Farewell: The Marvels of Online Writing

What I write in here isn’t just a plain movie review.

For a communication and researcher student, writing anything and everything under the heat of the sun is quite of an ordinary school task. And since social networking sites has been a trending leisure pursuit of students like me nowadays, I assume likely I won’t get a hard time producing article for my blog in here—that it’ll be easy as answering my daily “what’s on your mind?” on face book or tweeting on my twitter.

Yet to my surprise online writing or blogging in here—I must say was a different experience than what I did on twitter, face book or even on tumblr. Yeah, you got it right, I'm new on this blogging thing.

Here, I don’t just post randomly like what I usually do with my other accounts on social sites. Movie review is the theme of our blog.  I’m not an enthusiastic movie buff so it took me some time to look for movies I can freely share to people since book review is what I’m habituated to since I don’t know when. I always prefer to read several stories earlier than to watch it on a movie marathon or on the big screen. So certainly, the articles I just wrote in here isn’t just a plain movie review—it happens to be the product of my grit to research for movies I thought were attention-grabbing and the patience to watch those movies keenly with my pen and paper for important details. And just so people know, I don’t just recap what I just saw on screen, I try to share with my blogs my own way of narrating the story and unfolding the characters; and as much as I can of digging up the important message the movie’s bringing about . 

Thus my articles weren’t just an account of a movie but a discovery of the core rationale that particular movie entails. See 3 Idiots and Cougars Inc. for example.

In addition, since I’m an active user of social networking sites I must say this bona fide blogging thing helps me become a responsible user of it. For I must be careful with everything I write and produce not just because our professor Madam Dean Borican will explore it but it’ll be read by diverse people as well . And as to what Mr. Howie Severino’s campaign is promoting when he went to visit the school on the First Youth Congress (which happens to be also a requirement of the subject this blogging is into) “Think before you click”, we should as much as we can think several times everything we're going to share here. And this cause is for all us users of social networking sites.

So whenever I produce article here; I make it a point I use the most humane and earthy words as possible, at all times since my target reader are also the active-unadulterated users of social networking sites.  Should I say too, so far I never infuriate and mimic anybody on the articles I produce here? And never would I. As a future writer, well I look forward I would, I’m always too careful with my words and my language rules.

And also, this blogging thing helps me grasp the marvels of the World Wide Web which I personally had taken for granted.  We just don’t waste our time exploring someone else’s profile on face book and stalking our pet artist on twitter—we can do far better than that as a communication student. Productivity lies beneath the keyboard. All we need to do is to look for something that caught our interest, type, blog it and share it to the world.

Thank you for this blogging thing never would I realize my worth as a social network user. Sayonara! J

Official COUGARS, INC. Trailer

COUGARS, INC.

“It’s 10:00pm; do you know where your mother is?”

A baffling query rose as a tagline of this movie. So where exactly the mother is?

The story goes like this, Sam (Kyle Garner), the focal persona of this movie, is a troubled student. And because of his poor demeanor, he has been kicked out of every school he's been into, from the best preparatory school across the country to so forth and so on. 

But when he turns college, maybe a person eventually grow-up and mature or was it because of Courtney (Sarah Hyland) the girl he likes is there—he finally settled on a school, at a boarding school.

However, his life gets twisted when his gorgeous-fashion-model mom cannot pay for his bundle of tuition so there’s no way he could pull through until the next semester. Plus, the girl Courtney he likes had stood him up on their date. 

Well not until he slithers into a bar where he meets, a good-looking older mom, Alison (Kathryn Morris). They both share the same sentiments—alone and miserable. And then one thing goes to another—until they end up in bed together. She (Alison) goes home parting a huge check for Sam—for his incredible service rendered. 

Surprised, Sam immediately shares it to his friends and they’d all brainstormed about it and eventually come up to a crazy notion. Since, Sam currently was financially challenged, they’d gotten into the idea of opening an escort service—COUGAR INC., there they’re going to supply the needs of older women and pays them off in return. 

So there crazy-risky business started—pimping themselves to a show of incredibly stunning and dateless over 40 years of age women.  While Sam is venturing on his new business, he doesn't noticed he’s acting a bit of a grown man or because he’s been surrounded with matured women so the girl Courtney started to like him—I mean, the new Sam he’s been. And so does Alison though. Which of course brought, again, complication to Sam’s complicated life. 

And the complication grew even more worst when one of Sam’s loyal clients, Judy (Denise Richards) happens to be the wife of their dean! Oh boy, just oh boy. And so, of course everything went silly. 

This movie brought up nostalgia in me; it reminds me of the American Pie’s chain, but of course the story is something new and different. I never remember any college context-comedy movie who’d unfortunately leads to a crazy marketing action. But who says we cannot learn anything from this crazy movie? Well, actually we’ll. As a normal college student, of course I won’t (oh boy, mark my word) goes on the idea of pimping myself to pay the tuition. 

So what’s the message of this movie? There’s always a possibility of love between two people of frantically different age. Enjoy the movie, it isn't a sex comedy movie although of course there’s some nudity but most of the scenes you caught everybody joking—so just laugh out loud and learn from it. 

His nightmares caused the teenager Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) the uneasy feeling that something is wrong with his identity. Until one day he accidentally discovered a missing child’s picture found by his neighbor and schoolmate Karen Murphy (Lily Collins) in a website. Little boy Steven Price was an image of himself.

Unaware of getting himself into trouble, Nathan called the website’s0 owner. Eventually they were attacked and his parents, Kevin (Jason Isaac) and Mara (Maria Bello) were murdered. He was able to escape together with Karen and immediately called the police. CIA operatives Frank Burton (Alfred Molina) said he’s in danger and a team will be sent to pick them up. But Nathan’s psychiatrist Dr. Geraldine Benneth (Sigourney Weaver) warned him not to trust Burton and revealed Nathan’s biological father – a CIA agent named Martin Price (Dermot Mulroney) who stole a list of corrupt CIA operatives from Viktor Kozlow (Michael Nyqvist). So the website was completely a trap.

Instructed by Dr. Benneth, the two headed to a safe house where Nathan found his father’s cellphone and a photo and address of her real mother Lorna Price. Just as Nathan was beginning to figure out his true identity, Kozlow’s men kept on chasing them. Soon he realized there’s no safer place and no one but Karen can be trusted. He had to stop running and face the danger because it’s the only way he will survive.

The film ended up with Martin Price who killed Kozlow and called Nathan to apologize.

For a young actor like Taylor Lautner, the movie was quite a good start. It maybe panned by critics but the character that he has and the movie itself need not be compared to famous stars who had already accomplished lots of successful movies. Sometimes it takes someone a little more effort and time to make it to the top. Not everyone can hit the bullseye on the first shoot.