DVDees

Check it out! The DVD on the top of the stack is Legend of the Black Scorpion, the one I won online. It was even sent out FedEx! Although, FedEx sucks, so it still took a week for me to get it after it arrived in Calgary. I watched it yet though and hopefully it won't suck. The other discs are Millenium Season 3 which I'm almost done and Ghost in Shell: The Laughing Man. The Ghost in the Shell is a movie edited together from episodes of the TV series Standalone Complex. It's a pretty long movie at 160 minutes. They also did the same thing to make another movie called Individual Eleven.

This week Appleseed: Ex Machina also came out, the latest import from Japan, based on the comic book by Shirow Masamune (the Ghost in the Shell guy). It's actually the sequel with the first movie coming out in 2004. Remember Cam, I forced you to watch it! This time around John Woo is on board as a producer and yes there are doves! CGI doves! The CGI is stepped up from the first movie and the animation is stepped up. The people still have that cell shaded, or toon shaded look from the first too, but the detail and animation is way better. The movie opens with a kick ass action set piece, but the entire movie isn't all action. Why not?! But you still get the goods and some mecha action too. I definitely recommend watching this, so rent it or maybe you can find it previously viewed cheap. I bought the two disc metal case version, but the second disc of extras was pretty useless. Have a look, you may not love it, but you'll be impressed with it.