Rome and Juliet

this movie is like the longest movie i have ever seen...

Doms and I were really not planning to see Rome and Juliet... we came to Galleria to see Metlogs... but when we got there they moved the screening schedule to make way for the premiere of Rome and Juliet... the Galleria management decided to let us watch the premiere even though, our ticket is for Metlogs... no one can resist a free movie, actually this reminded me of the province, in which theaters would show 2 movies for one ticket price... "ka-dobol" as we call it...

Rome and Juliet is not a story of the old star-crossed lovers we all know... it is not even an adaptation... it is a story of a lesbian love... and yes they have a bed scene, a torrid kissing scene and soft touching of lips scene... and when i say they, i mean Andrea del Rosario and Mylene Dizon...

i think the movie was a call to all lesbiansout there to "out" themselves, the same way all of them did...

it is part the second CinemaOne Originals...

the movie showed the world of lesbians, where they go, what they do, and what happens there... to tell you honestly, the lesbians and gays, i think have more fun, than straight people...

i really didnt not like the movie, maybe because i am not a lesbian... it is too long, the dialogs are bland, the acting was ok... and there is really nothing new with the plot... the director (whose name i cant recall) was trying so hard to put the messages across, she tries to insert so many cliches and so many lines that looked and sounded so contrived, it was really trying hard... and at the end, it was so mixed up, you forget everything, the only thing that stuck to my mind was the love scene... for so many reasons...

but what i loved about the film (yes, there were quite a few) was the acting of miss tessie tomas and mylene dizon, mylene was a natural... she was really good... even acting with abdrea who was really awful, she somehow, manages to save the movie all by herself... and of course Tessie Tomas, who from the beggining was impeccable... until of course the superficial ending that they concocted... Mylene Dizon won best actress for that movie...

and lastly, there were no sterotypes as lesbians being butches and all... and it showed that lesbians, like their male counterpart are artistic, not that anyone doubted that...

i think this movie is being shown in Robinsons this week... a valentine week...