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Finished watching Kids On The Slope.
The first half of the show was excellent.
The latter half of the show really annoyed me and I feel a significant sense of disappointment over the lack of resolution & relationship development, as well as the uninteresting mid-foray into the subplot revolving around the two side characters, Junichi and Yurika.
Fuck that, Yo
However, I gotta praise it's animation, especially during the jamming scenes.
Overall, I don't regret watching it. I'd definitely recommend it. But I was let down and I guess that's bound to happen when one's expectations are so high.
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Watched a Sean Bean movie called "Cleanskin." Started out as a decent enough "24 in London" knockoff, but after about 20 minutes it decides we need a sympathetic Arab character, because terrorists are PEOPLE, man. Meanwhile, Sean Bean and partner are setting guys on fire and shooting terrorists in mid-jump between buildings. So yeah, a LITTLE tone-deaf, to say the least.
I'm all for a nuanced portrayal of an Arab youth who gets seduced to horrible extremes after feeling ostracized by the culture around him, but there's a time and place for that. Also, there's some sort of conspiracy story with Charlotte Rampling and Edward Fox, but they are in, like.....less then 10 minutes of the movie, so you really end up giving not a single fuck about it. Bean is appropiatly grizzled, though, and I can't really complain about the acting in general, wonky script aside.
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I recently watched "Twister" (not the one about chasing tornadoes). It had William Burroughs, Harry Dean Stanton, and Crispin Glover in the same film. I was entertained.
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Watching Gundam Wing for the billionth time, also running through horrible horror movies on netflix...though rubber is pretty good psychic tire that makes peoples heads explode is pretty neat
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Think about what you are doing with your life, then play Dengeki Strykers.
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Tom Waits is the perfect drinking music.
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watching wimbledon getting ready for mens single championship match between federer and murray
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At this very moment I am listening to Dio Holy Diver....and I have the urge to punch something....god i love Dio
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I try to not watch things based on Light Novels.
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Generally agree, though Baccano and Durara were based on light novels.
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BrokenMagnum said:
I try to not watch things based on Light Novels.
Two episodes in and it's actually pretty baller. Have you watched any of it? -
Watching 24 on netflix
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Grey wasn't bad but they didn't give meit would have been epic me thinksSpoiler:the Liam Neesom v wolf fight were he was gonna use broken shot bottle while saying the poem
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it was better to just end the movie there, imo.
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Man Liam Neeson movies have to be rediculous look at taken( which there making a sequel to) and unknown he is the modern day old people hero, I a madlock who kicks ass lol
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Watched The Raid: Redemption over the weekend. It wasn't quite as action packed as I was expecting, though I'm sure those expectations were a bit much. I found the story and characters more compelling than I expected, so overall it pretty much hit the spot.
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Excessive(ly awesome!) -
http://youtu.be/HDGj4bP5HME
How do I do embedded videos on here? o.o -
Right below the video there is a "Share" button, click on that and then the "Embed" button. A box with some code and options below that will appear. Check the "use old embed code" box and select what size you want that. Once you have the settings you want, copy the code from that box and paste it here.
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You need to do the full url, http www .com and then the forum software just figures it out
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So, Dark Knight Rises was pretty good. I liked it best of all the Nolan films, although that may just be my being really fucking tired of The Dark Knight after being bombarded with it for the last 4 years. Anne Hathaway surprisingly gave us one of the best Catwoman performances I've yet seen, and Tom Hardy's Bane was a real kick; he played him like a boisterous, more physical Bond villain, appropriate given the opening of the movie is firmly in the Bond cold open mode (what is it with other films doing Bond villains and openings better than the the actual Bond villains and openings since Casino Royale? Then again, considering we haven't any stand-outs of the former since Goldeneye and the latter since The World Is Not Enough, I'll take 'em where I can get 'em). The movie's political agenda (inasmuch as it has one), on the other hand, not so good. Bane's master plan is essentially a conservative's nightmare vision of the Occupy movement, and while Nolan paints enough of a picture of corruption and assholishness amongst the one percent and such to engender sympathy, it still a little too much on the fearmongering side for my taste. I still give him the benefit of the doubt in that despite the fact TDK/TDKR can easily be read to have uncomfortabley neoconservative themes/messages, there's more to it than meets the eye. Also the ending was not what I would've done, but I'm over about bitching about other interpretations of Batman in other media that aren't too flagrantly different. So yeah, great movie, I'd recommend it.
