tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post7869645599357915505..comments2024-01-26T00:54:19.338+08:00Comments on Lessons From the School of Inattention: Sigaw (2004)Oggs Cruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041599863258946384noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-51631872009568062742007-11-05T14:21:00.000+08:002007-11-05T14:21:00.000+08:00Classic Hollywood perhaps... Dracula, Frankenstein...Classic Hollywood perhaps... Dracula, Frankenstein, etc... but present-day Hollywood, I don't think so. Unless what Rahyan meant by Hollywood is its capacity to copycat and still produce shit.Oggs Cruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041599863258946384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-21858805840512692682007-11-05T14:10:00.000+08:002007-11-05T14:10:00.000+08:00I'm not even remotely considering watching Hide an...I'm not even remotely considering watching <B>Hide and Seek</B>. Title pa lang rip off na. Nice guy, though, Rahyan, if a little clueless. And is the Hollywood model of horror even valid as a referent? Brits have more of a tradition. Italians, too. But Hollywood?dodo dayaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287196617019639716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-32425273640717558162007-11-05T12:30:00.000+08:002007-11-05T12:30:00.000+08:00Thanks panic,Hopefully, the meticulous Hollywood m...Thanks panic,<BR/><BR/>Hopefully, the meticulous Hollywood machinery would iron out the flaws of Laranas' story. I'm not hopeful though, writer's Eric Bernt of Virtuosity, Romeo Must Die and The Hitcher fame.Oggs Cruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041599863258946384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-87777101241949191332007-11-05T12:05:00.000+08:002007-11-05T12:05:00.000+08:00yam is a good cinematographer...his story telling ...yam is a good cinematographer...<BR/><BR/>his story telling skills though need a lot of work.<BR/><BR/>shots were good... but the story and the flow... unfortunately for me were terrible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-65174544844536382642007-11-04T12:07:00.000+08:002007-11-04T12:07:00.000+08:00No worries Dodo, I had a kick out of Rahyan Carlos...No worries Dodo, I had a kick out of Rahyan Carlos' interview though. He was plugging Hide and Seek of course (awful, awful movie; saw it during its premiere and it's so awful, I can't even write about it) which he pegs as a marriage of Hollywood and Japanese horror elements (he differentiated the two by saying that Hollywood is more subtle and Japanese is the more out there, eh?). Biggest stand-out was when he was proudly waving his copy of Three: Extremes, pirated unfortunately (good thing Edu Manzano was not watching). He considers Shake Rattle and Roll, Shake Rattle and Roll 2 and Sigaw as the best horror films our country has to offer (Mother Lily must be beaming with pride). <BR/><BR/>You're right. Pa-siyam is much better, Cogon much more imaginative; the three of course has nothing against Mike de Leon's Itim or Kisapmata.Oggs Cruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041599863258946384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-68167811341702624432007-11-04T11:21:00.000+08:002007-11-04T11:21:00.000+08:00Oh shoot,sayang. Rico begged off that morning inte...Oh shoot,sayang. Rico begged off that morning interview as he was interviewed that afternoon instead on another show. Oh well. Next time.<BR/><BR/><B>Sigaw</B>, over all, is well made and above merely competent. Liked <B>Pasiyam</B> and <B>Cobon</B> better and it's not up there with <B>Itim</B> but it's on my personal shortlist, looking down from a dizzying height and throwing rocks at the <B>Feng Shui</B>s and <B>Sukob</B>s and Mark Reyes films in steerage.dodo dayaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287196617019639716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-48433286311203461882007-11-04T11:00:00.000+08:002007-11-04T11:00:00.000+08:00Thanks etchie,I agree. Aside from the atmosphere, ...Thanks etchie,<BR/><BR/>I agree. Aside from the atmosphere, there's something very rational behind the hauntings, which is absent in Feng Shui and most other Pinoy horror films.Oggs Cruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041599863258946384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-30726700712794939462007-11-04T03:10:00.000+08:002007-11-04T03:10:00.000+08:00Hi oggs,Liked bits and pieces of Sigaw. Better tha...Hi oggs,<BR/><BR/>Liked bits and pieces of Sigaw. Better than, say Feng Shui, or anything with Kris Aquino on it. The atmosphere pretty much compensates for its flaws (a few, i think), and I'd like to believe that it's one of the handful of the contemporary Filipino horror films that can be lined up side-by-side with Ringu, Dark Water, Tale of Two Sisters.Etchiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10193104427543529688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-91553928811997400432007-11-04T00:40:00.000+08:002007-11-04T00:40:00.000+08:00Hi Dodo,That's true, there's comfort in the cinema...Hi Dodo,<BR/><BR/>That's true, there's comfort in the cinemas, and for that ghost to break that comfort, there's some sort of poetry there.<BR/><BR/>About the interview gig... nah, they never bothered. They got Rahyan Carlos instead, or Richard Somes, or Rico Ilarde.Oggs Cruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041599863258946384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-29862895465110216642007-11-03T23:01:00.000+08:002007-11-03T23:01:00.000+08:00Oh, btw, oggs, did they call you for that intervie...Oh, btw, oggs, did they call you for that interview gig? Woke up late that day and wasn't able to check the show. :)dodo dayaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287196617019639716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058461.post-24052847311838151292007-11-03T23:00:00.000+08:002007-11-03T23:00:00.000+08:00My favorite bit is when things get really, really ...My favorite bit is when things get really, really surreal and hairy and seriously mindfucked forcing the two leads to go on the run, they go and . . .watch a movie. It seems preposterous and illogical but actually makes a perverse kind of sense. Hell, that's what I would do if my world was upside down - - -watch a movie or maybe shop for CDs or eat. You only see this kind of frisson in an Asian film, I think. This clinched it for me that Yam was onto something. More power to the remake.dodo dayaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287196617019639716noreply@blogger.com