Top 20 Movies of 2011

Again, just like what i mentioned last year, I'm no movie critic, I find these movies entertaining and worth watching.

Let's take a look back and toast to a colorful year in movies :)

1. Black Swan

Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis

"Black Swan" is that rare holiday Oscar contender that is a movie for all seasons, a film that is all things to all people

- rotten tomatoes

This made Mila Kunis number 1  on my girlcrush list

2. Temptation Island

Marian Rivera, Heart Evangelista, Lovie Poe, Solenn Heusaff. Rue Quinto

Trivia : the main characters were renamed into the vamps that personified Gosiengfiao's cinematic muses,  Virginia P. (1989 ). Cristina G (Diary of Cristina Gaston,1982), . Serafina was from "Nights of Serafina" (1996), "Nympha", (1980) and Pura K (Kikinang) (Secrets of Pura K., 1985). GMA made sure that they will stick to the original story. I've seen this twice. This film also made Heart Evangelista and Marian Rivera feud controversial. 

3.  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Jonny Depp, Penelope Cruz

You know the old saying 'less is more?' I present to you exhibit A: 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.' -Rotten Tomatoes

4.  Crazy, Stupid, Love

Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone

Carell is his dependable wounded-puppy self, always likable, but Gosling and Stone are fantastic. This made belive that Ryan Gosling pleasures himself with his own reflection

4. Beastly

Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer

Hudgens is a likeable on-screen presence, Olsen a complete riot, and Pettyfer teases teeny bits of a performance as a genuinely unpleasant baddie that could be the making of him one day, should the right script come along.- Rotten Tomatoes

6. Love and Other Drugs

Jake Gyllenhaal, anne hatheway 

It isn't bashful at all, incorporating plenty of sex and humour; you'll feel like you're sleeping with them too.

7. 127 hours

James Franco

It's an incredible performance by Franco, walking the line between what once was enthusiasm but now is manic desperation.

8 Zombadings 1: Patayin sa shokot si Remington

Martin Escudero, Kerbie Zamora

this film was made to entertain and educate altough i believe this should be shown a long time ago.. kudos to the makers ofZombadings Patayin Sa Shokot Si Remington

9 Ang babae sa septic tank 

Eugene Domingo, JM deguzman

 Marlon Rivera’s “Ang Babae sa Septic Tank” (The Woman in the Septic Tank) is a high wire act of film making. It’s perceptive and hilarious in ways too far removed from the usual Pinoy comedy. It playfully runs rings around human folly where boundless ambition is held up to scorn and ridicule. In fact, this is one work that elevates local humor to greater heights. This likewise underscores the capability of the Filipino to weave a yarn dripping with wit and hilarity, I’d be proud to recommend this to anyone: friends, family, foe - even to Indonesian producer Delon Teo who believes that movies should bear no logic- Make me Blush

10 What’s Your Number?

Anna Farris, Chris Evans

Anna Farris is comedy's Marilyn Monroe.  Hunting down all your exes could be a fun thing... just can't help thinking why Chris Evans has to be naked 90% in this movie ?

11 Burlesque

Christina Aguilera, Cam Gigandet, Cher

Yes, Burlesque is bad, but it's the good kind of bad, with plenty of unintentional laughs and a powerfully dreadful lead performance by Cher. and Cam Gigandet is oozing with sex appeal

12 Water for Elephants

Robert Patinson, Reese Witherspoon

Makes a case as a worthy adaptation of a good novel but the jury is still out on whether Mr. Pattinson can be more than a brooding vampire. 

13 One Day

Anne Hatheway, Jim Sturgess

Few films "get" the strange, intertwining bonds of affection quite so effortlessly, although the episodic structure keeps the drama from flowing nicely.

14. Scream 4

Neve Campbell

Compared with so many of the rebooted slasher flicks, Scream 4 remains a cut above. No, that is not an intended pun. As Neve Campbell said. . You forgot the first rule of remakes; don't fuck with the original!

15 Friends with Benefits

Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake

If it displayed more courage, this could have been a fascinating modern American movie. Instead it's a smart but still rather ordinary comedy that is entertaining but not ground-breaking

 16 Red Riding Hood

Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez

Red Riding Hood is a film that tries so hard to be something it's not, because it isn't much of anything at all. It's hardly a romance because it isn't romantic. It isn't an action film because it's trying so hard (and failing) to be a romance. Essentially, it's trying to be Twilight (ewww) because it doesn't have an identity of its own. Kung di ko lang ♥ si Amanda Seyfried...

