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[liralen]

I've watched The Watchmen, Kill Bill 2, read five books of Fullmetal Alchemist, and spent nearly two days playing Onimusha 2 before I realized that the latter is something I usually do doing depressive cycles, when my brain won't let go of something in the background and some part of me is desperately trying to overlay something else on top.

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[ross_teneyck]

The two Kill Bills really are quite different, aren't they? I adore the complete insanity of her fight with the Crazy 88 in KB1, but her talk -- and fight -- with Bill at the end of KB2 is just as awesome in an entirely different way.

[liralen]

Yes!!

Exactly. They are very very different movies, and I loved that about them, that Tarentino knew well enough to let the second one be so different from the first.

And, yeah, her whole talk with Bill just amazed me, especially Bill's analogy about Superman being different from all the other superheros because, for him, the disguise, the fake was Clark Kent... and what a damning indictment of humanity that was. *laughs*

[marith]

Yay! I'm glad you're enjoying Haibane Renmei and FMA and other stuff. :)

Rorschach has always been the character I identified with the most in Watchmen. It's a terrible world, in that story, everyone faces despair and horror and nihilism, and Rorschach's response was to build himself his own moral compass out of the materials he had at hand, in his own damaged psyche, and live his life by it. I really respected him for keeping on trying to save the world in his own way.

[liralen]

It is!! And, yeah, I think that's the core of why I liked Rorschach so much as well. He actually has a moral sense compared to nearly everyone else, that it was so narrow and strict was because of his environment...

Yes. I am glad I'm enjoying the others as well.

[crimini]

I love that Edward doesn't take "impossible" as the final answer, either, in FMA. Fun stuff.

I wasn't blown away by the movie... and I think what disappointed me the most was that it *could* have been as mind blowing as the book, but in a different way.

We watched Spirited Away the other night, too! But N didn't like it much even though he'd seen it before...

[liralen]

It is very shonen of him. *laughs* Definitely fun stuff.

I agree... the book, when I read it was mindblowing. The movie was... almost tedious.

Jet's reading the Spirited Away manga, and he loves it. *laughs* So we're going to probably watch the movie again, too; but, yeah, he has some of the same objection, i.e. that we'd seen it already.

[nosferatu_blue]

Ah, I'm glad you're feeling better (it's just a little cold rather than depression). *makes you some yummy soup*

I had to leap and whoop at the mention of Onimusha 2. I... didn't think anybody played that anymore (at least, anybody I know). I love the gift exchanges too, it's little bits like that that make it fun! (I admit to a bit of a crush on Gogandantess.) I favoured Magoichi, since he's sorta awesome. I even ficced it for a while, but the fandom is nonexistent.

There is supposedly an Onimusha movie in the works (lol, for how long has this rumour been going around?) but supposedly Kaneshiro Takeshi would be in it... enough reason for me to keep scouring the net for more info.

Anyways, yes, Nova and Onimusha 2 in common, in the same day? May I hug you in common-interest glee? ♥

[liralen]

OOooo... *eats soup happily*

Yeah, it's much better to just be sick than depressed.

*giggles so much at the leap and whoop*!! No one plays it anymore, it's an OLD game, but I love old games I can get for $3 at Game Stop and they don't even charge for shipping. Yeesh...

I love Magoichi, too! *laughs* But I could easily believe that the fandom is nonexistent, it's so old... though there have been two versions out since, they haven't been quite as popular; but yeah, there are still rumors of the live action movie in 2011.

*hugs you happily* It's always good to have common-interest glee!! hee.

[nosferatu_blue]

Yeah, I don't care how old a game is. If it's fun, then I'll play.

I think Oni3 was more popular, though I never got through that. Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams was pretty fun, but there was nothing in the fandom about it. No buzzing, no excitement... nothing.

Magoichi was awesome. I love smart guys, and he was suave and liked books and... has that touchy-feely moment with Jubei where he confesses that he's really a good guy and all that jazz.

*waits patiently for the movie but doesn't hold her breath*

[incandescens]

The FMA anime is good, but the FMA manga is really good. Lovely stuff!

And yes, Spirited Away is excellent comfort.

[liralen]

Yes, the manga is really, really good. I'm about to catch up completely to where the American translations run out, so I'll have to settle for watching the anime for a while. *laughs* I've heard that their different enough stories that I'm kind of looking forward to that as well.

I do love Spirited Away. And the whole fact that there is the promise of, perhaps, some more someday at the end still fills me with delight...

... and the faintest urge to write what happens five years later when he does come looking for her again. Or something. *laughs*

[incandescens]

... and the faintest urge to write what happens five years later when he does come looking for her again. Or something. *laughs*

If you do, then I will be reading it. :)