Well hello guys (if really there's anyone out there), seems like I've been vacuum for like more than 6 months sigh. Well seems is not the perfect word because I really have been vacuum for more than 6 months. Lazyness, apathy, stress, and others did stop me to write and that fact is tickling me because I really like to write you know, I feel this certain kind of happines in the form of writing. But my complex is not the main topic in this post, because I'm gonna tell you what happen in 6 months and what I should write, but failed to.
Okay here's the list :
1. Worldwide event :
Oscar winner and it's red carpet, which was very dissapointing, cuz Argo is not that good. Emmanuelle Riva lost (screw) but at least Jennifer Lawrence won it, so.... yeah that's okay.
Berlin Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Paris, Milan, New York Fashion Week
Baeksang Award and it's red carpet
E3
2. My own event :
I became a host buddy for Phillipine's student. They did some kind of student exchange and I know that I'm currently not joining any kind of organization, but my friend knew that I'm excelled at English so they recruit me. Kinda funny since Phillipinos are this blog most visitor, YAY thank you so much Phillipines (and USA citizen you guys are the second).
My faculty owns a new building so we kinda moved and I had a hard time adapting in the new place
My birthday, it's around this date and my birthday somehow remind me of this blog, that's why I visit it
I want to write a novel and make my way to direnct my own short movie, which I hope get a recognition so I can keep making movie (pray)
My new fascination with French and Korean movies and Phillipino movies (it used to be K-pop and K-drama)
My dislike with my class (nothing new I know)
With all those topics I could easily write 10 posts, but yeah. And not to mention there are so many movies, albums, and games that I have to review I'm going to keep it relax, but I'm not going to restrain myself too. Hopefully I can keep writing. Thank you for anyone who read and (especially) comment. I know I don't have followers for now, but I'm looking forward to it.
I haven't made any post, and I know this will be short. I am obsessed with J-Law but when I heard there's this French woman nominated, I got immediately curious. I watch Amour and she's just amazing. I know what I said before is nonsense, unmanaged, but please watch Michael Haneke's Amour, it's amazing.
I'm not saying J-Law is bad, she's amazing. But when I watch Emmanuele Riva in Amour there's this electric shock that comes through me. I know immediately that she deserves an Oscar and in fact I will be surprised if she don't get it.
*Intro
Here it is, at last I'm reviewing 2012 Game of the Year. You can shake your damn head as many as you like on the fact that this year GOTY is not a triple A. All I can say is play it, and let the game speaks for itself. I personally like it because I don't have to spent like 60$ for a GOTY hahaha screw me.
*Warning this review represent my opinions only feel free to post yours
Yupz that's the trailer, and congratulations for all the GOTY awards you have collected so far, I bet thatgamecompany had a hard time counting the award (evil smirk). Ah hem let's get on it, Journey is a game developed by thatgamecompany exclusively for PS3, produced by Robin Junicke, directed by Jenova Chen, with original soundtrack composed by Austin Wintory. Wow it's rare for me to list the developer name oh so completely, it's because I want to thank all the guys in thatgamecompany for making this beautiful game and elevate the term 'game' into more general (aka more than FPS (aka more than CoD)). Thank you and thank you and I can't thank you enough.
We play as nameless cloaked wanderer and we begin our journey in the dessert with the mountain as our goal. There's no intro cut scene, and we don't even know what's there in the mountain, hence even the game don't say we should go to the mountain, but somehow you just know it you have to go there. As you wander around the dessert there's a simple tutorial which teach you how to jump, control your camera, or do an act that looks like shouting some notes. This shout is the only communicative act you can made, it'll charge your scarf, opening some way, and you can't speak with your friends but shouting will resonate your scarf with theirs. Oh yeah and the scarf act like your jumping energy, the longer it is the higher you can jump, and if you make contact with anything with the pattern of your scarf (be it regular paper, (something like) kite, (something like) very large fabric) you can jump very very very very very high and trust me it'll help you through the game.
Now now you realized you have to reach the mountain, the scarf and the shout will help you open the way and so begin the journey. From the dessert to (another(pink)) dessert, to some underground ruins, you'll walk, skate, and journey through all the place. I don't have to say it but you'll feel like on a some kind of pilgrimage, it's so ethereal . On the way you'll feel astonished on how beautiful the setting is, the sand goes gold under the light of the sun, and it shines more while the sun set. You can see the shadow stream beautifully like a symphony. Add the dreamy music at the background and you'll find yourself absorbed in the journey .
It doesn't always in the dessert, you'll go underground, upperground (hahah), and windy snowy super cold place. You'll find friends who goes on a journey too, but you can't communicate at all, no names, you can only resonate the scarf each other. Along the way you will meet some creature who can cut your scarf and make it shorter (srew them), I honestly think the creature could become a collosus (Shadow of the Collosus referance). After a long journey you'll reach the snowy point and....... Ah hem, I don't want to spoil it go play yourself.
