Movie Review: My Sassy Girl
It’s the end of our holiday and what a good way to end it by watching a romantic movie ALONE (hahaha!). In any case, I can’t wait to see if this movie will live up to the Korean version standards.
I’ve watched the Korean version of My Sassy Girl four years ago. I know they’ve released the American version of the movie but it never was shown here in China or maybe I just didn’t notice. I remember waiting for it and finding it on DVD today, made me buy this movie.
My Sassy Girl : American Version
My Sassy Girl started with Charlie (Jesse Bradford) standing in one of the trees in Central Park reminiscing about the love story of his life. It started out two years ago with him studying for a business degree in college and finding out that his cousin suddenly died. He met Jordan (Elisha Cuthbert) in the park who his friend dared him
Movie Review: Confucius
With a star-studded cast, this movie is bound to be a hit. My friends and I watched this movie on a Sunday night not knowing what the movie is all about. Our first question was if it has English subtitles and luckily they do.
The movie started with Confucius visiting the ruler of the Kingdom of Lu where he is the mayor of one of the cities. The ruler is impressed with how he ruled his city as people were happy with how he govern and they are contributing much to the kingdom’s coffers.
With his rise in fame and how he outwitted one of the other mayors, he gained disciples who follow his teachings. His disciples are well known for their intelligence, strategy and loyalty. From mayor, he became the Minister of Law, then Interim Minister of the Kingdom. A lot of government officials were jealous and upset with him as he’s merely a commoner and not a noble. In the end, they were able to convince the ruler to let him go.
Movie Review: Yaya & Angelina
Are you a kid? Do you throw a tantrum if you don’t get your way? Do you go out of your way to act it out? If so, you could relate if you watch this movie. I’m not really a fan of watching Tagalog movies more so comedies which are acted out by Michael V. However, as I was with my aunt’s family last Sunday, my cousin wanted to watch this Tagalog movie about spoiled brats.
The movie? Yaya & Angelina the Spoiled Brat Movie. Yaya & Angelina was only of the segments on one of Michael V and Ogie Alcasid’s comedy show. As the public masses like it so much, they made it into a movie.
The movie is about Angelina (Ogie Alcasid), an eight year old only child of Daddy (Jomari Ylana) and Mommy (Aiko Melendez). She’s an angel to her parents but a terror to her yaya. She manipulates the people around her. No yaya can stand her and her parents had a hard time looking for one.
After several attempts of finding a yaya, here comes Yaya (Michael V) who has years of experience taking care of children of both foreign and local families. Angelina is clever and very talkative. She knows how to push the buttons of people. Her ideas brought about the destruction of their home, a supermarket and a pet shop.
Of course, a story without any villain will be boring. In this movie, the villain wanted to kill the Duchess of Wellington by planting a bomb on the flowers that she will receive from one of the students at Angelina’s school. Angelina accidentally found out and was kidnapped by the villain’s goons.
As her parents were so busy, her only hope was her yaya. Yaya was able to rescue her and to make the long story short, they were able to spoil the attempt of the villain and save the day.
Verdict: 2 out of 5. It’s really so cheesy and the story was quite shallow.
Movie Review: The Proposal
It came as a surprise to me that Philippine Airlines have in-flight entertainment already on their Beijing-Manila route. Last time I flew with this airline in 2006, there were no radio nor magazine nor newspapers, what more movies right?
Anyway, I’m quite happy that the movie they showed was a comedy featuring one of my favorite actresses, Sandra Bullock. This movie is a comeback movie for Sandra after taking quite a long break. She still look pretty and curvaceous though a bit older.
The Proposal is about a high powered executive, Margaret (Sandra Bullock) who was in the brink of being deported back to her native Canada. As a way to escape the clutches of the immigration personnel, she blackmailed her assistant, Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her.
Movie Review: New In Town
It seems like I’m becoming a homebody lately. I don’t go out during weekends that much anymore and I usually just laze around the apartment. I even just eat one meal during weekends to show you how lazy I really am.
In any case, one lazy Saturday afternoon, I got tired of playing facebook games that I turned to one of my old pastimes of watching DVDs. The movie I watched is New In Town. This movie is about a Miami high-powered executive who was unintentionally volunteered to leave her perfect lifestyle to move to a hick-town in the middle of nowhere to head their company plant.
Movie Review: Seducing Mr. Perfect
As I got bored waiting for my energy to go up on Mafia Wars, I thought of watching something to pass time. Since I’m a fan of sappy movies (hahaha!) and still hang up with shopping in Seoul, what’s more perfect than watching a Korean movie.
Seducing Mr. Perfect is a movie released in December 2006 which is alternatively known as Seducing Mr. Robin. It stars Uhm-Jung Hwa as Min Joon and Daniel Henney as Robin Heiden. The story is about Min Joon who had three relationships ended with her being dumped by her boyfriend. On her return after her “holiday”, she bumped her car on to Mr. Perfect. She didn’t know that Mr. Perfect is actually her new boss Mr. Robin Heiden.