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[wolverine]

here's an image of dr che guevarra w/c can also be use as an avatar:


Just saw Spectres in DVD. Featuring Marina Sirtis ( of Star trek next generation). Its one creepy movie. There was this unedited clip included in the DVD showing a spectre of light passing through marina and the production crew noted this is no ordinary light coming from outside because they have sealed the room where they were shooting the film. This was just discovered during editing. Could this be a ghostly manifestation? Go take a peek....

[Antigone]

I watched 2 movies last week. My ultimate fave, Never Ending Story 1 (sa DVD) and Batman Begins.

Ang ganda!

Me bago na kong boyfriend. Si Christian Bale.

[mikemuin]

cruzin, on Jun 21 2005, 01:10 AM, said:

kaw naman Mike. sinira mo yung surprise..Yup its Che Guevarra..more known for his image on T-shirts here....

Di ko alam na surprise mo pala yun. But it isn't a surprise really since this fact is said in the poster plus it is based on a book by Che Guevarra.

For more info on him, try this site: http://en.wikipedia....iki/Che_Guevara

What is interesting in it is the Guevarra's transition from a doctor with radical socio-political views to a fierce combatant.

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Castro, Guevara, and 80 other guerrillas departed from Tuxpan, Veracruz, aboard the cabin cruiser Granma in November 1956. (The name was most likely a tribute to the grandmother of the previous owner, an American.) Guevara was the only non-Cuban aboard.

Shortly after disembarking in a swampy area near Niquero in the southeast, the expeditionary unit was attacked by Batista's forces. Only 15 rebels survived. Guevara, the group's physician, laid down his knapsack containing medical supplies in order to pick up a box of ammunition dropped by a fleeing comrade, a moment which he later recalled as marking his transition from doctor to combatant.

The rebels slowly grew in strength, seizing weapons and winning support and recruits from the local peasants in rural areas and intellectuals and workers in urban areas. Guevara exhibited great courage, skills in combat, and ruthlessness, and soon became one of Castro's ablest and most trusted aides. Guevara took responsibility for the execution of informers, insubordinates, deserters and spies in the revolutionary army. He personally executed Eutimio Guerra, a suspected Batista informant, with a single shot from his .32(7.65mm) caliber pistol.

[miadaj]

I throughly enjoyed this most recent installment of Batman - the best yet.

Here's one movie I saw last week - "Love Actually". I kept on putting it in the backburner, as reviews have been lackluster. However, I gave it a chance, and liked it. It's a movie where the music blends in and weaves itself perfectly with the scenes. It's got the kilig factor in it, but the most poignant scene that haunts me days after I've seen it was the scene where the great Emma Thompson confirms that her husband is having an affair with his secretary. There she was in the bedroom, no lines spoken, going through her scene so earnestly while Joni Mitchell's remake of her own "Both Sides Now" is playing. I will never listen to that song again without remembering Emma's brilliant acting.

[bvbraga]

it was the scene where the great Emma Thompson confirms that her husband is having an affair with his secretary. There she was in the bedroom, no lines spoken, going through her scene so earnestly while Joni Mitchell's remake of her own "Both Sides Now" is playing.

.....yeah, the best! my heart was in the blender seeing that scene.hehehe

[Antigone]

I so agree. That was heartbreaking. Naiyak nga ako dun sa sine. Nakakahiya.

[romeo]

Guys, tayo naman... has any movie actually made you cry?

Kasi i'm tempted to mimic Tom Hanks when he made fun of Rita Wilson (who was narrating An Affair to Remember while sobbing) in Sleepless in Seattle just reading this discussion on Love Actually

[jmyoung]

one of the better romance movies i have seen in a while.... check it out.


The Notebook (2004)
Based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, this drama chronicles an enduring love that withstands both war and disease. It begins in a nursing home, where a man (James Garner) arrives every day armed with a notebook from which he reads stories about a couple, Noah and Allie (played by Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams), to an unresponsive woman (Gena Rowlands). Who are the characters in the book, and why does the stranger insist on reading about them aloud?

