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My bro and I went into the city today to raid the Japanese stores and Lush. We found far too much manga for far too cheap prices. Lots of christmas presents as well *g* I now have a very strange manga which seems to feature talking statues from Easter island as well as shoes (actually, it seems to feature talking statues in general like the statue of liberty and Buddha... still doesn't explain the shoes though...), and I picked up one of the new rereleases of Yu Yu Hakusho - these things are gorgeous with new beautiful covers, tons of colorful chibis of all the characters inside, glossy high definition prints of all the pages and all the color pages restored. I wish I could have bought them all, but I only got vol. 6 since I found the cover with Hiei and Yukina cute *L* I've also picked up my new calendar for the year - Fruit's Basket this time around. FMA nearly won the honour, but then Furuba had to go and have shirtless Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure (from when they transformed) for one month, and who could turn down looking at that happy sight for an entire month? *g*
We also picked up english manga volumres of Tactics, Wish, Excel Saga, and Yu Yu Hakusho 2-3. Oh, and the Saiyuki Reload tv art book (why did no one tell me there's a bath house scene in episode 10?!). I read Wish on the train and really enjoyed it. The main guy, Shuchiro, is so very laid back *L*
I saw Narnia the other day. My brother thought it was very true to the book, and I thought it was less so, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, and want my very own CGI gryphon. I really liked the way they decided to open it with the planes over London. It was interesting to see the Pensieves before the book starts, and their separation and train trip hit a perfect emotional note. I was tearing up. It was great to see the bombing scene echoed later in the battle too. The CGI was excellent, especially on the gryphons and Aslan. I was left wondering why HP can't manage such nice creatures (though the dragons and hypogriff are okay, centaurs so were not). The Narnia centaurs were great even if I kept having Xena/Hercules flashbacks every time i saw them. Acting wise, they did a pretty good job casting and although the kids weren't perfect, they did manage to carry their roles. Tumus threw me off for a bit when I saw him, but I did like his performance once I relaxed a bit from the very different image I had in my head. Aslan could have had a bit more depth, I thought, though the death scene was marvelous.
The queen spoke too informally at times, but I did love her grandious costumes. Also, her double sword fighting was fantastic. Me and my bro were snickering madly at how outclassed Peter was when he faced her. Plot wise, I understood why they added in much of the chase scenes even if it didn't add anything to my enjoyment of the movie (I have a feeling that river scene will really annoy me in future viewings.) I liked how they glossed over a lot of Lewis' more patronizing views on women, though Lucy with the knife throwing? So not possible. Loved Father Christmas being his proper mythical origin look at not the comericial eyesore of today, though suspect little kiddies may have been confused. I'm sort of impressed how they managed to keep the movie rated PG since there actually is a fair amount of bloodshed in the book. I wanted more of the Professor, but since I always wanted more of the professor upon reading the first book, that's not surprising.
The little touches of canon were really sweet. I had just read the book, so I was impressed to see Lucy walk into the room with the wardrobe to watch the blue-bottle die (the line in the book is, "There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill."). And the design of the tree on the wardrobe? Brilliant.
(And how sexy was it to see a grown man reading LW&W on the train to NYC? Men should always have the courage to read children's books in public *L*)
We also picked up english manga volumres of Tactics, Wish, Excel Saga, and Yu Yu Hakusho 2-3. Oh, and the Saiyuki Reload tv art book (why did no one tell me there's a bath house scene in episode 10?!). I read Wish on the train and really enjoyed it. The main guy, Shuchiro, is so very laid back *L*
I saw Narnia the other day. My brother thought it was very true to the book, and I thought it was less so, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, and want my very own CGI gryphon. I really liked the way they decided to open it with the planes over London. It was interesting to see the Pensieves before the book starts, and their separation and train trip hit a perfect emotional note. I was tearing up. It was great to see the bombing scene echoed later in the battle too. The CGI was excellent, especially on the gryphons and Aslan. I was left wondering why HP can't manage such nice creatures (though the dragons and hypogriff are okay, centaurs so were not). The Narnia centaurs were great even if I kept having Xena/Hercules flashbacks every time i saw them. Acting wise, they did a pretty good job casting and although the kids weren't perfect, they did manage to carry their roles. Tumus threw me off for a bit when I saw him, but I did like his performance once I relaxed a bit from the very different image I had in my head. Aslan could have had a bit more depth, I thought, though the death scene was marvelous.
The queen spoke too informally at times, but I did love her grandious costumes. Also, her double sword fighting was fantastic. Me and my bro were snickering madly at how outclassed Peter was when he faced her. Plot wise, I understood why they added in much of the chase scenes even if it didn't add anything to my enjoyment of the movie (I have a feeling that river scene will really annoy me in future viewings.) I liked how they glossed over a lot of Lewis' more patronizing views on women, though Lucy with the knife throwing? So not possible. Loved Father Christmas being his proper mythical origin look at not the comericial eyesore of today, though suspect little kiddies may have been confused. I'm sort of impressed how they managed to keep the movie rated PG since there actually is a fair amount of bloodshed in the book. I wanted more of the Professor, but since I always wanted more of the professor upon reading the first book, that's not surprising.
The little touches of canon were really sweet. I had just read the book, so I was impressed to see Lucy walk into the room with the wardrobe to watch the blue-bottle die (the line in the book is, "There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill."). And the design of the tree on the wardrobe? Brilliant.
(And how sexy was it to see a grown man reading LW&W on the train to NYC? Men should always have the courage to read children's books in public *L*)
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And I just saw Narnia this afternoon. I quite liked it, although I can't really remember the book enough to say how true to it it was (I read it when I was fairly young, but I do remember important bits here and there like the Turkish Delight). I was surprised by the voilence of the main battle too, some of it was quite graphic, if not gory.
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The movie made me want some turkish delight, which is rather lacking here in America. Woe.
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SO much approval. YAY.
Aslan definitely could have used more depth. That irritated me a great deal.
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