myOtaku.com: John

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1990-03-29
Gender
• Male
Location
• Kansas
Member Since
• 2003-07-31
Occupation
• Student
Real Name
• John Cook

Personal

Anime Fan Since
• Oh, I don't know. DBZ, sixth grade?
Favorite Anime
• Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, World Record (Animatrix)
Goals
• Finish an Illustrator project of mine, learn guitar
Hobbies
• Illustratoring, browsing the internet, listening to music, being generic.

myOtaku.com: John

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Never There
A week or two ago, my dad and I were at Movie Gallery, where they were having a buy-2-get-2-free thing, and I picked up The Animatrix. I had seen it before, but as with most great movies, you really don't get the full effect until you watch it a second time.

I'd say that my favorite short was World Record. It really seemed to have more depth than the rest, and listening to the commentary on it and watching the making-of featurette really helped me see some things that I otherwise wouldn't have.

And while I'm on the subject of movies (and watching them again, I suppose), I saw Batman Returns again for the first time in years. It really helped me appreciate it a lot more, and despite some incredibly cheesy dialogue, it was really a marvelous movie. Tim Burton did an amazing job with all the subtleties in it, like when Selena is caught by her boss looking through secret files and the light from a desk lamp casts shadows on her face from her glasses in the shape of the eyeholes in her Catwoman suit.

I just hope that Batman Begins can live up to the first two movies (screw the ones after that, lol), and it really looks like it can so far. It's about time I saw a new movie that wasn't overtly disappointing.
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