Who'll pray?
Nov. 10th, 2009 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rkoldLJ does not appear to be working so I am wondering if this will even be able to post. I was going to make a long and wangsty rant about some of the DoA people who are really bugging me at the moment, but it just doesn't seem worth it. Not when I have more important things on my mind, like trying to get tickets to see the Sengoku Basara Festa. One of the guests is of course, Hoshi Souichirou (since he plays one of the 2 leads and my favorite character Sanada Yukimura) For those who don't know Hoshi has been my favorite seiyuu (Sakurai is #2, even if Suzaku is my favorite character) since 2001, when I first heard from Angelic Layer. He was just so charming and smarmy as Oujirou, I loved it. And while Sanada is nothing like Oujirou, I would be so thrilled to finally have this opportunity. The Festa is the week end after my hopefully next doujinshi event, White Valentine's Day. I have to say, doing doujinshi is somewhat addicting. You do one, and then you sort of feel like you want to do more. It doesn't hurt that the last event I was rather successful and actually managed to sell around 20 books total. Please everyone, hope that I am as lucky at the next event! :D
One nice thing about going to Japan is, seeing movies on the plane so here are some spoilerifc thoughts on the Japanese movies I saw Hagetaka /the Vulture, Kita no Zeronen/Year 1 in the North, Rookies - Sotsugyo/Rookies, and Katen no Shiro/Castle Under Fiery Skies as well as the US movies Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Hagetaka
I did not know going into it that Hagetaka was a TV series but it didn't have the abrupt beginning of say Rookies which made me wonder if I'd started the movie in the beginning lol
Wow, this movie is making hostile takeovers look action packed. It's also a lot more interesting than Wall Street ever was
Yeah for evil Americans!
Stanley Brothers is so obviously Lehman Brothers it was not even funny.
Tamayama Tetsuji is very very very hot. I would watch this movie alone to stare at him. His character is also charming and sort of evil ♥
Why hello slash, you are being very obvious aren't you? That whole speech about watching Washizu and knowing his feelings, his joys and sorrows, that was just...
Tamayama so topped the poor temp work at the car plant.
Ripped from the headlines storylines, just like Law and Order.. except no murders... never mind.
Wow, Tokyo and its pen knife wielding homeless, I had no idea. Though that last phone call was incredibly slashy.
...and so was Washizu's trip to China.
Kita no Zeronen
Why do I know where Awaji Island is... OH, it's where the Akashi Kakyo Bridge is, wow, moving to Hokkaido has go to suck for those samurai.
Yeah! Ainu good guys!
Yeah! Fallen former Tokugawa samurai as heroes!
Whoah! Good guy Americans o_O
Were people really using names like Yuuta back in the 1870's?
Watanabe Ken's character is a schmuck, there is an awful lot of pressure on Japanese women to just be accepting of guys being douches.
So is this a happy ending or...
Rookies -Sotsugyo
Again I did not know this was based on a TV series which was based on a manga...
Uhhh wait huh what?!? Who is graduating and what exactly is going on.
So random punk team love love random insane teacher and play baseball, OK
The really uke captain of the team is pretty damn slashy with that punk kids who wants to be recruited by the US majors.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
That one kid has hair that looks exactly like Hikaru's from HikaGo.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
I love the fact we're not shown what happens in Koshien ♥ Because really it's not about winning or losing it's about making it there.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
For those curious, thanks to Wikipedia I discovered the "white guy" was in fact the guy from one of the Tenimyus who played Tezuka and was half Spanish. In Tenimyu he hadn't looked particularly gaijin, but with the bleached cheetos hair, his more foreign looking features really stood out.
Katen no Shiro
Heeeee Azuchi Castle... that is the castle Date and Sanada destroy with their true love in Basara anime lol
Heeee Oda Nobunga use your magic stain glass window powers!
The architect demonstrating why Oda's ideas for the keep were not so good, priceless.
The tree guy getting his head chopped off was sad.
Is there a theme of Japanese wives sacrificing everything and just accepting husbands being douches in movies?
Is it bad to be amused that the castle they are working so hard on you know is doomed?
Assassin chick was awesome, I just keep thinking Kasuga.
So did the architect die or what?
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, no really he is in it, for a few minutes
My sister in law asked me if I would have paid $2 to see it and I was not sure.
Hello Emo!Draco, I love your suit, you are so emo.
Harry needs a hoodie so he can be appropriately Justin Timberlake Stalker. So is he going to make out with Ginny on Draco's bed while Hermione films it?
That scene where Snape pushes Draco against the wall, that was hot.
