Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Welcome to the Jungle

First day of packing my room: and look at all the junk i threw away:

Junk..
Yes sir, yes sir, 3 bags full..

It's funny how things that i once found unbearable to throw away, suddenly became so easy to let go off. Except for a few things that have some sentimental value, everything else just had to go. I decided to put some of my comics (and some other stuff) on sale at 2 forums (here), but if no one's interested i'm quite resigned to carting them to my new room.

Aftermath

Thank goodness Brandon is away for Church Camp. He won't like what i've turned his bed into. (But then again, he never likes anything i do.) Most of my stuff went into those boxes on the left of the bed, and i'm going to put off packing the comics till about Friday (to see if anyone wants to buy them before packing).

Tomorrow begins day 2 of packing, which would include mostly loose trinkets and computer accessories, and maybe my NS stuff (which i'm very very tempted to just dump). I'm not exactly moving off next week (more like first week of July officially) so i hope the spirit of procastination doesn't overwhelm me and i will get some more packing done tomorrow.
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Movie: Hatsukoi (aka First Love, starring Miyazaki Aoi etc)

I would love to be biased and say this show was not bad, but i'm really disappointed with this way it turned out, all the more so because i expected more from a Miyazaki Aoi film.

The premise of the film (summary here) had so much potential to be really interesting, but there's too many scenes where people just sit around in silence, or in the case of Aoi, just look pretty, when i feel there should be more screentime to develop the other characters. The last part of the show ends with an epilogue on how the different people ended up after the incident, but i'm struggling to remember (or even care) about the characters who barely appeared in the show.

This movie is slow....
What a letdown, ne, Misuzu?

And i really don't get the point of having so many nude scenes in such a movie. It just distracts more from the story (and the girls are very ugly as well) and makes this movie unwatchable in a family context. Did i mention this was supposed to be a love story? It's neither very romantic or very tragic so i think it fais in that aspect as well. The only good parts are the robbery and the preparations, but overall, the pacing, lack of character development and too many unneccesary scenes means i don't recommend this film. I pray that Virgin Snow will be a better movie. Rating: 5.5/10

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