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The Chronicles of Ulic
Begin Once More
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
wow. it's interesting how ironic life can be. i've been wanting to gain weight since... well, forever (earliest time i recall was when i was in primary 3. wanted to get fat so i could float). but i've only found ways to make myself thinner. like, say, popcorn. makes me a) puke, or b) shit real fast, which is almost as good as puking. and after that, i don't feel hungry for the rest of the day. like today. i watched deathnote, which really is what this post is about.
the idea of having the power over life and death always did intruige me. it's ever so... attractive. the movie was thusly quite the irrisistable thing. all in, though, hindsight tells me that it did not deliver as much as i'd hoped.
the intro, for one, made me want to leave the cinema hall, indiscriminately showering the other people with popcorn and coke. it was kinda nice to see the first person get a heart attack. it was nice to see the second person get a heart attack. but the third, fourth, fifth, and all those other prison people? needless to say (i'll say it still, in case any RP people are reading this) the novelty of it all wore off. we joked that the whole movie would be like that, two hours and ten minutes of writing and heart attacks, and it would end when the deathnote is out of pages.
another thing was the predictability of it all. a kid has something way too big for him fall conveniently onto his lap (for you english purists, i know it's kinda like a mistake to use 'onto' for something bigger than the lap, but the book is physically smaller than his lap, and only figuratively fell onto his lap. it fell to the ground, which is way bigger than the book, but that's another matter entirely). then, he gets this farny idea of changing the world. kid gets deluded. kid becomes twisted, despite the writers purposefully leaving him with a bit of humanity to keep the audience hoping against hope, only to reveal that he is the very monster he wanted to destroy.
but that's just the general story. one would think that the little details would make the delivery of this really boring plot refreshing. one would be thinking wrong. i guess it's not that they didn't try. but the patterns could be seen miles away. like the "busjack" thing. oh so typical. even the step-out-of-bus-and-get-knocked-down-by-a-car bit. or the "write down their names or i'll kill everyone here". please note that i'm a deathnote noob (this is my first foray into the thing). i should actually be quite surprised and shocked. i don't really know why i wasn't. for example, right when that cooking show girl got another book. i went, "she's gonna be in deathnote 2? yeah, she definitely will be". quite predictably, she will be. some of the twists were like blazing bullseyes too. like the father being the lead investigator. or the kid being L. or the protagonist kid being diabolical and anticipating.
let me say again, i have never known deathnote before the movie.
that aside, though... the movie did have its perks. japanese girls are soo cute. especially the sister. much like xiangrong, only female. and i liked the part where the interviewee joked about killing her parents.
oh and before i forget, "ryuk" is so amusing. you can't take an eyelid-less perpetually-smiling clownface seriously. i was laughing my ass off when it (?) said the "didn't you even love her?" bit. clowns don't do drama. horror, yes.
looking back again, i guess the movie wasn't that bad. i actually recommend a watch. just don't watch it again. keep it to one time. cus, at the end you'll think it was a good movie even though you don'tknow why. but if you watch it again, you'll know why it wasn't.
Dumped At8:49 pm
i AM myself
i am an INTP. look up the mbti website.
typically, that means i am a creative ideas man.
i'm far from typical, though, so being INTP means i am...
cynical
skeptical
sarcastic
insensitive
unfeeling
just downright pessimistic
what i mean to say is, there is no bright side to anything.
but now i'm a lot better. thanks to my significant other. Liss you.
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3 Comments:
wahaha i watched it, and yeah, the storyline was kinda predictable. bt it was nice in a weird way. wahahah and ryuk, gosh, with his pig-like nose, i was laughing everytime he came on screen
WHYYYY DOESSSS AMERICA NOTTTE HAF DEATHNOTE?!
hehe... the inherent non-existence of deathnote in america has apparently rendered Adalmin unable to spell. oh the horror! the humanity! i guess the american tradition of not reading subtitles was preemptively countered by the box offices there...
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