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Vampyres (2007)
Not Buffy
A lot of the comments written for this title are ridiculous. This is a documentary about vampyres, people that have chosen a certain way of live. Not a cheesy Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode. It's like comparing Starship Troopers to Bowling For Columbine. And it's obvious the point of the film has missed a lot of people by miles, which is a shame, because, despite of how they may dress or whatever they call themselves, with this film these people offer an exclusive look into a world full of valuable lessons for everyone. But prejudice and associating vampyres with all the wrong things will certainly blind you from them. But for those who are willing to watch this film objectively it can be very insightful!
Ôdishon (1999)
One of the best brainwashing-sessions EVER!
In "Audition" (or "Odishion") Aoyama, who's wife had died a few years earlier, is encouraged by his son to get remarried. In order to find the right woman, his friend Yoshikawa, decides to arrange a fake audition for a fake movie. But even before the audition takes place, Aoyama is intrigued by a girl called Asami, and he picks her at the audition.Yoshikawa however, doesn't trust the girl and start checking on her background. But as he finds out it doesn't check out, Aoyama is already way too deep in love with Asami, and doesn't pay any attention to Yoshikawa's concerns. Then one day during holidays with Aoyama, Asami disappears. As Aoyama starts his search for Asami, he learns more and more that his adorable girlfriend isn't quite so cute at all...
This movie is so absolutely brilliant! It takes one of Japan's film-specialties to the absolute max. In the first half of the movie you'll really start caring about the characters in the story, specially the adorable Asami, but as the movie subtely starts to brainwash you, it brutally tears all that tenderness to bits by turning the adorable cute little girl into a sick monster even Carnage (Marvel-comics) would be scared off. I'm an advanced brainwashing-movies-watcher, but even I thought this was HEAVY. Nevertheless, this is one of the best movies I have seen in my life, and if you ask me, the only worthy opponent for this movie is "Requiem for a Dream". If you have the stomach, you should see this movie. 10/10
MOMMY!! HELP!!! There's a cute Japanese girl under my bed!!
Tekken (1998)
If you're a Tekken fan, you'll like this movie.
This movie is about a rich man, Heihachi Mishima, who is obsessed with destroying the devil in order to create a better new world. He intentionally throws his son Kazuya from a cliff creating a devil within Kazuya. However, nobody has ever seen Kazuya ever since. Certain that Kazuya will go for it, Heihachi announces a martial arts competition. The one who get to Heihachi first and the manages to defeat him, wins the prize-money and the title of "King of Iron Fist". Kazuya shows up indeed but as he attempts to kill his father he is consistently stopped by Jun, a girl from his childhood, who was there when Heihachi threw him off the cliff. Now is there at the tournament and she won't stop at nothing to release Kazuya from the devil within him.
Although this Anime is not the exactly best, I think they did a very good job with the story. Considering the amount of Tekken characters in existence (52, including the ones that are not in the game)they managed to get many of the characters in it without harming the continuity of the story. On the other hand I thought there was too little of Devil in it and Jun just doesn't stop talking. 6/10
Tekken Tag Tournament (1999)
There's only one thing better then one King... Two Kings!
As far as I'm concerned Tekken will always be the best beat-em-up ever. It has always been from the beginning and it still is. Many people say DoA2 is better, but the mere fact that it doesn't LOOK better makes me stick to Tekken. Another reason why I like Tekken better then other beat-em-up is that it has this magical atmosphere to it and it's probably the only beat-em-up with a good story. It's these two components that make you care about the characters of the game. The reason I like Tekken Tag Tournament in particular is mostly because I can play my Tekken 2 characters in a Tekken 3 way. Every Tekken was always so much better then the last one. Specially the leap from Tekken 2 to Tekken 3 was very large, so I was very glad when I saw all the characters together in graphics that were even better then those of Tekken 3. Another thing is ofcourse the tag-battles. If there's one thing better then playing with King, it's playing with King AND Armor King (who by the way have wicked tag-throws together). But to be brutally honest there also things I do not like about TTT. One of 'em is the ending movies which were done in real-time and all have the same background melody. Only Unknown's ending movie is phat. The other thing is that the arena floor sometimes doesn't move according to the background. But most of all, if Kazuya can transform into Devil, then why can't Ogre transform into True Ogre? Tekken 4 is going to be so cool! 9/10
Tekken (1994)
DJ Kazuya
I think that many Tekken players will agree with me when I say that one of the best things in the Tekken series has always been the background music. Well, you should try putting your Tekken 1 disc in a CD-player... Voila, all the BGM from the game on an audio CD. If you put your Tekken 3 disc in it you can listen to the Staff Roll-song. It doesn't work with Tekken 2 and Tekken Tag Tournament though.
BASEketball (1998)
Sheesh!
BLEH ! If you're looking for the best way to waste your time, you should probably watch this movie ! 1/10 for the trouble of making it...