Lots of parentheses in this one. Hmm.
THINGS I HAVE SEEN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS:
- The latest episodes of SJA, which were quite good (I do love me some none-too-subtle foreshadowing, yes I do, and holy crap is that actually next week? I thought they were saving it for the finale, but apparently not).
- Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire, because my animation-major friends grew up with the Disney Channel and insist on continuing this. It is, well, a Disney Channel original movie, but it features both a vampire who is actually bound by all the traditional rules and the line "Coffins are to vampires what cell phones are to teenagers!", so I have to give it a thumbs-up.
- Hocus Pocus, because of the aforementioned animation-major-friends-with-Disney-fetishes. It is actually quite fun! Possibly because it is back from the day when kids' movies were allowed to have a sinister edge to them, and use words like 'damn' and 'Hell' and show people dying. Also because it has Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker absolutely relishing their roles as over-the-top witches, and when actors relish their roles, boy does it show. Plus, total bonus, Doug Jones in one of his earliest roles! As a monster covered in makeup, but that is his way. (My friends said he terrified them when they were kids. I felt oddly proud.)
- Anime I do not talk about very much! I feel obligated to say that actually Sengoku Basara is one of my favorite series of anything ever, because it is theoretically based on real historical events but chooses to abandon all of that for a guy who fights with six swords. (He holds them in between his fingers. As one does.) And then there is the guy who can kick fire at people or something, it is not really clear, and the lady who can pull a machine gun out of apparently nowhere, and the person who may or may not be female (if they are, she's a lesbian, and a badass one at that), and I believe I have already mentioned the mecha? What I am saying is, it is short, it is utter crack, it is gay as fuck (seriously, the fire guy is in like three different legitimate pairings, and then there are the possibly-lesbians), and it makes no sense whatsoever in the best possible way. And then there is Engrish. Oh, there is Engrish.
...actually, you know what? Have some Youtube. Here is the opening, which features dancing samurai (and yes that lady's outfit is ridiculous, it defies the laws of both taste and physics, but she has her moments of awesome anyway), here is a 31-second clip of fire guy and fire guy's boss doing their part to take Say My Name to a truly ridiculous level (it is far from the only time they do this), and here is a 24-second clip of the six-swords guy displaying his masterful grasp of the English language. (The video description is "Inspiring words from an inspiring show". It speaks the truth.)
- The latest episodes of SJA, which were quite good (I do love me some none-too-subtle foreshadowing, yes I do, and holy crap is that actually next week? I thought they were saving it for the finale, but apparently not).
- Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire, because my animation-major friends grew up with the Disney Channel and insist on continuing this. It is, well, a Disney Channel original movie, but it features both a vampire who is actually bound by all the traditional rules and the line "Coffins are to vampires what cell phones are to teenagers!", so I have to give it a thumbs-up.
- Hocus Pocus, because of the aforementioned animation-major-friends-with-Disney-fetishes. It is actually quite fun! Possibly because it is back from the day when kids' movies were allowed to have a sinister edge to them, and use words like 'damn' and 'Hell' and show people dying. Also because it has Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker absolutely relishing their roles as over-the-top witches, and when actors relish their roles, boy does it show. Plus, total bonus, Doug Jones in one of his earliest roles! As a monster covered in makeup, but that is his way. (My friends said he terrified them when they were kids. I felt oddly proud.)
- Anime I do not talk about very much! I feel obligated to say that actually Sengoku Basara is one of my favorite series of anything ever, because it is theoretically based on real historical events but chooses to abandon all of that for a guy who fights with six swords. (He holds them in between his fingers. As one does.) And then there is the guy who can kick fire at people or something, it is not really clear, and the lady who can pull a machine gun out of apparently nowhere, and the person who may or may not be female (if they are, she's a lesbian, and a badass one at that), and I believe I have already mentioned the mecha? What I am saying is, it is short, it is utter crack, it is gay as fuck (seriously, the fire guy is in like three different legitimate pairings, and then there are the possibly-lesbians), and it makes no sense whatsoever in the best possible way. And then there is Engrish. Oh, there is Engrish.
...actually, you know what? Have some Youtube. Here is the opening, which features dancing samurai (and yes that lady's outfit is ridiculous, it defies the laws of both taste and physics, but she has her moments of awesome anyway), here is a 31-second clip of fire guy and fire guy's boss doing their part to take Say My Name to a truly ridiculous level (it is far from the only time they do this), and here is a 24-second clip of the six-swords guy displaying his masterful grasp of the English language. (The video description is "Inspiring words from an inspiring show". It speaks the truth.)