Fellow Filipino bloggers have already given their respective heads-up and go signal for this, mine will just be a random bragging blog post about my plan to watch Tokikake on the big screen tomorrow Gonna watch this with KaeBoo and hazy, both of whom I’ll be meeting for the first time. I also invited two other friends of mine but they already had other plans If Seleria was here I would’ve invited her too, huhu.

From what I gather, Zeroblade, Diego, and mike will be watching too, but I’ll be with the all-girls group and I don’t really know how I’ll meet them up hahaha.

This film showing is part of the Jpop Anime Matsuri, one of the sub-events in this year’s Eiga Sai. From what I heard, getting a ticket to this free admission film-showing is gonna be anal, which means I have to head to Edsa Shangri la Mall as soon as it opens to be sure of a slot (or at least, before lunch time) T-T If I don’t get a ticket tomorrow, I’m gonna wish this wasn’t a free admission showing, so less people would’ve attended!

Wish me luck! I’m gonna fight my way through the long queue of EMO weeaboos (as described by one of my officemates) tomorrow to secure myself a [free] ticket

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I just came out of the cinema hours ago, watched the movie Wanted with my brother so I get to watch it for free >:), and I have only three words to describe it: BLOODY. FUCKING. AWESOME. Beware of foul language, this post might as well be rated R-13 (like the movie) because of this profanity.

Wanted was one heck of an adrenaline rush ride. Feel every jab, kick, slash, and gun shot permeate through your very skin. Feel every drip of blood with every bit of action. Feel the rush of excitement in the car chase scenes, bullet collisions, and just about everything, with heightened senses too, thanks to bloody damn good motion SFX and the natural skills of our assassins. It’s not as morbid as I make it sound like, it’s just bloody damn exciting!

I might just be babbling nonsense here so let me provide a brief background of the story. We have here the young man Wesley Gibson, an apathetic nobody living a f*cked up life just about every day. On top of trying to work as an “account manager” with a damn noisy haughty boss, the primary source of his anxiety attacks, he also has a “best friend” who f*cks up with his girlfriend and takes advantage of his kindness (or patheticness) for his own convenience. He wakes up every morning, with his girlfriend by his side, he goes to work, face his computer screen and his damn boss, live a f*cked up shitty life, rinse and repeat.

All that changes the moment his path crosses with The Fraternity of assassins, who suddenly revealed to him that he’s the son of the recently-assassinated Mr. X, one of the best assassins ever known.　After a hell lot of training in the hands of the other Fraternity members, he finally finds a clear purpose in life – to avenge the death of his father, by killing the assassin Cross. His life became less meaningless, but all the more f*cked up and bloody exciting.

Now, you might have heard this premise in a number of shows, but as we all know, plot originality is overrated, and Wanted gives this its own distinct flavor, with mindfuckingly brilliant plot twists as well. Bloody awesome mindfuck. If only I had a wider vocabulary, I would be spouting more bloody praises for this show, and not rehash these bloody words, but since I neglected reading most of my life, bear with me as I exclaim “BLOODY AWESOME” for who knows how many times. Unless you want me to use another language with which I can go “すげえ！最高！！” , “太棒了！” Hear me rawr!

Spiderman can step aside with his spider sense and let the assassins of this movie do their thing. These guys might not be as agile and strong as our friendly superhero, but the way the action scenes were choreographed leaves Spidey in shame, in Spiderman 3 that is. Juxtaposed with Spiderman 3, Wanted is clearly the winner. May Stan Lee or the director of the Spiderman 3 movie forgive me for this bashing. Having no convoluted and lame plot, Wanted also boasts hard-pumping and fast-paced action in just about every second. It was so damn fast that it didn’t leave me room to think about the plotholes and other glitches, not that I care about them anyways. All I know is that I left the movie theatre fully satisfied, and hours after watching it I still felt the rush of excitement running through my veins, and voila! From the burst of inspiration I had with my adrenaline rush experience comes this review.

I highly recommend this movie, especially fans of hard-pumping action looking for thrill and excitement in the shows they watch. But do take note that this show is not for weaklings. It’s violent, it’s bloody, but bloody awesome as well.

P.S. Perhaps you might be wondering what the fuck is up with this post full of the F-word. Only those who didn’t watch this movie will be left bewildered as to why this is f*ck-loaded. If you haven’t done so, what are you waiting for?! Go watch this movie, not at the cozy comfort of your home but in theatre, so you can get the entire “feel” of it. So going back to the question, what the fuck have you done lately?

P.P.S. To make this post not 100% non-anime related, I just like to say that the way Fox (played by Angelina Jolie) busted her way into the fast-moving train with her car in the latter part of the movie reminded me so much of the car-chase-and-Kuhoin-busting scene in Kurenai episode 12. Fox’s smooth driving skills was just awesome, more awesome than Benika, even.

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Up for some more heavy metal? You better be!

All of us who have seen the Transformers movie this year have all been silently praying for a sequel. The Mechanical gods have answered with a resounding YES as DreamWorks and Paramount have given their thumbs up for Transformers 2 scheduled to be released on June 26, 2009.

Michael Bay is coming back to direct the second, of what might be the next biggest movie anthology. The producing studios believe in this epic robot franchise’s bankability, shelling out a not-so-modest rumored amount of $8 million, and have hired some of the best writers money can buy: Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Robert Orci. Kruger wrote for The Ring series and Scream 3, while Kurtzman and Orci, both worked in the first movie, have helped bring to life Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, and TV hits such as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Alias.

So, what’s going to happen in the next movie?

Starscream is still up there in space, he will probably be going to gather his own faction of Decepticons crying out revenge for Megatron’s death. I am expecting to see a brand new cast of shiny robots and more snazzy cars. Of course, they need to oblige with a whole new line of orgasmic transformations to seal the deal. There’s so much material available, they could take this anywhere they want to. I know Totali will be as psyched as I am to watch the second movie, seeing how much we both enjoyed the first one!

There’s a plot summary available at The Internet Movie Database. I am not sure how credible it is though, but is worth a read for those who are curious.

What would like to see in the sequel? Which robots would you like to see transforming in the big screen?

Images were edited by me, the unedited ones are courtesy of Michael Bay’s Blog.

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I just came from watching the most ridiculously awesome movie of the summer—Transformers. The experience was nothing short of ORGASMIC. I kid you, not. I was at the edge of my seat for almost 3 hours! The visuals were absolutely amazing and I was treated with action sequence after action sequence after friggin’ kickass, metal-busting, mechanical, mind-blowing action sequence! The CG was clean, smooth, and sleek. I was having goose bumps watching it, salivating at the pure awesomeness of the transformations, the sexy rides, and testosterone-charged fighting scenes.

Minutes after the credits finished rolling, I was still glued to my seat, my heart racing, my mind desperate trying to absorb and digest all of the mindless entertainment. I dare say, it was better than 300. Yes, the mouth-watering, chiseled bodies of King Leonidas and his Spartan boys got nothing on Optimus Prime (aka The Hot Red Truck).

Losers = scrap metal

I would watch it again. I highly recommend the movie, just don’t expect deep character development and an award-winning storyline. But, if you are looking for brainless entertainment and solid fun, Transformers will deliver. Don’t forget your popcorn!

I edited the pictures a bit, source pictures courtesy of Jalopnik and Micheal Bay’s Blog.

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