Making some real progress in Mass Effect now -- went from Lv. 13 to Lv. 21 in one play session yesterday. Some of those sidequests are pretty damn generous with the experience! I'm not complaining, though. Gives me a chance to beef up my biotic powers. Been getting a lot of use out of Lift and Singularity now. Aww yeah.
Irresponsible Captain Tylor movies 1+2 (1994): I was really disappointed with the Tylor movies (and the OVA as a whole, actually). The mood is WAY too serious, which is really bizarre considering how irreverent the main series is. There are some moments of humor, but the movies are otherwise shockingly somber. They have the same characters and the same conflicts, but they just do not feel like Tylor to me -- everything I enjoyed about the series is stripped away.
Gundress (1999): lol, you know a movie sucks and/or is obscure when it doesn't have a Wikipedia page. Anyway, Gundress is famous for two things: 1) Character and mecha designs by Masamune Shirow (he of Ghost in the Shell fame), and 2) This infamously janky animation about halfway through the video. (To be fair, though, it was cleaned up in the version I watched.) Otherwise, Gundress is utterly unremarkable -- the animation sucks, the plot and characters are stupid, and the movie barely even takes advantage of its futuristic setting. Bah.
Barefoot Gen (1983): Barefoot Gen is horrifying in a way that even the most hardcore anti-war movies rarely are. Not to go all film snob on you all, but Francois Truffaut once posited that it's impossible to create an anti-war movie, because war is so visually exciting. Well, I'd dare anyone to be excited by the visuals of the atomic bomb explosion and its immediate aftermath. These are probably the most legitimately terrifying images I have ever seen animated. No matter what I could say about the rest of the movie -- and there are definite weaknesses, in particular the voice acting of the kids -- those images will stay with me for life.
Santa Sangre (1989): Every so often a horror movie will come along that reminds me of why I love the genre so much. Santa Sangre is the kind of movie that is only possible in horror: It's bold, insane and teetering on camp, but it never quite falls overboard. That's part of its charm: Santa Sangre is thoroughly melodramatic and has a ridiculous premise, but it's so sure of itself and at the same time so self-aware that you can't help but be mesmerized. (Or maybe it's just me.) For horror fans, the best way I can describe it is that it's like a Dario Argento movie seen through the eyes of someone even crazier (which is no mean feat; Argento is plenty twisted).
Total Movies: 146 (Blazing Saddles, The Descent, Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer, Village of the Damned, Children of the Damned, Trigun: Badlands Rumble, The Night of the Hunter, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st, Dawn of the Dead, Black Swan, Clue, Scarface, Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, True Grit, Perfect Blue, The Quick and the Dead, High Sierra, Shutter Island, A Serious Man, Kite, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Broken Blade 3, Kite Liberator, Machete, The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Heathers, The Prince of Tennis: The Two Samurai, The First Game, Notes on a Scandal, The American, King of Thorn), The Expendables, Sword of the Stranger, The Hangover, Welcome to the Space Show, Broken Blade 4, The Social Network, End of Evangelion, Neo Tokyo, Red, Dreamcatcher, Jason X, Wag the Dog, The Naked Gun, Dirty Work, 8mm, The Wicker Man (2006), Blood: The Last Vampire, Winter's Bone, The Road, Heartcatch Precure! Hana no To de Fashion Show ... Desu ka?!, Broadcast News, Bulletproof, Dead Leaves, Dirty Dancing, Hot Tub Time Machine, Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows, Cloverfield, Best in Show, Play Misty for Me, Paprika, The Cat Returns, Welcome to the Dollhouse, 12 Monkeys, The Killer, Metropolis, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, The Third Man, The King's Speech, Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus, The Abyss, The Fighter, Mega Piranha, Dumb and Dumber, The Rebirth of Buddha, 127 Hours, The Kids Are All Right, The Town, Willow, Akira, Morning Glory, The Verdict, I Love You Phillip Morris, Phantasm II, American Splendor, Broken Blade 5, Tangled, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, The Rock, Wanted, Green Zone, Despicable Me, Waiting for Guffman, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, X-Men: First Class, X-Men, Hereafter, X2, Zatoichi, All About Eve, The Thing, Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight, City of God, Das Boot, Some Like it Hot, Downfall, X-Men: The Last Stand, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, Winnie the Pooh, Bullitt, Hard Eight, Memories of Matsuko, Double Indemnity, Freaks, Break Blade 6, Key Largo, The Grand Illusion, The Seven Year Itch, Hermes: Winds of Love, To Catch a Thief, An American in Paris, Ninotchka, Interstella 5555, Hobo with a Shotgun, Dog Day Afternoon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steamboy, Little Norse Prince Valiant, Redline, Beat the Devil, Casablanca, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Easy Rider, Little Caesar, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Band of Outsiders, The Three Faces of Eve, Mardock Scramble: The First Compression, Clue, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Cabaret, Spaceballs, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rifftrax), If...., El Topo, Irresponsible Captain Tylor Movie 1+2, Gundress, Barefoot Gen, Santa Sangre)
