I also rather liked this, I agree it doesn’t reach their heights but it is rather good. I certainly don’t hate it.
'fraid so! Just love it. Even more than Fargo…
Last night, I finished watching
86 Eighty-Six
It’s just 2 seasons, I read there is a considerably longer lightnovel and/or manga this is based on.
This was very good. Very sad also. On the one hand I wish there was more of it. On the other I am glad I got those final few moments of the final episode as closure and I am now done with it. I told my partner if he wants to see it, he will have to do it without me. This is the kind of show I would find very hard to rewatch.
There are quite a few confusing recap episodes in the 2nd season and the dub is incomplete somehow.
Overall, I’d recommend it. But it was not an easy watch.
We’re also halfway through our watch of Code Geass Season 2 (my partner watching for the first time, me for the 2nd) and now that you mentioned it @Benkyo I find that especially season 2 could have done with a little less one-sided fanservice. There are a lot more invasive perspectives than season 1 and they are almost exclusively picturing the female characters. I still love the story and the tight story telling. We just had Shirley’s big speech and even watching it the second time, it was still so good. But a little less on the nose with the close-up of various body-parts … would also have been okay. It does nothing for me and detracts from the good story a bit once you notice. Still it being older, it bugs me less than say Solo Leveling doing the same thing. -.-
And yet despite the great story telling I find myself less emotionally involved at this point than I did with the 86. Maybe because some of the WTF moments (as my partner calls them) are just so harsh that I have to distance myself from the story out of necessity.
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They could have picked any number. 86 is sacred!
(From Initial D, for those who don’t recognise it.)
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Why is 86 sacred? I don’t get it. Missing a piece of culture, I guess. edit: Nevermind, looked it up.
I think in the case of the “86” anime the name is based this dictionary entry I think:
Eighty-six is slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to.” It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.
I am glad I looked it up though. Because I had just … taken the number as arbitrary.
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I thought it might have been about Maxwell Smart
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99: “You’re worth two 43s, 86.”
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My brother-in-law shared his Crunchyroll account with us, so I just went through all of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, seeing as it was it’s 45th anniversary last year. I have been a fan of the Gundam franchise since college and wanted to revisit it. Still very good, if dated animation. You get to see numerous Zakus, Rick Doms, Musais, Salamis’, and Magellans explode in the exact same way over and over in the series as they reuse the animation, but whatever.
Plot gets rather weird right at the end as it leans hard into the Newtype element in the last few episodes when it had only been lightly touched upon throughout the other 35+ episodes. Still, very minor complaint when compared with the excellent character development and overall story.
On to the Char’s Counterattack film, and I think I am just going to watch everything Crunchyroll has available for the foreseeable future.
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We went to see Mickey 17 last night.
On the way to the cinema we discovered that our car has a Marderschaden (a marten chewed through some cables, most likely the one that connects the engine’s temperature sensor but possibly more), so yay for some extra unexpected €€€ for repairs.
In any case. The movie was good entertainment, if for you good means sitting through a SciFi dystopia that’s entirely too real.
And I quote one of my friends from last night: “Idiocracy is such a good documentary.”
My main complaints are:
- the big green guy wasn’t orange enough
- his teeth were straight from the uncanny valley
- I’ll never be able to eat raspberry sauce again
- Apparently these days everything needs to be ON THE NOSE.
- I didn’t need a close-up of Robert Pattinson’s ass in that specific context (if you watch the movie you will know)
- Possibly one too many instances of fremdschämen (cringe)
- It’s a comedy true. But one doesn’t often feel like laughing. See comment about Idiocracy above.
It was pretty good. Would recommend if you liked Parasite or 12 Monkeys.
The trailers for what’s too come were quite scary, too, endless super hero movies and or live-action remakes of animated stuff and they really made a 4th attempt at Fantastic Four?!?!!!? I am also afraid the one with Yelena and Bucky will have expended all it’s jokes in the trailer.
PS: as a final goody apparently this was our first time ever watching a movie in German in the IMAX theater because the IMAX trailer in German was super weird and we’ve never seen it before. But this time we had no choice. There was no English available… so… German swearing is creative though. My favorite part of any translation are the swear words and Mickey 17 has a few.
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I am sensing this trend in Hollywood that “cape shit” films are phasing out and what comes next will probably this “art house” films, or at least they give that sort of vibe.
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I had to google cape shit … lol. Had not heard that before.
Considering the amount of superhero trailers I just saw the other day, I would beg to disagree that they are phasing out. But then I so rarely see movies at the theater and I don’t watch trailers outside of that…
Can I order some SciFi movies, fresh ones, no remakes or sequels please? Actually Mickey 17 was on the right track for the most part.
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Went to see Ghost in the Shell at the cinema as a 30st anniversary event. Japanese with German subtitles.
So many thoughts. Such a good movie. I wish I could re-live the cinema of the 90s and early 00s. Of course it was the decade that defined my tastes as I graduated in 1996 and went to uni and that’s where everything happened 
I may get that wish: we found out that the local cinema we usually go to (the only IMAX screen around) and the one we can most easily reach has a “special events” category where they have various categories including one for anime and one for older movies.
Movies I would find time to see at the cinema (again) in no particular order
- Blade Runner (actually both of them)
- Matrix
- Kill Bill 1 + 2
- Django Unchained
- Fifth Element
- Dark Knight
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Hero
- Dune 1 + 2 (the new ones)
- Once upon a time in Mexico
- Once upon a time in the West
There are many more movies I love and enjoy. Some that would even make for very good watching on big screens but the thing is which ones would I actually go out of my way for to see again? And so Rogue One, LotR, Braveheart, Fury Road, Interstellar, Highlander all slipped out of the list.
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That’s a great list!
SUCH a great movie.
Ah, that is so good on the big screen.
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There appear to be 3 genres I enjoy more than any other: SciFi (mostly dark and dreary cyberpunk), Martial Arts and Western as well as mashups of those. I might need to add Bohemian Rhapsody to the above list as an outlier from a completely unrelated genre.
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Feline horror double-feature tomorrow night :).
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Watching daredevil: born again and it’s phenomenal. I’ll caveat this with I’ve become a bit disillusioned with Marvel over the last two years (apart from Loki) but this is just good TV and holding back Daredevil and giving us court room Matt Murdock is the right way to go.
I’ll doubly caveats this with the fact daredevil may be my favourite superhero.
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In other news, I watched the first episode of Adolescence. Hell. That hits hard.
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We watched The Jury Duty which was a very funny show (only 8 episodes).
It is about people being called to Jury Duty but everybody in that trial is an actor except one juror who has no idea about it all. And then crazy things happen of course.
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Watched the first episode of Wheel of Time Season 3 and… it’s really good? It’s what the entire previous two seasons should have been?
This bodes very well for the rest of the season. I’ve read the first 5-6 books and am definitely not someone who needs the tv show to be faithful to them, but some of the choices in S1 and 2 were bizarre (partly because of filming around covid). This ep just seemed to be really entertaining instead, it’s turning into a really solid tv show.
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That sounds entertaining but also brutally unkind.
But… well… hang on, that can’t be real, can it. No one has actually been summoned for jury duty there. It’s just that the “one juror” is the only actor who isn’t playing the part of an actor?
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