Really Bad Movies.
I noticed a lot of ppl have been writing about movies lately. Which is great 'cause I love watching movies and collecting DVD's. I pretty much like almost every movie I've seen, different degrees of like, but still a movie has to suck pretty bad for me not to have liked it. Most ppl seem to be polarized, either they really like it or really hate it. I can walk outta a pretty bad movie and still find myself entertained whilst everyone else around me seems mildly upset about this or that. What I really like is finding a movie, or old DVD, that I've never heard about and then really enjoying it. It's almost as good as finding money. BTW, don't get me wrong, I'm probably more observant (I wouldn't say critical because I know that things like bad acting could be caused by a bad director and is therefore somewhat forgivable)than most when it comes to movies and I do recognize a bad movie for what it is.
If a bad movie has any one of or combination of:
-a hot chick, regardless of acting ability.
-a hot chick that gets nude.
-an alien(s).
-guns.
-a zombie(s).
-space ships.
-hot cars.
-a cool bad guy.
-bad guy gets away.
-bad guy gets away with the money.
-guy gets the girl.
-interesting visuals or cinimetography.
-a screenplay based on a good novel, regardless of the quality of the screenplay.
-one of my favorite actors/actress.
...That's a pretty broad pallet so I will probably find entertainment value.
What I hate in a movie:
-unnecessarily killing off the hot girl, this goes double if it's within the closing moments of the movie.
-when the bad guy looses the money, especially those scenes when the money somehow gets scattered and a bunch of extras start hallin it in.
-The dumb blond girl with the big boobs that manages to fall down right when the werewolf/slasher/dinosaur/alien etc shows up. It's surprising how often this occurs.
-when a nice car gets thrashed. My hero James Bond seems to do this with regularity, but it's ok because it's kinda expected of him.
-when a potentially good movie has too many ppl putting in their two cents and what you end up with is a big pile of shite.
...But even when these happen there is most likely some other redeeming aspect that insures entertainment value.
But what I find unforgivable in a movie is when one of the characters, usually (always) a chick, risks her life and the lives of the others to save a stupid cat or dog. In the Last 24 hours I've watched two movies where this occurred. Dawn Of the Dead remake, excellent movie...Right until the cute girl steals one of the getaway cars to try to save some dog that's surrounded by a million zombies. Still a great flick, I like it as much if not more than the original. Alien, (my bro bought the quadraligy), at the point of the climax Ripley leaves the relative safety of the lifeboat to look for her cat. If she hadn't have looked for the cat she could have killed the alien and not have to have destroyed the Nostromo (main ship) (thou the succeeding movies wouldn't have been the same if this were to occur). Still are there really ppl out there like this? "Thank god the dinosaur ate everyone but me, so I'm going back out there to look for my dog." Sheesh!!!!
Rhoel.
Brain Storm Session
Or in California speak, "Brain Rain Session". I remember in LA where ppl refer to anything other than pure sunshine as 'The Weather'. Mel's right, I in particular need to contribute more to the blog pool. My problem is that I think of cool blog ideas when I'm driving or when I'm in the middle of a movie but by the time I get home I draw up a big old blank. Or I start reading other ppls blogs then I get tired, distracted or I get three half baked ideas instead of one coherent one. I hate when I'm half baked. I mean if you're gonna go, go all the way. Which to me translates to diving in head first, which is pretty much how I deal with everything. Ain't no half steppin to me. (what exactly does that mean anyways? I heard it in a Big Daddy Kane song and probably don't know what it really means. I bet a lot of the slang in American songs we don't know the true meaning to)
Watching the Pamana DVD I must say that we rock. That was an awesome show. Laarni did a wicked editing job. Aren't you guys thankful that I had the foresight to film footage of our photo shoot? I think that I'm going to start bringing a camera to all our practices so that I'll have the option and material to put together something down the road, My KP 'Real World' idea that I've been toying with the past few years. And yes Cristina I did watch it almost immediately, but I waited till my cousin came over and we got drunk. I'll have to watch that again today because I think I was a little too drunk and don't remember parts of what I saw. Another Idea that I've been kicking around is to gather all the tapes of our show and bang out copies for a box set. I know that I've lent out and lost almost every copy of our past shows except a few. And I know ppl have footage of shows that nobody else has seen.
Speaking of rocking, what was that practice all about? Ano bayan!? Dang, I haven't felt falling down tired since I quit kick boxing about 4 years ago. I must admit that I love our new uptempo practices. We're getting so much done and it just makes everything so much more fun. I swear kp is like drugs, althou I haven't tried that many drugs so I can't really qualify that statement. I mean I get so high after practices and shows. Ppl ruin there lives by selling out and snorting, sniffing, smoking, or jabbing a vein; when all they have to do is bare there soul on a stage. But with our KP high there's no crash phase, unless you count the next morning after a cast party. I can't get enough. I think I'm going to incorporate a private kp dance session into my work-out week. Maybe I can incorporate a self critique film session, I could also make copies of the footage I shoot of the previous week for anyone who wants to do the same. Damn I'm full of good ideas today. I should write more when I'm hung over.
Speaking of internet and alcohol, for future reference I reserve the right to delete and deny any such existence of anything posted or written by my person while in the state of inebriation. Basically, I don't know what you're talking about, I didn't say that, prove it my lawyers will crush you. hehe. Rhoel.
Are you a man or a superman?
Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him-Crash Test Dummies.
RIP Christopher Reeve. Millions of ppl die everyday and it's buisness as usual, yet the world stops when someone famous dies. Did you know him? Did you ever meet him? Have you at the very least see him with your own eyes? This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving. My fondest memories of this holiday was of my Tita Lina. Every TG our familly would gather at her house and celebrate. Every year it was always the same, and i loved every single one; up until the year she died. How about some personal history? My Tita Lina was the oldest of the Juatco clan on our branch, she went to Michigan State Uni studying medicine and was set to settle in Detroit where she had many leads on building her life. One holiday she traveled to Toronto where she fell in love with Canada. She moved to toronto immidiatly after graduation where the promises for a life quickly evaporated and as a last resort ended up in Vancouver. Political unrest and martial law forced a mass migration of her activist brothers and ultimatly my entire familly here, following their oldest sister. She was the glue that held our familly together. In 1996 she was burried in her wedding dress right beside her husband, my tito Willey, with whom she stayed faithfull to for over 11 years.
In the almost decade since I don't think we've had the whole familly together. I remember the huge turkey, the giant ham. I remembered she used beer as a flavouring for one of her recipies and that the brand of beer she used happenens to be the brand that I drink today and how we'd share the other 5 beers watching football. She loved the Detroit Lions or the Michigan State Spartans, God forbid if The Lions played the Seahawks or the Spartans played the Huskies. The holidays havn't been the same since then. No more weeklong sleepovers from Christmas eve to NewYears day. No more Uncle Larry in the Den having a snore war with Uncle Bob in the attic. With all the kids up for 3 days strait playing Nintendo or putting on skits and dance routines for the old ppl. Now a days, it's just lucky if all of us are in the same city, not that' we'd know it.
I just poured a little Molson Dry for my tita Lina, shite I'm in the house and I just poured it on the counter in the office. OOps I must be drunk.
It may sound absurd...but don’t be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but won’t you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
It’s not easy to be me-five for fighting.
RIP tita Lina, thank you for my life as I know it. I almost grew up in Detroit. Rhoel.
Dark Angel.
If any of you are privileged to possess or to have viewed a copy of our 96' San Fran tour video entitled "California Love", you may have notice that I claimed the name 'Dark Angel Productions'. But when I wrote that it was after 15 hours in the editing room trying to boil down 50 hours of footage into 90 mins...Which turned into just over 2 hours. I was somewhat delirious at that point so forgive the spelling mistakes in the opening sequence and the typos in the end credits. (Romeo Capulet?...Juliet Montague"...What was I thinking!?) But what I had in mind was "dark angel" one of Batmans nicknames, along with the Dark Knight, the Dark Detective etc etc. In the early days of Batman he wasn't so much a good guy in that he used to throw bad guys off of rooftops hence "The Dark Angel". Anyways, I think the only copy of that film floating around in circulation is the one I gave to Nick on his 3 on 3 birthday. He celebrated his 25th b-day on that trip and I have the only footage. What I didn't know was that a few years later a series would start up with the same name staring one of the sexiest women ever to walk the earth. Just today I acquired a copy of the first season of Dark Angel. (the second season sucked major ass, but I'll probably buy it anyways) BTW, Jessica Alba's my gf. I actually liked her in that role. Her later stuff I have to watch with the mute button on just in case she decides to actually talk/act. I can't do that thou if someone else is in the room because the yummy noises I make as she strutts around are a little too distracting with no other sounds comeing from the tv. Note to self: next DVD purchase is Honey, widescreen of course.
I got into this discussion with Randy on how a lot of my favorite series get cancelled when a lot of other series get to live long and hopeless runs. His answer was, "Well those shows suck.", and I'm sure some shoving of stuff in ones face was also discussed. But it's true. Off the top of my head; Wonderfalls, Tru Calling, Boston Public, Fastlane, Paradise Hotel...And all of these within the last few years and I'm sure there's a few that I haven't mentioned. It seems to me that unless something is "Lo brow" humor or Reality TV fake drama it doesn't have a fighting chance. FYI I love reality TV especially anything mtv, I love the Real World series.
This past tour to PR was such a good show that I'm pissed that I didn't take my Video Camera up. That show would have been perfect for a Dark Angel production. My vision for the next show is to do a Real World KP style. I want behind the scenes. I want testimonials. I want reality...With a KP twist. This next show, KP/Likha 10 year ani is the perfect opportunity to do something really fun. If I get my act together and get something planned I encourage all of you kpites to get involved.
Rhoel.
PS, I have a lot of rare and incriminating footage KP circa 1996 for sale...If anyone is interested...
Time warp.
Whenever we perform or hang out at a flip party, I always joke that one day we'll be them out there line dancing and wearing shiney cloths and really bad hair cuts(assumeing that one still has ones hair)...still trying to look cool. Last night I was covering an event at some hotel sitting at a table surrounded by advertisers, two doctors, two chiropractors, and another doctor that dosn't ad with us. As soon as they see me they ask about my cousin then the lot of them launch into an in deapth convo about Canadian Idol and AI. It was soo weird. Walking past is one of the more prominant Realestate agents in the comunity and he gets sucked into the convo as if drawn in by a black hole. I expect that from my own friends but seeing these ppl, ppl whom I just assumed I have nothing in common with, be more into it then I am was just freaky. OMG guys, I think we're almost them!!!! Rhoel.
