It's weekend again, and so my alter-ego is brought to life. Signing on: CarlaHearts2ne1...lol. Sooo, I'm downloading a vid in youtube and it's gonna take about a couple hours or so and I decided to quit procrastinating and close out all the other social networking sites I've had years before that I never visit now. Friendster. Multiply. MySpace... While doing so, I came across some blogs I wrote and decided to repost them here..well, just for the sake of if ever I get curious as to what I was into during those years. There were some vids too but I'm still trying to figure out how to upload them here when the original videos are long gone.. will edit .
| Love means never having to say you're sorry.. 06/18/06 | for everyone |
Love means never having to say you're sorry..
At long last, I finally found out what this means. I watched the 1970 movie Love Story over the weekend primarily because I got fed up with paying overdues from renting all those new, but overnight only movies. Going for classics not only ensures you'd be watching a film worth your time, but you also get to return them in 3 days or more..
About the film, I expected it to be really cheesy but what I got rather are very sharp and witty dialogues. The story's not new, as I've seen it a million times from romantic movies which clearly have been benchmarked from it. Sure, there were cheesy encounters, but doesn't love used to be cheesy, and subtle, and innocent? Think Lucy and George of A Room with A View..
Love means never having to say you're sorry. I read this everywhere, hear it from everybody, but I didnt really know what the hell it exactly means. Thanks to the movie, I got to thinking, and I think I know now what it means. You are never sorry after a relationship, or after a love ends. Because you are not sorry for having spent time with each other, for having shared a part of your life with one another, for knowing the person, for what you become after the relationship.So really, after a breakup, don't say sorry.. Thank you is more like it.
Oh man, now I'm getting cheesy. I think I'll watch one of those Marvel movies to get me out of this mood. But then again, I've had such an overdose of this from the movies that's been hitting the cinema, animations, the dead coming back to life, all sorts of demonic possessions.. Oh please, enough already.
Before I forget, if you haven't already, please watch
Manhattan
, The Spanish Apartment, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Four Seasons, and tell me what you think.And for a more recent film, if you liked
Sin City and Ocean's Eleven, watch Domino. No comparison, it just reminded me of the two. Besides, Keira's hair was to die for... Now, why did i get that haircut a week before seeing the film?
haha.. it's not often that I rant about a movie so when I found this..it all came back to me..soo funny.
| White Lady robbed me of my hard-earned P60.50!!! 07/23/06 | for everyone |
White Lady robbed me of my hard-earned P60.50!!!
Ok, so I'm such a sucker for horror / suspense films, so even if im more often than not skeptical on watching local films, i trekked on the cinema on the 2nd day of showing here. And add to that because ive been gullible enough to believe everything they say in the papers abt the movie. Heck! there's been a lot of talk about it, from the 30 mins or so they spent on the special effects, to the perfectionist, young blood director ( they say they shot each scenes up to ten takes?? ) so people can expect something different. yeah sure! so why is it that sitting thru the movie, i cannot pinpoint a scene thats different from what ive already seen from other movies? Why can i not help but be a critic through each scenes? its a good thing the person i was with feels the same way, otherwise i could have gotten thrown out of the theater. For starter, the movie kept reminding me of other films of the same genre. Say for example...
.... when the ghost dissolved into an army of rats, didnt it remind you of The Mummy?
... and the well or manhole, for some reason I thought of The Ring.
... and the mirrors, may be its just me but it reminded me of The Skeleton Key too
... and walking doll, man, can i help it if i recall a Korean horror movie entitled The Doll Master?
... and the well or manhole, for some reason I thought of The Ring.
... and the mirrors, may be its just me but it reminded me of The Skeleton Key too
... and walking doll, man, can i help it if i recall a Korean horror movie entitled The Doll Master?
.... and up to now, i dont get it why the ghost seems to be asking for help from P. Luna ( the ghost was seen scrawling the words Buligan nyo ko or something on the board ) when she is clearly beyond help? it seems to me she's out for revenge alone...
... and that dragging scene outside a theater where they held the audition for the all girl chorale? what was that all about? clearly there was an audition going on and they could have incorporated the rest of the details on the teachers' script, instead of wasting seconds on the posted announcement.
and lastly, im assuming the setting is UPLB based on the van that took an injured friend away. i finished from another campus of the system too but i do not recall witnessing paper throwing in a classroom. i mean they were supposed to be college guys right? i mean the scene was straight out of a high school movie featuring brats.
and lastly lastly, why is Pauleen Luna's wardrobe like that? her stylist could have opted for flimsier blouses and be a straightaway copycat of Carrie Bradshaw's style. well well..
so if anyone would ask me if i enjoyed the movie, ill throw back another question. If you sat for a movie that kept reminding you of other movies all throughout.. would you enjoy it?
Go figure.
