Saturday, August 14, 2004

   Just a bunch of film talk.
I've been catching up on watching Filipino films/TV shows, and all I can say is that I can see why they're not internationally recognized. My parents say I should try to use my skills to help out the film industry in the homeland, but damn, it's going to take a bunch of work. Production levels are subpar, storylines are basically all the same, and mostly all of the acting I've seen really isn't all it could be. For one, it seems as though everyone is trained to act the same exact way. No one really has their own acting style. If you see a crying scene in a drama film (there are at least 20 or so in one film), you'll see that they all cry the same way. I kid you not. No one tries to hold back tears, and they do the same type of howling. I've become so immune to the whole drama genre because it's the same thing over and over, and it hasn't changed from the films I've seen way back when I was a wee little girl.

As for the action flicks...I'm sure you could cut together all the action films into one, and you probably couldn't tell the difference. And the effects...not believable in the slightest, nor highly entertaining.

And the love stories...they're so corny and sweet that it makes me want to puke. They lay it on THICK. :shudder: I can't take it. At all. Seriously. They're just not believable at all. In fact, they make me NOT want to fall in love if it's just going to be THAT sappy. Seriously, if I met a guy who acted like those in those romance films, I'd fucking hit him with a kendo stick for being such a sappy ass bitch, and I'd put a restraining order on his ass. Ugh. They seriously need to get bitch slapped.

And the horror films are more comedy than the comedy films. Seriously. I can't help but laugh everytime I see them.

There are probably a few exceptional films of course like the Crying Ladies, but those come like once every ten years. If I were to do a film, I'm sure I'd cause some sort of uproar since the PI is highly conservative and religious that they'd probably call my work blasphemous. But hey, since I live on controversy, I think I'm willing to take that risk. Heh.



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