The Lorax: Movie Review

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.

Di ko alam kung pagod o puyat lang talaga ako nung pinanood ko ito kaya naapektuhan ako at naluha. Pero nagulat rin ako sa sarili ko nang bigla akong maiyak dahil sa panonood ng pelikulang ito. Kasi naman, di gaya ng aking nakababatang kapatid, di naman ako environmentalist. Alam kong maling magtapon ng basura and I make it a point that I don’t, pero di ako umiiyak sa tuwing may pinuputol na puno. Alam ko naman kasing kung may isserve na mas mabigat na purpose ang pagkawala niya ay isa itong necessary evil. Kiling man ako sa pagiging mas maka-kalikasan lalo na dahil sa onset ng global warming, di naman matindi masyado ang kapit ko dito dahil I believe in the inevitable doom of man.

Di ko rin naman masyadong na-enjoy yung pelikula. It’s one of the few movies that I had to stop watching every now and then dahil di ako naaliw sa paglalahat ng kwento. Gayunman, it made its point kaya siguro na-move parin ako. It must’ve been Dr. Seuss who got to me.

The Lucky One: Movie Review

I know medyo late na dahil this movie has been off the screen for months now, but hey! You can’t blame me for waiting for the DVD release bago ko mapanood. As much as I want to turn watching movies and writing about it into my full-time job, I can’t. I have an 8-hour job that leaves me with just about 4-6 waking hours away from work each day.

*sigh* But, enough about me. Let’s dive into the movie.

Nicholas Sparks novels are my guilty pleasure. Kasi may tamang dose ng self-loathing akong nadarama every time I finish one of his books. He has this formula pagdating sa pagsulat na paulit-ulit-ulit lang sa mga libro niya. Parang nag-iiba lang yung pangalan, pero halos pareho din yung plot. Naiinis yung poser na critic sa loob ko, pero yung girlaloo naman, pumaparty.

 

I read the novel before I saw the movie. And even if I wasn’t as excited about it as I was with The Notebook, A Walk To Remember, or Dear John, I thought it was okay. Kaya nga lang, dahil I read it around the time when they first released the movie poster, Na-associate ko na agad yung characters sa mga artistang gaganap. I didn’t think it would affect my reading adversely dahil nag-enjoy naman akong imaginin na si Channing Tatum si John sa Dear John before, pero mabilis kong pinagsisihan na ipares ang mukha ni Zac Efron kay Sgt. Logan Thibault. This brings me to the first thing I didn’t like about the movie.