Rango

I got bored. But great animation and great voice talent.

The Adjustment Bureau

A pretty simple concept made complicated.

I didn’t like it despite having heard positive reviews about it. Maybe I because I was expecting more action…like maybe “Bourne Identity” but instead got a complicated love story.

Anyway, that’s just me.

 

Avalon High

Average tween movie.

The twist surprised me a little.

The King’s Speech

Based on a true story.

Deserves all the awards it got. The story was great, the cinematography superb, the actors moving.

Colin Firth did a good job in acting the parts where the King stuttered. Great, great movie.

Watch it.

My Valentine Girls

Honestly, the movie isn’t worth seeing on the big screen.

The movie’s composed of three episodes and they weren’t as creative as I thought they would be.

First episode was with Richard and Rhian Ramos. It was something like “Just Like Heaven” with a twist. This was the best story in my opinion.

Second episode was the worst, granted that I didn’t like Solenn Heusaff then and now. Her acting was the worst. She has the potential but her dramatic scenes with Lovi Poe were not good. At all.

Third episode was with Eugene Domingo and the funniest of the three.

 

The Princess and the Frog

This Disney animated movie features its first black/African-American princess. Yay for Disney!

But I think the movie’s not as great as the classics like “The Little Mermaid” or “Beauty and the Beast”.

I thought “Tangled” was way better than this movie. But you gotta appreciate the moral lessons in this movie. There were a lot. More than what I got from “Tangled” and probably just as much as what the classics had.

Anika Noni Rose voices Tiana while Oprah Winfrey lends her voice to Eudora, Tiana’s mom. I gotta say Eudora didn’t sound like Oprah.

 

Gulliver’s Travels

It’s not LOL inducing as I thought it would be. It’s cute, made me smile in some parts, but a little boring overall.

Let me put it this way: good thing I didn’t see this at the cinema.

By the way, this is movie number 17 out of Project 260.

Hachiko: A Dog’s Tale

I’ve always loved dogs. I had my first dog when I was 6 years old. I didn’t know then and I don’t know now what breed it was and I didn’t really care. My first dog was perfect: cute, cuddly and furry. She was loyal too. She would chase us whenever my parents and I had to go somewhere. Thankfully, she would get to go home safely. I don’t remember when she died but she got really sick and I cried buckets when she died. My favorite memory of her was when I was crying and she stayed by my side licking my tears away.

I can still name all the dogs I had (all 7 of them) and remember how they all died. I think I’ll name my next dog Hachiko (who will hopefully be either a Belgian Malinois, or a Japanese Akita or Rhodesian Ridgeback) in the hopes that he/she will be as loyal as his/her namesake.

The movie reminded me of my first dog and how I will always be a dog-person. :)

 

Bandslam

15/260

I thought it was okay.

Vanessa Hudgens was good. :)

Now that I’ve seen this, I can see the physical appearance in Aly Michalka then and now. I’m almost certain she had implants done and maybe had her nose changed too, though I’m not sure. There’s just something different about her face in “Bandslam” and the one that she has now in “Hellcats” and I can’t quite put my finger on it.

This one has a nice soundtrack.

 

Letters to Juliet

14/260

I thought this was cute.

And of course, I could relate. :)

And hopefully, I get that chance to find my own true love.

In other news, I had a weird dream. I attended a reunion of some sort and after seeing someone off and walking back to the party, my foot got run over by a delivery truck who had lost control of its brakes. In my dream, I was calling someone about my Medicard and then while I was doing that, an ex was calling me and I wasn’t happy that he was calling. Then I woke up.

 

Tangled and Burlesque

12/260

I like musicals. So I decided to see “Burlesque”.

It’s no “Dreamgirls” but I think it’s still worth your money. Acting and script aside, I think the musical numbers were great.

Kristen Bell is not stage worthy but I think she performed scenes out of stage really well.

Christina Aguilera was certainly lacking in terms of acting skills and could’ve used some improvement in acting out her scenes offstage but really performed well on stage.

Cameron Gigandet. Is. Hot.

Great songs too.

13/260

Tangled was really funny. Maximus the horse was funny. Mandy Moore did a great job in voice acting.

The story is somehow a bit different from what I remember but it’s a great movie nonetheless.

 

 

The Green Hornet

11/260

Watched The Green Hornet in 3D in Glorietta 4 today.

