All About Love Review
By collective team On May 22, 2007 At 4:26 PM
by: nice_girl
originally posted in pinoyexchange, May 2006
Yes, indeed, it was all about love. The movie was limited by the trilogy format resulting to inadequate exposition scenes. For example, I only realized that Bei's character, Lia (I love this name) works for a magazine/publishing company on my second viewing of the movie. And of course, Lloydy's character, Eric (I love this name before and I love it more now), had an ex named Anna. No parallels whatsoever in real life. It was not mentioned what she died of. Or, I just didn't care? Anyhow, these things would have been tackled in a full-length movie. Be that as it may, it was beautiful.
It was beautiful because it was painful. At least, Bea and Lloydy's portion. It is a recognition of their status as stars, make that superstars, that it was their story that connected all the three stories together. Tama si Direk Binibining Joyce Bernal, sila naman talaga ang sikat dun. Their story is about loss. And finding yourself again. Sabi nga ni Eric, "Importante lang, pinipilit mong gumising sa umaga." Or, something like that. Sorry, dalawang beses ko pa lang napanood. (Baka si Pat, memorize niya na. Pat, magpost ka nga dito.)
Can pain be beautiful? Yes, in this case. In Lloydy and Bea's case, it's always yes. Their beautiful scenes are always the ones where tears are involved. Just review Yuri and Kat's break-ups, Lawrence and Cielo's break-ups, Oliver and Jasmin's break-up (they broke up only once if I remember right), Oliver and Jasmin's airport scene (breathtaking!), Manuel and Marian's bittersweet talk about their dying friendship (masakit), Manuel and Marian's confrontation in Manuel's car (that left me speechless) and here in AAL, Eric and Lia's confrontation in Lia's apartment. Here, John Lloyd has the better lines and I mean, very good lines. Bea held her own but it was Lloydy's moment. Please watch out for this scene. The lines he said were beautiful and I could only hope that he believes them in real life. Kung ma memorize ko na word for word, ipopost ko dito. Hehe.
And of course, the KISS! Panoorin niyo na lang.
I think Bei and Lloydy can now start doing full-length dramatic vehicles like the ones Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta used to do before. Foremost is Hihintayin Kita sa Langit. My bestfriend used to be crazy about them and all the while we thought they will end up together. Well, now, they're happy living separate lives. Before you bop me, nobody's married yet so tuloy tuloy lang! No doubt that John Lloyd and Bea will do well in drama because they act so brilliantly. I think they can also pull off passionate scenes with minimal effort (I refer you again to the kiss) and it won't look faked either like the one in Don't Give Up On Us. It's time for a full length drama for John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo! Something award winning, something socially relevant, something that can be brought to a special screening at Cannes Film Festival. Please please please.
And one last thing, Bea, as always, is beautiful. But she was more beautiful in Close to You. But! She is exuding sex appeal in this movie! She kissed first! But Lloydy, Lloydy is just so delicious. He was just the most gorgeous guy in the whole universe in this movie. I wanted to scratch him out of the screen and take him home. So sexy! Hint of a goatee, five o'clock shadow, naughty smile, searing eyes. Bad boy! Higit pa kay Robin Padilla! So Yummy! (pahiram icy ha.)
Of course, there were bloopers. The first i noticed was the ticket Angelika's character was holding. Nakalagay, From: Manila To: Canada . Shine, pwede ba yun? Di ba dapat city kung saan lalanding ang eroplano mo? And they can't seem to decide what to do with Bea's hair but whatever, still BEAutiful!
And where else in the world can you find a kutsera wearing wearing nice make up and expensive tennis shoes?
But the blooperest of them all, sinabi lang na may nangyari kagabi. Basta sa next movie, hindi lang sasabihin yung "nangyari kagabi", gagawin na!
An aside...I didn't have a very good week but as always, I am thankful that there are things that are certain to make me happy, this thread for example and the people in it.
So, thank you labers.
originally posted in pinoyexchange, May 2006
Yes, indeed, it was all about love. The movie was limited by the trilogy format resulting to inadequate exposition scenes. For example, I only realized that Bei's character, Lia (I love this name) works for a magazine/publishing company on my second viewing of the movie. And of course, Lloydy's character, Eric (I love this name before and I love it more now), had an ex named Anna. No parallels whatsoever in real life. It was not mentioned what she died of. Or, I just didn't care? Anyhow, these things would have been tackled in a full-length movie. Be that as it may, it was beautiful.
It was beautiful because it was painful. At least, Bea and Lloydy's portion. It is a recognition of their status as stars, make that superstars, that it was their story that connected all the three stories together. Tama si Direk Binibining Joyce Bernal, sila naman talaga ang sikat dun. Their story is about loss. And finding yourself again. Sabi nga ni Eric, "Importante lang, pinipilit mong gumising sa umaga." Or, something like that. Sorry, dalawang beses ko pa lang napanood. (Baka si Pat, memorize niya na. Pat, magpost ka nga dito.)
Can pain be beautiful? Yes, in this case. In Lloydy and Bea's case, it's always yes. Their beautiful scenes are always the ones where tears are involved. Just review Yuri and Kat's break-ups, Lawrence and Cielo's break-ups, Oliver and Jasmin's break-up (they broke up only once if I remember right), Oliver and Jasmin's airport scene (breathtaking!), Manuel and Marian's bittersweet talk about their dying friendship (masakit), Manuel and Marian's confrontation in Manuel's car (that left me speechless) and here in AAL, Eric and Lia's confrontation in Lia's apartment. Here, John Lloyd has the better lines and I mean, very good lines. Bea held her own but it was Lloydy's moment. Please watch out for this scene. The lines he said were beautiful and I could only hope that he believes them in real life. Kung ma memorize ko na word for word, ipopost ko dito. Hehe.
And of course, the KISS! Panoorin niyo na lang.
I think Bei and Lloydy can now start doing full-length dramatic vehicles like the ones Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta used to do before. Foremost is Hihintayin Kita sa Langit. My bestfriend used to be crazy about them and all the while we thought they will end up together. Well, now, they're happy living separate lives. Before you bop me, nobody's married yet so tuloy tuloy lang! No doubt that John Lloyd and Bea will do well in drama because they act so brilliantly. I think they can also pull off passionate scenes with minimal effort (I refer you again to the kiss) and it won't look faked either like the one in Don't Give Up On Us. It's time for a full length drama for John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo! Something award winning, something socially relevant, something that can be brought to a special screening at Cannes Film Festival. Please please please.
And one last thing, Bea, as always, is beautiful. But she was more beautiful in Close to You. But! She is exuding sex appeal in this movie! She kissed first! But Lloydy, Lloydy is just so delicious. He was just the most gorgeous guy in the whole universe in this movie. I wanted to scratch him out of the screen and take him home. So sexy! Hint of a goatee, five o'clock shadow, naughty smile, searing eyes. Bad boy! Higit pa kay Robin Padilla! So Yummy! (pahiram icy ha.)
Of course, there were bloopers. The first i noticed was the ticket Angelika's character was holding. Nakalagay, From: Manila To: Canada . Shine, pwede ba yun? Di ba dapat city kung saan lalanding ang eroplano mo? And they can't seem to decide what to do with Bea's hair but whatever, still BEAutiful!
And where else in the world can you find a kutsera wearing wearing nice make up and expensive tennis shoes?
But the blooperest of them all, sinabi lang na may nangyari kagabi. Basta sa next movie, hindi lang sasabihin yung "nangyari kagabi", gagawin na!
An aside...I didn't have a very good week but as always, I am thankful that there are things that are certain to make me happy, this thread for example and the people in it.
So, thank you labers.
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