kitiwiti Reviews

Dark Floors (2008)

meh

[8 September 2010]

I get scared easily. i watch a lot of Bhorror flicks and i even watch some Hollywood flicks, giving out a little scream now and then when i get surprised.

this is one of the very few "horror" movies ever created by man that failed to scare me. i did not empathize with characters, i didn't see the point of the story, the dialog was trying too hard to be have meaning, i didn't see the fluidity of the plot, and i just wasn't all that impressed with the direction or the editing.

if i were Finnish i may like the allusion to their lordi folklore, but I'm not. IMHO it sadly just wasn't presented well in this case.

A Very Special Love (2008)

SarahG + Lloydie = endearing but unsuitable

[8/10 · 21 June 2010]

I agree with top 2 reviews. Also, i am like many pinoys who barely watch pinoy movies because they've been exposed to the romantic-action/ romantic-comedy with rehashed script/massacre film type cinema. TBH i saw this because a friend of mine wrote the script. And I was not disappointed BECAUSE it was so well done.

i think it wasn't the scripts fault. Both lloydie and sarah g are natural actors and extremely charming on screen individually. i dislike bea alonzo, whose forte is limited to drama, and/or juday whose staple acting skills is limited to that of a palengkera...even if shes a really good one. Sarah G is a happy medium, except she doesn't have the sexy factor -- which renders the script useless because, character-wise, a model-dating rich boy like lloydie's character will probably be shallow enough to dismiss his EA just because she wasn't attractive enough. She is too wholesome to be in this role.

(you can imagine sexy scenes with bea and lloydie... how about lloydie and sarah? *crickets*) i just didn't think SarahG and Lloydie suited each other, period. if you've ever seen The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, or Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds in the Proposal, it's was kind of like that. A really good love story should have passion and sex (not necessarily sex scenes) exploding from their eyes.

STRANGELY ENOUGH, despite that fact, i found the scenes endearing-almost cringe-worthy, "kilig" and relatable. THey had NO sexy scenes nor did they have kissing scenes... and that is EXTREMELY CLEVER DIRECTING / ACTING / SCRIPT considering it is a love story. The director put in this very short dream sequence during the meeting which I find to be inspired by anime. I literally chortled. it was refreshing. Sarah's character was refreshing. And sometimes, well sometimes you don't really need sex scenes (or kissing scenes, for that matter) for a good love story.

Everyone just wants to live out their own inner Cinderella, and they don't have to be of the poor class to dream.

Willy/Milly (1986)

Something Special, it was called on the cover...

[10/10 · 4 August 2006]

found an unopened copy of this in a garage sale and it was such an unassuming movie that i fell in love with it after first viewing. mainly cause i related to it so much. I'm not lesbian, but i do want equal treatment.

this movie addressed that issue without being too heavy. and you cant help but cringe at the development of the storyline, not because its awful, but because the acting was so real.

it didn't have popular actors, except for john glover, who was hilarious, i might say. but the mom was really funny too.

it also reminded me a bit of revenge of the nerds.

be prepared for an unusual plotted, lines bordering cheesy, not-for-intellectuals type of movie, and you'll like this one.