r/FilmClubPH

Kung si Jericho Rosales na yung isa, may dalawang pa need i-cast.

Si Christian Bables sana ma i-cast.

https://tribune.net.ph/2026/07/04/why-are-cinemas-suddenly-slashing-ticket-prices

> Consumers today have more choices than ever. Streaming platforms, social media, video games, live theater, concerts and countless other leisure activities are competing for the same audience. Inflation has also made Filipino households more selective about how they spend their discretionary income. Every entertainment purchase is weighed more carefully than before. > > ... > > The bigger question is whether affordability alone can change audience behavior.

Came across this article on FB that talks about "possible" remake of Feng Shui na pagbibidahan daw ni Kathryn. So yung article is mostly about taking the side of original director Chito Roño tungkol sa usap-usapang remake.

I think this is the reason why ang tagal umusbong ng film industry sa Pinas (particularly sa mainstream), I mean yeah we can produce noteworthy films pero kingina naman puro remake and even adaptations na lang? Pansin ko mas madalas to mangyari sa mga teleserye eh. For example yung Darna, Marimar pati Dyesebel.

Di ko alam kung sadyang mapurol talaga ang Pilipino pagdating sa bagong ideya ng ipro-produce na pelikula o possible "laundromat" na ang mga gantong datingan.

Keep up naman sana!

i've been a fan of Despicable Me and Minions, this was the BEST for me so far. the plot twist at the end, amaze me and not get over it since we watched it yesterday.

it's a must try! ☺️ 5⭐️ for me 😆

Like, the movie hasn’t even come out yet, and the takes here in FilmClubPH are so shallow and filled with implied racism and too much internet nonsense. Akala ko ba film lovers kayo? Aren’t we supposed to have better takes than what you’re giving here? Skipping because of one creative decision, one dialogue, pagiging “woke” kuno, jusko skipping because of unbearable logic. Takes niyo ala-Goldwin reviews sa pagkababaw kaloka. Make it make sense!

"Le temps détruit tout"
“Time destroys everything”

I just finished watching IЯЯƎVƎЯSI𐐒⅃E... and gosh, it left me completely devastated and scarred. This is the type of movie you can only watch once.
To be honest, I had no idea what I was getting into before hitting the play button. All I knew was that it was deeply disturbing and it absolutely lived up to that reputation. The horror here doesn't come from supernatural entities; it relies entirely on the dark reality of human nature.

⚠️** SPOILER AND TW**:
>!The assault scene was so brutal. It feels incredibly raw and real because it's filmed from a single, unbroken camera angle. It just keeps happening right in front of us, and we are forced to watch, completely helpless.!<
>!On top of that, finding out that Marcus and Pierre failed to kill the actual perpetrator left me devastated. While Pierre is busy beating the wrong guy to death, the camera slightly pans to reveal!< >!Le Ténia!< >!standing in the background. He is just watching calmly, entirely unscathed, and free to continue hurting others. And the fact that the whole movie happens in the span of just one day makes you realize you truly never know what will happen in the next few hours of your life.!<

There were also moments where I literally had to close my eyes because the chaotic camera work was making me physically dizzy.

To some of you, what are the movies I can watch that you feel it was meant only to see once?

Here is the list of the movies I’ve watched:

•Martyrs (2008)
•IЯЯƎVƎЯSIBᒪE (2002)
•Inside (2007)
•The Human Centipede Trilogy
•Thanatomorphose (2012)

On my watchlist:
•Requiem for a dream (2000)

TOTAL: 175

NOTE: everything, i mean everything is authentic from when i bought them from that day EXCEPT this that are reprints: Toy Story 3, The Croods, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) (this one still haunts me), Avengers Age of Ultron, Xmen Apocalypse, Doctor Strange, Rogue One, Beauty and the Beast (2017), Av Infinity War & Doctor Strange 2. i either lost them because i was too young or my friends lost them :').

and also im a completionist so thats why i reprinted them.

