For The First Time

This movie with KC Concepcion and Richard Guittierez ... is not very good. And the over promotion doesn't help either. I saw the film last Friday, together with my mom, ate, and Ara (our Feng Shui expert friend.. more about her in later posts).

The movie starts off good with KC's character, stressed by work, hies off to Greece for a reluctant vacation. There he meets Richard's character, etc. Then they return to the Philippines and everything in the film goes downhill.

It's not KC and/nor Richard who are at fault. They were actually the brighter points of the film (with all the over promotion, almost hailing it as the second coming of Christ!). Yeah, there were faults in their acting... KC seems "hilaw" pa, and Richard Guittierez, at times, is over acting (specially with his words: "...youuu'rree nooo fuuuun, piaa!" lol!).

So what makes the movie bad? Well, its everything else. The direction, editing, script writing... maybe the cinematographer is the only one who goes free. Well, how can he/she go wrong when she's shooting the grandeur of Greece!?

As far as I remember, Joyce Bernal was a good director. I just don't know what went wrong now. Maybe nangalawang na for having to direct cheesy crapTV teleseryes like Marimar and Dyesebel. ;p

The movie started promising, up to the point were the leads were going around Greece. After, everything seems to screw up. Mababaw yung story and script (the Lloydy film was too, pero they executed it perfectly). Magulo yung editing (one thing leads to another until you can't catch up because of bad editing). Andaming characters na inintroduce, pero hindi naman ginamit (Geoff Eigenmann's character; plus Anna Roces, who makes a dramatic entrance... pero wala naman pala talagang papel! haha).

And what's up with Richard Guittierez holding a party for all his EX'es!?!?! Who the fuck does that!? At yung mga babae naman dumating talaga, at all smiles pa!! What the fuck!? LOL!! Very far fetched! It's like some throwback to old '90s baduy pinoy movies with Wowie De Guzman and Bobby Andrews (ironically enough, Bobby Andrews is one of the extras here).

So yun, its not the stars who were at fault... its the actual movie production. Sablay ang story, character development... and they relied to much to "artificial" tear jerking. The bad editing gave the movie a bad pacing. And the director is at fault for letting all of this happen.

The only good part of the movie is Candy Pangilinan (and her partner) during the first half. LOL