geeezzz... then i will only be going to the movies once a month.. filipino blockbusters are u f*cking kidding me?? u want us to watch sh*t so that u will feel good about urself.. idiotic senator..rn

i do not think the best option is for you to remove the people's choice. the best option is to improve your products. people will watch quality films. make quality films. at this rate all you're telling us is to settle for less.rnwhy not raise the bar instead of lowering it? what do you have to fear from foreign films?rn

baduy ng movies ni bong revilla

Restricting people to watch only certain things is tantamount to communism/dictatorship/etc. I understand the need to have people support local goods and services, but you don't force people to anything. Make better movies/shows/etc., not force mediocrity to the populace. We are not Communists you know. I don't know if this is some kind of propaganda or just a way to make your industry friends (and yourself) a lot of money, but this needs to stop.

If the local entertainment (film/tv/etc.) industry wants to thrive, they need to start thinking "outside the box" (as it's been said here over and over), and produce films that is progressive, different, new, and what the people want. Remakes are okay once in a while, but movies like Panday and such has been remade so many times in many mediums that it has lost its appeal. We need new "heroes", stories, genres, plots, or combinations of them. One of the reasons why Hollywood thrives is because they are not afraid to make movies about anything and trying different things of different kinds: from medieval fantasy, to sci-fi, supernatural horror, and so on. Although Hollywood's quality is going down the drain (due to all the adaptations, without producing original ideas), people still watch it, because it's always different. Not the same "action, comedy, drama" type of entertainment.

We used to be a progressive nation. We are one of the first to have a female leader (Cory). We are one of the first to have a bloodless revolution (EDSA). We can go back to what we were and think progressively... outside the box. We've done it before, and we can do it once again. Not just with entertainment, but with the way we think and the way we do things.

Who got the idea that celebrities would make great politicians? They know nothing of how to run our great nation, and they often use their "status" for the wrong reasons. Is it the bribing? Is it being a fan? Is it because they are from your home town? This "thinking" needs to stop, and we should actually vote for people for their qualifications (and track records), and not because they are your "kababayan", or your "idol". It is this kind of thinking that led our country to this mess of graft & corruption, incompetent administrations, abuses of power, and so on. Remind yourself that your vote today could have ramifications for your future (and your children, and your children's children).

"Church" and "State" should be separate. A progressive nation values its various religions, but don't base their laws on it. Passing certain reproductive laws (like support for contraception and sex education) are good for many reasons. Overpopulation (unwanted pregnancies for example) can damage the economy, in which everyone suffers. Unprotected sex could lead to various STDs/VDs that will become an epidemic if not controlled. There are many "pros" to it that you simply can't ignore. Separating (completely) church and state might also reduce some of the fighting going on there (some are driven by religion). If you recite the "Panatang Makabayan" and sing "Lupang Hinirang", there is NO religious reference whatsoever. If that is the case, then why make laws that include them?

There are many things I wish to talk about and to share, but unfortunately, I ran out of time. I'm sure that most of those issues are already in your hearts and minds. All you need to do is speak out, express yourself, and always think of the people. A nation is not the government, nor is it the land, but the people.

pagnangyari yan. puro mga katulong at drayber na lang ang pupunta sa mga sinehan.

how shungex can he get! hello?!!! tsk tsk... can someone have his head examined... sigh*

Bong should instead exert his effort to help improve the quality of Filipino movies.

Oh so true! Thanks Lourd for sharing your experiences with nasty cab drivers. Proof that these people are out there everyday giving the transportation system in the Philippines a really bad situation.

Once had a cab driver questioned me why I had to give his plate number to someone. The idiot practically asked if I thought he'd do something bad. I told him to pull over. I went down and hoped he got what he deserved.

May pag ka ungas ang guwapong senador na ito. Pinoy films mostly baduy and cheaply made by regal films and pop actors who does not know how to act. Harry potter and Titanic spent millions of dollars to produce a world class movie/films. hindi sila nag used ng gimik to attract viewers to see the films.. Pinoys filmmaker mostly has no originality puro copy cut and mga gawa or the make 12 sequesl of movies na bakyang bakya...( hello shake rattle and mano po ) dakilang pambaduy ng bansa. stop making this cheap movies and do what youare supposed to---
yabang yabang ala namang nagwa sa bayan kungdi mGPACUTEEEEE.

sino bang advisers nitong si bong? bawal kaya to. its a protectionist policy, bawal sa wto yan.

