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This movie was terrible

posted 18 years ago by punx742
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This had to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It kept teasing you making you think you were going to see something happen. When in reality nothing happened at all. You don't even get to see his family at the end, and what the hell is up with the little kid eating Mcdonalds? Who cares about that stuff. Seeing the country itself was the only cool aspect to the movie. Other then that there is no point in watching this rubbish. Maybe if there was an explosion or if they showed more it would've been better.

[–] ElZekito 17 years ago

They were using those kid shots when big stuff was supposedly happening like him getting the money from the bank and blowing up the church. They couldn't afford to shoot that stuff so they just did a vignette with the kid, it was clever.

¨...and Secretariat was just a horse¨

[–] ethanhunt703 17 years ago

my persian homegirl just asked me if i've seen this movie. she works with lots of filipinos, in the states and in pi.

this film is just one of those films that didn't catch my eye. props to the folks who gave a young filmmaker a chance. they are obviously desperate for the perspective of life for a filipino american.

other than that... from what my friend described... the film is a disgrace to the culture of the philippines. how was he (the director) raised him? i may have been born and raised in the states but my parents embedded the deepest of baguio city culture and pride in me very early on. my mestiza stepsisters... they're fluent in tagalog!

and all these comments about symbolism, bad filming, a two man crew. please... do not make independent cinema an excuse. one too many filmmakers all across the world have proved the timelessness of films on a stricter budget. homie needs to go back to school... southwestern apparently didn't teach him enough. i went to southwestern... and ucsd... and national university. southwestern, particularly my philosophy 101 class, was probably the BEST school i went to.

film is a medium of many layers. as a lover of all things art history, i beg the director and his crew to go back to the drawing board and stay there until they've put years of thought into the next piece.

[–] witthayu 17 years ago

The poor people yeah yeah. So we must like a poor movie, just it comes from a poor country? The movie was total utter rubbish.

[–] ryanbruch-1 16 years ago

You guys are really something. Did you see the budget? These guys made a thriller that kept you glued to the screen for $7,000!!! It wasn't supposed to be CNN, or a history lesson, or a political science lecture! Some people just want to be filmmakers and tell an engaging story. They tell you to write what you know. These guys used their own knowledge of their own heritage and a boatload of ingenuity to make this film's limitations work FOR it instead of AGAINST it. It was so good that it kept you wanting to know what was going to happen every second even though you could see how cheap it looked. THAT'S filmmaking!

[–] rockon62 16 years ago

is this the standard for which movies are made now. That's really sad. You guys watch wayyy too much reality TV.

[–] ryanbruch-1 16 years ago

What does that mean? They had a story to tell and no money and they made it happen! Not everybody can secure studio financing. I can't stand reality TV.