Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Ronron , Doni, and I planned to watch Harry Potter, Chamber of Secrets for the nth time… Unfortunately, dumb, old me was late again. So we had to settle for Stolen Summer produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. (We all agreed that Affleck and Damon are having an affair. Who wouldn’t? Their ‘friendship’ is miles and miles longer than Jlo’s marriage to Chris Judd.) Anyway, the only reason they wanted to see HP again was to see the trailer of Lord of the Rings… Are we a fan or not?

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On the scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, I give Stolen Summer a six. Ronron made an accurate description of the film, “It’s a primer to all Catholic kids who are going to have their first communion.”

To which Doni replied, “Yes, and if Catholic schools knew of this film, I bet their field trip itinerary would include a trip to a cinema.”

The esteemed producers maybe wanted to create a feel good movie, but it failed to convey that. All throughout, they just played this Jew vs. Catholic story. Neither religion winning nor losing.

On a background, Catholic kid, Peter wanted to get to heaven (he wouldn’t even get the idea if his teacher nun remained a good Christian and did not tell a eight-year old child that he will go to hell), and the sure way to that is to convert Jews to Christianity. Why the screenwriters thought he could convince the Jews to become Catholics by giving out free lemonade is beyond me. His father, a firefighter, saved the life of the Rabbi’s son, who was Peter’s age.

Peter decided that since he couldn’t convert the grown-ups, he’d settle for the rabbi’s son. So he began he put his quest into action. He made up 10 tests that Danny should pass so he could enter to heaven. All the tests were physically straining, for a child… and fun. The reward and medal would be the holy host.

Reaching the buoy in the ocean was the final test. But wait hold your breath… Hold your breath… The film is very deep… They gave Danny leukemia… Aww… now he really has to get to that buoy to enter heaven. Sniff, sniff, sniff. How original… Somebody has to die tragically? Give him leukemia. Let’s see, how many people died of leukemia in a movie, hmm, Jennifer Cavilleri in Love Story, the girl Mandy Moore played in A Walk to Remember, and now Danny. Leukemia is the answer to the tuberculosis of the 30’s.

And I bet the screenwriters thought they were being smart when the Catholic kid said to the rabbi, “ I discovered something in my quest… yadda… yadda… yadda… It’s not religion that gets you to heaven…yadda, yadda, yadda… You don’t have to call God Jesus… You can call Him Danny.”

Great, now, not only did the film offend my sensibilities, it also committed blasphemy.

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Doni complained that the Peter-child was a terrible actor. I didn’t notice, I was too busy staring at his freckles.

Had to look at the bright side of watching that film. At least, we have bragging rights to claim we’re intellectuals. Ha! (Experimenting alternative productions and all)

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I thought Doni looked good… apparently, good was not enough. He’s saving money for Vicky Belo (Philippine-renowned plastic surgeon). He didn’t give me any specific answers for what and why, but I learned that laser hair-removal on the nipples costs Php 2,500.00 and would take 6 painful sessions.

It’s my theory that Doni got a homing device installed in his head. I swear his senses go bonkers whenever we get three feet near from a fine specimen of male flesh.
Doni: Did you see that?
Me: What?
Doni: The hottie!
Me: Where?

A few minutes later…

Doni: Don’t tell me you didn’t see that.
Me: I didn’t
Doni: Oh come on.

I can understand his frustrations, I’m a hopeless case.

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My reaction when I first reached Greenbelt 3… “Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh… Aaaaaaah… woooooow… sosi… parang Luneta” Yun nga lang, sa Ayala.

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Finally visited the cool Powerbooks in Makati… Bad idea… now I’m salivating over the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
But I’m gloating because I found some books which costs around Php 325-500 that I bought for only Php 45-120 in Booksale.

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Later that day I met with Anna, Zhara (who was pissed off because we were late), and Carlo (Anna’s bf). We’ve watched The importance of being Earnest”. It included an all-star cast, Colin Firth (Diary of Bridget Jones), Reese Witherspoon (Legally blonde), Rupert Everett (The next best thing), Laura O’Connors (Beddazzled), and Judi Dench (Chocolat).

I actually liked the film. What it lacked in the plot, it made up for the lines. I guess, I have to thank Oscar Wilde for that. There were times when the movie was too dragging. But I found Firth cute in this film. For him, I could watch it again, for at least, two times.

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Went to Libis afterwards to… check out the acquaintance party of the Economics Society… Which I found ridiculous because I didn’t even bother with our own society’s acquaintance…

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We stayed in Eastwood Walk later that night to compete who can spot the most number of stars … Movie stars… Hehe… I spotted zero (hey, I have eyeglasses, and my head was turned from the road)… Carlo was the grand winner with a total of three, Zhara and Anna got 1 and 2 respectively.

I was actually impressed with Carlo… He knows the local tsismis that even I don’t know about. So each time he sees a star, he goes something like, “Totoo pala ang tsismis kay Victor Neri at Angelika.”

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We shared a lot of booboos that night. But we enjoyed it, all of it. Planned to do more outings like that in the future.

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