They actually made Lavender more annoying in the movie and Slughorn sort of less... you actually sort of feel bad for the guy, he seems less creepy.
I kind of like children of the damned Tom, but what happened to super hot Tom from movie 2?!?! When does Tom look like that?
Whoever wrote the script seriously hates the Harmonians. That is not just their overactive imaginations.
The add on the Remus and Tonks dating seems really... add on and doesn't work. Ah the joys of trying to retrofit your add-on plot that seemed add-on and stupid from the start.
More Luna would have been a wonderful thing.
Wait, Snape was in this movie?
At least the movie makes it 100% clear for anyone who does not know what happens in the 7th book that Snape killed Dumbledore at Dumbledore's behest.
Harry sounds way more uke in Japanese, I think because he sounds disturbingly like Saji Crossroad.
Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra
Helloooooooo Storm Shadow, my are you hot. I seriously do not remember caring one way or another for Storm Shadow in the original but in this movie ♥ ♥ He looks particularly hot in his awesome white suit of pimpness as he wanders not!Paris.
Helloooooooo Destro, you are charming and while not a pimp like in the cartoon, you are still hot and evil.
Thank you for making me finally like Zartan.
Baroness, you are only fun when you are not involved in your stupid love triangle of fail and being a blond.
Dr. Mindbender has hair, this is somehow deeply wrong.
I can not decide what I think of Cobra Commander. A part of me misses failed car salesman of the comic books. Also, this Commander == so much more competent than the one in the cartoon.
Can I join Cobra? They might be an evil terrorist organization determined to rule the world, but their members are hot and super cool.
Jonathan Pryce what happened to you? o_O You look like you want to be Robert Prosky.
Duke, you would not be so bad if you did not have the crappy romance with Baroness. I admit, you sort of seem like a young Kirk from new Trek want to be. ^^;and neither of you are the Shatner
Snake Eyes, you are hilarious as a plump white kid wandering the streets of Tokyo homeless and starving. OK that set up in general is just hilarious. It does not help that then you decide to go and rob the giant imaginary ninja castle on the hill. So much of this movie seems vaguely real world with some fantasy elements but Tokyo.. their Tokyo... it makes Basara look completely historical. Once you grow up Snake Eyes you suck more than usual since you have no personality.
Scarlet, you are a lot better than in any other versions, but I am failing to see you in a love triangle unless it is Duke/Ripcord/and you.
Ripcord, I don't remember you in the cartoon or comic book but I didn't want to see you die horribly, so that is always success in my book.
In answer to the inevitable question, yes I would pay $2 to see this movie. I might even pay more.
In the future hopefully there will be discussions on the books Havemercy and Shadow Magic
I also tried 4 Conjure Oils. Poison Apple is not bad, but the other 3, Blood Rush, Gingerbread House and Sweet Death are incredibly awful.
One nice thing about going to Japan is, seeing movies on the plane so here are some spoilerifc thoughts on the Japanese movies I saw Hagetaka /the Vulture, Kita no Zeronen/Year 1 in the North, Rookies - Sotsugyo/Rookies, and Katen no Shiro/Castle Under Fiery Skies as well as the US movies Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Hagetaka
I did not know going into it that Hagetaka was a TV series but it didn't have the abrupt beginning of say Rookies which made me wonder if I'd started the movie in the beginning lol
Wow, this movie is making hostile takeovers look action packed. It's also a lot more interesting than Wall Street ever was
Yeah for evil Americans!
Stanley Brothers is so obviously Lehman Brothers it was not even funny.
Tamayama Tetsuji is very very very hot. I would watch this movie alone to stare at him. His character is also charming and sort of evil ♥
Why hello slash, you are being very obvious aren't you? That whole speech about watching Washizu and knowing his feelings, his joys and sorrows, that was just...
Tamayama so topped the poor temp work at the car plant.
Ripped from the headlines storylines, just like Law and Order.. except no murders... never mind.
Wow, Tokyo and its pen knife wielding homeless, I had no idea. Though that last phone call was incredibly slashy.
...and so was Washizu's trip to China.
Kita no Zeronen
Why do I know where Awaji Island is... OH, it's where the Akashi Kakyo Bridge is, wow, moving to Hokkaido has go to suck for those samurai.
Yeah! Ainu good guys!
Yeah! Fallen former Tokugawa samurai as heroes!
Whoah! Good guy Americans o_O
Were people really using names like Yuuta back in the 1870's?
Watanabe Ken's character is a schmuck, there is an awful lot of pressure on Japanese women to just be accepting of guys being douches.
So is this a happy ending or...
