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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

ilovebush&blair said:
live action remakes are usually shit i dont see how they can condense 840 minutes in to three 90 minute films. the anime was good but none of the charactors were really that likeable. i have the live action films but i dont think i will actually watch them, dont see the point after watching the anime.
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They are worth watching as the performances, especially from the chap playing L, are very good and they are quite a faithful, if truncated, adaptation of the anime.
 
ilovebush&blair said:
live action remakes are usually shit i dont see how they can condense 840 minutes in to three 90 minute films. the anime was good but none of the charactors were really that likeable. i have the live action films but i dont think i will actually watch them, dont see the point after watching the anime.
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I don't think it is about condensing the anime, it will be about condensing the manga. I have had a brief look though this and it seems to follow the main points quite well. Anyway, like I say, I didn't really like it anyway.
Live action adaptations. . . humm, cutie honey was kind of fun but a little boring. I'd quite like to see yattaman but only because Miike Takashi directed it and he usually does something quite interesting.
 
QueenOfGoths said:
especially from the chap playing L, are very good and they are quite a faithful, .
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You are not wrong. I saw the film first and looked at the manga of him (and the other chap actually) and they look exactly the same. I wondered why the L guy looked so funny and now I know he was just copying the manga. Those demons look pretty faithful too.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I don't think it is about condensing the anime, it will be about condensing the manga. I have had a brief look though this and it seems to follow the main points quite well. Anyway, like I say, I didn't really like it anyway.
Live action adaptations. . . humm, cutie honey was kind of fun but a little boring. I'd quite like to see yattaman but only because Miike Takashi directed it and he usually does something quite interesting.
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forgot about the manga, ive never actually read a manga i would rather watch an anime
 
ilovebush&blair said:
forgot about the manga, ive never actually read a manga i would rather watch an anime
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Brrrrugh, wrong answer. I can't think of an adaptation that has ever been better in anime form. Vice versa mind. The manga adaptations of FLCL were pretty rubbish. I read them in japanese and they didn't seem to make sense so I bought the english ones. They didn't make much more sense.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Brrrrugh, wrong answer. I can't think of an adaptation that has ever been better in anime form. Vice versa mind. The manga adaptations of FLCL were pretty rubbish. I read them in japanese and they didn't seem to make sense so I bought the english ones. They didn't make much more sense.
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how can my preferance be a wrong answer? :) did you not like flcl? i was gonna watch that after ive finished watching speed grapher.
 
ilovebush&blair said:
how can my preferance be a wrong answer? :).
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It can be wrong in my opinion thats how. You could say the *BU-BU* was because you gave the wrong answer if seeking to gain my approval.

ilovebush&blair said:
did you not like flcl? i was gonna watch that after ive finished watching speed grapher.
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I loved FLCL. Boy did I love it, maybe too much, I nearly bought a yellow scooter. I was buying the single release DVDs in Japan when it first came out. It was painful waiting two months for the next episode (as I recall they were always late too).
The manga came later and was a retelling (as are the novels). If you bought the DVDs early enough and from the right place you got them in a (horrible) box with a free gift.
I have the CDs with radio plays on too. Ahhh, and I just remembered, I even went over to the Gainax offices in Mitaka thinking it was a shop that could sell me goodies. I did manage to get a FLCL T-shirt and bag out of them though.

Anyway, I watched it recently and wasn't so blown away, well it is 12 years now since my 'madness'. I think I am cured for the most part now.
 
Disappearance of Alice Creed.

Decent lil thriller, good performances, if not the most original or cinematic of experiences.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
It can be wrong in my opinion thats how. You could say the *BU-BU* was because you gave the wrong answer if seeking to gain my approval.



I loved FLCL. Boy did I love it, maybe too much, I nearly bought a yellow scooter. I was buying the single release DVDs in Japan when it first came out. It was painful waiting two months for the next episode (as I recall they were always late too).
The manga came later and was a retelling (as are the novels). If you bought the DVDs early enough and from the right place you got them in a (horrible) box with a free gift.
I have the CDs with radio plays on too. Ahhh, and I just remembered, I even went over to the Gainax offices in Mitaka thinking it was a shop that could sell me goodies. I did manage to get a FLCL T-shirt and bag out of them though.

Anyway, I watched it recently and wasn't so blown away, well it is 12 years now since my 'madness'. I think I am cured for the most part now.
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FLCL is amazing best anime i have seen in a while
 
I watched Get Low, opens here next week. Cast, performances, story all great, expect to see it high in everyone's best of lists in December.

Afterwards watched episode 1 of Chris Morris' Jam. I'd forgotten how brilliant it is.



 
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Death Sentance - Kevin Bacon doing an Arnold, Charles Bronson, Bruce Willis on a street gang. After watching him play a Peadophile in one movie and bastard corrupt copper in another I have no sympathy for him, Was rooting for the gang :D
 
The Men Who Stare At Goats: Very funny in parts and George Clooney, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges are always watchable. But just taking a load of stuff from Jon Ronson's brilliant book and transplanting it into the Iraq War seems a bit clumsy. All the flashbacks and exposition-stuffed voiceovers don't help.
 
London River...well done, watchable, but Brenda Blethyn reminds me of Lynn from Alan Partridge.

then more Jam.
 
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Just started watching the Buffy box set, from the beginning. Marvellous. Even if we watch one a day, Mrs. S☼I has worked out it'll take until June 8th.
 
Enter the Void...amazing piece of film making, second half is a bit wooly mind.

I missed it at the pictures but recommended it to two women at work at the time who were pretty shocked. I can see why some people might not get on with it tbh.
 
I used to have an enter the void swiss army knife but I accidentally left it in my bag when I went to the airport and so had to leave it at heathrow.
 
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