Category: Moving Media

  • Jurassic Park – Films that Changed your Life Forever

    Jurassic Park Poster

    Oh,yes~

    Jurassic Park made a huge impact on me. Mainly because I saw it as a kid, and was amazed after the theaters that 1. I had a nightmare with a T-Rex… or more specifically, the eye of the T-Rex. LOL and 2. I wanted to be a paleontologist for at least 3 years of my life. Because of Jurassic Park and those scary Velociraptors I went to see Jurassic Park II three times at the theater – hahahaha.

    But come on, you can’t hold that against me. After all, I also watched Jumanji twice at the theaters.

    I think those were some of the factors that made me want to get into 3D and Special Effects – You know, since I was also blown away by Michael Jackson music videos xD. I think it was that first scene in which you see the Brachiosaurus coming out of the lake with the amazing John Williams piece. It’s just magical, almost like you were actually in the film because they saw something that didn’t exist right there, and we saw something on screen that was never before~~~

    Of course, now I know very little about dinosaurs because I’ve forgotten everything that I studied. I only faintly remember about Sauropods because I did my presentation on them when I was like 10 years old. So it all is just a faint reminder that I once was a Dino-kid xD

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  • The Cat Piano by PRA

    An animated short about a cat who goes on a journey to save her lady-cat friend who’s been kidnapped to form part of The Piano Cat. Pretty awesome, especially the last part of the short. And it kinda gave me the feel of Moulin Rouge xD with the typewriter and all. Give it a look~

    Directed by Eddie White & Ari Gibson

  • July + August Films~

    Let’s see how the movie count goes~
    shall we?

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  • Cartelera en Lima: Máncora

    Mancora PosterMáncora (2008)

    Genre: Drama with a road trip
    Starring: Jason Day, Elsa Pataky, Enrique Murciano, Anahi de Cardenas, Angela Alegria, Phellipe Haagensen, Liz Gallardo
    Directed by: Ricardo de Montreuil

    Mancora tells the story of Santiago, a 21-year-old Limeño who parties a lot and just doesn’t care about life at all. One early morning, his dad commits suicide, so Santiago is forced to re-evaluate his life.

    First things first, I really admire de Montreuil for his visual style which is present in the music videos he’s directed [Andrea Echeverri’s Baby Blues from the La Mujer de mi Hermano OST] and his debut film. So just as the aforementioned, Mancora doesn’t disappoint visually (though I’d wish the poster were different).

    Technically, Mancora is great. Cinematography, color treatment… the underwater scene is beautiful to watch. However, if we need to get into the story – there’s nothing for me to chew on. According to them, the film is marketed at 20-somethings to nearly 30-year-olds who will “relate” to the story. So that means me. Either I’m 23 going on 32, or the film is better suited for 16-year-olds with existential crisis.

    The main character never truly develops, while the supporting characters never leave the page as real people, and just play the part like the grim cartoon version of what could have been~ Yes, we could have told this story in a year, we could have had more time to develop the character, but we only had 100 minutes. It doesn’t matter, this whole “you can’t develop a story in this amount of time” means nothing when there are films that have the protagonist meet a bunch of people, and the bunch of people can still leave a mark on you. Case and point, Into the Wild. – 2/5

  • The 5 Bags – Guitar Case Girl

    Minna! Great news, yo!

    First, Juri Ueno and the 5 Bags begins in less than 20hrs with the 1st episode titled “GITA~ KE~SU no Onna” (Her Guitar Case) or in this case… Guitar Case Girl, directed by Hideta Takahata who also directed Chapter 2 of WOWOW’s Camouflage with Yu Aoi. xD

    Greatest news? Someone will be fansubbing this. YAY!!
    A big hooray for ViiKii.net!!! Hooray!!

    Can I beg and grovel for Camouflage subs, Viikii??? xD

  • Top 5 TV Brains~

    From time to time, I get in the mood for Top #

    I was in the mood for a Top 5 of my favorite TV brainy characters~
    nerdy… geeky… dorky… socially inept, whatever you want to call them xD

    I thought about them, and it was kinda difficult since I haven’t been really watching much television lately. But I did my best to put together this list… some hot people, some not so much LOL some not even people xD

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  • Juri Ueno WOWOW Marathon!

    While we wait for Juri’s WOWOW project (please, please! Someone sub this!!! And please, please WOWOW release this with subs), the programming  (non-coding) people have decided to do a Juri Marathon with 6 films! (Sounds like Comfy Monki to me xD) starting on September 7th (That’s a Monday, just so you know~)

    • Sept. 7th – Jozze to Tora to Sakana-tachi (Josee, the Tiger and the Fish)
      with Satoshi Tsumabuki and Chizuru Ikewaki
    • Sept. 8th – Kame wa Igai to Hayaku Oyogu (Turtles Swim Faster than Expected)
      with Yu Aoi (!!! xD)
    • Sept. 9th – Naoko
    • Sept. 10th – Swing Girls (!!!!)
    • Sept. 10th – Warau Mikaeru (Arch Angels)
    • Sept. 11th – GuGu Datte Neko de Aru (Gu Gu the Cat)
      with Kyoko Koizumi~~~

    Why they chose Josee instead of Rainbow Song makes me wonder… after all she was barely in Josee xD – Anyway, if you get WOWOW, don’t miss the chance to watch these six Juri films!

    Kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu

  • Taxidermia Trailer – More Horrorific Films Your Way!

    Check it out yo!
    My friend Kyle gave me the heads up on this
    Hungarian film, which appears to be horrorific.

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLxzsygdpQU?rel=0″]

    Looks pretty darn interesting…
    another one on the list.

  • Less than a week for Juri and the 5 Bags!

    Only like 6 days, in fact!

    Here’s some more info~~~

    Episode 1 – GITA~ KE~SU no Onna (Her Guitar Case)
    Episode 2 – HOPE
    Episode 3 – Tonari no Tonari no Akira (Akira, the neighbor of the neighbor? LOL)
    Episode 4 – Tabi no Aida (Traveling Time)
    Episode 5 – Aru Asa, Hinata wa Totsuzen ni (One Morning, Suddenly Sunny? xD)

    And Juri singing the closing theme! which she also wrote xD LOL

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  • It’s Mysterious Ways!

    The year, 2000… I think.

    Mysterious Ways - Season 1 - Title

    Anyway, for any fans of the shows, I just found the torrent for Mysterious Ways, that Canadian (probably shot on Vancouver) show with Adrian Pasdar (who is now married to Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks) with Rae Dawn Chong (who my mother refuses to believe is Chinese, LOL) and Alisen Down (playing the geeky and awkward Miranda) – by the by, I’m pretty sure I was a Declan/Miranda kinda shipper… ~ I’m telling you, it’s all about the geek.

    Also, don’t mind the title sequence. It’s a really REALLY bad title sequence, super 90’s and cheese~ xD

    Anyway, I’m posting the links to the torrents because there are no DVDs… I doubt there will be any releases since it’s such a tiny show… and Canadian. Canadian programming sucks when it comes to releasing on DVD.

    It’s a little over 15Gb for both seasons, but it’s worth it if you want the show. Remember, the show getting a DVD release it’s a long shot. Better download while you can. And if the torrent goes dead (and there are still no DVD releases), you can leave a message to request re-seed.

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