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Jul. 19th, 2003 10:38 amI watched Kiki's Delivery Service last night and thought it was great. I really enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would, somehow (I had already kind of decided I wouldn't watch it since it didn't appear to have monsters, robots, or explosions). If I were a softee I would've even teared up a little towards the end, when she caught... hm but I shouldn't give everything away, right?
And I noticed last night that there is a new book from Junji Ito coming out in September, called Gyo, and it sounds like it has the potential to be very good and very freaky. I thought Uzumaki was amazing but was less pleased with Tomie and couldn't sustain interest in it. I am pretty sparing with applications of the ol' "manga" (and anime too), mostly sticking to the stuff that I see being praised by people who don't appear too hardcore about the whole thing. Well and it has to be simpatico with my basic interests (again - monsters, explosions... there are so many robots I can't really go by them or I wind up with a bunch of false positives).
We saw Terminator 3 Thursday night and I thought it was pretty good. It basically beat me into submission with some long sequences of destruction early on. Maybe we sat too close to the screen. Oh and I was amused at how they made the 'Terminatrix' a pretty terror caricature towards the beginning - she's born in a deparment store window, covets the first nice car and cash wad that she sees, drives recklessly while using a cell phone, then gets a boob job. I had to laugh. A lot of the movie seemed pretty fatalistic. I wasn't expecting that. Despite that he was played for laughs often, the Governator was never quite the chummy robopal from the second flick. I guess he did have his heroics but a lot of the time he was just a scary machine. I don't think he was ever as menacing as he was in '84, but at least they tried. Someone, not me, could write an essay analyzing the 'national mood' when each Terminator film was made, and comparing the spirit of the country then to the corresponding film. But geez, why.
I haven't had any sugary treats in almost a week now. Of course I've still had some refined sugar in the diet, undoubtedly, but nothing like a cookie or a fistfull of candy. Naturally I'm now fiending for some filthy toothwrecking delight, such as yellow Zingers or something. Drooling like Homer here just thinking about it but, I honestly think my precious moods have been more stable the past few days, so I am trying to still hold out. Although. It is the weekend. And I do have some errands that I need to run shortly.
And I noticed last night that there is a new book from Junji Ito coming out in September, called Gyo, and it sounds like it has the potential to be very good and very freaky. I thought Uzumaki was amazing but was less pleased with Tomie and couldn't sustain interest in it. I am pretty sparing with applications of the ol' "manga" (and anime too), mostly sticking to the stuff that I see being praised by people who don't appear too hardcore about the whole thing. Well and it has to be simpatico with my basic interests (again - monsters, explosions... there are so many robots I can't really go by them or I wind up with a bunch of false positives).
We saw Terminator 3 Thursday night and I thought it was pretty good. It basically beat me into submission with some long sequences of destruction early on. Maybe we sat too close to the screen. Oh and I was amused at how they made the 'Terminatrix' a pretty terror caricature towards the beginning - she's born in a deparment store window, covets the first nice car and cash wad that she sees, drives recklessly while using a cell phone, then gets a boob job. I had to laugh. A lot of the movie seemed pretty fatalistic. I wasn't expecting that. Despite that he was played for laughs often, the Governator was never quite the chummy robopal from the second flick. I guess he did have his heroics but a lot of the time he was just a scary machine. I don't think he was ever as menacing as he was in '84, but at least they tried. Someone, not me, could write an essay analyzing the 'national mood' when each Terminator film was made, and comparing the spirit of the country then to the corresponding film. But geez, why.
I haven't had any sugary treats in almost a week now. Of course I've still had some refined sugar in the diet, undoubtedly, but nothing like a cookie or a fistfull of candy. Naturally I'm now fiending for some filthy toothwrecking delight, such as yellow Zingers or something. Drooling like Homer here just thinking about it but, I honestly think my precious moods have been more stable the past few days, so I am trying to still hold out. Although. It is the weekend. And I do have some errands that I need to run shortly.
