You've Got A Fast Car.

Long overdue again. I've been busy again studying these past few days. I'll try to post my review on 'Sleepless in Seattle' in the coming days to come.

Special mention to Nora Ephron who passed away today (if I'm not mistaken on the timezone). My prayers go to her family. I would like to thank her for making 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'You've Got Mail' where it featured one of the most cute loveteams on screen, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, who had a spark on screen. Thank you for making us laugh and feel in love while watching these movies. We will never forget them forever.

Night! Morning! Afternoon! Everywhere around the world. :)

~Derrick

PS: I'll be finally making my cover on the song 'Fast Car' by Tracy Chapman. I love the song and I'll take my spin on it. Good vibes today! :)

Here is the link for my cover finally!

http://soundcloud.com/jderrickn/fast-car-tracy-chapman-derrick

Best Birthday Ever! (So Far)

So hi everyone! It's my 21st birthday today and it was a blast! I had a really fun time! Though I didn't see some of my friends and guess they're busy on their work.

Anyway it's understandable cause everyone's busy with everything in their lives. :)

Yes! Holy cow! Rita Wilson herself finally re-tweeted me! I was shaking when I saw this. I mean, really, I can't believe it. I've been doing this for about 3 days in a row and it finally paid off. Thanks Ms. Wilson! I won't forget this day in my life now. June 22, 2012.

Now if only Tom Hanks re-tweets also. A long shot, way longer, on this one I've attempted.

Anyway, it was really awesome and I won't stop reaching my dreams! Won't stop believing on it!

One of those dreams is to meet Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson personally someday. Everyday I know I'm getting closer on achieving it. And I will work my ass off just to make it happen.

Night! Morning! Afternoon!

~Derrick

Burbs? Wait Until You Meet The Klopeks.

  

And we're up back here at my blog! Today's review would be the movie, The Burbs, which I think is a comedy-horror one and seeing Tom Hanks on it is really, really awkward.

I mean, seriously? But man, he's like a natural comic relief. I didn't go overly laughing but I was almost all the time smiling. :)

 I really find it hilarious to see Tom Hanks'(as Ray Perterson) neighbors here especially Rick Ducommun as Art Weingartner and Bruce Dern as Lt. Mark Rumsfield. They were just hilarious! Doing things just to prove that the Klopek family are doing something evil or plain dark fishy.

The plot is that they're old neighbor mysteriously disappeared and here comes out of nowhere, the Klopek family, and strange things have been going on since they arrived at the neighborhood. 

No one comes out from the house unless it's evening, house looks like a haunted house, and grim sounds coming from the inside of the house burning something or digging at their backyard on a middle of a freaking storm.

The Klopek family (Henry Gibson as Dr. Werner Klopek, Brother Theodore as Uncle Reuben Klopek and Courtney Gains as Hans Klopek) were just plain looking evil when you see them at first, and acts really weird when Hanks and the neighborhood had a chit-chat with them on one night.

Some scenes made me jump out of my bed like the one where Tom Hanks was dreaming, and this horror characters were like hunting him and want him to kill. But that was just one of the fun parts of it. I could say that this kind of films don't work well with Tom Hanks but you might not know, maybe there's someone out there that would really go and mix Hanks and horror into it.

Overall, I was happy to watch it and gives a new perspective on what Tom Hanks could do on horror movies.

~Derrick

PS: I've recorded my cover on 'Philadelphia' but I think I have to re-record again. I'm not satisfied on the output and there was just too much picked up noise at the background.

Anyway, thanks everyone who views/reads/browses my blog! And to my cousin who already know this, I didn't expected someone to find out. Haha...

I'd Walk A Thousand Miles.

Good night everyone! Just made my first cover song this day! Exhausted editing just to make my voice clear.

Check it out here!

http://soundcloud.com/jderrickn/a-thousand-miles-vanessa

Thanks everyone!

~Derrick

PS. Sorry if I sound off tuned in some parts but hey, I was just singing my lungs out like in a karaoke. I promise I'll improve eventually. Haha... :)

Sung by and Instrumental by Boyce Avenue featuring Alex Goot. Everyone check them both at Youtube! They're awesome! :D

Happy Father's Day To All Dads Out There!

Happy Father's Day to all of your dads! :) Just wanna say thank you for my dad that even he doesn't show how he loves me, I love him back. He's been there on my ups and down and it helps me a lot to be a better individual.

Enjoy your day! Also to Tom Hanks!

~Derrick

Do the Tom Hanks Tribute!

