If you want a more compelling love story between a vampire and a human, you'd want to see Let the Right One In. The vampire is the girl and the human is the boy. They're both 12 years old. You get to see the vampire be like a vampire and the human be more like a human. It's a love story within a horror story.
I have to give the writers credit for convincing me to care for the vampire that, unlike in Twilight, actually did vampire stuff (like killing an innocent stranger for blood). Hey, it's not everyday that I sympathize with vampires. When I was eight, there was this certain time when I and my friends wore red arm bands as protection from vampires rumored to be roaming around preying on children. On hindsight, it was very naive of us to believe that a piece of cloth of a particular color would protect us from the bloodsucking creatures of the night, but the most interesting thing was that it was our parents who actually made us do it. It was as if all the parents in our neighborhood unanimously agreed that vampires did exist, infiltrated our peaceful village, and the red arm band would spare us. It was a very rural thing. And it was my childhood. And here I am, actually caring for this bloodsucking vampire in a way that Twilight never made me, however tame the vampires in there were compared to this one in Let the Right One In.
Go see it if you get the chance. It's a Swedish film based on a Swedish novel.
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Speaking of writers who made me care for characters whom I normally wouldn't, I can say the same thing for the writers of the Prison Break TV series that is now in its fourth season. It takes time for a US series to come here in the Philippines. At first, I mainly only heard about this series in its pilot premier. I heard about it from the Fox News Channel. They were predicting it to be a hit and I thought I'd never watch the series if it ever came here in the Philippines. When I was young and whenever we heard news about a local prison break, our neighborhood would become alert all of a sudden and our parents would barely let us out especially if the escapees included murderers. I'd imagine, if that breakout from the first season of this popular TV series happened in our city, my parents would never let me out the house and play with my friends until all of them are aprehended or killed. And here I am, many years later, actually sympathizing with the escape convicts from the series. The writers should get an award for each season the series is on air.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Twilight
The best thing about this movie is that I got to see it for free because of our company's monthly movie night.
I thought it was boring. I mean not "I'm sleepy" boring, I never felt sleepy while watching it, but that there's not much anything going on for probably the first half of the movie. At the end there was this action sequence that I thought was too tame for a vampire movie. So I guess this is truly a movie about love more than it is a vampire movie. It's a love story. But with vampires. It's okay, but did it really have to be boring?
Now, this is the Philippines so usually when there's a buzz about an upcoming movie based on a book, that book shoots up the Philippine best seller list. It shoots up in popularity. A number of my co-workers devoured book after book in the series. I thought I'd read the book after the movie, in case I liked the movie and want to find out more about it. But the cheezy quotes from the book that were being used by my friends as their "status messages" in their messenger accounts made me think I really shouldn't bother. Well, now, I've seen this movie and I'm not going to bother.
Incidentally, when the first Harry Potter movie made the book popular in the Philippines I didn't rush to buy the novel. I only bought the books after seeing the second movie. I thought there was more to the story than what the movie conveyed. Does this mean that the second movie in this franchise will make me read the books? Potentially, yes, but if the status messages of my IM buddies are any indication, most probably not.
I thought it was boring. I mean not "I'm sleepy" boring, I never felt sleepy while watching it, but that there's not much anything going on for probably the first half of the movie. At the end there was this action sequence that I thought was too tame for a vampire movie. So I guess this is truly a movie about love more than it is a vampire movie. It's a love story. But with vampires. It's okay, but did it really have to be boring?
Now, this is the Philippines so usually when there's a buzz about an upcoming movie based on a book, that book shoots up the Philippine best seller list. It shoots up in popularity. A number of my co-workers devoured book after book in the series. I thought I'd read the book after the movie, in case I liked the movie and want to find out more about it. But the cheezy quotes from the book that were being used by my friends as their "status messages" in their messenger accounts made me think I really shouldn't bother. Well, now, I've seen this movie and I'm not going to bother.
