I love "I don't want to sleep alone", but then again I'm a big fan of films where nothing happens and I batshit Tsai Ming-liang fen (I've seen all, even his documentaries about AIDS) but it's not one of his most accesible movies. So it's not like I can hold it against people when they don't like Tsai Ming-liang's movies. I kinda understand. (Though as a fan of Michael Snow's "Wavelength" I can argue that "I don't want to sleep alone" is actually a very fast and eventful movie but I digress).
Anybody who misses the fact that this is Steven Soderbergh remixing Casablanca has either never watched Casablanca or was sleeping through the entire movie.
Ha ha, very well put. As much as I love Sodernergh I have to admit I couldn't finish watching "The Good German". I just hated the three main characters so much, and Cate Blanchett's accent was pissing me off. The movie was pretty but I just couldn't engage with the characters enough to bother.
I don't want to give off the impression that I didn't like "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone", because I did? that scene where the worker puts that can edge to the drifter's neck and a;slfkja;s and the gas masks and everything, I really do like it. It's just that it was so. slow. And I'm usually pretty good with slow movies, but I think "I Don't Want To Sleep Alone" hits my limit. So yeah, I really did enjoy the film, it was just hard for me to not get impatient with it.
As for "The Good German", I completely understand what you mean about the main characters. Tully made me want to hit Tobey Maguire in the face repeatedly. And all the while I was like, why are they in love with this bitch queen Lena??
I do get that impatient thing. It used to happen to me, too, until I started watching a lot of experimental films and now my time perception when it comes to film is a bit fucked up by that. But if you kinda like "I don't want to sleep alone" you should check more films by Tsai Ming-liang, they are not all that mmm, slow, I guess. Although you should probably stay away from "Goodbye Dragon Inn", that one doesn't have dialogue either.
why are they in love with this bitch queen Lena??
I don't know. I completely missed the point with that. The thing is I normally love George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, and I like Toby Maguire. So it was all the more confusing that I hated these characters.
I heard things break in my head for Zhou Zhu is nothing like Fuji. How can that be? Why do away with one of the most intriguing characters of the series, WHHHHHHY?
Dui zhang rolls off the tongue and can easily become the new buchou.
Why do away with one of the most intriguing characters of the series, WHHHHHHY?As my indifference towards the character of Fuji is well known, you'll have to talk to Bing about that XD. But I was telling her that I think it's because Fuji's not a very Chinese character. Like, Tezuka and Inui and in a way Kaidou are all very Chinese-able characters, which is probably why they translated very easily. But Fuji is, for me, a character that seems to be really a Japanese anime/fiction stereotype, and not very Chinese. Oddly, I think if Fuji were a girl, it might have been easier. But as it is, they could only hope his brother issues would help it past. Well, and also because I think the Chinese drama is all about giving each of the characters their own individual problems, and the Chinese like family~~~ problems more than they like ATTITUDE~~~ problems
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Well, Long Ma is bipolar. And I think a lot of his natural bratty charm is offset by the fact that he's not a prepubescent 12-year old but instead a rebellious (but adorable T_T) 17/18-year-old who seriously wasn't disciplined enough as a child. At least Long Ma has more realistic problems than Ryoma, who was just, "I play, you lose!" for 100+ episodes. Don't get me started on his gay crush on the mute boy, wtf. Zhou Zhu kills me; I refuse to acknowledge him as Fuji. I don't care that we're looking at 5+ more years of brotherly development; he's just weird.
p.s. your homeboy wrecks havoc even when he's not in the pool. Hello, China? Please never change.
I just think he was more playful as Ryoma. Now he's all WOE IS ME AND PEOPLE TRY TO GET ME TO PICK UP BALLS AND NOW I AM BEING BULLIED which was like, interesting for 15 minutes until everything just became unfair and extreme.
Zhou Zhu is not Fuji in the least. I want to write fic where Zhou Zhu meets Fuji and Fuji is like *wrinkles nose*, *eats wasabi sushi and smiles disdainfully*.
Oh man. "My name is Steve! I'm from GREAT BRITAIN. I'm ENGLISH."
They lose their first four games. Then they win. Everyone is silent, the audience and their teammates. Coach Lin angrily forces them to sit away from the court (they can't even see the matches where they are) and tell them to think about what they have done.
Huh? What did they do? Did they wind up dividing the court in half after all?
Wah, Fuji... :\ Maybe his character will become more Fuji-ish later on? How is the tennis, do they have crazy special effects for that?
They do end up dividing the court in half, just like in the anime, but everyone is SUPER PISSED and SUPER EMBARRASSED and so Momo and Ryoma get punished for it.
