So to bring in the new year here's a end of the year film and anime review. I haven't seen that many films this year and believe me I should have so here are the films I have seen.
Predators: This film may not be as epic than the first Predator but it does get a thumbs up in my book. To me Predators is one of the few films that's made by fans for fans, it's that perfect back to basics film that the AVP films have FAILED to do so. Seriously this film surpasses both of the Alien vs Predator films for what it is and that is Predators is a kinetic grindhouse sci-fi action film.
Iron Man 2: Well what can I say about this film it's a fun roller coaster ride of a sequel and really worth the watch. Oh yeah own it on DVD or Blu Ray.
Scott Pilgrim: It's one of those films that doesn't need any logic to get it. Just that it's so over the top in acting, plot, and action it does keep you laughing and entertain from beginning to end.
Splice: My only complaint is that I didn't see it in theaters. This film is right up there with my personal holy guilty pleasure trilogy of Lifeforce, Innocent Blood, and Species. Splice is really subtle film with plot, character, and delivery. In no way it doesn't feel like those cheesy b-movie you watch on the Sci-Fi channel. And the creature designs of Dren let me tell you...THANK YOU GUILLERMO DEL TORO! But seriously this film is amazing.
Black Swan: HOLY GOD...this film is just borderline hardcore film. It's just so tactile of what goes on and how it gets you cling to your seat to watch more. The performance from Natalie Portman is by far the most impressive acting she has ever done in her career. And to be honest the performance from Mila Kunis was surprisingly impressive her skills really does shine through unlike in other films she starred in. An A+++ performance from Mila in my book. At some scenes this film goes into David Cronenberg territory at a really subtle pace.
Now here some animes I've watched in 2010 some of them I've already reviewed.
Comic Party: I must say it was quite entertaining to watch. Now me as a starting comic creator this series has really touched a special place in my heart. The main characters are interesting and hilarious to watch from beginning to end and each have a distinct personalities. The whole of the series was all about first-person experience of creating comics and the difficult steps of achieving that goal of creating and selling comics. The way I see it for most up start comic creators can learn how to capture readers attention and what to expect at a comic convention.
Comic Party Revolution: The thirteen episode sequel of Comic Party, the story starts off as the main characters from the first series return as full fledged comic creators. And as just as hilarious as the first series with additional characters.
Project Blue Earth SOS: Far by a deeply compelling series with unique story and characters. Taking place in a futuristic version of the late 90s early 2000 where earth is being invaded by foreign lifeforms. It might sound cliche but trust me the revelation at the end of the series is surprising epic. The series itself has only six episodes but that seems to be a unique way of exposition the story in a 45 minute time frame in each episode. It doesn't feel too short and the series gets deeply intense with its action and driven character development.
Red Garden: Basically an anime equivalent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but with deep tense drama that carries the series from beginning to end. The series revolves around four high school girls whom somehow can't recall what happen at the night when they were killed. Until a mysterious woman approach these girls and explained that they're already dead and they're resurrected in special borrowed bodies. The exposition of this transaction is later on through the series putting the girls at a crossroad of harsh understanding and acceptance. After the series ends there's a 45 minute epilogue episode where it's 300 years in the future and the girls from the series are still around as urban legend bounty hunters while having normal lives in school. The acting is a bit melodramatic but it's still worth to watch.
SHUFFLE!: I must it was quite entertaining. The last six episodes were all around insane but in a amazing way. I mean through the first 18 episodes were all cheeky hilarious comedy and then just before you know it gets emotionally dark. A complete 180 of crazy fucked up drama that'll make most soap operas look like chicken-shit. I deeply recommend watching SHUFFLE!
Dragonaut Resonance: Now this series is something else not sure on how to describe this series except that it's intense and the same time heartfelt. The story goes that earth is being invading by alien dragons which are from a nearby planetoid that's actually a dragon. To add these space dragons can take on human form. There's so much going I can't go into details but trust me it's worth watching. Just like Red Garden, Dragonaut Resonance has a bonus episode that's not quite in continuity of the series with all of its main characters. This bonus episode was meant to be hilarious therefore you'll might get a laugh out of it.
