Tuesday, October 20, 2009

My Top 10 Fave Songs (updated)

  1. Super Junior - It's You
  2. Girls Generation - Genie
  3. 2NE1 - I Don't Care
  4. Big Bang - Gara Gara Go
  5. Paramore - Ignorance
  6. All Time Low - Poppin' Champagne
  7. Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again
  8. Flo Rida - Jump
  9. Super Junior-M - Super Girl
  10. Justin Bieber - One Time


Here's the rest of my faves:

11. Panic At The Disco - New Perspective
12. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
13. Super Junior - Sorry Sorry
14. Jay Sean & Li'l Wayne - Down
15. Honor Society - Where Are You Now
16. 2NE1 - Fire
17. Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
18. Lily Allen - XXXX You
19. Ed Helms - Stu's Song
20. Phineas and Ferb - Gitchy Gitchy Goo

Thursday, October 1, 2009

You're Such A Winner!


Yaya and Angelina: The Spoiled Brat Movie is a funny film of Yaya and Angelina which is from a sitcom on Bubble Gang. Their tandem (Michael V. and Ogie Alcasid) are very funny and very hilarious.

Angelina is a 7 year old girl who is spoiled and a bully. Her first yaya (or nanny) was hospitalized because of the girl's disobedience. Her parents decided to find her another yaya which would fit for her attitude.

After a lot of applicants decide to quit the job, a woman named Rosalinda Lucero tries to applies for the job, and gets it. (It is also during that scene that she reveals she is also called "Cha Cha", as in Cha Cha Lucero, probably the seed of the line "Whatever, yaya, you're such a loser!") She thought that being Angelina's yaya would be an easy job, but after some time, and some tragedies occur becasue of Angelina, Angelina's mom decides to discharge her if she would cause any more problems. Yaya was frustrated about the things Angelina's mom told her. Angelina tried to make her yaya happy, by showing some magic using a Jackstone ball, but the trick failed.

The ball went to the pool where Angelina's fish resides. The fish ate the ball, and because yaya is afraid that if the fish dies, she'll be discharged by Angelina's Mom, she tries to save the fish using a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The fish got alive, but the jackstone ball hit the lampshade causing it to hit the fish and die. Angelina's Mom and Dad saw the fish on the ground with no life. Yaya was discharged. Angelina lived without a yaya. And because no one will protect her, Angelina was accidentally kidnapped by some terrorists. Angelina called her mom and dad but they are both busy, so she called her yaya. Angelina describes the place (as a loser; we find out that what she saw at the window is Manolo Service Center), Yaya found the place near the church. Meanwhile, her mom and dad thought that Yaya kidnapped Angelina as revenge of firing her.

Yaya saved Angelina, but her dad and mom were also kidnapped. The only way to save them is that Angelina should give the flower with a bomb inside to the Duchess of Wellington, which they want to kill while she makes her speech. Yaya found a way to stop the terrorist from killing the woman, she changed the flowers and she went to Eve (terrorist's boss) and fought her.

Yaya defeated Eve and the terrorist was caught by the police. Angelina's mom and dad were saved because of Yaya. They decided to make Yaya as Angelina's permanent yaya. And they all climbed up on stage with a LOSER on Yaya's back and wings on Angelina's.

Overall, I highly recommend this film. It's so good and not a LOSER

Rating: 5 stars

In One's Life


In My Life is a good film about a mother and his gay son. I like the movie because it is comedy and somewhat drama. Vilma Santos is good and John Lloyd improves in his acting while Louis does good also.

Shirley (Vilma Santos) is a woman whos wants to in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her children and their families keeps her emotionally detached from them. Realizing that she has lost the command she once had, she goes to New York to reunite with Mark (Luis Manzano), her estranged gay son who is now suffering from colon cancer.

But Shirley doesn.t know this and living with Mark in Ney York comes with a cost. She has to live with her son's lover Noel(John Lloyd Cruz) who is an illegal immigrant. Whenever Mark is not around, Noel makes it a point to tour her around as he tries his best to endure Shirley's degrading behavior on him.