Incidentally, when the first Harry Potter movie made the book popular in the Philippines I didn't rush to buy the novel. I only bought the books after seeing the second movie. I thought there was more to the story than what the movie conveyed. Does this mean that the second movie in this franchise will make me read the books? Potentially, yes, but if the status messages of my IM buddies are any indication, most probably not.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Revisiting the half-blood Prince
I've just finished rereading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the 6th book of the Harry Potter series. This would just be my 2nd reading of book 6, the first one being back in 2005, when the book was first released. Unlike the first time that I read it, this time around I wasn't in such a hurry to finish, my rereading was spread in three days. And I realized that I'm appreciating the events in the book much more than when I first read it. I guess fictional books are designed to be read recreationally and never in a hurry. I appreciate the characters more, as well as the events. The death of Dumbledore, for example, resonated on me stronger than when I first read it. Now I want to continue with a rereading of book 7, but unfortunately I'm in Cagayan de Oro right now and my copy is in Cebu. I don't want to wait to return to Cebu to reread the book because then I'll be busy with work. I want to reread it now while I'm on vacation. So I downloaded a PDF of book 7. I'd much rather read the ink-on-paper book, but this will have to do for now.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Oh, gladness
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere. Almost everywhere. Christmas songs are playing. Decorations are up and they're no more prominent than when I go home at night. Christmas is here and there's nothing you can do about it.
Last year, I had to spend Christmas away from home. It was my first year to work in a city far from my home. It's an island away in fact. And it became my first time to spend Christmas away from home. December 26th wasn't declared a special holiday and I didn't want to travel Christmas night to go to work the next day. And so I decided not to go home for Christmas, opting to go home for the New Year Holiday instead. But Christmas isn't really just one day, so if I think about it I did go home for Christmas, it's just not on the 25th.
This year will be different. I have a timely rolloff from a project and I'm now entitled to paid vacation. And I will be taking it in the last two weeks of December. This year, I will truly be going home for Christmas. And I'm so happy.
Last year, I had to spend Christmas away from home. It was my first year to work in a city far from my home. It's an island away in fact. And it became my first time to spend Christmas away from home. December 26th wasn't declared a special holiday and I didn't want to travel Christmas night to go to work the next day. And so I decided not to go home for Christmas, opting to go home for the New Year Holiday instead. But Christmas isn't really just one day, so if I think about it I did go home for Christmas, it's just not on the 25th.
This year will be different. I have a timely rolloff from a project and I'm now entitled to paid vacation. And I will be taking it in the last two weeks of December. This year, I will truly be going home for Christmas. And I'm so happy.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
210th
This would be my 210th post and I can't come up with a real title so I'll just call this 210th. I should have been way over 300 posts already. I don't know why I'm not blogging as regularly as before. Kind of ironic, considering that I now have a personal Internet subscription.
Cine Europa 2008
Last month, I, along with friends from the office, went to see Cine Europa 2008 at the Ayala Center. We were mostly interested with the French movie, Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs), because most of us took up French 101 a year ago. Unfortunately for us, instead of the original schedule of 7:00PM, it was shown at the very beginning of the festival, 10:00 AM, which made it impossible for us to see it with us needing to work and all. And in its original timeslot was Beauty in Trouble, which we didn't really like. The next day, Saturday, I played badminton first, so I got to join my movie-watching friends only for Mozart in China, which was okay but not great.
6th Australian Film Festival
This weekend, we went to see the 6th Australian Film Festival also at the Ayala Center. On Thursday we saw the opening movie, Romulus, My Father, which was kind of boring to watch. We stuck around for the second movie, Ten Canoes, which was not as boring as Romulus, My Father, but boring still. On Friday we went to Razzle Dazzle, a mockumentary, which was fun. We had to go back work so we didn't stick around for a second movie. On Saturday, the last day of the festival, I played badminton first so I just joined my friends from the office for their second movie, Home Song Stories, which was frustrating because half of the movie's dialogue was in Chinese or whatever is the right name for their language, but there was no English subtitles. So half the time, we didn't know what the heck the characters were saying and sometimes shouting at each other. Overall, the three-day film fest was a disaster, I thought. Except for the opening movie with invited guests, each time we went to see one there were probably no more than 50 other people in the theater.
