Entries to the Movie Review Vault

Black Swan - Good, could have been great. 3 DREIs (could have been two if without the m scene, could have been four if it had a better ending)

Tron Legacy - Amazing visuals. Should have seen the first to "properly" enjoy the mythos. Saw it on IMAX 3D. Not much with storytelling but good replayability. 4 DREIs.

Sanctum - Edge of your seat suspense. Is it a disaster movie or an action movie? At least the pace was gripping in spite of a bad script and bad acting. Good popcorn movie but no replayability. 3 DREIs.

Mindflesh - A psycho-erotic thriller dealing with alternate realities laced with gore and weird sexual fantasies. In spite of that - HELL NO. 1 DREI.

Mulholland Drive - Probably one of the few rare movies na pinagisip muna ko ng matindi bago ko nagets. It turns out I may have still been wrong about the movie. I was thinking it was about the whole idea of your "life flashing before your eyes" in a singular moment. I may be wrong, I may be right. The thing about this movie is the director did not clarify anything and just let the viewers endlessly speculate. 3.5 DREIs.



1 - DREIs: "Avoid Like The Plague" Why did we watch this in the first place? (i.e. Bangkok Dangerous, The Hottie and the Nottie, Scorpion King 2, etc..)



2 - DREIs: "Shite" No need to see this movie unless you have absolutely nothing else to do. Movies with high expectations but falls short on almost everything. (i.e. Righteous Kill, Max Payne, The Island, etc..)


3 - DREIs: "Okay" Good movies that could have been better. Usually gets half good reviews, and the other half so-so. The experience will also depend also on who is watching. (i.e. Clone Wars Animated, Fast and the Furious, The Devil Wears Prada, etc..)


4 - DREIs: "Great" Almost all facets of the movie were masterfully done. Great in almost all aspects. (i.e. 300, Dark Knight, Transformers, Slumdog Millionaire, etc..)


5 - DREIs: "Revolutionary" It will change the entire concept of filmmaking and how films are made from this point on. It will serve as the new gauge for movies of the same genre. (i.e. The Matrix, LOTR, The Godfather, etc..)

Wade Does One More Thing I Wish I Could Do

Dwyane Wade wins custody of sons

MIAMI -- When the Miami Heat ended practice Sunday, Dwyane Wade went home to his sons.

That will be a regular event going forward.

Ending a long and often-vengeful fight, a Chicago court has awarded Wade sole "care, custody and control" of his two sons. The boys arrived in Miami on Friday, shortly after the ruling was filed, and Wade told The Associated Press that "a huge weight is off my back." (more)

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My babies minus one

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Thirty-five Year Old Threshold

A doc friend once told us that smokers have an absolute threshold on when to quit smoking.

"Quit when you're 35, and by the time you reach 40, your lungs will be like a 19 year-old's."

It's under the premise that if you go beyond 35, your body will already be to old or weak to heal itself from smoking abuse.

So me and prof have been saying to ourselves, 35 cold turkey.. Cold turkey-five.. Cold 35. Let's do this.

(Here's to wishing that e-cigarette technology will be perfected by then...)

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Test Blogging from my Samsung Android

Test Blogging from my Samsung Android

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Pomplamoose - Another Day

Great music + Nataly Dawn's eyes.

End Of Planets

Lately, my 5-year old has been trying to put her mind around the fact that our planet and to an extent the entire universe will inevitably die or cease to exist. She calls it "the end of all planets."
I asked her where she got the idea and she told me it came from nowhere and that she suddenly got curious about life on planets ending. I didn't buy it. No 5-year old thinks about this stuff. She probably got the idea from a movie or a TV show or something and it just brewed in her little mind Inception-style.
Anyway, for a couple of days now, she has been asking me curious things like: "Daddy when will it happen?" and "How will it happen?" and even questions like "What will we do when the end of planets is here?" (She even asked if the same thing will happen on Pandora and what will Jake and the Na'vi do about it.) You can feel that she's really unsettled by these thoughts. Well the sweet thing about it is that her somewhat fidgety mind came from the fact that she is scared for her family. "I am scared kasi eh, I don't know what will happen to us and what will happen to Sooz." (Sooz or Suzie is her one-year old little sister.)
It is difficult to answer these questions in the way that a five-year old mind will understand. I was tempted to just tell her "Don't worry about it. It won't happen for a long time." But the scientist in me urged me to explain this to her as best as I could. It was like accepting a challenge and I obliged. However, it is particularly difficult to explain all of these with a sense of time on when it will happen. The entire universe has been in existence for around 13.7 billion years. So barring any nuclear holocausts, killer meteors, or zombie infestations, I think human life can exist for at least another 13.7 billion years (it may or may not be on another planet) given that cosmologists still consider our universe to be a young universe. It may take at least that time for the universe to stop expanding and collapse again on itself. That is almost FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS. It's no googleplex, but can a child even grasp that number?
So in the simplest of terms, I told her that, yes, the universe will die of natural causes, and that this will not happen for a very long time. A very long time in fact that everyone you know right now will have gotten old and their children would have children, and their children will have children, and so on. I told her not to be scared because everyone you know would have lived long and fulfilling lives.
After my explanation (she may have understood most of it, she may have not), she just told me "Daddy, I hope it doesn't happen in the night para we're prepared." Yep, this is my daughter. And I am her silly over thinking father.

It's Not A Beautiful Day

This too shall pass.

Endure.

It's A Beautiful Day

The Great Conundrum

My affinity for numbers, time, space and everything in between have always led me to believe that man's conundrum wasn't really Science vs. Religion but rather Mathematics vs. Religion. Math as the real nemesis of Religion with mathematics (being the so-called universal language) as the great unifier and religion as the great divider.
As I think of this, my thoughts turn to quantum theories and cosmology - in the vicinity of a Black Hole, once past the event horizon, traditional ideas of time and space skew and warp exponentially to an almost incomprehensible level. However, to an extent, everything is still mathematically calculable even with the enormous rate of change. But that is only to an extent.
There is a point within a black hole called the Singularity, conventionally thought of as being in the middle of it, where the black hole begins (or ends, depending on your school of thought). It is at this point where all known mathematical formulas fail, certainty no longer exists, even probability as a concept is questionable, the normal is abnormal or is both, truth and fallacy exist at the same time. In essence, at this singularity, everything is unexplainable.
Some mathematicians believe that we should think of it as beyond the human brain's comprehension (or a hardware limitation for that matter) and that we were not meant to understand it in the first place.
Perhaps, this is where religion and faith parallels itself with the credence of the universal acceptance of mathematics. There is always a point where understanding something is not a prerequisite of its existence.
Perhaps.