death note spin-off movie

My Japanese isn't good enough to read this article and be 100% sure of the news...

But talk about milking a dead cow for all it's worth, if you would excuse the pun.

And since Raito is dead, they have to make L the main character.



That is just beyond norms of patheticness.

mulan 2

Have just spent an hour and a half sitting through the atrocity that is the second movie of Mulan.

It has efficiently renewed my hatred of the Hollywood ideal of "abandon all duty to follow your heart". (Or maybe I've been overdosing on it from crappy shoujo anime.)

I hate the Disney interpretation of Mulan's character and bastardisation of Chinese values. In my mind she has never been someone who shirked duty. She joined the army because of her filial duty to her ailing father. It was duty that made her assume a man's attire, not rebelliousness.

And the remarkable naivete with which responsibility is portrayed is doing marvels at telling children what constitutes a mature human being. Arranged marriages for the princesses? Oh no! Even if it's an entire empire's fate on the line, they should choose with their heart.

It annoys me how little the characters care for their oaths and their responsibilities. It annoys me even more when this irresponsibility is contagious. There is nothing more despicable in traditional Chinese society than a man (or a woman) who does not honour his or her word.

........And at the risk of quoting myself....

People's hearts change. Duty is book-bound and stubborn.

To a society where hierarchy rules above all, a dutiful liege is far more desirable than an untamed horse.

PS: There's something creepy about watching Mulan with Chinese subtitles and English voices...
PPS: I also dislike how Mushu is now incredibly snitchy. To take the word from Ziva.
PPPS: Because Crickee is just too adorable *squee* (Unfortunately it was hard to fix up the compressed colour very well *sigh*)