A drop of light

My recommndations and personal views on movies animee series and maybe books also

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

My sassy girl

One of the best romantic comedies ever made. It has an interesting story that will keep you connected from start to finish. And it's pretty original too. It could remind a little about "Jeux d'enfants" but in a very strange way, sience the story is pretty different. Actually you could rather say is the other way around, chronologically speaking. I think the common point would be the characters that have fascinating personalities, they have the power to do whatever they want, even "stupid" things, just because they feel like doing so. Freedom of thought, and acting. This movie will make you dream :)

Definetly recommanded, it took some effort until I got to see it, but that was worth.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention is Koreean. And yes, I've seen bad koreean movies as well :)

Full Metal Alchemist

Lot of episodes of adventure, comedy, action. One of the best rated anime series. It has all the ingredients for success: good, yet simple animation, nice soundtrack, good story, interesting characters.
There are a lot of characters featuring in this series all of them presenting interesting aspects. A "favourite character game" was held on IMDB, all characters starting with 5 points and viewers were allowed to remove a single point from one character and give it to their favourite. A lot of blood was spilled between fans, with some great competition that involved even secondary characters.
The music is great, and one good aspect is they do change the intro and the ending throughout the series, pretty normal considering the lenght (52 episodes).
The story is interesting and presented in modern fashion, with well mounted flashbacks. Not difficult to follow. It will take though a few episodes (4-5) until you are really connected with the global story.
The only thing that was a bit dissapointing for this series was the ending. Somewhat weird and unexpected, but there is a continuation for the series, a movie released in 2005 "The chamber of Shambala", hope that offers a better conclusion for the series. I'll come back with more after I get to see that one as well.