Our situation here is like being held hostage by a bunch of juvenile delinquents with guns. For that matter, our country is being held at bay by a bunch of pre-puberty terrorists. It is grotesque to say the least.
I am getting another chance to revisit Beleriand. The War of the Rings is on. The Company has just lost Gandalf in Moria. And there is still such a long, long way to go. It is an adventure on an epic scale. And I am glad that it is an adventure that we both share, together with all the Free People of Middle Earth.
But notwithstanding the glory of the Third Age, I am sure that you will agree with me when I say that the greatest adventure on earth today is our struggle for freedom. The pain and the sacrifice are staggering. The battles are historical. And the victory shall be truly glorious indeed.
Filipino Reader Con 2013 will be held on November 9th in Ateneo De Manila U Rizal Library. I'm looking forward to the small/self/indie publishers who will be selling their wares on the event. (I'm not trying to be hipsta here. I just don't enjoy belonging to a huge-ass fanbase of something. Also, folks that are not yet that big in their industry deserve a brighter spotlight, yeah?)
Visprint will be holding a Warehouse Sale on all Saturdays of October and I'm super excited to get my hands on my first Filipino comic books! (First... or so I believe.) I've seen previews of both Trese and Kulas somewhere in the cyberspace and I think that I'll learn a lot about comic-making (what... i.e. paneling) once I actually start intaking those materials (yeah sorry I really wanna do lots of stuff)
Last week I've gone to the cinema twice. It might have left my purse emaciated, but I swear to the universe it was all worth it. On the weekends I accidentally started procrastinating again and indulged myself in film trailers, short films, and documentaries
Cinderella (1950)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Hercules (1997)
Because one vampire movie marathon won't do
Let Me In (2010)
The Horror of Dracula
(1958)
Jeepers Creepers
(2001)
Abraham Lincoln:
Vampire Hunter (2012)
Nosferatu (1922)
Corvinus’ sons are little asses who seem to be oblivious of the dangers of the world. One got bitten by a bat and turned into a vampire. Another got bitten by a wolf and turned into a lycan. Well we all know that vampires shapeshift into werewolves, but this film suggests that the two are adversaries. The plot was able to illustrate how that came to be so i guess it’s fine. The storyline was a little effortless and i still don’t think that the presence of hot peepz and heavy morbidity will make up for it. The series i think still hasn’t met its end yet kasi the latest instalment was open ended so i guess i'll just have to watch out for Underworld 5
A vampire hunter (who was a semi-vampire himself) tries to stop whatever the most oppressive of bloodsuckers was up to via really slick Enter the Dragon-esque moves. There are lots of OA scenes, but i think that that further adds pogi points. Plus points for a ‘stached sidekick, a special zombie appearance, and a bloodsucking hitman that keeps coming back to life no matter how many times you slice and dice and fry him. Basta children, remember, crosses and holy water don’t do dick! But silver will. Because silver repels werewolves, and fuck yeah vamps equals werewolves
The lost boys are a bunch of teenage bike-riding hipster warlocks who wear Jack Sparrow earrings and dress flashily and do rad adrenaline-inducing shit together and bleed glitter. Yep, glitter. This film will sort of make you want to become a vampire yourself. Getting rid of vampires will require traditional stake and sunlight, but, to quote vampire beta, garlic don’t work, boys. Holy water does, though. Also, the film was consistent with Sweden’s Let the Right One In with its invite-lé-vampire-first-so-that-it-can-enter-your-house decree and i think that’s a rule every vampire film should absorb
The comedy version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. At first i thought it’d suck, but i had to admit that some scenes were funny or shallow lang talaga 'ko huhu. In this film, Renfield was Gollum and Dracula was his precious, Van Helsing’s accent was rrr’s and zzz’s. Vampires have daymares and i think that’s logical natawa ako :( This shit was brimming with estrogen and boobs and boners but i swear it still cannot possibly make anyone go unf
Now this one’s been residing in my movie folder for a century now and tonight just happened to be vampire movie marathon night. So Jerry here is the new resident vampire and people from the neighbourhood disappear one by one. This film has introduced me to new vampire shit—vampires cannot be caught on camera and they start looking like that shark from Jaws whenever they feed. I was sort of super expecting that it’d be David Tennant who’d be savin the freakin day, and though i didn’t get the ending i was so fucking looking forward to, i was gripped to see how Jerry the Vampire’s 400-year-old ass turned out to have no match for David fucking Tennant’s 900-year-old time lord bottom. Fuck yeah time lords!
Brothers Seth (Clooney) and Richie (Tarantino) has taken a family of three as hostage and wound up in a nest of vampires halfway into the movie—it took that long that i almost thought it wasn’t a vampire movie at all! Tarantino here was a mentally impaired sex offender and i think that that bit made the movie a whole lot cooler. Now i’ve developed this newfound crush on Clooney and Tarantino okayladjf. I think they are the coolest terrorists ever. I also think that this, by far, is the coolest bloodsucker movie i’ve ever seen! The climax was brimming with undead boners and undead boobs and lots of Jackie Chan action and disembodied body parts. Did i mention they filled condoms up with holy water? MAN THOSE WERE THE COOLEST FREAKIN BOMBS I’D EVER. SET. MY EYES. UPON ON! However, although the plot was action-filled and super kickass, the ending was sort of disappointing. BUT MAN, THIS FLICK ROCKS! WATCH IT, RETARDS!