Ghost Hunt: Unlike those other paranormal reality shows, things are actually going on in Ghost Hunt. The series is about a group with different backgrounds investigating paranormal activities. Sure it sounds cliche but trust me this series got some standards that stands out from most paranormal animes. For one the main characters have certain set of skills to encounter and fend off spiritual forces. The interactions among the main characters differ between intense to down right hilarious.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Anime Reviews
For this blog entry here's my four anime reviews.
1. Comic Party: I've recently discovered this series last month and it was quite entertaining to watch. Now me as a starting comic creator this series has really touched a special place in my heart. The main characters are interesting and hilarious to watch from beginning to end and each have a distinct personalities. The whole of the series was all about first-person experience of creating comics and the difficult steps of achieving that goal of creating and selling comics. The I see it for up start comic creators can learn how to capture readers attention and what to expect at a comic convention.
2. Comic Party Revolution: The thirteen episode sequel of Comic Party, the story starts off as the main characters from the first series return as full fledged comic creators. And as just as hilarious as the first series with additional characters.
3. Project Blue Earth SOS: Far by a deeply compelling series with unique story and characters. Taking place in a futuristic version of the late 90s early 2000 where earth is being invaded by foreign lifeforms. It might sound cliche but trust me the revelation at the end of the series is surprising epic. The series itself has only six episodes but that seems to be a unique way of exposition the story in a 45 minute time frame in each episode. It doesn't feel too short and the series gets deeply intense with its action and driven character development.
4. Red Garden: Basically an anime equivalent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but with deep tense drama that carries the series from beginning to end. The series revolves around four high school girls whom somehow can't recall what happen at the night when they were killed. Until a mysterious woman approach these girls and explained that they're already dead and they're resurrected in special borrowed bodies. The exposition of this transaction is later on through the series putting the girls at a crossroad of harsh understanding and acceptance. After the series ends there's a 45 minute epilogue episode where it's 300 years in the future and the girls from the series are still around as urban legend bounty hunters while having normal lives in school. The acting is a bit melodramatic but it's still worth to watch.
1. Comic Party: I've recently discovered this series last month and it was quite entertaining to watch. Now me as a starting comic creator this series has really touched a special place in my heart. The main characters are interesting and hilarious to watch from beginning to end and each have a distinct personalities. The whole of the series was all about first-person experience of creating comics and the difficult steps of achieving that goal of creating and selling comics. The I see it for up start comic creators can learn how to capture readers attention and what to expect at a comic convention.
2. Comic Party Revolution: The thirteen episode sequel of Comic Party, the story starts off as the main characters from the first series return as full fledged comic creators. And as just as hilarious as the first series with additional characters.
3. Project Blue Earth SOS: Far by a deeply compelling series with unique story and characters. Taking place in a futuristic version of the late 90s early 2000 where earth is being invaded by foreign lifeforms. It might sound cliche but trust me the revelation at the end of the series is surprising epic. The series itself has only six episodes but that seems to be a unique way of exposition the story in a 45 minute time frame in each episode. It doesn't feel too short and the series gets deeply intense with its action and driven character development.
4. Red Garden: Basically an anime equivalent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but with deep tense drama that carries the series from beginning to end. The series revolves around four high school girls whom somehow can't recall what happen at the night when they were killed. Until a mysterious woman approach these girls and explained that they're already dead and they're resurrected in special borrowed bodies. The exposition of this transaction is later on through the series putting the girls at a crossroad of harsh understanding and acceptance. After the series ends there's a 45 minute epilogue episode where it's 300 years in the future and the girls from the series are still around as urban legend bounty hunters while having normal lives in school. The acting is a bit melodramatic but it's still worth to watch.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Top Ten Guilty Pleasure Films
Oh yes we all have those films that are not so great to most people but to people like me we actually like them no matter how silly the films are. And we always seem to sympathies the films instead of criticizing them. So here's my top ten of guilty pleasure films that I enjoy and everyone else don't.
