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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Apr 9, 2018 3:14:03 GMT
Watched Itazurana Kiss Campus Hen, ( Mischievous Kiss The Movie) Part 2: ,which is based off a drama series. It's a romance comedy,and it's enjoying and relaxing to watch. It gives a warm feeling, and is about guys and girls whom have crushes on each other in university, and things they get up to. The humor may not be original, but it's charming, such as when a pretty girl goes into the otaku room by accident, which is a room that has only male otakus whom have no idea how to interact with women because everything they associate with women is in anime/manga. It's got a nice colorful setting,that reminds me of happy times during summer.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Apr 9, 2018 9:36:38 GMT
Watched Itazurana Kiss Campus Hen, ( Mischievous Kiss The Movie) Part 2: ,which is based off a drama series. It's a romance comedy,and it's enjoying and relaxing to watch. It gives a warm feeling, and is about guys and girls whom have crushes on each other in university, and things they get up to. The humor may not be original, but it's charming, such as when a pretty girl goes into the otaku room by accident, which is a room that has only male otakus whom have no idea how to interact with women because everything they associate with women is in anime/manga. It's got a nice colorful setting,that reminds me of happy times during summer. Fun Japanese factoid: see her ears? While those dumbo-like ears would be ridiculed here in the US, babies born with ears like that are thought to be destined for wealth and greatness. Perhaps that why you see so many Japanese celebrities with ears like that.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Apr 9, 2018 10:46:08 GMT
Watched Itazurana Kiss Campus Hen, ( Mischievous Kiss The Movie) Part 2: ,which is based off a drama series. It's a romance comedy,and it's enjoying and relaxing to watch. It gives a warm feeling, and is about guys and girls whom have crushes on each other in university, and things they get up to. The humor may not be original, but it's charming, such as when a pretty girl goes into the otaku room by accident, which is a room that has only male otakus whom have no idea how to interact with women because everything they associate with women is in anime/manga. It's got a nice colorful setting,that reminds me of happy times during summer. Fun Japanese factoid: see her ears? While those dumbo-like ears would be ridiculed here in the US, babies born with ears like that are thought to be destined for wealth and greatness. Perhaps that why you see so many Japanese celebrities with ears like that. What I love about Japanese women(and Asian women)is they can be cute without talking much, just by having a mischievous smile. On the other hand, western women try to act cute by talking much and saying cliche jokes, which doesn't do much for me.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Apr 14, 2018 12:45:06 GMT
I've watched 99 Homes. It's a movie set in America during the recession, when many people were losing their homes. A single father lost his home, then he befriends the real estate operator who evicted him and gets a job working for him, but realizes how corrupt the real estate industry is, as well as the system in general(including banks and politicians). The movie does a good job of showing how children and innocent people were affected during this crisis, yet at the same time it explains how many people were careless with their money and borrowed more than they could afford, which caused them to lose their home, so it does a good job of showing both the low income and wealthy contributed to this crisis. It had good character development, but became a bit nonsensical towards the end. Worth a watch.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Apr 17, 2018 13:48:58 GMT
Watched the Japanese horror movie ''Slit - Mouthed Woman '' (Kuchisake Onna). It was creepy, and has some nice hazy atmosphere. I like how it's set in slum areas of Japan, rather than just another metro or rural area, the slum makes the mood feel more depressing. I won't say too much, because doing so would be spoilers, but I'll say the slit-mouthed woman does look horrific and disturbing. However , this movie isn't for everyone, because you see children constantly being harmed in the movie.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Jun 9, 2018 4:45:15 GMT
Watched 2036 Origin Unknown. It's a hardcore Sci Fi movie, about humanity's first manned mission to Mars, and an artificial intelligence system is allowed to take over,although there are some doubts as to whether it can be trusted. A mysterious object under the surface of Mars is discovered, and a whole bunch of plot twists come into the movie. It's though-provoking, and has a calming effect, and although the CGI's aren't the best, they still show nice nebulae, mysterious technologies and a hostile Martian surface. Worth watching.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Aug 13, 2018 10:51:45 GMT
Watch The Meg. It was pretty shit. Nice ocean and tropical scenery are the only good things about it's poorly constructed story. At least Jaws had a good sense of thrill, and Sharknado has likable characters. It's like a mediocre monster mo vie
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Sept 19, 2018 1:55:51 GMT
