Your arguments are bases on assumptions.

WHAT DOES ADMIRING FOREIGN FILMS HAVE TO DO WITH MOVING TO OTHER COUNTRIES?

Where did that shit come from?

I believe in what SMART, INGENIOUS and DARING Filipino film makers and actors can do. I support them, watch their small budget digital art films and the like.

Is it wrong for me to yearn for something better when clearly, the quality in these recent locally produced, generic movies are lacking?

Perhaps “The GREATEST”, you should look beyond our borders and see what the rest of the art community achieved while you continue to blindly (and ignorantly) praise the current crop of generic movies.

Suggestions: Visit Berlin and Bonn, then perhaps Florence and of course Paris. Watch the art films, theater productions and museums there and perhaps you’ll be less ignorant.

That is, if you can get a Schengen Visa

Para maintindihan niyo mabuti kung paano nagkakaroong ng TV ratings na laging nagdudulot ng awayan ng mga pro-GMA7 and ABS tuwing lumalabas ng TV ratings results ng AGB Nielsen, basahin niyo mabuti ito at intindihin.

Ewan ko lang kung pag-aawayan niyo pa ang tungkol sa tv ratings.

Based on tv ratings, di mo talaga masasabi kung alin sa dalawang tv networks ang mas pinaka tinutukan ng viewers, paiba-iba kasi ang result bawat araw.

That means, hindi consistent ang tv ratings result, parang “see-saw”

Do you know that 1 to 3% na difference is konting konti lang?

Okay lang sana kung lahat ng mga households na nakatutok sa TV ay may kaniya-kaniyang set-top box or STB. Alam ng mga TV networks ito pero di nila ito ipinapaliwanag sa mga audience.

Kasi nga baka magbago pananaw mo sa mga TV ratings. Natural, mawawala ang competition which can be translated to income for these 2 big TV networks.

Ano nga ba ang STB?

Ang STB ay aparatu na naka-konekta sa TV set, quadrado ang hugis parang DVD player na may PLAY, PAUSE, FORWARD, REWIND buttons.

Ang viewer ay gumagamit ng remote control para i-turn on/off niya ang tv set sa pamamagitan ng STB. Kaya sa bawat pindot niya sa remote control ay naka capture ng STB at ipapadala niya ang captured information sa back-end server, tulad ng kung aling palabas ang pinapanuod ng viewer or household sa aling oras ng araw or gabi.

Paglabas ng statistical report ng SGB Nielsen or other similar Survey firms that use STBs as instruments used for gathering data rather than phone interviews, malalaman kung ilang households ang nanuod ng Darna or yong katapat na telenovela sa kabilang station sa ganung oras.

Ang tanong, di kaya minsan nakakalimutan ng viewer na isara ang TV niya pag inabot siya ng antok? Siyempre, pumapatak sa server na naka-tutok pa rin siya sa panunuod kahit tulog na siya.

Or di kaya sinasadyang iwang naka-ON ng mga die hard pro-GMA7 or ABS ang kanilang set top boxes para dumami ang oras na nakatutok sila sa paborito nilang station?

Ito kaya ang dahilan kung bakit madalas hindi consistent ang lamang ng GMA 7 sa ABS or vice versa? Tsk tsk tsk.

Kaya di ako naniniwala sa mga tv ratings.

And frankly speaking, I do posses the freedom of opinion. Im just annoyed that they have to take away the good movies and replace them with low-grade Filipino stuff.

And FYI, having these festivals wont make the country rich. It would only make those actors’ pockets fuller.

Grrrllllrrr

I agree with your opinion.

Those who do not agree are the TRUE morons. Face it, Locally produced movies really, really SUCK. (I do not include the small budget digital films that continually reap awards at international film feasts in this statement.)

Don’t try to deny it, even Hong Kong films are getting better than us, and they have gained international recognition, meaning the emmy’s, golden globe and the Oscars. And don’t tell me it’s all about the money.

What have our locally produced attained aside from best actor for Bong Revilla for 2009?

Mano Po 6? Panday = Bong Revilla???! SHET!

Where’s the creativity? Where’s originality?

Instead of adapting and striving to be better, the locally film industry still insists on doing the safe, tried and tested route which doesn’t work anymore.

Filipino’s aren’t bobo, some just watch those films because there’s no other choice, or required by certain UP diliman arts professors as extra credit. Others just watch for the heck of it, to see how low mother lily could sink or if Enteng Kabisote and his Fae in laws are battling the same evil again.

To mother Lily, yes we get it, Chinese traditions and norms are interesting… to a point. Making six films about it isn’t, especially when you cast actors who butcher mandarin and try to look Chinese.

We’re tired of the same faces re-enacting their same roles for the same plot lines.

Sadly, banning foreign films prevents us busy folk from watching the awesome that is Avatar. (I’ve watched it twice)

Sorry for the rant. And again, only watch AVATAR in 3d, if there’s an imax theater near you.