Lesson of the Day:

"People who come into our lives are not all meant to stay. Some come into our lives because they are meant to do something, to touch either our heart, our mind, our dreams, or just about anything in our life."

Situation 1: A Lot Like Love

It was not directly implied but I just observed it. In the movie A Lot Like Love, Emily, the first time she and Oliver met, seems to have no direction. The next time they met, she was trying her luck on an acting career. Then later, she had a career as a photographer wherein Oliver was a big part of. The first time they met, Oliver has a camera which Emily played with. The next time they meet, she took photos of the two of them, and so when Oliver went away, he left it with her.

So somehow, I can say that even though Oliver appears and disappears in Emily's life and even though it wasn't certain that they'll end up with each other, somehow, Oliver gave a direction in Emily's life by opening her horizons to photography.

Situation 2: His dream becomes hers

The girl, let's call her Marie, just like Emily, has no direction in life. She just took whatever life has to offer. She has a boyfriend, let's call her Eric. Eric had somewhat been there almost all the time that she had been exploring college life. Then Eric teaches her a skill let's call "thing." Somewhat, through the years, this "thing" had been her past time, her joy when in times of depression, and later became her passion. Although it didn't work out between the two of them, this "thing" made her realize it is what she wants to do in life, and that if in the past, she does not know what to do in her life, she was now definitely sure that this "thing" is what she wants in her life.

Situation 3: Her dream becomes hers

Girl A, Freond, had once been certain she is taking the course let's call "blah." She has a friend, Nayome, whom she shares her dreams with. Now the time came for them to decide which course to take. Freond had changed her mind, and Nayome, whom she doesn't know before what she wants, decided to take the "blah" course Freond wants before. Nayome had found her fun at the course she took, loved it and now has plans for her future in connection with the "blah" course. They were not as close now as they were before but at least, Freond made a mark on her friend as she had always wished.

Final say...

Isn't it just amazing how other people touches your lives without them knowing about it?
It's sad to see people come and go in your life but maybe, God had just written it that way. They may not be meant to be a part of your life for so long or for forever, but in that short stay in your life, they made something out of you that was meant to stay.

Appreciate every person that comes into your life.

Labels: dream, friends, life, lost, love, movies

Lesson of the Day:

"Even before this century, there had been movie remakes already."

I'll start by saying that I suddenly felt like watching old movies.
I don't know.
Maybe it started with Serendipity. I watched it a week ago because I've been seeing posts or things like that on different social media.
And since it's one of the "influential" movies and I haven't seen it, I downloaded the movie and watched it.

Or maybe it started a few more weeks ago, when I got bored and I didn't feel like watching the 2000 something movies and found the City of Angels and watched it.

So okay.
About the LOTD...

So here I go looking for movies like a pregnant mother na naglilihi...
LOL!
And as I usually do, I get sneak peeks at Wikipedia, just a little background.
Then I found out that Sleepless at Seattle (1993) was based on the movie An Affair to Remember (1957) that was a remake of the movie Love Affair (1939).
See?

And also, I discovered that one of my fave romance movies A Lot Like Love was inspired by When Harry Met Sally! And I will watch that once I have downloaded the movie.

Tonight, I'll watch this movie:

This one, I have watched but want to watch it again.
Oh! And it was a modern take on the famous novel Emma?
But honestly, I don't have an idea about its plot, only that Anne Hathaway was Emma in the movie adaptation with my crush James McAvoy.

Ok.
Here's my list of to watch:

• When Harry Met Sally
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Notting Hill
• Labyrinth
  
• Pretty Woman
• The Runaway Bride
• Dirty Dancing
• Can't Hardly Wait

Well, if you have any suggestions, you can tell me.

Will watch Clueless na...

Labels: fun, movies

1) So what was the common denominator of these films?

They are all Cinderella stories! I know it was a cliche plot taken from a fairytale, added with twists... but I was a sucker for that!

2) I am a sucker for modernized fairytales. Well, you wouldn't wonder because I had mentioned something like that in #1.

This is a TV show in ABC which I wanted to watch, partly because of the sucker reason and partly because Ginnifer Goodwin was there with the pixie hair that inspired my haircut and Jennifer Morrison who played Zoey in How I Met Your Mother which I looove so much!



Then there's Beastly.
And other else.

3) I am a sucker for unconventional love stories.

Such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Time Traveler's Wife.


But then you know, there's something in common with these two movies that I was also a sucker for:

STAR CROSSED LOVERS

4) I am a sucker for songs which have stories or has some "bang" lines, you know, tatamaan ka talaga, or yung may message talaga.

Such as:
Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script
My Kind of Perfect by David Archuleta
Only Exception by Paramore
Pangarap Lang Kita by Parokya ni Edgar
Fall to Pieces by Avril Lavigne
Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes feat. Adam Levine
Broken Arrow by Pixie Lott
Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri

That's all I can think for now. I need to sleep.
Good night bloggers.

