Blood: The Last Vampire

Here's another anime turn movie by hollywood. Blood: The Last Vampire, has a wide range of fans in its anime version. When I first saw the trailer of this live movie I actually smiled, atleast this time hollywood casted the characters right. Which means they casted a japanese girl as Saya and the characters that are suppose to be japanese are really japanese. Not like Dragonball which was casted stupidly or Mermois of a Giesha where they casted chinese people.. o.0 WUWT. Anyway, this Blood movie is base on the first movie of the animation not the series. This is where Saya was asked to go undercover to as a high school student to hunt down blood suckers. (notice that they didn't mention the word vampire in the movie. or did i miss it... anyway). But in this live movie version it looks like Saya is being comfronted by her vampire mother. Which I don't remember in the series that her mother was looking for her. If we base it on the series Blood Plus... Saya was looking or rather defending the movies from her twin sister, not her mother. But this changes or addition in the movie is quite okey, it didn't ruined the essense of the story.

Other all the cinematography is good, fight scenes are so anime and even the way they moved is so anime. The movie didn't stray far from the actual story. There are a lot of gorey stuff when Saya kills with her sword but its tolerable. There might be some reviews saying that its a corney movie... i even read one that he didn't like it and said something about FB japanese girls.. well the author was a F*A* racist american anyway so what do you expect. LOL

Trust me I am a Blood fan, and if you are a Blood fan like me, you won't be disappointed if you watch this movie. BTW, in the series the guy with Saya the one that poses her bodyguard is not in the movie. Again, the movie was based on the anime movie... not the series. ^_^

o.0 FACEBOOK MOVIE?

My sources just informed me that David Fincher (director of Aliens, Seven, Fightclub) will be directing the movie "The accidental billionaires" which is base on how facebook has came to be. It rather surprised people why Mr. Fincher will be directing a movie about how Mark Zuckerber a sophomore student in Hardvard came up with facebook and became a billionare. But that's not what I am surprised about. o.0 FACEBOOK? the movie? like come on, what would hollywood think of next? Twitter the animation movie? What's been going on in hollywood? Does their scriptwriters can't think of anything original anymore which is not a reset of an old movie franchise, or a remark or base on a true story, graphic novel, game, animation, asian movies or novel? It looks like Hollywood has been feeding us with movies base on something not really written for the big screen like before. And speaking of novels, it shows that this Facebook movie is ALSO BASED on a NOVEL that will hit the stores next month which is july. Which is titled: "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" that was written by Ben Mezrich. AGAIN.... another movie base on a novel which is base on a true to life moment. ^^j Here's the full look of the story base on AMAZON.COM

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.

Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order.

Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university's computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus–and subsequently crashing the university's servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.

There is still no casting being done in this movie nor it has been started yet. I am confused though on what will be the title of this movie. Will it take up the title of the book or would it have the title that Mr.Fincher has announced earlier this year that he will be directing a movie called the "The Social Network". There is still no release date on this movie.

o.0 Pictures of Johnny Depp are out people in Alice and Wonderland

Ever since I have stumbled into the art work of return to wonderland graphic novel, I have been getting hits by an alice in wonderland movie directed by Tim Burton. Mr. Burton has been one of my favorite directors next to Tarantino, woo, Backhaimmer and Speilberg. And what facinates me that almost all movies that Burton directs wiether its live or animated Johnny Depp and his wife is always in it. And They are good at it. So anyway, when I found about this movie I expected that Mr. Burton did a movie about the graphic novel of Return to Wonderland, which I thought I missed and was disperately searching for the Dvd of it. Then only to find out that its still on the making and its under Disney. (x.x) When i read disney, all my hopes went up in smokes. It will be impossible for Disney to commision a Return to Wonderland movie, this graphic novel is like the adult version of Alice in wonderland. So digging further i was able to find out that Mr.Burton is indeed making the classic alice in wonderland from where Disney left off years ago in the animation version. This time Alice is in a victorian party not falling asleep under a tree while reading a book. It has been writen in US Today, that the Mad Hatter (Mr.Depp) Welcome's back to Wonderland, is given that this happened years after she had her adventure in wonderland as a kid. So ofcorst, being the director makes the movie intering, having mr.Depp in it makes it more Facinatingly Interesting. As I have mentioned in my c blog this movie will be out in 2010 and I will diffenately watch this in the big screen. A lot of people has commented that this Alice movie will be having an air of creepyness because its Tim Burton with his usual acomplish Johnny Depp and his wife Helena Bonham Carter. On the other hand the White Queen will be playes by Anne Hathaway. Mia Wasikawska will be the girl that will play Alice. There are plans to ad on CG animations and motion capture creatures.

Just recently US Today has released the first look on one of the major characters in the moive.
