City of Ember
The company's Movie Night pick for October was City of Ember. But since the movie won't open in Cebu until November, the movie night was altogether cancelled for October. The alternative pick was High School Musical 3, but for some reason it was supposedly unpopular to the majority in the office. Well, if they've only seen HSM 2, then I can't blame them. That really was just a sorry excuse for a sequel and was just a way to keep the buzz while HSM 3 was being produced. But I thought the first HSM was superbly written with the songs quite inventive for a made-for-tv movie. I have seen a fair share of made-for-tv movies in Disney Channel, and often times I don't finish them because, well, they're just not that watchable. But the original HSM was a cut above the rest, as far as made-for-tv movie is concerned. Having said that, I have doubts about HSM 3 myself. After all, when's the last good Disney sequel (often times straight-to-video)? You have to go back to 1999 when Toy Story 2 came out and it wasn't even truly Disney's, it was Pixar's.
ThinkPad T60p
Can't wait. :-)
Cine Europa 2008
Last month, I, along with friends from the office, went to see Cine Europa 2008 at the Ayala Center. We were mostly interested with the French movie, Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs), because most of us took up French 101 a year ago. Unfortunately for us, instead of the original schedule of 7:00PM, it was shown at the very beginning of the festival, 10:00 AM, which made it impossible for us to see it with us needing to work and all. And in its original timeslot was Beauty in Trouble, which we didn't really like. The next day, Saturday, I played badminton first, so I got to join my movie-watching friends only for Mozart in China, which was okay but not great.
6th Australian Film Festival
This weekend, we went to see the 6th Australian Film Festival also at the Ayala Center. On Thursday we saw the opening movie, Romulus, My Father, which was kind of boring to watch. We stuck around for the second movie, Ten Canoes, which was not as boring as Romulus, My Father, but boring still. On Friday we went to Razzle Dazzle, a mockumentary, which was fun. We had to go back work so we didn't stick around for a second movie. On Saturday, the last day of the festival, I played badminton first so I just joined my friends from the office for their second movie, Home Song Stories, which was frustrating because half of the movie's dialogue was in Chinese or whatever is the right name for their language, but there was no English subtitles. So half the time, we didn't know what the heck the characters were saying and sometimes shouting at each other. Overall, the three-day film fest was a disaster, I thought. Except for the opening movie with invited guests, each time we went to see one there were probably no more than 50 other people in the theater.
City of Ember
The company's Movie Night pick for October was City of Ember. But since the movie won't open in Cebu until November, the movie night was altogether cancelled for October. The alternative pick was High School Musical 3, but for some reason it was supposedly unpopular to the majority in the office. Well, if they've only seen HSM 2, then I can't blame them. That really was just a sorry excuse for a sequel and was just a way to keep the buzz while HSM 3 was being produced. But I thought the first HSM was superbly written with the songs quite inventive for a made-for-tv movie. I have seen a fair share of made-for-tv movies in Disney Channel, and often times I don't finish them because, well, they're just not that watchable. But the original HSM was a cut above the rest, as far as made-for-tv movie is concerned. Having said that, I have doubts about HSM 3 myself. After all, when's the last good Disney sequel (often times straight-to-video)? You have to go back to 1999 when Toy Story 2 came out and it wasn't even truly Disney's, it was Pixar's.
ThinkPad T60p
Can't wait. :-)
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Buy a vowel
In Wheel of Fortune, contestants would buy vowels with the money they earned guessing correct consonants. How great would it be if, with the hours I spent at work, I could buy time to finish the novel, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. So far I'm on page 29, and I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy this book till the end.
I didn't even plan to buy this book though I've seen it displayed in National Bookstore for quite some time now. But the thing is, a friend from the office borrowed and lost my copy of Shannon Hale's The Princess Academy all on the same day. She had a fight with a close friend, stormed out of the office, and promptly lost my book. So in exchange, she bought me this. Well, technically I bought this myself because I was with her when she bought it and it's a replacement of the book she lost. There was no longer a copy of Hale's book, so we tried to find something else. So I picked this instead based solely on what was written on the back cover (I couldn't read the first few pages of the book because it was, like almost every other fiction books in the store, tightly covered in plastic acetate).
The back cover says:
We went like, "It has hints of science fiction and love story. We're buying this."
About the lost book
I like the Harry Potter series so much that when Orson Scott Card described Hale's book as something that could make JK Rowling's Hogwarts looked like a caricature of a school I just have to find out for myself what he was talking about. I've read three books of Shannon Hale since reading Card's review and I have to say he's right.
