movies as elixir of life

Suiquijor

Assunta de Rossi, Ian Veneracion, Yul Servo

It's lame, they could have put more thrills in it. They have already established a good plot to start with, there should have been more goosebumping scenes to compensate for a long wait of the real actions, which become predictable in the later part, as what happens to the first victim (of the barang) also happens to the rest. And not much happens to the mambabarang himself! Except that he dies, too, with that simple counter-potion that the remaining three victims drunk. Like that. Or we should have been showed a lot of scary faces of that mambabarang (like that in the picture) while his victims are on the verge of death, not just himself being an ordinary old farmer walking with his stick plastered all over the movie. And his walking around doesn't seem to end.


Freedomland

Samuel L. Jackson, Jullianne Moore

Everyone in the community has been searching for Moore's "lost" child. And I don't know what's the problem with the people in this movie, they keep on fighting until the end. And there's so much talking here, I love it! I think I will have to stick with horror movies. Not much thinking required there.



Saw III

Tobin Bell

I thought Hostel was the grossest movie I've seen in my entire adulthood, dia pa diay lain. And I was, again, too stupid to pick this one from the shelf, I've never appreaciated movies with this genre (I watched Hostel bec of my papa Jay Hernandez, fyi). The cover does not have the title, and I almost kicked my pc when I learnt I was to watch Saw III. And bec I paid P16 for its rent, I watched it anyway. And guess what, there's not much story in there except for some pointless killings in the name of some asshole's games! HUH!!!



The Sleeping Dictionary


Hugh Dancy, Jessica Alba


This is good. The story isn't that powerful, though. It's just all about a forbidden love of a young Englishman John Truscott (Dancy) and his sleeping dictionary (a custom there where a woman is picked to sleep with a foreigner to teach him her society's habits and language) Selima (Alba), but its location (in some remote place with rivers and falls and mountains) makes it riveting. And Jessica Alba is so sexy here (makatomboy! LOL), she really fits the character she plays. This was shown sometime in 2003, most probably before she became so sikat like these days when she can turn down offers that will ask her to show some skin. Why?