Thursday Thirteen # 5

Thirteen Things I Dislike About
Local Philippine Movies

1. The inevitable slapping scene.

2. The exchange of curses/words by the "vida" (good guy/gal) and "contravida" (villain) in the middle of a gunfight. If they're going to shoot one another down then why not just shoot?!

3. Uttering the movie's title in one of the main actor's lines.

4. The song-and-dance number *grimace*… so Bollywood-ish.

5. The character's last words before dying.

6. In hospital scenes, when a character needs to be revived, the defibrillator pads are placed on the still fully dressed patient. I could go on & on about hospital scenes… don't they ever do any research?!

7. The comedy movies are always slapstick.

8. The crying scene that lasts for 5 minutes while the camera pans on the actor's face from every possible angle… *sniffle, sniffle*.

9. A lot of local movies give you a sense of déja vu because their storylines are often patterned after foreign films.

10. Movie plots are almost always predictable.

11. Where a comedy actor's not-so-pretty face is the punch line. So sad…

12. The action movie hero always has to have a gorgeous leading lady with whom they have a love scene with. Puh-leeze…

13. Where every other sexy/bold starlet justifies her shedding of clothes in a skin flick as "art".

*Don't get me wrong though... Philippine cinema isn't just all that I wrote. We also have extremely good movies that have been recognized by international film bodies. Movies we can be proud of and are proud of. :)