Comments:

1. The movie didn’t take full advantage of 3D effects.

2. Kato is cool.

3. Black Beauty is super cool.

4. The story was…um, okay.

5. The movie wasn’t funny enough. It could’ve used more humor.

6. Yes, it is Analeigh from America’s Next Top Model who was Britt’s date during the first 20 minutes of the movie.

Question:

Why were the credits shown twice? I thought that was a little weird. Like the actors credits were shown first then it was shown again. I was thinking they’d cut to the gaffer, grip, production crew type of thing credits. You know what I mean?

If you want to watch it, don’t watch it in 3D. That way, it won’t feel like it was a waste of money.

 

The Week So Far

Okay, I know it’s just Tuesday but I feel like giving a summary.

To lengthen the post, let me start with Saturday, January 22nd.

January 22:

A wonderful, wonderful concert.

Everyone was great. I especially enjoyed the performance from Basil Valdez. It’s so rare to be in the presence of Pinoy musical great.

January 23:

Just stayed at home, skipped church. Lazed around the house. Finally helped my mom organize our top closets. And then watched a total of three movies on cable tv and I’m thinking if I should include all of it in my Project 260. I’m contemplating just including “Everybody’s Fine” since it’s the one I haven’t seen before.

 

January 24

Had a wonderful day at the office. Started the day with this music:

Officemates and I were laughing about this one guy. Didn’t feel like I was working yesterday.

Ended the night with B. He came over late last night and I had to literally sneak out of the house just to see him. Like I had to make sure my parents were asleep. I carefully unhinged the door and the gate. B had wanted to drive to a nearby Starbucks. I declined so we stayed by my house. It was nice having a few laughs with him. By 12:30 MN, I had to send him home. Fortunately, my parents were still asleep.

January 25

First song on the iPod was Usher’s DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love

Then it was followed by weird songs, which seemed to have a story.

So I started with this song, right? Next couple of songs were mushy ones. By the time I was along Dela Costa, I was hearing Britney’s “Stronger” and then Fergie’s “Glamorous” by the time I was up the elevator. I laughed and asked God if there was a message in between. I would have loved to hear the response.

So right now, I’m ending the day blogging.

Let’s see…my TV’s showing this

And I have the urge to sing this song from Leighton Meester:

And still dreaming to go here:

 

Feng Shui and A Love Story

I thought Feng Shui was a bit funny.

I cried during A Love Story. I could relate. ;)

Six Days, Seven Nights

First saw this movie back when it first came out. Around 1998 maybe. I remember seeing this movie with my cousin.

I don’t remember if I liked it then. But I think the movie’s OK now. What I do remember is that this is the first movie I saw Harrison Ford do a romantic comedy.

 

Easy A

I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would.

It was my fault. I probably had too high of an expectation for this movie.

When In Rome

I remember wanting to see this with my then-boyfriend when it first came out. But of course, we didn’t and we shall not go into details.

Anyway, thanks to cable TV, I was finally able to see this movie.

Josh Duhamel looks great and Kristen Bell is just so pretty but they didn’t really have that on-screen chemistry.

The story was a little silly, in my honest opinion, but it suffices for a romantic comedy. The movie reminded me of my dream to go to Italy and Greece, mainly to fall in love with the art, history, place and of course that “one guy who will sweep me off my feet”.

My friend R and I had a heart-to-heart talk yesterday early morning over a bottle of tequila. She was telling me all about the advantages of being single. And because I was a little too sleepy and a little too drunk, I didn’t have the will and the heart to argue to say that I don’t want to be single anymore and that I knew the advantages all too well. I wanted to be a part of a couple. This in spite of having come from a really bad relationship recently…like sometime in 2010. I don’t even care to remember.

Anyway, this movie made me wonder…What it would be like to date a guy from a different race? Of course, he should be human, but you knew that and you knew what I was really sayin’, right?

I would recommend “The Proposal” over this movie. But, like I said, the movie is okay. It suffices for a romantic comedy.

 

 

 

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

Didn’t like it. Star-studded cast but I didn’t like it.

Death Becomes Her

2 of 260

Saw this again after more than 2 years. I remember watching this the first time and I thought it was funny. Now, I think it’s only slightly funny.

 

Project 260

This project/meme/whatever you would like to call it is a fruit from the brain of Charls.

Here are the rules.

The only reason I am joining this project is because I want to know exactly how many movies I see in a year, including those movies I’ve seen before. But as you can see, rules indicate that I only count those movies I haven’t seen within the year.