long and useless

One of my students secretly brought FFXII: Revenant Wings to school along with her DS and we hid in the bathroom to play during the cleaning break. It looked very pretty. Not having finished FFXII or even gotten very far, I didn't understand it at all, though the chibi characters were just a little startling. I was looking at it and playing (with her directing... this involved a lot of finger pointing and miming) and I entertained the thought of buying the game for, oh, five seconds but then realized I'd need to be a lot more pera pera in Japanese before I can even contemplate buying a video game with this lovely language.

;_; This is what happened with Dirge. akujunkan had to sit by the side and translate what was going on during the parts where there were no written words.

... maybe I could buy Tetris.

I've seen three movies in the last three weeks. This is a record, you must understand, since movies are about TWICE AS EXPENSIVE AS IT IS IN THE STATES. 1700 yen for a regular ticket, though it goes down to 1200 if you're a woman on Wednesdays (true!) and/or are catching the last show of the day. Because trains in the area stop running around 10/11 and tough luck to you if you miss the last train! TAXI!


Very, very good. If I had to recommend any of the three, I'd recommend this one. I cried at the end, mostly because I'm a sucker for last-conversations-via-phone, though letters-being-sent-after-death always do the trick too. Also, this movie made me forget that Leonardo DiCaprio is, well, Leonardo DiCaprio. I've never liked him much post-Titanic, but that's rather unfair, so I decided to watch this movie and see how much he's changed. (And no, before anyone asks, I haven't seen any of his movies post giant-ship-sinking!)

There was a flavour about the movie, something that made the end seem inevitable. I'm rather fond of that kind of flavour in movies and books, so while I cried buckets, I still liked the ending. Which, for me, made it a good movie. The best parts were the traipsing through the jungle scenes. There was something both hopeful and hopeless about it and that was particularly lovely.

I'm afraid I don't know all that much about the blood diamond trade, since I don't like the baubles much myself, but I do think it made a great bloody point: know where the things you buy come from.


Lots and lots of... um. Yes?

I'm not quite sure whether I liked it or not, but overall, it was entertaining! I haven't seen Hannibal or Red Dragon but my brother was insistent on seeing this so we acquiesced to his demands. ;) I liked the Lady Murakami sections, but I'm half in love with Gong Li, so it might have more to do with her than with the movie!

Though, I didn't really see how this Hannibal became the Hannibal of Silence of the Lambs. It was too hard of a leap, though my brother says its because I haven't seen the sequels. I admit, the sister-being-eaten aspect made it jump out from the first movie, and I recall reading that section in the books, but...

I don't think it was because of that.

Maybe the years refined his cannibalism? ;)


I made the mistake of watching this in Japan. -_- Three-fourths of the movie was in a language I wasn't fluent in. Spanish? Nope. Moroccan? Nada. Japanese? Only kind of. I was lucky to have Japanese subtitles so I got the gist if not the details.

I loved the Japanese parts though. They were the real meat of the movie. I seriously, seriously, seriously adored how thoroughly the deafness was shown.

I think I may have to watch this again! With subtitles!