10. DOA: Dead or Alive: OK sure it's video game film and like most video game films they suck (except for Mortal Kombat). But I seem to enjoy it despite a few awkward scenes that made no sense I kind of like the film. The fight scenes were decent, the plot was fair enough and the was passable. There was an issue that the character Ayane was portrayed by a non-Asian actress but since the game is not as old as say Street Fighter I'll let that side.
9. Justice League of America (1997): That's right there was a JLA movie back in the late 90s. And honestly I prefer this film over the bullshit Schumacher Batman films of the 90s. Sure it was cheesy it was low budget but at least it had the spirit of the JLA The odd thing about it despite there's no official DVD of the film it's still can be found in bootleg DVDs online.
8. I Love You Beth Cooper: Again I enjoy this film because mainly it DIDN'T relay on the same jaded boring repetitive pussy jokes and predictably non-interesting characters. This film is like the modern equivalent of the teenage films of the 80s (which has much better stories, comedy, and characters). Hayden Panettiere's character apparently broken the bullshit stereotype of a dumb blond or a stuck up bitchy popular girl and just ran with something a little common in real life.
7. Dark Light: There are films from the SyFy (Sci-Fi) channel that are just full out cheesy and weird and Dark Light is no exception. Basically the film's about a ancient demonic woman who was later in present day being recruited by secret organization to fight an evil that's spread a deadly plague. Sure the plot and development is not all impressive but to me I'm a sucker for films so cheesy it's good.
6. Doom: OK I get it that the film doesn't relate to the games but honestly I don't care. I mean I played the Doom games (from the SNES) and yet I still enjoy the film. Even if the film had the budget of the Lord of the Rings they wouldn't give the whole "one marine fighting demons from hell" any proper justice. This film is not a complete cop out just that they cut a few corners to make this film interesting. Silly maybe but not really stupid, self-aware but without being a parody of itself.
5.Innocent Blood: This was the film that was talked about even in grade school believe it or not. A black comedy horror film about a sexy vampire feeding on mafia guys yeah that was a lot to buy back then. And if you had HBO that your parents won't paying attention of what was on and you were at 8 to 10 years (say for example me). You were so pulled in to this film you would've kept it to yourself until you tell friends in grade school that you've watched it.
4. Species 1-4: I couldn't count these films as separate films cause that wouldn't be fair in this top ten list. Anyway, Species was another film that grew on me since grade school. An alien-human woman Hybrid escapes from a scientific facility and now wants to mate to reproduce. With the following sequels the plot seems to be the same with some differences ether way all these films I deeply enjoy (as free porn that is).
3. Class of Nuke'Em High: This was the film that made wish my high school was like that. A normal high school that is located a quarter of a mile from a nuclear power plant. A film that features a high school kid having his "tally-whacker" growing to the size of Godzilla's thumb after smoking a nuclear contaminated weed. And as me being a kid back then I was beginning to believe that wow would that happen if I smoke some radioactive weed.
2. Generation X: A low budget 90s comic film that I find more entertaining than X3, Wolverine Origins, and Dragon Ball Evolution combine. This film was a TV movie that came out on my birthday so it really has a special place in my heart. Originally was meant to become a TV series after the film aired but that plan fell through and the film was shown only once and ever be seen again. That is until the help from the internet DVDs and recoded copies of Generation X, the film has been sold on bootleg DVDs. Up to this day I still enjoy this from because it has the spirit of the Generation X comic despite how cheesy it is.
1. Lifeforce: This was the first guilty pleasure film I ever watched when I was a kid. Apparently at the time when the ratings system didn't reach to VHS just yet my mom actually brought this film out of the it was a horror film. Just didn't know that it would have a space vampire woman spending most of the film asshole-naked draining her victims of their "lifeforce". Up to this day I still watch this film on DVD including the 15 minutes of material that was never shown in theaters and on VHS. I swear my mom would freaked out and thrown away the VHS if I went up to her and say "Momma, there's a naked lady on this movie. Should I be watching this?"
10. DOA: Dead or Alive: OK sure it's video game film and like most video game films they suck (except for Mortal Kombat). But I seem to enjoy it despite a few awkward scenes that made no sense I kind of like the film. The fight scenes were decent, the plot was fair enough and the was passable. There was an issue that the character Ayane was portrayed by a non-Asian actress but since the game is not as old as say Street Fighter I'll let that side.
9. Justice League of America (1997): That's right there was a JLA movie back in the late 90s. And honestly I prefer this film over the bullshit Schumacher Batman films of the 90s. Sure it was cheesy it was low budget but at least it had the spirit of the JLA The odd thing about it despite there's no official DVD of the film it's still can be found in bootleg DVDs online.
8. I Love You Beth Cooper: Again I enjoy this film because mainly it DIDN'T relay on the same jaded boring repetitive pussy jokes and predictably non-interesting characters. This film is like the modern equivalent of the teenage films of the 80s (which has much better stories, comedy, and characters). Hayden Panettiere's character apparently broken the bullshit stereotype of a dumb blond or a stuck up bitchy popular girl and just ran with something a little common in real life.
7. Dark Light: There are films from the SyFy (Sci-Fi) channel that are just full out cheesy and weird and Dark Light is no exception. Basically the film's about a ancient demonic woman who was later in present day being recruited by secret organization to fight an evil that's spread a deadly plague. Sure the plot and development is not all impressive but to me I'm a sucker for films so cheesy it's good.
6. Doom: OK I get it that the film doesn't relate to the games but honestly I don't care. I mean I played the Doom games (from the SNES) and yet I still enjoy the film. Even if the film had the budget of the Lord of the Rings they wouldn't give the whole "one marine fighting demons from hell" any proper justice. This film is not a complete cop out just that they cut a few corners to make this film interesting. Silly maybe but not really stupid, self-aware but without being a parody of itself.
5.Innocent Blood: This was the film that was talked about even in grade school believe it or not. A black comedy horror film about a sexy vampire feeding on mafia guys yeah that was a lot to buy back then. And if you had HBO that your parents won't paying attention of what was on and you were at 8 to 10 years (say for example me). You were so pulled in to this film you would've kept it to yourself until you tell friends in grade school that you've watched it.
4. Species 1-4: I couldn't count these films as separate films cause that wouldn't be fair in this top ten list. Anyway, Species was another film that grew on me since grade school. An alien-human woman Hybrid escapes from a scientific facility and now wants to mate to reproduce. With the following sequels the plot seems to be the same with some differences ether way all these films I deeply enjoy (as free porn that is).
3. Class of Nuke'Em High: This was the film that made wish my high school was like that. A normal high school that is located a quarter of a mile from a nuclear power plant. A film that features a high school kid having his "tally-whacker" growing to the size of Godzilla's thumb after smoking a nuclear contaminated weed. And as me being a kid back then I was beginning to believe that wow would that happen if I smoke some radioactive weed.
2. Generation X: A low budget 90s comic film that I find more entertaining than X3, Wolverine Origins, and Dragon Ball Evolution combine. This film was a TV movie that came out on my birthday so it really has a special place in my heart. Originally was meant to become a TV series after the film aired but that plan fell through and the film was shown only once and ever be seen again. That is until the help from the internet DVDs and recoded copies of Generation X, the film has been sold on bootleg DVDs. Up to this day I still enjoy this from because it has the spirit of the Generation X comic despite how cheesy it is.
1. Lifeforce: This was the first guilty pleasure film I ever watched when I was a kid. Apparently at the time when the ratings system didn't reach to VHS just yet my mom actually brought this film out of the it was a horror film. Just didn't know that it would have a space vampire woman spending most of the film asshole-naked draining her victims of their "lifeforce". Up to this day I still watch this film on DVD including the 15 minutes of material that was never shown in theaters and on VHS. I swear my mom would freaked out and thrown away the VHS if I went up to her and say "Momma, there's a naked lady on this movie. Should I be watching this?"
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