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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[summertea]

I love Mike He but WILL HE BE IN A DRAMA WITH A HAPPY ENDING, FOR ONCE. OH MY GOD. Q_Q (Er. Happy ending where his hair is not ridiculous, aka Devil Beside Me.) *enjoys looking at him*

[dangermousie]

Heeee. I think this one might end happily. No idea though.

Er. Happy ending where his hair is not ridiculous, aka Devil Beside Me

ROFL. I confess Love Contract killed me. I was crying too hard to see. I remember thinking after DBY that I'd love to see him in something angsty but I really shouldn't have wished for that because LC, last two eps? Are murder.

[alexandral]

Oh gosh, I just was going to squee and run to download "Love Contract" (because Mike is clearly OMPH gorgeous, thank you for the pictures!). I can't abide bad endings, I think. It must be something exceptional like ALTK to make me watch the bad ending. I think there should be a rule in doramas to make them GOOD ENDING ONLY! I feel like campaigning!!

[dangermousie]

Well, actually the ending is a happy ending. They end up together. It's just a very...weird ending and the two eps before it ends that way are totally murder angst-wise.

I can't explain the ending very well without going into detailed spoilers (can do so if you like).

But yeah, they are together and happy at the end (and are just shown to be that way explicitly).

It just...I am still puzzling over what to make of it...

[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

[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 :)

[vierran45]

I have watched the first episode of Nobuta Wo Produce which came highly recommended but so far I am not getting the fuss.

I just did this,too, but I found it fairly interesting. Will watch more.

Yamapi's character seemed extremely flaky, but he offered a nice contrast to Kame's character who appeared to be much more outwardly controlled and even annoyed when someone challenged the role he was playing at school.

Mike He looks very nice from the pics, but I'm still waiting for my Devil Beside You DVD set to arrive, so I won't make any judgments about him before I've seen him in action :).

[dangermousie]

Hmmm, DBY. I enjoy it but he has crazy hair in that one and the acting style (on purpose) is OTT. I really rec Love Contract over DBY as a good Mike He drama, but DBY is enjoyable as well...

[kitsune714]

[dangermousie]

Does Express Boy have an unhappy ending too? The boy must be jinxed :P

frankly, he scared the crap out of me

That's my reaction, right now. It's sort of if this kid went to my school I'd steer really REALLY clear of him. But we shall see.

You are right, it's really hard to switch back and forth. I've been watching a lot of Kdrama lately (but before that, I was watching Pride) and the vibe is different. I must confess that despite Pride being my second favorite dorama ever and my mad love for Kurosagi and Forbidden Love, in general jdrama is my least favorite of the three (kdrama, twdrama and jdrama). No idea why, maybe because it's shorter.

I am compiling a gigantic post on Delightful Girl Chunhyang which I can tell is going to be my next thing.

Re: Spring Waltz. Read the post so yeah. I really like the tone of it, so far. We shall see...I am watching NwP and DGCH first though.

[kitsune714]

[dangermousie]

So how does it end? Spill...

And re: Akira, we shall see :)

And yeah, Longryonf and Chunhyang are great.

[meganbmoore]

I only "liked" Bleach until the other sould reapers(especially Renji) showed up, and then it turned to love.

[dangermousie]

I am only 5 eps in, so we'll see. I didn't fall for Rurouni Kenshin until a lot more in.

[meganbmoore]

I view the soul reaper society arc the way i do kenshin's kyoto arc...both took their respective series from "really good" to "great"

[kitsune714]