14 Movie Reviews In The Form of Thank You Notes
Your movie brought Filipinos a controversy the way Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code did and for just as the same good reason: to give people something to talk about when Aldub is gone.
I'd have recommended this movie to Ramzy of Cebu Blogging Community and RNR Podcast because his OOTD could get inspiration from the sepia styles and outfit templates by Heneral Luna's interviewer/blogger, but he already podcast it. Dear Ramzy: you've seen Amy Schumer, now watch Anthony Jeselnik's Caligula. You're welcome.
2. Thank You Dir. Robert Zemeckis for directing The Walk, the movie for Art majors who wrestle with pointlessness to breathe beauty into life. Without it, we wouldn't have learned that being an artist means you have to steal, practice a language, impersonate, get a mentor, respect the process and embrace the void to produce beauty that no one else but you and your cat care about.
3. Thank you Don Siegel for your "Scorsese-Influencing" movie, Invasion of The Body Snatchers. You showed us that we might as well just die if we are snatched off of our emotions. Your actors who aren't supposed to feel fake still feel like they are, but I think your point is just because it's real doesn't mean it's not fake, so we're good.
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| Bisaya Short Films Recommends Invasion of Body Snatchers |
4. Thank you Dir. Eli Roth for your disgustingly thrilling movie Green Inferno. Your movie reminded me that there are people who help the "impoverished" children in Africa who are mentally ill professionals and that they are in need therapy and that they join charity causes to feel more important than us. In short, they are The Napoles. Or not.
I'd like Rachael Murrell Robinstein of Cebu Blogging Community to watch this movie and get her ideas on how her experience, if any, with Non-Government organizations in her country relate with the same controversies in the movie.
I'd like Rachael Murrell Robinstein of Cebu Blogging Community to watch this movie and get her ideas on how her experience, if any, with Non-Government organizations in her country relate with the same controversies in the movie.
5. Thank you Dir. Ridley Scott for your wonderful "Capitalism and Communism are Not Enemies!" kind of movie, The Martian. If it weren't for you I wouldn't have learned that bringing a clean black trash bag as a rain poncho is as brilliant as when Matt Damon used a tarpaulin as spaceship roof. The Martian is extra special because it sprang from a self-published book, and is now a skyrocketing success.
Your movie also gave me the idea that wanting to die is something that you can't help and something you can only do so much to remedy. You made me remember that I should pity more those who no longer want to live.
You made us realize, Ridley, that dreams do come true, even if your dream is not to have a dream, in which case an infinite paradox loop is created and then you explode.
Your movie also gave me the idea that wanting to die is something that you can't help and something you can only do so much to remedy. You made me remember that I should pity more those who no longer want to live.
You made us realize, Ridley, that dreams do come true, even if your dream is not to have a dream, in which case an infinite paradox loop is created and then you explode.
6. Thank you Dir. Chris Columbus for the sweet fun eye-candy movie, Pixels, which I believe is a movie the Supposedly Intelligent Snobbish People would hate, but I believe is an unpretentious fun pleasure you shouldn't overthink. Without you I wouldn't have known that Tyrion Lannister as a white man pretending to be a stereotype of a Ghetto boy with fetish for Martha Stewart is Peter Dinklage.
7. Thank you Dir. Joel Lamangan for Felix Manalo. Without your movie, I wouldn't have seen your non-dialogue trailer that contain nothing but a montage of actors' facial expressions, a style which I can only surmise is a tribute to the smartphone generation's emoticons. Yaay, you recognize the millenials who love Aldub!
8. Thank you Dir. John Krasinski for your movie adaptation of the 1000-page novel Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace, the 21st century postmodern literary genius who killed himself. Your movie is justice.
It feels that your movie is an essential influence in Will Forte's The Last Man On Earth because of the use of the idea that killers and rapists should not be condemned and are the most discriminated people on Earth. Good people praise each other, and those who are vilified get no better help than self-destruction and death. Hashtag Big Words.
It feels that your movie is an essential influence in Will Forte's The Last Man On Earth because of the use of the idea that killers and rapists should not be condemned and are the most discriminated people on Earth. Good people praise each other, and those who are vilified get no better help than self-destruction and death. Hashtag Big Words.
9. Thank you Ellen Page for your performance in Touchy Feely, the EricRohmer-inspired "Nothing happens in this story but the viewing is still a pleasure" kind of movie. Your delivery of an awkward, repressed confused girl who has no words to contain the emotional chaos is the story of my girlfriend's youth here in the Philippines.
10. Thank you Jake Gyllenhall for your movie, Nightcrawler.
It's a movie I'd like Carlo, JL, Hoven, Bjorn, Channel, Romeo and the rest of the force behind Cebu Blogging Community to watch not only because I'm thankful enough of their company and generosity to reward them with a mere Bisaya Short Films recommendation, but because the movie is a stealthy, brilliant tutorial on how to start, rule, and dominate a new media.
11. Thank you Leos Carax's Holy Motors for always reminding me of the concept of Black Swan and why randomness is where the purest power and strength can be.
12. Thank you White God for making me want to do a Bisaya Short Film about the Save The Dog project of Mary Narvasa of Cebu Blogging Community.
12. Thank you Beasts Of No Nation for inspiring me enough to continue campaigning for the passing of The Anti-Discrimination Bill because the indigenous people could need the help. The universe eventually explodes, so this effort might be for nothing, but I'd like to pretend that it matters.
13. Thank you Brett Haley for your movie "I'll See You In My Dreams". Your movie reminded me that I should be extra thankful for the new allies I seemed to have established while on board the Antipodes Yacht, especially to Jeane Louise who has always been warm and cheery in every blog adventure we have.
14. Thank you Wes Anderson for your movie, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. I've been joining communities such as The Cebu Blogging Community to produce more art and generate better important solutions for problems no one even still knows they have, and your movie's concept of family made me value the groups I'm joining even more.
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