The only way to beat Hollywood films is to make better Pinoy films and I don't see that happening in the near future. We were almost there a few years back but we backtracked, it seems!
We are always rehashing the same old plots and the same old characters. It's not just the quality of the cinematography and the special effects that's lacking. It's also creativity and originality. Even at the conceptualization stage, we are already beaten.

patawa talaga si FLAVIO! One commercial and critical movie under his belt kung ano ano na naiisip.

no way. reality check... in your dreams. if filipino fils got better maybe but now...i dont think so.

@jzon,

At ikaw ULOL , ano naman ang tulong mo sa kasisipsep ki Bong ? aber ? PR ka ba niya ?

BOBO NGA SIGURO SI REVILLA PERO BOBO DIN NAMAN ANG KARAMIHAN NG MGA NAGCOCOMMENT DITO. SA HALIP NA ISIPIN KUNG ANO BA TALAGA ANG PWEDENG MAITULONG NATIN SA PELIKULANG PILIPINO PURO REKLAMO ANG MABABASA MO. WALA KANG KARAPATAN MAGREKLAMO KUNG IKAW E HINDI MO MASUPORTAHAN ANG PELIKULANG PINOY.MGA GAGO!!!

Senator BOBONG REVILLA....

Senator moonlighting as actor OR actor moonlighting as senator?

How about bilateral trade? Meaning, Hollywood and other imported films exchange with RP so that both parties become happy.

As it is, we are mostly absorbing foreign films. We should promote our movies to the world.

nagpapatawa na naman ito......st*p*d idea of the highest kind

ok lang sana to kung magandang quality ng mga pinoy movies ang ilalabas natin..eh kung kasing shitty ng mga pelikula ngayon ang ipapalabas nila,usually mga rip-offs ng mga foreign movies, wag na uy!...

Sure! As long as we only hear from ONE Senator a month too.

nabuang na duh!!! sana mahiya man lang siya sa mga taong bomoto sa kanya jan sa senado... kapal talaga ng mukha... at dun sa mga taong bumoto at bubuto pa sa kanya.... mag isip nga kayo baka kaya niyo binuto dahil mga baliw din kayo gaya niya...

dumbest senator we have ever been!

WTH no way!

Sa lahat ng mga kapanig ni Senator: Hindi uubra iyan dahil THAT CONSTITUTES PROTECTIONISM. At maaring mag trigger ng TRADE WAR. Paano kung gantihan tayo at ipitin din ang mga foreign exports natin gaya ng: sugar,Seafood products, abaca,bananas at iba pa. at higit sa lahat ang export natin ng manpower (OFW), di nalintikan na tayo, dahil lang sa Kaleche-han ni Senator. Naiintindihan niyo ba ang dynamics ng FOREIGN TRADE?

if that happens, more pirated dvds will be sold.

@ lOOK Who's talking,

Isa ka pa, at sino ang mi sabi sa iyo na ibinoto ko iyang HANGAL na iyan ? Lahat ng showbiz personalities na pumapasok sa pulitika, eh hindi ko ibinoboto. Bulok na nga ang mga trapos, dadagdagan mo pa ng mga basura...

eng eng pala kayo eh ba't niyo siya binoto?

filipinos can indeed produced highly quality films such as engkwentro and ded na si lolo.. anyway both are flops since we pinoy's think that a quality film is something like lotr or hp... hehehehe just kidding

but you cant blame filipinos not to go at par with highly budgeted foreign flicks

mas *l*l na producer ang mag spend ng billion of pesos to come up with same quality of special effects/cgi for a very limited market such as the "poor" philippines hehehe

the only reason hollywood films can produce such grand movie of epic proportion (hundred of millions of dollars for budget) is because they have the whole world to market it

its all about economics

Indeed limiting one foreign movie a month is outward ridiculous, i agree that the best way is for the government to support the local movie industry is to support it and not hoard it with over the top entertainment tax hehehehe

maybe --- one week of exclusive pinoy films a month is better, just like december for mmff

okay lang yan. may pirated dvd vendors pa naman e hehehehe! ulangya, nakakagulat at pati mga katulad ng criterion collection e alam na rin haha!

talo pa nga sinehan sa mga magagandang choices na available e hehehehehe!

sige lang bong, magpaka-hangal ka pa hahahahahaha!

