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[occults]

So I downloaded and watched Kung-fu Panda II last night. It was pretty good. Don't ask why I downloaded it, I just wanted to, and Shen was awesome. Gary Oldman ftw?!

But maybe I'm just being picky but movies nowadays are so...blah to me. :c Like the avengers wasn't anything special and I'm honestly surprised it did as well as it did. Aside from the last fight scene the entire movie took place on the ship until the last half hour. It wasn't really spectacular but maybe I'm just being overly picky for action movies. Though it did have pretty good character development for that kind of movie and with that many main characters.

ANYWAY! I wish movies weren't so formulaic. I wish there was a movie where the bad guys came out on top! Sadly I don't think that'll happen anytime soon.

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[hickumu]

Ah, Kung-Fu Panda was pretty awesome. I loved the white tiger's beatdown on Shi-Fu. I never got around to seeing Kung-Fu Panda 2, but sequels being sequels, I probably would have been disappointed.

There are a few movies I can think of where the "bad guys" come out on top. The problem is that a lot of people tend to confuse "protagonist" with "hero", and a lot of those movies apparently sucked anyway. Did you ever see "Doctor Horrible's Singalong Blog"? That's really the only one I can think of, and it's only 42 minutes.

[occults]

Kung-Fu Panda was hysterical and pretty damn good, yeah. The sequel was so so. Shen was pretty badass when he was actually fighting which sadly wasn't very much. But I have never seen Doctor Horrible, no. I've heard of it before though!

It seems silly. I always thought it was a comedy, it is a comedy right?

[hickumu]

It is very silly. And it's...kind of a comedy. The first 35 minutes are a comedy. And then hoooooooly fuck, the ending. But, c'mon, Neil Patrick Harris. He's always fun to watch.

But I can most emphatically say that the bad guy? Comes out pretty far on top. It's just a matter of who you think the bad guy is.

[occults]

Hmm I always thought it was a series too idk why.

That sounds interesting. It's kinda like the book I'm reading, Cephreal's Hand. You get both sides of the story, good and evil, and it's reaaally hard not to agree with both. I love this book man it's pretty awesome.

[hickumu]

I think people would love for it to be a series, but Neil Patrick Harris is impossible to get ahold of. Hell, they're still waiting for him to be available for the sequel!

Cephreal's Hand, huh? Well, you've given me good books recs so far, so I'll go ahead and check that out! There's also apparently a steampunk Cinderella book I was looking at, called "Cinders". Mechanical doll girls, always a subject that's fascinated me.

[occults]

Oh wow. He's a really good/funny actor so I can see why he'd be hard to get ahold of. :c

Oooh that one sounds awesome. I'll proabably download it illegal like I have been for most of my books. >__> It makes it better that I have this program, calibre, that turns PDFs/anything else into MOBI. files for Kindles. So, yeah, I can buy/download whatever I want now!

[hickumu]

O_o I was wondering how you'd gotten Fear Institute when Amazon didn't have it! The more you know!

Your secret is safe with me, Levy!

[occults]

Actually. I bought Fear Institute...from England >3> But I do still have the PDF on my laptop. I mean Cata originally found the PDF online so I was reading it like that and then I finished the rest of the book when I bought the hard copy soooo, yeah.

Don't tell anyone otherwise I might have to do...UNSPEAKABLE THINGS!

[mise_en_scene]

Have you seen the movie Se7en? Oldboy is another good one, though I've heard good things about The Vengeance Trilogy as a whole (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance).

Moon (science fiction/drama) is also a movie you might enjoy. The Brothers Bloom (comedy/conmen) is also a fun movie.

[occults]

Se7en is the movie about the 7 deadly sins, right? I saw that a long time ago and I've never seen Oldboy before...

Those sound interesting. I might have to check them out~

[mise_en_scene]

The Vengeance Trilogy is a Korean film, DO NOT GET THE DUB. No, really, the dub is horrible. The subs should be pretty easy to find since Oldboy is a fairly popular movie.

TV Tropes actually has a whole page for "the bad guy wins" so there might be movies checking out there, but, well, spoilers.

"The Fall" is a good movie too, very beautiful. It's about a paralyzed stunt double that begins telling a little girl a story. Scenes within the hospital are interspersed with the story he tells her.

"Peacock" is another really good movie. Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, drama/thriller. Not going to say more on that since it's kinda plot-twisty.

[occults]

Oh my god I love The Fall. It plays on one of the many movie channels we have back up here at my mother's house. It's such a gorgeous film.

I shall have to look for torrents for all of these. Thanks for the suggestions Cata!

[mise_en_scene]

It is~ The really cool thing is everything was shot on location and a lot of the cool effects weren't CG, but actually things they did.

You're welcome!

[occults]

Yeah I want to go to some of those places now because they are absolutely gorgeous. It's such a touching story too. Baw Roy. ;w; I felt bad for him and he was good looking so that helped too.