Despicable meeeee!! and Biohazard4...

SM Cinema 3 (D)

it has been about 5 years since i last saw my uncle N. back in elementary and a few parts of highschool, i, my bro and unc N would sit in front of the tv at 7pm and watch the nanny. just a few of the shows we would watch together. but uncN had to leave for work (abroad) so, naturally, in came Torrent and out with cable tv. i had to share this significant detail of my life all because unc N was much like Gru. Grumpy. Busy. Hilariously chubby! so to continue, after 5 years of not hearing from our unc N, we finally saw him again. just last month. and guess what? he found himself a little Agnes named Gab.

the film's ultimate lesson was clear and simple, villains, no matter how evil-ish their schemes may be, are still humans. none of them are impenetrable to the simplest of human emotions. even the terminator turned out good!haha

kids of different ages would definitely fall in love with this! all hail steve carell!

Gru. Agnes. Minions! ♥♥♥

BEST ANIMATED 3D FILM SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FAR!!!^^

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im not a big fan of the game. it used to give me nightmares. but zombies on a 3d movie!?!?! come ahhhhhhhhnnn! who wouldnt want to miss that?!

it's the closest instalment in relation with the game, in-terms of the characters that is! (ALG). and yes i agree. especially the gold-coins-spilling-out-from-the-zombies part! oh yeah, i still remember the game! *wink

so i guess its not that bad at all.

i personally would like to note: I COULD NOT WAIT FOR THE 5TH!

• notable something somethings:

*spencer locke is cute (lesbo mode) haha
*that gay guy, Miller. well, he ahmmmm... still looks gay. but since he played Larter's bro in this one, i'd give him a chance.haha
*major 5th movie spoiler in the end credits
*Jovovich still the hottest zombie-executionist ever!!!next is emma stone!haha

id probably give this a very safe 3. i like the 3rd movie more.^^

Bemused perplexity = Memento

So I have finally seen Nolan's Memento. I've read a lot of about this film and yes, it has most certainly exceeded my expectations!

Like all the other Nolan films, this one is also best recommend seen twice.

This flick deserves a 5 or maybe a 6!

Mind boggling? definite YES!

Tattoos. ST memory loss. Carrie-Anne Moss. Kick-ass ending twist.

You wouldn't want to miss this one!

All hail Nolan!!!

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"."

For the third time and I'm still amused.

Christopher Nolan is a god!

Next up is Memento...

I am a Star Wars kid!

My Grandmother from Leyte came over to the City for an appointment with her physician, so naturally, since there isn’t really a lot to do in the house, my dad prepared a DVD for the viewing pleasure of my Granny. It was “Gone with the Wind”. I heard about the movie a lot of times before, usually on award shows. So, I gave it a shot. Before the film began, my grandmother told me that the last time she saw the film was way before she met my Granddad. So I was thinking black and white, well, because Casablanca was (which I swear is one of my classic favorites next to Wizard of Oz). So the movie started. I remembered, it was last year that my dad made me watch “Fiddler on the roof”. I forgot but the movie started after lunch and perhaps ended an hour before dinner. 4 hours! Well, understandable, FotR is a classic and if we try to remember, so was “the Sound of Music” which I think is about 3 hours long. Gone with the Wind, Fiddler…, Wizards of Oz, Sound of Music, Casablanca and I guess most of the films from the 1920’s to late 1970’s had no end credits, in fact, their credits were shown in the beginning. Of course, there weren’t really a lot of people to thank, unlike those of today.

So yeah, the film was probably close to 4 hours long. My Grandmother even slept in the couch so I had to stop the DVD and watch again later that evening. Superb story. It revolved around the American Civil War. One can always read the synopsis of the film anywhere on the web, but actually watching the movie was overwhelming. Scarlett O’Hara. I’ve heard of that name on innumerable lines from other movies, it was then that I actually came across the real Scarlett. The movie in general was about life in the midst of a war and how a seemingly rich spoiled brat could turn into someone independent and feisty on difficult instances.

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So, after my brother’s innumerable request to watch Tron with him (although he has already seen it), I finally agreed to do so. It was perhaps early this year that the trailer of Tron:Legacy was released. My brother was streaming the video on Youtube when my dad noticed. Dad instantly told Billy that the 2011 film might possibly be a sequel to the 1982 flick. Trust me, when you talk about sci-fi flicks, the best person to turn to is my dad. I think this whole mania of his is rooted from Lucas’ ingenious trilogy and Isaac Asimov’s best-sellers. So without question, Tron was downloaded.

To be honest, I wasn’t really enticed upon seeing Tron:Legacy’s trailer except that the film is indeed the perfect pick for the ultimate IMAX 3D experience. Other than that, it seemed ok. BUT things started to change the moment I saw Tron (1982). Just like Star Wars 3-6, Tron was basically a movie during the advent of the infamous Blue screen films. So, coming from a generation where blue screens are (although still very important) “a thing of the past”, it’s very understandable if one might think that the effects of the old movie was crappy. I mean, I have to be brutally honest, the effects were crappy! But I guess that’s the whole point. Film making and cinema has grown. Take it from me, if you’ve seen Clash of the Titans (2010) then you’d probably be rolling on the floor laughing the moment you see the original version. But I guess that’s the whole beauty of it. I guess the best person who showed the growth of cinema to the world is George Lucas (Star Wars). He filmed the last 3 episodes first because there was no technology at that time that could make his visualizations of the millions of clone soldiers, galactic battles and wars, Gungan soldiers, podracing, etc… come to life. And now with the birth of 3D and IMAX, we have, yet again, entered into another era of cinema.

