Candy, Candy
Dec. 25th, 2003 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserNo, the subject line doesn't refer to what I've been eating all day. I've been doing more of my random anime downloading, and in doing so I've come across odd things.
'Candy, Candy: the Movie' is one of them. Candy, a blonde, beautiful, smart, outgoing, talented (getting the drift?) 12 year old girl is an orphan. Everyone else was adopted long ago, except beautiful, talented, wonderful, sunny, gorgeous Candy. (Seriously, they could not have made her any prettier if they tried.) All the nuns who run the orphanage love her... yet somehow after years and years and years, she was never adopted. Okay, right, whatever. So one day she gets adopted, but basically it's just to be a victim for the family's bully daughter and wussy son. Oh, and as a servant for the family, too. So after much bullying and abuse, she runs off and meets "the Rose Prince". She's crying her eyes out, he calls her "crybaby-san", she falls in love. More abuse from the adoptive family, then she and Mr. Rose Prince live happily ever after. It was like a really, really bad fairy tale.
It didn't help that the video quality was horrible, and I was left scratching my head over the subtitling. Do Japanese infants really cry in a different language than English ones? Japanese squirrels demand translation, too!
Other things watched:
- Ten eps of Whistle!. Loving it muchly. Can't wait to get to know more about some of the characters, especially Shige and Fuwa. It's sort of strange to be watching a series with no slashy overtones, but in this case that's fine. Even though about sports, this is a different sort of a series than PoT or Dear Boys.
(Funny, while Googling to confirm that I had Fuwa's name spelled correctly, I came across a lot of bad reviews for Whistle!. I wonder if anime is harder to review/judge than, say, movies. For movies or books, you can say "it's horror" or "it's drama" and judge it that way, but anime seems not to fit into such narrow slots... Hm, not sure.)
- Two more eps of Wolf's Rain, bringing me up to eight of them watched. One day I'll either get hooked on the darned series or give it up and finally delete it.
I've not had time to check out a couple things I downloaded, including something called Mermaid's Garden and another called Discipline (which is supposed to be funny, despite its title).
Since this is a long weekend and I thought I might get bored, I grabbed some "normal" movies as well. RotK (not great quality, but watchable), Pitch Black (mmm, Vin), and Bend it like Beckman (saw once and loved it, been wanting to see it again).
Oh, and I want to track down a series called Wild Striker, which is also about soccer and supposedly even better than Whistle!.
...and I really, really want to find some real soccer to watch. Seeing it in Whistle! reminds me of how much I really love the sport. I cannot understand how people who watch baseball and (American) football can call soccer boring. The guys run and play hard for two whole hours! Not any of this baseball "run a few feet, stop, yawn, scratch your ass, then maybe run a few more feet" crap. And football? six points for making one goal? What sort of crap is that? One goal = one point. Or what, do football people think they work six times as hard to get a score as any other sport?
RL people I know once mocked soccer because the score often ends up as 1-1 or 1-2 or low numbers like that. Why? In soccer, it's hard to make a goal, and a high score doesn't necessarily mean the game is better or more interesting! Grrr.
'Candy, Candy: the Movie' is one of them. Candy, a blonde, beautiful, smart, outgoing, talented (getting the drift?) 12 year old girl is an orphan. Everyone else was adopted long ago, except beautiful, talented, wonderful, sunny, gorgeous Candy. (Seriously, they could not have made her any prettier if they tried.) All the nuns who run the orphanage love her... yet somehow after years and years and years, she was never adopted. Okay, right, whatever. So one day she gets adopted, but basically it's just to be a victim for the family's bully daughter and wussy son. Oh, and as a servant for the family, too. So after much bullying and abuse, she runs off and meets "the Rose Prince". She's crying her eyes out, he calls her "crybaby-san", she falls in love. More abuse from the adoptive family, then she and Mr. Rose Prince live happily ever after. It was like a really, really bad fairy tale.
It didn't help that the video quality was horrible, and I was left scratching my head over the subtitling. Do Japanese infants really cry in a different language than English ones? Japanese squirrels demand translation, too!
Other things watched:
- Ten eps of Whistle!. Loving it muchly. Can't wait to get to know more about some of the characters, especially Shige and Fuwa. It's sort of strange to be watching a series with no slashy overtones, but in this case that's fine. Even though about sports, this is a different sort of a series than PoT or Dear Boys.