From when i was 3 yrs old to present day:

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣0️⃣🗓️

Toy Story 3

TOTAL: 1

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣3️⃣🗓️

The Croods

TOTAL: 1

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣4️⃣🗓️

Guardians of the Galaxy

TOTAL 1

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣5️⃣🗓️

Avengers: Age of Ultron

TOTAL: 1

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣6️⃣🗓️

Captain America Civil War

X-Men Apocalypse

Doctor Strange

Rogue One

TOTAL: 4

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣7️⃣🗓️

Beauty and the Beast

TOTAL: 1

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣🗓️

Avengers Infinity War

Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse

TOTAL: 2

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣🗓️

Captain Marvel

Shazam!

Avengers Endgame 2x

Dark Phoenix

Toy Story 4 2x

Spider-Man Far From Home

Hobbs & Shaw

Insidious The Last Key

Rise of Skywalker

TOTAL: 9

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣🗓️

Spider-Man No Way Home & the Extended Cut

Morbius

Thor Love & Thunder

Black Adam

Black Panther Wakanda Forever

TOTAL: 5

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣🗓️

Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3

Fast X

Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse 6x

The Flash

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning

Oppenheimer

Barbie

Blue Beetle

TMNT Mutant Mayhem

Gran Torismo

The Creator

Taylor Swift Eras Tour 2x

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Marvelz

Wonka

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

TOTAL: 19

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣🗓️

The Boy and the Heron

Argylle

Lisa Frankenstein

Mean Girls

Poor Things

Madame Web

Dune Part 2

Kung Fu Panda 4

Fallen Angels

In the Mood for Love

Immaculate

Godzilla X Kong

Ghostbusters Afterlife

Abigail

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Challengers

Boy Kills World

The Fall Guy

IF

Furiosa

Bad Boys Ride or Die

The Watchers

Inside Out 2

A Quiet Place Day One

LongLegs

Fly me to The Moon

Deadpool & Wolverine 2x

Trap

It Ends with Us

Alien Romulus

Un/Happy For You

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Strange Darling

Transformers One

Megalopolis

The Substance

The Apprentice

Super/Man

The Colors Within

Venom The Last Dance

Hello, Love, Again

Wicked

Heretic

Gladiator II

Lord of the Rings War of Rohirrim

Kraven The Hunter

TOTAL: 46

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣🗓️

Mufasa

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Interstellar

Wolfman

Presence

Flight Risk

Anora

A Real Pain

Companion

Paddington in Peru

Gitling

Past Lives

Marita

Captain America Brave new World

Dark Nuns

The Monkey

The Room Next Door

Nosferatu

Sing Sing

The Brutalist

Mickey 17

The Day the Earth Blew Up (Looney Tunes)

Minecraft Movie

Sinners 3x

Warfare

Until Dawn

Thunderbolts*

Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Final Destination Bloodlines

Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning

Flow

Ballerina

28 Years Later

Lingua Franca

Elio

F1

Lady of a Lady on Fire

Jurassic World Rebirth

Flee

All Shall Be Well

Call Me By Your Name

Superman

The Wedding Banquet

Tangerine

Rebels of the Neon God

Bring Her Back

Sunshine

The Fantastic Four First Steps

Materialists

Weapons

The Naked Gun

The Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

Alone

My Mother's Eyes

The Devil Beneath

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Return to Seoul

Eden

Empire Strikes Back

A Southern Haunting

My Neighbour Totoro

The Wind Rises

The Long Walk

Spirited Away

Teasing Master Tagaki-San

18x2 Beyond Youthful days

The Boy and the dog

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM

The Sound Of Music

Seven Samurai

One Battle After Another

The Smashing Machine

Good Boy

Shelby Oaks

Rental Family

TOTAL: 75

🗓️2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣🗓️

The Housemaid

Primate

Send Help

Wuthering Heights

Project Hail Mary

Obsession

Backrooms

Supergirl

Toy Story 5 --

P.S. If anyone out there still has an SM movie ticket from 2010 (bonus if its from sm marilao) would appreciate it if you can share an image of it and the measurements below. thanks :).

nakakamiss din manood ng old films, yung simple setting lang without any visual or audio effects, yung focus lang sa emotions

Every time this movie comes up, it turns into the same dumb fight: 'anti-woke' people who can't make an argument without sounding racist, versus people who think defending the movie means calling literally any criticism racist because they hate the same grifters everyone else hates.