(from L - R)

Depp -Mad Hatter
Carter - Queen of Hearts
Hathaway - White Queen


The movie will be released in 3D, which means there will be an IMAX version to it as well as the ordinary 2d movie experience. I hope our local IMAX theater will get this straight. I don't want to waste nearly 500 bucks expecting the movie i'm watching is 3d only to find out its just in 2d and the screan is not even 180 degrees cieling to buttom like THE REAL IMAX theaters in the u.s

To sum it all up... I will diffenately watch this movie. ^_^

The Taking of Pelham 123

Directed by Tony Scott. Since the movie has been released in the big screen it has earned $25,000,000 in total and is #3 of the top ten movies of the week by BoxOffice.

In my 2009 must see movies I have talked about this movie already that this is a remake of the 1974 film with the same title. So since this movie is part of my must see movies list of 2009, I called up my bestfriend to watch it with me. She personally have been to NY and has rode the Pelham 123. She told me its really exactly the same.

So, the movie started like its just an ordinary day in the subway. And Gruber played by Washington started his ordinary day as well. I think my bestfriend was right this is the first movie where denzel played a role as an underdog.

Now Ryder (travolta), and his men took the train in just one minute and no one even noticed it. When they went to the tunnel that's when they separated the passenger trunks to the main trunks. (sorry i don't know what they call that, so i call them trunks). The hostage terms were pretty simple. $10million in an hour and every minute that is pass one hour hostages starts to die. It is pretty interesting that the mayor of new york city is riding the subway train in this movie. Makes me wonder if the real NY mayor rides the train for real. So anyway back to the movie. As the movie unfolds we learned that Ryder is a former Wall Street Banker.. or so it seems to me. He keeps on monitoring the stock market and bringing down the dollar value against gold. Apparently years back before he was put to jail, he had like court hearing regarding his business that he appealed for and was only granted $2 million from the government and was given only $1million. Well that's what I understood since I failed my corporate accounting in college. The plan was so clean and sure, if Graber wasn't playing hero. Ryder could have gotten away from it. But in the end I think Ryder wanted a death sentence anyway. Now I wonder where his $300million stock will go now that his dead.

Over all the movie is great, but it kinda made the NY government look bad. And also there's the issue of Graber taking a $3500 bribe that cost his demotion coz he needed it to pay for his children's college. Which he finally admitted when Ryder was about to shoot a teenager.

Travolta hasn't lost his touch in acting. He is still good at it. So is Washington. The movie is worth of p160 I paid for for seeing the movie in the big screen. It doesn't have much action but its good.

10th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

Now this is a new added information to me. We all know about the Oscars (Academy awards) where they award movies not only with popularity but in terms of the quality in every movie aspects. Then there's the Golden Globe Awards, Actor's Guild Awards for actors in there movie performance. Tony Awards, MTV Movie awards that is based on popularity of the movie being nominated and voted by the fans never mind the quality of the movie. But never have I heard about an award show solely created just for movie trailers. In my quest in traveling into the vast network we call the internet. Moving from one domain to another nameservers within the network I stumbled into the URL of http://www.goldentrailer.com/. It is the home of the Golden Trailer Awards. Now, I love watching trailers. I even want to go in the movie house 30 or an hour earlier of the movie I am watching with reasons that I want to watch the trailer that they will be showing before the movie. But never did I realize that there are awards for this things. According to goldentrailer.com;

"Movie trailers play an increasingly important role in entertaining us and helping us determine where to spend our leisure time. The best trailers are works of art in their own right, expertly blending elements of cinema and advertising. "

Which is true, how many movies have we watched because the trailer intrigue us or the trailer looks interesting enough. (which is sometimes the trailer are more exciting compared to the actual movie itself. lol) It also makes sense since trailers are advertisements for the up coming movie and we all know that there are also advertising awards given out each year in the advertising industry.

So three days ago the 10th Annual Golden Trailers Awards was held in Director's Guild in America Theater Complex in 7920 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046. And here are the winners.

Best In Show
Star Trek, Aspect Ratio, Paramount Pictures

Best Action
Fast and Furious, AV Squad, Universal

Best Animation/Family
WALL-E, Craig Murray Productions, The Walt Disney Studios

Best Comedy
Bruno, The Ant Farm, Universal Pictures

Best Documentary
Man on Wire, The Editpool, Icon Film Distribution

Best Drama
Frost/Nixon, Empire Design, Working Title Films

Best Horror
The Unborn, Buddha Jones, Rogue Pictures

Best Independent Trailer
The Wrestler, Mark Woollen & Associates, Fox Searchlight

Best Music
Where the Wild Things Are, The Ant Farm, Warner Bros.

Best Romance
(500) Days of Summer, Mark Woollen & Associates, Fox Searchlight

Best Thriller
Angels & Demons, Trailer Park, Sony Pictures

Don La Fontaine Award for Best Voice Over
Tropic Thunder “Hollywood Legend”, Buddha Jones, DreamWorks

Golden Fleece
The Spirit, Seismic Productions, Lionsgate

Most Original
My Winnipeg, Kinetic Trailers, IFC Films


Summer 2009 Blockbuster
Star Trek, Aspect Ratio, Paramount Pictures



Trashiest Trailer
One Eyed Monster, The Refinery, Liberation Entertainment


if u want the full list of winners in this award show just click here

If u asked me I have no disputes with the winners. Not like the MTV Awards. I didn't like the results in MTV Awards this year. So I'm not writing any reviews in that show.

