Marley & Me

It’s been a while since I blogged about a movie. I guess I had to wait for one that would really get to me again. 

Well, Marley & Me is the one. Which is why here I am, still up and typing (time check: 2:46 am); I couldn’t wait ‘til the morning to write about it.

A few weeks ago, I made a list of my all-time favorite movies. Movies that moved me, whether to so much laughter, or to tears. This movie did both.

Here’s a scene that had me, quite literally, laughing through tears.

Hilarious! Arbee does something of the sort to Kimba too. He grabs hold of Kimba’s hind legs and she walks with her front ones. I always thought it made her look like a wheelbarrow.

I love shots like this

Man and his best friend. I think dogs are God’s greatest gift to man. 

The idea of a dog beach is really really great! This was such a happy scene.

This is Marley while he was waiting for the kids to get down from the school bus, having arrived home from school.

The most loyal creatures.

“You give them your heart, and they give you theirs.”

Yes, and they will never EVER cease loving you. They’ll love you every day. No matter how long you’ve left them, or how neglected they are, they’re always just happy to see you.

From who else can we find love like that. Who else has a better example of unconditional love.

Animals deserve to be loved and cared for. Every single one of them. They deserve to run wild and free. They deserve to be every bit as happy as we are because they have the purest hearts. 

It takes a lot to make us humans happy. But to them, a pat on the head, a scratch behind the ear, will get them dancing around.

This is so picturesque.

Was crying nonstop from this scene (or maybe even before this) to the end of the movie.

And then..

Dogs must have a heaven. Animals must have a heaven. If they don’t, I don’t want to have one either. I don’t want to continue to be, if the world I will go to doesn’t have one of the greatest kinds of love ever known. If animals don’t have a heaven, then we don’t deserve one either.

Maybe religious people will smite me for what I’ve just said. But the God I believe in will surely not let these creatures with the purest souls just cease to be.

I get so emotional and affected sometimes that I say strong things that can draw gasps, tuts and head shakes, but I will never ever regret saying this. I’ve always prayed to God for the animals to go up there too when they die. Where, one day, we will all live infinitely better and happier.

Marley & Me made me realize how rich and blessed this world we live in is, because of the love of even just a single dog. 

I am ending this entry with a poem I read in the book, Heartland. Although originally not made for such, this poem by Leo Marks is used in the book to give voice to the animals. I always thought it fitting, accurate and very true.

The Life That I Have

The life that I have

Is all that I have

And the life that I have

Is yours

-

The love that I have

Of the life that I have

Is yours and yours and yours

-

A sleep I shall have

A rest I shall have

Yet death will be but a pause

-

For the peace of my years

In the long green grass

Will be yours and yours

And yours

____________________________________________

Let us give them the happy life that they so deserve. 

Movies I love!

I’m sure I’ve watched less movies than the average person. It’s only now, at this point in my life, that I’m trying to catch up. 

I want to make a list of the ones that really really moved me (whether to tears or to so much laughter) so I can always refer to it and watch them again. 

I wanna do the same for books but that would be infinitely more difficult. Anyway, here it is. I mean, some of them. I’m certain I will accidentally leave out a movie or two. I’ll be editing this blog from time to time when I remember movies or happen to discover new beautiful ones. :)

In no particular order, films that I love:

• Armageddon
• Apollo 13
• The Notebook
• If Only
• Titanic
• The Lion King
• The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride
• A Walk To Remember
• Inception
• Jurassic Park
• Mission to Mars
• 3 Ninjas (have to watch/review all 4; 3 Ninjas, Kickback, Knuckle up, High noon at mega mountain, to know which was the one I really liked as a kid)
• Before Sunrise
• Simon Birch
• Jack
• Bicentennial Man
• Patch Adams
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1 and Part 2)
• Breaking Dawn
• Jumanji
• National Treasure
• Water for Elephants
• Taken
• Matilda
• Wild America
• The Karate Kid
• The Illusionist
• Eight Below
• Balto
• Paulie
• Beethoven (all)
• Marley & Me

note to self: You did not miss a movie or two.. you missed a lot.

Sorry to the great movies I have yet to remember. I realize I’ve been alive for a long time already (ie i’m old and forgetful and there are numerous films)

To people who might happen to read this, please suggest/bring to notice some movies I may have unpardonably missed. 

Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey

Excited about the scenes to come! :) I hope it won’t disappoint. 

Air Force One

Enjoyed watching this movie immensely. It was Papa who recommended it to me, after hearing about all these “boy movies” I’m downloading.

