Long time no post

To all those who are viewing my blog it's been almost a year since I last posted.

But soon.. I hope to give you my 2nd review...

Of the world's new no.1 movie ever.



#TheMazeRunner

Commemorative message in honor of the golden jubilee of the assassination and death of John F. Kennedy

Commemorative message in honor of the golden jubilee of the assassination and death of John F. Kennedy

To all the people of the United States of America and the world:

Today, half a century has passed since America lost one of its most beloved presidents, John F. Kennedy. His sudden death caused by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas on this day in 1963 shocked not just the whole of the United States of America, but the whole world as well. His death changed a whole generation and an entire nation, and news of it turned our happiness into mourning.

Just 3 years into his term, and with all eyes ready for the 1964 presidential polls, where he was expected to be reelected, his trip to Dallas, Texas on that day 50 years ago was the one trip everyone did not expect to be the last of his presidency. He was shot while riding with his wife Jackie on the presidential limousine when it was driving in the city. He was rushed to hospital, only to die moments later, leaving a horrified and teary nation of more than millions of people mourning his death together with the whole world.

A veteran of the United States Navy and of the Second World War, and the first Roman Catholic President of the American nation, his short presidency was a momentous one for the United States and the free world.

Today, 50 years on after the tragic events that forever changed the world we live in, we honor the man, his short but meaningful life, and the legacy he left behind to all of us. We all still sad whenever we look back on this dark chapter in the history of the United States of America, but whenever we live his legacy, we know that he is watching over us in heaven, pleased that his memory lives on in everyone of us.

ETERNAL GLORY AND MEMORY TO THE FALLEN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY!!

(Taps) (Salute)
0013H, November 22/23, 2013
John Emmanuel C. Ramos
Makati City, PH

Coming soon.....

My long awaited Gangster Squad preview and my view on the newest show that has become a part of me.


CHICAGO FIRE.

By the way... a happy 238th birthday to the United States Navy! Here's to more years of defending America and the free world!

Go Navy!!!

PACIFIC RIM

Long time no blog post here... just being busy on Tumblr.

Today's movie review is my second one.

It's all about, in my opinion one of the best movies of 2013.

As a Filipino I'm fearful that the events in this film may happen in real life, but am happy whenever a mention of Manila was made. It's a throwback tribute to the monster movies genre.... and robot themed movies and TV series that made a mark on past generations of viewers and fans alike.

And I'm happy to tell you that I've watched this a record 15 times.

It's Guillermo del Toro's PACIFIC RIM.

"To fight the monsters, we created monsters of our own". - Raleigh Becket

This "end times"- style and futuristic movie starts with a brief intro to the long conflict between the human race and the monsters coming from deep underneath the Pacific Ocean... the "Kaiju" as they call them (The name also refers to the Japanese "monster movie" genre that del Toro felt inspired during his younger days to pay homage on film) and the solution to the threat... the Jaegers of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps.... driven by two pilots with a secret mindmelding tactic: the Drift, which helps their coordination and motivates them to fight the monsters. These robots are the pride of the PPDC, and they are the focus of its campaign to end the terror once and for all.... for future generations, regardless of race, language, religion or nationality. The fate of the planet (and the nations of the Pacific, most especially) rests on their shoulders as well as on the people that are on these machines and their crews. (Ellen McLain voices their AI, by the way.)

(FYI: Jaeger is German for hunter or rifleman)

Among them: Raleigh Becket (played by Charlie Hunnam) who with his older brother Yancy (Diego Klattenhoff) pilots one of these.... Gipsy Danger. Both were veteran monster hunters with several victories over the giant enemies. Traumatized by Yancy's demise while on duty offshore in Alaska (I confess to having been shocked and having to fall to the floor whenever I watch this scene in the movie), he quits the service but after half a decade is convinced by his commander, no less than Marshal Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) to wear his pilot suit once again.

This time through, he lands in Hong Kong only to meet a victim of the attacks: Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), also a instructor for future pilots of the resurging program. He then meets two veteran experts: Newton "Newt" Geiszler (Charlie Day) who's a Kaiju researcher and mathematician Hermann Gottlieb (Burn Gorman), who are both later introduced to Hannibal Chau (Ron Pearlman), a local businessman with a passion for selling Kaiju remains in the black market. Newt and Hermann, despite their differences, are great assets for Stacker to fulfill his new mission. Upon entering the Shatterdome Raleigh then meets not just Gipsy but 3 more veteran Jaegers: China's Crimson Typhoon and its pilots the Wei Tang brothers (played by Charles Luu, Lance Luu and Mark Luu), Russia's veteran Jaeger, Cherno Alpha, and its pilots Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky (Robert Maillet and Heather Doerksen) and Australia's Striker Eureka, with father-son tandem Hercules and Chuck Hansen (Max Martini and Robert Kazinsky) as its pilots, the fastest of them all plus Tendo Choi (Clifton Collins, Jr.) who serves as a technician in his Jaeger.   Turns out his recall was part of Stacker's efforts for one final mission to fight the monsters who are now threatening the whole planet... and Mako becoming his new co-pilot (despite her turbulent past) would be an asset in his duty. The question is whenever it's gonna end a failure.... or a great sucess.

This movie, even through badly beaten in the US, is a great international hit indeed.  Here in the Philippines it was no.1 for its first two weeks!

With music by Ramin Djawadi (also known for his Game of Thrones soundtrack) and a great film crew, one cannot miss watching what is surely one of the best movies of the year, and what I call a Hollywood tribute to a genre that shocked thousands since the 1950s not just in Japan but also internationally.

You better watch this "awesome" film now... one of the best for 2013.

And as for me... I'll try a double viewing today.....

10/10 for me!

JUNE 23

Today, 119 years ago, the International Olympic Committee was formally launched with a big bang with its founding congress in Paris, France. Led by Pierre de Coubertin, its founder, and Demetrius Vikelas, its first president, it led the way towards the formal return into the modern era of the Olympic Games, to be held in the first time in centuries in Athens, Greece (just kilometers from Ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games), in April of 1896.

On this day in 1919 Estonian and Latvian soldiers fought against the Germans in the Battle of Võnnu, and came out victorious.

79 years ago in 1934 the Estonian government set this day to honor those who fought for the nation’s independence.

And 65 years ago in 1948 this day was set apart to honor the founders of today’s Olympic Games and to commemorate where it all began.

HAPPY OLYMPIC DAY AND ESTONIAN VICTORY DAY!!

(Salute)
(Cue Olympic Hymn and Porilaisten March)

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Today I've watched Star Trek Into Darkness..... for the 2nd time...

No words can describe how it its....

It's one of the best movies of 2013 for me, most especially as a Star Trek fan.

Hope you all watch it!!!

TOP GUN DAY '13

It may be election day in the Philippines, but as I vote today, I wish to dedicate it to all serving personnel of the Philippine Navy, in which my grandfather served as a petty officer in the 1950s, and to all naval veterans like him.

It's all because May 13, being the second Monday of May, is... TOP GUN DAY!!!

The day in which the world celebrates the legacy of the 1986 film Top Gun, and of United States Naval Aviation as a whole.

CALL THE BALL!!!!

And for me? "Its classified."

http://www.topgunday.com/