Podcast review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens with special guests Nur Iskandar and Pranika Lama

The Force Awakens: (This is not a movie review). My oh my.. I never thought the hype will be this huge. Forget The Avengers: Age of Ultron or Jurassic World. No movie brand can come close to Star Wars in terms of marketing and presence. It’s just everywhere and definitely the word of mouth on the hype just snowballed.

Now the question is will it eclipsed the box office record of Jurassic World in its opening weekend? This is the only movie that stands a chance to reach that milestone and it also remains to be seen if it has the legs to reach the $600 million mark for US box office earnings. Movie analyst has predicted that The Force Awakens will reach in the region of USD 230 million in its first weekend. Let’s hope that it will reach that milestone. I can’t wait to see the results.

Will Brunei also enjoy great success in the box office? From the looks of it, it might just have the legs to do so since it’s the holiday season. However, it could be affected by the fact that some are traveling abroad and there are most likely to catch it overseas.

I’m hoping to catch it on IMAX theatres by next week or so. After 30 plus years, you can really feel that Force has really awakened.

We had the privilege to catch Star Wars: The Force Awakens at The Mall Cineplex last Wednesday midnight

Ticket prices at The Mall Cineplex. Thu-Fri – Before 6:30pm $5/$3.50 After 6:30pm – $7, Sat – Before 6:30pm $6/$4 After 6:30pm – $8, Sun – $7/$4, Mon-Wed – Before 6:30pm $4/$3 After 6:30pm – $6

The Darth Vader from New Era I bought from The Cap City and the 3D glasses of Stormtroopers

They had a real scale version of the X-Wing fighter at the Mall of Asia, Manila. The Star Wars fever was all over Manila. I ended up buying a few t-shirts along the way.

A great read from TIME magazine on Star Wars

My favourite notepad so far.

 

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