Senator Revilla's idea is quite absurd.

wth are you thinking, bong? since you're a senator, why don't you just fix up the corruption and economy of our country rather than coming up with shitty ideas like this. there's more to welfare of the people than making crappy decisions like this

Wow, this is so pathetic. Does he even know what he's talking about? It's not the special effects that make or break a movie. It's the screenplay, the plot, and the acting behind it.

Does he know that the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was pulled from one of Alexander Pope's poem? That it explores the nature of memories and pain and how we as human beings secretly wish we could get rid of them? It's brilliant masterpieces like these that elevates Hollywood above local movies.

@ Andre,

Just because we do not patronize CRAPPY MOVIES, hindi na Filipino ? dapat nga kayong magsama ng Idolo mo, warped ang logic. Kayo ang dapat umalis sa Pilipinas, at baka sakaling mag improve ang local movies.

Think long term! I agree on the proposal of Sen Revilla! This is one of the biggest problem of the Filipinos, They don't patronize their our own products, the main reason why the industry is not progressing. Implement it with all the negative comments and you will see the fruits after several years. For those who disagreed, you dont deserve to be a Filipino. Go on and leave this place!

Just saw Bong's 'Ang Panday', sayang lang ang pera ko.

Go Bong! Go to hell!!!

#**% YOU BONG REVILLA! the only reason why ur doing crappy movies with crappy special effects is because of hollywood movies! u are st*p*d @*$& you, and now ur telling us that we could only watch 1 hollywood movies per month? dumb#$#, they should legalize porn here too, not those 2nd rate special effects "movies" u make, plus ur a hypocrite! u have more girls than hayden kho, the only difference is, his vids got leaked, urs didnt!

I agree with The Walruz too. Most Hollywood films are crap too.

Special effects does not make a good film. Harry Potter movies were not special just because the special effects were good.

nothing good comes out from this champion of women's right-wannabe's mouth

mga studipo ang taong nagsasabi na mas mataas ang kalidad ng hollywood films kaysa sa pinoy films.
Kitang kita na taob ang pinoy pagdating sa sfx pero isa itong napakababaw na aspeto ng filmmaking. Kung ikukumpara mo story-wise mas bulok naman ang karamihan ng pelikulang banyaga(transformer,2012)kaysa sa karamihan ng pelikulang pinoy(indie). Dapat matuto na ang mga filipino na manood ng may katuturang pilipinong pelikula; tama na muna ang kakapanood sa mga kaututan ng pelikulang hollywood.

from the backend, we should tax hollywood films higher than local films and let it fund the production of better Filipino films.

from the frontend, i'm fine with raising the ticket prices of foreign films to encourage people to watch local films produced from the tax collected from hollywood films.

if we can implement both, it will create a virtuous cycle, ie higher production fund and higher ticket revenue for local cinema. buhay uli ang Filipino cinema (na sana naman ay wish ng lahat dito).

sana mabasa nya toh..para matauhan naman sya. kaya walang asenso gobyerno eh..kakapikon!

hay gong gong talaga tong bong revilla nato.. if he wants to revive the local industry pagbutihin nya ang trabaho nya as an actor.. ano ba naman yan ni rerevive ang panday.. he just cant make a good movie other than reviving some old stuff.. ala cyang karapatang maging panday.. si FPJ lng ang me karapatang maging panday.. kailangan din natin ang hollywood films for us to improve our english.. kaya tayo lamang sa mga asia sa english dahil sa fascination natin sa english..

Oh c'mon even local TV stations remake Korean, Chinese, Spanish, etc...shows. Local drama series are already base on either US movies or Asian series even Spanish series remake. Its like watching re-run with slapstick lines and stuff

Feeling Panday,

First of all Senator Bong Revilla you should know that GATT has long been replaced by WTO since 1995. Get your facts straight before saying anything. Wag ka magmagaling.

You want people to support Pinoy made films? Here's a suggestion and I quote, "I just have a problem with you and your screenwriters writing movies that revolve around love teams, flavor of the month actors, sports personalities turned actors, and cliched sequels, just so that you’d appeal greatly to the shallow “kilig f...actor” brought by the masses which in turn generates undeserved money. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MOVIES LIKE HP OR LotR, BETTER GET SOME GODDAMN INTELLIGENT (or even just COMPETENT) WRITERS."

p.s. stop trying to be an actor. Walang may gusto sayo.

p.s.s. stop being a Senator. Senator ka na nga, paacting acting ka pa. La epek naman.