Hale has a talent for bringing real, breathing communities on the pages of her books. In Academy she brought a school to life. But it was in her other book, her first one, The Goose Girl, that one can truly see how good she is in creating real, believable communities. I think that's her niche. In Book of a Thousand Days, she experimented with working almost exclusively with two characters. It's okay, but I didn't like it as much as her books that involved a lot of characters in a community. Her books aren't for everybody, of course. She mainly writes fantasy books and they don't categorized it that way for no reason. Bookstores usually lump this category with "sci-fi", thus making a "sci-fi and fantasy" section and they're probably right. Replace the technology elements in a sci-fi book with magic and you have yourself a fantasy book. But those rebellious few who could read sci-fi but not fantasy probably would not like her books, or at least her fantasy books (I've read she also writes general fiction and graphic novels, with her husband illustrating, though I can't find any of her other works in any bookstores around where I live).
I didn't even plan to buy this book though I've seen it displayed in National Bookstore for quite some time now. But the thing is, a friend from the office borrowed and lost my copy of Shannon Hale's The Princess Academy all on the same day. She had a fight with a close friend, stormed out of the office, and promptly lost my book. So in exchange, she bought me this. Well, technically I bought this myself because I was with her when she bought it and it's a replacement of the book she lost. There was no longer a copy of Hale's book, so we tried to find something else. So I picked this instead based solely on what was written on the back cover (I couldn't read the first few pages of the book because it was, like almost every other fiction books in the store, tightly covered in plastic acetate).
The back cover says:
This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
We went like, "It has hints of science fiction and love story. We're buying this."
About the lost book
I like the Harry Potter series so much that when Orson Scott Card described Hale's book as something that could make JK Rowling's Hogwarts looked like a caricature of a school I just have to find out for myself what he was talking about. I've read three books of Shannon Hale since reading Card's review and I have to say he's right.
Hale has a talent for bringing real, breathing communities on the pages of her books. In Academy she brought a school to life. But it was in her other book, her first one, The Goose Girl, that one can truly see how good she is in creating real, believable communities. I think that's her niche. In Book of a Thousand Days, she experimented with working almost exclusively with two characters. It's okay, but I didn't like it as much as her books that involved a lot of characters in a community. Her books aren't for everybody, of course. She mainly writes fantasy books and they don't categorized it that way for no reason. Bookstores usually lump this category with "sci-fi", thus making a "sci-fi and fantasy" section and they're probably right. Replace the technology elements in a sci-fi book with magic and you have yourself a fantasy book. But those rebellious few who could read sci-fi but not fantasy probably would not like her books, or at least her fantasy books (I've read she also writes general fiction and graphic novels, with her husband illustrating, though I can't find any of her other works in any bookstores around where I live).
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Chromed
I'm using Google Chrome right now to write this entry. It's a nice web browser and kinda fast. I've not yet used it intensively, of course, so as of the moment I can't say whether I really like it or not. I guess the thing that would stop me from switching completely from Firefox are the fact that there's no portable version yet (I tried to install it earlier at my workstation at the office, but the online installer had issues with the fact that I'm sitting behind a proxy) and no equivalent AdBlock Plus extension that I really like. I have been so used to seeing no ads on web pages that I took for granted that it was the AdBlock Plus FF extension that is making it happen. Ads appearing again in Chrome are a bit off putting.
Google Chrome
Earl sends an email containing a link to a comic book about Google Chrome.
Carl reads the email, clicks the link, read the whole comic book. Carl is hyped. He goes to www.google.com/chrome.
Not found. Error 404.
Carl wants to be hyped some more. He goes to news.google.com and types "google chrome" in the search field. He reads a few articles and finds out nothing new that wasn't covered by the comic book. He checks the Google Chrome website again.
Not found. Error 404.
Carl goes to draft.blogger.com. Clicks "new post". Blogs about the whole thing. Before posting, checks the Chrome website again.
Not found. Error 404.
Carl goes back to Blogger. Sleepy. Post.
Carl reads the email, clicks the link, read the whole comic book. Carl is hyped. He goes to www.google.com/chrome.
Not found. Error 404.
Carl wants to be hyped some more. He goes to news.google.com and types "google chrome" in the search field. He reads a few articles and finds out nothing new that wasn't covered by the comic book. He checks the Google Chrome website again.
