An Epic Movie: 10 Things I hate About You

          One of the things that I usually do on a weekend is watch some movies. I would download via torrent then watch it after. This weekend, my best friend since childhood stayed in our house. I invited her over because it would be a long weekend for me. Our company, specifically our project, follows the US holiday and since its Labor Day in the US today, i will not go to work tonight.

This is my best friend Grace.

          And so my best friend brought her external Hard Disk Drive and all the gadgets with her which I really enjoy using. She has a lot of movies in it and I decided to borrow it to look for some movies to watch. To my surprise, there were tons of movies in it, orderly categorized from action, drama, bollywood, comedy to tagalog movies. I almost doze-off just by looking at it and searching for something to watch.

       
            Out of all the movies that is stored in the HDD, I decided to watch 10 Things I Hate About You. This film was shown way back year 1999 during my High School days. I've watched the movie several times already and after seeing the title twice from different folders, it felt like I had a confirmation that its the one. Haha :))

          While watching the movie and seeing the cast, I immediately had this equation on my mind... Batman + Bourne = 10 Things I Hate About You. The cast in Batman series, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and of course Heath Ledger was there, and Julia Stiles who's on Bourne series was also there. They all look good and cute during their teenage years and all of them became popular after that movie. And i guess everybody knows what happened to Heath Ledger (except my best friend, she is really clueless ^_^) its really saddening because he is such a great actor.

          His epic scene where he sang "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" can really melt every girls heart. I'm still having goosebumps and it still gives me this "kilig" feeling of teeny bopper sweetie patootie every time I watch him sing that song. Every girl would be so overwhelmed if a guy would serenade her in that way.

          Watching 10 Things I Hate About You is like a flashback for me. It brings back good old memories during my high school days. The only difference is that i dont really pay attention to the script before, but now that i am older, i have another goal when watching a movie. I am now the type of movie watcher who would wait and listen and be very particular with the script and lines. I appreciate movies with great lines even if the movie is not really good at all. And i realized that there were a lot of great lines in that movie. Here are some of my personal favorites.

"You dont always have to be who they want you to be. "
"Who needs affection, when I have blind hatred"
"Dont let anyone make you feel like you dont deserve what you want. Go for it."
"Just because youre beautiful, that doesnt mean that you can treat people like they dont matter."
"I dont like to do what people expect. Why would I live up to other peoples expectation instead of my own?"

          And just before the movie ended, I was stunned to hear Julia Stiles version of her sonnet (where she recited the 10 things that she hate) which is dedicated to Heath Ledger. My favorite FM radio station is 96.3 Easy Rock, where they play mellow music, less talk, more music ^_^ Anyway, in between set of songs, they have this short advertisement where they quote lines from movies. Im familiar with the other lines but these one was another surprise. I didnt know that it was from "10TIHAY" I would hear it everyday and ask myself from what movie could that be. I find it a very realistic line and only to find out that i already watched the movie years ago. So heres the famous line...

"I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way i don't hate you. Not even close, Not even a little, Not even at all."