[mikemuin]

Naunahan mo ako sa 'The Notebook'. Rented it through Netflix 2 days ago at hindi ko pa binabalik. Meron akong mga scenes na inuulit. Hehehe. Nice movie and a very interesting story from a writer's perspective. As an aspiring writer kasi, I also look at the plot and the dialogue. And I liked it very much.

For 'serious but meaty' dialogues, other good movies I liked:

Garden State
The Station Agent
Before Sunset (the sequel to...)
Before Sunrise

I also watched 'Magnifico'. Cried my heart out. May Filipino section na ang Blockbuster online kasi.

[docyoda]

thanks for the tip, mike. will check out the filipino section of blockbuster. gosh, have to catch up on my movies.

"love actually" is a personal fave of mine because of colin firth. but i also like the little boy who was so much in love with his classmate. cute!

[cruzin]

wolverine, on Jun 21 2005, 09:27 AM, said:

here's an image of dr che guevarra w/c can also be use as an avatar: 
 

I can't change my avatar wolvie...hirap sa damdamin ko. Iba kasi ang pinagsamahan namin ng present avatar ko. Thanks though for the new "Che" look.

Thanks Mike sa link. I once wanted to be a rebel myself. .pero I think I am a rebel without arms. ..fighting for the endless cause of uplifting the health of the poor sick man of Asia...

[miadaj]

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For 'serious but meaty' dialogues, other good movies I liked:
Garden State   Before Sunset (the sequel to...)   Before Sunrise

I rented "Garden State" recently (the same time when I saw "Love Actually"). What struck me in this movie was the concept that you have to leave your hometown to discover who you are. That there are pockets of places where life seems to stand still and things don't change. (Akala ko dati, sa Pilipinas lang nangyayari yun). For the protagonist's part, he decided to come back home. The soundtrack has also received rave reviews.

Oooh, I loved "Before Sunrise" and "Below Sunset". I thought it was a "girlie" movie (so I rented the requisite testosterone-laden "Friday Night Lights" for my husband). I've completed "...Sunrise" and moved on to "...Sunset" when my husband got home and sat with me. He liked it, and asked to start over (worked out for me, because I watched the movies all over again). The dialogues were topnotch, the acting was so natural. The chemistry between Julie Delphy and Ethan Hawke was very evident. And you can see the maturity these 2 protagonists achieve years later (the transition between the 2 movies). And what more can you ask, with Paris being the backdrop. There is just something magical and romantic with this city.

[romeo]

A bit of comic trivia from Batman Begins.

In the comic storyline, Bruce Wayne was trained by Lady Shiva, master of the Empty Hand Technique and one of Ra's Al Ghul's deadliest assasins, in the pre and post KNIGHTFALL saga.

The League of Shadows is known as the League of Assasins in movie's comic counterpart.

[june ann]

grabe ka doc philip! la akong ma say...since nandito na din MIND, talagang dapat nga tuloy na ang movie na yan doc. abangan namin ha.
it's been quite a while since di ako nakawatch movies..simple lang naman taste ko, nationalistic kasi. Of course I watch foreign movies but i always love watching quality Pinoy movies pa rin , Laurice Guillen et al..yung mga inspirational films. Last week lang,napanood ko din at last! Yung "Mga Munting Tinig (Small Voices)" a 2003 award winning Pinoy film by Gil Portes. Lead star is Alessandra de Rossi. Ganda! Babaw lang kasi luha ko..it made me cry doc romeo...nakakaawa nga talaga ang Pilipinas!

SYNOPSIS:
Dreams are what Melinda brought with her the day she left for the flung provincial town of Malawig. The young teacher arrives to find a land of coconut and rice fields, and a people barren of hope. Poverty has made the townsfolk passive, resigned to a bitter fate, while others fight in the mountains, staking their lives for some kind of change.

"Only rich can afford to dream. We can't." The words of a child urge Melinda to strive to make the town listen poverty does not make victims of people. Hopes are essential, and dreams can be made real. Against the skepticism of town, Melinda and the children of Malawig join a humble singing contest. Their small voices ring out against darkness, against poverty, death, and despair.

Their song awakens in everyone a small flame of hope a daring to dream, and a willingness to fight for it. Melinda leaves the town BELIEVING THAT IT IS WITHIN ONE'S POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, THAT WITHIN ONE'S SELF IS A VOICE OF HOPE WAITING TO BE HEARD.