Just saw one of these on Mr. Hanks fan page on Facebook! Really cool!

Video by Ms. Kelly Kathryn Mitchell! :)

Enjoy!

~Derrick

I Wish I Were Big.

So it's long overdue (I know) but its definitely worth it. Here I go on my review on the movie 'Big' starring Tom Hanks on it. And I'll start with one of my favorite scenes:

The space goes...
Down down baby, down down the roller coaster.
Sweet sweet baby, sweet sweet don't let me go.
Shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy rock,
Shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy rock

I met a girlfriend- a triscuit,
She said a triscuit-a biscuit,
Ice cream soda pop
Vanilla on the top.

Oooo Shalida, walking down the street,
Ten times a week
I meant it. I said it.
I stole my mama's credit.
I'm cool. I'm hot.
Sock you in the stomach three more times.

I just laughed out my chair just seeing Tom Hanks do this. I don't know, it was funny and odd at the same time since a grown man does it. And trying to convince a kid that he just got 'humongous' because of a wish on a machine.

 

And one of the most prominent scene in the movie is where MacMillan (played by Robert Loggia), boss of the company 'MacMillan Toy Company'.  The two end up playing duets together on a foot-operated electronic keyboard, performing "Heart and Soul" and "Chopsticks".

I personally think that was a hard scene, to see that they needed both to be in sync. And I think it was awesome cause it took Hanks character somewhere that could make things interesting.

Susan: I'm not so sure we should do this.
Josh: Do what?
Susan: Well, I like you, and I want to spend the night with you.
Josh: Do you mean sleep over?
Susan: Well, yeah.
Josh: OK... but I get to be on top. 

One of the best scenes also on the movie, I just couldn't help but laughed on how innocent was Tom Hanks here. You could just see it in his face. (Is it me or did I just see the possibility of him being Forrest Gump here?)

 Overall, I love the movie because the reason is it's fresh for me since every other movie of Tom Hanks seems to be drama or something. Well kinda, this movie has one on the last part but won't spoil it though. It's a feel good movie and I highly suggest it that you/friends/ relatives and even kids watch it! After all, we were a kid once and wished we were 'Big' already.

~Derrick

PS: Just watched 'The Burbs' and 'Sleepless in Seattle' so watch out for my reviews on both movies. :) Thanks Tom Hanks!

My Birthday Is Near!

Hi there guys! Back again slightly... Haven't posted yet my review on the movie 'Big' yet but I'll try too.

I've been thinking these days and I've made my decision, I'm making my own covers on songs that somehow relate to Tom Hanks movies. This would be a blast!

Also, I'm going to try to get a happy birthday re-tweet on Mr. Hanks and Ms. Wilson. Wish me luck!

~Derrick

I Encourage Everyone To Watch Big!

Yes, watch the movie, Big, starring Tom Hanks. I will try to post my review on it later or some other day if I forget again.

And yes, opinions or your feeling about Mr. Hanks movies are welcome at the comment box. Thanks guys for reading  my blog! God Bless! :D

Place I Call Home.

It's early morning here and just randomly popped out of my mind. Just remembered the last scene in Philadelphia. And the song there was just so emotional.

I cried hard not only that Andrew Beckett died, but also I remembered my brother that died not so long time ago.

Anyway, it's good to let my tears flowing again, it's just has to.

~Derrick

Streets of Philadelphia.

Good evening here at the Philippines and good morning/afternoon everywhere around the world! :)

I'm going to post my review now on the movie, Philadelphia. To give you a brief history on how I stumbled upon this movie, is technically I was just curious on how Mr. Hanks career boomed and started to be recognized by people on his roles.

I've been searching on other people's comments/suggestions/opinion on his films, and yes I was intrigued on why many people gave this particular one a big, round of applause. Not to mention Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Antonio Banderas was in it.

It was released on the year 1993 wherein I was just only 2 years old. After 19 years, I finally get to get Mr. Hanks movies and experience all the emotions that he showed to others.

I had no idea what the film was all about except it talks about homosexuality and AIDS that days and there was a lot of discrimination. There was no one to come up with the courage to talk about that area, until, Ron Nyswaner made a script about this and was directed by Jonathan Demme.

From Wikipedia:

Tom Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film, while the song "Streets of Philadelphia" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Ron Nyswaner was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but lost to Jane Campion for The Piano.

Hanks takes on the role of Andrew Beckett, is a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia. He got promoted on a higher position and was given one of the most important client of the company.

