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Dec. 2nd, 2002 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynAnother way you know you're me: you chase down the perfect present for one of your best RL friends, and it's a North Korean giant monster movie. And you are more irritated at the fact that you had to buy The Road Less Traveled for your relative's present in order to qualify for free s/h than you are at how long it took you to find the North Korean giant monster movie.
Said movie is Pulgasari. If for some reason you wanna buy it, please be kind enough to use the link from the listing at Stomp Tokyo; I believe we ought to support the brave men and women who are willing to watch bad movies closely enough to entertain us by reviewing them in detail.
OH, yeah, and because someone asked: Treasure Planet was not only visually impressive, but featured characters I genuinely liked. Jim Hawkins could've easily been an obnoxious, whiney fifteen year old with an Anakin braid and an earring, but he had a decent core to him even in the beginning and John Silver really brought it out. I'll tell you, it's been a long time since there was a movie character I liked as a person as much as I did this movie's Long John Silver. Dr. Doppler could easily have been a horribly comic-relief ineffectual intellectual, but rather like Jim he turned out to have a solid core and real strength to him as the movie progressed. And as for Captain Amelia, the felinoid starship captain voiced by Emma Thompson - Mommy, I want one of those! Preferably to see how she gets on with Horatio Hornblower... The plot was pretty cool, too, a decent adaptation of the Stevenson original so far as I can tell. (Never actually read the book. Saw a standard film treatment of it, saw Muppet Treasure Island.) A few minor things could probably have been changed or snipped, but the plot worked well and I really did care about the characters. Jim's mom felt a little cardboard to me, as did Mr. Scroop, but the others? Wonderful.
Today's pulp survival tip is #5. Sword fights are cool, and cool things happen in these movies; therefore learn to use a sword. A REAL sword. Not a fencing foil. A cut-your-head-off kind of sword.
Also #127. Cutlasses belong in scabbards or in your hand, not between your teeth.
Said movie is Pulgasari. If for some reason you wanna buy it, please be kind enough to use the link from the listing at Stomp Tokyo; I believe we ought to support the brave men and women who are willing to watch bad movies closely enough to entertain us by reviewing them in detail.
OH, yeah, and because someone asked: Treasure Planet was not only visually impressive, but featured characters I genuinely liked. Jim Hawkins could've easily been an obnoxious, whiney fifteen year old with an Anakin braid and an earring, but he had a decent core to him even in the beginning and John Silver really brought it out. I'll tell you, it's been a long time since there was a movie character I liked as a person as much as I did this movie's Long John Silver. Dr. Doppler could easily have been a horribly comic-relief ineffectual intellectual, but rather like Jim he turned out to have a solid core and real strength to him as the movie progressed. And as for Captain Amelia, the felinoid starship captain voiced by Emma Thompson - Mommy, I want one of those! Preferably to see how she gets on with Horatio Hornblower... The plot was pretty cool, too, a decent adaptation of the Stevenson original so far as I can tell. (Never actually read the book. Saw a standard film treatment of it, saw Muppet Treasure Island.) A few minor things could probably have been changed or snipped, but the plot worked well and I really did care about the characters. Jim's mom felt a little cardboard to me, as did Mr. Scroop, but the others? Wonderful.
Today's pulp survival tip is #5. Sword fights are cool, and cool things happen in these movies; therefore learn to use a sword. A REAL sword. Not a fencing foil. A cut-your-head-off kind of sword.
Also #127. Cutlasses belong in scabbards or in your hand, not between your teeth.
