Captain America: The First Avenger
Joe Johnston loves the genre, the he made Captain America: The First Avenger a guess-what-movie-is-this-scene-from game.
1. Hodgepodge nga ng mga naunang pelikula.
2. Best part of the movie: Closing Billboard. And don’t forget to wait for the trailer ng the Avengers.
3. Ang laki ng braso ni Chris Evans, pero in fairness, hindi mapapansin na siya si Human Torch. Magaling yung pagkakadirek at pagarte ni Steve Rogers, bilang underdog, na kahit na lumaki na ang katawan niya, hindi pa rin siya mayabang. Mayroon pa rin siyang GMRC which is Good Values and Right Conduct.
4. Sayang, mas magandang ma-focus yung barkadahan/team that he set up to take down Red Skull’s camps.
5. Alam naman nating hinahanap ko sa period ang mga interior design elements ng milieu. Wala masyado. Details lang. Hindi nag-enjoy tulad ng sa X-Men.
6. Hindi nag-climax.
7. Walang Maganda, Pero may Gwapo. si Sebastian Stan, aka Bucky. Pero alam ko, hindi siya namatay at nakatuluyan niya si Peggy Carter. Pero may mga interesting na faces din. Yung first kiss ni Captain. Si Natalie Dormer. Sana siya ito. Hindi ko ka si nakuha ang name niya. At si Kenneth Choi
Hindi ko masyadong bet. Parang mas gusto ko pa yung Thor at dahil mas sexy si Chris Hemsworth over Chris Evan at mas gusto ko rin yung Green Lantern dahil natatawa ako kay Will Ferrell
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To the next level
Baklaan another.
Care givers sa umaga, Divas sa gabi. Hindi sa Pilipinas, but sa Israel.
Masaya naman. ahaha, walang kwentang comment. Masaya naman. Okay lang. Ahahaha! Hindi, actually, nakangiti naman ako the whole play. Pagpasaok pa lang namin sa PETA theater, napawow na ako sa usher, i mean sa set design. Feel mo agad ang Israel. Tapos lumabas na yugn mga bakla.
Sa set yatang napanood namin, gumanap sina Melvin Lee as Chelsea, na akala ko nung una ay si Frances Makil Ignacio. Vincent de Jesus as Shai na siya ring musical director ng dula. Ang parang negrang si Ricci Chan as Kayla. Hindi ko kilala ang gumanap na Thalia, sorry, pero best in tanga-tangahan siya, as in, to the point na gusto ko na siyang maging friend. At as Jones, si Phil Noble, na akala ko ay si Direk Connie. Kasama rin si Angeli Bayani as Nona and so on.
Magaling ang mga artista, buhay na buhay ang isinasakatao at nakakahila ang kanilang pinagdadaanan. Ang totoo ng friendship nila na hindi na dedma na kung paano nabuo, pero alam na pinagdikit-dikit na talaga sila ng panahon. The five actors were superb, pero hindi rin nagpakabog ang mga hindi kasali sa Spice is Girls. Ang galing ng multi character na atake nung Israeli, pero ang pinakanatandaan ko, yung pagiging frontliner ni Nona, taking the place of Kayla sa first production ng mga bakla sa big stage. Yung atakeng siya ang ginawang star, pero hindi niya maibigay ang best niya kasi friend niya yung ni-replace niya at naging back up na niya lang ang mga original members at wala pala siyang rehers, pero kailangang magperform to save her friends and the club dahil may kinalaman dito ang boyps niya. Diba, andaming motivation at consideration.
Mahaba ang kabuuan ng dula, pero mabilis ang kwento. At iyun ang pinakagusto ko. Check na ang cultural differences, nadaanan, ecpected. Then, akala ko, shet, kwento ito ng mga bakla. Acceptance? Nineties another? ibalik ba ang tema ng kilalanin ang mga bading bilang tao? Pero nung tiningnan kong mabuti, parang kaunti na lang iyun, pasundot-sundot na lang kahit alam naman nating mananatiling mahalagang issue ito for life.
Yet more than the baklaan, kung titiingnan ang kwento bilang kwento ng mga tao, kwento ito ng pushing what they have and want. Hindi sila mananatiling Care Givers lang, magiging performers sila dahil iyun ang hanap ng katawan nila, other than sex of course. Hindi sila mag-stay sa maliit na bar. Go sila sa Tel A Viv! Laban na kung laban. And of course, will give everything for their dream, kahit pa life, kung para naman sa love. Ganyan.
