Made by fans in Aotearoa New Zealand. After avoiding this movie for a very long time knowing i was an 8th grader when this was premiered, maybe t’was a good decision not to see this at all.
Kenji finds out the true about Abigail so both Athena and Kenji decides that Kenji should stay with Abigail. Years later because of Kelay and Ken they were reunited. To make another woman jealous, a campus heartthrob asks a fellow student to be his pretend girlfriend, but fate has other plans for the fake couple. Two high-school students pretend to date to make one’s ex-girlfriend jealous, then they do fall in love. The Athena Dizon-Tizon thing was very unrealistic. Plus the part at the end where BOTH girls have life threatening diseases and they both need him?
It was also an inspired casting coup to get the biggest love team twenty years ago, Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta to play the senior Kenji and Athena. Anyway, about the novel, it was clearly an amateur one . There are times that I get confuse cause the story itself, shall we say, UNSTABLE. Pero, kahit ganun, the story itself, it’s concept, drives me to continue reading it.
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Fortunately, Kelay went to the same bus station and bought tickets for the two of them. In “She’s Dating the Gangster,” Padilla plays the role of Kenji, a “gangster” who attempts to win back his former girlfriend by entering a pretend relationship with Bernardo’s character, Athena. I was able to finish the Wattpad story before its commercial run in theaters. I would say that Star Cinema bravely gambled on putting slight changes yet sticking to how the story will flow from the fiction story itself. What I liked is how the feelings developed between two characters without being too pushy. I can’t help but smile every time she smiles.
I mean, I’m not saying I have a cancer and I’m dying or that you should really experience something to write about it, no… But “chest pain” has already beaten to death already in the book. I was like all, “Okay, she’s sick. Whatever.” The descriptions were basic and insufficient. Can’t the book SHOW more of how it’s like to be dying?
While everyone is screaming at the cinema, I was one of the few who silently cheer too! This is simply a movie to watch when you want to fall in love, or to laugh, and to reminisce. Yes, but not because of their feelings alone.
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Kenneth asks Kelay if they can have a great love story like his dad and Kelay’s aunt had and almost kiss as the screen cuts to black. She’s Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Philippine romantic comedy-drama film based on the best-selling novel of the same name written by Bianca Bernardino. The film follows the story of Athena and Kenji, two teenagers who are studying in different high schools in Manila.
In the first part, the author was trying to hard to make the readers kilig while in the last parts, she was trying too hard to make the reader cry. I appreciate her efforts, but she used to many mainstream lines and overused circumstances. I feel like their relationship didnt get to that point yet, the point where the guy literally cannot live without her, and he really wants to be with her so much, he goes off and kills himself.
I didn’t expect that reading this would make me feel this way. I was having some hesitation because I thought the story was corny and cheesy. And I hated that it has to use 3 different languages when I’m perfectly fine with one.
[Filipino Movie 2014] She’s Dating The Gangster
And lastly, the book was able to give me the right mixture of kilig and tension. There was a lack of proper transition throughout the novel, and the events moved a little too fast for my liking. One moment they hate each other, the next moment they’re in love with each other, the next moment they hate each other again, then they love each other again, then Athena dies. Furthermore, it was like reading a super summarized typical telenovela script.
When Kenji wakes up, the two hug and reconcile. When Kenji is well, Kenneth takes him to Athena’s house. Athena tells Kenji about her disease for the first time and tells him that his love kept her alive through those years.
I enjoyed the whole time I was reading the book. The emotions were in a whirlwind of typhoon, XMeeting cancel account too many and too mixed up. Well, that’s basically how I felt while reading- enjoyed.
To her surprise, he kisses her forcefully and tells her that from then on, she will be his girlfriend as she owes Kenji for causing him to get mugged. Athena has to pretend to be his girlfriend in order to get Abi jealous. At first, Athena refuses and Kenji bullies her.