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I need to exercise.
Maybe it was the possibility of a whole new sickness (oh, like I don’t have enough!), or maybe it was my ever-protruding tummy that makes every outfit I wear look like one for the newly-mom. Either way, I need to become fit.
I am the epitome of the anti-health nut. So this undertaking is like a huge feat for me. Even the mere thought of exercise tires me already! And the idea of giving up junk food, fast-food, coke, salt, tortillos, chocolates, sweets…argh! It’s like a nightmare on loop.
Most of all, I never get motivated to exercise. Oh sure, there are some days I would wake up early, excited of the prospect of going to the sportscenter to do a lap or two. Or maybe just a lap. The sheer effort to go to the sports center has zapped my energies already. My 10-year old brother would look at me like I was hopeless, pointing out that my dad, who is in his late 40s, could do 12 laps around that oval, while at not even halfway I was complaining already.
I can’t lose my excess pounds through Sports either. No matter how cute the players are. Of course, I was a UST Tiger fanatic. My sophomore year was peppered with basketball game memories and stalking the players in our building. But that stemmed from school-loyalty than for the love of the game. And of course, from Papa Warren De Guzman (L-O-V-E!!!*with pompoms and all*). Haha. I was such a geek.
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Oh.My.Fudge.
Is this guy for real? Amidst surfing the net for ”exercising” tips (yeah, right. I was on the prowl for shopping websites), I happened upon this Yehey article supposedly rolling its eyes on the Metro Manila FilmFest brou-ha-ha.
I was rather surprised that the year started with much fracas about the MMFF (Metro Manila Film Festival). Doesn’t this drama happen every year and doesn’t every Tom, Dick and Harry know that the “Best Picture Award” goes to the highest grosser? Heck, my yaya knew that “Enteng” would win even before everything started. So what’s all the fuss all about? I queried with the “brightest” minds in the film industry and here is what I found out!While I’m no fan of the movie “Enteng Kabisote”, I took the liberty of scrutinizing it as well the film that I thought was good, Ligalig. Anyway, Ligalig’s producer, Cesar Monatno, was rather vocal against the MMFF. Enter more drama. ….…First of all, I find it preposterous that certain people would hit on the credibility of the MMFF judges; Bienvenido Lumbera and Eddie Romero weren’t proclaimed our National Artists for nothing, you know!
While I agree with the last sentence, it still makes you wonder how such “National Artists” could choose a film so crass and unoriginal. “Enteng Kabisote 3″ is the latest of a passe franchise. “Okay Ka Fairy Ko” was a show I loved as a child, but come-on. I’m 22 and the movie is starting to look like a fudging TV series. We shouldn’t put that much effort on that. If you’re gonna spout off some un-thought-of storyline, why don’t you just revive the series? At least on TV, the lack of imagination doesn’t really matter, because most things on Philippine TV lack meat anyway. National Artists befitting of their title should have taste, and should know better than vote for such crap that the rip-off would not even be sued for infringement because, hello, it’s just not worth it.
The “Best Picture” category is now a complete joke, a statement to the lack of talent and art of a fast-dying industry nobody would even bother saving anymore. Because of such decisions, the supposed “honor” is tainted. What self-respecting director would actually take pride in being put in the same category as that waste of film?
Angsty, aren’t we? Well, I think it’s about time. For a while, we as Filipino movie-goers were treated to a glimpse of a future with Mark Meily, Jon Red, Michael Sandejas and other Cinemalaya gems at the helm, a supposed easing to another could-be “Golden Age”. Then in one sweep, all hopes are crushed. We cannot put faith in having good things to watch anymore. No wonder we turn to Hollywood to “pollute” our young minds.
And just as ya’ll would slaughter me if I just copied this article from someone else’s’ text, the movie Ligalig did just that. Well, according to veteran journalist Julie Yap Daza, Ligalig is “a mere paste of the plot and character of the French movie ‘High Tension’”. Furthermore, Julie opines that “if Cesar Montano will insist that Ligalig came to him as a dream, I’d be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Though I doubt the French will!”
Why are their panties in a wad?? The “best” for them is a rip-off from Star Wars, Ant Bully and many others. My 10-year old brother watched the premiere and even he commented that it was just NOT GOOD. Surely, Amiel’s yaya, whose opinion soooo matters, has something wrong with her, like having hots for Vic Sotto.
The generation before us was lucky. They got to see the end of the Bernal-Brocka era. Those of us whose only exposure to them was the news of Brocka’s death cannot relate to the greatness of Philippine Cinema. We did not see that. All we have been watching since was, and still is, crap.
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- Mark Lapid. Apoy sa Dibdib ng Samar (2006)
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