Not found. Error 404.
Carl goes to draft.blogger.com. Clicks "new post". Blogs about the whole thing. Before posting, checks the Chrome website again.
Not found. Error 404.
Carl goes back to Blogger. Sleepy. Post.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Eraserheads
I was eating dinner with two friends from the office at a local fastfood (hehe... "karenderya"). TV Patrol World was on and we caught news regarding the abrupt, almost tragic end to the Eraserheads reunion concert last Saturday, August 30. Ely Buendia, vocalist, reportedly collapsed backstage as the band was preparing for their second set. No details whether Ely lost consciousness. He was rushed to a nearby hospital.
If I were in Manila at that time, I'd be in the concert. I remember there was no bigger Filipino band around 1994, 1995. There will probably those who'd disagree, but seriously, song for song, hit for hit, there is yet to be a bigger local band than the Eraserheads. Their only album that I own was "Cutterpillow" (1995). It was a cassette tape. I was a scholar in high school and what little allowance I had at the time I saved for stuffs other than cassettes that were, quite frankly, luxuries for me. But I still saved money and I bought the tape. I was happy I did. I'd play it over and over at home. And I even brought it with me to school. The jeepney ride from school to home was around 30 minutes (from home to school I'd ride the DM bus for free) depending on the number of stops it had to make along the way. I'd ask the drivers if they could play the tape. They would. More than one time, I'd be in a jeep and my fellow passengers (mostly students) would sing along or at least mouth the words to the Cutterpillow hits.
While eating and upon hearing the news.
Me: Remember how popular they were back then?
Friend 1: Hmm... don't know.
Friend 2: Believe him. It was during his time. He's that old.
Me: (Shrugs) There's nothing more popular than them. I'm glad I was old enough to enjoy their heyday.
According to Jessica Zafra, these were the fourteen songs they played before the reunion was cut short: 1. Alapaap 2. Ligaya 3. Sembreak 4. Hey Jay 5. Harana 6. Fruitcake 7. Toyang 8. Kama Supra 9. Kailan 10. Wag Kang Matakot 11. Kaliwete 12. With A Smile 13. Shake Yer Head 14. Huwag Mo Nang Itanong Sa Akin.
If I were in Manila at that time, I'd be in the concert. I remember there was no bigger Filipino band around 1994, 1995. There will probably those who'd disagree, but seriously, song for song, hit for hit, there is yet to be a bigger local band than the Eraserheads. Their only album that I own was "Cutterpillow" (1995). It was a cassette tape. I was a scholar in high school and what little allowance I had at the time I saved for stuffs other than cassettes that were, quite frankly, luxuries for me. But I still saved money and I bought the tape. I was happy I did. I'd play it over and over at home. And I even brought it with me to school. The jeepney ride from school to home was around 30 minutes (from home to school I'd ride the DM bus for free) depending on the number of stops it had to make along the way. I'd ask the drivers if they could play the tape. They would. More than one time, I'd be in a jeep and my fellow passengers (mostly students) would sing along or at least mouth the words to the Cutterpillow hits.
While eating and upon hearing the news.
Me: Remember how popular they were back then?
Friend 1: Hmm... don't know.
Friend 2: Believe him. It was during his time. He's that old.
Me: (Shrugs) There's nothing more popular than them. I'm glad I was old enough to enjoy their heyday.
According to Jessica Zafra, these were the fourteen songs they played before the reunion was cut short: 1. Alapaap 2. Ligaya 3. Sembreak 4. Hey Jay 5. Harana 6. Fruitcake 7. Toyang 8. Kama Supra 9. Kailan 10. Wag Kang Matakot 11. Kaliwete 12. With A Smile 13. Shake Yer Head 14. Huwag Mo Nang Itanong Sa Akin.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Love stories: For the First Time vs. WALL-E
For the First Time
The last time I went to see a Tagalog movie in a theater was to see Ploning. I was disappointed with that movie mainly because I expected so much more than what it delivered. But after watching For the First Time (FTFT) last night with two friends from the office I began to appreciate the effort that the Ploning filmmakers exerted to upgrade the level of Philippine cinema. FTFT was nothing but an excuse to bring together KC Concepcion and Richard Gutierrez to the big screen and with them their fans (which I don't have any idea as to how many because even in my home city of Cagayan de Oro where we have a TV set, I don't follow Philippine showbiz). The story was unbelievable. Their love story was improbable. The dialog, especially when delivered by Richard, was both unbelievable and hideous. Worse is the admission was actually 10 pesos higher than the one I paid to see WALL-E, and 20 pesos more than to see Ploning. Even worse was that the 9:25 PM screening that we attended was just a few souls away from selling out at the time we arrived to buy our tickets. What's happening with the world?
