Danger: falling metaphors
Who was it who told me to watch A Love Story? I hope you were kidding, because if you weren’t I’m going to have to euthanise you. The non-linear storytelling: different. The movie: a steaming turd. The sheer grinding obviousness. Wall to wall cliche. Rampant overacting. Relentless overscoring. The 45-minute drunken Aga self-pity orgy. The godawful phony melodrama. This movie should’ve been released months ago, there are enough tears shed onscreen to end any drought. Put those people out of their misery.
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August 25th, 2007 at 19:15
lmao, jessica! I so agree with you. But I would like to point out that the plot of the movie is suited to my fellow jologistas taste !Hey wait, I am one of them! Blech. Woe is me then. hehe I am doomed.
August 25th, 2007 at 23:13
The title should have warned you already. I mean, what could be more cliché?
When I saw Aga Mulach in the trailer, I was assured that it is a “steaming turd.” And indeed it is, as you prove. Nobody acts that way in real life—or at least no man. This film industry is so prone to exaggeration without purpose.
August 26th, 2007 at 21:59
the movie makes me wanna say one of my fave Neruda line “YOU ARE LIKE THE WORD…MELANCHOLY”
Depressing *sniffle, snort, sniffle, sniffle*
August 26th, 2007 at 23:07
wow! it’s that good? ;)
thanks for recommendation, my friends and i are planning on watching the movie this thursday.
as they say misery loves company. mwehehehe >:)
August 27th, 2007 at 10:17
I can’t help but say: “HEAR! HEAR!”. The movie was utterly disappointing. What a shame for me to spend money on such a lousy movie.
August 28th, 2007 at 09:33
so it still puzzles me if Angelica is the wife of the mistress. well, damn if she’s my mistress!
August 28th, 2007 at 11:24
And to think this film has trounced the infinitely superior “The Bourne Ultimatum” in the local box-office.
Goes to show Pinoy moviegoers deserve the crap they wallow in…where else on earth would a lcoal production roundly declare its triumph over the likes of “Ratatouille” and “The Simpsons Movie”.
Sigh.
August 28th, 2007 at 19:35
[…] I still couldn’t make myself watch “A Love Story” even if a good friend is begging me to go see it with her. I know my “good friend” duties dictate that I go but I really can’t because I imagine the movie to be a sob fest of the bad variety with too much drama that is enough to make me run out of the theater screaming. I didn’t know I was so eerily accurate in my imaginings until I read this one from Jessica Zafra: […]
August 30th, 2007 at 09:16
Hahaha, i am a neophyte reader of your so called Jessica Ruthless Universe. You got the talent girl, very harsh and brutal but with a lil’ taste of environmental insights – “….there are enough tears shed onscreen to end any drought.” hahahahaha. That blew ma heads off, you got me there. Thanks for makin me laugh, you could write a skit for John Stewart show. That was the best phrase ever for a movie review. Keep it up.
September 17th, 2007 at 22:10
nice,cheesy movie indeed. tearjerker, full of cliches, typical Filipino craft. nothing else.
September 27th, 2007 at 18:06
they’re showing the movie in southern california. i don’t know why.
ugh.
i think i popped an artery.