“Knives are easy to hide. They don't jam and they never run out of bullets.” -The Butcher, Wanted
Yesterday, SMART sponsored a free movie for all Manila-based employees celebrating their birthdays on the months of May and June. For North Manila-based employees, they watched it over at Trinoma Mall, while the rest went over to Glorietta 4 Cinema 3 to watch the Timeout movie Wanted.
As usual I went with Ryh, being both May celebrants ourselves, and by 1:30 p.m. we were at the registration booth, claiming our movie tickets, food stub (Yeah, the movie comes with a whopper, choice of onion rings or fries, and canned Coke, all courtesy of Burger King. ^_^), and a survey form (Uhh… Ryh, d’you have a pen with you?). Movie doesn’t start until 2:30 p.m. so we had to wait for the previous screening to end until we could go in. Unlike the previous year, this time SMART didn’t have the cinema exclusively to its employees since there was an online pre-registration conducted for the event sometime two weeks ago and quite a number declined to join the activity. While waiting in line, I got the chance to fill Ryh in on what’s been happening lately to the lives (Loves and lusts included! Hahaha!) of friends and not-so-friends. Topics were drunken nights, secret weddings, office crushes, and our upcoming department outing at Dakak (Geez, I haven’t done any shopping for this one yet! Arrrggghhh!!!). Sometime at 2:00 p.m. we were making our way inside the cinema and into our respective seats. (G33 and G34 baby!). After about five or seven movie trailers, it’s time to roll with the movie.
Wanted starred Jolie, Morgan Freeman, and James McAvoy (The cute Scottish guy from ‘Atonement’ and ‘Becoming Jane’). The story's basically about Wesley Gibson, an account manager who had to deal with his big, fat bitch of a boss, a cheating girlfriend, and a non-existent savings account. In other words, he’s been living the life of a L-O-S-E-R. That is, until the characters of Jolie (a.k.a. Fox) and Freeman (a.k.a. Sloan) step in and changes him into something he least expected to be – a very skilled assassin just like his father. A couple more twists in the movie, and towards the end, he remained to be last man standing. If there’s one thing that best describes the movie, it would be graphic – violently graphic, that is. But personally, I found the movie really cool, especially since there is the slightest hint of humour injected into it. The visual effects were also cool – as in “Kill Bill” level of ‘cool’. As usual, Jolie played a very femme fatale-ish role and McAvoy did come out pretty well for the character (No, am not crushing on him but I must admit he’s pretty good.). There were also cool car chases (Check out Jolie's hot red wheels! Panalo!), lots more of Jolie's sexy buck naked tattooed body, and lots more, err... violence. I won’t say much now to avoid revealing more spoilers but so far the movie is a two-thumbs-up for me. ^_^
As usual I went with Ryh, being both May celebrants ourselves, and by 1:30 p.m. we were at the registration booth, claiming our movie tickets, food stub (Yeah, the movie comes with a whopper, choice of onion rings or fries, and canned Coke, all courtesy of Burger King. ^_^), and a survey form (Uhh… Ryh, d’you have a pen with you?). Movie doesn’t start until 2:30 p.m. so we had to wait for the previous screening to end until we could go in. Unlike the previous year, this time SMART didn’t have the cinema exclusively to its employees since there was an online pre-registration conducted for the event sometime two weeks ago and quite a number declined to join the activity. While waiting in line, I got the chance to fill Ryh in on what’s been happening lately to the lives (Loves and lusts included! Hahaha!) of friends and not-so-friends. Topics were drunken nights, secret weddings, office crushes, and our upcoming department outing at Dakak (Geez, I haven’t done any shopping for this one yet! Arrrggghhh!!!). Sometime at 2:00 p.m. we were making our way inside the cinema and into our respective seats. (G33 and G34 baby!). After about five or seven movie trailers, it’s time to roll with the movie.
Wanted starred Jolie, Morgan Freeman, and James McAvoy (The cute Scottish guy from ‘Atonement’ and ‘Becoming Jane’). The story's basically about Wesley Gibson, an account manager who had to deal with his big, fat bitch of a boss, a cheating girlfriend, and a non-existent savings account. In other words, he’s been living the life of a L-O-S-E-R. That is, until the characters of Jolie (a.k.a. Fox) and Freeman (a.k.a. Sloan) step in and changes him into something he least expected to be – a very skilled assassin just like his father. A couple more twists in the movie, and towards the end, he remained to be last man standing. If there’s one thing that best describes the movie, it would be graphic – violently graphic, that is. But personally, I found the movie really cool, especially since there is the slightest hint of humour injected into it. The visual effects were also cool – as in “Kill Bill” level of ‘cool’. As usual, Jolie played a very femme fatale-ish role and McAvoy did come out pretty well for the character (No, am not crushing on him but I must admit he’s pretty good.). There were also cool car chases (Check out Jolie's hot red wheels! Panalo!), lots more of Jolie's sexy buck naked tattooed body, and lots more, err... violence. I won’t say much now to avoid revealing more spoilers but so far the movie is a two-thumbs-up for me. ^_^
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By 4:30 p.m. I was on a cab ride back to the office since there’s an activity coming up at 5. Ryh didn’t go back to the office anymore; she’s meeting her boyfriend in a couple of hours so she said she’ll probably go on some window shopping. I know it’s way too early, but I’m already looking forward to another May/June Timeout next year. Hmmm… I wonder what movie we’re gonna watch next year? ^_^
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