Iyun, Baklaan naman talaga ito another, pero nai-push naman ng palabas ang sangkabaklaan further.
At iyun, dahil maganda ang prod design as i mentioned, magbigay pugay sa mga gumawa. Costume designer: John Abul. Lighting designer: Jon Jon Villareal. Set designer: Leo Abaya. Choreography: Carlon Matobato.
Melvin Lee, Vincent De Jesus, Phil Noble, Buddy Caramat, Dudz Teraña, Jason Barcial, Eric dela Cruz, Paul Holme, Ricci Chan, Jerald Napoles, Myke Salomon, Angeli Bayani, Miguel Hidalgo and PETA President Cecilia Garrucho (pero sinauna pa yata ito).
Director: Maribel Legarda.
Liza Magtoto’s Care Divas.
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The Geographer’s Library
Library not Found
The story was simple. A 23 year old journalist Paul Tomm, a common person, nothing extraordinary in his life, or in his past lives or in his future reincarnations, was tasked to write an obituary about the death of Jaan, a solitary professor who turned out to be all that the lead character was not and never will be, interesting. Intertwining with the chapters were short stories involving important items connected to Alchemy that led to deaths of a character in each tale. All of which ended with no relevance to Paul Tomm’s journey.
Readers would easily relate to Paul Tomm. His life was as boring as the dunes, good to look at, but it really has nothing but repetitive wavy lined mountains of sand brought by the wind which at times broken by footsteps of lonely lizards or swirls of shaky snakes which make the dessert far appealing than him.
Some articles compared the novel to Dan Brown’s, making Tomm a parallel to Langdon. I couldn’t imagine him as such. He was of no intention or motivation in doing things. I would understand if he simply dropped what was tasked of him. Nothing was at stake of him, or of the world, or even of Pluto’s planetary status. First, he did as his job required him to do. Then a mortician died from a clean hit and run, making him far more interested in the case without a clear connection between the mortician’s death and his obit’s subject. His interest was furthered when he was promised to be part of a bigger newspaper, which he actually never dreamed of or cared about to start with. And finally, a tooth on his door threatened him to stop his digging, which made him pushed harder in deciphering the mystery which still was of no value to his existence. i didn’t actually get him.
The love story made the character mundane and easier to get along with. He had an ex girlfriend of long ago, Mia, whom he still thought of and referred to when he was to divulge instances of love, until an older woman Hannah, one of his sources showed innuendos. (Did i use whom right?) They had few moments and that was it. That was the love arc. It was not a great one, but understandable. It was not pegged to be a Nicholas Sparks’. Yet I thought it failed me, for i wanted to read more about Mia than Hannah. Some may say that the author was successful in making me side with one character, like in the Jacob-Bella-Edward conundrum, but i don’t think that was an intention.
Some reviews highlighted it as a suspense novel of the year. I would lie if i say that i wasn’t “suspensed” even once in the book. I actually was thrilled. And it was actually just once. Yet that once was a very good once. A few chapters towards the end when a character appeared from a not a few pages ago came face to face Paul Tomm, when Tomm’s life was finally at risk. Maybe it was the journalist in him that made him gathered facts only from interviews and more interviews. Unlike Harry who defied the school rules or a Hardy Boy who slid through the darkness, or a Boleyn Girl who schemed on a king to find and get what they need, Tomm did his interviews. Well, to be fair, he once crept into the dead man’s house. But more than being in the so much latter part of the book, it was not his initiative, but of a curious policeman. The whole time, i was waiting for Mr Tomm to be in a situation so hard, he has to use his wits to get away. And these moments should be felt even minutely the moment he accepted the assignment, not two chapters before the book ended.
And again to be fair, I read and finished the book so there must be something that hooked me. It had a good start. not as a suspense novel but as a start of a novel. It was in the first voice, Paul Tomm, and it felt like he was just talking to me. The way he told me of how he had no idea where to go after one thing, and of his last fuck, and of the little bitterness and melancholy from his first and last relationship was believable. The things he said behind his head were witty, sarcastic and i like them. However, the mystery did not changed him to be a better person, or even to be a bad person, or to be a deciding person at the very least, which made him boring after a while. I was actually scanning through the pages from 150-300.