Conclusion
Journey is a pilgrimage adventure. You'll absorbed and awed at how beautiful the game was designed. The idea behind the game is original and new and the nameless friends and limited communication is meant so player won't prejudiced at each other (genius). The gameplay is mostly a bit platforming, but who cares because in Journey the gameplay is not the hightlight, but the journey you've gone through itself. The setting is really beautiful, the color choices was amazing, and the shadow and shade oh wow I have to kiss the shadow and shade, itt flows so beautifully you'll drop your jaw. Accompany the amazing setting with the Grammy nominated music (congratulations Austin Wintory) it will be epic. Journey is a must have game and has that impact, and I can still imagine we're talking about Journey in a couple of years.
P.S. : I have QCing it and my typo is getting fewer and fewer who hoo. (glad for nothing)
Huh #longsigh I'm gonna reviewing Amour now. The reason for my long sigh is not because the movie was so bad, in fact it's so good and truthful, honest, and just like the old saying 'The truth is always hurt'. Let's waste no time, here's the review
*Warning this review represent my opinions only feel free to post yours
Aaaahhhh love, love, love, allll ya'll need is love (southern styles The Beatles).Okay honestly the sigh ya'll make at the end of this movie is not a happy sigh. It's not because this movie is bad, it's because this movie is not doing the one important thing what movie must do, it is 'Entertaining', it asks us to think and doesn't want to entertain us even for a tiny bit.Maybe some of you still confused on what I said before, but ya'll understand if ya'll keep reading. Have I said the director is Michael Haneke? I guess no, so yeah he's the director and he won palme d'or for the second time in a row with this movie, how cool is that?
The story is opened with firefighters check an apartment because of residents compalint only to find a corpse of an old woman. It stops and shows us a piano concert of a real pianist named Alexandre, in the story however he's Anne's student which played (marvelously) by Emmanuelle Riva. She along with her husband Georges which played (again, marvelously) by Jean-Louis Trintignant are upper middle class family, former music teacher. After the concert they come home, realized that someone tries to break through, and then do some small talk like regular couples do. Be wary that this is the end, ya'll (I mean we spectators) stuck in this very apartment until the end of the movie, so brace yourself. There's something fascinating when they come home and do that small talk, Geoege says you're beautiful to Anne. In their age, something like that is rare, hence even my parents never do those kind of things again, I think it's like a statement that they ARE really love each other.
The next day as usual they eat together, do small talks and then suddenly Anne fall silent, just like a robot run out of battery. When she react, she doesn't remember anything, and the truth is Anne got a stroke *sigh... I'm not gonna spoil the story so let's just say Anne will only got worse and Michael Haneke doesn't even try to hide how miserable Anne (and George) is. It's almost like cruel, there are tiny bit humor moments but mostly just ...... *sigh (again). The fact that 99% of the setting is in their apartment and not background music even for a tiny bit just *sigh (again).
Conclusion
Amour is a statement film, maybe your flesh will deterioting and then gone, but love will never cease to extinct, in the end only love that's left from their existence. No background music, because Michael Haneke doesn't want to console us with some relaxing music, he just wants the truth of age (and love) speaks for itself. What can I say again I'm just astonished, well playing from Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant, also Isabelle Huppert whose act as their child. Just heed my word, if you want to learn just abit truth of living a life, watch this movie but don't expect something that will entertain you. My own suggestion is watch this film, I just hope Michael Haneke will get what he deserves from Academy Award.
*Intro
I'm currently doing 2 reviews at the same time which is this review and Michael Haneke's film Amour. One thing for sure Amour will be post before Oscars hahaha. I don't usually reviewing K-Pop group album (besides BEG and Big Bang) because usually the other track beside the main track is only a filler, but I have to admit that...... uhm well it's for the closing hahaha.
*Warning this review represent my opinions only feel free to post yours
1. I Got a Boy
So the first track is the leading single, weird move, but not rare. Usually the leading single will be put at second or third, but let's not complicate ourselves with that thing. Okay now the song, the song itself is GREAT. It's not amazing, but hey they're not BEG or Big Bang, this is a massive improvement. The song is quirky, constantly improving, the time when you say 'the song will be going like this' it changes again surprising us again and again and again. A fun pop song that's kinda mixture of 2NE1 and Miss A I think. The only problem with this song is there are parts that's sound too aegyo it makes me cringe. Okay let's face it, it's GG anyway aegyo always exist, there are some parts that tolerable, but something like 'michyeoso michyeoso' arrrhhh. The lyric is standard, but at least it's not dumb. It's a great track, SNSD must be proud they finally doing something different and 'good'. As for the MV, hahaha not as good as the music. I love the color, there's a sense of Harajuku style, and there's this romantic red scene like Sistar's Alone, although they dance in a box it's entertaining and not boring. My only problem is the guy is completely useless and the drama scene is useless, you can barely get anything there except our lovely ladies acting insanely cute. The concept is aegyo swag hahahaha, I said it, it's aegyo swag. For me it's a bit weird that doesn't mean it's bad, maybe just maybe GG will be the trendsetter of this concept. A few ladies (name Yuri and Hyoyeon) do their own concept which I called Feminine classy swag, they dress like 2ne1 with Miss A attitude. So great I love them. Wow just for a song and the sentence keep piling up and I haven't done the dance department. The dance is cool, they tossed their high heels, do something more energetic, it's refreshing. In general I love this, good job girls oh and anyone who review this badly is just a hater I think because although it's not perfect this is really good.
