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Yu and I movie-marathoned the trilogy 20th Century Boys from last night (which was actually around 3am already) til this afternoon. It is the movie adaptation of the award-winning manga 20 Seiki Shounen or literally 20th Century Boys. The title was taken from a real song by T-Rex, 20th Century Boy. You can listen to the song on YouTube. (Side Comment: hide has a version too. :D It’s purely in Engrish though.)

The plot is something that young children would usually think of when playing with other kids: Good VS Evil, and there’s someone good, there’s someone bad. Good prevails in the end. But the plot that the kids had imagined becomes reality in the future. The end of the world and stuff like that. And…

I suck at writing summaries so please just check the links on this post. This post isn’t meant to be a review either. I just want to rant about it. Oh, and spoiler alert. Probably.

Some basics though:
The first movie, 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End, jumps from 1969 to 2000. Kenji and friends tries to save the world from TOMODACHI but they fail.
The second movie, 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope, continues to 2015 with a teenage Kanna and a reigning TOMODACHI.
The last movie, 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption, comes 2 years later and TOMODACHI pretty much controls the world. Kenji and friends make a comeback and they kill TOMODACHI. TOMODACHI is revealed in this part.

A few questions…

WHY THE HELL didn’t the people ever question the “MASK” of TOMODACHI? It’s like he’s going around and people just nod and raise their finger. Pointer finger, I mean.
One thing I hated about the movie was how they kept on stalling on exposing TOMODACHI!!! aaargh! So even if I wasn’t quite interested in seeing the whole trilogy, I still kept on watching. The true identity of TOMODACHI doesn’t get exposed until like the last 10 minutes (or less) of the movie, credits included. Had I known, I would’ve jumped from first movie to the 3rd just to find that out.

In the first movie, the terrible twins were fat. In the second movie, they were lean. In the third movie, they were huger than ever. Did they read some lipozene reviews and magically gained weight after 2 years? Just wondering.

Kanna has ESP, because she bent a spoon and she was able to find her classmate that was kind of dragged by one of her uncle’s childhood classmates. She’s also called The Chosen One, and God’s Child among others. What is the purpose of this? After the ESP scenes that seemed forced, the idea got lost. I was hoping for more ESP action.

The people who seemed to be under TOMODACHI’s spell most of the time act like remote-controlled zombies, like when they tried to take baby Kanna and in the processions, etc. But when faced with a gun, they suddenly become … I can’t think of a good word for them, but it’s like unhumanly cowards… I guess that’s one of the few funny scenes of the story, but still, I found it ridiculous. If they’re zombified, they’re zombified. If they’re doing it because they’re scared, then they should look scared. Movie physics, I guess.

I’ve never read the manga so I’m not sure how much it stayed with the storyline of the manga version, but overall, I liked the story. Considering each movie lasted for almost two and a half hours each, and I watched them all, I did like it.

I’d give this 3.5 out of 5 stars!

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I just watched a Japanese movie, Happy Flight, which was directed by the same director of Himitsu no Hanazono (My Secret Cache), Swing Girls and Waterboys, Shinobu Yaguchi.

It briefly reminded me of the classic movie Airplane! which was a funny film about a flight gone wrong. Happy Flight is not really about the flight that had gone wrong, but how the staff–pilots, cabin attendants, control tower people, dispatchers, bird patrol, and even the mechanics helped this flight to come back safely. It’s not exactly a whole laugh trip like the movies I mentioned before, but it was fun nonetheless. It dealt more on how people had to help each other to keep the passengers safe during this travel emergency, and how they succeeded.

One of the things I felt missing from the film was the baggage handlers (I’ve always wondered how they deal with the luggage), and what happens after they came back from the turnaround. I felt that the movie was about the behind-the-scenes struggles of an airline operation. But I guess it really just doesn’t end with that, and if they did try to continue it and include the other factors that constitute running an airline business, the movie won’t end.

I’d give it 4/5 stars. :D

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I can’t remember if I put up a Christmas wishlist last year, but after seeing Sarah’s wishlist, I figured I’ll write my own too. (Gaya gaya kasi ako. I’m a loser, ya ya.) So I’ll also kind of copy her “template”

Music

• I want a grand piano, or the not so grand would be fine. But this would be totally pointless since I can’t read notes.
• I also want a violin, but … same reasoning with the piano.
• Complete (and Original, not pirated) discography of X-Japan, Yiruma, EVERY LITTLE THING, Mr.Children, DO AS INFINITY, and many many moar! But seriously, except for X-Japan, soft copies would be great.
• Acoustic Steel Guitar
• Electric Guitar

Techie

• External Hard Drive
• Awesome Desktop
• New Cellphone
• Digital Camera
• Creative Zen X-Fi 32 Gb.
• The new MacBook (Pro)
• A new layout for miii.net (Migasm is getting old)
• GrabUp Pro
• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
• faster DSL… 3mbps? Whatever’s the fastest from my ISP.
• Ultra nice speakers

Books Reads

• A subscription for YUMMY! magazine, including back-issues.