It's about dreaming and hoping, struggling and fighting pa rin actually. Melinda is a young teacher pero makakarelate talaga tayong mga young doctors..haaay... buhay.

[romeo]

Has anyone seen "What the bleep do we know?", a documentary that tries to weave itself a story about quantum physics and shatters the very reality as we know it?

It's pretty revolutionary in thinking. I never thought that religion and quantum physics had a lot in common.

One of the things that made me really think was the experiments of Dr. Masaru Emoto.

What has put Dr. Emoto at the forefront of the study of water is his proof that thoughts and feelings affect physical reality. By producing different focused intentions through written and spoken words and music and literally presenting it to the same water samples, the water appears to "change its expression".

Essentially, Dr. Emoto captured water's 'expressions.' He developed a technique using a very powerful microscope in a very cold room along with high-speed photography, to photograph newly formed crystals of frozen water samples. Not all water samples crystallize however. Water samples from extremely polluted rivers directly seem to express the 'state' the water is in.

Dr. Masaru Emoto discovered that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward them. He found that water from clear springs and water that has been exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns. In contrast, polluted water, or water exposed to negative thoughts, forms incomplete, asymmetrical patterns with dull colors. See http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystals/ for sample pics

In the movie, one stranger says, "if our thoughts can do that to water, imagine what our thoughts can do to us!" That really got me thinking, our current national situtation is a product of the collective consciousness of our people.... we dug ourselves in our own grave just by thinking about it and we can dig ourselves out by doing the same. What we perceive as reality is really a product of the choices we make from the infinite number of possibilities that are presented to us everyday.

This is a movie that Hollywood will ignore. So you won't find it in commercial places. I've tried looking, honestly! Borrow it or buy it from what cruzin affectionately calls our Muslim brothers!

[chriseyemd]

mikemuin, on Jun 23 2005, 06:11 AM, said:

I also watched 'Magnifico'. Cried my heart out. May Filipino section na ang Blockbuster online kasi.

Magnifico is a good movie. Galing dun ni Jiro Manio. Cried my heart out, too.

[mikemuin]

I just watched 'I am David' with Jim Caviezel. I cannot praise this movie enough. Right now, this is my most favorite movie. I highly recommend it.

I was so moved by it that I ended up buying the novel through Amazon within minutes of the ending. Now, I have something to add in the book thread (well, once it arrives).

[romeo]

Has anybody watched the 2001 "I am Sam" movie with Sean Penn and Dakota Fanning? There was a scene there of their neighbour Annie (Diane Wiest) playing a tune on her piano and it unmistakably sounds like a Pinoy song... i just can't place it... it's driving me nuts! Any help?

[wolverine]

Just watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on DVD

The film took off during the world war II in Europe. The opening sequence is quite dragging as it showed the bombing of major European cities. To avoid the violence of the war, the four British children were sent by their mother to the house owned by Professor Kirke in the hope of escaping German bombing. Excitement ensues after the youngest child, Lucy discovered a parallel world whose secret entrance was inside a dressing closet. It is in this fantasy land of fauns, centaurs and a lion that the story became interesting as the usual fight between good and evil were shown with the children together with their new found friends fought a battle against a wicked witch. Penned by CS Lewis during the 1950s and I must say that this is far better than harry potter and lotr. Do watch it with your kids.

Merry Christmas!

[miadaj]

The Chronicles have Christian values and beliefs incorporated in the stories, making it more palatable to kids. I did not realize this, until "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" movie came out.

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On the other hand, Lewis did have loosely defined parallels in mind, as he wrote to another fan: "The whole series works out like this:
The Magician's Nephew tells the Creation and how evil entered Narnia,
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - the Crucifixion and Resurrection,
The Horse and His Boy - the calling and conversion of the heathen,
Prince Caspian - restoration of the true religion after a corruption,
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - the spiritual life (especially in Reepicheep),
The Silver Chair - the continuing war against the powers of darkness,
The Last Battle - the coming of Antichrist (the ape). The end of the world and the last judgement"