How about he focus his efforts on either showbiz or politics alone instead of juggling the two simultaneously?! Katangahan naman nito.

napaka bobo talaga netong senador na to. bobo

This is undeniably st*p*d. Curtailing our options is a fake sense of pride for movies.

And its not even about a movie made by this or that country. It is appreciating good movies in general, wherever they come from. Low budget films win Oscars etc.

Maybe Filipinos should make decent movies for once, not those of kiligerz or flavor-of-the-month actors who underestimate our brain.

May the holidays be horrible to the st*p*d

Stupid talaga. Madami naman independent pinoy movies ngayon na magaganda naman talaga. Hindi na kailangan maglagay ng limits. Suportahan lang nya ang mga pinoy na independent film makers, sila lang kasi ang gumagawa ng mga pinoy movies na may KALIDAD NA ISTORYA.

oh dear god.
why can't he tackle a more relevant issue? puro nalang showbiz and useless things inaatupag.

@ Brian my Boy,

he hehehe, naliwanagan ka sa paliwanag ni Auteur ano? Mahilig ka rin pala sa paeli-elista ano? pero you are barking up the wrong tree, kasi ang Hollywood eh karamihan sa production niyan eh basura din, pang masa din ang lasa. Dinadaan lang sa sex, SFX, action at jung ano ano pang katarantaduhan. Kung ang hanap mo eh artsy-fartsy films eh Japanese, Swedish French, Russian , Italian etc. films ka maghanap, hindi sa Hollywood, at lalong hindi sa lokal, altho meron din tayon mangilan gilan.Kaya nawala na sila Lino Brocka, Ismael Bernal, Celso ad. Castillo, Mike de Leon, Gerry de Leon etc. kaya matumal na din ang ating quality films. Ang solution eh dapat mag-invest ang big production houses sa mga AUTEUR na Pinoy directors, at hindi yung mga basurang pelikula na kaparis ng ki Bong Revilla.
Merry Christmas sa iyo Brian Boy, aty huwag na huwag kang magpapalis lang dahil sa mga crappy local films.

No problem with me in watching Pinoy Films, as long as the movie assumes that the audience is the "thinking type", and not "baba-utak" kind!! So please, offer the Filipinos better quality films! Am dreading the 25th, because of the MMFF! Urghhhhh!

Bong, you are definitely going crazy!! "Ganyan ba talaga ang senador na walang ibang kayang gawin"??

I think people will watch Local films naman if they're good, the problem here is yung mga nilalabas ng mga major studios natin ay hindi naman talaga gumagawa ng mga revolutionary and visionary works. Ok yung Indie films at least they try to do something different.

have to admit though, last year's Resiklo was passable, by Bong standards.

Totoy Golem, hindi ako fan ng Panday. ang thesis ko lang ay yung tungkol sa holywood films vs pinoy films. Basahin niyo kaya mga sinusulat ng mga tao dito about Pinoy films, nakakatawa parang hindi mga Pilipino.

And auteur, yeah I couldn't agree more. Tama ka.

Basta ang sa akin, mas importanteng suportohan ang pelikulang Pilipino, Period. Hindi na ako lalabas pa sa argumentong yun.

Sen. Revilla has a point. That might work, actually.. well 1 Hollywood movie per month is drastic but I do think Hollywood movies should occupy less of our cinema houses so that indie films and Pinoy made films might, at the same time, be given more publicity, acknowledgement, and space for exhibition. The Hollywood films are eating up the Pinoy film industry (and [off-topic] culture too, just think Bollywood for more reference). One thing which can also save the Pinoy film industry is more more more budget and stipends from the government. Most Filipino films are bad basically because of the lack of budget. The expenses are higher than the profit in some cases, that’s why producers are being discouraged to make more films, or make films that are of quality and high-standard material. Also, the star-centric system of showbiz encourages producers to just hire popular and high-paid actors and actresses to carry the movies instead of spending the money on labor and production.

Also, Hollywood films are exactly what's discouraging Pinoy producers to make quality films. Pinoy films are so prejudiced that even before they show them, producers know they don't stand a chance against Hollywood films (most of them are filled with SFX, CG and crap, btw). so why spend/lose a lot of money on something that would be ignored anyway? It's a cycle. And unless we limit the screening of foreign films in our country, the Pinoy film industry can never recover.