WALL-E
I went to see WALL-E on August 18 along with two friends from the office. Pixar delivered yet again in both the quality story and quality animation arenas. Could Pixar be the perfect studio that can't deliver any bad movie? Even the short film that traditionally precedes each Pixar feature was great just like the past.
Earth is so full of trash that the people had to leave the planet in a cruise spaceship Axiom while the planet was being cleaned up by the WALL-E (Waste Allocator Load Lifter - Earth Class) robots. 700 years later, Earth is still laden with garbage and there is only one WALL-E left. It leads a lonely life until a robot probe (EVE) is deployed to check the planet for any sign of life. This is co-written and directed by Andrew Stanton who made Finding Nemo (which is my favorite Pixar film). The theme song performed by Peter Gabriel is a bit strange on its own, but it fitted very well with the movie's beautiful end credit sequence.
FTFT vs. WALL-E
Ironic, but it is more believable that two robots could actually fall in love in WALL-E than for Seth and Sophia in FTFT. The love story in WALL-E was more developed and felt real. The one in FTFT was contrived and improbable. Granted the two films differed in budget (although I don't think that the budget was the reason why FTFT sucked, it's more because its script was terrible), comparing FTFT to the last Tagalog movie I saw before it, Ploning was in many ways a hundred times better than FTFT. Compared to it, FTFT looked like a made-for-TV movie and even then it would still stink.
The last time I went to see a Tagalog movie in a theater was to see Ploning. I was disappointed with that movie mainly because I expected so much more than what it delivered. But after watching For the First Time (FTFT) last night with two friends from the office I began to appreciate the effort that the Ploning filmmakers exerted to upgrade the level of Philippine cinema. FTFT was nothing but an excuse to bring together KC Concepcion and Richard Gutierrez to the big screen and with them their fans (which I don't have any idea as to how many because even in my home city of Cagayan de Oro where we have a TV set, I don't follow Philippine showbiz). The story was unbelievable. Their love story was improbable. The dialog, especially when delivered by Richard, was both unbelievable and hideous. Worse is the admission was actually 10 pesos higher than the one I paid to see WALL-E, and 20 pesos more than to see Ploning. Even worse was that the 9:25 PM screening that we attended was just a few souls away from selling out at the time we arrived to buy our tickets. What's happening with the world?
WALL-E
I went to see WALL-E on August 18 along with two friends from the office. Pixar delivered yet again in both the quality story and quality animation arenas. Could Pixar be the perfect studio that can't deliver any bad movie? Even the short film that traditionally precedes each Pixar feature was great just like the past.
Earth is so full of trash that the people had to leave the planet in a cruise spaceship Axiom while the planet was being cleaned up by the WALL-E (Waste Allocator Load Lifter - Earth Class) robots. 700 years later, Earth is still laden with garbage and there is only one WALL-E left. It leads a lonely life until a robot probe (EVE) is deployed to check the planet for any sign of life. This is co-written and directed by Andrew Stanton who made Finding Nemo (which is my favorite Pixar film). The theme song performed by Peter Gabriel is a bit strange on its own, but it fitted very well with the movie's beautiful end credit sequence.
FTFT vs. WALL-E
Ironic, but it is more believable that two robots could actually fall in love in WALL-E than for Seth and Sophia in FTFT. The love story in WALL-E was more developed and felt real. The one in FTFT was contrived and improbable. Granted the two films differed in budget (although I don't think that the budget was the reason why FTFT sucked, it's more because its script was terrible), comparing FTFT to the last Tagalog movie I saw before it, Ploning was in many ways a hundred times better than FTFT. Compared to it, FTFT looked like a made-for-TV movie and even then it would still stink.
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