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Birthday
• 1985-07-23
Gender
• Male
Location
• Chichester, England
Member Since
• 2003-08-04
Occupation
• Ex-OtakuBoards Team Miyazaki Leader, Actor, Writer, Director, Stage Combatant...
Real Name
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Achievements
• Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
Anime Fan Since
• I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
Favorite Anime
• Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Outlaw Star, RahXephon, Zoids, Princess Mononoke, Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Bleach, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Fruits Basket
Goals
• To write my series of stories, and to act in cool stuff.
Hobbies
• Writing, acting, anime, GameCube, Wii, swordfighting
Talents
• Stage combat, writing, acting, being vaguely humourous, and listening.

myOtaku.com: Solo Tremaine

Saturday, August 14, 2004

Yu-Gi-I, Robot

It's been a fun week, hehe. I'll talk more about the rest of it later, but for now I actually have a coherent subject to write down ^_^

Yesterday I went to see the Yu-Gi-Oh Movie, as it was the day of its release I figured it'd be pretty quiet. The problem was, it wasn't chowing in Chichester so we had to go and see it in Portsmouth. Typical.

I'm glad we (my sister and I) decided to catch a train that would supposedly get us there an hour earlier, because what should have been a 25 minute journey lasted about three-quarters of an hour. Still, we got there alright, and proceeded to buy tickets.

Now, I won't put up any pretentions: the main reason we wanted to see the Yu-Gi-Oh Movie was to get a shot at the trading cards that came free with the admission. Ideally, I wanted the Dark Sorcerer of Chaos (or whatever his name is), and my sister wanted the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon. There are four cards in the set, and we were two people being admitted. 50-50 chances, right?

Bollocks.

They're Ultra Rares. We got two Watapons, which are (to us, anyway) completely useless. And since they were in packets to begin with, we couldn't exactly try and ask them if we could swap for another card. So we went to HMV and bought Age of Kings between us.

The film itself was exactly as I expected it to be- corny, predictable and average, but with cool monsters. And yet again, the Duel between Yugi and Kaiba had holes in it- there were points I just didn't understand at all, as if someone had written a poorly-proofread fanfic.

It would have been much more enjoyable if they'd made something less twee. Although it was probably marred by my pissiness about not getting decent cards. If I'd have known, I might not even have bothered going and just ordered the cards over the Net.

On the way out we saw a girl with the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card. Breathe deeply, calm yourself...

But Wait, There's More!
Not of Yu-Gi-Oh, though.

I'd promised a friend of mine that I'd go and see I, Robot with him that same day, in the evening. And I also said I'd take my little sister. So after quickly grabbing a bite to eat (and subsequently eating the bites we'd grabbed), we set off to the Chichester cinema.

I've never seen two films in two different cinemas in one day, heh. It's kind of... well, I'd rather not have to rush my food, and if Yu-Gi-Oh had been more than average it might have been nicer, but meh.

I, Robot, on the other hand, was thoroughly enjoyable ^__^ There seem to be a lot of science fiction film plots in which technology goes wrong: Minority Report, The Matrix, Equilibruim, I, Robot. But they're all pretty good, even if they get a little formulaic after a while. But I, Robot was done very well- it had intelligence and character as well as a good sense of action. I was a little dubious of Will Smith at first- having seen a little of Men in Black II earlier, I'd wondered whether it was going to be a repeat sort of performance. But it was more well-rounded.

And the pseudo-relationship he had with the psychiartrist wasn't overplayed or formed into something it shouldn't have been for the sake of the plot. She did look a little odd whenever she got emotional, but played it well anyway.

When we got back, we ate a fantastic pasta bake and played on Age of Kings, which contains some of the worst Scottish accents I've heard in my entire life. Some words are pronounced with a Dorset accent, other times it sounds more Jamaican... ugh, just terrible. If it was a really strong Scottish accent, it should be near-incomprehensible.

But they did manage to determine the difference between the Scottish and English, which surprised me. I half-expected them all to be lumped together.

I haven't heard the English voices yet, though...

If I were a stereotyped English person I'd either be talking like Dick Van Dyke (who sounded like he was taught cockney by an Australian) or The Queen.

And I don't, as many people can attest to, heh.

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