MMFF Day 3: Could this film festival possibly get worse? (Updated)
Looks like Dingdong Dantes went to the same acting workshop as Jericho Rosales and graduated salutatorian.
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Consider Kris Aquino’s film career. When she started…acting, she was cast in romantic comedies of the “kilig” variety. The grosses were all right but it was in the “Massacre movies” of the 1990s that she became a star. Audiences flocked to her films in which she was tormented, violated, killed, chopped up into small pieces and stuffed into a suitcase.
When the massacre movie craze ended she did melodramas for a bit, and then found her true calling as the “Horror Queen”. Audiences flock to her films in which is tormented, violated, driven absolutely bonkers and sometimes killed by supernatural beings. The latest of these is ABS-CBN’s Segunda Mano, directed by Joyce Bernal and written by Joel Mercado. (WARNING: SPOILERS.)
Read The Haunted It Bag: Segunda Mano in every way, our review in InterAksyon.com.
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December 28th, 2011 at 12:56
Title pa lang, ulam na! Hahahahaha
December 28th, 2011 at 15:53
her first horror film was ‘feng shui’. it was actually good. i enjoyed it.
i watched the second one, ‘sukob’, because i was in singapore then and
i had to support pinoy movies that get screened in that country. it was
disappointing. after that . . . so she made more horror movies after that.
December 29th, 2011 at 02:40
The frightening thing is, Dingdong Dantes just won Best Actor in the MMFF for this.
I still haven’t seen the movie, and all reviews I’ve seen have largely been bad… but since I have a strange affection for Asian horror, no matter how bad, I’ll probably still see this. If only to see Kris Aquino yet again be “tormented, violated, driven absolutely bonkers and sometimes killed by supernatural beings.” Hee.
And oh yes, could this filmfest possibly get worse? Probably so. I heard “Enteng” is pretty bad, too, and while SRR13 was a slight (very slight) improvement over the recent SRR’s, it was still not very good.
December 29th, 2011 at 13:50
@allancarreon I woke up to the news that Dingdong won. I wanted to go back to sleep and never wake up again, haha.
December 29th, 2011 at 14:28
Ang sarap kasing makitang inaapi si Kris, kahit sa pelikula lang (kung maari lang sa totoong buhay din, ay pak! yun). Hindi naman siguro dahil mayaman siya (bakit si Mikee ang charming naman sa “Nag-iisang Ikaw” at “Do-re-Mi”). Siguro sa personality niya na rin, too self-congratulatory.
December 29th, 2011 at 19:39
@brewhuh23 haha but he might haunt you in your dreams. Now is that what you really want? To never wake up again while he accepts his award over and over as a loop on your dreams? Haha
December 29th, 2011 at 21:26
@allancarreon LOL! Gising na pala ako!
December 30th, 2011 at 03:24
Gumana ang walang habas na pangangampanya ni Krizzy kay Dingdong sa mga talk shows. Eh sabi ni Kris, itataya niya raw ang pangalan niya at ng buong angkan niya sa ganda ng pelikula, at galing ni Dingdong sa pag-arte. Bwahahaha!
December 31st, 2011 at 10:39
While watching it last night, there was a collective gasp of disgust in the audience when Kris kissed Dingdong, hahaha. We also lost count on how many times Kris cried while trying to tell the whole world how much of a victim she thinks she is.
January 1st, 2012 at 02:25
What an ugly font! What an ugly poster! Checking your site makes me see the movie posters up close and all I can say is it looks like we’re behind also in graphic design. Makes me appreciate the hand painted movie billboards back in the 80s where you can’t tell Babalu from Panchito. The other movie you reviewed with Gabby, etc had a really bad typography too. Ryan Agoncillo looks really gay in their movie poster. I have the urge to sock people in the face when I hear the catchphrase “ikaw na!”.
January 3rd, 2012 at 06:51
Ahaha, I like you because you are so corrosive! @ thegreatcornholio
Maiba lang. I really don’t support local films as much as I used to. Well, I really don’t support local films period. Who am I kidding? It can argued that the industry Is prosperous with material to bash, but so are my ugly friends. The only difference is that they bash back, and they don’t take offense, and they love me for the jerk I am, and they’re funny in many, many levels.