february to may 2009 movies

here's a collection of few of the movies i can recall that i saw this year.

for kids. i just watched this because blake lively's one of the casts. i got fond of the gossip girl tv series a few months back. surprisingly, she didn't go sexy nor got mushy w/ any male character in this movie, opposite to her gossip girl character.
watched w/ rye at the big screen. brought chills down my spine during the plane & train crash scenes

just saw this yesterday in dvd. nice to still see jason biggs' doing good comedy. hilarious!

on dvd. i think this is dakota fanning's first movie as a teener & i'd question her on why she even took this project. naahhh, this movie is dragging & tasteless.

i'll watch this over & over again. nice to see tasteful history remakes in the big screen

saw this w/ rye & our daughter on the big screen. eehh, it's a-ok

w/ rye & our daughter on the big screen too. i slept through half the movie ehehe

w/ an asian taste. depressing in the end. clint had to die to make a point. *:)

saw this in dvd after we saw 'angels & demons'
w/ rye at the movies. had a more fast-paced story compared to da vinci code. i did observe notable similarities with the characters on both films:

assassin: da vinci code- silas; angels & demons - assassin (no name)

antagonist: da vinci code - sir leigh teabing; angels & demons - carmelengo

tom's movie partners were lady actors: da vinci - agent sophie; angels & demons - vittoria

what do you think?

an adventure-filled film w/ an element of oddity kids & adults will appreciate

january movies & games (2009) continuation

rye & myself watched the underworld prequel, rise of the lycans. we didn't expect it to be that good. i still vividly recall the sequence from one of the original underwold chapters where the lycans leader lucian recollected the day the vampire king viktor condemned to death by sun his own beloved daughter sonja, lucian's secret lover.

the movie outlined the lycans struggle for freedom from the vampires who enslaved them, eventually triumphant, hence the title, rise of the lycans.

this prequel made me restlessly looking for the 2 underwold movies, which i couldn't find at home up to now. sigh...

i forgot to mention that one of my favorite video games is guitar hero. i had a taste of guitar hero's world tour version last new years on my next-door cousin's xbox, recently accessorised w/ a headset microphone & guitar. since what we have at home is a ps3, we're eyeing on getting the whole set for the ps3 console for ourselves & the kids this year.

the whole package...wow!

january movies & games (2009)

i've been taking notes of every movie i've seen & every game i've started & finished.

to wrap up, this month, i have seen the following on dvd or the cinemas.

on dvd:

both comedies. only for adult viewers as they both have crude & sexual content all throughout, not to mention the vulgar language & nudity. on 'zack & miri..', be prepared to see private parts on several scenes hehe.

the hitcher: suspense/thriller. the lead actor gets sliced in half near the end of the movie eewww;

slumdog millionaire: award winning? nothing phenomenal. i did anticipate the indian group dance at the ending credits...interesting...

at the cinemas:

benjamin button: movie was lengthy but not boring;

bedtime stories: brought rayna with us, she loved it

the games i played:

ratchet & clank: finished;

ff 12: just had a taste at rye's cousin's ps2. i like!!

fall of man: half done, first person shooter games make me drowsy

prince or persia: i like! but had to trade it w/ 4 other games before i got to thoroughly enjoy it

i have seen

these all on dvd. movies downloaded courtesy of my dad & rye. taken - liamm's gotten so old! he shouldn't be doing torrid action films like this anymore!

rendition - is this the movie where the reese & jake relationship rooted from? there is not a single scene in this movie of them together tho hehe.

heroes s3 - avid fan of the series i am & rye watching out new episodes from his bittorrent every tuesday night after being shown in the US. had to wait a week before rye can bring the file back home for me to watch arghhh.. the episode (chapter as the series tags it) 2 weeks ago was entitled 'villains'.., the heroes became the villains & vice versa...
employee of the month - i hate jessica simpson (who does not) as the music artist & i've started to hate her much2x more when i saw this movie. she can' act period. i still watched the entire film because i like dane cook. i've seen him on comedy central & have several copies of videos of him when he was just beginning to get famous as a stand-up comedian. his genius jokes are impressively unique, he's got the hunkiest & sexiest voice & he's hot!!

twilight - my office mate khaye have already finished reading the 4 volumes of the twilight saga even before the movie was released. she was lending me the books but i couldn't at that time squeeze 'em in as i was committed to read anne rice's vampire chronicles. for a certainty a chick flick, also according to my friends & cousin. considerably entertaining (for youngsters it'll do). will watch the next 3 volumes via dvd next time.chuck series - hilarious! have just seen a couple of season 1 episodes. can't wait to see the rest of season 1 on my upcoming rest days yey!

definitely, maybe

i scarcely laugh at jokes or cry at dramas. but this movie got my tear ducts functioning effortlessly when will hayes (ryan reynolds) knelt at the park infront of his 10yo daughter to tell her what the happy ending of his story was.

