May I lend a machete to your intellectual thicket
I watched Battle Royale.
It was nice and disturbing.
I don’t think I’ll ever let my child go on a school trip ever.
The real reason I suddenly gained this incredible urge to watch this was actually because I saw CROWS ZERO and stumbled across Takaoka Sousuke who's playing the exact same character he plays in ROOKIES (incidentally, another drama usually written in all caps) except with blonde hair. I'm not sure whether he was channeling Ucchi, played by a blonde Oguri Shun in Gokusen, or he was channeling the equally blonde, equally 6' something tall, equally left-handed Shinjo, played by Shirota Yuu.
Or perhaps it could be a little bit of both. Can anyone say 'personal type'? After all, aside of both Shirota and Shun having played a blonde lackey of a shorter, dark-haired, sullen, eternally frowning class gang leader, they have also shared (among other things) a drama.
The other thing being a kiss.
I enjoyed the kiss a lot, even though it looked about as passionate as a big glop of moldy pasta. I could also compare it to Domyouji and Makino's kiss in Hana Yori Dango, but even I wouldn't touch that.
Anyway, I was watching CROWS ZERO, came to the above realization and decided that hey, I kinda like Takaoka Sousuke. He’s pretty cute in that bad-ass, take no nonsense, not-a-pretty-boy way. But like everyone else in the movie, he died, after three bullets too. Proof that he was in fact one of the only normal people on the island. It took at least three rounds of ammunition to drop the others, especially the girls.
In conclusion; I have lived in ignorant bliss for about 8 years having not watched this movie, but like the saying goes: ‘All good things must come to and end’. At the end of the road, I have only two opinions about this movie, and both are Death Note related (even though both movies bored me to tears);
1. Does anyone need to wonder again why Raito became Kira? He's had much more on-hands experience when it comes to killing.
2. Nanahara sure as hell could have done with the Death Note then, or at least Raito's heartlessness.
The moral of the story is: don’t play hooky. Don’t run in the hallway and don’t stab your principal in the leg. He’ll ship you and your classmates off to a deserted island to murder each other in cold blood.
It was nice and disturbing.
I don’t think I’ll ever let my child go on a school trip ever.
The real reason I suddenly gained this incredible urge to watch this was actually because I saw CROWS ZERO and stumbled across Takaoka Sousuke who's playing the exact same character he plays in ROOKIES (incidentally, another drama usually written in all caps) except with blonde hair. I'm not sure whether he was channeling Ucchi, played by a blonde Oguri Shun in Gokusen, or he was channeling the equally blonde, equally 6' something tall, equally left-handed Shinjo, played by Shirota Yuu.
Or perhaps it could be a little bit of both. Can anyone say 'personal type'? After all, aside of both Shirota and Shun having played a blonde lackey of a shorter, dark-haired, sullen, eternally frowning class gang leader, they have also shared (among other things) a drama.
The other thing being a kiss.
I enjoyed the kiss a lot, even though it looked about as passionate as a big glop of moldy pasta. I could also compare it to Domyouji and Makino's kiss in Hana Yori Dango, but even I wouldn't touch that.
Anyway, I was watching CROWS ZERO, came to the above realization and decided that hey, I kinda like Takaoka Sousuke. He’s pretty cute in that bad-ass, take no nonsense, not-a-pretty-boy way. But like everyone else in the movie, he died, after three bullets too. Proof that he was in fact one of the only normal people on the island. It took at least three rounds of ammunition to drop the others, especially the girls.
In conclusion; I have lived in ignorant bliss for about 8 years having not watched this movie, but like the saying goes: ‘All good things must come to and end’. At the end of the road, I have only two opinions about this movie, and both are Death Note related (even though both movies bored me to tears);
1. Does anyone need to wonder again why Raito became Kira? He's had much more on-hands experience when it comes to killing.
2. Nanahara sure as hell could have done with the Death Note then, or at least Raito's heartlessness.
The moral of the story is: don’t play hooky. Don’t run in the hallway and don’t stab your principal in the leg. He’ll ship you and your classmates off to a deserted island to murder each other in cold blood.