Kung Fu Panda was Awesome. Lots of good laughs.
WALL.E was Awesome too. Those Pixar guys are geniuses.
Panda is like fast food, and Wall.E is more refined and fuzzy. Glad I got to watch both.
I think everyone will eventually watch them both anyways.
Next up is Batman, which starts showing the same day (or midnight the day before?) me (and Shirley, thanks to her photographic genius) take off for Narita.
Wacky soundtrack, and the visuals are pretty on-crack too (just look at the poster). Doesn’t have as much deep/confusing story line like some other ones, which can be a good thing.
Semi-old movie, and I liked it a LOT more than Tokyo Godfathers (same director). I think I missed the point completely on the latter, cuz people (the imdb crowd) seem to like it.
Anime movies are great. They’re not as time consuming as normal anime series.. which can last years, and the art is so much better than the TV stuff.
(yay the picture inserting tool is working again)
I usually don’t watch anime (not anymore), but this is too good to not blog about.
Evangelion started out as a TV series back in 1997 (10 years ago!). Since then, they’ve released movies, re-releases, and now a re-re-release. Unlike Gundam, which comes out with new series one after another, these Evangelion guys just does the same things over and over again. But it’s still so good! In other words, they milk their fans hard, and the fans are happily milked.
The thing is, they’ve done this so much that now, with this latest release, it’s pretty much perfect every frame. It’s awesome. And just look at the poster will give you a sense of the style they use. First of all, they use a weird naming scheme (1.0? and there’s a 1.01 DVD release), and the tag line has double meaning that it really doesn’t say anything.
Now this re-re-release project is still on-going. There are plans for 3 more movies, and DVDs. Wikipedia explains. I can’t wait.
Shirley and I went to the Opening Day event at the new Vancouver Apple Store. Before lining up, I was able snap some pictures of the line, and thanks to Shirley’s friend Erik, the queuing wasn’t so bad.
Super-quick checkout system. I didn’t notice a cashier when I was there.. Just swipe a card and you’re done. The store itself wasn’t big. Lots of good accessories on the walls. More pictures over at my flickr.
Not so related, but after that, Alex joined us for Indiana Jones 4. There were scenes that reminded me of Mario Kart, and I guess Spielberg was playing Boom Blox while making this movie.
AND THEN we played Boom Blox for hours. It was Awesome.
I finally remembered to watch “Initial D”, the HK movie based on the Japanese Manga/Anime. The movie looks nothing like the picture above, except for the car. I had no prior knowledge of the Initial D universe, but I got a taste of it through the movie. Kudos to them for shooting it on location in Japan.
My summary:
It’s a Story of a Tofu-delivery man. And he has a customer at the top of the mountain. So after years of delivery he got really good at delivering Tofu in a timely manner through those winding mountain roads. His car is shaped like a Tofu (pictured above).
Who the customer is remains a mystery. My guess is it’s some kind of resort or restaurant with nice views up there. They need a lot of Tofu.
Of course the main backdrop of the story is the underworld of drift racing. And the genius of this storyline is not something I can translate here, not that I know much of it. All I watched was this 3rd-party movie (which did a fine job).
Some cool trivia from imdb:
Ignore some flaws and it’s a pretty good movie. And it’s great to see Anthony Wong in there.