The artifacts stories in between were a nice read. They were short and sweet. Some were memorable and were deserving of a google search if the characters or place does exist. But after a while, it was not. They became predictable. That there will be this man, who would carry this item, then he will die. Or will be endanger then will die. Or will be happy the hell i care. I was actually torn about the pay off of these stories. I like it because towards the end, as things became predictable, there will always be a man, of a different name, of a different look who demand of different items. i assumed that this different man is the same man, and the same person who broke inside Tomm’s house. That was the thrilling and “suspensing” particular part. However, the items got me so curious that i wanted to see why people were dying or being bribed with their lives’ desires for it. i did not.Well i must applaud the author for that twist, it was very unexpected. Giving nothing as a twist! What a twist?!
Maybe i was not a Paul Tomm, or maybe i was saturated with the Philippine Teleserye that dictated that each character should have this strong urge or motivation or something at stake for him to move forward. But maybe that was his style or objective. move away from the unrealistic quantum leaping plots and character development. This is a story of a not so curious reporter of a newspaper of no competition. A possibility. Yet Alchemy is fantastic enough to be believable, and making the other things around it as fantastic would make the main subject trivial. The author may have wanted the readers believe in Alchemy as much as they believe in a person like Paul Tomm, who at the end, did not believe at all.
I couldn’t care less
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows 7.2
Climactic Start to End.
Ang intense na agad ng mga pangyayari. Parang nanood ako ng pelikulang mahaba tapos ito na yung ending. Iyun siguro yung dahilan kung paano nila na sustain yung energy nung movie. Tama lang ang haba para hidni magkaroon ng dull moments.
1. Masaya akong makita ang mga inimagine ko before while reading the book. Like the dragon sa Gringots. Isa rin yung puting-puting train station. Parang napanood ko na yung mga eksena bago ko pa makita.
2. Sa ibang mga bagay naman, it gave us glimpses, then the rest is for us to imagine. Maraming nakakabitin na eksena lalo na yung walang kinalaman si Harry. Mas pasabog yung naimagine kong event sa room of requirement. ‘Yung pagkamatay nung isa sa mga bataan ni Draco Malfoy, which by the way, naging black yung isa, at payat. I was wishing to see pain in the death of Bellatrix at yung triumph ni Mrs Molly Weasley. Pero parang ang kaunti. Tuwang tuwa pa naman ako dun sa book. On that note, hindi masytadong celebrated or uncelbrated yung death nung mga characters.
3. Kulang sa drama t moments at sa term nang dati kong god na si ECS, processing. Parang mas explored ang friendship nung tatlo at nung iba pang mga tao sa mga naunang pelikula, dito, medyo nakulangan lang ako. medyo lang. And on that note, andami ko ring hinahanap na dating characters, like si Dolby, i mean Dobey. cheka, patay na pala siya. Iyun, nakulangan ako kay Hagrid at sa kapatid niya, yung family Weasley, sina Chochang ang the gang. HIndi ko alam kung sinadya iyun ng director para ipa-feel na si Harry na lang talaga ang lalaban.
4. Masaya yung iilang mga punch lines. Effective naman. Though konti na lang, silent film na ‘yung movie.
5. Iyak ako nang iyak at ito ang dahilan
6. One of the moral lessons ay, you don’t have to have six pack abs para maging bida. Wait ninyo maghubad sina Ron at Harry.
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Temptation Island
Tempting Enough
Chris Martinez has written and directed the remake of Toto Belano and Joey Gosiengfiao’s cult camp classic , Temptation Island. The Miss Manila Sunshine Pageant has turned into a Super Model Search. Bambi (Bambi Arambulo), Azenith (Azenith Briones), Dina (Dina Bonnevie) Suzzane (Jennifer Cortez) with Maria the maid (Deborah Sun) were replaced by Pura K (Solenn Heusaff), Christina G (Marian Rivera), Virginia P (Heart Evangelista), and Serafina (Lovi Poe) with Nympha (Rufa Mae Quinto) respectively. All in all, a mixture of something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue, red, white and the sand.
1. Lovi Poe was a breakthrough. She proved that she deserved the 85th FAMAS trophy for best actress. Well, she did well. Very well, indeed. On the other hand, Solenn did act the worst, in fact, very worst that it was very good after all. Rufa Mae was predictable. Heart. Bad, First half she was acting like a Kapuso starlet, the second half, a Kapamilya Teleserye princess. Worse was Marian. Worse than a blah.
2. Missing relevance.
3. Picturesque. Visually ahum! Specially the opening with Lovi strutting in the pool. Greeat shots! Great colors! Great treatment. (Yes I know, the film open with Marian rolling down the dunes, nut i didn’t buy it).
4. The Sand Sofa!
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