After watching 'The Predator' , and getting a headache from is annoying characters, I had the desire to watch Species again. Partially because I saw how The Predator tried to copy elements of Species, by having a team of individuals with specialist skills go after an alien. The movie Species was released in 1995. Basically, it's about how aliens send SETI messages, which at first seem in good faith, such as how to create limitless energy. The aliens send another message which explain how to splice human and alien DNA together, presumably to make a the hybrid with the best traits of both species. Human scientists do so, and hybrid develops into a girl within months, but escapes, and develops into an attractive woman a bit later on , and starts looking for human males to mate with, so it can create offspring. The alien-human woman can easily kill people whom she deems as a threat to her safety , or whom interfere with her mating, because she can morph her body in a way that her alien body parts can stab people to death, and the alien part of her possess superior strength to humans, as well as regenrating abilities. Basically, she goes around looking to screw any guy who does not have genetic defects, such as diabetes, and whom she thinks is suitable. A team is sent to track her down and kill her. The team consists of a mercenary, biologist, telepath and cultural expert. I really liked the character personalities, they kinda grew on you, and gelled well with the story. The mercenary doesn't talk much, he introduces himself to the group by saying ''if I'm here, the shit has hit the fan''. He's a quiet tough guy, and that's what I like. The biologist is a female, but she sounds intelligent and professional in how she speaks, not the tough/angry female characters that we often seen in movies nowadays. The telepath is a black guy, he is very timid , but you can see his importance to the team. He isn't like many of the other extroverted black characters who try to act like another Eddie Murphy or Will Smith. The cultural expert is an English guy, who tries pursuing ladies for himself, and he's like the comical relief, but he's a likable one, he doesn't overact his role. After watching this movie again, it makes me miss how movies were back in the 80's and 90's. When male characters weren't so extroverted, and they didn't try to be another Will Smith or Paul Walker, they were more serious and realistic. P.S Please don't ever compare Species to it's sequel, because Species 2 has a weak story, and is really just porn. I never bothered watching Species 3.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Sept 22, 2018 13:25:28 GMT
I watched 7 Splinters in Time. I liked it a lot, it's story involves things such as parallel universes, quantum superposition and has some clever plot twists. It hasn't scored very well on IMDB, but I like it's originality and abstract style.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Nov 17, 2018 16:03:24 GMT
Watched a couple of movies. One of them is a hardcore Sci Fi movie named Solis, which is about a spaceship that is being pulled towards the sun, all of the crew except for 1 guy is dead, and a rescue team is trying to help him, but of course there is mysteries and twists involved. I thought it was good, but of course it received a lot of criticism because most people prefer action movies. I also watched Sharknado 6, which wrapped up the series. I like the series, but I think the first Sharknado was the best by far, because it actually has relaxing music and nice cinematography, the rest of them took the series in weird directions with the 6th involving time travel.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Dec 20, 2018 2:50:53 GMT
I've watced Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers . It's a documentary film, which goes for roughly 2 hours, which explains about what Bob Lazar claims he experienced while working at Area 51 in greater detail. For people whom don't know, Bob Lazer claimed he worked at Area 51 and saw alien technology, back in 1989. At first , many believed he was a fraud, because there was no evidence he went to Caltech or worked at Los Alamos. However, further researched unveiled he did in fact study/work at these places, and there seems to be some attempt to erase his history.
Lazar claims the flying saucers used anti-gravity technology, which humans could not have built, and they were powered by element 115, which wasn't known about at the time, but was later created by Russian scientists. Element 115 supposedly allows for 100% conversion of matter into energy, and it also produces gravitational waves,which can bend space and time.
It was fairly interesting, especially since it does seem as if there is some attempt to erase Lazar's past, and his workplace was raided by special police operatives, and the theory as to why is because Lazar smuggled some element 115 out of the lab.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Jul 30, 2019 1:14:22 GMT
I've watched Spirited Away for the first time. It was a good spiritual experience. Felt like it was influenced by Buddhism.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Jul 30, 2019 10:28:45 GMT
I am a big fan of the film Gettysburg. Not just because I'm a bit of a Civil War buff but because the movie did a good job of not painting the North as the great white knight heroes and the South as evil moustache twirling black hats fighting to keep slaves. It had good (albeit it dramatized obviously) historically accurate representations of the people, places and events of the battle. It's also got a really great musical score. It's tough to watch this movie too often as its a bit long and has a lot of sweeping camera shots and such that can unfortunately make me sleepy in the right circumstances. I never have gotten around to watching the prequel to this, Gods and Generals. I'm sure it's racist by today's standards. (I've had some of the best sleep of my life trying to watch this.)
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Jul 30, 2019 10:29:51 GMT
I've watched Spirited Away for the first time. It was a good spiritual experience. Felt like it was influenced by Buddhism. Truly a fantastic animated movie and one of Ghibli's very best.
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