skin the copycats

belated merry christmas, everyone.

i wonder how the supposed atheists spent christmas? surely it would have just been an ordinary day for them. no greetings or celebration of any kind, no giving or receiving of gifts since that day is believed to be the birth of the very being they refuse to believe in. unless, of course, they're just pretentious fucks with labels.

anyways, as always, whenever the holidays come, the manila film fest tags along and carries with it a new batch of the same old shit from the previous years. i wouldn't be surprised if next year, there's another enteng kabisote, mano po, shake rattle and roll and a cgi-ridden bong revilla movie. but before i go on, there's a quick piece from an american movie review web site regarding resiklo which i've copy-pasted below:

Filipino film doesn’t get a lot of love outside the Philippines these days and while there’s generally a very good reason for that – most of it is, shall we say, ungood – there are pockets of very serious talent there and also a willingness to just plain get goofy. This is one of the goofy ones. See the man all big and large in the poster? Yeah, he’s the main character. He drives the giant robot you see standing behind them all. And he’s also an actual, sitting senator in the Filipino government. I say if we settled all future political disputes with giant robot battles the world would be a better place.

goofy. you know what else is goofy? hollywood b-movies. which i'd no questions asked watch instead. what the dude who wrote that failed to point out though was the ripoff. i mean, was there a pinoy movie with giant cgi robots fighting in it before the transformers movie? no. (anyone remember robot jox, btw?) so, it's quite obvious that they're complete morons just waiting for the next hollywood blockbuster to steal ideas from. heck, even the same font was used. im pretty sure the robbery doesn't end there but im not sacrificing my intelligence by watching it just to find out. if resiklo is tagalog for recycle then i would like to commend them for such an appropriate title for a movie that recycled ideas from hollywood.

also, remember the desperate housewives issue, the overreaction, the call for boycott and public apology? i didnt care much about it. it's a comedy series and that thing about med school, it's true anyway. so, i really couldn't see why they would throw rocks at that show. now lookie here, folks! there's a movie coming out entitled desperadas. dont know what it's about but just by the title and the poster alone, one could tell that they just ripped off the very show that had allegedly ridiculed us filipinos. wow.

how do these people get away with this? because people watch them. they stampede the theaters blindly. they watch not as smart moviegoers but as die-hard fans of their idols. if it was two hours of judy ann santos picking her nose, they'd still watch it and tell everyone it's great while coming out of the theater on those stupid tv commercials. i really dont blame them. they're not dumb. it's these movies that are making them dumb.

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p.s. how do you marry an atheist?
p.p.s. im agnostic.