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space battleship yamato movie and other stuff
So yeah, this morning I straightened out my bank stuff. Yay.
Then I came home to play PP and wait to hear from Kon and Ian. Met up with them in Ikebukuro around 5:30; we got tickets to see Space Battleship Yamato's showing at 6:45pm, and then ran off to get curry for dinner (another one of these love/hate things about Japan for me: I love curry, but I hate ignoramous store clerks who gesture and point at the spice chart and can't even be bothered to say anything in Japanese. Jerk.) and then spent some time in the arcade before watching the movie.
I'm going to tell you something -- since I know there are undoubtedly people on my friends list who actually do care about Space Battleship Yamato -- it is one depressing motherfucker of a movie. I have to admit that I never actually watched Yamato as its true form of anime, though I did watch Star Blazers as a kid. Of course, they changed all the names and some of the plots and I don't remember that much about it anyway. I'm sure for the Yamato junkies and Star Blazers fans, there's more than enough to just watch and be taken with by how they brought lots of things to life on the screen.
But I spent a lot of the time during the movie thinking about death and mortality and being very depressed. I hate movies and stuff that make me think stuff like that. I'm not sure Yamato is supposed to do that, but it's the effect it had on me. I mean, I think it's supposed to be about hope and love and blowing up aliens, but for me it was more about all these people dying, and how we're all going to die someday.
I also have a feeling that there were large segments of it that I really couldn't catch what the hell they were talking about, due to the large amounts of words pertaining to science and engineering and just plain space drama stuff that I just don't hear on a regular basis so I'm not familiar with them. When it came to relationships and emotional trials of characters, I could catch all of that; about people's families and connections and all, that's fine. But there were many many times where like... there's a whole bunch of talking and stuff and then suddenly they either fly somewhere or shoot something or both, and I have no clue what the hell is going on. Or actually the only reason I understood anything at the start of the movie is because I knew the general plot of the radiation and the warp drive and so on. I mean, the overall gist of the movie, I understand. But when Yuki Mori becomes Starsha (at least I think she was supposed to be Starsha... I forget) she makes this long long speech and I caught maybe 1/4 of it. And it fuels what happens at the end. So.
Whatever, I think that if some company buys the US rights to this movie and subtitles it and brings it over (or worse, dubs... that would SUCK) it will do pretty well and will also be a hell of a lot more easy to understand. I think in some ways this movie also depressed me because I was seeing it as a personal failure when I couldn't catch various things... like "what the hell have I been doing in Japan for 4 years if I can't understand what the hell is going on in this movie?" But I have to remind myself that it's just, different contexts, different vocabulary sets. Or maybe I just suck. Who knows.
Also WTF on the non-existent chemistry between Kimutaku and Meisa Kuroki. It was just like out of nowhere, "hey, did you realize that they wrote you to be my romantic co-lead? So how about if I kiss you now?" On the other hand I thought they established some other characters very well. I'm guessing Hiroyuki Ikeuchi must have been a huge Yamato fan as a kid. (And I still can't seem to think of him as anything but Murai from GTO in my head...)
Okay.
So after the movie Konstantin declared himself too tired for karaoke, so there was no karaoke after all. Which sucks. But I did get him and Ian to do purikura with me. I am being nice and not posting any of them :)
Yawn.
Then I came home to play PP and wait to hear from Kon and Ian. Met up with them in Ikebukuro around 5:30; we got tickets to see Space Battleship Yamato's showing at 6:45pm, and then ran off to get curry for dinner (another one of these love/hate things about Japan for me: I love curry, but I hate ignoramous store clerks who gesture and point at the spice chart and can't even be bothered to say anything in Japanese. Jerk.) and then spent some time in the arcade before watching the movie.
I'm going to tell you something -- since I know there are undoubtedly people on my friends list who actually do care about Space Battleship Yamato -- it is one depressing motherfucker of a movie. I have to admit that I never actually watched Yamato as its true form of anime, though I did watch Star Blazers as a kid. Of course, they changed all the names and some of the plots and I don't remember that much about it anyway. I'm sure for the Yamato junkies and Star Blazers fans, there's more than enough to just watch and be taken with by how they brought lots of things to life on the screen.
But I spent a lot of the time during the movie thinking about death and mortality and being very depressed. I hate movies and stuff that make me think stuff like that. I'm not sure Yamato is supposed to do that, but it's the effect it had on me. I mean, I think it's supposed to be about hope and love and blowing up aliens, but for me it was more about all these people dying, and how we're all going to die someday.
I also have a feeling that there were large segments of it that I really couldn't catch what the hell they were talking about, due to the large amounts of words pertaining to science and engineering and just plain space drama stuff that I just don't hear on a regular basis so I'm not familiar with them. When it came to relationships and emotional trials of characters, I could catch all of that; about people's families and connections and all, that's fine. But there were many many times where like... there's a whole bunch of talking and stuff and then suddenly they either fly somewhere or shoot something or both, and I have no clue what the hell is going on. Or actually the only reason I understood anything at the start of the movie is because I knew the general plot of the radiation and the warp drive and so on. I mean, the overall gist of the movie, I understand. But when Yuki Mori becomes Starsha (at least I think she was supposed to be Starsha... I forget) she makes this long long speech and I caught maybe 1/4 of it. And it fuels what happens at the end. So.
Whatever, I think that if some company buys the US rights to this movie and subtitles it and brings it over (or worse, dubs... that would SUCK) it will do pretty well and will also be a hell of a lot more easy to understand. I think in some ways this movie also depressed me because I was seeing it as a personal failure when I couldn't catch various things... like "what the hell have I been doing in Japan for 4 years if I can't understand what the hell is going on in this movie?" But I have to remind myself that it's just, different contexts, different vocabulary sets. Or maybe I just suck. Who knows.
Also WTF on the non-existent chemistry between Kimutaku and Meisa Kuroki. It was just like out of nowhere, "hey, did you realize that they wrote you to be my romantic co-lead? So how about if I kiss you now?" On the other hand I thought they established some other characters very well. I'm guessing Hiroyuki Ikeuchi must have been a huge Yamato fan as a kid. (And I still can't seem to think of him as anything but Murai from GTO in my head...)
Okay.
So after the movie Konstantin declared himself too tired for karaoke, so there was no karaoke after all. Which sucks. But I did get him and Ian to do purikura with me. I am being nice and not posting any of them :)
Yawn.