movie night

[ellen_datlow]

Boiler Room--yeah! liked it, with Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, and Vin Diesel --all very good and the post Wall Street movie in which the principals, who are eager sharks, can recite Gordon Gekko's lines as he says them. Odd seeing the twin towers on the NYC skyline. I'd heard it was a good movie, and it is.

And Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind--also terrific. But what's with the round-eyed Japanese humans who populate all these films? Where has this weird tradition come from? And am I the only one who thought Nausicaa was bare-assed through the first third of the movie until I finally figured she MUST be wearing some kind of weird tights????Or do I just have a dirty mind?

I have the first disc of the last bunch of Sopranos but figured I'll wait till I get the rest so I can have a Sopranos orgy when I get back from WFC.

Comments

[czakbar.livejournal.com]

The round-eyed Japanese humans are pretty much a staple of anime at this point. And--LOL--I know what you mean about the weird look of those tights. I thought the same thing the first time I saw and picked up the dvd box to make sure I had got the right anime and not a hentai (perverted) anime by mistake. ;-)

I saw Boiler Room a few years back and loved it too.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guessed that --as all the anime I've ever seen (from what I recall) seems to be all round-eyes. So weird. Thank you for confirming that I'm not a total pervert :-).

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

And the relationship with the father (in Boiler Rom) was very moving (as was Nausicaa's relationship with the baby Ohmu --ohmigod! I'm comparing humans with cartoons!)