(Funny, while Googling to confirm that I had Fuwa's name spelled correctly, I came across a lot of bad reviews for Whistle!. I wonder if anime is harder to review/judge than, say, movies. For movies or books, you can say "it's horror" or "it's drama" and judge it that way, but anime seems not to fit into such narrow slots... Hm, not sure.)
- Two more eps of Wolf's Rain, bringing me up to eight of them watched. One day I'll either get hooked on the darned series or give it up and finally delete it.
I've not had time to check out a couple things I downloaded, including something called Mermaid's Garden and another called Discipline (which is supposed to be funny, despite its title).
Since this is a long weekend and I thought I might get bored, I grabbed some "normal" movies as well. RotK (not great quality, but watchable), Pitch Black (mmm, Vin), and Bend it like Beckman (saw once and loved it, been wanting to see it again).
Oh, and I want to track down a series called Wild Striker, which is also about soccer and supposedly even better than Whistle!.
...and I really, really want to find some real soccer to watch. Seeing it in Whistle! reminds me of how much I really love the sport. I cannot understand how people who watch baseball and (American) football can call soccer boring. The guys run and play hard for two whole hours! Not any of this baseball "run a few feet, stop, yawn, scratch your ass, then maybe run a few more feet" crap. And football? six points for making one goal? What sort of crap is that? One goal = one point. Or what, do football people think they work six times as hard to get a score as any other sport?
RL people I know once mocked soccer because the score often ends up as 1-1 or 1-2 or low numbers like that. Why? In soccer, it's hard to make a goal, and a high score doesn't necessarily mean the game is better or more interesting! Grrr.
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Date: 2003-12-25 04:52 pm (UTC)......I love you and desire to have your children XD
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Date: 2003-12-25 05:27 pm (UTC)(I knew what you meant! Heehee.)
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Date: 2003-12-25 08:09 pm (UTC)Candy, Candy was one of my favorite series growing up. =D I even remember they called the prince 'Thierry', and to this day it remains one of my favorite male names just because it was on that show and it sounded so romantic. =D
Ah, memory lane.
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Date: 2003-12-25 09:00 pm (UTC)In this version, there was no prince with that name. We had Anthony and... two other "normal" American names which I can't recall. Like Aaron and something else.
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Date: 2003-12-25 09:31 pm (UTC)Second: I used to play youth soccer years ago (fourth grade, maybe fifth) and I remember how hard it was.
Pretty confusing, sometimes too. Or at least I found switching goal-posts with the other team confusing..
I never understood why we did that, either..
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Date: 2003-12-25 10:07 pm (UTC)It looked like they had let a two year old do all the coloring. The colors were way, way, way outside the lines. Seriously, it looked like a toddler did it!
Or at least I found switching goal-posts with the other team confusing..
I never understood why we did that, either..
Switching sides? Maybe to balance out any field advantages? Like if the sun is in your eyes or the wind blowing the wrong way or something?
Just total guesses. :)
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Date: 2003-12-25 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-26 03:27 am (UTC)I wholeheartedly disagree. It'd be almost understandable if you had your computer hooked up to a bigass entertainment system, and had a good quality download...but poor quality on a computer screen is inexcusable. If you don't see any other installemnt of the series on the bigscreen, you owe it to yourself to see this one on such. Going to a movie theatre one more time this year isn't going to strike you down with a debilitating tropical virus, I swear. Really.
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Date: 2003-12-26 08:32 am (UTC)Snicker. I've gone more than once this year! And if I were to go now, it wouldn't be to see RotK. Really, I have no interest at all in the movie, and the more I see it talked about on my flist, the more my interest decreases.
If you don't see any other installemnt of the series on the bigscreen,
I haven't seen both of the others, period. I saw part of the first one and maybe a couple minutes of the second one while channel surfing. Really, no interest! :)
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Date: 2003-12-26 05:21 pm (UTC)You said *exactly* the same thing about Harry Bleeding Potter, and then more-or-less overnight turned into one of the world's biggest fans. I sit in complete agreement with Quasilemur, I'm afraid. It's a true epic that *needs* to be seen on the big screen for the whole thing to have the impact it deserves.
You owe it to yourself to at least give it a chance - just because something's popular, it shouldn't automatically follow that you'll hate it.
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Date: 2003-12-26 06:20 pm (UTC)These are just movies. Based on just books. They're not something every single person who walks the face of this Earth has to worship. Some people will not like them. Some people will be "eh" about them. This does not mean they have no taste -- tastes vary.
ROTK is only a movie; it is not a religious experience or some defining moment for humanity.