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Reviews by coyoteblue
Nearly flawless Lovecraft adaption
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 21 April 2007 01:05
(A review of The Call of Cthulhu: The Celebrated Story of H.P. Lovecraft [2005])Finally, someone has adapted Lovecraft (his short story 'Call of Cthulhu') right. They took the unconventional approach of filming it as a period silent, black and white feature (there is a music soundtrack). The interstitials are in just about any language you can imagine. It works beautifully and is genuinely creepy.  0 comments, Reply to this entry
Be Careful
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 16 April 2007 09:36
(A review of Casino Royale (2-Disc Widescreen Edition))Sony has slapped some kind of insane drm/copyright protection scheme on these dvds that breaks the discs and makes them unplayable on some players. You need to think twice before buying any Sony disc, because you might be buying a nice new $25+ coaster. ******************* Sony is now offering to replace the drm infected/broken discs with drm infected not broken discs. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Maybe too cryptic for it
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 15 April 2007 09:04
(A review of Serial Experiments: Lain)There's a lot to like about Lain. It's weird, really weird. You have to pay attention and even then, by the end, you may not be entirely sure just what the hell happened. A comparison to VIDEODROME would be fair. They're both covering similar territory. It is nice to see anime as ambitious as this, you don't that often. Paranoia Agent comes to mind. Definitely not for the casual anime fan, but worth it, even if you're left scratching your head by the end. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Worth getting
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 15 April 2007 08:51
(A review of Scrapped Princess)** some spoilers ** A really likable mecha sci-fi series masquerading as a fantasy. It does take a little while to warm up to Pacifica, but once you realize where she's come from and her possible fate, you warm up to her. Interestingly it's similar in some ways to Megazone 23 (I need to re-watch Megazone 23 to see if the similarities are just superficial). It's pretty melancholy, though not as melancholy as Haibane Renmei. By the end it's obvious that just because you win it doesn't mean everything worked out. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Practically Perfect Mahou Shoujo
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 15 April 2007 08:39
(A review of Pretear)If you want to get someone started on the mahou shoujo (magical girl) anime sub-genre, start with Prétear. At 13 episodes it just the right size for starts (something like Cardcaptor Sakura might scare someone off; 72 episodes is quite an investment). At worst one or two eps might be considered filler, but for the most part the story keeps driving forward because there's no time for dilly dallying. The characters are all sympathetic including the bad guys, maybe especially the bad guys. Being a fairy tale, the ending is not a cop out. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Atypical fantasy
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 15 April 2007 08:25
(A review of Haibane Renmei)Not for everyone. It's character driven and much darker than the initial episodes suggest. This is one where you watch it because you care about the characters and not about action. Some people complain that it's slow and I won't deny that it's deliberately paced. There's no gimmes here. You have to draw your own conclusions and a lot of people don't like that. If you're looking for something different, deep even, give this a look. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Fluffy & gritty and fun
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 14 April 2007 08:21
(A review of DOA: Dead or Alive)Fan service out the wazoo. They threw out most of the games' plot(s) (such as it was). They did manage to get all the girl playing beach volleyball in bikinis. There's some beefcake in there too. The fights are all well choreographed, but they went for a generic martial arts look & feel. Tina is the exception; a lot of her moves did seem to be wrestling based. She also had the best (most brutal) fight, with Zack. As far as video game adaptions go this is one of the better ones. It's certainly one of the best of the fighting game adaptions (what, there's STREETFIGHTER (oog), MORTAL KOMBAT (good), MORTAL KOMBAT II (decent), THE AVENGING FIST (okay unofficial Tekken movie) and I can't think of any others). Nobody embarrasses themselves. It's a good time. I wonder when they'll get around to making a Virtua Fighter movie? 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Fluffy & Gritty and fun
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 14 April 2007 08:20
(A review of DOA: Dead or Alive [2006])Fan service out the wazoo. They threw out most of the games' plot(s) (such as it was). They did manage to get all the girl playing beach volleyball in bikinis. There's some beefcake in there too. The fights are all well choreographed, but they went for a generic martial arts look & feel. Tina is the exception; a lot of her moves did seem to be wrestling based. She also had the best (most brutal) fight, with Zack. As far as video game adaptions go this is one of the better ones. It's certainly one of the best of the fighting game adaptions (what, there's STREETFIGHTER (oog), MORTAL KOMBAT (good), MORTAL KOMBAT II (decent), THE AVENGING FIST (okay unofficial Tekken movie) and I can't think of any others). Nobody embarrasses themselves. It's a good time. I wonder when they'll get around to making a Virtua Fighter movie? DVD This is a R2 PAL disc. If you've got to have it now I would suggest going with a R3 NTSC disc from Hong Kong (unless you're in a PAL region). I think the R1 dvd should see light of day sometime this summer. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Track Listing
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 10 April 2007 10:08
(A review of Happy/Trance Mellow)Disc: 1 1. Happy 2. Rise 3. Rainy 4. Butterfly 5. Stone 6. Trance Mellow 7. Impure 8. Saudade 9. I Was You 10. Meadow Disc: 2 1. Trance Mellow 2. Impure 3. Saudade 4. I Was You 5. Meadow 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Track Listing
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 10 April 2007 10:04
(A review of Illustrated History)1. Love So Pure 2. True Asia/Asia No Junshin 3. That's The Way It Is/Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi 4. Electric Beach Fever/Nagisa ni Matsuwaru Et Cetera 5. Wild Girls On Circuit/Circuit No Musume 6. Sign Of Love/Ar no Shirushi-Captain Funk's Puffy de Samba Mix 7. Puffy De Rumba 8. Talalan 9. Sunday Girls/Nichiyohbi no Musume 10. Friends/Tomodachi 11. Mother 12. Neholina 13. Brand New Days/Atarashii Hibi 14. Stray Cats Fever 15. Puffy's Rule 16. Jet Police/Jet Keisatsu Boogie Woogie No. 5 (Bonus Video) 0 comments, Reply to this entry
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