Now I'm a hip-hopping, bridge swinging wannabe loser who fires ineffective peashooter laser blasts and gets ripped in two while everyone else survives.
Jazz? really?
Bugger and rot.
Bugger.
Office Excercises to Relieve Stress
Wendee sent the funniest thing the other day...
1st: Warming up
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2nd: Stretching
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3rd: the upper body exercise
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4th: lower body exercise (moving to left and back)
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5th: lower body exercise (moving to right and back)
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6th: Head exercise (make sure to do the 2nd part, it works!)
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7th: whole body exercise
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8th: Jumping exercise: The Pose is the key! but remember to jump!
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9th: relax
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LV3 over: Well done!
Things to See
The coming months are looking good for us cinephiles. There are alot of understated movies coming out that aren't of the same old big blockbuster mold, and I'm definitely hoping some of these will be fun.
Martian Child - Cusack adopts a martian kid. Daywatch - Russian superheroes fight bad guys. Rise: Blood Hunter - Lucy Lui as a vampire. Rogue Assassin - Jet Li and Statham, together again for the first time. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry - Jessica Beil in panties 1408 - Stephen King horror Skinwalkers - Sarah Carter as an irressitably cute werewolf 30 Days of Night - Vampires at the Northpole live it up. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - More zany antics from Nic Cage Shoot 'Em Up - Paul Giamatti as a villian. The Kingdom - Action Propaganda The Golden Compass - Fantasy worlds with polar bears Stardust - Fantasy worlds and British humor.
Ouija
| Rating: | ★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Horror |
Like before, I'm disappointed.
So far, the Filipino directors I've seen don't have the subtlety to create the suspense needed for a really great horror film, and the actors don't have the skills to really sell their characters fear (Desiree Del Valle's and Ruby Rodriguez's posession scenes come off as funny more than anything else). If you want to see a good possession scene, rent Exorcist or find a copy of Constantine and watch Jhoanna Trias go to work.
Find a copy of Bug or Sixth Sense or Tale of Two Sisters, turn off the lights and turn up the volume. There's enough atmosphere to these worlds; they choke their audience with the stink of melodrama and suffocate them with overblown homages rather than trying something experimental.
Anyone who's been through Jap Horror mania will recognize most of the cliches here. Girl with long stringy hair in her face wearing a white dress? check. The creepy child ghost who says cryptic things and is really only trying to help? check. The twin ghosts, one of whom is bad, and one is good? check? The contortionist ghost, the ghost under the bed, the ghost on the ceiling? check check check.
I've seen this all before, and I've seen it done better. This is just a string of cheap, rehashed thrills.
Then how do I explain all the "rave reviews" it's been getting? The "rated A by the movie board" I see in the paper? Simple. Media hype. The majority of Filipino audiences don't know it's a rip off. They don't know that there's a world of material out there, they aren't exposed to the really great stuff from other countries. And all the media is interested in is flogging the "local blockbuster" tag to death.
It doesn't take a big budget to make a good film. If production values were all I was talking about, I'd have given this a better rating. Neil Daza's Cinematography looks nice and the location (that underwater cemetary in Camiguin really deserves a better movie) is some kinda wow.
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Jedi Knights with pointy hats
Gay old men winking
It's like Star Wars, but with lots of British people.
I have to admit it's probably the best of the series in terms of entertainment value. It doesn't have the artsy fartsy overtones of the Prisoner of Azkaban, or the overblown effects of Goblet of Fire and I feel it more than the Chris Columbus ones. It's got plenty of wizard fights and uncomfortable wide-angle shots. The opening scene pretty much sets the tone, though I thought the dementors in the third one were creepier.
Plus the writers decided to squish the book into something much more usable on screen, which is ALWAYS much better than trying to appease the purists by shoving every key scene from a book into the movie.
See it if you really like Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, or pubescent girls and boys. Otherwise, go see Transformers.
And NO, Radcliff doesn't get nekkid. But it caught you're attention didn't it.
MacGyver
| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
Despite the fact that I'd already done it with Transformers and GI Joe, I still decided to watch MacGyver when my sister got us the DVD of the sixth and seventh seasons. I've gone through 5 episodes so far and the only thing I can say is:
"How come I never realized what a gullible idiot I was as a kid?"
Seriously, this stuff is beyond preposterous. I thought "24" was moronic with Bauer attracting bad mojo every which way, but Angus MacGyver is even worse. Within the first five episodes of the sixth season, old Mac has already faced para-military vigilante street toughs rocking to the worst 80's rap you'll ever hear, Romanian super commandos trained to blindly follow orders and bent on killing him, Iranian gunrunners bent on finding a cursed gun used in the assassination of a presidential candidate, local junkies wanting to sell and/or get rid of said gun, a breathless wacko jacko wanabee who have been accused of a murder using said gun, an underage drunkard that looks alot like Mayim Bialik, and a hot ex Stasi agent and her former cohorts in search of West German gold.
Who does all that?
Still, I have to admit I have a blast searching through all this nonsense for those gems where he works his magic to get out of the impossible situations his job as a consultant for the Phoenix Foundation seems to get him into. Jack Bauer's got nothing on the Mac. I mean where else are you going to learn that you can open government safes using a telephone or that coffee can help when you're having asthma attacks?
National Treasure
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure |
Go watch 300, Saving Private Ryan, anything by Kurosawa or Zwick, hell, even Shakespeare in Love. These are movies that really spark my interest in history and make me wanna go find a history book (or at the very least pop open Wikipedia) and start researching. Did Ben Franklin really suggest Daylight Savings Time? Did the Spartans really hold back the Persians? Did Tom Cruise really go to Japan and learn the ways of the Samurai? National Treasure is just one of those movies that I love because it makes me really feel like I'm standing there amidst great men.
It's not like Da Vinci Code. Da Vinci Code sucked donkey dick and don't try to convince me otherwise. It took an idea that's been around for ages (I mean seriously, I've been hearing about this Jesus-married-Mary-Magdalene-and-had-a-kid-who-the-knights-templar-were-charged-to-protect crap since before high school) and made it into a sub-standard action movie. The movie did nothing for the novel, just squished everything together and put it to music. Do not speak to me about Da Vinci Code.
Just go and watch National Treasure, then watch the sequel when it comes out.
Say Anything...
Lloyd Dobler: No.
Diane Court: You're shaking.
Lloyd Dobler: I don't think so.
Diane Court: You're cold.
Lloyd Dobler: I don't think I am.
Diane Court: Then why are you shaking?
Lloyd Dobler: I don't know. I think I'm happy.
Gawds, I want to see this film. I've been wanting to see this film forever, but I never found it. Take a look here and see why I want to see it.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
"Ride now!... Ride now!... Ride! Ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
"Death!
"Death!
"DEATH!
"Forth, Eorlingas!"
-- Theoden, at the gates of Minas Tirith
If you haven't watched Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, you need to. If you haven't seen the extended versions, you have to.
Forget transformers. Forget harry potter. They suck. Go out now, find the extended versions of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King. Go home, spin up the DVD player, and prepare not to move for 12 hours. That's how good these movies are. It doesn't matter if you don't like fantasy movies. I doesn't matter if you don't really understand english movies. It doesn't matter if you've been living in a cave for the past decade and haven't touched your TV in thirty years. These films transcend all of that. This is not an exaggeration.
Ride now and find them.
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