Maybe, now that Yuuta is no longer around, but somehow.... I doubt it. ://// The tennis is very tame! There're some special effects, like speed lines to show you the Boomerang, but no glowy lights or dead dinosaurs yet. The ball is so obviously CGI, though, whenever Ryoma twist serves.
Poor 'tardlings. Obv they were supposed to lose, or magically pull Long Ma's ability to coordinate with a partner out of his ass! XD That's interesting, though, that they're held more accountable for stuff that the manga passed off for lulz.
22 eps... how far into the storyline could that take them? Like, if they were following the tournaments at all, would they get to playing Zhou Yu's new team? They could be trying to level up the special effects gradually, so it stays semi-believable.
The drama is v. v. SERIOUS BUSINESS in general; in the anime/manga, when Ryoma plays Momo for the first time, it's kind of fun and games, but in this version, Momo gets chewed out for it and Ryoma gets a huge black mark for pissing off the team again. And they put in a lot of time showing how the Seigaku team tries to incorporate Ryoma into the fabric of their daily lives and tries to be friendly (there's a great scene where Eiji tries to get Ryoma to explain the difference between hurt, harm, injury, and wound), which is something I don't think you ever really saw in the original series.
The storyline is definitely going to get to Hyoutei, I think, because that seems to be the buildup. It goes Fudomine, St. Rudolph, Yamabuki, Hyoutei, so we should have enough time. Hopefully. And you're right. After all, who knows what Fuji's tennis will look like...not to mention the Tezuka Zone...
I... I kinda of want to watch this Tennis interpretation kind of desperately. I am now going to hunt for subs, dammit. I thought my Tennis infatuation was over!
ramble_corner pointed out that dramapuri is doing their own subbed version? I went and checked it out-- it's not 100% error free, but they do a pretty decent job of being mostly accurate.
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Anybody who misses the fact that this is Steven Soderbergh remixing Casablanca has either never watched Casablanca or was sleeping through the entire movie.
Ha ha, very well put. As much as I love Sodernergh I have to admit I couldn't finish watching "The Good German". I just hated the three main characters so much, and Cate Blanchett's accent was pissing me off. The movie was pretty but I just couldn't engage with the characters enough to bother.
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As for "The Good German", I completely understand what you mean about the main characters. Tully made me want to hit Tobey Maguire in the face repeatedly. And all the while I was like, why are they in love with this bitch queen Lena??
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why are they in love with this bitch queen Lena??
I don't know. I completely missed the point with that. The thing is I normally love George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, and I like Toby Maguire. So it was all the more confusing that I hated these characters.
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Dui zhang rolls off the tongue and can easily become the new buchou.
So should I invest in this or not?
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p.s. your homeboy wrecks havoc even when he's not in the pool. Hello, China? Please never change.
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Zhou Zhu is not Fuji in the least. I want to write fic where Zhou Zhu meets Fuji and Fuji is like *wrinkles nose*, *eats wasabi sushi and smiles disdainfully*.
Oh man. "My name is Steve! I'm from GREAT BRITAIN. I'm ENGLISH."
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I bet Phelps sleeps 20 hours per day and eats the rest of the 4 now that his ~gold marathon~ is over.
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I was on ollympic_slash and saw this comment about Lochte and Phelps' text messaging relationship and I cracked up so hard.
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They lose their first four games. Then they win. Everyone is silent, the audience and their teammates. Coach Lin angrily forces them to sit away from the court (they can't even see the matches where they are) and tell them to think about what they have done.
Huh? What did they do? Did they wind up dividing the court in half after all?
Wah, Fuji... :\ Maybe his character will become more Fuji-ish later on? How is the tennis, do they have crazy special effects for that?
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Maybe, now that Yuuta is no longer around, but somehow.... I doubt it. ://// The tennis is very tame! There're some special effects, like speed lines to show you the Boomerang, but no glowy lights or dead dinosaurs yet. The ball is so obviously CGI, though, whenever Ryoma twist serves.
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Poor 'tardlings. Obv they were supposed to lose, or magically pull Long Ma's ability to coordinate with a partner out of his ass! XD That's interesting, though, that they're held more accountable for stuff that the manga passed off for lulz.
22 eps... how far into the storyline could that take them? Like, if they were following the tournaments at all, would they get to playing Zhou Yu's new team? They could be trying to level up the special effects gradually, so it stays semi-believable.
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The storyline is definitely going to get to Hyoutei, I think, because that seems to be the buildup. It goes Fudomine, St. Rudolph, Yamabuki, Hyoutei, so we should have enough time. Hopefully. And you're right. After all, who knows what Fuji's tennis will look like...not to mention the Tezuka Zone...
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