Books, movies and TV

[dangermousie]

This is going to be long and rambly and about every topic under the sun.

Saw two movies in the theater this weekend: The Prestige and Borat. The former was an unrealistic bore-fest (the central conceit was just…no, I cannot suspend disbelief in that fashion) and the characters had no inner life of their own or any realness but acted as puppets

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[winterspel]

Re: Nobuta wo Produce...well it just may be that you and I have VERY opposite taste, which is of course entirely possible, but SO MANY people raved and raved about NwP so I had to see what the fuss was about. It was one of the most popular dramas of the fall season last year, and that couldn't be for no reason.

All I can tell you is that after the first episode, as with 90% of ALL doramas I watch, I was not sure, but each consecutive episode that I watched made me fall in love with it. It totally grew on me, and yes I marathoned it over about 4 days. It's just one of those dramas that doesn't have a big romance, it doesn't have probably 80% of the things you like in dramas, but still it's amazing, and you don't really see just how amazing it is until the last three episodes, when everything that has been growing all along suddenly comes to fruition.

I know you've read it already, but here is my NwP Episode 1 review, which I wrote after seeing the whole drama twice. It was only in retrospect that I was able to appreciate that ep as much as I now do.

And btw, one of the reasons that a lot of Yamapi fans love him so much is because he acted SO different as Akira. He stepped outside of everything that he'd done before (and even Kurosaki is more similar to his previous work) and created a truly singular character. I thought he was drunk at first, but in the end what I discovered is that Akira was the truest to himself, and the most balanced and sane person in the whole story. Kame won a best actor award for Shuji which was totally deserved, and if not for Kame, that award would have gone to Yamapi.

Try to be patient and let it unfold before you - maybe you will be surprised. :)

[dangermousie]

I think it was a combo of my watching a lot of kdrama lately (which I love but it has a different vibe so as kitsune714 points out, it takes a bit to switch), being exhausted and NwP just being so...odd. But I am definitely going to continue watching, if for nothing else than the fact that it isn't at all like what I normally watch.

I really do hope Akira stops freaking me out as much though. I am still at the 'get away freak' stage. I think he is a lot freakier than Nobuta :)