I watched my 2nd film fest movie yesterday with my son and his cousin who are 9 and 10 years old respectively.
I highly recommend the new Eastwood Mall cinemas, which have the best seats in the house, no matter where you are.
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RPG Metanoia is the first full-length Filipino computer-animated film that was four years in the making,
It won 3rd Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Original Theme Song in the 2010 Metro Manila Film Festival.
It revolves around a young boy Nico who takes us into the world of online gaming—a world I am truly not familiar with.
Watch the trailer.
The movie's first minutes are engaging enough and I am moved to tears that Filipinos can create something like this.
However, one hour later, I still don't know what the hell is going on with too many layers of plots (think Avatar x Inception), for me it started to become Metannoying.
![Metanoia]()
Two hours was just too much for me, though the boys had the endurance for it and laughed a few times.
After the movie, I asked what they thought of it.
"It was OK but not that great," was their comment. They gave it 3.5 stars out of 5.
OK, maybe I'm not the market.
Aga Muhlach does the voice of the father in the movie, though I have no idea where the father is—somewhere abroad?—as he only appears on a computer screen. I feel like his character was not developed enough—a common mistake in Philippine cinema.
Indeed the father looked like a loser to me, not like a hero.
To further stretch the time, two music videos were injected the movie, to the tune of Apo Hiking Society.
To be fair, the two boys were amused because the animation was funny.
We have a long way to go in terms of storytelling. But as far as animation, we are almost there.
It's a great new start for Philippine animators. If only they could simplify the plot and maybe not make the movie so boy-centric. Because it does have its charm, especially in the end.
http://therpgmovie.com/
I highly recommend the new Eastwood Mall cinemas, which have the best seats in the house, no matter where you are.
RPG Metanoia is the first full-length Filipino computer-animated film that was four years in the making,
It won 3rd Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Original Theme Song in the 2010 Metro Manila Film Festival.
It revolves around a young boy Nico who takes us into the world of online gaming—a world I am truly not familiar with.
Watch the trailer.
The movie's first minutes are engaging enough and I am moved to tears that Filipinos can create something like this.
However, one hour later, I still don't know what the hell is going on with too many layers of plots (think Avatar x Inception), for me it started to become Metannoying.
Two hours was just too much for me, though the boys had the endurance for it and laughed a few times.
After the movie, I asked what they thought of it.
"It was OK but not that great," was their comment. They gave it 3.5 stars out of 5.
OK, maybe I'm not the market.
Aga Muhlach does the voice of the father in the movie, though I have no idea where the father is—somewhere abroad?—as he only appears on a computer screen. I feel like his character was not developed enough—a common mistake in Philippine cinema.
Indeed the father looked like a loser to me, not like a hero.
To further stretch the time, two music videos were injected the movie, to the tune of Apo Hiking Society.
To be fair, the two boys were amused because the animation was funny.
We have a long way to go in terms of storytelling. But as far as animation, we are almost there.
It's a great new start for Philippine animators. If only they could simplify the plot and maybe not make the movie so boy-centric. Because it does have its charm, especially in the end.
http://therpgmovie.com/