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on the cross-dressing shows...
24 Jul 2011 01:43 pmWatched Ouran Koukou Host Club live drama yesterday, which means I've attempted 3 out of the 5 crossdressing dramas this season.
It was only 30 minutes long and my face looked like my icon 80% of the time.
It wasn't wholly bad. I thought Yamamoto was actually okay as Tamaki. He's certainly gone into it with the gusto that Miyano (anime) had and manage to sound like he really believes the idiocy he's spewing. Hani wasn't bad either...actually most of the boys were tolerable. What annoyed me most was Haruhi. I had doubts of her acting in Yankee-kun to Megane-chan (another film that was sadly buoyed by its male leads and sunk by its female). She reduced Haruhi to simple wide-eyed incomprehension. And I know Haruhi didn't make an effort to act male, but at least Maaya (anime) gave Haruhi a convincingly unisexual voice. This girl looks so stiffened and bored by the exercise -___- The other thing that really ruins it is the cheap special effects. When the plastic pumping heart popped out I had no words...
Hanakimi version 2 was as boring as predicted. I have no love for Maeda or Maki, but I thought Maeda does a better job as a crossdressing tomboy, simply because Maki's fault in all her roles is she's so shy and self-conscious and wary of showing any passion. Again the actors overall were passable but who wants to see a rehash of something that pointless anyway? The reason Gokusen succeeded was because they actually changed the class structure and introduced different conflicts each season.
Ikemen desu ne I thought was probably the best of the lot. Takimoto is a fairly new face on the block but she really gets into her role (unlike Maki) without going overboard (like Naka Riisa is frequently guilty of doing). I didn't think much of Tamamori in Gokusen movie but he's convincingly aloof and ill-tempered here. Hikaru is adorable as the comedic baka of the group but I really hope he doesn't get tied up in idol dramas like these. He was the best of the lot in Orthros no Inu (surprising...since it was like his first drama) and I think he'll benefit much more by following Toma's lead in taking up interesting side roles and branching into more serious stuff in theatres. However, the ratings have been unremarkable (although not quite as abysmal as Hanakimi) and unless it works its way up (which it might) I can't see it being a good launch platform for Kis-My-Ft, which is clearly the plan.
On a not dissimilar subject....
The reviews for Captain America have been rolling in and it seems to me there are basically two types of reviews.
One goes like this: CAPTAIN AMERICA. Man it's been a long wait. Aww look, Human Torch shrunk down to squirrel size. WOW was that Howard Stark? Super soldier time, YEAH!! Red skull~! COSMIC CUBE!!! Hugo Weaving is so cool, dude! OMG HOWLING COMMANDOS. Yay Captain America kicking ass. Yay Captain America throws his shield. YAY CAPTAIN AMAERICA'S SHIELD-THROWING SOUND EFFECTS!!! Hah...we already know what's gonna happen. See. Teehee Nick Fury so badass. Credits! Cap back on again! Aha Tony Stark! Thor! THE AVENGERS!!!!!!! *Dies in fanboy heaven*
And the other version goes like this: okay so here's ANOTHER superhero movie, the THIRD of the season seriously th-...wow what cheapo obvious CG face-planting effects (*). Stark Industries sounds familiar. Uh what, the head of Nazis isn't a guy with bad face prosthesis! ...WTF is this some magic cube giving the Nazis LASER WEAPONS?? Uhh okay so is this SUPERHERO dude going to just...throw his shield and run really fast? WHERE ARE HIS SUPERHERO SUPERPOWERS?? ...Man what's up with those tacky-looking sidekicks. Huh. HUH?? Okay so WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END. ........Right. The Avengers. So this movie was a 100 minute commercial for another movie coming out next year? FAIL.
[*] It's amazing how many critics said Chris Evans face was stuck onto a double's body when he spent all of his interviews saying how they decided NOT to do that.
In other words the reviews are completely unreliable since the critics who like it tend to be the ones who've paid attention to the news and knows the plot before seeing the film, and the other side is people who just DGAF. Also it's funny to read the huge contrast in the perception of the Captain America character, from he is so flat and boring and bland, to he is the perfect morally upright character with very little character flaws that hark back to retro hero ideals.
