Bonsai, wise guy, chicken pot pie. Lights shine bright in the many towns!
While the plot and the OCs in movie!Bebop were rather stupid, the music was still good, if different, and the visuals were very, very very nice. Full of "greeblies," little background details that make scenes so much more real. I loved the montages where people were just walking around, and showing the life going on in these cities. Also, Arabic quarter. And just people in the background, leading lives, each the hero of their own story. I like it when movies have background characters like that.
It went basically like this. Ugly!Jesus, named Vincento Vincent, plays that jump-solitaire game with himself until he gets bored and decides to destroy the world in order to see if he is a man who once dreamt he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he is a man.
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU THINK I'M EXAGGERATING. I swear, I can't even begin to make this stuff up. That is the exact plot.
Anyway, so he releases this biochemical agent which is really a bunch of nano-bots disguised as lymphocites (yay for AP bio) that KEEL YOUR BRAIN. Faye gets a good look at him while chasing his sidekick, a hacker with a passion for old school video games. (He says "old school" in Engrish.) Ed later points out the tattoo on his wrist which identifies him as a member of some special army division.
An old flame of Vincent's, Electra, was also a member of this division. (Vincent forgot her, though, when he got amnesia. Like every other anime character ever.) Electra fights Spike with a broom.
I kid you not. Best scene ever. Her punching away and Spike fighting back with a BROOM.
Vincent also seems to have switchblades under his fingernails or something; it was never explained how he can stab people with his fingertips. It's also unclear whether or not he raped Faye, or why he decided to inject her with the vaccine so that she wouldn't die when he set off his biochemical bomb-things. Faye got to run around a little. I loved the scene in the weather-control building:
*Faye walks right in. Just casually walks in and to the end of the big platform with her stinking big gun.*
Faye: Yo.
Everyone Who Works There: WTF. Who are you?!?
Faye: As you can see, I'm just a terrorist. *fires off a round of shots at the ceiling*
EWWT: What do you want?
Faye: Make it rain.
Honestly, I hardly paraphrased at all.
Jet didn't get to do anything. He just sat around on the Bebop and brooded.
Ed hacked into things while singing about eyeballs and black grapes. She also dived headfirst into a giant vase, and Jet commented that they could sell her to the circus. Oh, and she ran around with a Jack-o-Lantern on her head saying "TRICK OR TREAT" trying to find the video game criminal. The man at the first door shot at her, the man at the second door was a cross-dresser who hit on her until she told him that she was a girl, and then she found the culprit. She called in to Faye and was told to remain there, at which point she completely lost interest and ran away in search of Halloween candy.
Ein played chess.
And Spike Spiegel got rescued by Indians and bought a giant vase from an Arab (which he later put a sunflower in) and fought everyone he could find. I like watching Spike fight. It's very unlike typical, overblown anime fighting. There are no "moves," no poses, everything just fluid. And when he gets hit, it hurts. I like Spike.
I like Jet more, though, and Faye more than either of them, and Ed's the best of them all!
Ein's pretty cool too. Especially with the eyebrows that Faye drew on him once.
At one point, Faye storms into an apartment to capture the video game criminal, and finds him dying of the nano-bot disease. She starts to cough, having contracted it from him, or possibly the air in the apartment- whatever. She sways on her feet, stumbling around to find herself face-to-face with Vincent. She tries to shoot him, but in her weakened state, he easily wrestles the gun away from her, licking her blood off of his hands. She collapses, he kisses her, and then she loses consciousness. When she comes to, she's tied up on his floor and he's sitting on the windowsill.
Faye: What did you do to me?
Vincent: I injected you with my blood. Now you won't die when everyone else does. You and I will live.
Blah blah blah I don't remember and then he decides to tell her his backstory. And he talks about how he lost his past, how he lost his memories and has no idea who he was before Titan, when he got injected with anti-nanobots and saw shiny butterflies and thought he was living in a dream. And we just see Faye's face as he talks about losing his memory and not knowing who he is. Nobody who hasn't seen the show is going to get that.
A few minutes later, when he's trying to convince her to join him, he cuts her shirt open. They kept showing that little clip in the featurette when the voice actress was saying that Faye is not modest at all. What? That's not immodesty! That's having her shirt cut open by a psychopath! Modesty has nothing to do with being tied up by a psychopath in a witch's hat with a switchblade!
Oh yeah, did I mention that he dressed up as a witch? It made me laugh.
