Tom: I don’t understand. How can you go from being a girl who doesn’t want a boyfriend to a girl with a husband?
Summer: I just woke up and I knew.
Tom: Knew what?
Summer: What I was never sure of with you.
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Scenes from the movie 200 Pound Beauty.
‘You broke my heart. Tissue won’t fix it’
Sangjun to Jenny: Now you’re pretty like me.
But inside, I am really 200 pounds!
Life and Lemons Movie Review
And that’s two hours of my life I will never get back.
Posted on August 29, 2009The tickets were free. So I thought what the hell. So that’s basically what it all added up to. The Tagalog movie snub in me thought the automatic ‘ew’ at mere thought of the Bea Alonzo-Sam Milby starrer. But I liked those two Sarah-John Lloyd movies (I forgot the titles, haha), thus the decision ‘what the hell’. Maybe Tagalog love stories are finally getting more substance than mush.
But no. Gah—no. Between all the face-eating and the sleazy looks and the manufactured kilig moments and the choppy story-telling and convoluted dialogue and the twisted spoken Tagalog (cannot be helped from the Amboy, irritatingly intentional for the starlet) and the mush, gaaaah the never ending mush, my sister and I were the first to bolt the minute the lights turned on. We were hiding our faces. What was extra funny though was I was sitting between Jean and Celina, and it was like straddling a state line, i.e. when Sam was singing ‘And I love You So’ to googly-eyed Bea, Celina and I were looking for somewhere we can politely vomit, while Jean was gushing and giggling. I keep telling Jean she’s reading too many Tagalog romance novels. She refuses to listen.
Thank Candy Pangilinan for the intentionally funny moments. Those few minutes saved my bleeding brain.
I’m going back to Hogwarts. The story of an 11-year wizard destined to defeat Evil incarnate is a lot more realistic, surely.
You’re gonna sit for two hours in an SM theater and you’re gonna like it!!
There are reasons why I don’t watch movies in SM anymore. And coming there yesterday to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince reminded me of said reasons with renewed force. Although yes, admittedly, the experience wasn’t as bad as expected. I was gratefully surprised the stink wasn’t hanging in the air-conditioned air and the floors weren’t as sticky. And apparently they don’t allow you to repeat the movie anymore, which is great for crowd and cleanliness control. Again, with the cleanliness. But still, the seats were horribly thin and squashed, the aircon just freezes through the bone marrow and was it just me or was the screen quality all fuzzy? I so need to watch it again. Mm, money. I need money.
PLEASE STOP HERE IF YOU DON’T WANT TO READ SPOILERS IN THE FORM OF OPINIONS. I DON’T WANT YOU MURDERING ME UNNECESSARILY.
The movie bored lots of people who were complaining that it was all talk and less action. To such people, I say, it was based on a 607-page book. Try telling Tom Riddle‘s past or explaining Horcruxes with more CGI than good dialogue and that will turn out more Star Wars than Harry Potter. Honestly, nobody wants that.
That being said, the HP6 movie came off to me like an indie-feeling, dramatic comedy with big budget CGI and sweeping landscapes and, oh yes, magic. I liked the treatment. I think it was the only way the sixth book could be treated. The fifth was the pivotal thing, and after that you kind of break off that long hanging tension about You-Know-Who and where he’s lurking and what he’s plotting. Now you already know, and you’re already burrowing into the past to look for something, anything, that one thing that will kill him and–in all intents and purposes–save the world.
A few random points: Harry was so funny when he was high on Felix Felicis, Ron was funny the entire time (kowaiso!), I am still rooting for Harry and Hermione all the way (come on, you’ve got to see it’s so organic), i think Ginny should return to just crushing on harry and leave him alone (although their scenes are admittedly sweet), I felt for Draco and Snape, and i cried, as expected, goosebumps and all, when Dumbledore fell.
There’s still a lot more to be said about this, but I would need my fellow Potter fans. They are the only people who will understand my kind of HP talk 🙂
