Yesterday, Mark and I watched (500) Days of Summer. The movie was good, there were a lot of parts that gave me a good laugh. I also got amazed at seeing a song-and-dance-number in a foreign movie, which is very common to Filipino films. In the middle part of the movie though, I started to get mad at Summer. She was cute, funny, and all, but that didn't stop me from hating her! Well fine, I just hate how she just left Tom all confused and clueless.

Maybe I just got used to stories wherein a guy breaks a girl's heart (for so many reasons, most of which are very lame) and I know, this is what usually happens even in real life. But everything was turned upside down in this movie. It was the girl who broke the guy's heart. Though Summer insisted that she's not interested in being serious, I think she should have just said no from the start. But what she did just gave Tom some hope that's why he still chose to ignore everything that Summer said as he falls for her.

I know, right? I should have just believed in what the narrator told a few seconds after the movie started--"..this is not a love story." But being the hopeless romantic me, I just took the warning lightly and still hoped for a happy ending haha!

After watching the movie, Mark and I agreed at how Summer got us confused, how sorry we felt for Tom, and how the movie got our feelings changed from being happy to being in love to being sad in an instant. But we both liked how the movie made us realize a lot of things.

I must admit that I love the moral lesson of the story. I also admired Tom's bravery of taking the risk even if he doesn't know where it may lead. He hoped for a happy ending (well doesn't, right?) but he was brave enough to let go of everything that wasn't meant for him.

I believe that we should be like Tom. Instead of being angry at people who hurt us, we should be thankful to them. Because the very person that caused us pain might also be the very person who will make us know ourselves more and will make us realize everything that we never thought we are capable of doing.

The very person who gave us all the heartaches that we could ever imagine might also be the one who will make us a better person.

The very person who left us all alone and got us all confused might also be the very person who will lead us to a love that we truly deserve.

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I and Mark met up yesterday after work and headed directly to the Gateway mall for our Friday movie night routine. We watched the Management movie. :)

MANAGEMENT is a romantic comedy about a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw and Sue Claussen. It was about a series of trysts between a tightly controlled lost soul who sells corporate motel-room art, played by Jennifer Aniston, and the foggy-headed manager (Steve Zahn) of a Kingman, Ariz., roadside motel owned by his folks.

Their love story begins when Sue checks into Mike's parent's roadside motel for her business trip. Mike delivered a bottle of wine to Sue's room as "compliments of the Management". What started with a bottle of wine soon evolved into a lot of multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose.

Mike spent all of his money to go after Sue in her workplace in Maryland only to find that she has no place for him in her carefully ordered life. Sue goes back to her yogurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango because of a promise to give her a chance to head his charity works. But they both found something worth fighting for and embarked on a twisted, bumpy, freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together.

I must say that I enjoyed watching the movie. One lesson that I liked the most from the movie is about letting go and moving on..that in order to achieve your dreams and become who you want to be, you should let go of the things that keep you stuck and hinder you from moving on. I never thought that what could have been a pretty predictable romantic comedy would turn into something surprisingly touching. Management sure is very touching that I find myself in tears especially in the last parts of the movie. Maybe because I can see myself and Mark's into the characters. ;p

Mark seems to be so easygoing and annoying at times and I always rant about him not having any directions in his life, just like Mike, but I bet he won't go across countries just to prove his love for me. And I am like Sue, I always plan things and always want things to be organized, but I'm not really into charity..hehe.. ;p And just like Mike and Sue's journey, our journey also had some twists and bumps, but we were able to let go of all bad experiences and we still managed to be together. :)



Photos taken from: http://www.managementfilm.com/

Whenever I and Mark meet during weekends or after work, food trips and feel-good movies never get left out from our plans.

We've always wanted to try watching in IMAX cinemas, but the thought of the things that we have to go through, like traffic and having to go home late and all, keeps us just being contented with watching in Gateway Cineplex. ;p

I remember seeing the UP trailer when we watched The Proposal a few weeks ago. I got enchanted with the 3D thing and was so delighted when I heard that Greenbelt 3 Cinema 1 is now 3D-capable.

We watched UP in 3D at Greenbelt 3 Cinema 1.

UP by Disney-Pixar

It was kind of inconvenient though because we had to wear these special glasses to actually watch the movie. I and Mark also got somewhat blurry vision for a couple of minutes after the movie.

Dolby 3D Glasses

The movie was good. It was a mixture of fun, adventure, and love. I also enjoyed watching the objects literally pop out. Let me also say that the trailers were as good as well--Disney's G-Force, Sony's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and Partly Cloudy. These also showcased the abilities of Dolby 3D Digital Technology.



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