This is one of those things I hate the most about Christmas in the Philippines (along with traffic and distant relatives showing up to collect their gifts).
It's this christmas-break film festival during which ALL movie theatres in Manila show only Tagalog / Filipino movies.
The Philippine movie industry know that during the christmas holidays, there is a huge increase in tickets being sold. Then all you ever get to see are the so called awards entries and at the end of the season, they have this awards ceremony which is such a self-congratulatory event.
So all this is to me is just an excuse to monopolize ticket sales during a time which is the Philippine equivalent to the summer-line up in the US.
I support tagalog movies, but forcing people to swallow it is not right I think. If they really want to compete with foreign films, then all they have to do is to ante up the quality.
2007-12-04
10:24:03
·
8 answers
·
asked by
Anonymous
in
Philippines