THANK GOD the METRO MANILA film festival is over. Now we can watch good films instead of that shitty crap the public officials are shoving down our troats. WHO THE FUCK are they to force us to watch those inane BONG REVILLA movies and those Hollywood rip offs? Why should we spend our hard earned cash to watch inferior duplicate pieces of shit when we could just watch the original Hollywood pieces of shit?

Two weeks of crap! There’s MANO po, which is a copy of the JOY LUCK CLUB, and then that SPIRIT something, which boasts of special effects at par with Hollywood.YEAH SO WHAT? The Koreans and Hong Kong have great special effects houses but they do NOT MIMIC THE AMERICAN STYLE but have a UNIQUE VOICE OF THEIR OWN. SHAOLIN SOCCER and VOLCANO HIGH illustrates this fact. Sadly VOLCANO HIGH isn’t that good but who cares its still original.

When I saw the Japanese version of the RING in GREENBELT I saw a lot of directors there. PEQUE GALLAGA and LORIE REYES among others. And when the film was finished you could hear some of them talking

“ SO LETS come up with something like the RING But original.”

‘ YEAH! COOL! COOL! How about a FAX MACHINE? It faxes messages that say if you receive this you will die in three days.”

“ NO! How about a cell phone? When you receive this text YOU WILL DIE IN THREE DAYS? “

Goes to show how original our local talent is. Personally I prefer the Hollywood style of stealing. At least they buy the rights of the movie and then they butcher them to death. The creators of the film get paid a lot to see their work destroyed but THEY GET PAID! Filipino films JUST STEAL! PERIOD! The film PROSTI is a glaring example of this. The director watched IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and copied it. He thought that it wouldn’t be shown locally. He was DEAD WRONG!

Then there’s this interview of a producer of a local film company that I saw years. Goes something like this.

PRODUCER: “ Here at REYNA FILMS we want to strive to make films that are original in content and done with Filipino sensibilities.”

REPORTER: “ So what’s your next project? “

PRODUCER: “ Its an adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS.”

Then she smiles her fifteen-headstone grin.

The local filmmakers can go and buy the latest MOTION CONTROL CAMERAS and state of the art digital effects tools and the have yours but since their stories still suck then their movies will just be big budget special effects movies that suck…BIG TIME