"I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny."

 I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Audrey Hepburn 

What do you call beautiful? A tree. You'll look like a tree.

Miss Whoever You Are

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are?  You're chicken, you've got no guts.  You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness."  You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage.  Well, baby, you're already in that cage.  You built it yourself.  And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland.  It's wherever you go.  Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
-Paul Varjak to Holly Golightly 

You Need to Dream A Little Bigger: My first IMAX experience

I am psyched that Cebu finally got an IMAX theatre! And Inception is showing! I'm terrible at making movie reviews (I over-analyse, over-criticize, over-worship, I can never be un-biased) so I'll refrain from reviewing this movie and just tell you to WATCH IT to get a dose of "high", only Inception+Imax can offer. 

Okay, so that was a review. Darn. I can't resist. 

Okay, whatever. 

The movie displayed amazing cinematography and Cristopher Nolan has a vision that (hopefully) will change heist movies forever. The movie combines the magic that brought Matrix, Dark Knight and Memento to great heights and delivered it in this movie. Only, sometimes, they did it too well and I feel that they could have further explored the intricacies of the characters' mindsets and psyche. It could have made a better psychology thriller movie than a heist movie, but then, I can't complain since I loved the way Nolan did it anyway. Leonardo DiCaprio is already one of my favorite actors since he has long shed his Titanic(Hollywood cute guy) skin, I think his choice of movies are the best and I can easily compare his tastes to that of Johnny Depp's eccentricities which they both portray so well in each movie they choose. Marion Cotillard, whom I loved as an actress in The Good Year and Nine, was brilliant in her role as the wife. She was downright creepy, I can feel her underlying craziness underneath the facade of outer fragility. She was crazy, yet she made it so that the audience finds it hard to believe she was that, the ultimate pseudo-protagonist-cum-villain. Joseph Gordon-Levitt..well, since when has he ever failed me?! I adore him. This time, he was the hot Point man. Hot. He.Is. He also showed his action skills in the movie via ala-matrix-like elevator scene which was one of the movie's biggest crowd-WoWer! These three made the biggest impact on screen. Ellen Page was negligible, she could have milked her part better, and the others roles were too constricted to really put too much brilliance on screen. Oh, wait, there was that guy who played the target. He did pretty well too! 

One bad thing about IMAX, it can get too noisy. LMAO. And the seats were packed too tight in SM, we weren't in the aisle seats so when I had a full bladder, I had to wait for like 30 minutes because I don't want to miss any good parts and I don;t want to embarrass myself by blocking people's views. Darn. New rule: No Iced teas during Movies. haha!

How do I hate thee? Let me count thy ways...

It was shown in 1999 and I've seen it only in 2003 but it immediately became my favorite. The Shakespearean twist gave it a fresh angle and made it memorable. It was also based from one of my favorite Shakespeare comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. It also features 3 of my favorite Hollywood actors; Joseph Gordon Levitt, Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. 

Movie marathon

—from February 11 to February 15

 

BoyC’s DVD

• Australia-lukewarm
• bolt-cool!
• the day the earth stood still-too much of a cliché to be fully enjoyed
• Marley and me-cool!
• yes man-lukewarm
• Igor-bore
• Benjamin button-hot!

Mine!

• serendipity-fave!
• a good year-fave!
• catch and release-lukewarm
• the break-up-lukewarm
• Kate and Leopold-fave!
• music and lyrics-cool!
• the lake house-cool!