But what the associates doesn't know about Beckett, he was hiding the fact that he was a homosexual ( he was afraid to tell because of some jokes when they were hanging out in the sauna ) and has AIDS. It was first noticed when one of them saw a bruise/lesion on Beckett's forehead, in which the latter said that it was just hit by some racquetball.

Beckett stays home from work for several days to try to find a way to hide his lesions. While at home, he finishes the complaint for the case he has been assigned and then brings it to his office, leaving instructions for his assistants to file the complaint in court on the following day. Beckett suffers from bowel spasms at home and is rushed to the hospital.

Then comes Miguel Álvarez (played by Antonio Banderas) hurrying to the hospital and worrying on Beckett's health. Frankly, I was shocked to see Banderas taking on the role as the boyfriend of Tom Hanks here. I mean, he's Zorro, and this is new for me. I really admire him now more because on his performance here. Really great support.

Next come is Joe Miller (played by Denzel Washington) who at first initially declines to be the lawyer of Beckett but when he saw how other people discriminated Beckett on the library, he eventually agrees to be his representative. Now this is the second shock of the movie for me, well, after all, I really love him doing the role on Book of Eli, which is action and fast-paced.

It's new for me to see him being an attorney and stuff here. But he was really intelligent and was awesome in every way. Ten thumbs up for him!

As the movie goes on, the court battle between Beckett and the company, it was intense and was believable. I was happy that Beckett's family was full support on him on the case. Fight for his rights they said.

But as this movie concludes at the end, Beckett won the case victoriously thanks to the help of Miller.

But also, it deteriorated Beckett's health and can't go any further. He just waited for the verdict. If it will give justice or not. It did matter a lot for everyone who was involved in his life.

Now my tears are welling up again, trying to hold back... I've been moved again by Tom Hanks role on this side. I didn't want him to die, for I see more life into his life. He could help others on fighting against discrimination on AIDS or homosexuality. But as a saying goes, all good things comes to an end. But for me, ending is just only the beginning of something new.

Goodbye Andrew/Andy Beckett. Your memory remains with us forever. And let your story be heard by the next generations.

~Derrick

PS: Whew! That was dramatic huh? To lighten things up, I'm watching the other half of 'Big' later when I go to bed. Never felt happy since all the drama ones I've already watched. Thanks Tom Hanks! :)

What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? I don't know. A good start.

Sorry for the long title, but I think it was hilarious. Seriously. I fell off my bed laughing. Then later cried again.

Awfully late here, and semi-tired to post. I'm going to post my opinion/review for the movie, Philadelphia, tomorrow early morning.

~Derrick

PS: Just searched some quotes and this was funny:

On messing with Tom Hanks while the two were filming Philadephia
"I used to mess with Tom. He was barely eating at all, and I would put out, like, 200 Almond Joys in his drawer to give him a hard time. I'd pretend to sneeze and all these Snickers would fall on the ground. I'm sure he laughed all the way up to the podium when he won the Oscar."

So what does the clutch do? It clutches.

Finally finished watching last night the movie, Road To Perdition, and as always, Tom Hanks is just a diverse actor.

This is the first time I saw him in a role as a person working as a hitman. I consider it fresh in my perspective cause almost all the time, he's the good guy. Well, a part of his role here, kinda torn between being the bad one.

I also applaud the performance of Daniel Craig aka Connor Rooney who was a disturbed person having the jealousy of the affection of his father on Michael Sullivan Sr. After all, he only just wants the same affection from Sullivan to be as equal to him.

Maguire (The Reporter) played by Jude Law was one creepy guy I might say. He gave some of the edge of the story and he's so sinister on tracking down Sullivan and his son out.

And as every movie like this somehow ends, someone/everyone dies in a certain scene. And I'll put here the most emotional one for me:

Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I couldn't do it.
Michael Sullivan: I know.

Michael Sullivan: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry... I'm sorry. 

This scene just takes me away, I could really feel that all was Mike's father wanted for his son, was not to follow his footsteps. That he wanted a good future for him even though he was now going away.

Plus, I am deeply moved by the musical scores of Thomas Newman. Such brilliance that goes great with the flow of the movie. I just downloaded all the scores cause I just felt calm.

For all of you guys out there, I definitely recommend for you to watch. It's new to see Tom Hanks do such a role another way around and the story clings to our hearts of what our fathers could do just to protect us from anything.

~Derrick

PS: I'll watch later 'Philadelphia', saving up my tears again for I know this would be a heavy drama. For now I'll just be happy on the outcome of Road To Perdition.