Media takes...
(Yeah...this STILL isn't a post about New Year....)
So over the past couple of day's it's been movie time at our place. For Christmas, Erin bought his daughter some anime films (good dad, cool kid)....at any rate one of them was 'Howl's Moving Castle' - I had missed this when it was out in theatres previously (I am feeling rather guilty about all the anime I missed...)
I would highly recommend this movie - it is 'Steam Punk' at it's finest and beautifully done - I find though, like most Japanese films it is a little heavy on the 'moral of the story crap'....but still it is worth checking out...do so.
Last night, after having a couple of our friends over for brunch which then turned into watching 'Howl's' with them, Erin and I had an 'interlude' and then sat down to watch another movie (thanks to Hulu)....
There are very few movies I have seen that linger the way a bad dream does with me - this movie was one of them - not in terms of how 'awful' it was but in terms of how intense, profound and in this case tragic the story is...
Again it seems a case of 'day late dollar short' syndrome with me as I had certainly meant to see this film in the theatres when it came out because I am a huge fan of independent and foreign films and one of my 'I gotta get back to doing this' 'resolutions' is to start going to see independent and foreign films again....
'21 Grams' is an incredible film - just watch it and yes if you have the 'soul' it refers to (or at least that is whet *I* think Sean Penn is referring to at the end of the film) you will definitely feel the weight and burden of having a conscience with this one. I feel this film is a must see.
So over the past couple of day's it's been movie time at our place. For Christmas, Erin bought his daughter some anime films (good dad, cool kid)....at any rate one of them was 'Howl's Moving Castle' - I had missed this when it was out in theatres previously (I am feeling rather guilty about all the anime I missed...)
I would highly recommend this movie - it is 'Steam Punk' at it's finest and beautifully done - I find though, like most Japanese films it is a little heavy on the 'moral of the story crap'....but still it is worth checking out...do so.
Last night, after having a couple of our friends over for brunch which then turned into watching 'Howl's' with them, Erin and I had an 'interlude' and then sat down to watch another movie (thanks to Hulu)....
There are very few movies I have seen that linger the way a bad dream does with me - this movie was one of them - not in terms of how 'awful' it was but in terms of how intense, profound and in this case tragic the story is...
Again it seems a case of 'day late dollar short' syndrome with me as I had certainly meant to see this film in the theatres when it came out because I am a huge fan of independent and foreign films and one of my 'I gotta get back to doing this' 'resolutions' is to start going to see independent and foreign films again....
'21 Grams' is an incredible film - just watch it and yes if you have the 'soul' it refers to (or at least that is whet *I* think Sean Penn is referring to at the end of the film) you will definitely feel the weight and burden of having a conscience with this one. I feel this film is a must see.
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