I know it's almost christmas but
tiktik (2012)
I’ve seen this flick weeks ago already but hey let me exploit the overly creative blog post title okay? I’ve seen this film in the cinema with shai and we were laughing half the time. The other half was spent transferring from seat to seat and exchanging annoyed looks because half of one girly couple (as in a couple of two girls) had her mobile phone pen light turned on throughout the movie and she sucked and i hated her because of that so please don’t ever do that in the cinema because it annoys the fuck out of other people. As for the viewing part of the experience, i was actually expecting 100% horror slash suspense material with a little dash of drama maybe since nobody ever really told me about it hopping onto the loveboat of comedy so i really loathed myself sort of for disregarding the fact that ramon bautista was in it and that ramon bautista was all about giggles and shit related to giggles. When it comes to visuals, i was kinda annoyed by the graphics since it was too realistic and too three-dimensional for me that everything looked unreal and everything looked as if it was made of non-shiny plastic and matté. The storyline wasn’t at all that awesome, but hey, screw dingdong, EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE HIS DOSE OF HOT PREGNANT LOVI POE SHOOTING UNEARTHLY CREATURES WITH WHAT SEEMED TO BE A SUPER DUPER HEAVY ARMALITE, YA?
28 days later (2002)
Zombie guts. Zombie guts and Cillian Murphy’s hot skinny bod because I am into hot skinny bods now and the Ninth Doctor were all here and it’s an apocalypse movie with zombielike creatures in it so I think people should watch it, really. Lots of pew-pews and sugar-overdosing and Valium-popping too! Sounds fun, eh?
the evil dead (1983)
Yuck. I would’ve taken a screenshot of it but i forgot i’ve zapped the .avi file out of the recycle bin forever.
the exorcist (1983)
This was not the first time i saw this film, but i never really understood any of it the first time i saw it because i was still a dumb little boy back then. The storyline does not really stand out—it was a straight to the point, “ahhh my child was possessed turn her back into a normal kid again oh wow that was quick thanks but sorry you died in the process” sort of film with no plot twists so i kinda got bored watching it but i’m not saying people should stop watching it or recommending it to other people because i think (I THINK) people living in the 70’s have not yet considered films like these to be cliché and i think that that’s a good enough reason to sort of suck, but please let the audience do some thinking goddamnit. Also, there are some graphic stuff in it so i think sadists or masochists or whatever-you-call-them-pain-loving-folks ists will sort of like it because yes there is blood involved.
triangle (2009)
This film is one huge mindfuck but then an hour and eight minutes into it you’ll think that you’ve already gotten the hang of it but you actually don’t because things get even more complicated after that. Whatever i will say next may or may not be a spoiler—if it is don’t tell me i didn’t tell you because i evidently did—but at first i thought Aeolus has sort of fallen into a time riff and Jess and Greg and the others were just painted with bad luck but in the end you’ll figure that this movie is really one hell of a mind boomer and that the screenwriter was a genius nutz. Besides the epic storyline may i just note that i found it super amazing how the people behind this film whoever they are were able to turn this shit into some sort of a horror film (but then i know not what i horror film truly is sorry for that)—WITHOUT PUTTING OUT THE SUN! Fucking awesome, right? However, if people are not actually into horror films and epic storylines, well, the actors are quite yummy (Jess and Vic and Greg especially) so i really think people should see this shit. Awesome, hot, crazy shit.
resident evil: retribution (2012)
It was frustrating to see how hot the actors were—the guys’ arms were super sexy and i loved catching glimpses of them because unf and alice had such a small frame which i can only wish to have as i think i will never ever get the motivation to actually go on a diet or exercise regularly or do whatever those healthy sexy fit people on telly say they do. Also, i wasn’t impressed by how alice’s epic ninja skillz suddenly skyrocketed from 100 to 2000 because that’s super unacceptable in the real world. There were lots scenes where i thought they are too shit fucked to survive but they survived anyway—i mean wow shit kulang nalang they shoot lazers out of their mouths or something. But i guess that is totally what they’d be doing the in the 6th instalment and man i wish it’d come out already.
poltergeist (1982)
I was supposed to finish this film with monica but we moved on to films with Ellen Page in it so i guess we forgot about this particular one but it was hanging out in my movie folder and since this was a post-halloween marathongs, why not, eh? So the only creepy thing in this film was the clown-like doll but i guess the animated tree put out all the creepiness. Ah, the 80’s. I learned lots about the other spectrum from this clairvoyant and i really think that this film served its educational purpose well. Also, portals!
