I Told You I Was Over Reacting

I knew it wouldn’t last. It didn’t even last a day I was on warfish the whole time I was writing that phantom post and I’m still fucking obsessed, no matter how terrible I am at the game. Whatever, I guess that’t the point right?

I still haven’t found any subs for Love Exposure but I haven’t given up hope. I have, however, watched a bunch of other movies shown at the NYAFF.

First, Hausu. What the fuck?

Second, Monster X Strikes Back, which I enjoyed but I have the same complaint about it that I have about most monster movies and that to get rid of the fucking humans. Just show monsters fighting, I don’t care about any set up all the people have one of two goals, kill the monster or praise the monster. If anything hits the monster well those people probably are in the "kill the monster" group and people trying to hurt them are in the "praise the monster" group. I don’t need to know what the plan is to kill or save the monster, because both ultimately will fail at some point. I want to see the monster destroy and kill and then be killed. Or walk off into the sea under the sunset. I get that it was spoofing monster movies, and that a some of the situations and dialogue were funny, well just show that, minimal bits, giant set ups aren’t necessary when you have a 100 story monster walking around a city.

Third, 20th Centrury Boys Part 1. I really liked this movie, from start to finish and I can’t wait for the next one, which I’ve been searching for incessantly (along with the film I want to see more than anything Written By)  and coming up empty (also with Written By). Obviously based on a manga, it plays out just like a serious fantasy manga and feels like a manga. That being said it misses it’s beat a few times with the reaction shots of Kenji.

Fourth, Dream. Interesting, well acted and with shots so beautiful that you would swear they were on a canvas. A little slow at times and I found myself shouting at the main characters a good bit.

Finally, Be a Man! Samurai School was fucking brilliant from beginning to end. Another film based on a manga, the fighting, the humor, the actors, the film was just flat out fun with a lot of fists flying. My copy was crap though and half way through the sound sync went completely off and the subtitles didn’t match, but a few fixes later and the goodness kept on rolling. Do yourself a favor and see it, in fact see them all (especially Hausu) and enjoy.