Next week you will have the normal film reviews. But for now I will share an essay I did last year on the popular culture of guitars. (more…)
When I started doing album reviews in late February/early March, one of my first was of Melon Kinenbi’s final album “MELON’S NOT DEAD.”
Now that we’re back with a slightly new outlook in life, blogging, and the interwebs; and let’s not mention how I miraculously found it the other day; I am reviewing Melon Kinenbi’s final concert and DVD, entitled (horribly, I should add) “FINAL STAGE MELON’S NOT DEAD.”
Because this concert was so long (albeit, it’s pales in comparison to the three hours long Morning Musume’s 2009 Fall NINE SMILE DVD was, since the horse Koharu was graduating), I’m going to condense my review a tiny bit. I took six hundred screenshots throughout the concert, and only a small number are included here. I’ll probably post more on my writing journal and will post the link when I do.
Don’t ask where the title came from. I had to come up with something.
I swear. I don’t know why I can’t keep track of the days. Atleast I realised it before it was a weak too late.
It didn’t take much thinking on what I’d write about today. In fact, all it took was my shuffle on Windows Media Player being on and hitting a song called “Papillion.” Then I came up with my idea: ten reasons you’ll like Iida Kaori.
Predators
A group of eight individual people from a variety of different backgrounds end up on this planet, they all seem to have either woken up on the planet or fallen from a plane. A marine named Royce (Adrien Brody) falls from a plane to land on the planet. Royce slowly accompanies Edwin (Topher Grace), Isabelle (Alice Braga), Stans (Walton Goggins) and a selection of others. The group try to find a way off the planet but run into group of cyborg monsters known only as the predators. Royce proposes that they destroy them,which also puts the group in more danger that they are already in.
The film is good on terms of its hack n slash content. It shows gore at times when you are not expecting it to happen, and even in those slow-motion moments. It also takes pride in producing over the top blood, guts, and violence.
This content goes into a fair bit more detail since the original, the excessive amount blood, the refined costumes of the predators (especially the headgear). And the scenery. The scenery and landscapes are what make this film great. Like Avatar, it features some wonderful environments and landscapes of horizons, trees, forests etc.
Where the film loses its touch is with the story. It’s far from what the original was like, it takes too long for us to see any notion of the predators at all. And when we finally get interaction of the predators it left with out any action until a while later. There are jokes tossed around which are funny but distract from the main intention which is to find the predators, or at least avoid their violent interaction.
The film is not at all worth a watch if you want a fully action packed story. Although there are good things like the gore, the landscape etc There is the story element missing, and that can piss off many viewers. This obvious why it didn’t too do well at the box office, even though it came in within the top 10.
2/5 Rubber Chickens
Firstly, I’d like to apologize if this review isn’t as good as usual. My brain is fried because I spent like an hour trying to translate something from Japanese to English. Japanese is not my strong suit, e Portugues é nao…nao…frick what’s “either?” YEAH, PORTUGUESE AIN’T MY STRONG SUIT EITHER.
Anyway, this Saturday I’m reviewing Japanese pop, of course; but I’m taking a different direction. They’re not under Hello! Project (a habit I will one year break), they’re not a group, they’re legal in the US (waaaaaaaaay legal), and they’re not even female (sorry Em).
I ended up getting my hands on an album that is apparently so rare, the only way I got my hands on it was to Google the title in Kanji and download it off of Windows Live from a Japanese blog.
That’s also why I’m not entirely sure on the romaji characters of all but three of the songs. I think I read it right, but any corrections are welcome. (I’ll provide a link to the album at the end of my post, and this time it’ll be an actual link instead of my promising a link and not giving one, like in my single review. I keep meaning to edit that…)
I know what you’re thinking. You’re shouting at your monitor “DM, SHUT THE HELL UP AND START REVIEWING! EVEN IF THERE AREN’T ANY GIRLS UNDER EIGHTEEN!”
Okay.
This week, I’m reviewing Inoue Kazuhiko’s “Kaze ~Hey!~ Wa.”
