7th Station ~TV, movies, games~

[Celedam]

Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2: the battle to retake Shiganshina District and Wall Maria…



Part 1 started off a bit slow, with all of the political intrigue while Commander Erwin was under arrest and the remaining Scouts were in hiding, but it certainly finished strong. And those of us who have read the manga (or other spoilers) know what will happen in Part 2. Remember the flash-forward at the end of Part 1…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN43I-LNOCE

[erilaz]

Tonight on The Simpsons, Krusty made a movie of an "unfilmable" science fiction novel called The Sands of Space. I wouldn't bother mentioning it, if it weren't for the strange coincidence that just last night I watched a DVD of David Lynch's Dune, a movie I hadn't seen in over 30 years.

Plate of shrimp.

[Sohee]

I was the interpreter and translator for this interview that IGDB.com with "Yakuza" main voice actor and producer of the games. ^^
Please check it out if you're interested~

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Hearing that voice casually come from an actual person is still a little weird.

[Zunu]

That was awesome Sohee!

[Amped]

Bravo work Sohee!

[Celedam]

Okay, so the films of Makoto Shinkai are beautiful and poetic, but they're all essentially the same story: boy and girl meet and become friends; boy and girl gradually fall in love; boy and girl become separated by an impossible distance, often with a sci-fi element but it's just a metaphor anyhow for growing up; boy and/or girl spend the rest of the film ruminating on their respective isolation, loneliness, nostalgia, and regret.

Sometimes there is a happy ending, sometimes there isn't, sometimes there is no ending at all and they merely… continue. But it's always essentially the same story.

Am I wrong?

[Zunu]

Not having seen any of his stuff, I can't answer your question. But thanks for pointing that out because that type of theme is not my jam, so I'll make sure to avoid his stuff in general. In my community of friends there was a kind of must-see vibe to Kimi no Na Wa when it came out, and I felt a bit guilty about dodging my social obligation to support Japanese cinema, but now not so much.

[Celedam]

From a year ago, when Altered Carbon was all the rage…

I love cyberpunk and have almost since the beginning (Sterling, Gibson, Jeter, Williams, Stephenson), but… <shrug> …I'm in no great hurry to watch that particular bit of cyberpunk. I still need to see Blade Runner 2049, and there's plenty of great anime/manga in the genre.

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Well, I finally watched Blade Runner 2049. Perfection. Even better than the original in many ways. One of the few films I've seen in many years that I now wish I'd seen in the theater.

I also loved Arrival. If Villeneuve manages a hat-trick with his Dune…

In fact, I think Villeneuve might be the only director working today, maybe ever, who can really do justice to Dune. And I say that as someone who likes Lynch's Dune; it came close, but it was still very much a product of the '80s.

Damn.

[erilaz]

I really should know better than to read YouTube comments. Especially when they're YouTube comments on the trailer for the upcoming Tolkien biopic....