Reviews

this is a bad telenovela! in true filipino fashion, this is indeed a fashion victim. the costumes are all stiff (as with the wigs, hey! please clean your wigs, at least take them to the cleaners every other year or so!) and the colors are too bright! i wonder if they have a fashion consultant that really knows fabric management. i question why would they put capes on the actors when these capes are all so stiff that they could stand up and walk by themselves.

OK, that's just the costumes.

let's get into the meat of the matter: acting. well, there's not much to say. gma7 has never produced a decent actor/actress for a long time. oh, never mind their acting awards. in a country where everything else is for sale, i'm sure gma7 has bought it's fair share of awards. they're acting are to flamingly gay and lacks substance.

OK. why does gma7 continue to shove garbage like these into their audience's throat? well... i believe it's because they don't care about the filipino people. they'd rather the filipinos be in a rut where they could make money out of them than be intelligent.

i'd rather turn my TV off than watch garbage like this.

when i read the book, i had a vision of images fleeting fluidly one after the other. however, when i saw the movie, i felt violated. it's like i was seeing something else in my mind's eye and the movie version was garishly disparaging my vision. prof trelawny, whom i envisioned to be statuesque and fluid, although a little eccentric, came across in the movie as just flaky. even the dementors were disjointed. the knight bus was too full of itself to come across as a wizard's chief means of transportation -- it was to glitzy. not only that, the acting, from the first movie, to this installment is getting worse. what's with this? harry potter is a good book. but Hollywood is intent of just cashing in on a good thing and ruining it (turning it into a Hollywood production, full of glitz, lacking in substance). i was just disappointed. i'd rather read the book again and again.

It is indeed a sad day in Philippine cinema when this movie, mano po 3 (which is an installment in a series of stories, totally unconnected with each other, about filipino-Chinese in the Philippines), won in the Metro Manila Film Festival. It is as if the film festival has turned into an award giving that celebrates mediocrity. What ever happened to the high standards that the film fest clung to in the past? Indeed, it is sad to see GERIATRIC actors Vilma Santos and Christopher de Leon portray roles that they have exceptionally portrayed before in their lustrous 40 years in Philippine show business. To even think of casting these superb actors in roles that are at least 15 years their junior, that defies their age, is indeed insulting to the intelligence of the Filipino viewers. But hey! Nobody's complaining! Right? In fact, they both won the Best Actors awards in the said film fest! Sad, sad, sad... (Trivia: It seems that Vilma Santos cannot appear in any movie without clinging to a white hankie, see for yourself!) Question: Is there a dearth of good Filipino actors? Why can't the director, Joel Lamangan, cast actors that befit the role... I used to admire Mr. Lamangan but after seeing this movie, I don't know anymore...

And the movie is just a futile exercise in method acting,and is just full of empty rhetorics. I'm sure the Chinese community in the Philippines were scandalized by this shallow portrayal of their values, of their identity and of their personalities! I mourn for Philippine cinema! I'm sure Lino Brocka must be turning in his grave now for the sad state of the movies in the Philippines.

OK. so i liked some of the films that Star Cinema has produced.... and i thought, why not go see this movie Milan. The crux of the matter is... this is a bad movie. The lead character(Piolo Pascual)is so confused about his existence that his existentialist angst comes as an ABBA song (you know... can you hear the drums, Fernando?) Not only that! This movie offers a picturesque glimpse of italy (oh my god! is that why the movie was entitled Milan?) but that's it. Expect no more. What you'll get from the beginning of the film until the end is pure drivel! A guy loses his wife... he searches her out in Milan... (for the life of me i don't get this, how can you just jump the boat and just sink, sink, sink, happily sink?) and then he finds the loving arms of another Filipina who (surprise!)falls in love with him too and then just when things cannot go on any murkier, he finds his wife who is (another surprise!) a rape victim(!) and is too ashamed to go home so she rejects him and they all live miserably all together! The same goes for the audience.

I just want to puke after seeing this film.

Bad! Teribly bad!