Movies/Videos

• Hayao Miyazaki box set or ALL movies.
• X-Japan concerts/DVDs

Otaku

• Nodame Cantabile anime, manga, drama, and soundtracks
• Nodame Bag in S2 (the white one with the G-Clef)

Others

• Credit Card application to be approved.
• An Oven
• A house and lot
• a new dog
• Japanese Tourist Visa
• Passport
• a Samsonite luggage for my Japan trip next year.
• Lots of money

Aahh… I’m so materialistic. And I like gadgets. *shrugs*

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I received an email from Nuffnang Philippines about the Movie Premier of Burn After Reading, and of course, I got excited. But with my hectic work schedule, I hardly have time to blog, much less watch movies. And when I got the new email that they’re giving away MORE tickets, and I found out that I’ll be free on Tuesday night next week, I figured that this is my chance!

I also hardly have time to attend blogger events, and with Nuffnang, this would be an awesome opportunity to meet and greet my fellow Nuffnangers! It’s been ages since I last attended an event. It’s been ages since I last saw a movie. And I haven’t found any movie interesting lately until Burn After Reading.

When I saw that it will be starring Brad Pitt, I knew I would like to watch it. When I saw that it will also be starring George Clooney, I knew I want to watch it. When I found out that it is a comedy film, I really really WANT to watch it! When I found out that it will be my day off on Tuesday night, I knew I HAD to watch it!

It’s not very often to come across a day off, a Nuffnang event, sexy hunks, comedy, and a chance to mingle with my fellow Nuffnangers, all in one night!

I just HAVE to be there!

So thank you very much in advance: nuffnang Philippines, Viva International Movies and Robinsons Movieworld, Galleria.

*Update: I actually sent my entry to the wrong email so this effort was useless. I won’t be able to watch it (for free) and I just feel so bad about it now. Lesson learned is do not join contests while half-awake; and after reading instructions ten times can still let you miss some important details. This is probably the reason why employment rate is going bad. People don’t read. If they don’t read they don’t learn. If they don’t learn, they don’t get a good future… and so on.

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Note: The WALL-E links each go to a different website. And spoiler alert. This is not a review. I’m just blabbering about it. Do not read if you do not want to be spoiled.

I’ve watched WALL-E for like 3.5 times (I was so drunk last night that I passed out half-way) and I don’t think I’ll get tired of watching it (tch, of course I will sooner or later). Ocassionally, I’d say “WALL-E! EEEEEVAh!” out loud from my WALL-E hangover. It’s a very likable movie. Although I don’t really count it as “Fantastic!!!” but it moved me and made me cry a tear in some parts. It had a lot of “Awwwww” parts.

WALL-E is a movie almost 800 years into the future wherein Man has become almost god-like with his ability to go into space and create robots to do everything for him. However, with Man’s technology, the world had become so polluted with unrecycled waste and it came to a point that Earth had stopped becoming livable. So the humankind went into space, supposedly a 5-year space cruise, while the planet was being cleaned up… but 700 years later, they were still in space.

The main character, WALL-E is a robot that is programmed to compact trash and arrange them properly and neatly into cubes that would remind you of building blocks. The movie actually started giving the audience an aerial view of the city with towers of compacted trash. In the end, after about 700 years, the other WALL-E robots had “died” and he was the only one left. Because of his hundreds of years of toil, WALL-E had developed a personality that he watched movies on an iPod magnified using… something, he befriended a cockroach, he collected interesting trash here and there and he tried his best to segregate his finds.

EVE, who looked like a product of Apple, was a robot of the future, highly advanced, and more good-looking than WALL-E. She becomes WALL-E’s love interest in the movie. She starts off as a disinterested, emotionless robot and ends up like WALL-E, full of emotions.

What I liked about this movie is the animation didn’t feel so much like an animation. I mean, it’s CG and everything, but it wasn’t very colorful (in the Earth scenes) and it almost gave a rustic feel to it. It can be plainly a kiddie movie or you could analyze it for deeper meanings–either way, you’re sure to enjoy the movie.

I personally would take both aspects of it. An animation to be enjoyed by kids, and a story with a deep meaning, a message for mankind. Basically, Man is Evil. Man, when given an opportunity, is lazy.

In the movie, the humans were given the chance to live in space while being served by robots 24/7. They didn’t need to walk. All the needed to do to have something done was to push a button or two or give a command. And everything will be done for them. Even their food can be served in a cup (hamburger in a cup, anyone?) so they don’t have to chew. So with the lack of gravity and physical exertion (nevermind exercise, but they hardly move at all), their bones shrank and they became big balls of jelly fat that they could hardly even walk. And because life in space was so convenient, they kind of forgot the existence of Earth.