• Wow at aircrafts really. Pilots are amazing people. :)) If I had the money (and maybe the height), I would’ve gone to pilot school.  
• I can feel my brain starting to be seriously curious about U.S military proceedings, protocols; especially matters concerning National Security and Mr. President. If I pursue this, it would be additional madness. I have about 1 million tabs open already because of the things I’m keeping track of; things I’m mad about.
• My brain is also prodding me to feed it knowledge about the U.S Air Force, the U.S Marines and the U.S Navy. 
• Like it or not, America is a super power. And not without reason. They’ve been pushing for progress and development for eons. I admire and respect that.
• The technology we’ve developed (as humans) is really something else already. Almost EVERYTHING is possible— if you were in the power to mobilize people and these grand machines.
• I’m also curious about the kind of relationship government officials have with each other 
• I want to speak with someone who is knowledgeable about these things, right now!!
• I wonder how these brave soldiers train. 
• The salute is one of the greatest things humankind has conceived.
• I’m remembering when I was in the C.A.T program back in high school. Very good experience, that one. But I know I can’t liken it to ‘real training’
• Presence of mind under pressure
• Quick-thinking
• Control
• Gary Oldman is very handsome. Wasn’t able to appreciate that in Harry Potter. Wait, he deserves to have a picture here
   There.
• Oh, and Harrison Ford should also have one. He is Mr. President after all. And he got beaten up pretty badly. Even if it was acting, it must have seriously hurt. So here
  
  
  The President is mad!

Good movie! Worth your while. :)

Deep Impact.. and other stuff. :))

It took several minutes but Deep Impact finally warmed up to me. 

At first, I didn’t want to continue watching it at all. Maybe I was disappointed because the focus was not on astronaut procedures and spacecraft operations. Hahaha. Anyway, being far-too-easily-pleased as I am, I found a soft spot for it in me. 

Thoughts:

• Armageddon again. I think we would really love to learn that something this thrilling AND DANGEROUS is about to happen hahaha! It’s our secret hope as Earthlings :))
• If there was an asteroid/comet of significant mass about to hit the Earth, would we be really able to pull off an ‘armageddon/deep impact’? Would that be the way the authorities do it?
• If we were, and if it was, I want to be part of the crew. To die for your planet and fellow tellurians is a great way to die.
• ..in the glory of space and in the face of adventure. 
• But of course if there was a way NOT to die.. :)) that would be marginally better.
• I’m too dramatic and morbid. Moving on! 
• There was this scene, wherein the astronauts on the spacecraft were saying their goodbyes (because they were going to sacrifice their lives in a few minutes, so, okay, nothing big right? AAAAA HUHUHU) to their spouses and children who were at Mission Control and OHMYGOD ASDFGGHHLLLKQHEYR!! This astronaut, Oren Monash, RON ELDARD in real life, meets his kid for the first time and how he reacted was SOOOO MOVING I REPLAYED THAT SCENE A MILLION TIMES!! :((
• But I’m being dramatic again. I’m hopeless.
• Anyway, this was also like the scene in Armageddon when Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) was saying goodbye to his daughter. I died watching that too. :((
• All the little babies in this movie were cute!
• I always have this absurd notion that I can outrun tsunamis. Which, given my four years of geologic education, not to mention actual tsunami disasters I’ve seen on the news, is really stupid. 
• When they mention ‘geology’ or ‘geologists’ in these films I’ve been watching lately, I SWELL with pride. Especially when I watched the actual footage of lunar landings and the astronauts were saying things like ‘Let’s do a bit of geology first’ and ‘it appears to be fine-grained and ‘take those as grab samples’
• Back to the movie: I don’t think that in real life, the authorities would allow you to marry someone just so you could get her to the sanctuary too. Then everyone would just start marrying everyone.
• I don’t like Tea Leoni’s acting in this movie
• I just googled her name right now, and I learned she was in Jurassic Park
• I miss Jurassic Park <3 It tickled my fantasies as a child
• Going to download and see it again
• But not before I watch:

1. Moon (downloaded!)
2. A Space Odyssey (downloaded!)
3. Air Force One (downloaded!)
4. Magnificent Desolation
5. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos

Hahaha how icon-centric!  

Ohhh by the way!! I have to put Ron Eldard’s photo here because HIS ACTING MERITS IT! He was the best in this movie.  

Watching Deep Impact

Blogging about it probably tomorrow. :)

I can’t get enough of these movies.

Memento

Just watched this. It gave me a freaking headache. 

Maybe I’ll wait a few days before I download and watch Inception.. Let my mind rest for a while..

BUT, BEAUTIFUL, WELL-MADE MOVIE! MUST WATCH! It will literally have you saying ‘OHMYGOD’ every 5 minutes. 

Mission to Mars

Back in grade school (grade 3 I think), Mrs. Fondevilla, greatest teacher and educator of all time, made us watch this film. 

I remember being so fascinated by it! The scenes that stood out were when Woody took of his helmet and of course, when the astronauts were being shown (by an alien) that it was the Martians who seeded Earth. 

And from there, life evolved.

It was also always very vivid to me, the scene when Jim found he could ‘breathe’ in water.

I got all emotional in this movie— well, as I do in all astronaut movies— because of the theory presented. 

Mars, our progenitor. Imagine that.

“The universe is not chaos, it’s connection. Life reaches out for life.”

“To stand on a new world and look beyond it to the next one.”

Last night I watched Armageddon again.

And I cried the whole movie through. 

It was not even just tears streaming down; it was the gasping, all-choked-up kind of crying. 

It was crazy. 

Because of that, I will now dedicate my leisure to downloading and watching the following:

• Apollo 13
• Magnificent Desolation
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The Right Stuff
• From the Earth to the Moon
• Contact
• The Astronaut’s Wife
• Mission to Mars
• Sunshine

And others Space-related movies I will know of later.