Everything is going right until circumstances forces Shirley to go back to the Philippines. Now that she's back with her family, she realizes that something is wrong - she is not happy.

For once in her life, she finally comes to a brave decision that will bring her real happiness.

I recommend this film overall.

Rating: 4 stars

Man 'tis Good!!!


When I watched it last August, THE HANGOVER really is funny! The comedy is so awesome like Old School. The actors really knows how to make fun.

Doug (Justin Bartha) is about to be married to Tracy (Sasha Barrese), and his friends — Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and soon-to-be brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis) — take him to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Tracy's father lends them his car, a vintage Mercedes convertible for the trip. The four get a villa at Caesars Palace hotel and casino, then sneak onto the roof and toast to the night ahead. The next morning, the three groomsmen wake up in the suite with no memory of the previous night, and realize that Doug is missing. Clues abound: the suite is in severe disorder, a tiger is in the bathroom, a baby is in the closet, Stu is missing a tooth, one of the suite's mattresses is impaled on a statue outside, Phil is wearing a hospital bracelet, Stu has an $800 ATM receipt, and a valet brings them a stolen police cruiser they dropped off the night before.

While retracing their steps, a doctor at the hospital informs them that they had traces of roofies in their blood, explaining their memory loss, and that they came from a wedding. They find the chapel, and learn that Stu, despite planning to propose to his controlling girlfriend Melissa, married a stripper named Jade (Heather Graham), the mother of the baby in the closet. The men visit her apartment and return the baby, but are taken by surprise and arrested for stealing the police cruiser. Phil negotiates their release in exchange for the three groomsmen "volunteering" as targets for a taser demonstration. They then retrieve the Mercedes from an impound lot and discover a naked Asian man in the trunk. The man attacks them and runs away, and Alan admits to spiking their drinks the night before with what he thought was ecstasy, but realizes the drug dealer must have sold him roofies instead. They return to the hotel and find former boxing champion Mike Tyson in their room, who was looking for his stolen tiger. Tyson knocks out Alan and orders them to return the pet to his mansion. They drug the tiger with roofies and transport it in the Mercedes, but before they reach Tyson's mansion, it wakes up and destroys the car's interior. Tyson plays security footage of the groomsmen's activities from the night before in an effort to help them locate Doug.

Resuming their search, the three are confronted by the thugs, who, as it turns out, are led by the naked man they found in the trunk of their car, Leslie Chow. According to Chow, the groomsmen have $80,000 of his money, which they accidentally took the night before. Chow demands it back in exchange for Doug, whom he has kidnapped. Unable to find the money, Alan uses his knowledge of card counting to win it playing blackjack. The money is repaid, but Chow had kidnapped a different Doug, who turns out to be the drug dealer who sold Alan the roofies. After a conversation with the Doug the drug dealer, Stu remembers that hotel windows do not open in Las Vegas, and deduces that the mattress on the statue must have been thrown from the roof, and therefore they must have locked a sleeping Doug on the roof as a prank. Rushing back to the hotel, they find him with less than four hours before the wedding. Stu and Jade agree that they cannot remain married, but promise to meet the following weekend to see what develops between them. Jade also reveals that Stu had pulled out his own tooth on a dare from Alan. As they rush home and make it to the wedding, Doug discovers he has Chow's $80,000 worth of casino chips in his pockets. Doug marries Tracy, and Stu breaks up with Melissa. As the reception ends, Alan reveals a digital camera he discovered in the back seat of the Mercedes chronicling the events they were unable to remember, and the four agree to look at the pictures only one time before destroying the evidence.

Rating: 5 stars

Theta Pi Must Rise!!!


Sororiy Row is a good film for me despite of other critics negative reviews. The scare tactics are very effective for me and Briana is so hot! I like the visuals but I want realistic killings and bloodier!!!

