I like watching movies, especially classics, the not-so classics and award-winning.
A few weeks back, I chanced upon a pirated-DVD store in Los Baños, Laguna and I found three CDs of movies (pirated off course) which is classified above: The French Connection (1971), In My Country (2004) and The Counterfeiters (2007).
I've been wanting to do a movie marathon but unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of time to spend a whole day being a couch potato. Coz if I do, I'd play the four-sets of my Astroboy CD collection and the other Philippine Indie films I've collected at a Video City store sale.
But I guess, if you really want it, you'll find a way for it. And sure enough, my itching of playing my "The French Connection" movie out of that pirated DVD stall in Los Baños came 3 days after Christmas day.
I'm on a day-off, my wife and her two siblings left for Las Piñas City for a spa moment in Festival Supermall. Left alone, there's nothing much to do than watch TV, surf the internet or eat the leftover-but-still-good food from Christmas eve.
More than watching it, I'd also like to try if that blu-ray disc is OK (re: video and audio quality), for this is going to be the benchmark of other pirated DVD buying spree in the future.
And there, I watched the movie, enjoyed the film and dude, the CD was great. Quality-wise, it was a-'sulit.com.ph'-like buy (re:satisfaction guaranteed). The subtitles aren't like the regular 12-in-1 discs, where the characters say one thing and the subtitle read another. And for a price of P200 for 3 movies, I find it worthy of my money, though you can buy used but quality CDs in any Video City outlet if they're on sale at a cheaper price.
In this 1971 American crime film, two New York City Police detectives, "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Schieder) investigates the smuggling of narcotics from France.
Famous for its chase scenes, this is the first R-rated movie to win an Oscars for Best Picture.
One of the most notable scene out of the movie was when one of the smuggling men tried to kill Popeye and escapes through the subway station. Popeye's pursuit, determined to kill a criminal, brought him to the outskirts of the city through a fantastic car chase after a subway train. He caught the criminal and killed him without hesitation.
Click here to watch movie clip.
Also, in another chase or must I say 'stalking' scene, Popeye follows another player out of the smuggling syndicate, Charnier, or who they call "frog two". From his hotel, to the cold streets of New York, his seemingly discreet but obvious stalking was an epic episode full of outwitting and outplaying schemes that i thought I was watching an episode from Tom and Jerry and Oggie and the Cockroaches. Charnier escapes Popeye's wit with the sarcastic smile and the kitty wave of the finger.
I understood why Gene Hackman won the Academy Awards for Best Actor for a Leading Role for his portrayal of the real-life Popeye, Eddie Egan. His detrmination as a law enforcer, his tactical antics, the ruthless character of a cop and his sincerity to the job was well acted.
And I also understood why its Rated-R - the violence, the drugs and partly, a few seconds of a sex scene and exposure of a female butt. But more that that, its the reason of being based on a true story makes it a contemporary classic. The acts maybe fictionalized but the story is not.
So where does this blog lead me? Three points. Point One: I bought a pirated CD, which I know is a crime. Point Number Two: I watched a worthy, unforgettable movie. Point Number Three: I got my moneys worth!!!!
Note: search google or click here. It'll probably provide a more accurate and in-depth reviews.
Picture credit from here.
A few weeks back, I chanced upon a pirated-DVD store in Los Baños, Laguna and I found three CDs of movies (pirated off course) which is classified above: The French Connection (1971), In My Country (2004) and The Counterfeiters (2007).
But I guess, if you really want it, you'll find a way for it. And sure enough, my itching of playing my "The French Connection" movie out of that pirated DVD stall in Los Baños came 3 days after Christmas day.
I'm on a day-off, my wife and her two siblings left for Las Piñas City for a spa moment in Festival Supermall. Left alone, there's nothing much to do than watch TV, surf the internet or eat the leftover-but-still-good food from Christmas eve.
More than watching it, I'd also like to try if that blu-ray disc is OK (re: video and audio quality), for this is going to be the benchmark of other pirated DVD buying spree in the future.
And there, I watched the movie, enjoyed the film and dude, the CD was great. Quality-wise, it was a-'sulit.com.ph'-like buy (re:satisfaction guaranteed). The subtitles aren't like the regular 12-in-1 discs, where the characters say one thing and the subtitle read another. And for a price of P200 for 3 movies, I find it worthy of my money, though you can buy used but quality CDs in any Video City outlet if they're on sale at a cheaper price.
In this 1971 American crime film, two New York City Police detectives, "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Schieder) investigates the smuggling of narcotics from France.
Famous for its chase scenes, this is the first R-rated movie to win an Oscars for Best Picture.
One of the most notable scene out of the movie was when one of the smuggling men tried to kill Popeye and escapes through the subway station. Popeye's pursuit, determined to kill a criminal, brought him to the outskirts of the city through a fantastic car chase after a subway train. He caught the criminal and killed him without hesitation.
Click here to watch movie clip.
Also, in another chase or must I say 'stalking' scene, Popeye follows another player out of the smuggling syndicate, Charnier, or who they call "frog two". From his hotel, to the cold streets of New York, his seemingly discreet but obvious stalking was an epic episode full of outwitting and outplaying schemes that i thought I was watching an episode from Tom and Jerry and Oggie and the Cockroaches. Charnier escapes Popeye's wit with the sarcastic smile and the kitty wave of the finger.
I understood why Gene Hackman won the Academy Awards for Best Actor for a Leading Role for his portrayal of the real-life Popeye, Eddie Egan. His detrmination as a law enforcer, his tactical antics, the ruthless character of a cop and his sincerity to the job was well acted.
And I also understood why its Rated-R - the violence, the drugs and partly, a few seconds of a sex scene and exposure of a female butt. But more that that, its the reason of being based on a true story makes it a contemporary classic. The acts maybe fictionalized but the story is not.
So where does this blog lead me? Three points. Point One: I bought a pirated CD, which I know is a crime. Point Number Two: I watched a worthy, unforgettable movie. Point Number Three: I got my moneys worth!!!!
Note: search google or click here. It'll probably provide a more accurate and in-depth reviews.
Picture credit from here.
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