
Jocelyn, Rainier, and Bingbong are film-school graduates dead-set on making an Oscar-worthy film. They set out to do a quick pre-production as a courtesy call to their lead actress (Eugene Domingo), and a thorough inspection of their film's major location, the Payatas dumpsite. They believe they have a winning script and the energy and drive to make their dreams come true, no matter what the cost.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jocelyn, Rainier, and Bingbong are film-school graduates dead-set on making an Oscar-worthy film. They set out to do a quick pre-production as a courtesy call to their lead actress (Eugene Domingo), and a thorough inspection of their film's major location, the Payatas dumpsite. They believe they have a winning script and the energy and drive to make their dreams come true, no matter what the cost.
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| User ReviewMiguel LA motion pic with full of solid laughs and smiles! Eugene Domingo offered her stunning performance in the movie! I actually love the original ending! Very! very funny! =D |
| User ReviewMakisig HIt presents how film-makers manipulate the audience's reaction to every scene of a film. |
| User ReviewPlanet CIt's a Filipino film packed with Filipino humour and awesome acting chops from Eugene Domingo, the Eugene Domingo. One of the few films from the Philippines that is not a cheesy chick flick love story. |
| User ReviewBrian PThe ensemble of casts suprisingly sets expectation. The film is revelling and beguilling inspite of the overt low-cost production. |
| User ReviewJerky SMay seem superficial and merely after eliciting your laughter, but a closer inspection reveals the director's intention to tell his audience that producing a film is hard work by involving his audience in the conception and preproduction stages of filmmaking. The short script could've been done better, but since I suppose it has not that many ambition but to make people laugh and tell a simple and short story, I'd conclude it has done its job, thanks mostly to Eugene Domingo who expertly ran the show. |
| User ReviewAleksander DAmusing satire. Filmmakers can, like the rest of us, be a bit self-centred, resulting in movies about making movies. This is one is an amusing satire about a group of indie filmmakers. They are planning a movie about life in the slums of Manila, discussing how to make it an award winner, a success on the film festival circuit, what boxes to tick off, poverty, sex tourism, pedophilia... Who should act in it? Should it be a gritty docudrama or maybe a musical? This is perhaps the best part of the movie, the movie morphing in the mind of the production assistant as the director, producer and lead actress discuss it. The one thing they do seem oblivious of, being well-to-do, Apple-touting hipsters, is the subject matter of the movie they are making. The slums are as alien to them as it is to the Western, festival-going target audience. Something that is only too evident when they first show up on location in the slum. Jumping and screaming with joy on how perfect it is, at least until they get something else to jump and scream about. There are several laugh-out-loud funny scenes, but also some rather tedious ones. The moment reality intervenes is too melodramatic by far, and the closing scene, the one giving name to the movie seems rather arbitrary. Despite these shortcomings it remains a watchable and amusing satire. |
| User ReviewAdeler ZThe movie wouldn't be easily understand by people who are not into directing, writing or producing movies as the movie is about the people behind making a film and not about Eugene Domingo in character that is billed by the TV ad trailers. So you'll be disappointed if you think that this movie all about Eugene Domingo. Yup, she starred here and gave a strong comedy performance and dialogue especially on the last 30 minutes of the movie but that's her only solid part. The rest was an ambition and struggle of film makers to make an independent movie and presentation of an ugly reality of poverty in the country. There are also boring moments in the film. I think this movie is overrated because of Eugene starer but it is entertaining and funny yet a satirical take on Philippine indie movie world. |
| User ReviewJireh A1 star and I'm being generous. Sorry, I just don't get it. |