Okay so I had a hilarious dream last night. I am really do sad it wasn't finished.
I dream in which me, my brother, ZZ, Tad and.... Masamune (One of these things is not like the other and no I don't know why, but at the same time Sokka was in the movie for no explicable reason either, but more on that wonderful movie later.) all went to go see the trigun movie. Which was dubbed by 4kids. It was exactly as horrible as it sounds.
Ohoho, but first it NEEDS to be pointed out that ZZ was driving, my brother was in the passenger seat, and I was sitting in the back (I'm going to assume Masa and Tad were already waiting at the theatre) WHY does this need to be stated? Because apparently in my dreams ZZ is a horrible, horrible driver. Oh sure, ZZ's hatred of the road was expressed several times because apparently everyone in my dreams lives in or moved to my area anyways: BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T HELP WHEN YOU CAN'T KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD. For the love of- WE ALMOST WENT OFF THE ROAD AND INTO A VERY COLD HUDSON RIVER AT LEAST ONCE. Oh, and also you hit the sleeper strip, ground against the guardrail, hit a bush, and hit a tree (a freaking TREE) but don't worry: we still made it. As all ZZ had to do was get out of the car and brush some gravel off of the car. You know, never mind the car now had a huge dent in the front because it hit a tree. From that point on we made it to the movie juuuust fine.
Oh but the movie, the movie. First of all it really needs to be mentioned that as a part of the lovely editing done by 4kids: they completely cut Wolfwood out of the movie. Yes, I am serious. This is why I'm going to assume Ashlee wasn't with us. ) the movie itself played out in the way that we were actually sort of in the movie and RPing out the script. You know: if we wanted to completely murder the plotline of trigun and were all of elicit substances.
First off:
SHIT IN THE MOVIE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TRIGUN BUT WAS STILL IN THE MOVIE:
- Inexplicably there was a lot of Avatar the Last Airbender stuff in the movie. Presumably because much, much earlier in my dream I was watching it on TV? Anyways, yeah. It's sort of like Vash and Amelia were transported to that universe.
- Equally crack-tastic is that the avatar the last airbender stuff that was there was.... hardly qualified to be that universe anyways. No aang, no cool stuff (okay, Sokka is cool but he's only a minor character) it was all set at some generic Asian temple.
- OH, as part of the comic relief at the temple in the background you can see a dude get married to a donkey. Yes, I (in the movie) needed to point this out because it was hilarious. YES the pum that his wife is an ass was made. Also, Sokka? His love interest in this glorious movie is now a sumo wresler. I cannot make this crap up.
Sadly, i was playing the role of myself in this movie. Though I think having Livio in the movie giggling while pointing out everything wrong would have been a wonderful addition to the film. It goes hand in hand with other characterization murdering.
but oh, speaking of characters whose character was destroyed: Amelia.
I think Tad was facepalming the entire movie in the "oh god why?" sort of way. You see, on top of... getting way bigger boobs for some reason (I... don't know either?) they also gave her a southern accent. And a higher pitched voice. Aaaand the writers on board apparently shipped her with Vash because she was crushing on him like a giggly little schoolgirl. Did I mention she speaks random japanese and acts all moe for no reason?
The only thing this movie was better at aside from breaking characterization was breaking the 4th wall though.
This was probably why Vash was all: WHY DO YOU HAVE A SOUTHERN DRAWL AMELIA. And she was all *GASP* I DO NOT HAVE A SOUTHERN DRAWL. You know, with the accent more pronounced on the word "drawl" for extra emphasis that she clearly has no idea what she sounded like when she opened her mouth.
All I know is that this and other character murdering traits made Vash look angrily at the screen, do an in character angry rant (or at least as in character as you can get in this movie) at the 4th wall and I am SO sad I can't remember the rant itself but I remember it involved at the end pretending he was reading from his own stage script now and the finishing line was something like [ANGIRLY EXITS STAGE LEFT] while he stomped out. I then wanted to correct him that the exit was right behind him and not to his left. Presumably this is the only reason why I remembered this line.
and yeah, that was the dream. If you are looking for a plotline: please don't bother. The plotline is basically:
Vash and Sokka and I arrive at this weird asian temple, Sokka finds love out of a sumo wrestler, in the background a man marries a literal jackass, the plot is basically a romance between the ~shy~ ~giggly~ Amelia who has a crush on Vash. Vash who is suddenly painfully self aware just ragequits from the movie. The End.
Oh, and at the end I (in the audience now) looked over at everyone and couldn't contain the sadistic giggles. Oh I knew what I was going to do when I get home now. That's right: make an account for 4kids!Amelia and troll the trigun cast with it. Everyone was like "OH GOD NO PLEASE DON'T" but me, being the evil little person I am just kept giggling because no way was I NOT going to do that. Not surprisingly the film was a critical failure (not sure if it was a commercial failure) and had an absurdly low rating on rotten tomatoes. hen i wondered to myself if Nightow had seen the film yet and wondered how much of his soul died while watching it.
END DREAM.