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_mike is right, this meme wreaks great n^2 havoc. :P
FantAsia viewings over the weekend were My Sassy Girl and Kick The Moon, two superlative Korean romantic comedies that half my blogroll has probably seen already. When I say "superlative", I mean "I, who actively avoid romantic comedies as a rule, enjoyed these films." And when I say "romantic", I mean "as opposed to latter-day Hollywood rom-coms, people do not hop into the sack with each other every 2.5 seconds." God knows I'm no repressed prude, but it's incredibly refreshing to watch a film where the most overtly sexual interaction is a failed kiss, and still manages to have the entire theatre-full of jaded geeks half out of their seats by the end, pleading turn around turn around look at him don't miss this chance oh please be happy... Ringu was picked up and remade because of its strong FantAsia showing, but if Hollywood takes either of these movies and turns it into, like, a Ben Affleck vehicle, I will be forced to weep and go after the American film industry with a whompy stick.
Regarding Get Backers: it occurs to me that I've been enjoying the series more and more as I read simply because it's been getting better and more sophisticated, both in terms of the art and the story-telling. (Shosaku dakara ne, sugoi.) I think it was something like halfway through the Mugenjou Arc that I really began to "get into" the story, which is concurrently when it started to become what Re-Miel calls a "classy" manga. It's a compliment that has fairly restricted semantics, within Shioul ML reviews, and - going by memory - one that's not often paid to shounen fighting manga. But the Venus storyline is classy, and dear saints alive, is the Cards storyline ever classy.
...Though, what I think I'm trying to say here is that Get Backers reminds me of Yami no Matsuei. Except, um, shounen manga, and with less dead people. (And less blatant ghei? I'll step back on that one, and let y'all vote freely according to your consciences. Though it may be worth pointing out on that note that practically every series of mine has a s3kr1t Pet Shop Boys songvid - reason #382 I shouldn't be allowed near a video editing program, yes I know - and GB's is obviously "Opportunities".)
_mike is right, this meme wreaks great n^2 havoc. :PFantAsia viewings over the weekend were My Sassy Girl and Kick The Moon, two superlative Korean romantic comedies that half my blogroll has probably seen already. When I say "superlative", I mean "I, who actively avoid romantic comedies as a rule, enjoyed these films." And when I say "romantic", I mean "as opposed to latter-day Hollywood rom-coms, people do not hop into the sack with each other every 2.5 seconds." God knows I'm no repressed prude, but it's incredibly refreshing to watch a film where the most overtly sexual interaction is a failed kiss, and still manages to have the entire theatre-full of jaded geeks half out of their seats by the end, pleading turn around turn around look at him don't miss this chance oh please be happy... Ringu was picked up and remade because of its strong FantAsia showing, but if Hollywood takes either of these movies and turns it into, like, a Ben Affleck vehicle, I will be forced to weep and go after the American film industry with a whompy stick.
Regarding Get Backers: it occurs to me that I've been enjoying the series more and more as I read simply because it's been getting better and more sophisticated, both in terms of the art and the story-telling. (Shosaku dakara ne, sugoi.) I think it was something like halfway through the Mugenjou Arc that I really began to "get into" the story, which is concurrently when it started to become what Re-Miel calls a "classy" manga. It's a compliment that has fairly restricted semantics, within Shioul ML reviews, and - going by memory - one that's not often paid to shounen fighting manga. But the Venus storyline is classy, and dear saints alive, is the Cards storyline ever classy.
...Though, what I think I'm trying to say here is that Get Backers reminds me of Yami no Matsuei. Except, um, shounen manga, and with less dead people. (And less blatant ghei? I'll step back on that one, and let y'all vote freely according to your consciences. Though it may be worth pointing out on that note that practically every series of mine has a s3kr1t Pet Shop Boys songvid - reason #382 I shouldn't be allowed near a video editing program, yes I know - and GB's is obviously "Opportunities".)
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Date: 2003-08-04 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-04 08:28 am (UTC)The part about the YamiEi comparison that makes me pointillate is the fact that Ginji (obviously) reminds me of Tsuzuki, but Himiko reminds me of Hisoka. Which is so wrong.
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Date: 2003-08-04 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-04 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-04 08:19 am (UTC)I wasn't very fond of Shiri - I find Korean action movies tend to err on the side of monotonously predictable and needlessly violent, as if the one made up for the other. But the comedies I've seen so far have been exemplary.
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Date: 2003-08-04 11:47 pm (UTC)Oh, Lords, yes!! That's the reason why my collection of vintage romance films never ceases to entertain -- stories where you were ready to kill the producer if the pairing seemed like they (a) wouldn't wake up to their feelings on time, (b) would lose each other through merest mischance, (c) would sacrifice love for honor and duty. **waffy sigh**
Romance in film is usually best seasoned with a great deal of UST and suspense, I think. My five cents.