Rakenrol (2011)

Rakenrol by Quark Henares is one of those movies that, after watching, makes you just want to head on home and write a scathing review of.

Lead Character was a fan of Quark Henares's writing. He has a friend who went to Ateneo for college and used to give Lead Character copies of Heights, the literary portfolio of their school. Quark Henares had short stories there that stood out. Lead Character felt that this young helmer had huge potential in defining a generation through films. When Quark Henares came out with Gamitan (2002), Lead Character was excited, but was ultimately disappointed. He thought Rakenrol would change all that, hoping that it would be our answer to Almost Famous.

Not. A. Chance.

What would have made the film better was if the fictional band in there, Hapipaks, were actually good. But they weren't. The lead vocalist, Irene, played by Glaiza de Castro, sang like Dina Bonnevie back when she had a career in music. And their songs were--for lack of better word--bleh. It's sacrilegious because they got cameos from Sugarfree and Ely Buendia, and they should have been in better movies.

The only good things about the movie were the character Jacci Rocha (Diether Ocampo), who was hilarious, and Mo (Ketchup Eusebio), who was the only one who could convince us that he's in a rock band. And well, yeah, Alwyn Uytingco's gorgeous face.

That being said, if you want to waste your time watching some pretentious, pseudo-rock movie horseshit, watch Rakenrol. Otherwise, just watch Zombadings again.