Labels: attraction, love, movies, songs, tv show

This is not a movie review.
Somehow, it made me wish my LIFE was in RUINS too...

Labels: life, love, movies

Note: This is not a movie review. It's more of a query.
I like these two movies because I'm in a mood for something light these days.


JAPANESE MOVIE
"I Give My First Love To You"

PLOT

This story revolves around Takuma, a boy who is told he will die before he is 20, and Mayu, a girl who is in love with him.

The story begins when they are little kids. Takuma Kakinouchi and Mayu Taneda were friends since they were 8-years-old. Takuma has a heart disease and he is treated by a cardiologist who happens to be Mayu's father. Their friendship grows and Takuma becomes Mayu's first love.

Time passes, and the girl becomes a young woman, and the boy, a young man. Mayu continues to support and love Takuma. On the other hand, Takuma, who knows his days are numbered, pushes away his feelings for Mayu and distances himself from Mayu, knowing that he cannot keep his childhood promise because he cannot stand to see her cry or hurt her more than he already has.

Then Mayu meets Kou Suzuya, who has feelings for her, and Takuma meets Teru Uehara, one female patient who suffers a similar illness,who has a crush on him and their feelings for each other begin to waver.

My comment:

The story was cliche but I like it. It keeps me watching.
But then, why are Japanese movies fond of two teens in love, have sex, one is ill, he/she pushes her/him away, then the other dies.
I can't help comparing it with Koizora.


BOLLYWOOD MOVIE
"I Hate Luv Storys"

PLOT


Simran (Sonam Kapoor) loves Bollywood romances — so much so that her life has begun to resemble one. With her awesome job and a "Mr. Perfect" fiancé named Raj (Sameer Dattani), she lives a blissful, dreamy life. But in the frame comes Jay, who brings a fresh light and joy in her life. Jay (Imran Khan) is an assistant to a director who is famous for his love story films; however, Jay hates love stories. He believes love is nothing but a "sickness" that must be cured. Quite blunt in his ways, he first hates Simran for her "romantic" nature but soon after becomes her best friend.

My comment:

I was kind of disturbed with the title.
LUV was acceptable. I was just disturbed with the STORYS.
Anyway, I also love the movie. It's also cliche, like those other movies which criticizes the cliches in movies and turns out to be a cliche in itself.
But I'm in the mood for cliches so I liked it.
I already accepted the fact that Bollywood are really musicals, there are always singing and dance numbers, even Ghajini which was an action movie.
But you know, they are really fond of that choreography with the guy standing in a wide stance, bending to his back and arms open wide. Also with the slow motion thing, the hair effect, the making fun of the last name, etc.

CLICHEs as an alternative for heavy drama

I'm seeing these movies and I can't help but wish Pinoy movies will also find their own mark. I think Star Cinema films and Indie films are already doing great.

Last week, I saw again the movie Honey, My Love, So Sweet back when Dingdong Dantes was famous with Antoinette Taus and not with Marian Rivera. It was also a cliche movie and I can't help comparing how the Pinoy movies have improved. But then some movies today just have these complicated plots to compete.

And then I was thinking, I missed cute movies like Honey, My Love, So Sweet.
Sometimes, I just like to watch a movie that makes me feel light and not to think a lot about how life is complicated.

Labels: attraction, life, love, movies

This is not a movie review.

I just so love this movie, I'M GONNA DIE!

Just sooo cute, it makes me think back of my high school days when I used to have crushes that reached obsession and involved some stalking, LOL!

Oh, let me just say that I sort of don't like the ending, not that I don't like the happy ending, I just think it's too cheesy...

But still!!!

Love, love, love it!

Labels: attraction, high school, love, movies

Labels: attraction, life, love, movies, time

For months since availabe ang wifi sa SM, subong ko lang na-try, haha!
I'm so liking this...
Hahaha!

These reviews are influenced by my mood when I watched the film so read further at your own risk.

=)

Ben X

I never heard of the film but the cover says it had won awards and was supposed to be a Belgian entry but failed to receive actual nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category of Academy Awards 2007, so I bought it anyway.

The film was about Ben. He had Asperger’s Syndrome.
According to Wikipedia...

Asperger syndrome or Asperger's syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development.

Ben goes to a school with normal kids and because of his condition, he was always bullied. His only escape is the game Archlord wherein he is in a very high level and he was considered a hero, where he can fight anyone else. He was accompanied by a healer named Scarlite. Usually, she becomes his strength. This is based on a true story of a boy with Asperger’s who commited suicide because of bullying.