rewinding...definitely, maybe is about will hayes (ryan reynolds), a soon-to-be-divorced political consultant who has a 10yo daughter maya (abigail breslin from the movie li'l miss sunshine) who's struggling to come to terms w/ her parents' divorce. she then begs her dad to recount the stories of all the women in his past, how he fell in love & fell out of love (specifically w/ her mom), & maya can guess which one ended up being her biological mother.

the 3 women are emily, april & summer.

one will be guessing throughout the movie the mystery of who the mother would turn out to be & who he ended up with. & i'm sorry but i'm going to spoil it. it was emily who's her biological mother, & the wife will hayes is divorcing. he ended up romancing april (the only name he didn't change in his tale).

why cry? when little maya's getting all confused w/ all the ladies coming into picture & wanted the story cut short, will asked her to be patient & listen to the whole story so she can hear the 'happy ending'. maya in despair, responded how can there be any happy ending when her parents are at the brink of a divorce? will's tale did not finish so their conversation continued the next day at the park. as emily met them there to pick up maya, maya ran back to her dad to thank him for the story. will's response to what the happy ending of the story was - he said, 'it was you maya'. this response struck me (even r). i saw rayna in maya...for all i know, my daughter might ask the same forbidding questions in the next few years. questions & answers i never thought i'd hear & speak of....

simply put, the moral of this movie, no matter how arduous love is, it's always possible to find one's happy ending...& that i don't need to long for a happy ending to my blemished life coz i already have one, just adequate for a perfect ending, my daughter.

wall-e

wow! my daughter just had her 1st movie house experience when we watched wall-e last monday!

aug 18 was a national holiday so my nieces & nephew tagged along.

the very 1st challenge us parents experienced for our first timer kids was to get them inside the movie house itself. what are kids most afraid of? the dark ofcourse, ergo, it took us a few secs of convincing RT & rayne that everything was just fine (and that there's a very cool big TV inside hehe).

they got instantly delighted when they saw, well, the big TV. wall-e was already starting when we got in (i told you we are tardy folks ahehe). because we were late, the only remaining seats we could reserve were the first 2 front rows at the sides. it was easy access for bathroom breaks for the kids, plus the seats were just at perfect distance from the big screen. i love trinoma's cinemas talaga!

the picture above was actually taken a day after when her dad took us to lunch beside cinema 7 where we watched wall-e. rayna had her chance to see wall-e & eve again (in cardboard ehehe).
we were so proud the kids loved their first movie...although the babies got a li'l bored in the middle of the viewing that they were already standing up & leaving their seats. my rayna in particular couldn't get settled & roamed from seat to seat but still stayed focused on the movie. naughty, naughty girl!

harry potter & the perfect lunch

just to catch up on my whereabouts last month:

july 14

finally, ryan took me to the mall of asia. my first moa experience was when the office had a team building. we went ice skating & watched a cartoon at IMAX. this is actually ryan's first. our plan was to have late lunch & watch harry potter's order of the phoenix. the IMAX theater seats were sold-out so we settled with normal seats. we ate at the fish & co. which was superb by the way! i'd recommend it to everyone. it's at the outside corner of one one the buildings near the theater mall. here are some pics while we relished on our 'so-gooooood' meals.

it's a little expensive though, P500+ per plate/order, but i assure no regrets!

then ofcourse the movie...w/c was not exactly as good as everybody expected. the theater seats we got was terrible we had to actually sit at the first row to get a perfect view of the movie!

july 19

rayne's new yaya from the agency wanted to leave so i reserved for another. they gave me an older yaya. she has been staying for almost a month now. filed a half-day at work to meet ryan at eastwood for dinner.

part threes

may 21

ryan asked me out for movies & dinner. we met at eastwood libis & reserved seats for shrek 3. we then headed to the jack's loft for dinner. i ordered their caesar seafood salad while he got the beef pot pie & some pasta. for dessert, we ordered the vanilla ice cream-filled eclair w/c we were able to eat only a quarter of so we had to have it packed & left at the resto for picking up in a few hours.

a shot at the jack's loft

we were at the cinemas on time for shrek 3. we immediately had to separate ways after the movies since ryan had to run to work by 9pm so i just went home. oh, about the movie, it rocked funny! as usual.

may 28

it's dad & mom's day again. *:)

ryan fetched us from home round noon. he had set a movie date once again, this time for the third installment of pirates of the caribbean, at world's end.

we brought rayne with us & would drop her off to her lola's for a visit. beforehand, we ate at the old spaghetti house at banawe w/ our kid. i ordered the simplest pesto pasta & ryan had a spaghetti alfredo which by the way was sooo delicious! we had a mud pie for dessert.

shot at the old spaghetti house

our daughter recently received a stuffed frog backpack from her ninang maricel as a late christmas gift. i had my baby wear the bag that day & she was so adorable watching her actually showing off the new bag to anyone who'd take notice!

after lunch we dropped her to her lola's which was just 5 mins away from the restaurant then headed straight to eastwood libis again for pirates. we reserved for 2 seats ofcourse & stayed at starbucks below the mall for some coffee while we wait for the start of the next screening of pirates.

afterwards we took some shots outside where an exhibit for er, pirates, was on display.
we picked up our daughter after & went home for more movies, on dvd.