due Wednesday, seven major assignments. Have started two. NOT THE TWO I NEEDED TO START. I am dead dead dead dead dead.
Full Metal Alchemist movie:
Part 1 (repost)
Part 2
Now that the whole thing's up here's my rant on it, copy-paste from comments elsewhere:
( Five ways the movie bothered me, cut for spoilers and oversensitivity )
I think in the end there are two levels of offense here: one to see complicated ethical issues reduced to good-guy-versus-bad-guy, which the series never did, and one to see character after character destroyed for the obvious agenda of the (Japanese) script-writers. I'm not sure how much more I should say on this, being a biased party. (Japanese WWII-referencing movies have always bothered me, but as far as I can tell no one who didn't grow up on Holocaust horror stories has had major problems with this one, not even the parts I thought were lousy characterization or writing rather than misplaced moralizing.)
So that I do not end this entry on a completely negative note, there are good points too: a certain character's Big Dramatic Comeback, the Gypsy sub-plot, the outfits, the way the Sins were worked into the plot, the ending. I also thought the premise was a pretty neat -- just not, you know, something I could comfortably get behind.
Full Metal Alchemist movie:
Part 1 (repost)
Part 2
Now that the whole thing's up here's my rant on it, copy-paste from comments elsewhere:
( Five ways the movie bothered me, cut for spoilers and oversensitivity )
I think in the end there are two levels of offense here: one to see complicated ethical issues reduced to good-guy-versus-bad-guy, which the series never did, and one to see character after character destroyed for the obvious agenda of the (Japanese) script-writers. I'm not sure how much more I should say on this, being a biased party. (Japanese WWII-referencing movies have always bothered me, but as far as I can tell no one who didn't grow up on Holocaust horror stories has had major problems with this one, not even the parts I thought were lousy characterization or writing rather than misplaced moralizing.)
So that I do not end this entry on a completely negative note, there are good points too: a certain character's Big Dramatic Comeback, the Gypsy sub-plot, the outfits, the way the Sins were worked into the plot, the ending. I also thought the premise was a pretty neat -- just not, you know, something I could comfortably get behind.