I don't see much point being celebrating your art films while crapping on your commercial successes, no matter how deservedly.
Me neither. That's why I'm not interested in making sarcastic remarks about Shake Rattle & Roll 3D or somesuch, even in jest. And why I'm going to go watch Wapakman this week. And why it looks more and more like I'm siding with Bong Revilla on the matter being discussed in this thread. Oh well. Them's the breaks, I guess.
Shiri, My Sassy Girl, My Wife Is A Gangster and Oldboy, incidentally, had name stars in them, not that Hollywod cares they were just pillaging for suprlus, like with Sigaw when they remade it. But you probably meant something else when you said people didn't go see them for its stars. Oh well. You're probably more privvy to the Korean moviegoers' psyche than I am.My bad,I guess.
Just trying to make a distinction in
this discussion because it's unfair everytime someone puts down Philippine cinema - - -its history, its international reputation, its product - - -without fact-checking and using the excesses of the commercial fare as a whip. It's unfair.
Hindi tayo huli sa awards abroad, mayaman ang kasaysayan natin sa pelikula, madami tayong ginagawang magandang pelikula hanggang ngayon. A little perspectve is all. If I'm a little bullish about it, so be it. I'm a big, big fan of (and very recent convert to) Philippine cinema in all its permutations. Sue me.
And nobody's saying we don't need local pop cinema to thrive. Hell, I'm all for it. I 'd rather have our crap - - those
Shake Rattle Roll movies we do so love to piss on - - - than American crap.( Not
Avatar,no. It's the second greatest film of its kind. I liked
Ferngully just a litle bit better,though.)