RPG (Metanoia) - First Pinoy 3D Animated Movie!

After 10 years of ditching MMFF (metro manila film fest) movies, I finally gave the pinoy movie industry a chance.

Don't get me wrong, okay naman ang pinoy films, most feedbacks that i get are "uy napanood mo na yung ***, nakakatawa!", "nakakatawa sila ganito at ganun!" and "haha tuwang tuwa ako", yes The Usual Enteng Kabisote and Tanging Ina movies, COMEDY! and worst, may DRAMA pa minsan! christ! Yan ang palabas sa LOCAL TV araw araw!




I don't have any problem with supporting our own, ika nga "Pinoy Made" but compare the production of our movies to other countries, they spend YEARS in producing a movie, from making a script, storyboard, actual shooting and editing!

But here in the Philippines? uy Film Fest na sa December, may movie entry kayo? Yes meron, actually nag start na kami mag shoot last September! haha tatlong buwan.. diyos ko pong mahabagin... parang gumagawa lang ng teleserye!




The movie RPG Metanoia is action packed, from START to FINISH. It opens up with the story's main protagonist "Nico" who at that time is inside the world of an Online Game; METANOIA, fighting this three headed crossbreed between a hydra and a nutcracker (Hirap ba imagine?) Panoorin mo nalang kasi.



Well of course he defeats the monster and gets this special item which is supposed to give him "God Like" powers within the game... which ends up endangering everyone in the planet, not just online but also in Real Life.




There are moments in the film where some might actually think, "wow! another foreign movie that's Pinoy Dubbed?" palibhasa lahat nalang sa TV tinatagalog! Kahit DORA the explorer tagalog na, tapos mag rereklamo kayo ANG HIRAP MAG ENGLISH! Your top 100% free source of learning and familiarizing yourself to ENGLISH, tinagalog pa! But what can we do, in order to earn big, TV Networks have to target "The MASSES / General Public / known locally as ang MASA", and sad to say, hirap mag ingles/english "ang MASA" at hindi sila manonood ng hirap sila intindihin (unless Koreano mga iyan! oo sawa na tayo sa Marimar and the likes, Korea-novelas naman).




Yes, the movie looks good! and those who are not familiar with well known 3D animations might actually think it was made abroad and was just dubbed for Pinoy Viewers.

Just a quick fact, it took "5 years" to make this movie.




If you've experienced Playing Online Games (online games ha! hindi farmville at plants vs zombies! buset!) and loves to watch Pixar and Dreamworks films, this movie is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Also to Parents whose kids are playing computer games round the clock, this movie has a GREAT LESSON in store for your kiddos!


Calling out to those former and still active RAGNAROK ONLINE Players! I'm sure you guys will be able to relate to this movie and appreciate it, actually by this time baka napanood nyo na!




Sound quality is also great! HINDI MONO!!! its in Stereo!!! HALLELUJAH! When a character speaks and goes to the right side of the screen or even off camera, the sound

moves as well from left to right! MARVELOUS! hahaha kaya at possible naman pala eh! Pambihira bakit ngayon lang!!!




The only negative feedback that I can probably give is with the voice acting, they could've acquired better voice actors, but then again, if you're already satisfied with the voice acting of our pinoy dubbed animes, then you won't have any problems. I just got used to watching Animes (in japanese) with english subtitles, that's why I can't help but compare the feeble voice acting quality here against those awesome voice actors in japan.

Support pinoy 3D Animation and watch this movie! We may not be as good as Pixar or Dreamworks but WE DEFINITELY HAVE A CHANCE and WILL SURELY GET THERE! You'll realize this after you see this movie!



For the first time in my life, I'm BUYING AN ORIGINAL DVD! And it will be a DVD of this PINOY MOVIE, "RPG: METANOIA".

Where pinoys broke the barrier between Local and World Class 3D Animation. The very first 100% PINOY made full length 3D ANIMATION Movie, and mind you, it DOESN'T SUCK!!! Definitely WORTH BUYING!




If you have the extra cash, show your support and get the DVD! This will surely be a collector's item as time goes by. ;)




Good Job ABS-CBN STAR CINEMA and AMBIENT MEDIA for producing a QUALITY movie!



HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
Another superb year has passed, onwards to another great year with Better things in life to come! =)

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Resident Evil 4: Afterlife (Bio Hazard 4)

Since we've already watched DESPICABLE ME (A MUST WATCH movie for Comedy Fans, this one makes it to my top movies for 2010) last week, there was nothing else worth watching I guess than my old time favorite Zombie Fest movie Resident Evil.. (glad Mich was game to watch it with me :D)


Resident Evil 4: Afterlife (2010) - It pays to listen to the fans and probably bringing back the original director.



Resident Evil 4 lands on the Top 1 spot in US Box Office Charts this week at $27.7 million, a great move since no other movie was opening last week.

Director Paul W. S. Anderson returns in directing the Resident Evil franchise after leaving it for a few years and letting Resident Evil 2 and 3 go down the drain with some other director who'm I wont be wasting time anymore to search up.


The Good: It was a big mistake in the part 3 to give Alice (Milla Jovovich) some kind of super natural powers that the Protagonists in the games didn't have. And it's a big relief that they made a move to correct this. Probably among all 4 movies, this and the first one are my favorite, and I'm guessing Paul Anderson is one of the reasons.


You get the usual zombies, the regular ones running slow, easy to kill, with new batches of underground diggers which could run and a new boss-like zombie which you can relate to those found in the game.

There's also an additional Protagonist which most game fans would recognize and would enjoy seeing.

Cool effects, plenty of slow motion scenes, who am I kidding, I think 1/4 of the movie was in Slow-mo! lol..

The Bad: If you're not a fan of the previous movies and most of all The Game, then don't you dare watch this movie and say bad things about it because I'm already warning you now that you'll still be disappointed just like how you felt in the previous films.

For some reason, Milla Jovovich gets to maintain her make up and lipstick from the beginning up to the end of the movie. I guess it's a must or probably something she needs to distract zombies and enable her to kill them easier.


Overall: So far the highest rating Resident Evil movie, scoring 7/10 in IMDB.com, I enjoyed this Movie, but dont expect anything new, this one's just enough to give you your zombie killing spree fix (with a ton of Slow Motion scenes). Hopefully the 5th movie will still be directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. I can say the only movie that I really hated was the 4th Movie (Extinction), hated how Alice was given these super natural powers. Bah~



Cast:

Milla Jovovich ... Alice

Ali Larter ... Claire Redfield

Kim Coates ... Bennett

Shawn Roberts ... Albert Wesker

Sergio Peris-Mencheta ... Angel Ortiz

Spencer Locke ... K-Mart

Boris Kodjoe ... Luther West

Wentworth Miller ... Chris Redfield


Paul Anderson is also producing Castlevania movie based from the Game Castlevania and is scheduled for release in 2011. Seems he likes to make movies based from well known video games. He's also directing The Three Musketeers also for release in 2011 and will star Milla Jovovich. Seems he's also attached to Milla Jovovich. lol


Resident Evil 4 movie, comes out in Japan as Bio Hazard 4, just like how the games are titled. And a Resident Evil game will be released by Capcom for the PSP this year! And no it wont be based on the movie, so that's something to be thankful for.

Thanks for viewing cinephiles!