Posts Tagged ‘story’
2009
01.11
Tags: aaron eckhart, audience, belief, blockbuster, blockbuster store, characterization, dvd, effects, elizabeth banks, fbi, good films, hollywood, identity crisis, KDrama, kdramas, movie, personification, spiritual beliefs, story, stupidity, sudanese, terrorism, traitor
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It’s been a while since I rented DVDs. I was hooked on the many new KDramas that aired before the year ended. I just couldn’t insert Hollywood in between episodes. So right around Christmas week, I returned my Blockbuster envelopes after they scattered around the house for months for new DVDs. Allow me to digress and explain how my rental routine works.
I signed up for Blockbuster’s online rental; just like NetFlix, only better. I say better because I can return my envelopes at my assigned Blockbuster store for free DVD rentals — 1 DVD for 1 envelope. The rental rules applies. While I have the DVD from the store, the online rental will already send me whatever is next in my queue (availability of the title succeeds the queue). Again, if I return 1 envelope, they’ll send me 1 DVD also. In essence, I’m getting twice as many DVDs.
Back on topic — this weekend, I saw three good films: Meet Bill, Step Brothers, and Traitor.
Meet Bill is a story about identity crisis. I enjoyed it because Elizabeth Banks was hot and not because of the story. The story was okay, but left hanging just like its characterization. Aaron Eckhart’s personification of Bill was praiseworthy and Banks’ body display was delightful to my eyes.
Step Brothers is a story of two middle-aged men becoming stepbrothers after their parents remarried. It’s another one of those Will Ferrel films where everything is blown out of realistic proportion. It’s stupid funny.
Traitor is a story of an FBI undercover who was of Sudanese decent from Chicago (sounds familiar?) He is caught between his beliefs and reality. He sacrificed himself in order to battle terrorism that killed his father and at the same time, he is battling to keep intact his spiritual beliefs. I consider this film to be one of the year’s best because it is substantial overall. It wasn’t overloaded with Hollywood effects and at the same time the story wasn’t dragging. The audience would know that Samir was undercover, but the film would still grab one’s curiosity. That’s because of the nature of the characters, one cannot know what will happen to Samir in the end.
I strongly suggest to anyone the movie Traitor. You won’t regret it.
2008
12.26
Tags: actors, adaptability, benjamin brad, brad pitt, contrapositive, curious case of benjamin button, detachment, eighties, grief, infancy, life, observation, story, theme, time, time travel
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story of a man born and lived backwards — agewise that is. Benjamin was born in his eighties and aged backwards. The story was told perfectly (I can’t agree on adaptation because I have not read the book) through the film. It took three hours to show how Benjamin aged to infancy and finally closed his eyes. I’m very sensitive when the story’s main theme is time. For this one, though not entirely a time travel, I’m satisfied. The story ought to be taken as an existential observation. The fact that no matter where we begin, there is always an end. A scene that I was mostly touched was when Benjamin learned how to miss someone from a friend who said that death is relevant in life because that’s the only way we would know the importance (or how valuable) someone is. For anyone who’ve been following what I’ve been writing here, I’ve said over and over again that the only way to avoid grief is through detachment. It’s a contrapositive of “Benjamin”.
Brad Pitt has always been an underrated actor. Hopefully he gets what he deserves.
2008
12.03
Tags: acting, blouse, brazier, developer, dialogs, disappointment, emotion, emotions, excitement, excuse, facial expression, filipinos, firstly, fortitude, garbage, high expectation, ing, kc concepcion, movie, parents, patience, richard gutierrez, shortcomings, show business, skit, star, story, subtlety, time, trash
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It is indeed the first time that Bb. Joyce Bernal disappointed me. Over the weekend, I had the patience to watch the first starring film by KC Concepcion opposite Richard Gutierrez. I don’t know why Kookie had the “fortitude” to promote this high school skit; maybe, just maybe she was desperate. (more…)
2008
05.27
Tags: collections, doubts, downfall, emotion, familiarity, fears, flames to dust lovers to friends, good songs, goodbye my r, guess, heartbreaks, ipod nano, james blunt, last time, life, lifetime, love, love songs, melodies, music, musical, nelly furtado, pianos, playlist, s, sad song, seriousness, sleep, smile, snow patrol, story, struggle, time, true need, way of melody
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I have a TOGO playlist in my iPod Nano containing 8 songs. They are all love songs save one. Most of my collections contain songs of heartbreaks. I’m not saying I’m heartbroken. I think good songs are written during a downfall of an artist because there are so many emotions. An artist who didn’t experience a downfall isn’t an artist at all — in my opinion. (more…)
2008
05.20
Tags: acting, brinkster, capability, complexity, compromises, database files, few days, flavor, full t1, guis, hassle, moods, moral of the story, network, ports, server, spare time, ssd, story, test site, voice channels, voices, web pages, web server, windows
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I’m not exactly in the mood to write something non-innocuous (I’m just negating thoughtlessly here). So I finally am connected to a WiFi network and I have nothing to say except… (more…)
2008
05.18
Tags: collections, coordination issues, deep in my heart, demeanor, dreams, emotion, guess, heart, images, inspiration, kelly jones, lyrics, music, musical, perfect wife, Philosophy, playlist, point of view, priority, satisfaction, smile, steam, stereophonics, story, storyteller, travis, travis music
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The second batch of lyrical lines that I’ve picked from my playlist. It took me more than a week to complete this batch. I’m not as inspired as the last one I guess. That’s the problem when you are reading while listening. You have to give the book priority. (more…)
2008
04.28
Tags: adventurous nature, blog, blogging, christopher johnson mccandless, circumstances, confession, devotion, disappointment, discovery, emile hirsh, eternal bliss, feelings, good will hunting, happiness, inspiration, journey, life, love, material things, movie, nerve, notch, shell, slaves, story, submission, testament
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If something strikes a nerve in my head I usually blog or linger a thought about it. However, due to some uncontrolled circumstances, I lost my inspiration over the weekend. So here I am again, trying to remember the moment which confirmed and disappointed my way of living. I may have seen a movie that could push “Mallrats” or “Good Will Hunting” down a notch. I’ve only seen “Into The Wild” once, so I don’t know the effect if I watch it over and over again. (more…)