From movies to VideoCity.

Look at the silver screen section on the right side of this blog. The last movie you see there is Robots. It's sad. I can name a lot of fantastic movies that are showing right now, and a lot more which have already exited theaters. And none of these, I think, I'm going to watch anymore... at least until they reach VideoCity. Granted, Robots is not the last film I've seen in a theater. Between that time and now, I've seen Miss Congeniality 2 and Can The Love Begin. But that's it. I haven't even seen Closer! Or The Interpreter! Or Guess Who! Or Sahara! Given my old college self, I would have seen these in a matter of two weeks.

Well, the reason came home to me one particularly inactive day. There was an agenda embedded with each movie-going. Watching a movie was not done for watching's sake. It was more of a background activity. Now that that agenda has become quite trivial and pointless, the reason behind movie-going vanished, and all that remained was the conscious thought that watching a movie's quite expensive, and there's always VideoCity.

I am now a VideoCity boy. If I can't get my weekly fix of movies in theaters, I'm going to get it in my PC (well, Jel's PC, but that doesn't really matter... right Jel? Hee.). I have to have it! It's not as fantastic as watching movies in theater, but I can't complain. I'm enjoying it all the same. Imagine, for the past two weeks since Jel and I got our VideoCity cards, we have watched a total of 8-12 films. Amazing, right? The movies we watched were those we haven't caught in theaters, or those we thought were total crap, or foreign films, or cheesy Filipino romantic flicks. As I've said, we weren't altogether that disappointed.

Hmmm... I'm thinking of changing the contents of the silver screen section. This change from theater to computer is a huge step for me. Hee.

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Congratulations to my little bro Kenneth for passing the Ateneo High School entrance exam! Miss you, Ken! Palaro ng Disciples II map mo! Wee!!!