of course the book is better but…

you must not miss this movie if you are a harry potter fan. the effects are still amazing and the kids have grown up to be good actors particularly tom felton (draco malfoy). as always, alan rickman have proven to be perfect for the role of severus snape…

some memorable quotes :

how grand it must be to be the chosen one. – severus snape

you have to realize who you are harry. – hermione granger

potter, take weasley with you. he looks far too happy over there. – professor mcgonagall

fight back you coward! – harry potter

once again I must ask too much of you, harry. – albus dumbledore

 

not that into you

warning : me mga spoilers ang post na to. not for those who have not watched but is planning to watch.

this movie is about the many faces of rejection. totoo.

it is a story about several people both single and in a relationship, a story about a couple in a 7year relationship where the girl wanted marriage and the guy does not believe in one, about a married couple’s slide to growing apart and about 5 single people’s confusion and quest on being single and in the whole duration of the movie, i lost count on how many times both the men and women got rejected in this movie.

nakakapagod. sabi nga ng charater ni drew :

I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It’s exhausting.

sad diba? but nevertheless i liked the movie. siguro kasi most of the times, misy of the time i know the signs of rejection and i try, as in try, try, try to take them gracefully. pero of course i have my share of gigi-moments too when i was younger. gigi is ginnifer goodwyn’s characther who never gets tired of being rejected! since i went to see this film with girl friends – lahat kami gusto namin sya upakan sa sobrang hopeful and stupid ng character nya. hahahaha! everytime me scene sya, my friend and i will whisper “oh no… oh no… ano na naman ang kagagahan mo ngayon?”, and the other friend even threathen to walk out of the film saying, “sorry, hindi ko kinakaya ang kahihiyan nya!”. nakakatawa ang movie at nakakatawa ang mga reactions namin

nakakapagod panoorin ang movie, but when they played the song – somewhere only we know  by keane (big fan ako ng singer na to), i started to feel good at the end of it.

feel good movie ba sya? para sa akin — oo, kasi at the same time it made you realize how at one (or maybe a hundred) point in your life we, at least my friends and i acted like them and you realize, you shouldn’t have kasi nakakahiya pala yun

for me, best part of the movie is justin long as alex

checkout jessica zafra’s review of the film as well.

slumdog millionaire

warning : this post contain spoilers (so if hindi nyo pa panood better not read and then later hate me)

 

when was the last time you were touched by a movie?

jamal malik is one question away from winning 20million rupees.

 

how did he do it?

 

a. he cheated

b. he’s lucky

c. he’s a genius

d. it is written

 

dahil nga ang gusto ko nalang pinapanood lately ay ang mga feel-good-tagalog movies clueless about “slumdog millionaire” na nananalo ng best picture sa golden globes! nung sinabi ng movie-fanatic-friend ko na maganda ito at very different sa ibang movies, hindi ko lang sya pinansin. kasi para sa akin, malamang ang movie na ito, kapag pinanood ko e ma-stress ako kakaisip dahil sa lalim ng gusto iparating. so, sa tulad kong tamad na mag isip kapag umuwi na galing sa trabaho, hindi ko binalak na alamin ang. pero, noong sinabi ng brother ko na maganda and movie, na-curious ako… aba! ang kapatid ko na ang idea of a good movie eh fast and the furious at ang paboritong panoorin e mga movie ni jim carrey, nagandahan sa slumdog millionaire??? sinabi nya sa akin ang plot na sinabi na rin noon ng kaibigan ko… sige, papanoorin ko nga…

 

 

totoong maganda at very deserving ng best picture ang slumdog millionaire. the indian actors performed at their best. this movie showed us the slum part of india, but at the same time pinakita din nito na kahit ang isang taong lumaki sa slums at nabuhay sa pagiging con, will turn out to be someone who, when asked a question, answers them. truthfully. too truthful sabi nga ng pulis na interogator nya. the movie tells us about jamal, and his journey in life that lead him to the who-wants-to-a millionaire-contestant-seat. pinakita nito how someone un-educated (sabi nga nila) answered his way to the 20-million-rupees-question. jamal, in the movie, reminded me that the answers to life’s random questions are not always found and learned in the confines of a classroom or within the university walls. and in the end jamal would surprise me that all along he joined the show for a different reason most of us would.

 

one who is not used to watching foreign movies, like me, would probably be bothered with an all indian cast. i wasn’t. and I liked it. and when the film ended, i can only applaud and remember how this movie touched me and how the actors, especially the kids are very convincing in this film. i hope this one wins the oscars, too.

 

memorable dialogue (i hope i got them correctly)…

 

sargeant : professors, doctors, lawyers, genarals never get beyond sixty thousand rupees. he’s at ten million. what the hell can a slumdog possibly know?

policer officer : the answers?

jamal malik : i knew… the answers.

photo from imbd.

edit : 24 february 2009

it’s official, this film won the 2008 best pirture award, best director, best screenplay, best original song and best orginal song among the 8 awards na nakuha nya kagabi.

 yup, the kids were there at the awards night, too!

top 5 favorite movie quotes

sharing top 5 movie quotes that stuck to my mind after i watched the movie.

1. “what i don’t wan’t to happen is to end up wondering what might have happened knowing i could have done something,” – annie reed, Sleepless In Seattle.

2. “it does not do good to dwell on dreams harry, and forget to live”, – dumbledore, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone.

3. “the only true currency in this bankrupt world… is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool”, – lester bangs, Almost Famous

4. “i had 2 slices of pizza, went to bed and grew a conscience!” - jerry maguire, Jerry Maguire

5. “my life is made up of units of time. Buying CDs – two units. eating lunch – three units. exercising – two units. all in all, I had a very full life. tt’s just that it didn’t mean anything, ” – will, About A Boy

what is your favorite movie quote?

thanks to www.imdb.com for the images.