Watching Again a favourite movie during my High School Years: BAGETS(1984) and its sequel BAGETS 2(1984)

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JC Bonnin, William Martinez, Raymond Lauchengco, Aga Muhlach and Herbert Bautista

Directed by Maryo J. Delos Reyes

Written by Jake Tordesillas

Experiencing the forbidden. Experiencing rejection. Hating your parents. Hating the world around you. Discovering what's hot. Discovering what's cool. Discovering your first true love. Discovering who you are. Growing up can be such a wild time. But not when you've got the best guys to hang out with. Five chaste young men immerse themselves in the superficialities and superfluity of adolescence over the course of their last year in high school. But as they make their gradual transition from boyhood to manhood, they realize it is their formidable bond that stands as the real deal. Starring a generation that gave rise to a new youth culture.-imdb

My mind seems to be playing tricks on me.  I just can't believe that these two movies were shown the same year, but if that is the case, then 1984 was filled with beautiful socially relevant movies like these two, plus WORKING GIRLS(Ishmael Bernal), 14 GOING STEADY(Joey Gosiengfiao), SISTER STELLA L(Mike De Leon), 'MERIKA(Gil Portes), KAYA KONG ABUTIN ANG LANGIT(Maryo J. Delos Reyes---he had a very busy year) and BULAKLAK SA CITY JAIL(Mario O'Hara).  

I love the original BAGETS more than BAGETS 2, but I can't say I don't like the latter.  It's just that the story of the original was more moving than the second.  Both movies are full of life, but the situations are serious.  Most of the people who acted in both movies are showbiz royalty nowadays or at the very least still very much active.  The others just a had one time big time break and I'm not talking about the extras.

I can't remember if Bagets was the first movie I saw about drag racing without seat belts, but I surely know about drag racing because I was mixed with a crowd who did that in the past.  I wonder how they are now.  Are they still alive?

The things tackled in both movies are very real, and the different types of parents were represented on film.

In the second film, they added a religious to a fault type of a mother forcing her son to be a priest.  That said son falls for a very liberated artist, who has a very liberated mother.

Bagets is also where William Martinez and Yayo Aguila fell in love.  It's just sad it didn't last.  They called it quits in 2010.  They did have a happy and fruitful marriage.  They were blessed with beautiful children, so it was really in their path to be together, but not forever.

If my memory serves me right, the reason I got interested in Bagets was because of Raymond Lauchengco.  I love his songs and he is a great actor too.  Thanks to him I was able to watch a wonderful movie that is now a thirty-four-year-old classic.  

The sequel, for me, was more unruly, messy, disorderly and all those synonyms, than the first.  The actors did good and because they included Ms. Cherie Gil as Marilen, it became very interesting.  I can't blame Janice(Eula Valdez's role) being jealous of Marilen because the Bagets gang has a reputation(history) of falling for beautiful women old enough to be their mother, aunt or in the case of Cherie, their big sister.

Well, I can say much more, but I'll just say this instead: These two movies hold special places in my heart.

Thanks for your time.  

BAGETS 

The term "bagets" came from the Filipino word "bagito," which means a "newcomer or a neophyte." The term was said to have been coined by actor William Martinez, who came up with the idea of making a youth-oriented movie in the 1980s.-Jeffrey O. Valisno,May 17, 2011, Businessworld

(in an article talking about the TV5 show Bagets(Just Got Lucky) starring AJ Muhlach, Nadine Lustre

 et al Directed by Mark A. Reyes V)

Cast:

William Martinez as Tonton

Raymond Lauchengco as Arnel

JC Bonnin as Toffee (other versions say Topee)

Aga Muhlach as Adie

Herbert Bautista as Gilbert

Jobelle Salvador as Melissa

Yayo Aguila as Rose

Eula Valdez as Janice

Baby Delgado as Ivy

Chanda Romero as Christine

Butch Bautista as Gilbert's dad

Luz Valdez as Gilbert's mom

Rosemarie Gil as Arnel's mom

Romeo Rivera as Arnel's dad

Celia Rodriguez as Adie's mom

Rodolfo "Boy" Garcia as Tonton's dad

Liza Lorena as Toffee's mom

Lita Gutierrez as Tonton's mom

Eddie Arenas as Adie's Stepdad

Robert Campos as Ivy's husband

Plus a bunch of other great stars including a cameo by Mr. Bembol Roco as a vendor of coconuts

Produced in the same year as Bagets, Bagets 2 is set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college. The film mostly deals with their participation in an arts workshop and inter-personal relationships with three new characters - Wally, Gilbert's cousin and a young man forced by his mother to become a priest; Mikee, a TV director's son looking for his big break, and Ponce, an auto expert-cum-dancer. Also included in the mix is Ruth, Tonton & Toffee's balikbayan cousin.-Wikipedia

Cast:

William Martinez as Tonton

J.C. Bonnin as Toffee/Topee

Herbert Bautista as Gilbert

Raymond Lauchengco as Arnel

Ramon Christopher as Mikee

Cherie Gil as Marinel

Cheska Iñigo as Ruth

Eula Valdez as Janice

Francis Magalona as Ponce aka Pawnshop

Jon Hernandez/John Salvador as Wally

Monette Rivera as Noreen Burgos

Claudette Khan as Emerie Tuazon

Grace Gonzales as Sarah Jane

Mariglen Ordoñez as Glenda

Joy Maniego as Nicolette