Saturday, June 19, 2004

Sing a happy song.
Yeah, I devised another new myOtaku scheme. I personally really like this one, but if a lot of people miss my old one, I'll change it back.

In case you don't get it, this scheme is made up of screen shots from my favorite scene in Kill Bill Volume One- The Origins of O-Ren Ishii, more commonly known as "the anime scene" around here. Production I.G. makes some pretty kick-ass stuff, such as Blue Submarine Number Six and FLCL, and what they did for Kill Bill is no exception. The first time I saw the sequence I thought the visual style was rather.. Quirky, but it definitely grew on me. In fact, the way O-Ren was drawn in the Matsumoto death scene was very, very inspiring to me. I plan on attempting some fan art about it later.

..Anyway, moving on.

I had a friend come over here yesterday, simply because there was nothing else to do at the time. We played a bit of Soul Calibur (I swear, that game never gets old), watched some Flash cartoons, and he ended up spending the night over here. We went to Albertson's, rented Kill Bill and The Ring, bought a bag of chips, and ended up watching DVDs and Adult Swim until four in the morning.

This was the first time I had seen The Ring, and it was slightly different than I expected it to be. I thought that it was going to be more blatant, kill-one-person-after-another scary, or something like that, not pseudo-psychological thriller/mystery scary. I wasn't really scared at all during the course of the film, but it left me thinking afterwards, and that's when I got a tad creeped out. If I were to make a horror and/or thriller movie, that's how I would do it. Blatant surprise-you-by-jumping-out-from-somewhere-while-a-loud-screechy-noise-plays films are all too common, in my opinion, and very few can distinguish themselves from the crowd.

"Post-film creepiness" movies, however, especially when seen in a dark room at 2 AM, are really awesome. Your mind can come up with what scares you the most, and one's interpretation of, say, the sort of crazy stuff that happened on the island when the girl (Samara) was still alive, and what you think may be entirely different from someone else's idea. This gets more people scared in a wider variety of ways.

And that is awesome.

However, while watching the movie, I noticed that one of my little one-shot manga things was an unintentional ripoff of The Ring, at least with the creepy girl never sleeping in a mental hospital thing. I suppose I'll have to revise that, because I really liked where that story was heading..

We woke up this morning, ate some pancakes, played Time Crisis 3 for a little while, and went to go see Dodgeball starring Ben Stiller. I enjoyed it, because of Ben Stiller's character, but I felt that that was most of what made the movie funny. There's practically no story to it, I didn't even catch most of the characters' names, and the rest of the viewers laughed every time somebody got pegged with a dodgeball, which made me wonder if that's what they tried to do while making this movie.. Honestly, slapstick sucks.

But none of this is what one should expect from a Ben Stiller comedy, is it?

Seeing Ben Stiller's jerk-ass character in Dodgeball, however, got me even more excited to see The Anchorman starring Will Ferrel. I had no desire to see that Elf movie he did, but this one seriously looks good. I love self-absorbed jackass movie characters. It's sort of a guilty pleasure of mine.

There's something else I wanted to talk about.. Some sort of crazy rant about something about most people that angers me.. But I've forgotten it, so I'll have to cut this post short. G'night.
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