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[varjohaltia]

I also want to get a Mustang for my birthday.

I look dashing in pinstripe.

It's better to look dashing when there's something other than jailbait around!

TV still sucks. Paper needs work. Presentation needs work. Exam needs studying for. 300 pictures need to be processed. Aieee!

Movies:
Lady Death: Blah. Nice boobs. Lame voice acting.
Tesseract: OK, Thai action/drama/art flick
Dark Fury, Chronicles of Riddick: If you liked any of the live-action Riddick movies, you'll like this. Pretty nice, but short as all.
Van Helsing: Dracula has a nice jacket and hairdo. Kate Beckinsale has a really nice corset and tights. If those, and Hugh Jackman is enough to make you see the movie, go ahead.
Shaolin Soccer: Kicks ball.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico: I really liked it. Not all might.
Taboo: Well. Um. I actually liked it. (It's a Japanese samurai flick about how homosexual desires wreak havoc in the Shinsengumi militia.)
Species III: Better than Species II. That doesn't take much.

Comments

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

Taboo was called Gohatto in Japan. Very odd to see Beat Takeshi doing that kind of film, too. I liked it, though. If you know a little about the Shinsengumi and the popular figures, you can usually pick out who's who in about two minutes. ("Hey, this young guy is coughing up a lung. It must be Okita!") Loved the costumes, though, and there was some nice swordplay.

[varjohaltia.livejournal.com]

That's the movie. I don't know nearly enough about Takeshi Kitano; I've seen Sonatine, Violent Cop and the silent sea one as works he's directed. Based on those I'm not fanatical about his work, but it has a certain charm and I try to watch any of his movies that I get my hands on. I don't know if he's done much other historical drama, then, but he was pretty good in Taboo. One thing that bothered me greatly, though--whenever any of the senior officers spoke, their eyes kept flicking left-right-left-right... Not a teleprompter, but clearly intentional. As the rest of my Shinsengumi knowledge comes from Anime, with a little bit of historical context knowledge from "real" books, it was kind of fun to see how similarly, really, this movie portrays the same events; the brothel visit, the tavern fight etc, all of which tend to appear in the cartoony versions too.

Anyhow, yes, the sets and the costumes were very impressive indeed, I liked the music, and all the other technical merits: editing, lighting etc. were quite nice.

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

He has done other "historical" work; that is, historical in the same way Gohatto was, which is to say semi: He's directed a new Zatoichi flick. Haven't seen that yet but I plan to when it appears at the local rental place. Zatoichi = Teh win. (But not if you ask Beat Takeshi. He actually doesn't like the guy.)

That's a real brothel in the movie, by the way; if you go down there they'll show you the marks in the wall some famous samurai or other left with his sword. Beat mentioned it in an interview awhile ago.

By the way, that reminds me-- what's up with your other entry's mood indicator?

Music: Silence. Mood: Horny?

[dead-relena.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that the Lady Death movie was out! I've been hearing about the production of that for almost as long as I've been reading comic books . . . I'll have to rent it - relish the cheese that is Ms Death :)


Shaolin Soccer was a faboo movie <3 It made me want to go out and become an ace soccer football star

[playfuleye.livejournal.com]

Yay jailbait!

[varjohaltia.livejournal.com]

But double yay for ex-jailbait ;-)

[chastmastr.livejournal.com]

Hyvää syntymäpäivää!