Dark_Cloud_Overhead

Star Wars the Last Jedi - 7/10 I'm kind of torn over this, much like the fans and critics I suppose; although, ironically the fan in me really enjoyed it, while the critic in me didn't so much. Main thing that irked me were some of the space combat parts that just blatantly defied the laws of physics, but ultimately this movie for me was all about getting to see Mark Hamill again, and he didn't disappoint. The Greastest Showman - 8/10 Not enough singing. LOL Seriously, I know it's a muscial, but it felt like they were really pushing the limit with how many song and dance numbers they squeezed into this. It's forgivable though if only because the songs were all pretty good. I was totally stunned though when I went home and read up on the life of the actual P.T. Barnum and realized how wildly the movie diverged from and glossed over the true history of the man. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 10/10 Wish when I had detention it went something like that.

Email I got yesterday said there's only 2 days left, so either Christmas day or the day after is the final day then. If you want to play it safe, I would order what you want today if you have the chance. I think I only spent about $50 at Right Stuf this year; most of what I spent went elsewhere for once. Sentai shop for example just cut prices on a bunch of their premium box sets and just caused me to blow $210 there just now. Jeez, I shouldn't even be up right now, but the family get together got postponed due to someone getting sick, so I wound up staying up late watching some movies cuz I can afford to sleep-in tomorrow now. New on order: Akame ga Kill premium sets 1 & 2, Amagi Brilliant Park premium, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? premium, Love Chunibyo and Other Delusions Hearthrob premium, and School-Live premium

Holiday haul time! For a while it was looking like I might not get much of anything this year. Lord knows I haven't watched much anime outside of Toonami all year long, so I'm starting to wonder why I even bother, but of course I wound up caving and grabbing a few things: Batman & Harley Quinn, Clannad & Clannad After Story, Familiar of Zero season 4, Justice League Dark, K Missing Kings, Knights of Sidonia season 1 LE, Log Horizon season 1 part 1 & season 2 parts 1 & 2, Noragami Aragoto LE, Psycho Pass season 2 premium, RWBY 4, Sailor Moon S part 2, Tokyo ESP LE, and Your Name LE Yeah, just a few. ::scoffs:: Hey, at least I resisted the temptation to spend on any of the Aniplex titles I want. Helps that they never really go on sale I suppose though.

Yeah, I think the music was really the best part of it. .hack//Sign is the only anime my father ever liked, probably ever even watched, and I think it was because of the music. He even went out and bought the DVDs for it when they first came out, and got a few of the soundtracks that came with some of the special editions.

Justice League 8/10 A lot better than I was expecting, given the pretty poor reviews it got from critics. Like that they injected more humor into it -- even if it is an all too obvious attempt to copy off Marvel. Booyah! Great to see too in the after credits scene that they're bringing one of my favorite DC villains onto the big screen.

Wow, that was probably my favorite movie as a kid. I must have watched it so many times. Total classic. "We're locked into the moon's gravitational pull. What do we do? ... We die." :robotlol My favorite part. Thor Ragnarok 10/10 That was probably Stan Lee's best cameo ever. Pure awesomesauce. Can't wait for Infinity War.

LOL And the answer to my question is soon revealed... Now he does. applause

When is Zenigata gonna realize he's the real prisoner here?

So Right Stuf is doing its first ever Kickstarter I believe to fund dubbing Aria for a new blu-ray release, which I still haven't gotten around to finish watching btw, sigh. Anyway, they hit the stretch goal for season 3 and the OVAs just the other day, so I just killed my wallet going in for the whole thing. Wallet: ::: "Oww, mercy please, have mercy on me!" Sorry.... I didn't want to do it, but I've just come to the conclusion that I have no control over myself when it comes to stuff like this.

ohno At first, when I saw the news about this over in another thread, it felt just unreal. It honestly seemed like at times that he was just a part of the place, but I guess he wasn't a robit after all. I really appreciated how much passion he showed for the community over at the AS boards, and will always be grateful he helped preserve some of that community here for us. I never really interacted with him much, but when I did come across his postings, they were always interesting and fun to read, despite how long they often-times could be. Nothing but love to you Luuv.