And btw, why are the foreign films shown in our country only those which comes mostly from USA or UK? Just wondering.

Maski ma-improve ang quality ng Pinoy films hindi pa rin natin maitataob ang Hollywood. BUDGET ang labanan dito. Mas maganda ang Hollywood movies dahil mas malaki ang budget nila, dahil pang-INTERNATIONAL/WORLDWIDE ang release nila kaya mababawi nila ito. Kaya ba ni Mother Lily na gumastos ng USD 100,000,000 sa paggawa ng pelikula? Bukod pa diyan, mas di hamak na mas maraming Amerikano kesa sa Pilipino na nanonood ng sine at mahilig bumili ng ORIG na DVD.

Hindi dapat sumama ang loob ni Bong Revilla sa Hollywood. Hindi lang naman Pinoy cinema ang nilalamon nito - pati English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Australian cinema etc etc na OK ang quality kinakain ng buhay ng Hollywood.

Kung gusto niya lumaban sa Hollywood puwede niya:

1. Babaan ang presyo ng ticket sa Pinoy movies sa sinehan

2. Pabayaan niya na ipirata ang mga Hollywood movies sa DVD

3. Mag-encourage ng regular Film Festival ng mga European at Asian Films para malaman ng mga Pinoy na ang cinema hindi palaging puro special effects lang

4. Mag-release din sila ng Pinoy films sa US

This is beyond crazy. I wonder who votes for him?!

@Brian San Jose

I think you're missing the point of the article. 1 Hollywood movie per year? Hindi naman yata makatarungan 'yun. I worked with local filmmakers. Hindi kaya ng big budget production companies tulad ng Star at GMA na maglabas ng more than 2 films per month. Ang quota nila 1 film = 1 month. Hinding-hindi rin pumapasa sa planning stage ang pelikula kung hindi ito dadaan sa "Star System" na tinatawag nila. Basta sikat at bankable ang artista, okay lang kahit basura yung kuwento.

Oo nga, may indie films, pero hindi naman 'yun yung issue eh. Sabihin nating may mga indie at digital cinemas mayroon dun, pero sino ang nanonood, tayo-tayo ring mga elitista sa pelikula. Bakit? kasi ang mga indie film ay sadyang hindi kayang lunukin ng masa. Masyado na silang nasanay sa basurang binibigay sa kanila ng "mainstream cinema"

I think the best way to empower our local cinema is to boycott the big production houses and champion indie films, Pero hindi lang dapat basta-bastang indie. May mga mga indie rin kasing basura.

Tigil-tigilan mo ang pambib*tch mo rito ha? Hindi ikaw ang may ari ng Pilipinas.

Kung intensyon man ni Sen. Bong na tangkilin ang Pelikulang Pilipino eh go lang!
pero 1 foreign movie per month?? pano na yung mga local distributor ng mga movies na to??

dapat babaan muna nila ang Entertainment Tax, para maengganyo ang mga producers na mag take risk sa paggawa ng de kalidad na pelikula.

@ Brian San Jose,

Fanboy ka pala ni PANDAY/Bong Revilla ano? Okay, give us three good reasons why we should watch Panday. Pag nakumbinsi mo ako, 10 times kung panonoorin parang tulong sa local industry.

At bakit naman ang lakas ng loob mong mag-paalis ng Pilipinas? ayaw lang manood ng crappy production, paalisin mo na?

ah. yan ba ang mga pinapalabas sa mall? e pano naman papanuorin ng mga taong masa yan e jan lang pala pinapalabas ang mga magagandang movie na pinoy.

Don't get me wrong, I want our economy to progress, including the movie industry. But to shortcut it and say na 1 hollywood movie per month lang para mapanuod ang local movies is absurd. Di kaya mas maganda na sabihin na the drivers of the movie industry will improve the quality of films so that the filipino people will watch it.

You can't force something into someone if its really not good...