17 Anton Tubero

Lance Lopez

 this has got to be the most erotic indie film that i've seen. Lance Lopez is such an eye candy. My love for men and uniform was rekindled. 

18 The Road

Rhian Ramos, Alden Richards

Yam Laranas is a genius, the film is highly recommended to those who love scary movies. Plus Alden Richards proves why he deserves recognition as a serious actor and next hottie on the rise. 

19 Tangled

voice of Mandy Moore

There are no unnecessary pop references here, just fluid, graceful storytelling.

20  Brod

Arbie Bascara, Kenjie Garcia

There's a thin line between love and homophobia. -- makes me blush

20 Best Movie Characters of All Time

20. Hit Girl- Chloe Grace Moretz
Kick Ass 2009

Favorite Line: "So you wanna play?"

19. Illiac- Coco Martin
(Masahista) 2005

favorite Line: Sir, Hubarin ko po brief nyo ha..

 18 Pennywise the Clown - Tim Curry
 It  (1990)

favorite line: I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of.


 17. Noah Calhoun- Ryan Gossling
the Notebook (2004)

favorite line: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

16. Alma Beers Delmar - Michelle Williams
Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Favorite Line: Don't try and fool me no more, Ennis; I know what it means! Jack Twist. Jack Nasty! You didn't go up there to fish!


15 Miranda Priestly:- Meryl Steep
the Devil Wears Prada- 2006 

 favorite line :  Do you know why I hired you? I always hire the same girl- stylish, slender, of course... worships the magazine. But so often, they turn out to be- I don't know- disappointing and, um... stupid. So you, with that impressive résumé and the big speech about your so-called work ethic- I, um- I thought you would be different. I said to myself, go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the smart, fat girl. I had hope. My God. I live on it. Anyway, you ended up disappointing me more than, um- more than any of the other silly girls.

 14. Romy White/ Michelle Weinberger-   Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow
Romy and Michelle High School Reunion- 1997

favorite quotes: [looking at yearbook pictures]
Romy: Well we definitely weren't in the A group, but you know, we weren't really in the B group either.
Michele: Oh my god! We weren't in the C group were we?
Romy: Oh god no, that was, like, all the losers and honor students, like Sandy Frink and Heather Mooney.
Michele: So, Romy, what group WERE we in?
Romy: Well, we weren't really in a group, we were more like loners. Oh look! There we are!
Michele: Yeah, and alone.

13. Juno MacGuff- Ellen Page
Juno (2007)

favorite line: I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while


12. Jack Dawson- Leonardo DiCaprio
Titanic- 1997

favorite lines: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.

11. IO- Gemma Arterton
Clash of the Titans (2010)

favorite line : Perseus, I've watched over you for a long time now. I've always been there...

10. Booba ( Rufa Mae Quinto )
Booba (2001)

Favorite Line: ( drunk inside the church.. talking to nun) Penguin!!!!! Uy Penguin, kamusta si Batman?

9 Chris Gardner - Will Smith
Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

favorite line; You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.

 8. Effie Melody White- Jennifer Hudson
 Dreamgirls 2006

favorite line: Well, what am I supposed to do? Deena's beautiful, and she's always been beautiful... but I've got the voice, Curtis! I've got the voice! You can't put me in back; you just can't!


7. Neytiri- Zoe Zaldana
Avatar 2009

Favorite Line: I see you

6. Julianne Potter- Julia Roberts
My Bestfriend's Wedding 1997

favorite line: Michael... I love you. I've loved you for nine years, I've just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and... well, now I'm just scared. So, I realize this comes at a very inopportune time but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh, that sounds like three favors, doesn't it?

5.  Sebastian Valmont- Ryan Phillippe
Cruel Intentions 1999

favorite Line:  You spend all your time preaching about waiting for love. Well here it is. Right in front of you, and you're going to turn your back on it. So I guess we're just f*ucked. I'll move on. But you are going to have to live the rest of your life knowing that you've turned your back on love. And that makes you a hypocrite. Have a nice life.

4. Florentino Ariza- Javier Bardem
Love in the Time of Cholera 2007

favorite line: Fermina I have waited for this opportunity for 51 years, nine months and four days. That is... how long I have loved you from the first moment I cast eyes on you un... until now.

3 Hanna Schmitz- Kate Winslet
The Reader 2008

favorite line: You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.
2. Sayuri Nitta- Zhang Zi yi
Memoirs of a Geisha 2005

favorite line: It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for a Geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings, she entertains you... What ever you want... the rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

1. Jack Sparrow - Johnny Depp
Pirates of the Carribean 2003, 2006, 2007

favorite line: I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.