Space... Oh man, does this ever take me back. I still remember the old Toonami promos they ran for this show all the time. So awesome to see it back again. Too bad it gets buried so late at night. It deserves better. Wish they would have put this in place of Tokyo Ghoul. Would probably get better ratings, even after all this time.

Was on vacation to see some relatives I haven't seen for a long time. Some of them actually like anime, so I brought along some movies (mostly Ghibli stuff) for them to watch. Also, got to see Lego Batman, which I missed sadly when it was out in theaters, and unlike me they have Netflix, so took the opportunity to see the first few episodes of Castlevania before heading back home. Will probably watch some more stuff in the near future.

Despicable Me 3 - 7/10 A little disappointed the minions were kind of pushed off to the side, but it was still all right. Spiderman Homecoming - 8/10 Some of the casting choices felt a bit weird, but I guess they really wanted to differentiate this from the other Spiderman movie series. War for the Planet of the Apes - 9/10 I basically got dragged along to see this (I haven't seen the previous two entries, or any of the original movies for that matter), but despite not knowing any of the characters or preceding story line, I really found myself stunned at how much I ended up enjoying this. Still not gonna check out any of the other movies though, heh. Valerian - 8/10 Started off really stupid, but once they got to the main part of the movie it became a bit more grounded. All the crazy, imaginative-looking aliens and solid action sequences brought the fun though and really saved this in the end.

New on order: Revolutionary Girl Utena Ultra Edition 20th Anniversary blu-ray set Ouch! This is gonna hurt my wallet, but I guess I gotta have it. At least it doesn't come out till December.

47 Meters Down - 7/10 Fairly entertaining, but it felt really short. For a shark movie though I'd say it was slightly above average. I liked The Shallows better though, which is the only other recent serious shark movie I can think of for comparison.

New order: Miss Hokusai

I'll probably watch the premiere since it's gonna be on regular TV, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay for All Access just to watch the rest of it.

Wonder Woman - 10/10 Looks like DC finally managed to hit a home run. Gotta admit, I was a doubter when I heard Gal Gadot was cast for the part, but she kicked ass and proved me wrong.

What I liked about the other Mummy movies is that they had some humor, largely due to Brendan Fraser. This movie looks completely devoid of that, so that's why I'm taking a pass. Rating is totally meaningless to me.

Fairy Tail 261 - 265 Whoa, I did not see that coming. Quite the reveal. Good place for me to leave off on this show for a while it looks like. Just what appears to be a backstory arc left anyway until they make more I guess.

Whoops. Sorry, my bad. Didn't realize you only wanted stuff from the last five years. Somtimes I just read too fast and miss stuff. Okay, went back and fixed; although, Bleach ended back in 2014, so that should count. Trinity Blood I think was older though, so I took that off, too.

Favorite: 5) Gurren Lagann 4) InuYasha TFA 3) FMA Brotherhood 2) Cowboy Bebop 1) FLCL Least Favorite: 5) Bleach 4) Deadman Wonderland 3) Tokyo Ghoul (Once they get around it to airing it anyway, I'd add it here) 2) Dimension W 1) Eureka Seven

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 8/10 Ghost shark jumping over the characters in slo mo was every bit as ridiculous looking as I thought it would be, as was the whole ghost shark sequence really.... So, bravo. I mean, after all you don't go to a Pirates movie expecting Shakespeare. You go to see Captain Jack act like a buffoon and stumble and bumble his way through what should be impossible to survive scenarios with seemingly the greatest of ease. Heh, now that I think of it, Jack's pretty similar in that way to another favorite captain of mine, Captain Tylor.

Fairy Tail 240 - 250 Pickin' up where I left off ages ago it feels like now, with the Tartaros arc. Great stuff thus far. Even though it tends to get a little old, I'm still amazed how time and again this show keeps having so many villains later on come back and wind up redeeming themselves and basically turn into good guys.

Alien Covenant (4/10) Sigh. Disappointing. This movie just felt way too predictable. I guess that's to be expected given it's essentially a prequel sequel, but still... I dunno, I think maybe I'm just burned out on alien movies, cuz I didn't find anything really shocking or scary about this one at all. Either that or perhaps I'm simply getting *gasp* too old for this stuff? : (