Like anong era ka ba huling nakapanood ng pelikulang Pilipino?
80's? 90's? Try mo kaya manood sa CCP every August, Cinemalaya yun. Or punta ka sa UP Cineadarna and Rob Galeria. Maraming magagandang film na gawang Pinoy dun. Cynic pala mga tao dito. Di umalis kayo dito sa Pilipinas. Doon kayo tumira kung saan hindi pinapalabas ang kwento ng mga Pilipino.

like anong movie yang napanood mo? yung movie na nakidnap yung mahal nung bida tapos ni-save niya, then dadating yung pulis pagtapos ng mga labanan. Tapos yung mortal na kalaban na sa mansion nakatira pagdating ng car chase ang sasakyan na gamit ay bulok bulok.

O baka naman yung love story na parating love triangle ang tema.

o baka naman yung revival movies gaya ng.... anu ba yun... ah yung panday....

oo nga. Sayang...............sayang ang pera mo.. hahaha!

We need to empower our local film industry by supporting it. Kaya naman tumatamlay ang pelikulang Pilipino dahil hinahayaan nating ma-canivalize tayo ng hollywood films. Ang daming magagandang Pinoy film. Ang dami kong napanood in the past years. Sayang.

I agree with Bong Revilla. How else can we help promote film in the country. Ang paplastik talaga ng mga Pinoy. Walang bilib sa kapwa. Ako nga bumibili ng pirated DVDs sa Quiapo. PAg Pinoy film, orig ang binibili ko.

YEAHHHHHH!!! way to go Senator Bong, wait, who made you Senator? OH that's right, the Filipinos did!

Yes,Senator, please take the advancements cinemas have made to show top-of-the-line movies and throw them out the window. Oh, and don't forget the revenues as well... might as well throw them out too. Go ahead, blow the cinemas, not to mention the Philippines, back into the dark ages.

Nasiraan na ng bait ang isang to! gusto nya yata pelikula nalang panoorin ng mga pinoy tsk tsk

"Revilla stars in one of the Metro Manila Film Festival entries this year, Ang Panday, which he also produced."

There's the answer right there. The local movie industry can't move on to new material but instead recycles 40-year-old plots and characters.

Like any business lacking in new ideas and quality products needed to attract and keep customers, the local movie industry will lose money and die.

I hope we Filipinos learn our lesson and stop voting clowns like Revilla to the senate.

wala ka na ngang ginagawa sa senado kung ano ano pa naiisip mo. ano gusto mo puro movies mo na lang papanoorin namin na feeling mo na hollywood calibre eh hindi naman...

@ kicks
december 23,2009 at 4:44 pm

Tama si Sen. Bong.


HAVE THE DECENCY TO HAVE YOUR OWN USER NAME! NANGGUGULO KA NG OPINION NG MAY OPINION - kicks (commented december 23, 2009, 4:40 pm)

epal ampota

Tama si Sen. Bong.

sabi nga nila, wag na magsalita kung walang magandang sasabihin... napaka-nonsense ng pinagsasabi ni Sen. Bong! basta makapagsalita lang! kahit na puro local films na lang ang ipalabas, kung mga wlang kwenta naman ang story, wala din manonood! the movie-going public are much more intelligent now!

Dapat 1 tagalog movie a month lang para gumanda naman yung mga tagalog movies.

Well, if the Philippine Movie industry would just stop copying plot from foreign movies then local movies will be a hit now. Some local films have a nice plot but chooses the wrong actors to play them. Local actors these days thinks they're Hollywood stars but their not. From the way they act I'm sure Hollywood actors would definitely be offended.
Senator Bong Revilla should stay in one field of interest. If he wants to improve the popularity of Local films then he should have focused on Media instead of Politics.
People, if you want to make our country a better country you should really vote for people right for the job. Politics isn't a joke.

In terms of movie quality...still we are not KOreA???Milya-milya ang layo ng KoreAn movies compared on what's on Pinoy cinema right now...pasensya na tayo matagal ng patay si Direk Lino Brocka...and yeah na-miss ko na rin mga quality movies na ginagawa ng GMA FILms from the early 2000 (MUro Ami, Rizal, and Deathrow)

if panday were the only movie shown all year i still wouldn't watch it

What kind of stuff has been the senator smoking? it seems the hard stuff that's why he is hallucinating.
BAWAL NA ANG SHOWBIZ SA SENADO, PURO KAYO GUNGGONG!
Hindi ko naman nilalahat, pero bakit ang baba ng mga IQ ng mga taga showbiz na pumapasok sa pulitika?
Will somebody out there provide the answer for me?
Please lang, Pamasko niyo na....

sige! pero mag-resign muna siya sampu ng mga kasama niyang mga pulpol!
at ibaon niya lahat ng mga driver na kasing pulpol niyang mag-isip!

