Movies: The good, the bad, and the unseen

[thistlechaser]

Between yesterday and today, I've watched (or attempted to watch) three movies. One was good yet bally, one was (blasphemously) bad, and one refused to be watched. In that order:

Good yet bally: Pom Poko (from Studio Ghibli) was a cute little movie about raccoons who were trying to save the forests from mankind's progress. Or rather, it was cute once you got past one thing.










(Yes, all that brown/grey *is* an enlarged one...)



The blasphemously bad one: Yes, I know it's a sin to say Return of the King was anything but the best thing ever created by the hand of God or Man, but geeze. I got a copy of it, so I figured I'd watch it to get off my back the people who keep telling me I need to watch it. It came in three parts (broken up into CD-sized files so you could burn them). I watched the first part/hour. Ho hum. Eyes glazing over. Forced myself to watch the second part (keeping myself going by saying the third part couldn't possible be a whole hour long, nowadays who makes movies that are three hours long?). Some of the creatures were interesting (those flying dragon-like things and the elephant-ish things), but man, I started skipping ahead and skipping ahead. Mid-way through the second part I checked to see how long the third part would be. A whole hour more! Ack! Turned it off, deleted it. Yes, I know, a sin. I'm horrible for not liking it.

The last movie, the one I couldn't see, was Ocean Waves (or: Umi ga Kikoeru, or: I Can Hear the Sea), another Studio Ghibli one. It was both an .ogg file as well as the worst quality thing I've ever downloaded. After an hour I finally got it to play, but the quality made it impossible to watch/follow, so I had to give up. It looked sort of like 'My Neighbors the Yamadas' anyway: A rather boring look at average Japanese life.

Further viewing today? I don't know. Thanks to RotK, I've got zero patience left for watching anything. Maybe I'll go scrub the bathroom or clean the kitchen or something...

Comments

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I knew the moment you said the title of the movie you were talking about their testicles XD;;;
It's infamous with Tanuki, their testicles (they don't have penises though??????).

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[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Yeah. And I didn't see one penis! Maybe the penises hide behind the testicles? ;)

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[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

XD Possibly.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Ha! Told you!

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

I too knew before even clicking the link that it had to be the tanuki's (racoon dog) testes that shocked you. ;) A little bit more info on that little oddity(cut and pasted from this site):"Called Kin-tama (Golden Balls) in Japanese, the testes are supposedly symbols of good luck rather than overt sexual symbols (the Japanese are more tolerant of low humor than most Western nations) ... In biological terms, the Tanuki's large "golden balls" are a true depiction of the real-life Tanuki. According to evolutionary biologists, the Tanuki's scrotum is large because of fierce competition among Tanuki males for females. Phrased differently, Tanuki copulate frequently, and those Tanuki with larger testes size have a greater chance of getting their genes into the next generation. The same is true in the world of chimpanzees."