Run by Mrs. Crenshaw, the college sorority Theta Pi is home to seniors and best friends Jessica, Cassidy, Ellie, Claire, Chugs and Megan who, despite Mrs. Crenshaw's best efforts, constantly throw wild parties. During one of these parties Megan discovers her boyfriend Garrett is cheating on her and with her friends' help, decides to pull a prank on him as payback, faking her own death while making out with Garrett. With help from the sisters, Garrett brings Megan to a steel mill, intent on dropping her body down a mineshaft. After the sisters (jokingly) mention they need to release the air out of her lungs so her body won't rise to the top, Garrett stabs Megan with a tire iron, actually killing her. Panicking, the group dumps Megan's body in the mineshaft, vowing never to speak of the events that transpired ever again.

Eight months later, during the party after graduation, the girls receive a picture sent to their phones: a hooded figure holding the bloody tire iron Garrett used to kill Megan. As the girls become worried, Jessica takes lead and insists it is merely a prank by Garrett and they continue with the party. Megan's sister, Maggie, also arrives, wanting to honor her sister's memory by attending the party. Chugs leaves the party to go to her therapist appointment. She find's her therapist in his bed saying the last patient left abruptly, and if they could finish where they left off. Chugs goes to 'freshen up' in the bathroom. While she is there, her therapist has a tire iron thrown at his head, impaling him. She then goes looking for him, not noticing the pool of blood coming from under the bed. She then becomes tired of looking, and lies down on a sofa. As she tilts her head back to let the champagne flow down her throat, the killer appears and shoves the bottle down her throat before slitting it with the tire iron, which makes her spit up blood into the bottle.

Later, A sorority girl named Joanna, is killed getting the tire iron shoved up her chin after hearing about Megan's death. In the basement, Ellie finds Cassidy's blood-stained jacket (which the group had wrapped Megan's body in before dropping her into the shaft) while Claire's boyfriend Mickey is also killed getting the tire iron through his head. The girls regroup and all receive a text message containing a clip of Megan's death and a message telling them to go to the mineshaft. Driving to the shaft, the girls find Garrett. Thinking the obviously delusional Garrett is the one stalking them, Jessica runs him over when he tries to attack Cassidy with a mirror shard, discovering afterward Garrett has been receiving the same messages they have, proving he is not the killer. After the girls return to the now empty sorority house, they receive a text message from Chug's cell phone, telling them that she is dead. While struggling to get in the house, Claire is dragged into the hot tub and shot in the mouth with a flare gun, and Mrs. Crenshaw is impaled, leaving only Jessica, Cassidy, Ellie and Maggie.

Later, Maggie becomes trapped when the killer sets the room on fire with a Molotov cocktail. Cassidy and Jessica look around (while Ellie hides upstairs) and run into Kyle, Jessica's boyfriend, who injures Jessica after getting into a fight with her. Jessica and Cassidy then go and hide from him. They hide in the bathroom where they find Megan's corpse hanging in the shower. Kyle then finds them and tell Cassidy that Jessica told him they murdered Megan. He is then killed with an axe by Andy who turns out to be the real killer. He then kills Jessica by stabbing her in the mouth. He tells Cassidy that he just wanted to help her, killing everyone who knew about her involvement in Megan's death so they could never tell anyone else and reveal she was involved. Playing along with her crazed boyfriend, Cassidy tells Andy that Ellie is in the basement and while Andy goes to look for her Cassidy fetches Ellie from upstairs and they try to run, but are attacked by Andy.

Telling Ellie to flee, Cassidy hits Andy with a lamp and tries to escape but instead ends up trying to help Maggie out of the burning house. While trying to help Maggie, Cassidy is attacked by the recovered Andy, who leaves her dangling from a hole in the floor. Cassidy begins to struggle as Andy slowly jabs the knife into her finger. As Andy prepares to finish Cassidy off, Ellie appears and blasts him with Mrs. Crenshaw's shotgun. With Andy dead, Ellie pulls Cassidy back up and the two save Maggie before fleeing from the house.

Fifteen months later, Theta Pi is being renovated from the fire and Maggie is now a Theta sister. As the girls sing the Theta Pi song, a figure with a scarred wrist is seen (Garrett).

Overall, this movie rocks!! and I recommend this film.