B0B0!

this is the reason why we should not vote for dumbass people in the senate

lapid + revilla = FAIL..FAIL..FAIL

Stupid Senators...please lang huwag na iboto yan mga yan

boycott ang Panday...

Stupid Bong Revilla...sana nag-iisip ka, napaka bobo mo Bong!

Another non-sense bill.

Gusto lang nya kumita ung panday nya. haay bong.. ewan ko ba bakit ka asa senado...what an idiot Senator

Sino ba kasi mga bobo na bumoto dyan?!

Another st*p*d bill.

Bong.. "hindi ko idol si kap"

pag-isipan naman sanamga ginagawang bills.

parang gumagawa lang para masabi na may ginawa.

bobo lang ang datingan eh.

u lol kung puro mo lang panonoorin namin wag na lang.

bakit ba nananalo ang hinayupak na yan sa senado.

parang awa niyo na wag niyo na siya iboto.

KALOKOHAN!

“We have somehow perfected the use of special effects… We want to show the whole world that Filipinos can make films like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings,” -JOKE BA TO!?! Alam ba nya ang budget na ginamit for such movies? I don't think we have that much money to produce movies such as Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter and if we do, we should allot them on education or paying of our debts!

Don't get me started on the quality of films he's in. HAAAAY. JUST STUPID.

Revilla stars in one of the Metro Manila Film Festival entries this year, Ang Panday, which he also produced. “We have somehow perfected the use of special effects… We want to show the whole world that Filipinos can make films like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings,” Revilla told Manila Bulletin.

--> yung Panday nya kase Poster pa lang LOTR na. lolz

yehey! another reason why i shouldnt vote for him!

Bong Revilla is an oaf. I don't think anyone's gonna watch local movies the way they patronize Hollywood films, even if he imposes a limit on the number they can show per month. There's always Torrents to download them from anyway. lol

RT @porkpatrol! :))

I don't think Filipino people will DIVERT to Tagalog films even if they limit Hollywood movies to one per month. Eh ilang QUALITY movies ba ang pinapalabas nyo sa isang buwan?? Meron ba????? Senator..matatalino na po ang mga tao ngayon. Yun lang.

Tsk..tsk..tsk.. I want my tax back!

“We have somehow perfected the use of special effects… We want to show the whole world that Filipinos can make films like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings"

Really now? Perhaps he meant a lower copy of such films so bad it couldn't even pass for camp.

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Hello! who are his friends? Jinggoy? Daboy (RIP)? Lito Lapid? Rufa Mae Quinto? Good lord! How TF can he be a senator? Who TF are the thousands of st*p*d people who voted for him? Why TF is he even allowed to open his mouth? I am ashamed of my countrymen. I am ashamed of a country that allows him, the Ampatuans, the GMAs, the Eraps, the Manny Villars, to do what they do. WTF!!!!

Yes because we all know that when y** s*ck at something, make sure to prevent others who are good at it from competing. That way we all get to suffer. That strategy worked so well for Philippine Airlines all of these years. How about improving your craft so people want your product?

Please let's stop electing actors! Bong you sir are an idiot. Are you surrounded by lackeys? I don't think your friends are telling you what everyone thinks of you.

Now we know who to vote.....surely not him.

Hey Caper... I'm one with you... the Philippines will be a much better place if there're less st*p*d actors cum senators like Bong...

Stupid Bong strikes again. Banning Hollywood movies will not make us want to watch Pinoy movies if the quality of pinoy films doesn't improve. SB, How do you find time to go to the Senate to steal our money and make B-movies like Panday, cheat on your wife, fight with Hayden at the same time?

another publicity stunt by a man elected to the senate solely because of his name as an actor (not to thank the dumb filipino masses for electing him).

Funny thing about the hayden kho issue, he says he defends women\\\'s rights but what ever happend with maui taylor and her nude pictures taken none other than his equally *gly untalented son, jolo??? Did he straight up went to senate and cried his heart out for maui? hell no! yeah maui is/was a starlet but those photos were taken off context.

So, im calling out all the intelligent" pinoys to vote wisely in 2010. please no more actor-politicians. enough is enough!


By the way, I hope he's reading this right now..