2. Dancing Queen
O...M....G.... I don't like to bash people so I'm gonna keep this short. Duffy's Mercy is a great song with retro blues influence that's really refreshing, and so this Dancing Queen (cause technically it's the same song with only different lyrics). This is SNSD pre-famous right? Yup I tolerate you for ruining such a great song with ridiculous concept and dance. Well this is an album so we can only hear and not see, I'll say this is a good song, just don;t watch the MV. Honestly Wonder Girls could do this better I think, but once again this is pre-famous so yeah it's okay.
3. Baby Maybe
Actually the song is really good, it feels like spring, fresh, the flowers are all blooming, and cute. The music is likeable and the lyric is cute without being too cute, it suits my palate and I actually love cute things so honestly I love this song. The problem is once again the way they singing, mostly it's good, but there are some parts they singing it too cute. This song is already cute, you don't need to add any sugar at all. So far this song reminds me of BoA's Japanese album The Face so I like it, good job girls or should I say Pixie Lott? hahaha. (It's originally Pixie Lott's demo they said)
4. 말해봐 (Talk Talk)
Uhm I don't find this song interesting, it's so standard. Both the tones and technique are common, but the singing is fit and I think only the capable one singing this song and the least capable like providing background hahaha that's just my guess. The auto tune used at the right time, they didn't use it too much. Uhm it's a very standard song not bad, but not good. So there aren't anything to comment actually ah hem...
(Oh yeah this is recycled from their Japanese album, and I was like (what??? Is it so hard to provide an original song))
5. Promise
This song is good. I do have a little fetish on ballad, but I will keep it clear here, it's not super outstanding but it's good unlike SNSD's previous ballad which seemed forced. It talks about past love, you break up, you cry, you passed it all, you want to move on, and you kinda retrace all the memories. It's good I like it, this is one of the strongest song in the album.
6. Express 999
I can't help it, it reminds me a bit with Britney, Spice Girls, but they make it more modern and it's amazing I love it. You can hear some trumpet mixed with the techno, the lyrics are unique and do I have to add it's sounds good and not cheesy. You can feel the beat and groove, overall this is a very exciting song and a really good job.
7. 유리아이 (Lost In Love)
Is this TTS? Because it sounds oh wow very very amazing. Hehe, the intro with piano and glass sound really makes it sound so dreamy and sad at the same time. The girls voice sounds amazing, the notes also needs some technique and I just can't imagine all 9 SNSD sang this. This track sounds almost like BEG, WHAT?! BEG?! What a progress have you made SNSD. I love it, people will and should love it, good job.
8. Look at Me
Huh, so far I've been so happy listening to the album, a rare case for SNSD material btw that's why my happiness goes double up. And this song ruin it all. I'm not saying this song is super bad, in fact the indian drums and flute can be cool like Jai Ho, but instead it goes into cutesy and the girls also sang it with cuteness overload my head is spinning around. The lyrics also kinda silly haha maybe it's just me. Whatever next please.
9. XYZ
This is a catchy electronic song, I like it but I also think the bpm is kinda slow. An electronic song must tempt you to dance, and this song is a tad slower to tempt me to dance. Overall I like it, this is like Britney, Ke$ha, Rihanna. The lyrics penned by our lovely girls Yuri and SeoHyun and quite good. Honestly this track is quite good I kinda spechless on what to comment.
10. 낭만길 (Romantic St.)
Another ballad with spring screaming with every notes played. The intro is grandiose, there's this jay swing smell from afar and then it changes to (luckily) not too cute sound, it's in a tolerable dose. In fact it sounds good. Too bad Jessica's voice is too nasal I'm sorry queen it's the fact, she can trade lines with Sunny whose voice is cute in a good way. I love this song what can I say.
I Got a Boy is a great album, SNSD album usually sounds like trash boxed in a very beautiful package. But this time, it's sound like a real album. The tracks are very good and doesn't feel like a filler, I'm having fun reviewing this album because every tracks are worth to listen to (except Look at Me), they tossed their high heels, the dance energitically, and it pays. For every person who thinks this album still sounds bad, I can assure you they're just haters, it's not perfect, but this is absolutely not a bad album.
This one is gonna be short too. My mama had gone home and I have just made some crazy decision. If this is goes wrong I swear I will go crazy (I know I'm already crazy) or maybe it could lead to suicide. I can't tell you right now, but I will soon.