Rookies -Sotsugyo
Again I did not know this was based on a TV series which was based on a manga...
Uhhh wait huh what?!? Who is graduating and what exactly is going on.
So random punk team love love random insane teacher and play baseball, OK
The really uke captain of the team is pretty damn slashy with that punk kids who wants to be recruited by the US majors.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
That one kid has hair that looks exactly like Hikaru's from HikaGo.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
I love the fact we're not shown what happens in Koshien ♥ Because really it's not about winning or losing it's about making it there.
Hey wait, is that a white guy in the band of punks?!? Why is there a white guy going to a Japanese school.
For those curious, thanks to Wikipedia I discovered the "white guy" was in fact the guy from one of the Tenimyus who played Tezuka and was half Spanish. In Tenimyu he hadn't looked particularly gaijin, but with the bleached cheetos hair, his more foreign looking features really stood out.
Katen no Shiro
Heeeee Azuchi Castle... that is the castle Date and Sanada destroy with their true love in Basara anime lol
Heeee Oda Nobunga use your magic stain glass window powers!
The architect demonstrating why Oda's ideas for the keep were not so good, priceless.
The tree guy getting his head chopped off was sad.
Is there a theme of Japanese wives sacrificing everything and just accepting husbands being douches in movies?
Is it bad to be amused that the castle they are working so hard on you know is doomed?
Assassin chick was awesome, I just keep thinking Kasuga.
So did the architect die or what?
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, no really he is in it, for a few minutes
My sister in law asked me if I would have paid $2 to see it and I was not sure.
Hello Emo!Draco, I love your suit, you are so emo.
Harry needs a hoodie so he can be appropriately Justin Timberlake Stalker. So is he going to make out with Ginny on Draco's bed while Hermione films it?
That scene where Snape pushes Draco against the wall, that was hot.
They actually made Lavender more annoying in the movie and Slughorn sort of less... you actually sort of feel bad for the guy, he seems less creepy.
I kind of like children of the damned Tom, but what happened to super hot Tom from movie 2?!?! When does Tom look like that?
Whoever wrote the script seriously hates the Harmonians. That is not just their overactive imaginations.
The add on the Remus and Tonks dating seems really... add on and doesn't work. Ah the joys of trying to retrofit your add-on plot that seemed add-on and stupid from the start.
More Luna would have been a wonderful thing.
Wait, Snape was in this movie?
At least the movie makes it 100% clear for anyone who does not know what happens in the 7th book that Snape killed Dumbledore at Dumbledore's behest.
Harry sounds way more uke in Japanese, I think because he sounds disturbingly like Saji Crossroad.
Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra
Helloooooooo Storm Shadow, my are you hot. I seriously do not remember caring one way or another for Storm Shadow in the original but in this movie ♥ ♥ He looks particularly hot in his awesome white suit of pimpness as he wanders not!Paris.
Helloooooooo Destro, you are charming and while not a pimp like in the cartoon, you are still hot and evil.
Thank you for making me finally like Zartan.
Baroness, you are only fun when you are not involved in your stupid love triangle of fail and being a blond.
Dr. Mindbender has hair, this is somehow deeply wrong.
I can not decide what I think of Cobra Commander. A part of me misses failed car salesman of the comic books. Also, this Commander == so much more competent than the one in the cartoon.
Can I join Cobra? They might be an evil terrorist organization determined to rule the world, but their members are hot and super cool.
Jonathan Pryce what happened to you? o_O You look like you want to be Robert Prosky.
Duke, you would not be so bad if you did not have the crappy romance with Baroness. I admit, you sort of seem like a young Kirk from new Trek want to be. ^^;
Snake Eyes, you are hilarious as a plump white kid wandering the streets of Tokyo homeless and starving. OK that set up in general is just hilarious. It does not help that then you decide to go and rob the giant imaginary ninja castle on the hill. So much of this movie seems vaguely real world with some fantasy elements but Tokyo.. their Tokyo... it makes Basara look completely historical. Once you grow up Snake Eyes you suck more than usual since you have no personality.
Scarlet, you are a lot better than in any other versions, but I am failing to see you in a love triangle unless it is Duke/Ripcord/and you.
Ripcord, I don't remember you in the cartoon or comic book but I didn't want to see you die horribly, so that is always success in my book.
In answer to the inevitable question, yes I would pay $2 to see this movie. I might even pay more.
In the future hopefully there will be discussions on the books Havemercy and Shadow Magic
I also tried 4 Conjure Oils. Poison Apple is not bad, but the other 3, Blood Rush, Gingerbread House and Sweet Death are incredibly awful.