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December 16, 2007

Ladies and gentlemen, let me present one of this year's entries for MMFF. Directed by Paul Wilson Gardon, it stars Ruffa Gutierrez, Rufa Mae Quinto, Iza Calzado and Marian Rivera, and it is about four women who… ah what the heck writing synopsis is so boring, so please just read it elsewhere.

I give you, Desperadas. Click that link, view the trailer, read the synopsis, and then come back to me.

My thoughts?

This is a fantastic showmanship of creative prowess! It totally does not remind me of Desperate Housewives. In fact, this movie's name couldn't resemble that sitcom less!

Seriously, what is the deal?! Movies like this are made, and then nominated for MMFF (which should stand for Many Mucus Festering Forward)? Should I be saddened that the Philippine cinema is, once again after a Billion times, imitating another popular Hollywood show? Should I be amused that this particular movie is aping a show that has not been very kind to Filipinos? Should I laugh at how movies like this are considered "worthy of accolades"? Or should I be angry that it stars Ruffa Gutierrez, an obnoxious celebrity hall-of-(in)famer? Gee I am so ambivalent SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME DEVELOP MY EQ WALA AKONG E-KYOOOOOO!!!!!!!111111111111111

It's bewildering how a lot of Filipino directors refuse to pitch in any original ideas, and instead they are content on copying international films. Why? Don't they feel any shame? It's like none of them ever want to take risks and make movies that change people, and all they do is create formulaic "sure box office hits" that do not have any relevant messages, but will sell anyway because people will eat them up so they could see all these sexy actresses and corny scenarios. "Nevermind that we're giving our film industry a negative image, as long as we can earn money and party at Embassy who cares about creativity and all that jazz, right?!" Huzzah! And speaking of sexy actresses, I wonder if Marian Rivera wasn't selected because of her timely popularity. If this movie made last year, would the director even choose her and not Angel Locsin? DING! Didn't think so myself; I guess the only thing important these days is if the actress appears on Men's Magazines™ or not.

You know what, we need a Desperate Housewives episode that has Teri Hatcher saying, "OK, before we go any further, can I check these scripts? Just to make sure they aren't, like, from some film studio in the Philippines?" And then cue the picket lines of outraged Filipinos crying "racism" and "bigotry", the blogs tossing highfaluting vocabulary (or is it vogue-call-bull-gallery?) to spite American producers for not understanding our real talent, and the fandom-ish comments saying Americans are "gaytards". Then the American producers will counterattack by presenting "Lupin, Asian Treasures, Marimar, and Zaido" as evidences, but Filipinos will curse them anyway for their insensitivity, until someone from the government will "level" the debate by delivering a boring ass speech! Everyone will kiss and make up, and it will back to business for everyone until history repeats. That will be something worth watching, definitely better than wasting your bucks on Desperadas.

I wonder if we'll get Bayani or Dr. Bahay or Tulak Sampaguita next year.

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Previous Comments

Nuts Entertainment plagiarized a Japanese TV game called “human tetris” too.

Hehehe, wala lang.

And oh, I didn’t know “highfaluting” is spelled this way. Seriously. I never use the word whenever I write because I don’t know how to spell it. Well now I do. Thanks.

Posted by J at December 17, 2007, 4:06 pm

There are several spelling variations to “highfaluting”, like highfalutin and hifalutin. I even created a fictional character named Heifel Lutin.

I personally like to stay away from using that word unless I’m making fun of something, which is practically ALL THE TIME.

So Nuts Entertainment plagiarized a show, huh? What a surprise.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 17, 2007, 4:32 pm

heheh, the human tetris thing was awfully funny! and why am i always on this blog!

Posted by liz at December 18, 2007, 10:38 am

i couldn’t agree more. but what i still cannot comprehend is why in the world would we copy game shows like whammy?! ugh! it’s enough we copy other countries’ good/bad movies and make them worse. should we do it to their brainless gameshows as well? *deep sigh*

Posted by dhey at December 18, 2007, 4:07 pm

Their ways of thinking probably go “Screw scruples! Let’s just get rich quick!” Minimum efforts for maximum profits.

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