Rating: 4 stars

Final Enjoyment


When I watched it last September at Sta Lucia, FINAL DESTINATION 4 or THE FINAL DESTINATION performs well, I dislike it a bit because the events are really predictable. I will like it best if they shown it in 3D, it really ROCKS!!! Here is the synopsis of the film:


Whilst watching a race at McKinley Speedway for a break from studying, college student Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of a car crash which sends debris into the audience, crushing some spectators and resulting in the stadium partially collapsing, which would have killed almost everyone present in the 180 section. In a panic Nick manages to convince his girlfriend Lori Milligan (Shantel VanSanten), and friends Hunt Wynorski (Nick Zano) and Janet Cunningham (Haley Webb) to leave. The quartet are followed out by a handful of others who have become angry with Nick after he pushes past them to escape. A security guard named George Lanter (Mykelti Williamson) intervenes when everyone begins to argue outside, just as the catastrophe Nick had foreseen occurs. After a memorial service at McKinley Speedway, two of the spectators who followed Nick and his friends out of the stadium - Carter Daniels (Justin Welborn) and Samantha Lane (Krista Allen) - died violently in freak accidents: Carter is blown up with his tow truck and Samantha is killed by a flying rock propelled by a lawnmower, which goes through her eye. Before their deaths, Nick had seen omens of how they would die.

After hearing about Carter and Samantha's deaths on the news, Nick and Lori begin doing research, and learn about the disasters that occurred in the previous three films (the explosion of Flight 180, highway pile-up of Route 23, and roller coaster derailment in McKinley, Pennsylvania) and discover that the survivors (who were saved by premonitions) began dying in a series of improbable accidents shortly afterwards. While Hunt and Janet refuse to believe them, Nick and Lori manage to convince George that Death is after them and the trio begin trying to warn other survivors, though fail to save any except for Janet, who nearly drowns getting her car washed. The next survivors to die are Andy Kewzer (Andrew Fiscella), Hunt and Jonathan Grove (Jackson Walker).

George is abruptly killed just before Nick has a second premonition showing him that Lori and Janet will die while watching a film in a shopping mall cinema after an explosion in a room above the theatre. Nick rushes to reach them, while Lori begins spotting omens warning her that the danger is not over. Once Nick arrives, he and Lori attempt to convince Janet to leave, but are unsuccessful in their efforts. Janet is killed in the explosion and Lori also meets her demise by being crushed in an escalator. Nick then realizes that the event hasn't happened yet, and is able to save his friends by extinguishing the fire that would have caused the initial explosion.

Weeks later, the trio, thinking they have conquered Death's plan, celebrate surviving in a cafe. Nick notices a loose leg on a scaffold outside the cafe, and he tells a construction worker to fix it up. Once inside he drifts off into thought after seeing omens around him, and realizes that his premonitions and signs, along with all the disasters and deaths that had occurred since the speedway incident, are red herrings from Death used to manipulate them into where and when it would really come for them. Just as Nick realizes this, the scaffold falls, and in order to avoid it, a truck swerves, crashes through the cafe window, and kills the group. Thus leaving all connected to the McKinley Speedway disaster dead.

Overall, I like it/dislike it because they didn't shown it here in 3d.

Rating: 3 stars

District Awesome


DISTRICT 9 is one of the best films of the year!!! I really enjoyed this film so much. Set in Africa, we can say that African actors and actresses are really good like Sharlto Copley and the director and the CGI equals awesomeness!!


In 1982, a large alien spaceship stops above Johannesburg, South Africa. Reports suggest that the ship became stranded after a command module separated from the ship and dropped to Earth, nowhere to be found. After cutting their way inside, an exploratory team discovers a large group of unhealthy and leaderless arthropod-like species. These alien creatures, derogatorily referred to as "prawns", are taken from the ship and housed in a government camp inside Johannesburg called District 9, which soon turns into a slum. In the first decade of the 21st century, Multinational United (MNU), a private military contractor, is placed in charge of policing and relocating the now 1.8 million aliens to District 10, a new camp 240 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg.

