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Hello! To all the avid readers of my blog, sorry if I haven’t posted
anything for the past few uh… weeks. I’ve been kind of busy lately.
Anyway, here I am again, posting away. There have been a lot of things
that transpired during the course of my absence.

First off, I would like to announce that the official site of HOODWINKED is
up and running. You guys can check out the trailer there. I don’t know
if it’s already official, but the tentative premiere of the film here
in the Philippines would be on December 17. And let me make an open
statement about the movie. I know there have been alot of talk about
the movie in some of the CG forums (sadly, most of the comments are
bad). For the record, to our detractors, we openly admit that our movie
is not at par with those of PIXAR and DREAMWORKS for there are certain
factors why it came to be. If we had been told earlier that the project
would extend to some length in time, we could have done better. But
seriously speaking, the story is great. I’ll bet you’ll laugh your
asses off. So please, give Hoodwinked a chance before you decide to not
watch it because you think the trailer sucks. Anyways, we’re happy that
we got the movie out and we hope that you guys would love it.

Second,
I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last week. Before you go
on, there might be spoilers here and there in this topic, so a word of
caution. I must say that this film is darker than The Prizoner of
Azkaban. Though, I have trouble appreciating the film. Why, do you ask?
Well, first, the pacing of the film is so fast. I don’t know if it’s
just me, but, I think the the director really wanted to go directly to
the Triwizard Tournament and decided to make some quick cuts in the
beginning. Second, if you’re a purist of the book (or maybe you’ve only
read the book), you will notice how many things got cut out like the
Dursleys, S.P.E.W, Ludo Bagman, Dobby and Winky the house elves. I
don’t know why they have to remove Dobby in this one. Dobby sort of
played an important role in the Goblet of Fire. The same with Ludo
Bagman. The trouble with removing such characters is placing their
roles to other characters. For example, Dobby gave Harry the gillyweed
in the book. In the movie, they made Neville give Harry the gillyweed
being a star student in Herbology and knowing such stuff. Though, come
to think of it, I think it must be necessary, for the book is a
seven-hundred plus pager and it would be difficult for the film makers
to adapt it to the big screen. I had a hard time appreciating the film
mainly because I expected too much out of it storywise. I was so in to
the book that I got forgot to separate the HP world of the book to the
HP world of the film. But all in all, the film is awesome…
Effects-wise.

Third, since last week was a payday weekend,
without hesitation, I bought DVDs of Revenge of the Sith, War of the
Worlds, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ghostbusters 1 & 2 and
the 1976 version of King Kong. I already finished watching King Kong,
the 2 Ghostbusters movie, and War of the Worlds respectively. While
watching King Kong and the 2 Ghostbusters movie, I can’t help but feel
nostalgic. Most especially the Ghostbusters. I grew up liking the film
and the cartoon spin-off. And for some time I’ve been looking for a DVD
of it. Good thing last friday there was this sale at ASTROVISION and
there I found the boxed set of Ghostbuster 1 & 2. King Kong on the
other hand… hmmm… I’m not really sure why, but back then, watching
the film scared the shit out of me. Imagine a big gorilla running
around the city. But now, after watching it again, it makes me feel
silly. I suddenly realized that the film is just about a big horny ape
that has the hots for Jessica Lang. By the way, Jessica Lang was hot
back then. She’s also one of the reasons why I watched the film in the
first place back then. Hehehe. Now, War of the Worlds isn’t as scary
when watched on DVD. It’s scarier when you watch it on film.

Well,
that’s just about it. Starting tomorrow we’ll go on a 2 shift work day
so we could finish a project that was given to us in such short notice.
I ended up in the evening shift. Though, it’s just temporary. It’ll
only take 3 weeks. Right after that, the premiere. I can’t wait to see
our movie on the big screen.

Bounce!