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I was talking with ALG the other day about the 2009 independent film, “Where the Wild Things Are”. I told him how much I love the indie film, intrigued, he requested that we watch the movie together. Turned out he didn’t have the same fascination of the film as I did. He then said “Ganahan jd kas tanang salida nga imung makit-an sa?” I answered, “Di man tanan, D JD KU GANAHAG UNGO2”.

Inception

The top begins to wobble, but the scene cuts to black.

Two words. Total Genius! After I had heard numerous accounts of Inception being the most mind boggling movie of the month, I have instantly been curious.

Christopher Nolan's ingenuity has indeed preceded this film. He was the mind behind The Prestige which was indeed one of the movies I had to watch more than once to understand. I love the way Nolan plays around with science. The possibility of a science so confusing that it leaves either the characters of the film or the viewers themselves MAD!

Inception is not an exception. The story basically revolves around the manipulation of dreams to steal and plant information from and into another dreamer's subconscious. So the process is basically, in layman's term, a heist, where the "thieves" (DiCaprio and his team) were experiencing lucid dreams and the person that they had to plant or steal information from was not. Confused? I know! But you would somehow understand how the story unfolds when you watch it yourself.

Trust me, watching this film is like reading a book, you would not want to miss a page and when you wouldn't understand the later parts of the story, you'd be skimming your way to the previous pages. It's no wonder the film went straight to the 3rd spot in IMDB's top 250 film. So you might've guessed how I'd be rating this one!

Joseph GL was astounding! From the frustrated Tom in 500 Day of Summer to Di Caprio's righthand man. I totally loved his "smooth move" moment with Ellen Page's character.

Ellen Page was the architect of the dreams in the film. She played a very intelligent college student who was named after a mythological architect (Ariadne) who helped a hero escape from a nemesis' labyrinth.

I first knew Marion Cotillard when she played Edith Piaf. My father gave my gradmother Edith Piaf's collections album as a birthday present once, so when I heard that a movie was made retelling her story, i wanted to know who was playing the French singer's character. Then the next thing I knew, the actress playing Piaf won the Academy awards. Here she played a very significant role, so significant that she was named "Mal" Latin for Evil.

Cillian Murphy just like Christian Bale must be one of Nolan's favorites. Bale has played a role on Nolan's the Prestige and as we all know, Bale is the present caped crusader. Murphy played as Scarecrow in Batman Begins and he also landed a role as a billion-dollar heir in this one. And I guess so is Michael Cane from being Alfred in Batman to being DiCaprio's father-in-law in this one.

I've nothing to say about DiCaprio except that I thought he's become a goner in the industry, but he proved himself deserving to still being the "King of the World" when I saw this film.

I have yet to see this movie again. But I guess for this time being, it's best to advise others to watch it. The experience is indeed worth every penny!

The Book of ELIsheba

This is perhaps the most realistic Post-apocalyptic film I have ever seen. Especially becuase it has a definite connection with faith, hysteria, and megalomania.

The movie basically took place after " something tore a hole in the sky, crashed on earth and created a blinding explosion". My total guess was a nuclear war.

Perhaps taking place 50-80 years in the future, one very prominent fashion statement might've, fictionally, made Ray Ban a trilion dollar business. All of earth has turned into a barren wasteland where settlers remained as walkers (nomads), cannibals, and townsfolks (whose sole dependence is on a typical king pin boss who knew where and how to give them water).

Denzel Washington, the main protagonist of the film, travelled almost 30 years to take his book west. On the road, he meets Solara (Mila Kunis), whose blind mother advised her to run away from town and be with Washington's character where she'd be safer. The whole story basically revolves around this book and how this can be used to rule the world, which in our present case, is indeed correct. Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) gone megalomaniac!haha

Enough said.

I wont spoil this one.

If I had to rate this, I'd give it a 5!

One of the best post-apocalyptic movies I have ever seen that had nothing to do with zombies, meteors and AI domination!

a MUST SEE flick.

2010 movies list

My brother and I started listing our movies last year, when we heard that there was going to be a sequel to our ultimate movie of 2008, Transformers. We had listed 24 movies in 2009. So the tradition went on for our 2010 list. The movies on our list MUST only be viewed on the big screen. But those that will not be released in the country are always Torrent exemptions. So these were our movies last year. A few movies aren’t highlighted because we haven’t seen them last year so we wrote them on the 2010 list.

It’s the mid year and we have seen almost half of the movies on our list. The latest was the Last Airbender. These are our 2010 movies.

Among those that we have seen, Cameron’s Avatar stands out. We’ve seen it twice, one in 3D. so I guess Avatar still stands as the best movie of this year (and last year). Equally excellent films were:

KickAss, best action so far.

Where the wild things are, best indie.

Inglorious Basterds. Well, credits for Tarantino’s wild imagination!

9 was fairly good.

Toy Story 3. Awesmazing!

The rest of the flicks were ok. I need not say more to most (Ironman, Robin Hood, Karate Kid, Clash of the Titans, etc...) because the box-office charts already declared them as such.

And since I was a bit disappointed at our movies of the year, Airbender and Clash of the Titans, I guess I’ll leave it Tron Legacy to do the job. Scott Pilgrim is also promising, and I have yet to see Inception, I’ve heard it’s mind boggling!