Reactions:

• At first, I find the language odd in the ears. Maybe because it’s just now that I’m watching a European film (although I had watched Let The Right One In before, which is Swedish). I was saying maybe I was used to Korean and Japanese. I adjusted anyway, and so I found the movie engaging. I think the progress of the story was good, you really get to understand someone with Asperger’s, his world, and also see the intensity of the bullying.
• I think I love the film all in all (maybe because of the psych part), but I think I was just weirded out with the suicide part, though I totally understand his intentions, the creative suicide thing.

Letters to Juliet

I’ve seen a comment in YouTube saying how Amanda Seyfried loves “letter” films (remember Dear John?), wala lang, it was a nice observation, hehe.

Anyway, I bought this because I just saw it and it was the only new film which is a love story, just plain love story, because I was in the mood for a light love story.

The film was a web of cliché storylines: boy and girl in a relationship but boy doesn’t have a lot of time, finding a lost love, some realizations of who you really love, in short, you know how the story goes as well as know the ending.

But I love it, I don’t know, maybe because I’m in the mood for a love story? And whenever that happens, I was such a sucker for cliché romance? I really don’t see the point of liking the movie since I really don’t like Amanda Seyfried (ever since Mamma Mia! and most especially when I knew she’ll play Savannah in Dear John), it wasn’t so much of a comedy when they were claiming it’s a romantic-comedy, and blah blah blah.

But I didn’t get bored, and I guess I know why...

Because all the while I was thinking of finding my Romeo too (hay nagdrama duman ko ah)...

Camp Rock 2

I guess I watched it because I was curious how the part 2 will go. I was not hooked. I kept on changing channels, to Star Movies with the movie Fired Up!, even though it was the singing/dancing scene. I don’t like the songs. And I was really thinking they went from the “Glee-format” to “HSM format”. In part 1, they sing and dance because it is really in the story that they are singing and dancing. In part 2, they just break into the singing and dancing parts and have conversations through singing and dancing. Also, I don’t feel the Shane-Mitchie team up, they seem to be good in part one.

I also didn’t find the last performances a blast.

I think the only blast was the movie trailer.

That’s all.

Labels: attraction, love, movie review, movies, reality

Lesson of the Day:

"Tall tales and fairytales bring us away from reality, but then it sparks a hope of a happy ending."

Isn't it amazing how we loved characters who aren't human?
We love toys who are adventurous, 'car' racers, a mix of a pig and a rabbit, dancing penguins, talking frogs, etc.
Some adult person once told me that I had been childish, watching cartoons and loving watching cartoons. I told her that it's because these cartoons and animated films also have a story of their own. They are not just there to entertain the eyes. Sometimes, they even have greater and better storylines than some movies.

Maybe what they unconsciously meant was that these cartoons and animated films features the impossible: talking objects and animals, magic, power... things that children are engaged in because they have quirky and vast imagination. And, it is childish to watch these because these movies are make-believe.

But then I will always remember the father and child in the movie Enchanted. The father never tells fairytale stories and the like to his daughter because he doesn't want her to grow expecting an easy and happy life. He wants his daughter to be aware of the harsh realities in life. But then, through a supposedly animated character, Giselle, he learned that despite bad things, happy endings do happen.

Labels: life, movies, reality

Lesson of the Day:

"In being vulnerable, you risk judgment, but more importantly, you chance being understood."

I've watched this movie in Youtube, heard of this movie a long time ago. I'm interested because it received positive feedbacks, and especially that Rotten Tomatoes considered it certified fresh (97%!).

It is another vampire story but this one's different. Maybe it's because they were 12-year-olds... in youtube, it was compared to Twilight. About that thing, my only comment would be this: Twilight is a fairytale version of vampire lore. And for me, I prefer the dark side of the vampire story and maybe that's why I like this movie.

What I love:

1) This scene:
[Oskar]: Eli, want to go steady?
[Eli]: What do you mean?
[Oskar]: Do you want to be my girlfriend?
[Eli]: Oskar, I'm not a girl.
[Oskar]: But do you want to go steady or not?
[Eli]: Couldn't we just keep the things the way they are?
[Oskar]: I guess...
[Eli]: Do you do anything special when you go steady?
[Oskar]: No.
[Eli]: So everything’s the same?
[Oskar]: Yes.
[Eli]: Then we’ll go steady. It’ll be you and me.

2) Oskar and Eli's relationship. It's like you don't have to ask questions (because their relationship was kind of weird and complicated). I just felt it and that's enough.

3) Vagueness of the movie. This was based on a novel and as I've known from Wikipedia, the novel is supposedly darker and the director had to cut these issues (drugs, pedophilia, etc) because he wants to focus on the relationship of Oskar and Eli. I wish I could read the book too.

4) This comment from Rotten Tomatoes:
"It’s everything Twilight wanted to be but wasn’t: beautiful to gaze at, achingly romantic, emotionally involving, unexpectedly terrifying."

Labels: attraction, love, movie review, movies, self