So apparently
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timepiececlockI read too much smut. Or at least that's what I'm told.
I was driving back from seeing the Cowboy Bebop movie tonight (will get to that later) with A, also known as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meryl_stryfe, and I was in the car stopping at a stop light, talking about this Mexican restaurant in Vacaville that I loved, and when I started to say "best salsa" I accidentally said "breast." Of course A starts crowing that I read too much smutfic, this is undeniable proof, and I reluctantly was forced to agree.
I just don't understand how I got from salsa to breast. Maybe because we were discussing cosplay possibilities for being Faye Valentine... I dunno. But I read too much smutfic.
I've decided I blame BTVS for this!
Damn you, James Marsters, for spending most of last season half- or more- naked!
Damn you, Buffy writers, for having a major season arc centered on Buffy-Spike sexcapades!
And DAMN YOU, fic writers, FOR TAKING THEM UP ON THE CHALLENGE!
And damn myself, for ruining my poor little mind by reading it.
DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
Look what's become of me.
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In other news, I watched the Cowboy Bebop movie!
It was very cool. Seeing it on a big screen, with high-quality sound, excellent picture and clear well-done English voice-acting is much superior to watching it on a low-quality, too-high-contrast bootleg VHS with bad subtitles and poor tracking.
I loved LOVED the music for this movie. I might have to buy the suntrack. It was all by a Japanese band called Seatbelts, but their lyrics were in English. The music was very well integrated into the scenes, especially action moments.
I think I actually liked this movie more than most of the series episodes. I still haven't seen the end of the series though, and I know someone dies but DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME WHO OR I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS! But everyone said it was sad, so that means someone dies. This is why spoilers are bad.
Anyway, the movie takes place near the end of the series, but before the big finale episodal arc. So it's like an episode in that it takes a case story (they're bounty hunters who catch people), and instead of being the half-hour episode, you get a fully-fleshed out two hour movie. They could honestly do a dozen more like this.
However, there were nice touches in that the characterizations in the movie did appropriately reflect where the characters were emotionally in the show at that time (around episode 21-22). Jet is feeling left out and taken for granted, Spike is feeling moody about his past, Faye is pleased that she finally is feeling more like a valued part of the team instead of the hanger-on who needs them more than they need her. Details like that pleased me, as a fan.
Visually, this was a pretty movie, lovingly animated with detailed character and landscape designs. There was no skimping on using a lot of frames, especially for the action sequences. The fights were pretty damn cool in this movie. My favorite being the fight between Spike and guest character Electra in the pharmacutical facility, I think. It also had one of my favorite lines: "I love a woman who can kick my ass!"
I admit part of loving that line was automatically attaching my Spuffy fandom to everything I see and hear. But really, it was a cool fight scene, the visually complex type of fight you typically only get in anime if you're watching an anime film, versus a lower-quality tv show. But the fights have always been good on Cowboy Bebop. Being a movie only made them that much better.
That's all I can think of right now... I'm feeling tired even though it's really not as late as Daylight Savings Time says it is.
I was driving back from seeing the Cowboy Bebop movie tonight (will get to that later) with A, also known as
meryl_stryfe, and I was in the car stopping at a stop light, talking about this Mexican restaurant in Vacaville that I loved, and when I started to say "best salsa" I accidentally said "breast." Of course A starts crowing that I read too much smutfic, this is undeniable proof, and I reluctantly was forced to agree.I just don't understand how I got from salsa to breast. Maybe because we were discussing cosplay possibilities for being Faye Valentine... I dunno. But I read too much smutfic.
I've decided I blame BTVS for this!
Damn you, James Marsters, for spending most of last season half- or more- naked!
Damn you, Buffy writers, for having a major season arc centered on Buffy-Spike sexcapades!
And DAMN YOU, fic writers, FOR TAKING THEM UP ON THE CHALLENGE!
And damn myself, for ruining my poor little mind by reading it.
DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
Look what's become of me.
In other news, I watched the Cowboy Bebop movie!
It was very cool. Seeing it on a big screen, with high-quality sound, excellent picture and clear well-done English voice-acting is much superior to watching it on a low-quality, too-high-contrast bootleg VHS with bad subtitles and poor tracking.
I loved LOVED the music for this movie. I might have to buy the suntrack. It was all by a Japanese band called Seatbelts, but their lyrics were in English. The music was very well integrated into the scenes, especially action moments.
I think I actually liked this movie more than most of the series episodes. I still haven't seen the end of the series though, and I know someone dies but DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME WHO OR I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS! But everyone said it was sad, so that means someone dies. This is why spoilers are bad.
Anyway, the movie takes place near the end of the series, but before the big finale episodal arc. So it's like an episode in that it takes a case story (they're bounty hunters who catch people), and instead of being the half-hour episode, you get a fully-fleshed out two hour movie. They could honestly do a dozen more like this.
However, there were nice touches in that the characterizations in the movie did appropriately reflect where the characters were emotionally in the show at that time (around episode 21-22). Jet is feeling left out and taken for granted, Spike is feeling moody about his past, Faye is pleased that she finally is feeling more like a valued part of the team instead of the hanger-on who needs them more than they need her. Details like that pleased me, as a fan.
