Movie Review

Sweet Home Alabama

2009-07-16T05:19:00.000-07:00

'The Notebook' reminds me of one same romantic love story I saw years ago. I even can still remember the very night that I saw this movie and who I am with. Since this is my movie blog, I am going to post all the movies that I like and can remember here. This once made my Kleenex box empty you should emptying your Kleenex box too. I just love to remember how wonderful and great the feeling is when you are in love. Sigh (I need a hug and love2x).

The Notebook

2009-07-16T04:37:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not, The Notebook is one of my favorite movies even if I haven't see the actual movie because people kept tellin' me that this was the great Romantic Movie that they saw. I was just kinda' go with the flow and startin' to like it even if it sounded weird because I haven't seen the movie. But yasterdai, I had the chance to watch the full movie and damn it's really awesome. It really touched me how wonderful things love can make you do and how wonderful the story would become if it's about love. I am not going to say about the movie well I guess everyone knows already how great this movie was. If anyone is planning to watch this the second time, make sure you got a box of Kleenex next to you.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

2009-07-12T05:09:00.000-07:00

This movie is not just for kids, but also entertaining for those who are kids at heart. Very Hilarious! The adventure begun when Sid tried to adopt three baby dinosaurs and acted like their own mother, that leads him adopted to a strange underground world where most extinct dinosaurs live. The whole herd went down under to try to rescue Sid even the pregnant Ellie, wife of Manny, which leaves Manny anxious because he want everything to be perfect when his child arrives. Basta you watch na lang the movie because I am very sleepy na to type in anything. Ciao! I will buy a DVD version of this and will it to my collection.

Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen

2009-06-28T04:57:00.000-07:00

I guess everybody know how amazing this movie was!!! My all time favorite OPTIMUS PRIME! Shai was able to pull off the drama on his hand. The bandage on his hand is actually real because he was involved in an accident with some girlfriend while still filming this movie. Too bad, Michael, the director, do not have any plans to create another movie such as this because it requires a lot of work.

Drag Me To Hell

2009-06-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

I will consider 'Drag me to hell' a not so horrifying movie. Although, it gave me frights because of the images of the old lady appearing unexpectedly, but the movie was just okay. Well, this movie is about a loan officer named Christine Brown, who wished to be promoted as an assistant manager, forced to evict an old gypsy woman named Mrs. Ganush from her home, just to impress her boss to demonstrate to him that she can make tough decisions when she needs to. She did really impress her boss but found her herself a recipient of a supernatural curse later after she embarrass Mrs. Ganush in public while pleading for Christine to grant her an extension because she is suffering from economic problems due to an illness. Christine denied her request. That night, Christine is attacked in her car by Mrs. Ganush and she managed to remove a button from her jacket and uses it to place a curse on Christine and then she disappeared. That night, Christine is attacked by a dark spirit which appears as a silhouetted of a goat's head that leave her with minor injuries. She then had a violent nosebleed while at work he next day. She fled from her work and then proceeded to Mrs. Ganush house, and then she learned that Mrs. Ganush already died. While at the wake of Mrs. Ganush, the grand daughter told Christine that she deserve whatever is coming after her. Frightened, she consulted a fortune teller to find out what's happening to her. Rham, the fortune teller, tell her that spirit that is haunting her is actually a demon called the Lamia, and that she will be tormented for 3 days before she will be dragged to hell to burn for eternity. Horrified by this revelation, she tried all the possible way to get rid of the curse, she even killed her cat and even paid a woman who had an encounter with the Lamia 40 years ago and is dying to face the Lamia again to banish him. They did banish the demon but the curse still remains. The demon did manage to drag Christine to hell. Lesson? Don't be rude to an old woman, especially if she is a gypsy.

