a smile on their face.

There's also this situation where one of the students refused to go to school because she wants to ensure her parents does not fight and kill each other. The little child reveal her reason on her absent from school when the headmistress visited her home. This makes their parents teared and their relationship grew stronger.


2. This super headmistress helps to solve each student's family problems so that they can have a better life.

You'll see this scene where one of the parents were bullied by some developer companies to sell their house for redevelopment. The contractor poured sand to surround the house when the parents refused to sell their house. This headmistress helps to scope away the sand which covers the house although she's not feeling well.

She also manged to solve one of the student's emotional problem by making the child to accept the fact that her parents is death. The child accepted that rain and thunder is not a monster that took her parents away.

3. To understand her students even better, the headmistress made every child to mention one thing which makes them happy and another one which makes them sad. You'll be surprise to hear what each child say and all their reasons does related to their surrounding, parents and their past experience.

 

4. The kindergarten needs to have a minimum of 5 students in order to keep the school running for next term. Ms. Lui gives all out to find ways in recruiting students for the school and even held an open day with everyone (parents and kids) prepared to welcome guests. However, no one turned up at the open day and it makes the situation worst when the kids asked why no one wants to see them performed for the open day. 

5. Ms. Lui collapsed due to over-worked herself and had to undergo another operation. She just had her tumor removed before taking the task of being a headmistress at this kindergarten. You'll see sad looking students saying that they missed their beloved headmistress.

6. The peak moment that you'll tear is during the last day of the school term where the school will need to be closed the day after due to insufficient of student. One of the student begged not to graduate from this kindergarten as she does not want the kindergarten to be closed forever. 

7. You must also take note of this moment when the headmistress makes the management of this rich and famous tuition company realize the responsibility of being an educator and the meaning of education to the kids. The headmistress was offered to become the cover picture of this tuition centre business who wants to expand its business by building outlets in villages too. She rejected by making them realize that their action is like running a bank who thinks about money and not putting the child's education as the first priority.

There are many other touching moments in this movie and you need to watch it yourself to feel them. Little Big Master opens in our local cinema in Malaysia tomorrow (19 March 2015). You gotta watch it to experience how a person can sacrifice and struggle to maintain children's education.  

It's really a wonderful movie to watch and makes you realize to rethink your task of being a teacher/tutor and parents to a little life.

Little Big Master

Here's the trailer of you have not watched it.