Vantage Point March 2, 2008
BF, bestfriend C, our close college friend (also an officemate) G and I watched Vantage Point at Eastwood last night. We caught the 10:30pm screening - and we got there 10:35pm. On a side note, I’m a stickler for things like this; if something is starting at a particular time I want to be there either at least 5-10minutes early or just in time for the movie, program or whatever to start.
Anyway, I’ve heard of the movie in the Oscars and I know a little of the plot when it was being awarded but I totally forgot what the movie was all about so I was kinda pissed that we missed the start - which is where most pivotal scenes in the middle of the movie come from. And then as we were watching 
the movie I realized on the first flashback how the movie was made. The ‘tagline’ of the movie is 8 Strangers 8 Points of View 1 Truth; literally there are 8 strangers and the story is ‘told’ by showing how these people see the ‘main event’ (don’t really want too much spoilers 
). On the 3rd stranger people were laughing as the movie was being shown like it was ‘rewinding’. I was on the edge of my seat! The movie is sooo good and when we met our other friends for drinks after I was telling them to watch the movie! It was so action packed! And every time a (significant) stranger realizes or discovers something important his/her part stops and it goes back to a particular point in the movie and starts again so I was thinking “What did he see?!”, haha, it was a bit suspenseful.
After all the points of view of these different (significant) stranger, wherever their particular scene left off , it came together in one huge scene! And then you start to discover what they saw earlier and everything falls into place. Oh this movie is goood. Two thumbs up! Very, very good. Here’s a synopsis of the film I got from IMDB:
President Ashton (William Hurt) is attending a global war on terror summit in Spain. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two of the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him. This is the first action that Agent Barnes has been in since he took a bullet for President Ashton six months earlier. We really dont know if Agent Barnes is up to the challenge of protecting the President. Shortly after President Ashton is escorted to the stage in the plaza by the Secret Service, he is immediately shot twice by a rifle from a window and falls to the floor. The crowd is in shock and chaos breaks out all over, especially, when bombs begin to explode. Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) is an American video-taping the event to show to his children that he was actually there at this historic event. He believes that he has the picture of the man who shot the President. Agent Barnes sees the tape and has a clue to that person. Several different people witness the event, and only through their eyes do we see the truth behind the assassination attempt.
I am addicted! Haha, it is sooo fun! My mom got my brother one for Christmas (2007) and we’ve all been playing non stop ever since. It’s a fun way of exercising since it’s a really physical game. My mom told me that if she knew that it’s just a Wii that would make get up and sweat, she should have bought one when it first came out. Haha!
BF and I watched the Golden Compass yesterday at Robinson’s Galleria in Ortigas. I originally wanted to watch in Greenhills because we still have a cellphone we need to sell but I got to pick him up around 2pm already. The screening was at 2:10pm in Greenhills and 2:30pm in Galleria. We weren’t able to withdraw extra money so we just had enough to pay for the tickets; really funny because we gathered all our coins and bought a regular drink, hehe. 
But he finally figured it out by himself that maybe since this is a trilogy it would need to establish it’s story first; it’ll have to describe the players first before it actually shows the ‘action scenes’.
Lyra Belacqua played by Dakota Blue Richards is an orphan living at Jordan College in an alternate universe. In this world, every person is accompanied by a daemon, which is a physical representation of their soul in animal form. In short, it was their animal counterpart. The young Lyra’s daemon is named Pantalaimon which manages to change his shape in any manner it wishes unlike those adult, matured daemons.
Kidman. Mrs. Coulter gave her the idea of going to a trip to the far north and offered her to become an assistant. Delighted with the idea, Lyra agreed. Before she left, however, the master gave her a strange golden instrument called an alethiometer, which is capable of telling the truth. The master, though, failed to illustrate how the thing works and instead warned Lyra to keep the instrument only to herself. [Photo of alethiometer on the right.]
After some time, Lyra realized that Mrs. Coulter was involved with the Magisterium’s General Oblation Board which will use children to investigate the intercession. Her friend, Billy Costa and Roger have been taken. She eventually fled the auspices of Mrs. Coulter and was rescued by the Gyptians.
played by Sam Elliot, who offered to help her but first he wants to get a friend out of trouble. His friend’s name is Yurek Byrnison, an armored ice bear. The bear was exiled from his home after losing a fight upon betrayal by Ragnar, the current king. [Photo of Lyra/ w Yuker Byrnison]
It comes with this cute box
My own Little Brown Book
It has a garter to keep it closed when not in use
How the back of the front cover looks like; cool print!
The cute print up close (please excuse my thumb, hehe) 
Separators on the side
How the Diary (Daily) part looks like
How the Directory looks like (its Conti’s!) 
A closer look
Marketmanila’s ad inside