They lacked a health insurance plan. They didn’t really need something like medigap since it was an all-expense paid “space cruise” but seriously, they needed a health advisor or something.

It took an old robot full of emotions and who loved the Earth to make these humans open their eyes and see their surroundings and appreciate what they see. With the fast pace of technology, who knows when we’ll be able to reach that kind of world. In a hundred years? 50?

I give this movie 5 stars.

Any my favorite quote in the movie is by the captain.
“I don’t WANT to survive. I want to LIVE!”

Star Star Star Star Star.

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I just watched this movie because someone forced me to watch it. And I was sleepy but I couldn’t sleep, so I thought that if this movie would bore me, then good, I’d be able to fall asleep.

I must say that I am quite pleased with the movie. Like Yu said, “It was a rollercoaster of emotions.”

When one guy was running to get gunned down, I was screaming in my seat (I was in bed, but wth) “Run! Run! Run!” I needed to yawn but I manage to keep my eyes open because I didn’t want to miss a scene. Of course, I was watching it with subtitles because the accent is a little weird.

Likes:
The plot itself. Two hitmen take a vacation in a God-knows-where place to one of them, and a wonderland for the other. They’re taking a vacation because the one who didn’t like the place accidentally killed a boy and he was getting eaten up by his conscience. The story progresses as the two men experience a change of views on life and death. It also shows reality in a sense–aside from life and death, there’s racism of skin color or citizenship, discrimination for personal looks, prostitution. The ending was also wonderfully …

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Ready for more crappy singing? Yes, right?
Well well. Here is my version of One More Time, One More Chance. I might re-sing it someday if I ever remember or feel like doing it. But this will be it for now. I might be going out later to buy a new cabinet for my noodles and maybe check on some treadmills because I’m so out of exercise now…

misan - One More Time, One More Chance

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I went to SM North today to watch The Spiderwick Chronicles. It was a pretty good movie. I was literally on the edge of my seat in some parts of the movie and trying hard not to scream or cheer on the characters. Watch it!

After parting with Sarah and Lori, I bought some groceries. I bought some fruits–honeydew and musk melon–and greens like lettuce and something else. And non-fat milk. and Coke Zero.

and a lot of instant noodles. xD

Kind of defeats the purpose, I know. But I haven’t really had the time to eat the said instant noodles. So it’s alright.

I bought some diet pills from one of my teammates before, and I haven’t taken any of it after the first week and a half. It should be an everyday thing… but I always forget. It’s that fat-burner thingo I don’t know.

BUT AT LEAST!!! I try to eat fruits and vegetables… I eat salad whenever I have the chance. =_=” I’m still getting fatter. *sigh*

Graduation is just around the corner. I already have to start having a dress made. T_T It has to be a Filipiniana dress. Why can’t it be just an ordinary beige/ecru/white dress so I’ll still be able to wear it one day? Why does it have to be a Filipiniana dress I’ll never ever wear ever again? A waste of money. I’m starting to wonder if I should even attend it. Oh welllll… *sigh*

Diet. Diet. Diet.

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There’s this song that I heard a couple of months back. It’s the anime movie Byousoku 5cm or 5cm per Second. Well, the song is old. I know I’ve heard it somewhere before when I heard it from the movie… I mean, when they used it for the anime, it was kind of like a revival, as what we would call it here. And the movie is actually a series of segments, or short films, basically about relationships and distance.

I liked the movie, although I can’t give a full review right now. I’ll have to watch it again. But I kind of was able to relate to this movie. It was a little slow all throughout the movie… as if it was moving 5cm per second, but it was at a pace wherein you wouldn’t want it to rush nor slow down.

For a person like me who’s got a lot of close friends online, who I might not ever meet, distance is such a big thing and a small thing at the same time. The distance doesn’t keep us apart from being friends, but there are times when you wish the distance wasn’t there at all.

The ending song for the movie was what made me think of a lot of things. It made me think of the past, the present, and the future. Even before I was able to find a translation, just the mood of the song and from what little I could understand from it made me think about the what if’s in my life… the what could’ve been’s… It made me think of the things I wanted when I was a child, and the things I wanted and never got, which is probably a lot. It made me think about the dolls I saw and wanted and never got. It made me think of the other toys I had wanted. It made me think of the playhouses and the swing sets I wanted to have.

For the present, it made me think of the things I have to go through now, the things I let go in the past and now living with regrets and what I’ve got left, the things that make me ask myself, “Am I Happy?”

For the future, it made me think, or wonder, if I’ll be in the same state or the same place where I am now. Will I be able to move on for good, and all that emo stuff.

Ah.. Well… Here is the song that I want to share today. The translation is from Hunting the Elusive and lyrics itself can also be found in one of the comments.

One More Time, One More Chance
Lyrics and Vocals: Masayoshi Yamazaki
Arrangement: Toshiyuki Mori

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