That and any scene with Ed. Ed cannot keep still, ever, unless she's sitting in some crazy-weird position, usually upside down. And Ed cannot move in any normal fashion, either. NOTHING that girl does is normal, be it climbing stairs or eating pasta or saying hello. I love Ed.
I liked the ending, where we saw everyone going around continuing their lives as if nothing had happened. It made me happy.
I'm tired. I'm supposed to be writing thank-you cards to the Sherrills and the Foxes. I don't want to. *whines* I hate writing thank-you cards.
Oh today I was at Schuler's and I was looking through a book on knitting. There was some pretty cool stuff in it. I should learn some more complicated knitting techniques so that I can make something other than straight-simple scarves.
Nobody was home for most of today, so I turned off all the lights when it got dark outside and made my way around with a candle. I like doing things by candlelight, even though I know the smoke is bad for me.
I got in a bit of trouble though for not visiting Safta. It's terrible how little I care for my own grandmother. Sometimes I chastise myself my telling myself that someday not to far away she will die and then I will regret not spending time with her, and the worst thing of all is that I know I won't. My own grandmother will die and I will not be particularly sad. I'll be sad the way I am when some relative in Israel that I've never met dies. Gah, I really am a horrible person and I don't even feel guilty about it.
How morbid.
I'm tired but I don't want to write thank-you letters, and I have to write thank-you letters before I go to bed or Eema will yell at me. I found my CD of Inigo Montoya singing Yiddish songs though, and that is a happy thing.
Okay, so can Laura please give me a nice list of all the first and second person pronouns in Japanese, and their connotations? If it's not too much trouble.
College is supremely boring. I hate it with a fierce passion. Actually no I don't. There is no fierce, passionate hatred. Merely a dark dread, a whining reluctance to return, each time I escape.
I don't want to go back, to the endless monotony of class and bad food and sitting around in my dorm room doing anything but studying. Orchestra is all that breaks it up, and with my shoulder muscle pulled when I was moving back in, orchestra is two hours of sharp back pain. It's going away now, but for the past week I couldn't concentrate on the music, I was in too much pain. I'm not particularly fond of the music we're doing- it's all Spanish, which means the rhythms are screwy and it's full of hemiolas. I have a little solo which I keep messing up royally, but it'll be okay. Oh did I mention I'm first chair? And my stand partner is Jonars, who I like. He knows Anything But Ordinary as well as any Okemos kid.
I'm just in a bad mood tonight. Complaining and complaining. But hey, that's what a livejournal is for, right?
Goodbye.
It went basically like this. Ugly!Jesus, named Vincento Vincent, plays that jump-solitaire game with himself until he gets bored and decides to destroy the world in order to see if he is a man who once dreamt he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he is a man.
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU THINK I'M EXAGGERATING. I swear, I can't even begin to make this stuff up. That is the exact plot.
Anyway, so he releases this biochemical agent which is really a bunch of nano-bots disguised as lymphocites (yay for AP bio) that KEEL YOUR BRAIN. Faye gets a good look at him while chasing his sidekick, a hacker with a passion for old school video games. (He says "old school" in Engrish.) Ed later points out the tattoo on his wrist which identifies him as a member of some special army division.
An old flame of Vincent's, Electra, was also a member of this division. (Vincent forgot her, though, when he got amnesia. Like every other anime character ever.) Electra fights Spike with a broom.
I kid you not. Best scene ever. Her punching away and Spike fighting back with a BROOM.
Vincent also seems to have switchblades under his fingernails or something; it was never explained how he can stab people with his fingertips. It's also unclear whether or not he raped Faye, or why he decided to inject her with the vaccine so that she wouldn't die when he set off his biochemical bomb-things. Faye got to run around a little. I loved the scene in the weather-control building:
*Faye walks right in. Just casually walks in and to the end of the big platform with her stinking big gun.*
Faye: Yo.
Everyone Who Works There: WTF. Who are you?!?
Faye: As you can see, I'm just a terrorist. *fires off a round of shots at the ceiling*
EWWT: What do you want?
Faye: Make it rain.
Honestly, I hardly paraphrased at all.
Jet didn't get to do anything. He just sat around on the Bebop and brooded.
Ed hacked into things while singing about eyeballs and black grapes. She also dived headfirst into a giant vase, and Jet commented that they could sell her to the circus. Oh, and she ran around with a Jack-o-Lantern on her head saying "TRICK OR TREAT" trying to find the video game criminal. The man at the first door shot at her, the man at the second door was a cross-dresser who hit on her until she told him that she was a girl, and then she found the culprit. She called in to Faye and was told to remain there, at which point she completely lost interest and ran away in search of Halloween candy.