Visually, this was a pretty movie, lovingly animated with detailed character and landscape designs. There was no skimping on using a lot of frames, especially for the action sequences. The fights were pretty damn cool in this movie. My favorite being the fight between Spike and guest character Electra in the pharmacutical facility, I think. It also had one of my favorite lines: "I love a woman who can kick my ass!"
I admit part of loving that line was automatically attaching my Spuffy fandom to everything I see and hear. But really, it was a cool fight scene, the visually complex type of fight you typically only get in anime if you're watching an anime film, versus a lower-quality tv show. But the fights have always been good on Cowboy Bebop. Being a movie only made them that much better.
That's all I can think of right now... I'm feeling tired even though it's really not as late as Daylight Savings Time says it is.
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Date: 2003-04-06 08:58 am (UTC)Bad James Marsters, bad! Spankin' is in order. Bad!
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Date: 2003-04-06 09:51 am (UTC)Thankfully, I've seen all of IY subbed, so I only watch for the parts I especially liked. Also, I'm not pleased with the way they've changed the dialogue in places. For some reason it seems they've taken perfectly acceptable joke lines and made them not-funny. Probably a timing-mouth thing.
I only saw the subbed of CB once, so I didn't remember all of it. But I liked the dialogue in the dubbed movie. The only place where it lost me was at the end on the tower, where Vincent had his little monolgue and being all better now, and the dialogue about real world and being waking in dreams.
That's a failing I see often in anime films--even the good ones. They get caught up in their own philosophical junk that ends up being superfluous to the plot.
I know it was supposed to establish how Spike and Vincent were alike, but it didn't work well. Thankfully, that was a small part of the whole movie, and everywhere else the script was tight and smooth.
The only movies that I've seen that haven't done that have been Hayao Miyazaki movies, and that horror flick Perfect Blue.
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Date: 2003-04-06 10:46 am (UTC)The only movies that I've seen that haven't done that have been Hayao Miyazaki movies, and that horror flick Perfect Blue.
see. funny. i thought the idea of vincent as a dark mirror of spike was established beautifully. vincent is what spike would be without love (julia, & arguably, faye) & family (the bebop crew).
(& incedently, i WORSHIP miyazake & love love love perfect blue.)
& i still can't believe that you haven't seen all the series! i can't count the number of people i heard asking their friends "so, how's the series end?" & was inches away from screaming "no spoilers! no spoilers!"
at any rate, i loved KOHD as much as the rest of bebop. my only regret is that i did see it at the dobie. as much as i love the dobie, the screens are small. i wanna see it on a HURGE screen.
moments:
-the butterflies. beautiful.
-spike & jet's ramen soliloquy
-the aforementioned chem-lab ass-kicking. (is there any spike who doesn't "love a woman who can kick [his] ass?"
-the edward/ein hunt for lee. i LOVE edward & ein...it's like "a boy & his dog" on crack.
-faye getting herself out of more than 1 serious pickle
-the jailhouse confessional
-the mono-rail & pseudeiffel tower ass-kicking scenes
-that tharsis (i assume we were in tharsis) features major architectural landmarks that make it look like parisnewyorkmarrakechriodetroit all at once. did anyone else notice the trade center towers & the empire state building?
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Date: 2003-04-06 11:17 am (UTC)I dunno. I mean, Spike *said* they were alike, but I didn't *see* it very well, in behavior, attitude. I know that's a fine difference, but it's a distinct one in my mind. I can't really explain it, but it didn't work for me. Actually, I thought he had more in comoon with Electra than with Vincent. Though since Electra was in love with Vincent, that does have some connection.
-the butterflies. beautiful.
-spike & jet's ramen soliloquy
-the aforementioned chem-lab ass-kicking. (is there any spike who doesn't "love a woman who can kick [his] ass?"
-the edward/ein hunt for lee. i LOVE edward & ein...it's like "a boy & his dog" on crack.
-faye getting herself out of more than 1 serious pickle
-the jailhouse confessional
-the mono-rail & pseudeiffel tower ass-kicking scenes
-that tharsis (i assume we were in tharsis) features major architectural landmarks that make it look like parisnewyorkmarrakechriodetroit all at once. did anyone else notice the trade center towers & the empire state building?
I loved all those moments. ALL! I also loved the vase. "Apparently it's perfect for me." ::snark::
The ramen moment reminded me wonderfully of that fan-dub movie "Fanboy Bebop." Have you ever seen it? I saw it at a convention-- it was hilarious. All about Spike & Jet ruminating about anime fan weirdness, with lots of soliloqies like that.
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Date: 2003-04-06 11:31 am (UTC)no, i haven't, but have you seen EK's thumbnail theatre?! here's a link... hee hee... (check out her parody fanart while you're at it...& photoshop wars!) http://www.big-big-truck.com/bebop/parody.html just scroll down to the bottom & there's even KOHD thumbnail theatre. & she marks her spoilers because she.is.a.badass. ;)
& she also archives agent orange's bebop fic. it's yummy. http://www.big-big-truck.com/bebop/ao/ "reluctant jezebel" is highly recommended. it's the julia side of the story.
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