Tama ang mga suggestions dito, mga kapatid. To his question on reviving the local movie industry, the answer really simply is make the local movies at par or even better than the foreign ones.

And ya, if it's down to one foreign film a month, that still won't solve the problem kasi people will still not watch local movies. There's cable TV, DVDs, downloads!!! So nag-suffer pa ang economy natin! Tanga talaga itong senator na ito. Sinu-sino ba bumoto dyan???

hay naku! gunggung na senador. next year talo ka na! wala ka na magawa sa buhay mo kundi mag ingay wala naman kwenta sinasabi mo!

I HAVE A BETTER SOLUTION.

WHY DON'T WE SHOOT PEOPLE LIKE HIM WHO PRODUCE MOVIES LIKE THIS.

GAWD.

Why not improve the quality of local films instead?

We let crap writers, producers, and filmmakers waste the industry's money by making baduy or otherwise pathetic movies and then they wonder why it doesn't get as much support? Stop blaming colonial mentality. We just really do produce extremely low quality films.

All the genius seems to be relegated to Pinoy Indie films. Funnel money to those "artists" and visionaries instead and then fire mainstream st*p*d writers who can't seem to come up with decent stories.

Para itong "dahil bumabagsak ang grade ng students sa National Achievement Exams ibaba nalang natin ang passing average requirement". Result: mga bobong graduates.

This is one politician I am not voting for. Bleh.

Bannning hollywood movies will make more people turn to piracy for good movies. How about rallying the government for support for the real film makers? The commercial movie industry is full of phonies.

Sige magandang idea yan.. isabay narin ang pagtanggal ng McDonalds para Jollibee nalang.. pati foreign artists sa radyo, ipagbawal narin. Kung pwede lang higpitan ang lumuwag na screw mo sa ulo eh, ginawa ko na.. At teka, ano ba pinagkaiba mo kay Hayden Kho? Ang difference lang naman eh si Hayden nag-vi-video ng sexcapades nya, ikaw hindi!

It would be a good idea IF local filmmakers can fill the void with films worth watching, otherwise he'll just boost piracy which 60's Korea never had to contend with to the extent that it operates today.

Dapat siguro pagbawalan muna ang mga pelikulang pinondohan ng Pork Barrel ng Senador. Dapat imbestigahan. May mga senador bang gumagawa ng pelikula? Ay meron nga!

is bong st*p*d..or st*p*d?? where does he get such far fetched ideas? are u high or what? why not just stick your nose to the hayden-katrina issue? so far that's the only "noteable" thing you've done this year as a senator of the republic...

Now if only he spends that energy on finding ways and means to raise the bar on the quality of pinoy movies

E pano na po ang Imax? makakagawa ba tayo ng 3D movie?

May cable naman e. Nuod na lang ako HBO. Hmmmm, baka pati ang HBO maging 1 hollywood movie per month. Patay!

Blocking Hollywood isn't the way to beat it. It's like he wants to force garbage down our throats (in this case, our eyes, ears, and brains) and tell us it's awesome because we don't have access to real food.

Spectacular special effects will do nothing if the story and overall movie concept is bad. And though I have to admit the Philippines can produce some nice quality special effects, to say that it is somewhat on the same level as LoTR or Harry Potter is talking smack.

I agree with most of the posters here. Unless our industry gets rid of aging franchises that rehash the same old garbage, it's not gonna get better.

Where are the Muro Ami movies? The Payaso movies? The Pusod ng Dagat movies? Heck, even Batang PX was an awesome movie. What happened to those kinds of films?

If the local film industry can produce stimulating, original films instead of rehashed ideas that attempt to show we can copy LOTR, then by all means limit foreign imports to one per month. But I think the mall owners would rather have the good Senator assassinated than have this pie-in-the-sky idea push through.

Go ahead. I'll just go back to reading.

Sira na yata ang tuktok ni Senator. Di nalugi ang mga sinehan ng SM, Robinson's, Ayala, at iba pa. Gustong gayahin ang Korea, bakit hindi yung economic progress ang gayahin niya at hindi yung paglimita ng imports?

Kung mai-improve ang kalidad ng Pinoy Cinema at hindi kaparis ng ginagawa niyang gasgas na gasgas ng Panday, baka sakali.....

If the industry improves the quality of film they show on cinemas, then why not? That would mean no cheap remakes, no predictable stories and no moronic comedies and dramas of course. But who are we kidding? They can't do that.

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