Ein played chess.
And Spike Spiegel got rescued by Indians and bought a giant vase from an Arab (which he later put a sunflower in) and fought everyone he could find. I like watching Spike fight. It's very unlike typical, overblown anime fighting. There are no "moves," no poses, everything just fluid. And when he gets hit, it hurts. I like Spike.
I like Jet more, though, and Faye more than either of them, and Ed's the best of them all!
Ein's pretty cool too. Especially with the eyebrows that Faye drew on him once.
At one point, Faye storms into an apartment to capture the video game criminal, and finds him dying of the nano-bot disease. She starts to cough, having contracted it from him, or possibly the air in the apartment- whatever. She sways on her feet, stumbling around to find herself face-to-face with Vincent. She tries to shoot him, but in her weakened state, he easily wrestles the gun away from her, licking her blood off of his hands. She collapses, he kisses her, and then she loses consciousness. When she comes to, she's tied up on his floor and he's sitting on the windowsill.
Faye: What did you do to me?
Vincent: I injected you with my blood. Now you won't die when everyone else does. You and I will live.
Blah blah blah I don't remember and then he decides to tell her his backstory. And he talks about how he lost his past, how he lost his memories and has no idea who he was before Titan, when he got injected with anti-nanobots and saw shiny butterflies and thought he was living in a dream. And we just see Faye's face as he talks about losing his memory and not knowing who he is. Nobody who hasn't seen the show is going to get that.
A few minutes later, when he's trying to convince her to join him, he cuts her shirt open. They kept showing that little clip in the featurette when the voice actress was saying that Faye is not modest at all. What? That's not immodesty! That's having her shirt cut open by a psychopath! Modesty has nothing to do with being tied up by a psychopath in a witch's hat with a switchblade!
Oh yeah, did I mention that he dressed up as a witch? It made me laugh.
That and any scene with Ed. Ed cannot keep still, ever, unless she's sitting in some crazy-weird position, usually upside down. And Ed cannot move in any normal fashion, either. NOTHING that girl does is normal, be it climbing stairs or eating pasta or saying hello. I love Ed.
I liked the ending, where we saw everyone going around continuing their lives as if nothing had happened. It made me happy.
I'm tired. I'm supposed to be writing thank-you cards to the Sherrills and the Foxes. I don't want to. *whines* I hate writing thank-you cards.
Oh today I was at Schuler's and I was looking through a book on knitting. There was some pretty cool stuff in it. I should learn some more complicated knitting techniques so that I can make something other than straight-simple scarves.
Nobody was home for most of today, so I turned off all the lights when it got dark outside and made my way around with a candle. I like doing things by candlelight, even though I know the smoke is bad for me.
I got in a bit of trouble though for not visiting Safta. It's terrible how little I care for my own grandmother. Sometimes I chastise myself my telling myself that someday not to far away she will die and then I will regret not spending time with her, and the worst thing of all is that I know I won't. My own grandmother will die and I will not be particularly sad. I'll be sad the way I am when some relative in Israel that I've never met dies. Gah, I really am a horrible person and I don't even feel guilty about it.
How morbid.
I'm tired but I don't want to write thank-you letters, and I have to write thank-you letters before I go to bed or Eema will yell at me. I found my CD of Inigo Montoya singing Yiddish songs though, and that is a happy thing.
Okay, so can Laura please give me a nice list of all the first and second person pronouns in Japanese, and their connotations? If it's not too much trouble.
College is supremely boring. I hate it with a fierce passion. Actually no I don't. There is no fierce, passionate hatred. Merely a dark dread, a whining reluctance to return, each time I escape.
I don't want to go back, to the endless monotony of class and bad food and sitting around in my dorm room doing anything but studying. Orchestra is all that breaks it up, and with my shoulder muscle pulled when I was moving back in, orchestra is two hours of sharp back pain. It's going away now, but for the past week I couldn't concentrate on the music, I was in too much pain. I'm not particularly fond of the music we're doing- it's all Spanish, which means the rhythms are screwy and it's full of hemiolas. I have a little solo which I keep messing up royally, but it'll be okay. Oh did I mention I'm first chair? And my stand partner is Jonars, who I like. He knows Anything But Ordinary as well as any Okemos kid.
I'm just in a bad mood tonight. Complaining and complaining. But hey, that's what a livejournal is for, right?
Goodbye.