Everyone’s got their reasons.
I just watched Battle Royale. So The Hunger Games is just Battle Royale with all the Asian people and guns taken out. But as much as I’d like to hate on The Hunger Games, I thought there were some weird moments in Battle Royale. Still…Battle Royale makes you love a bunch of different characters and root for them :(
Here’s a quick doodle of Mitsuko before bed—getting violence and gore out of my system before pediatrics tomorrow hehehe
Now life has killed the dream, I dreamed. (x)
I loved the 1998 non-musical film but now that my friends have gotten me obsessed with the musical…and they filmed all the singing live…I’m dying to see this
I recently started watching a bunch of grown-up shows, like for big fancy grown-up people who don’t watch “silly cartoons” like me (pff). Anyways, these have all actually been really good:
I finished the first seasons of Walking Dead and Breaking Bad this weekend (while miraculously still getting work done). All are addictive but Breaking Bad might be my favorite. Man, cancer…
Yeah I don’t know why I chose med school to start watching a bunch of shows…2 finals in less than two weeks uh ok
Side note, just came back from The Dark Knight Rises with new classmates. It was…awesome. Visually stunning, thrilling, a fun adrenaline rush. And I actually think fans of the old 90’s cartoons will recognize A LOT of characters teehee
Ok now, off to a shindig. Ooh, look at me having a social life. That’s a first…LOL
Leave it to me to spend my vacation trying to learn…by watching documentaries and reading random nonfiction books. Here are some notes I took while watching different documentaries!
This time, brief but poorly-organized thoughts and reactions to only 15 movies! Again, no spoilers (except for Immortals but that movie stunk anyway).
Reasons The Faculty is gold: kid from Dazed & Confused, Hyde from That 70’s Show, Clea DuVall, Elijah Wood, Young Jon Stewart and fucking USHER
As a kid, I used to love this movie even though it was really—WHAT USHER AND JON STEWART WERE IN THIS??? WHAT
USHER HAS A LAST NAME??
I will read every story/take hold of my own dream Be as strong as the seas are stormy/and proud as an eagles scream
Ok, I was a bit hard on Brave yesterday. Things I liked other than the visuals were the three brothers, Elinor and Fergus’s dynamic, and all the voice-acting. AND the music. Good job, Patrick Doyle! Hardcore Harry Potter fans say he messed up the Goblet of Fire soundtrack, but it’s my favorite one. But in particular, I am really loving this song from Brave—perfect inspirational drawing music
I just saw Brave and I have a lot of opinions. And I bet they are not going to be popular. But you know what? I don’t care.
I am absolutely unqualified to criticise this movie for its artistry, but you know what? I thought it was visually BEAUTIFUL. I’m not going to pretend I know anything about animation or that “rendering” stuff but the whole movie was unbelievably gorgeous.
However, something about which I do know a teensy little bit is writing and story. And as a daughter (in a family still fairly steeped in tradition) and girl, I know a bit about Merida’s situation. But I was deeply disapppointed. Visual quality alone cannot cover up a story’s problems.
I always applaud Pixar for creating animated films for children that produce feelings among children and adults that no one would expect—Monsters, Inc. did that for me. The Incredibles did that for me. Finding Nemo did that for me. Up did that for me. Toy Story 3 almost moved me—heck, everyone—to tears! These were all incredibly original films, and even though they were distributed by Disney, nothing about them was “typically” Disney. They were wildly creative, as well as moving and always memorable. In my very humble opinion, the case is not so with Brave.
Reasons and spoilers after the cut:
Fio and Ursula both look alike but they’re my favorite Miyazaki girls. They’re ignored so often but how cool are they: Fio’s a teenager and aircraft engineering prodigy, NBD. Ursula lives in a cabin in the woods and paints…I actually see a lot of myself in her! *Gifs aren’t mine—look at the source
John’s best story yet, but I think every story is his best yet. Bad Machinery by John Allison is the best comic on this internet, in my opinion, which is why I will never stop linking to it. I want this comic to make him a famous millionaire because it is that good.
If you’re unfamiliar, Bad Machinery focuses on the adventures of a group of lively British kids, three boys and three girls, and the art, character development, pacing, humor, and personality is top notch. At the moment this current story is wrapping up and I am super anticipating how it will turn out, so the link I’ve given you here is the start of the story. I want you to catch up and be as into it as I am right now.
My favorite comic, unequivocally.
GAH I just read all of this in one sitting and it is brilliant! I love little Brits!
*Edit* I thought I read all of it last night but turns out I only read one story. Reading through all of them right now. It is an ordeal. But a wonderful, entertaining ordeal.
I drew some poses from Shaolin (which is a pretty good movie)
A sketch from the Korean movie (which Netflix lists as Japanese) War of the Arrows. The others are bleh
I just watched all of FLCL on Netflix and it’s honestly one of the weirdest things I’ve ever watched. But it’s so cool to see how strong of an influence it had on the Avatar series! I also really liked how they drew the guitars, especially the Rickenbacker (which may figure into something I will be posting soon…)
Just to cheer up my blog, some archery poses referenced from 13 Assassins, superimposed onto a couple of my characters
