Stuff I haven't blogged about
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petroniaAm trying to decide how much I want to go to this tonight. I only have 16$ on me right now, I'd have to go into scary vinyl shops to get a ticket (assuming it's not sold out), and the venue is like AN EMPTY SWIMMING POOL so far east of the Main the taxi fare home will be twice the cost of getting in. I'd also really like to con someone into going with me but at this short notice it's unlikely to happen. ^^;
Oh, I was supposed to write a fic. Right...
Over the weekend I watched an honest-to-goodness theatre bootleg of the live-action Initial D movie (complete with people getting in and out of their seats, girls giggling, camera going out of focus and Indonesian(?) subtitles). It was pretty awesome. I couldn't stop laughing. I mean I'm completely incapable of judging the thing on objective merit, so my experience was something along the lines of ZOMG IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE SEIJI WITH THE DREADS, AND WHY IS TAKUMI ACTING KEWL AND SHIZ WITH RYOUSUKE AHAHAHAHA WTF HEADSETS *DIIIIIEEES* ...It's not as good as the anime, through no fault of anyone involved: in my opinion First Stage is one of the most if not the most perfectly-paced anime series in existence, and at that point any rearrangement of the story can only mess with the flow. (For instance, the way they ended the movie made it look like Takumi joined Project D as a revenge date with Ryousuke when he found out Natsuki was cheating on him, which... uh. I mean as much as I like t3h sl4sh etc.) But it's good that changes were made so that the races weren't a scene-for-scene retread, one was kept guessing.
I'm not entirely fond of what they did to Bunta's characterisation. I always thought the defining characteristic - pre-action as it were - of Bunta and Takumi as people let alone their relationship with each other was lack of angst, not to mention tomfoolery. Sure they are crazy, but they think they're normal - are normal, not dysfunctional - so much so that it never occurs to Takumi to question his own normality until other people do it for him. I just don't see movie!Takumi developing that same placidity of temper. That being said I thought all the performances translated the characters pretty well, in a... Cantonese... sort of way. That nagged at me much less than you'd imagine, since the first few times I watched First Stage was actually in Cantonese dub. So I'm used to hearing the names spoken that way, even if it makes no sense. XD
Last night I went to the Rogers Cup with my sister. Bless corporate tickets, we were in the FIRST row, ten feet away from Andre Agassi, close enough to hear Nicolas Kiefer fulminate in frenetic German at no one in particular between points. o_o It was splendid weather and a great time was had, despite the 2.75$ hotdogs and @#$% 5.50$ Sleeman Silver Creeks.
Oh, I was supposed to write a fic. Right...
Over the weekend I watched an honest-to-goodness theatre bootleg of the live-action Initial D movie (complete with people getting in and out of their seats, girls giggling, camera going out of focus and Indonesian(?) subtitles). It was pretty awesome. I couldn't stop laughing. I mean I'm completely incapable of judging the thing on objective merit, so my experience was something along the lines of ZOMG IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE SEIJI WITH THE DREADS, AND WHY IS TAKUMI ACTING KEWL AND SHIZ WITH RYOUSUKE AHAHAHAHA WTF HEADSETS *DIIIIIEEES* ...It's not as good as the anime, through no fault of anyone involved: in my opinion First Stage is one of the most if not the most perfectly-paced anime series in existence, and at that point any rearrangement of the story can only mess with the flow. (For instance, the way they ended the movie made it look like Takumi joined Project D as a revenge date with Ryousuke when he found out Natsuki was cheating on him, which... uh. I mean as much as I like t3h sl4sh etc.) But it's good that changes were made so that the races weren't a scene-for-scene retread, one was kept guessing.
I'm not entirely fond of what they did to Bunta's characterisation. I always thought the defining characteristic - pre-action as it were - of Bunta and Takumi as people let alone their relationship with each other was lack of angst, not to mention tomfoolery. Sure they are crazy, but they think they're normal - are normal, not dysfunctional - so much so that it never occurs to Takumi to question his own normality until other people do it for him. I just don't see movie!Takumi developing that same placidity of temper. That being said I thought all the performances translated the characters pretty well, in a... Cantonese... sort of way. That nagged at me much less than you'd imagine, since the first few times I watched First Stage was actually in Cantonese dub. So I'm used to hearing the names spoken that way, even if it makes no sense. XD
Last night I went to the Rogers Cup with my sister. Bless corporate tickets, we were in the FIRST row, ten feet away from Andre Agassi, close enough to hear Nicolas Kiefer fulminate in frenetic German at no one in particular between points. o_o It was splendid weather and a great time was had, despite the 2.75$ hotdogs and @#$% 5.50$ Sleeman Silver Creeks.
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Date: 2005-08-12 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-12 11:57 pm (UTC)RYOUSUKE AHAHAHAHA WTF HEADSETS *DIIIIIEEES*
So that they can talk to each other during the races?! It was almost as bad as psychic links and conversations in ficcies.
Takumi joined Project D as a revenge date with Ryousuke
It doesn't exactly help that Ryousuke practically babies him in the movie. He comes by the tofu shop to take him to the race, teaches him about cars, talks to him before the race, takes care of him after the 86 breaks down. The man is there for him at every disaster, so it makes sense that he's there to help him pick up the pieces after Mogi. :b
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Date: 2005-08-13 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-13 02:58 am (UTC)*burst of laughing*
I agree with you on Bunta's characterisation. Because I never ever could imagine Bunta would be like that. >_>
It's bit weird hearing all of them speaking Chinese while the setting in Japan.
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Date: 2005-08-13 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-13 02:06 pm (UTC)YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW I LOVE YOU SO, YOU REALLY DON'T. T_T Finally, someone who agrees! I mean, they made Bunta into Echizen Nanjiroh, and yeah it was kind of funny only well *not*, if you get me.
And no, it's just not as good as the series through no fault of the makers, as you point out. Retarded HK AU yoooo (I mean, the damn movie *opens* with a hybrid of Nakazato and Keisuke being ghei with Ryousuke - who was so not classy enough - at the road shoulder and I am just D00D WHUT.) Plus, Anne Suzuki = soirritating argh. *is prejudiced* XD