Reptiles are the fucking best.
Can't go far without seeing one over here.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Watched that Arietty movie with my mother, finally.
Jesus no wonder this thing did badly.
They stuck in those kids from Wizards of Waverly Place as the leads and the male one cannot act for shit. He's doing the thing where he's confusing "monotone and flat" with "quiet and poignant".
Oh, and did I mention they 4Kids'd it? They 4Kids'd a fucking Miyazaki movie.
In the English dub, they have some long conversationg about being true to your heart and believing in something to keep fighting that just kinda comes right out of nowhere.
In the original they had a long conversation about going extinct and how they might be a doomed species, and how he was sad about his heart condition socially isolating him and how she was mad at him for uprooting their family especially considering how there might not be anywhere else for them to go. And the environmental thing is something Miyazaki would write.
Even little things, like how in the English they said "she's fourteen, we'll need to teach her how to take care of herself" and in the Japanese it was "she's fourteen, she'll need to learn how to survive without us" because she might literally be the last one and there won't be anyone left to help her.
Also random character bits.
They pretty much rewrote the whole movie. Disney dropped the ball pretty fucking hard on this one.
I'm honesly astounded how different the Japanese version is in some parts.
edited 21st Oct '14 3:30:32 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistSo. In the dream, I was an angel. An angel that had landed a really cushy desk job working for the Archangel Gabriel. But I had to work with a partner. My partner was an angel I had known for a very long time. He was a rebellious asshole that I was wondering how was even still in Heaven.
In between work though I'm reading a book that I got from Earth. Its particularly blasphemous, with all kinds of theories and junk regarding the soul and the human psyche. But I don't care because I think it could help change how angel's do things for the better.
So one day while we're doing our jobs Gabriel herself comes by along with a bunch of other angels and starts talking to us. My asshole rival finds the book and starts reading it out loud. Gabriel is nice to me at first and gives the book back, but she starts making fun of the theories in there. And I sheepishly defend them.
So Gabriel gets angry, and sends me on journey across the world with two demons and few humans who's fate need to be decided as my charges. So demon number 1, was a pretty chill guy he was quiet for most of the journey. Demon number 2 was a total asshole. But he had a pet piglet that he kept around. The humans all generally acted like scared pups, and I just tried to keep them calm the whole way.
But Demon 2 decided he would fuck with me the whole way, by tempting me to do all kinds one worldly things, like gamble, steal, do drugs, misuse my powers stuff like that.
So we're nearing the end of journey, and I've resisted Demon 2 this whole way. So he finally snaps and pulls out a bow and arrow, and decides that he's going to kill the humans and take them to Hell right there, and he aims it at them naming off all their sins.
But I use my angel powers to wrestle the arrow away from him. And Demon 1...actually helps. Demon 2 gets REALLY fucking angry, and starts trying to fight hand-to-hand, at which point we break his arms. He then goes totally feral and acidentally steps on his pet pig killing it. At which point he breaks down crying having lost the only thing he cared about.
So we sort of leave him where he is and go to the end, which is a massive alter where I pray for the human's souls to go to Heaven. Along with Demon 1 because he was a cool guy. They all do.
I get back to find that I don't have my desk job anymore. That Gabriel wants me to work more field jobs. With Demon 1 as my partner. I'm fine with this but I look over at my old Desk and find it covered in papers that the first asshole has to do.
And that's where I wake up.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850this sounds like it might just be a translation quirk
they basically have the same literal meaning but different connotations
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOINo, it was a very deliberate word choice. The English implied, both in the dialogue and the delivery, a "concerned parent" thing. The Japanese reading and word choice was a lot more grim.
If I can find them I'm gonna play the two scenes with Arietty and Shawn talking in the field back to back, because it's
Fuck
Like I said, it's like watching two different movies.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistYou know what you people need to watch.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850Hjfds
Forgot why I don't watch anime around my father. He starts making ching chong noises, and I tell him to stop and that it's racist, and he told me to shut up and now he's gonna yell at me after my mother leaves for "being no fun" and "starting arguments".
edited 21st Oct '14 4:30:05 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist

sure go for it.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post