IP Man

2009-06-07T07:01:00.000-07:00

This movie will truly serve as an inspiration to those who saw this movie. The movie is about IP Man, the master of Bruce Lee, tells how he gained the dignity and freed the people of China from Japanese empire with the use of his martial arts skills. This is not just about skills and arts and how good he was. It is about what IP Man as a person, his discipline and principles. How it became an instrument on their way to freedom and liberty. During his time, his family was very wealthy and respected and also he was known to be the best Master of Kung Fu or Martial Arts in their town. He was famous and made a lot of friends. At the same time, he was acting as a firm person and dignified. Not until Japanese conquered China and enslave them (just like what they did to my lovable and beautiful country, Philippines). Took away their houses and made IP Man's house as the Japanese Headquarter. IP Man continued to live as a low profile citizen, working his arse to feed his family. They had pawn everything that was worth pawning to survive and lived in a slum. The Japanese general who was handling them was a fan of martial artists that is why he was choosen to work for him. He would call any from the workers every now and then to have a fight his Japanese fighters, if they win they will get a reward, one sack of rice. One sack of rice in exchange of their lives. How cruel can they get? Going back, IP Man was never interested in fighting because what really matters to him was his family, not until his friends and family are slowly being beaten and hurt by these invaders. He decided to join and started to fight when his friends started dying and tested. His first fight was with 10 Japanese fighters ( I think they are into Taekwondo) in revenge of his friend's death who diead in front of him and he witnessed with his own eyes, in aiming to get more sacks of rice instead of just one, one soldier shoot him after he was defeated (kawawa talaga promise!), and the general was really impressed with him and wanted him to come back for another fight. After witnessing his skills, the general was really impressed and wanted IP Man to teach his people [Japanese ones] those skills so that he [general] can spare them their lives. Being the most dignified person ever, he refused and that made the general mad and requested for a duel. You should see his skills in the actual movie because I can't really describe it, all I can say is 'it was very awesome'. Of course, the general was defeated and the Chinese people gained their dignity and freedom at some point. After the China was freed from Japanese Empire [of course, because they [Japan] can not have what does not belong to them], IP Man decided to finally built a school where Bruce Lee became one of this disciples. Really, really a great movie that inspires me to move on with my Taekwondo churva, A must SEE. Go ahead people. buy your ticket!!!!!!!!!!NOW!!!!!!!!!

Terminator Salvation

2009-06-04T07:57:00.000-07:00

Not bad. Four stars. I would say that the story and the plot was just very short. Someone who haven't seen the previous movies relating to Terminator will not really appreciate this movie. I enjoyed watching the movie more because Chubby's sistah went to watch the it with us although they already watched in Thailand. Anyway, going back to movie's review, not so breath-taking scenes but it is just OKAY. I still see Christian Bale as Batman and not Conner. :) The movie took place at the year 2018 when SkyNet's creation, the murderer who offered himself to Science, already come into his senses but he doesn't have any idea what went wrong. Basically he was transformed to be a machine and designed to kill Connr but for some reason he just can't. In fact, he offered his heart to Connr because he was dying after he got stubbed at the back.

Angels & Demons Movie Review

2009-05-18T14:41:00.000-07:00

The movie brings the ancient secret organization, Illuminati and the Vatican together in a present day battle for control. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) a symbologist from Harvard and Vittoria Vetra joined forces to save Vatican from a very powerful bomb that threatens to destroy Vatican and the cardinals who is currently electing the next Pope. Leading them to save the Vatican was the clues left by the said member of the Illuminati who threatened to bomb the Vatican and paid somebody to fulfil his plan. In the end, they learned that the Chamerlegno (Patrick) who planned to blow Vatican and the one who killed the former pope (his father) and was ready to arrest him, unfortunately they were too late because he burned himself and died when he knew he will be arrested. In the book, no cardinal who survived and the one who become a pope is the cardinal who is leading the Conclave. This movie has a great storyline and I learned a lot from it, although the movie did not show what the story in the book but it is not that bad. Me think of course, they have to cut it short and change the ending of the story for the Vatican to approve. Although they are claiming that Angels and Demons is fictitious, however, some facts and history that was shown in the movie are true. From watching the movie, I learned some very interesting facts, for example, that the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei was once a priest and abandoned his priesthood to study science, was accused to be Illuminati by the church and was under house arrest until he died. And not just he, Isaac Newton, Michael Angelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bernini and greatest artist and physicist of all time was members of the Illuminati. This kind of story really interests and fascinates me. I really so much things in my mind right now but I am too tired to type about it about the conspiracy, Illuminate, CERN and anti-matter. I would suggest that you read the Decoded version of this movie to understand more about the movie. Since this is about the war between science and religion, why stop the fight and think that science was created by God to explain His works and to let us understand and realize how amazing he created us or the things around us.

