Sweet, sweet contact lenses
Aug. 13th, 2006 01:05 amNEVER LEAVE ME.
Now that I can look at a computer screen without pain, some non-book media blogging:
One Piece
I had a lot of trouble with the manga (first volume at least). But I marathoned the anime with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
falxumbra and it was OMG LOVE. The appeal of this series is hard to explain -- there's the character designs (endearing or out-there), the relationships (squee-ful? is that a word?), the attention to detail (phenomenal even as an anime), and the consistency (mind-blowing). The world-building makes no sense, but that's not the point. Watching the first few arcs, it felt like everything was planned in advance. Like Flame of Recca, but less rigid, with better characters, and a million times more imagination.
( more, no spoilers )
Lady in the Water
Speaking of other people's mental spaces. This is the M. Night Shyamalan film about an appartment supervisor who finds a mermaid in his swimming pool. IT IS AWESOME OMG. I can't believe there aren't more people talking about how awesome it is! It's been getting uniformly bad reviews, and in a way it's a bad movie. But. I recommend it whole-hearedly -- with one condition. Check your cynicism at the door.
( more, very minor spoilers )
Miami Vice
Worst movie since Underworld:Evolution. No, scratch that: it's worse than U:E. At least tht movie was trying. I was so bored by this movie, I fell asleep three times. Character A mumbles obscure cop jargon at Character B, random sex occurs, more mumbo-jumbo, sex scene number two, Miami does not make an appearance, Havana is not Havana. This could have been filmed on any random sound stage anywhere. Though the cop talk is not difficult to follow, I had no reason to care, as none of the characters are at all interesting. Jamie Foxx is only in it for the paycheck. Colin Farell -- who is not hot in a mullet, by the way -- can't act. The most amusing thing about this movie was catching all the times he slips back into an Irish accent. There is a love-story sub-plot; it's not convincing.
I doubt anyone reading this blog was in danger of seeing this movie, but in case you were: stay far, far away.
Chrono Crusade vol 8
WHAT A GREAT ENDING. So many things got brought together. At the reunion, I cried. Rosette and Joshua's backstory was perfect. Pandemonium's backstory was perfect--but confusing. Someone who's read this, please comment? I can't quite work out what happened. I also can't quite imagine Rosette saying "Waiting is a kind of fighting." And towards the end it got a little too shippy...but I'm quibbling, this really was a fantastic ending. Lots of great, emotional moments, the kind that don't need words.
V: I can't make the 22nd after all. Are you and Gina free any earlier than that? Even one day earlier is fine. Later is no good -- I'll be on the road to Burlington (and from there, Montreal).
Now that I can look at a computer screen without pain, some non-book media blogging:
One Piece
I had a lot of trouble with the manga (first volume at least). But I marathoned the anime with
falxumbra and it was OMG LOVE. The appeal of this series is hard to explain -- there's the character designs (endearing or out-there), the relationships (squee-ful? is that a word?), the attention to detail (phenomenal even as an anime), and the consistency (mind-blowing). The world-building makes no sense, but that's not the point. Watching the first few arcs, it felt like everything was planned in advance. Like Flame of Recca, but less rigid, with better characters, and a million times more imagination. ( more, no spoilers )
Lady in the Water
Speaking of other people's mental spaces. This is the M. Night Shyamalan film about an appartment supervisor who finds a mermaid in his swimming pool. IT IS AWESOME OMG. I can't believe there aren't more people talking about how awesome it is! It's been getting uniformly bad reviews, and in a way it's a bad movie. But. I recommend it whole-hearedly -- with one condition. Check your cynicism at the door.
( more, very minor spoilers )
Miami Vice
Worst movie since Underworld:Evolution. No, scratch that: it's worse than U:E. At least tht movie was trying. I was so bored by this movie, I fell asleep three times. Character A mumbles obscure cop jargon at Character B, random sex occurs, more mumbo-jumbo, sex scene number two, Miami does not make an appearance, Havana is not Havana. This could have been filmed on any random sound stage anywhere. Though the cop talk is not difficult to follow, I had no reason to care, as none of the characters are at all interesting. Jamie Foxx is only in it for the paycheck. Colin Farell -- who is not hot in a mullet, by the way -- can't act. The most amusing thing about this movie was catching all the times he slips back into an Irish accent. There is a love-story sub-plot; it's not convincing.
I doubt anyone reading this blog was in danger of seeing this movie, but in case you were: stay far, far away.
Chrono Crusade vol 8
WHAT A GREAT ENDING. So many things got brought together. At the reunion, I cried. Rosette and Joshua's backstory was perfect. Pandemonium's backstory was perfect--but confusing. Someone who's read this, please comment? I can't quite work out what happened. I also can't quite imagine Rosette saying "Waiting is a kind of fighting." And towards the end it got a little too shippy...but I'm quibbling, this really was a fantastic ending. Lots of great, emotional moments, the kind that don't need words.
V: I can't make the 22nd after all. Are you and Gina free any earlier than that? Even one day earlier is fine. Later is no good -- I'll be on the road to Burlington (and from there, Montreal).