Apocalypse Child

Surf's up

Feelings drowned

Memories of childhood

Breaks through

I have been meaning to watch indie films and I'm glad that my new found friends are into it. Therefore, I'll be able to watch some from now on.

Basically, it's about this popular surfer in Baler, Ford, who struggles on getting real about his roots.

Ford is practically a celebrity in his town because he was said to be the lovechild of the famous director of 'Apocalypse Now', Francis Ford Coppola PLUS he's too good of a surfer. He teaches surfing as well and he has this kind of relationship with Fiona, a Fil-Am who came home to Baler to visit her dying grandmother.

When his childhood friend came home to mourn his father, his past were slowly getting in the surface. Little by little, there are some sort of revelations about the characters, not only Ford, every scene that makes you on the edge of your seat, anticipating what will happen next.

(will not you spoil you anymore beyond this point)

The good thing about this film is it tackles a lot of issues and somehow picks on your brain making you ask, "what happened?", "how did it happened?", "why are they like that?"

There were a lot of vulgar scenes, but these scenes given depth to the whole story. The way it was filmed were fantastic. The plot line is obviously deliberated and thought of. The actors were too good on this film, even I enjoyed Jordan's character and he's just being funny.

As for me, I freaking love Fiona. I loved how Annicka portrayed her and I loved that scene when he confronted Ford and she was thrashing all around, man that was good! And her lines were amazingly written, "Why does everything have to be mystical? Stop making excuses and just admit that he made a mistake, he failed." She is the most real character in the film, in my opinion.

No wonder that this film were multi-awarded!

AND the soundtrack is just too damn good! The post-credit song has been going in my head for more than a week now!

As of now, Apocalypse Child is still showing in some cinemas. Go watch it now, you won't regret it!

Yours,

sleepypotterhead

Philippine Bloggers on the roll for Bloggys 2015

Too many blogs to see

Too many stories to read

But who gave the best content

and who thought of pure intent

Hi-Five Philippines!

So I found out about this awards ceremony for the best blogs in nation. And even though I am not one of them, I am still excited and happy for the winners and the best blogs of 2015 that were awarded at the Bloggys 2015 Awards Night at the SMX Convention Hall last year of November 21st!

Let's talk about this awarding. Bloggys was launched by Paul Agapin (who is the CEO of Essays.ph) and its main objective was to look out for best blogs and bloggers over all the variety of niches and industries. And with the help of several people, in different industries, to act as a judge, they came up with the awards such as: Champion, People's Champion, Best Design and Best Blog Post. They also gave out an award for the winner of each niches and People's Choice awards, which was decided by public voting, also for each of the niches.

I am a Filipino blogger as well but since I still hadn't gone 'out there' yet, I will be an aspiring blogger for now. So, I'm going to check out the best blogs and let's see what contents we can find.

For the Bloggys 2015 Champion, Pepper.ph bagged the bacon. Be it a real bacon? We don't know because Pepper's all about food. 

Pepper also won as the winner on the Food and Dining category (obviously) and as the Best Design and I know that their interface and theme is something to be envious about. Maybe most of the bloggers would agree with me when I say that we all dream about an interactive and dynamic designs. People like me just doesn't really get those kinds of things, one day.... one day....

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Next up is the People's Champion, Controversy Extraordinary. So, do Filipinos like controversies and intriguing out-of-the-blue things? YES! Even I can go hours and hours in researching about Nostradamus and (let's admit, because one way or another we all did this) Illuminati signs. Heck, I even liked Dan Brown's titles. And this blog is one example of where you can find these kinds of things.

I think, one of the reasons why this became the People's Champion is because it picked on the brains of the Filipinos and because of our certain hype for controversies, this blog offers articles which so you won't find or read about on a regular day.

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The last blog that I will be talking about is The Endocrine Witch, which won for the Best Blog Post. Now, if you don't know what endocrine is, then you would probably mistake this one out for literature or fiction. ("Witch" of the words gave that impression out? Really?)

Miss Tan's medical blog also won as the People's Choice on the Health and Fitness category.

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I wish I can check out and blog about all of the blog winners. There's just too much of them and they are all good!

And even though my blog is probably non-existent let me say, "CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE BLOGGYS 2015 WINNERS AND KEEP ON BLOGGING!"

All the best for Bloggys and I can't wait for the next year's awarding!

yours,

sleepypotterhead

It's That Time of the Year Uh-gain

movies, movies on the wall

which of you are the greatest of them all?

It's that time of the year again where people would spend money on watching the movie entries for the Metro Manila Film Festival. It has been a tradition that every Christmas people would line up for the roster of films in the cinemas. Before I don't really get how the people garnered patience waiting on long lines nor why would they watch a film right after Christmas Day, maybe because it's a trend? a tradition?

Now? I still don't get why... but I'm still giving it a chance.

Image © Enchos.com

movie entries for the Metro Manila Film Festival 2015

Being a media student, instructors and professors repeatedly tells us about the importance of supporting local films and I get that. There are some local films that are beyond exceptions and is beautifully made. There are film festivals that also interests me (Cinemalaya) because of the (indie) movies that are featured, but I think that Metro Manila Film Festival roster of movies just strips of that purpose.

Okay, okay! I am not hating on the whole of the MMFF!

I was just pointing the mere fact that SOME of the films seemed rushed and basically an advertisement because of all the brand and product inserts in the whole of the film (and I am not pointing out anything here, alright?), thus resulting to low quality films and storyline that are just plain bad. It just seems like they are entering the movie for the MMFF because of the booming sales it begets.

(I repeat, I am not hating on ALL the entries. I know some of them are really planned out and producers really deliberated on them for some time. And I also acknowledge that film-making is a difficult thing to do.)

I haven't really watched all of them but I am trying to to have an unbiased review among the films and I just wish that the others are unlike the movies I have already watched or that one movie that I am avoiding to watch because of the many negative reviews.

Let's just say, I'm starting the new year with this post.

Yours

sleepypotterhead