cavite

I heard some good things about this movie. After seeing the piles of garbage that the Philippines released (I'm looking at you Gagamboy and the holy grail of crap, Agimat), they finally have a good movie that isn't some cheap drama that my aunts and my mom would watch. It's a good movie, but not great. The Philippines isn't there yet.

Cons of Cavite:

• There was this one moment of the film that was so puzzling. There were subtitles, but the scene was focusing on something else. I think the filmmakers tried to do something new, but I thought it was a horrible decision.
  
• The cinematography was quite poor. You get some typical handycam shots, and they used the overused effect of having the camera on the guys face. I don't understand why the camera has to be so shaky. This isn't WWII. Horrid alleyways. I know the director and the writers tried to show the undeveloped side of the Philippines, but goddamn, they could have showed some economic development. It was so depressing to see.
  
• The main actor sucks. He can't swear and can't act for shit. The character is fucking retarded.
  
• Why the hell are people staring into the camera? This just breaks the suspense of watching this guy go through parts of the Philippines.
  
• I didn't like the whole Phone Booth aspect of it.
  
• It's fucking letterboxed. Learn how to master your films in widescreen. Goddamn. It's already 2006. You use a digital camera and still can't put a film in actual widescreen on the DVD. Shit. If I can do it with a personal computer, you can do it too.
  

Yeah, even with all those cons, its still one of the better Filipino movies out there. I would still love to see a Filipino movie that looks like it was made with a big budget. You know, the ones that Americans and the REST OF THE WORLD makes. Iran and Brazil has better looking films. The Philippines can do it too. Or is it because they are lazy?

That is why my brother is going to be an awesome sound designer. He is going to bring that knowledge and shove it into the Philippine movie industry because they clearly still don't know how to do post audio processing (the effect of why 100% of Filipino movies sound like they were filmed in the 70s).