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[gfish]

In search of reduced-mental-capacity entertainment, waiting for the rest of my brain to shut off, I just watched all the action sequences in Equilibrium. Which doesn't actually detract too much from the rest of the movie, but hey, really cool action sequences. The gun katas rock my sad little world. And it reminded me of a post I wanted to make last week after watching Underworld:

Dear Hollywood,

You know that thing where someone gets cut in half with a sword or a laser beam or whatever, and they turn around with an odd expression just in time to have half their face fall off? Yeah, well, it's totally passe now. Please stop doing it.

Love, Fish

P.S. Thank you for at least including obvious bone/brain structure in Underworld. It's particularly silly when the inside of people is undifferentiated strawberry jam.

Comments

Re: Need reduced-mental-capacity entertainment?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Oooh, the second one is out subbed now as well? I have the raw copy, neither subbed nor dubbed, but my Japanese was never that good. Of course, it isn't like it detracts from the plot much...

Re: Need reduced-mental-capacity entertainment?

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's subbed. It has some obnoxious jokes (like their translation of a cram school sign as Bukkake Shower Training Facility) but it helps to show at least there's a thin plot to hold things together outside of the kicking monster tushie bits.

Re: Need reduced-mental-capacity entertainment?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was really disappointed when I saw that in the fan-sub of the first ep. If you can't trust the translation, then suddenly laughing at bizarre Japanese-isms isn't nearly as much fun. I'm hoping they kept it to just the commercials, but the theme song translation seems dubious as well...