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shamanicshayminPuri's not gonna vote today. Why? Because I already voted early~!
*knocks on wood*
Anyway. Do you have a movie/book/video game that absolutely drives you bonkers but you can't leave it alone because you're too attached to the characters and concepts, and you're obsessed about the fandom possibilities and how far this movie/book/game could've really been if properly developed?
I know a bunch of you are really sick of me raving about Pokemon Movie 10: Rise of Darkrai. Damn, if I didn't like it that much, I would've just dunked it under a shelf, blow it up with dynamite and move on. Yet I keep coming back to gather the ashes. Why? Because I care too much? Is it because I like the characters too much and found myself fascinated with them? Albeit, everyone knows I like Baron Alberto. XD But I also love the history of Godey's garden and the relationship between Darkrai and Alicia, and later the bond shared between Darkrai and Alice. The music and melodies and Oracion are gorgeous. The entire movie was eye candy, and I actually dropped my jaw at the pools and sceneries of the Garden and the Time/Space Tower was fucking neat and badass. Speaking of Time/Space Tower, the designs of the buildings were amazing (based off Spain, I believe?) and the characters themselves looked amazing and I loved their clothes.Heck, I'd argue that I liked the designs of the three Starters trainers better than the three Starters trainers in Mewtwo Strikes Back! XD Hard to beat Shell-Shocker though, but I'm biased. Nomnomnom~ ♥ Complaints animationwise are dumb CGI effects, but I could overlook those, and I absolutely hatehatehatehatehate that the animators can't be bothered to give Tonio irises (let alone, ANY guy with glasses except for Max), but that's another rant altogether. XD
What the heck is going on between Baron Alberto, Alice and Tonio? How did Alice and Tonio become friends? Why did Tonio never tell Alice Darkrai saved her? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?
You'd think with trailers like this, Movie 10 would be fucking hardcore. And dude. Baron Alberto's evil fucking laugh. You'd think he was the villain or something. XDD! Is the Baron good or wicked or what? Somewhere in between? (Again, another question risen because of Darkrai: what defines good and evil? Are there shades of gray? Is there even such thing as pure good or pure evil in the first place?) And yes. That was Sarah Brightman you just heard singing. Sarah Brightman.
Guess what? The cool scenes you saw with Darkrai protecting Alice and Ash? The torrents whirling out of the water? Pidgeot's return? The garden decimated like a swarm of locusts ate everything? None of that's in the film. It's all a big fucking lie. Now you've wasted your money, and they'll appease you with a Darkrai for your cartridge.
It's... hgdjfkghfzdjkghdjkht WHAT!? HOW THE FUCK COULD THEY DO THAT?
It doesn't help the thought that goes into the naming of the cast either. Wondering why the Time/Space Tower looks familiar or why Godey and Tonio are related? That's why.
Could be coincidence, but Puri googled Baron Alberto and this is what turned up. For some reason, this amuses me. Now the Baron has another reason to play Carmen in his mansion! :D(Though an opera on Christopher Columbus? Ewww. D:)
But yes. Stuff like Sarah Brightman and nightmares and MUCH hints of Phantom of the Opera/Beauty and the Beast references with a pinch of Lord of the Flies is too much for Puri to ignore. All we get from Darkrai is a single lame nightmare (more like omen)? Dude, I'm not expecting Pokemon to be Yume Nikkithough that would be fucking awesome if it did but this is Darkrai; I expect horror, an intricate look inside the human heart, and psychology psychology psychology! Mindfuck and mental misery! Hell, Tonio owns a fucking colony of Drifloon and a Drifblim. No mentions of carrying us to see Mr. Sandman in the underworld? :o
Puri's picky picky picky. I can't help it because I care too much! ;_____;
OT, but god. My favorite Sweeney Todd song always changes, but somehow it normally reverts back to "My Friends". Gosh, when you're listening by yourself with incredible volume like headphones, it's so crisp and cool and fresh and magical, like you're possessed and held as one of Sweeney's razors. *__________*
*knocks on wood*
Anyway. Do you have a movie/book/video game that absolutely drives you bonkers but you can't leave it alone because you're too attached to the characters and concepts, and you're obsessed about the fandom possibilities and how far this movie/book/game could've really been if properly developed?
I know a bunch of you are really sick of me raving about Pokemon Movie 10: Rise of Darkrai. Damn, if I didn't like it that much, I would've just dunked it under a shelf, blow it up with dynamite and move on. Yet I keep coming back to gather the ashes. Why? Because I care too much? Is it because I like the characters too much and found myself fascinated with them? Albeit, everyone knows I like Baron Alberto. XD But I also love the history of Godey's garden and the relationship between Darkrai and Alicia, and later the bond shared between Darkrai and Alice. The music and melodies and Oracion are gorgeous. The entire movie was eye candy, and I actually dropped my jaw at the pools and sceneries of the Garden and the Time/Space Tower was fucking neat and badass. Speaking of Time/Space Tower, the designs of the buildings were amazing (based off Spain, I believe?) and the characters themselves looked amazing and I loved their clothes.
What the heck is going on between Baron Alberto, Alice and Tonio? How did Alice and Tonio become friends? Why did Tonio never tell Alice Darkrai saved her? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?
You'd think with trailers like this, Movie 10 would be fucking hardcore. And dude. Baron Alberto's evil fucking laugh. You'd think he was the villain or something. XDD! Is the Baron good or wicked or what? Somewhere in between? (Again, another question risen because of Darkrai: what defines good and evil? Are there shades of gray? Is there even such thing as pure good or pure evil in the first place?) And yes. That was Sarah Brightman you just heard singing. Sarah Brightman.
Guess what? The cool scenes you saw with Darkrai protecting Alice and Ash? The torrents whirling out of the water? Pidgeot's return? The garden decimated like a swarm of locusts ate everything? None of that's in the film. It's all a big fucking lie. Now you've wasted your money, and they'll appease you with a Darkrai for your cartridge.
It's... hgdjfkghfzdjkghdjkht WHAT!? HOW THE FUCK COULD THEY DO THAT?
It doesn't help the thought that goes into the naming of the cast either. Wondering why the Time/Space Tower looks familiar or why Godey and Tonio are related? That's why.
Could be coincidence, but Puri googled Baron Alberto and this is what turned up. For some reason, this amuses me. Now the Baron has another reason to play Carmen in his mansion! :D
But yes. Stuff like Sarah Brightman and nightmares and MUCH hints of Phantom of the Opera/Beauty and the Beast references with a pinch of Lord of the Flies is too much for Puri to ignore. All we get from Darkrai is a single lame nightmare (more like omen)? Dude, I'm not expecting Pokemon to be Yume Nikki
Puri's picky picky picky. I can't help it because I care too much! ;_____;
OT, but god. My favorite Sweeney Todd song always changes, but somehow it normally reverts back to "My Friends". Gosh, when you're listening by yourself with incredible volume like headphones, it's so crisp and cool and fresh and magical, like you're possessed and held as one of Sweeney's razors. *__________*