The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review

2009-05-13T22:02:00.000-07:00

I am such a scared person but I do not know why I still watch scary and horrying movies, whether it is a Hannibal Rising type of movie, Bunshinsaba or just a simple predictable horror movie such as this one. I would say that this film is not that bad for a Horror Movie but it is not that good. The movie uses heavy flashbacks and it is kinda annoying although the sound effects scared me. The story circles in the life of Campbell family. Virginia Madsen played as mother of the dying teenager who is suffering from advanced cancer and taking him to the hospital for treatment and medicine are taking the toll on them that is why moved to a different state where hospital is near and is still affordable. Unfortunately, the house that they moved in was a former funeral parlour and still inhabited by angry ghosts. Her son who is dying becomes a channel to this spirits. The scary scenes of the movie are the scenes when Gallner (dying son) mashed the walls and found lots of bodies piled in the walls (no wonder why those walls are so thick) even in their ceiling. That is why they can't point where exactly they are because they [ghosts] are all over the house. Also the scenes when the faces of eyelid less ghosts appeared on the screen accompanied by a scary sound effect. Although this movie was said to be based from a true story critics said that they can't find any strong evidence to support the family's claim because of the inconsistency stories of the members of the family. And paranormal investigator interviewed the surrounding, upstairs and next door neighbour had seen no paranormal events and that the various happenings on the Campbell's residence were mundane, such as power shortage were they thought was caused by demons.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Movie Review

2009-05-10T15:03:00.000-07:00

I so much love this movie! At first, I thought this movie was just another "He's just NOT that in to you" movie but it is not. This is just like the CLICK movie when Adam was given a chance to jump to different phases of his life until he got old and realized his mistakes and missed the important things and people in his life and wanted to go back to change everything (we cried). While this movie is about a player (Mathew) who was visited by 3 ghosts to try to change him from what he have become and to live a happy life with his childhood girlfriend (Jennifer). The story was very predictable however, there are scenes that are very emotional and maka-touch that I really like. I would say that the movie simply tells us that if you love/like a person you should tell that person how you feel and don't let PRIDE eat you, because you will feel so much pain in the end when you realize it is too late to change everything and your life will never be the same again! A must SEE!

Crank 2: High Voltage Review

2009-05-01T00:14:00.000-07:00

There is no doubt that Jason Statham is a good actor and his performance in Crank (1) is outstanding that made us wanting for more, a sequel or continuation perhaps. The classic video game effect is not bad as for an introduction. Depicting the last scene in Crank that Chev fall from the sky. The next scene is that he is scooped in the street via a snow shovel by Chinese medics and remove him the scene and then followed by in the hospital where he sees doctor removing his heart and placed it in the red cooler. At first, I thought this movie is really that exciting and action packed just like the first one, but instead it was amazingly disappointing. It's more of a comedy movie to me rather than an action movie. I also think that other scenes in the movie are unnecessary although some might find it very entertaining. Lolz! Others are really unrealistic and the effects made it worst. In fairness, I love the scene where Kaylo is and is showing his fantastic and ala Bruce Lee moves. He really made me laugh! Also the part where Chester showed up sa karerahan. Aside from that... hmmm... ala na. No wonder why they ranked #6 in the box office in its first week.