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Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Love & Other Drugs

It’s the love month and it’s that time of year again when everybody gets crazy and cheezy and the word annoying... corny takes the back seat. Oh well, this blog was triggered by a really fun chat with an old friend (two bottles of San Mig Light and one Mudshake Cappuccino for me) regarding, again, crazy and cheezy things people do when it comes to matters of the heart and the movie I watched this morning on my own since my wife and her college buddies already seen it on the big screen on a women’s only night out. So I resorted to my reliable mode of entertainment delivery and with my new Skull Candy Lowrider Rasta headphones! Sweet gift from the Wifey!


If you judge this movie by its poster alone which you can’t probably miss if ever you walk by it, well… it practically speaks half of what to expect of the movie. I bet you know what I mean. And though by my standards unusually long at 1 hour and 47 minutes, the movie again by my standards offered more. I guess you have to forgive me, I’m not used to watching chick flicks and forgive me again if I labeled the movie a chick flick but again forgive me because the last chick flick I watched was “Serendipity” and it was ages ago… in dog years, that is. So what’s the other half of the movie? The serious side of relationships… boom!


Verdict: The movie wasn’t bad and I can’t help but notice Anne Hathaway’s acting in this movie. Acting… and I mean it.

Should you watch it? Yes!

Will I watch it again? grin… grin… big grin!








Thursday, July 22, 2010

Kick-Ass Isabelle

I got a copy of Kick-Ass the other day, a movie I wasn’t interested in watching on the big screen. Not interested maybe because Nicholas Cage is in it or maybe because it’s not based on a comic hero like those from Marvel and DC. Anyway after devoting more than an hour and a half of my time, I’d say it was worth it. But what made it more memorable for me were scenes that referenced my beloved country… Philippines! It’s not the first time we got mentioned in movies or television shows which were mostly unpleasant. This time it’s somewhat intellectual… informative. Batangueno's would be proud!

The scene.

One of the heroines in the movie was Mindy/Hit-Girl played by Chloe Moretz whom I thought was the little girl from “Little Miss Sunshine” Abigail Breslin. Nicholas Cage played her dad Damon/Big Daddy. The following clips shows Big Daddy and Hit-Girl talking about a gift… butterfly knife, which is locally known as “balisong.”


























subtitle indicated "one dollar...? two dollar...? but actually what Big Daddy was saying was "one balisong... two balisong"










































So... Americans call them "Isabelle" from "balisong"

Isa-balisong or Isabelisong! lol!