Ruffa and Baz

Sunday thoughts:
1. Angels and Demons, the movie version: not even close to the excitement and suspense that the book by Dan Brown held. Don't bother watching it, and I almost feel like the whole "the Catholic Church didn't let us film" spin was not from the church, it was to get people to watch. As sister R says, "it was a shallow, soulless, cliff notes version". Which made sense why brother M loved it, as I think he went to cliff notes school.

2. Star Trek XII: I want to watch it. i think they had the most fabulous muted '70s fashion colors in the tv series.

3. Hayden Kho sex videos: who cares! Go Lorna Kap, lawyer to the Hayden. I saw HK and VB at the parlor one Saturday morning. They both looked like they had just rolled out of bed. VB was in hot panty shorts (who gets away with that???!, bravo for guts, silence for dimples), and HK was in puruntong basketball shorts. He looked very much the basketball player type (James Yap comes to mind). Didn't James Yap have the incidents in VB's clinic?

4. Watching Ruffa the other evening talking about her brother surviving a car accident because he wore a seatbelt, I believed her when she said "everyone should wear a seatbelt". Not that I didn't believe this unquestionable fact, it was that I believed her, Ruffa. She comes across as credible and steady when she's talking about serious things. Ruffa, time to try again for CNN. I think you'd make a good anchor. I saw Kristi Lu Stout in Hong Kong last week, kayang kaya mo siya.

5. Picture: Baz Luhrman in our booth in Hong Kong. He was our last visitor last week at the HK09 Art Fair. Thank you Alex Seno... happy weekend all...

Piolo's Biceps, Abs, and Moles

Those were starring in "Love Me Again". The man is easy on the eye and fit, and the director and cinematographer does not make you forget with the constant tight face shots (left side only where mole is), close ups of arms (both upper and fore), and the 'love scene' starring his abs. They turned him into a poster of different body parts which don't coalesce into a cohesive human being with emotions which filmmaking is supposed to be. The story details were not too convincing either. And it didn't help that there was no chemistry between the two leads. She's a better actress though, than him at least. I'd seen him in "Dekada Setenta" with Vilma Santos and I thought he wasn't a bad actor (but the mullet hair was a little distracting, as was the super soft lighting only whenever Ate Vi came into the frame), but in this movie, he's flat and lifeless. Only coming alive when riding horses, or jumping on top of his male co-stars... hmmmm.

Having grown up in Bukidnon, my interest in seeing the movie was to see what they would make of my favorite part of the PH. They did a fair job,the pineapple plantations, the rivers and canyons, the cowboys and the rodeos, but no red soil, no Mt. Kitanglad. It really is beautiful there, and being on a plateau at the base of a mountain range, the weather is cool all year round and the red volcanic soil makes for incredibly lush greenery.

I can't say that I enjoyed the movie but neither did I walk out. I think the best actors there were the horses and the landscape.