Drag me to Hell?

I wasn't planning to watch this movie with reasons that I find it corny and I'm not really a fan of Hollywood horror (coz hollywood horror are either gruesome or noisy full of screaming nonsense). But according to Box Office (the magazine that monitors profits in the movie industry), Drag me to hell as a earned $1,505,555 daily since its opening and so far $17,331,035 in total since its showing date gaining #4 in the BoxOffice Ranking since June 1st of 2009. So I went ahead and watch the movie out of curiousity.

Okey, here's the story line of the movie. Christine, is trying to win a promotion to be the new assistant manager that she is working. She's a loan officer in the bank. One day, a gypsie old woman requested for an extension for her loan. Apparantly she wasn't able to pay anything since she was sick and right now her house is in repod already by the bank. Since Christine wants this assistant manager promotion so bad, she decided to turn down the old woman's request even though she can still approve an extension to the mortage. So this creepy old woman cursed Christine to go to hell, in this story... literaly. LOL

I thought it would be a non-sense horror movie about screaming and body parts being sliced out from the body. But I guess I was wrong, its more like swallowing a fly why you were sleeping. Able to drink bodyly fluids with a corpse that fell on you or had a nose bleed that you ended up spraying your boss with blood. Just like any cursed horror movie, christine went out and seeked for a pyschic to help her with her troubles. Her boyfriend is so supportive as well. Although at first he was a bit pessimistic about the idea of Christine seeking for a psychic. One thing is this psychic was asking for $10,000. o.0 wow! that's a lot of money. I mean if your the real thing you don't price yourself let alone accept any payment for your services. So, anyway, boyfriend remembers his promise to Christine the day he fell inlove with her. I find it the most romantic time in the movie. I mean, your boyfriend was all the 100% supportive with you for going to see a paranormalist. C'mon guys admit it... 99.9% would think thier girlfriend is already coo-coo in the head and would either dumb them or advice them to seek help with the likes of Dr. Phil. lol.

Cinematographyis ok. There was the time, in the scene of the round table calling forth the spirit, on the birds-eye-view shot they forgot the goat beside Christine. lol. I guess the editor didn't notice that. :P However, in the ending I somehow able to guess how the movie ends. The scene where she accidentaly lost the envelope in her boyfriend's car. Yeah in that one, my guess was right, She got the wrong envelope. The real one that contanied the cursed object was left in his boyfriend's car. But the movie is OK, not an oscar kind of movie but its ok. Now I rate this movie OK, because It has a lesson learned. "Loan Officers? Don't be selfish. You never know the person your kicking out their house will DRAG YOU TO HELL in 3days." ROFL.

Seriously, the moral stoy of the movie is do not be selfish when it comes to personal gain. Trust me, nothing good happens if you do. Everything has a price.

It's COraline!!!

There are a lot of Niel Gaiman's book turned to movie that wasn't shown in our theaters. For example, Mirror Mask. But we are not talking about MM... I will be talking about Coraline. "Not Caroline. It's COraline!"

I remember back then when I was starting up here in manila. Living alone, no cable no radio... so I have grown to a habit in buying books to read. One day I saw NG's Coraline book and back then it was just for only p150, Cheap for a Neil Gaiman book. So I bought it. I read it and it was fine for a children's book. Not so confusing as some of his children's book. But I won't be talking about Coraline as the book coz that will be over BookWench and this is MovieWench Blog.

So the movie started with a nice childreyny (if there is such word) song. All through out the movie it seems like they have followed the book, but I don't remember Wybie... Coraline's noisy annoying neighbor. But anyway, movie goes like this. Coraline and her parents just transferred to the pink castle and she discovers this little door behind the wallpaper and met her other mother and other father. It looks like this place through the little door is a parallel universe which has everybody in Coraline's life has an other self. And with this other parents she has she gets to do everything she wants and everything her real parents are not able to do the other parents can. Then there is the catch, like them which has button eyes, Coraline needs to have buttons sewn into her eyes in able to stay in that world and that would be forever. So she ran away from the other mother who eventually is a kind of spirit who eats little children's life force. Only to find out that her real parents was abducted by the other mother. Well to cut things short, Coraline ended saving her real parents and forever shutting the other mother out and dropping the key to the small door to the well.

Story is like the alice in wonderland if Gaiman was the one who wrote alice. Its quite easy to know the moral story, "Children, do not be fooled from people who gives you everything you want. Coz REMEMBER! Everything has a price."

In terms of Cinamatography... good, its animation anyway so they have done it well enough... Although it could have been nice for Tim Burton to have directed it instead in producing it. The animation style is close to Burton's Animaion style. (think Nightmare before christmas and Corpse Bride). Soundtrack is excellent perfectly fits the storyline and the atmosphere of the animation. This is a good children's movie perfect for the family to watch it together in the big screen.