.......Now I don't even know if I want to watch it at all since I know half of the plot already Orz
It was only 30 minutes long and my face looked like my icon 80% of the time.
It wasn't wholly bad. I thought Yamamoto was actually okay as Tamaki. He's certainly gone into it with the gusto that Miyano (anime) had and manage to sound like he really believes the idiocy he's spewing. Hani wasn't bad either...actually most of the boys were tolerable. What annoyed me most was Haruhi. I had doubts of her acting in Yankee-kun to Megane-chan (another film that was sadly buoyed by its male leads and sunk by its female). She reduced Haruhi to simple wide-eyed incomprehension. And I know Haruhi didn't make an effort to act male, but at least Maaya (anime) gave Haruhi a convincingly unisexual voice. This girl looks so stiffened and bored by the exercise -___- The other thing that really ruins it is the cheap special effects. When the plastic pumping heart popped out I had no words...
Hanakimi version 2 was as boring as predicted. I have no love for Maeda or Maki, but I thought Maeda does a better job as a crossdressing tomboy, simply because Maki's fault in all her roles is she's so shy and self-conscious and wary of showing any passion. Again the actors overall were passable but who wants to see a rehash of something that pointless anyway? The reason Gokusen succeeded was because they actually changed the class structure and introduced different conflicts each season.
Ikemen desu ne I thought was probably the best of the lot. Takimoto is a fairly new face on the block but she really gets into her role (unlike Maki) without going overboard (like Naka Riisa is frequently guilty of doing). I didn't think much of Tamamori in Gokusen movie but he's convincingly aloof and ill-tempered here. Hikaru is adorable as the comedic baka of the group but I really hope he doesn't get tied up in idol dramas like these. He was the best of the lot in Orthros no Inu (surprising...since it was like his first drama) and I think he'll benefit much more by following Toma's lead in taking up interesting side roles and branching into more serious stuff in theatres. However, the ratings have been unremarkable (although not quite as abysmal as Hanakimi) and unless it works its way up (which it might) I can't see it being a good launch platform for Kis-My-Ft, which is clearly the plan.
On a not dissimilar subject....
The reviews for Captain America have been rolling in and it seems to me there are basically two types of reviews.
One goes like this: CAPTAIN AMERICA. Man it's been a long wait. Aww look, Human Torch shrunk down to squirrel size. WOW was that Howard Stark? Super soldier time, YEAH!! Red skull~! COSMIC CUBE!!! Hugo Weaving is so cool, dude! OMG HOWLING COMMANDOS. Yay Captain America kicking ass. Yay Captain America throws his shield. YAY CAPTAIN AMAERICA'S SHIELD-THROWING SOUND EFFECTS!!! Hah...we already know what's gonna happen. See. Teehee Nick Fury so badass. Credits! Cap back on again! Aha Tony Stark! Thor! THE AVENGERS!!!!!!! *Dies in fanboy heaven*
And the other version goes like this: okay so here's ANOTHER superhero movie, the THIRD of the season seriously th-...wow what cheapo obvious CG face-planting effects (*). Stark Industries sounds familiar. Uh what, the head of Nazis isn't a guy with bad face prosthesis! ...WTF is this some magic cube giving the Nazis LASER WEAPONS?? Uhh okay so is this SUPERHERO dude going to just...throw his shield and run really fast? WHERE ARE HIS SUPERHERO SUPERPOWERS?? ...Man what's up with those tacky-looking sidekicks. Huh. HUH?? Okay so WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END. ........Right. The Avengers. So this movie was a 100 minute commercial for another movie coming out next year? FAIL.
[*] It's amazing how many critics said Chris Evans face was stuck onto a double's body when he spent all of his interviews saying how they decided NOT to do that.
In other words the reviews are completely unreliable since the critics who like it tend to be the ones who've paid attention to the news and knows the plot before seeing the film, and the other side is people who just DGAF. Also it's funny to read the huge contrast in the perception of the Captain America character, from he is so flat and boring and bland, to he is the perfect morally upright character with very little character flaws that hark back to retro hero ideals.
.......Now I don't even know if I want to watch it at all since I know half of the plot already Orz
