ah…i like how posts have slowly wittled down to about one or two a week now. gosh, i remember when i spammed posts 5 times a day…the golden years of blogging. i suppose now it just seems everything sounds repetitive. i need to take more trips then. more pretty pics=more entries. and er, things like that.
this past weekend was all about movie watching. fish came into the city to chill satty afternoon. dim sum was the original plan…those got tossed out the window pretty fast. then maybe brunch, but he got stuck on the path trains. so we ended up just getting snacks at cosi and chilled out to 2 rounds of chess…splitting it evenly. the second game was pretty heated, and actually caused us to get to the theater later than we’d hoped…oops. we had tix for v for vendetta at the imax…word! but we got there about half an hour before the start and ended up in the third row. not awful or anything, and we were at least in the center. they just need to make the first 5 rows or so recliners…or something. neck…pain…er. so first and foremost, v is NOT an action film. the trailers and stuff will make you think it is, but its not…its a thriller! and a pretty good one too. i dunno why alan moores such a dill when it comes to his property. i think the wachowskis did a pretty good job translating the graphic novel to the movies. and on the imax especially…word.
i spent the rest of the weekend chilling in front of my tv watching movies i picked up from otaku den on satty…the full metal alchemist movie and seven swords. full metal rocked of course (one of the best animes out right now). and i think im liking seven swords alot so far too, tho i didnt really know what to expect. the last time i gave tsui hark my money, i got the poop that was zu warriors…a fun excercise in how to make a pretty movie with an incomprehensible plot. hello, i am a warrior with a funky weapon! now im possessed! omg, now im flying to a crazy cave! and so on and so forth. anyhoo, i turned my attention to gaming halfway thru the movie, and now nothing makes sense. so i think id better rewind a bit…
I really liked V man.like really liked it.Most people i hear from dont seem to think the same tho.
let me know how seven swords turns out,I have it,but then i heard it was poo,and didnt get around to watching.
i dug v…and yea, i just had a conversation with a friend this morning who didnt dig it either. hehe, ah well.
as for 7 swords…i think overall i liked it. the fact that its a 4 hour movie shaved down to 2 hours tho kind of shits on the character development, there are a couple of useless ancillary time wasters (oh noes! im setting free my horse and bestest friend in the world!), and i wish they featured the 7 swords more (they are badass)…but otherwise i liked it. didnt toss it against the wall like i did with zu warriors at least. ;p the tv series tho is supposed to be alot better than the movie…
thx for the info.A tv show? I’ll have to check it out.
^bump old post.(Not to be annoying or anything…)
I was looking for this Full Metal Alchemist post, didnt realize I left a comment [incidentaly I dont think I ever got around to watching Seven Swords, heh…]
So about FMA, I hadnt checked it out but seeing as how its all crazy-popular, I thought I might.But I kind of wanted to hear your opinion of it, everybody seems to love it but… just from what Ive seen on the CartoonNetwork,those two kids seem REALLY whinny, and it kind of put me off.Any chance you can dissuade my fears that I’ll just think of them as 2 annoying mamas boys?
thx.
well they ARE mamas boys, but that pretty much drives the series lol. you should check it out. there have been few anime series that come even close to the depth of story-telling that fma has. and once you finish the series, theres even a movie you can move onto (which is a direct continuation of the series).
Well thats pretty high praise, I’ll def check it out. Thanks again.