Wikus van der Merwe is the MNU field operative assigned to lead the relocation, which begins with the serving of eviction notices on August 9, 2010. As this continues, some nearby aliens are shown distilling a liquid from a piece of their technology into a small canister. While raiding one of the aliens' shacks, Wikus discovers and removes the container, accidentally spraying some of the liquid onto his face. One of the aliens (named Christopher Johnson by MNU) questions the legality of the eviction served on him and demands his rights. That night Wikus falls ill and is taken to a hospital, where his left forearm is revealed to have mutated into an alien appendage, and is quickly taken into MNU custody. After discovering that Wikus can now operate alien weaponry due to his mutating DNA (the weapons being unresponsive to humans), they intend to vivisect him before he fully transforms, in an attempt to replicate his ability. In a panic, Wikus uses his new strength to overpower his captors, and escapes.

Now a fugitive, Wikus takes refuge in District 9 and returns to Christopher's shack. Noticing Wikus' arm, Christopher reveals that the canister Wikus confiscated contains a fluid that would allow him to access the mothership and leave the planet. After revealing that the lost command module is hidden under his shack, Christopher agrees to help reverse Wikus' genetic transformation if Wikus, in return, retrieves the canister. Wikus agrees and tries to buy weapons from the local Nigerian gang. Their leader, the paralyzed warlord Obesandjo, seizes Wikus, seeking to gain his ability to operate alien weapons, which he believes he will achieve by eating Wikus' mutated arm (as he believes in Muti). Wikus manages to get his hands on an alien firearm and quickly holds Obesandjo hostage for a cache of weapons.

Wikus and Christopher break into the MNU offices and retrieve the canister. They fight their way out of the building and flee to District 9. Christopher, having previously seen that MNU is performing medical experiments on his race, informs Wikus that he has decided to return to his home planet to seek help for his people before he cures Wikus, which would take three years. Frustrated, Wikus knocks Christopher unconscious and powers up the command module with the help of Christopher's son. Soon after takeoff, one of the craft's engines is shot down by MNU, and it quickly crashes nearby.

MNU forces take Wikus and Christopher prisoner, but Obesandjo's gang ambushes them. The Nigerian gang captures Wikus and prepares to sever his mutated arm for Obesandjo. From the command module, Christopher's son activates the mothership and a mechanized battle suit that kills Obesandjo and his men. Wikus then gets into the suit and rescues Christopher from the MNU mercenaries, allowing him to get to the command module. Promising Wikus that he will return to reverse his transformation, Christopher returns to the mothership. Heavily wounded and in a much more advanced state of his mutation, Wikus crawls out of the battle suit and is confronted by Venter, the sole survivor and captain of the MNU squad. Before he can kill Wikus, aliens in the camp dismember him.

Christopher activates the mothership and Johannesburg's residents celebrate its departure. A series of interviews and news broadcasts are then shown, providing various opinions on the events. The aliens are successfully moved to District 10, said to have a population of 2.5 million and growing. MNU's illegal experiments on aliens are exposed. Some people theorize about Wikus' fate, while others hypothesize that Christopher Johnson might return for the refugees, or perhaps declare war on humanity. Wikus' wife reveals that, having found a small metal flower on her doorstep, she has hope that her husband is still alive. In a scrapyard, an alien with a bandaged left arm crafts a flower out of metal.

Overall, I really recommend this film highly. Based on their acting and the aliens, it is so good.

Rating: 5 stars

disUPpointed


UP is a film for all ages, when I watched it last August, I feel bored in this film. Because it is designed for kids, I tried to watch it but I'm so disappointed because I didnt have fun watching on it.


