Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

What is it like to have free time on you hands


  • There's "ME" Time for the personal beauty regimen I sometime's never get to do especially on hectic weeks since I only have one day off. I bought these items on a whim and its the first time I tried them and I'm glad that a.) I am not allergic to them, and b) they proved to be worth my money.
    • Watson's Glam line for Nose Strips delivered its promise of effectively removing blackheads from problem spots ! At only P 99.00 for 12 strips, usable 2x a week in between 3 day intervals, not bad!
    • I used Beauty Bar's Apple and Evening Primrose Mask after using the nose strip since my skin felt a bit tight and dry! and now my skin is shiny (not in the mood to add a pic of my face and scare you all off). This one is sold for P 39.00 each but if you buy 2 at a time, the set costs P59.00 only and this one can be used daily in place of your moisturizing creams.  





  • I get to read random internet pages without feeling guilty that I was not reading my cases!   
    • Just like this Cracked article which basically gave sense to the roller coaster of emotions I could not adequately put into words whenever law school chucks my self-esteem down the window. Dare I say, it took him 13 years to come up with these realizations, I went to law school and got a crash course.
  • Another bout of series cramming / movie hopping as well
    • Like a discussion on "Who is Gossip Girl?" and its none other than Dan - Pathetic - Humphrey.

    • Rurouni Kenshin the Movie ! 
      • Oh-god-its-so-so-awesome-iamdeadsigh-o/ Because it was sooooo fdamn gooooood, instead from a limited run of 5 days (December 5 to 10), SM Supermalls realized they had a sleeper hit and decided to extend showing until December 24, just before the Metro Manila Film Festival forces every foreign film out of the cinema in favor of some original Filipino flop movie (self-hate much I know, but I shall continue to diss until they find an original plot).
      • It totally captivated the essence of the anime. In fact I started watching my anime cd's right after I got home and the movie got everything in the first 3 episodes right even with the lone strand of hair in Saitou's face during the opening!
      • Sadly the movie ended just around the first arc, which was only until the introduction of Megumi into the plot, so sadly we don't get to see our dearly beloved Aoshi and Misao :< 




    • Cloud Atlas
      • This movie spans for three hours with about six different plots running at the same time. As one youtube comment put it, "its determined to confuse in the first hour." Its not an "awwww" gushing movie; However I found the movie to be running on one general theme only but depicted in the six different scenarios set in multiple eras not depicted linearly (because each scenario started with the past then went back to the future then somehow explained everything in the present) . 
      • On top of that it only had like 8 all star actors portraying the six different roles which was what made the film amazing because they were in character and one can really see the range and mettle of skills that they had to differentiate one from the other.
  • On other news I can see my floor again! Joke, but at least I am not having dreams that my paper stacks of readings would topple over me. 

Friday, November 2, 2012

Staycation 101: Movie Marathon






Ted (July 2012)
Now this is one movie I wish I've seen together with my boyfriend as recompense for all the chick flicks he may have sat through in his lifetime. Maybe its the bear, or the fact that it has such a foul mouth that makes this movie totally hilarious, or the fact that one can totally relate to it as it details every single man-child manifestation there seems to exist about men. From the girlfriend vs. bestfriend wars, to not dealing with emotions, childhood fears, 'immaturity', and what not; Mark Warhlberg who I thought was too old for this in the trailers was the perfect 35 year old who needs to grow up, after all, a man with a talking bear, no matter how awesome that bear is, is still a man with a bear. I'm going to stop here lest I ruin the magic of it in my head.


The Sweetest Thing (April 2002)
This one frankly bored me last year when I first saw it starting on HBO so I promptly flipped the channel in my bout channel-hopping. However, since I inadvertently got this copy from a friend, I decided to give this movie a chance, and then I realized its not so bad.

Typical Hot Blonde. Hot. Bitch. There's a running commentary of men who hates her. She's easy to lay, but closed off in emotions. Perfect for a one night stand but totally clueless about relationships until she decides to take a chance and drive halfway across the state to chase a man she had a connection with in a club only to find that it was already his wedding day the day she arrived. What is the guy to do, cancel his wedding of course!

But all is not lost with this movie because at the day there's this marvelous ode to the male organ sang in the tune of "I'm too sexy for my shirt" and some pretty horrific scenarios I do not want to be caught in, including but not limited to, having a d*ck stuck on your throat. Pretty good laugh even if its gutter humor. 



500 Days of Summer (October 2009)
I just love, love, loveeeee this movie! If I were an English or Humanities Prof, I'd give the writer and director of this movie and A++. This movie brings that scenic quality reading novels brings while keeping the oomph factor and the drama for movies very much intact. My heart went out to this young boy the moment the movie started with the line... this is not a love story. All throughout the movie I was readying myself for a Kleenex because my dear young boy is falling in love and its not his story just yet. I wanted to poke my screen, tell him to come to his senses, and stop himself from falling until he does... But you know what I loved most about this story? That even if things don't go our way, it does not mean we have missed our happy ending.


A Lot Like Love (Aug 2005)
If you are more impressed with the photographs taken within the movie rather than the movie itself that's a pretty bad sign. 
From the moment the movie started, the my first thought was, 'who the hell is this demi moore look a like?', and looking at Ashton Kutcher, well yeah I get the way he looks cute, but he kind of didnot throw off the look of 'dumb'. Its not like he is acting at all, as if he was just doing what he does in his everyday life - talking, having fun with his friends, and getting away with it because, well he looks cute. Cute and cute and that's pretty much it. No I don't hate Ashton, in fact I kind of liked him from his eyes, but I can't help but feel disappointed with this film and him. Considering this was 2005, and the fuckbuddy concept was not over used back then, this movie is totally flat. Just like Valentines Day. Oh wait he starred in that one too.