OH YEAH, i remember catching last full shows after work hours. 2006? what a year that was.
| screamfest this week! 07/29/06 | for everyone |
and so Chito Roño did not disappoint. i mean Feng Shiu is a tough movie to top, but top it he did. I caught the LFS of Sukob last wednesday after work, still wearing my office uniform ( ick!) coz i didnt want to watch a left over, meaning tira-tira ng napagkwentuhan na.. and even tho i like watching movies by myself, even those Korean horror (?) films, i had the good sense to drag some friends with me. but im glad i did, coz for all the screaming that ensued, it would have been a tad harder for me to scream as loud, if i was by myself. now that is a new "by myself" challenge, may be next time :) you wanna know what Scream Fest is all about? watch sukob. now, i am being redundant with the word scream here, but it literally was a scream fest from like 5 minutes into the movie til the very end. the movie was really good, good pacing, superb story telling, that was a real mean scene opening.all those old houses, it makes you think what horror stories each of these houses yearns to tell as well. and the Flower Girl, she was the real scene stealer, personally, i think both hit makers Kris and Claudine was clearly upstaged. altho of course, the movie has some loose ends, like i would have liked to know what became of those lost bodies. and i also would have liked to know of the Flower Girl's own life story, why was she haunting all these people, what was she so hung up about? may be in another movie? :)
anyway, my hats off to Chito Roño. but it really shouldnt come as a big surprise. it isnt like he's a newbie in this genre. remember Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara of the mid 90's? that was his brainchild too.
anyway, my hats off to Chito Roño. but it really shouldnt come as a big surprise. it isnt like he's a newbie in this genre. remember Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara of the mid 90's? that was his brainchild too.
thanks to him, i came to scream and i ended up screaming like i havent in a LONG time.
P.S.
remember that Female Ghost movie that i wrote about a few days ago? not surprisingly, it didnt make it to a 2nd week run. goes to show that first day sales is never a guarantee that a movie is worth your time.
| Butterfly Effect 07/24/06 | for everyone |
Ok.. so this review is much too delayed. Blame it on Demi Moore.. ;) crazy but i couldnt stand the thought of watching Ashton and be reminded that Demi's got him lolx!
anyway, i read in the papers that Erika Durance ( Lois Lane of TV's Smallville ) is gonna be on the 2nd installment of The Butterfly Effect, and because i happen to like her ( maybe if it was her who played the role of Lois Lane in the movie Superman instead of Kate Bosworth i would've watched it ) I decided i must watch the first part. and im glad i did. It's a really good movie, very engaging, the kind that makes you pause a scene and think.. and think some more, and when THE idea dawns on you go ahh ok, then press play. The plot is something that a lot of us have toyed with in our minds. if you can redo the past to alter the future, to make it better, would you do it? Not entirely new but the story was told in a fast paced, race- with- your- mind sort of way ( think Tru Calling ). The story revolved around Evan Treborn ( Kutcher ) and his childhood friends and a series of traumatic events in their lives that catapulted them to a very undesirable present. Evan grew up under the care of a Psychologist who told him to keep a journal of day to day events in his life, as he was prone to black outs. Now in college, he discovers that the journal enables him to go back in time, reclaim his memories, redo the past, and in the process alter the future. He does this a lot of times and with each time, you cannot help but empathize with him. are things better now than it used to be? can he stop now? is his Playing God going to make things better for him and his friends, or will they all end more fucked up than ever.
and at the same time you'll wonder... how much of these is real, and how much are just figments of his imagination?
the ending was abvious.. but you'll love it .
cant wait for the 2nd part, i hope ashton is still in it tho.
EXTRA: Notice the comment below. That's from my ex., albeit long distance.. reason why we're no longer together? funny.. when I saw this blog and his comment again (since it's been while since i've thought about him).. i said to myself.. "ahhh... that just about sums it up.. i can't be with this guy..' :)
| the real score... 08/20/06 | for everyone |
the real score...
.. so there's been a lot on the news recently with the war going on between the Hezbollah ( hope i spelled that correctly ) and Israel. we know this bad blood between the Palestinianas and the Israeli's has been going on for so long now, all that we can fathom is what's on the surface, what we see on TV. we see this war remotely simply because we're here, safely, sitting in our living room watching the war ravage lives on the boob tube. but if you wanna feel the underlying emotion, the deep emotion of all those involved, you will want to watch MUNICH. its directed by Steven Spielberg but its not only that fact that makes the film worth your while. Heck! in this movie, you'll get to see a Palestinian and an Israeli ( each licensed to kill each other ) debate calmly on the ongoing war between the 2 countries. its touching because they get to somehow have a glimpse on what each other really feel about the war, express their stand, all over a cigarette on a peaceful night, without the conversation ending in a graphic mode.
Ok im in a lousy mode today and in a hurry so i cant make this review sound better than i intend to but i assure you the movie is really good. whats more for the girls, Eric Bana topbills this movie!! :) yummy...
now i think ive certainly ruined whatever credibility i have here lol.
and while you're at it, go watch the Break Up also, initially i wanted to watch the movie just to see if Jen and Vince sizzles on screen. they more than sizzle, their dialogues are really witty and funny, not the humor of Woody Allen's Manhattan but the sort of childish humor.. but this movie guarantees you a few laughs.
compassblue wrote on Jun 24, '07 Eric Bana made a passable Hector in Troy, but he belongs to the brigade of current actors who are trained to emote intensely rather than act. Life is about more than just who can glare at 1000W the longest. "Troy" missed one important aspect - The Iliad is *mythology*. There are supposed to be soothsayers and oracles, genuine priests and Gods who help and foil the Heroes. What we ended up with is just Muscles & Machetes. Oh well... Nooo! - the Break Up? It is such a lousy movie. This story is barely enough for an episode of a bad sitcom, it is *not* enough for a full length feature. The actors are no more than TV fodder, and they are simply not enough to fill the Silver Screen. Sizzle? There is none. I cant imagine there ever being any either. An anal girl who has to have a plan for everything, just as long as it is her plan. A slob of a guy who insists on living the bachelors life even though he is in a relationship. Geez... |