Carl Fredricksen, a shy and quiet young boy, meets an energetic and outgoing bucktoothed barefooted tomboy named Ellie, discovering they share the same interest in exploration as their hero, famed explorer Charles F. Muntz. Ellie expresses her desire to move her clubhouse to Paradise Falls in South America, a promise she makes Carl keep. Carl and Ellie wed and grow old together in the old house where they first met while making a living as a toy balloon vendor and a zookeeper respectively. Unable to have children, they also try to save up for the trip to Paradise Falls but other financial obligations arise. Just as they seem to finally be able to take their trip, Ellie dies of old age, leaving Carl living alone in their home as a sour recluse with nothing to live for and missing his wife terribly. As the years pass, the city grows around Carl's house with construction as Carl refuses to move. After a tussle with a construction worker over Carl's broken mailbox, the court orders Carl to move into Shady Oaks Retirement Home. Carl comes up with a scheme to keep his promise to Ellie, and uses his old professional supplies to create a makeshift airship using tens of thousands of helium balloons which lift his house off its foundations. Russell, a Wilderness Explorer trying to earn his final merit badge for "Assisting the Elderly", has stowed away on the porch after being sent on a literal snipe hunt by Carl the day before.

After a storm throws them around for a while, they find themselves across a large ravine facing Paradise Falls. With their body weight providing ballast allowing Carl and Russell to pull the floating house, the two begin to walk around the ravine, hoping to reach the falls while there's still enough helium in the balloons to keep the house afloat. As they walk towards Paradise Falls, Russell finds a colorful tropical bird which he names Kevin, not realizing that the bird is actually female. They later run into a dog named Dug with a translating collar that lets him speak. They discover Dug's owner is Charles Muntz, who has remained in South America for several decades to find and bring back a large species of bird (which turns out to be Kevin) in order to restore his reputation after bringing back a skeleton of the bird and being called a fraud because scientists thought he faked the evidence. Carl is initially thrilled to meet his hero, but when he realizes that Muntz is after Kevin and will kill without a moment's thought in order to capture her alive, Carl takes steps to save the bird and escape from Muntz. Thanks to Kevin and Dug they escape Muntz's pack of vicious dogs, led by Alpha, but Kevin is injured during the escape.

As Carl and Russell assist the injured Kevin to her chicks, Muntz and his dogs arrive in his airship, led by a tracking device in Dug's collar, and sets Carl's house on fire, forcing Carl to choose his house over Kevin. Muntz and his dogs quickly capture the bird and fly off. Though Carl successfully gets the house on the ground overlooking Paradise Falls per Ellie's wish, he has lost Russell's favor. Carl, settling down in his house, finds Ellie's childhood scrapbook and discovers her mementos of her life with Carl after they were married, and a final note from her thanking Carl for her adventure and an encouragement for him to go on his own. Invigorated by Ellie's last wish, he goes outside to see Russell, only to find him giving chase to Muntz. Carl lightens the weight of his house by dumping furniture and his possessions, allowing him to chase after Muntz in his house with Dug by his side.

Russell enters the airship through a window, but is captured by the dogs. He is tied up and left to fall to the earth, but Carl saves him and keeps him tied up in the house. Carl and Dug board the ship, and are able to lure the guard dogs away from Kevin to free her. Carl and Muntz duel face to face and fight (Muntz with a sword, Carl with his cane), while Dug is able to wrest control of the dogs and the dirigible from Alpha. Russell frees himself but clings to a lifeline as he finds the house in a dogfight with biplane fighters. When Carl shouts for help, Russell distracts the dog pilots and regains control of the house to rescue his friends, who are now on top of the airship. In pursuit, Muntz shoots out some of the balloons, causing the house to land and slide off the airship. Carl manages to trick Muntz inside the house while saving Russell, Dug, and Kevin; Muntz falls to his doom, while Carl's house drifts off into the clouds — a loss Carl gracefully accepts as being for the best.

Carl takes Muntz's dirigible and returns Kevin to her chicks, and then returns Russell and Dug back to the city. When Russell's father snubs his son's Senior Explorer ceremony, Carl fulfills that role himself to proudly present Russell with his final badge, the grape soda badge that Ellie presented to Carl when they first met. Afterward, Carl, reinvigorated in both spirit and body from his adventure, becomes a cheerfully active community volunteer with a strong father like relationship with Russell, Dug, and the other Wilderness Explorers. Whilst Carl now resides in the late Muntz's blimp, his old house, through happenstance, has landed exactly where Ellie envisioned it — overlooking Paradise Falls.

Overall, even the animation is so good, the storyline FOR ME, is bad.

Rating: 2 stars

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