Let's be honest: Nolan's a brilliant director and the visual scale of this thing looks incredible. But the casting is a massive letdown, and most of the arguments people use to defend it are pretty weak.

The "it's not a real story, so who cares" argument is historically illiterate. The ancient Greeks did not view the Iliad and the Odyssey as random fairy tales. According to Plutarch’s Life of Alexander (Chapter 8), Alexander the Great constantly kept a copy of the Iliad corrected by Aristotle under his pillow alongside his dagger. To the Greeks, this was their actual ancestral history, theology, and guide to life.

Also, Troy is a real historical place in modern-day Turkiye. In the 1870s, archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann actually found the ruins of Troy because he used the specific geographical descriptions in Homer's Iliad as a literal map. A story having fantasy elements (like a Cyclops) doesn't mean you throw all human geography and cultural logic out the window. If Hollywood adapted another culture's sacred epic, like the Ramayana or the Filipino epic Biag ni Lam-ang, and completely stripped it of its cultural setting, people would be rightfully furious.

Also the defense that "Homer never physically described Helen" is flat-out wrong. In Book 3 of the Iliad, Homer uses the specific Greek epithet leukōlenos (λευκώλενος), which translates to "white-armed" or "radiant-skinned". In the Odyssey, she is described using the word xanthē (ξανθή), which translates to "golden-haired," "blonde", "fair-skinned," or "light-toned". Later early Greek poets like Sappho, Alcman, and Euripides explicitly reinforced these physical traits, referring to her "golden curls". While modern defenders try to claim these are just metaphorical status markers, she was explicitly defined by Aegean physical traits.

Honestly, if the production actually cared about organic diversity, they didn't need to raceswap Helen of Troy at all. There's a lost sequel to the Iliad, the Aethiopis (part of the 7th-century BC Epic Cycle, attributed to Arctinus of Miletus), where the central Trojan ally is Memnon, the King of Ethiopia. He leads an army of black soldiers to Troy and fights Achilles in a legendary duel.

If Nolan actually wanted representation, adapting a legendary African king like Memnon would have been culturally accurate and genuinely respectful. Instead, they took the lazy, corporate route of raceswapping Helen, which completely breaks the geographic and familial logic of a Mycenaean bloodline.

That's the real issue. Casting Tom Holland and Zendaya is just a boardroom move to copypaste MCU star power onto this story. And it's the same laziness that skips over actual Greek, Turkish, or Southern European actors for a story set in their own region. No wonder both Greeks and Turks are pissed.

Choosing a modernized 2017 translation over something like Robert Fagles' or Richmond Lattimore's classic, poetic versions means the film gives up the mythic weight the source material actually has.

Emily Wilson's translation actually uses words like 'daddy,' 'canapés,' 'pep talk,' and even 'tote bag' all of which are completely out of place for a Bronze Age setting. That's exactly why classicists complain about it: those word choices flatten the timeless, legendary atmosphere of the poem.

So basically, Nolan spent $250 million building this screenplay on a translation that talks like a group chat, which means the oldest adventure story in Western history gets filtered through a completely casual, contemporary lens. Instead of pulling the audience up to the level of ancient Greece, the film drags ancient Greece down to the level of a modern blockbuster.

Call it whatever you want, but this has nothing to do with 'anti-woke' or being scared of change. It's about losing the immersion, the mythic weight, and the texture that made these poems legendary in the first place.

I can love Christopher Nolan's movies and still say the casting, plus dialogue where characters are talking about 'daddies' in ancient Greece, completely kills the immersion of what's supposed to be a Bronze Age epic.

https://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/alexandr.html
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.10.58/
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0072:entry=leukw/lenos