1. I did not really like it.
2. field hospital scenes made it an R, not a PG-13. I don’t think that was really appropriate for a PG-13 movie, and I know that many people wouldn’t have found it as disturbing as I did – ubt thewre’s a reason I don’t see many R movies, and it’s because I don’t have the stomach for this sort of thing.
3. I did like the song at the end.
3/10.
Did you know: Sarah Palin is the governor who was running against a two-year-old labrador golden retriever for her office.
There might have been a democratic candidate, too.
Man, it’s hard to believe this time next week I’ll be at the end of my first week of school! That’s right, I have no classes on Friday. It’s awesome. Epic, even! I’m sure you’re all jealous. Anyhow, I’m flying up to school on Sunday, to begin the next stage of Life At School: specifically, the one where I’m living in an apartment without a meal plan. This should be interesting.
In other news, why does adding an hdmi port to a monitor add $50 to the price-tag? i kind of call bullshit on that. Maybe I’ll shell out the money and get a 24-inch monitor instead of a 22-incher, though! We’ll see.
EDIT: WHAT. MY BLOG HAS SMILEYS? This is unacceptable! Offending : and D removed.
How can I say this without seeming too negative? The answer is really that I can’t: Slayer’s Revolution is boring. The only enjoyment I’m really deriving from it at this point is the game of “let’s see when they use TRY bgms inappropriately,” which is a fun game but not nearly enough to keep me occupied for twenty-four minutes at a time. Pokota is the new Filia, which is neither interesting nor particularly well-done. All the characters are more or less exactly the same, except for Zeldagis being allowed to be more evil, which is how he should be, because he’s a fucking psychotic half-golem-half-demon mercenary walking around with the emotional scars of his grandfather’s torments on his back. And front. And all over, really.
Xelloss is being portrayed as more strongly morally bankrupt, which makes me gleeful when he is on screen – before he was always a bad man doing good things because to not do good things was to deny his mistress the chance to rule / destroy. Now he’s a bad man doing bad things because it’s in his nature – and he’s been ordered to, presumably. People who are upset at his new behavior are people who are glossing over just how violent and ambiguous the mazoku as a whole in slayers were, especially as the mythology was expanded on in NEXT and TRY.
My biggest worry is that they’re going to have Xelloss switch sides and become the same character he’s always been, because I think that would be just about the worst thing.
Please, please, get to the plot soon, Revolution, because I’m not enjoying watching you, and you don’t seem to have any real interesting twists planned, so I’m worried I’m going to just give up and drop you before too long.
It fell apart in the end, but I enjoyed watching it. The CGI was a larf, and the combat repetative – and the politics rudimentary at best. Still, it’s a kind of story that you don’t see very often, and even if I’d rather that the red herring in the middle of the story had turned out to be the truth, when you consider the source material it’s not that surprising that it turned out the way it did.
I’d give this series a solid 7 out of 10, with the caveat that it’s based on a strategy rpg with graphic sex scenes – so your mileage may vary. Despite the source it’s pretty tasteful, though.
one thing I don’t understand – why are 90% of Linux users arrogant, pretentious twits? I mean, shouldn’t there be a wider variety of Linux users?
It’s rather off-putting, especially considering that there’s a part of me that feels like I’m at fault for not getting Linux. These are my people, and god help me, I can’t stand them.
Color me a little undrwhelmed by Arena Mode, Team Fortress 2’s new game type that will be released (tomorrow?). It’s essentially death-match, which will be fun, but I was expecting something objective based instead of something based on simple kills v kills. Still, the decreased time per match will be a blessing for me at least, because I sometimes have a hard time seeing an entire TF2 match through as it stands – especially when I’m at home, and have a lot more demands on my time. and I like killing things.
The Boom Boom Satellites are a Japanese Electronica duo known for their use of guitars and a heavily jazz- and rock-influenced style. Indeed, based on the pictures of their setup for playing live shows, they’re really not Electronica – no more than Battles is, anyways. I’m a big fan of this song, though most of the rest of the album leaves me cold. Oh so cold.
Utawarerumono, despite having the trappings of a harem anime series on the surface, looks like it will be a much better series than I gave it credit for when I first heard of it. This is a good thing. There are a few missteps with direction and voices the first episode, but overall I’m pleased, and I look forwards to watching more. I’ll post more about this series as it pleases me, though knowing me, you won’t get much more on it than “well, I finished it and _________”. Hopefully you’re not expecting more.
Also: my wordpress admin using Fluency appears to be broken (i.e. formatted in a way which is both confusing and irritating, not to mention WRONG) in Firefox 3 on windows XP SP3. I do not know if I did something, if something’s wrong with my host, or if it’s just fate for every one of my Wordpress installations to fail catastrophically.
A few quick notes before I finally give in to my desire to get something like 8 hours of sleep before heading into San Francisco: