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Vagrant Story (2000)
Very Underrated.
Vagrant Story is one of the most underrated games and at the same time one of the best games made it in years.
Why not everybody like it?, one of the reasons is having a battle system very different from other games, it´s not easy to swallow at first but after a while you get use to it.
The first thing to make clear is that VS is not fully a RPG, is more a hybrid between various genres, there´s some RPG elements but there´s also action and you can explore like in a plataform game. Saying that don´t expect to visit towns and talk to people like in a RPG.
Yasumi Matsuno, creator of this game and another gem from Square, Final Fantasy Tactics, did a marvelous job along with his staff, including the composer of the music Hitoshi Sakimoto.
The plot is unique, very original, not the tipycal hero-has-to-save-the-world-collecting-crystals-and-stopping-a-villian, the characters are also a lot more complex than many characters from other games, the battle system requires all the attention from the player, if you want to survive you have to know everything that is requirer in order to kill the enemies, avoiding traps and a lot more.
I really liked that you can create your own weapons, that makes every battle different from another, keeping it from getting repetitive, and you have to master that aspect too if you want to have good weapons.
Great game in all it´s aspects, a truly underrated masterpiece.
Zardoz (1974)
Somebody made this?
Sean Connery must have been on drugs, and all the rest of the crew, including the writer/director, to made this incredible stupid and lame hippie-sci fi movie.
The plot doesn´t make any sense at any moment, the film tries to be "deep" but it´s nothing more than a mess, is boring and at the same time funny, like when the group of scientific women pass their "knowledge" to Sean Connery by having an orgy with him!.
Just watch it for the fun factor, an as you watch you will ask to yourself all the time, "how the hell somebody decided to made this thing?", and to make it even more wacky, Sean Connery appears all the time in a red underwear.
The Ring (2002)
Very Overrated
After watching both versions,the original and the USA remake,all i can say is that both are very overrated,im not saying they were bad movies but just to overrated,especially the USA version. Maybe the reason of this could be that,comparing to the other "horror" films of hollywood from the past years,like Hallowen Resurrection,Jason X,Scream,etc,almost anythyng else could be scarier,even seeing a fly pass by,and so the audiences think the Ring is so good just because is not another slasher-teen crap.
The film creates a good atmosphere,but trows a lot of irrelevant plot events that made a lot of confussion,and the "scary" moments come more from cheap editing tricks,in a very hollywood style,when they are going to understand that especial effects don´t make a movie good?
I didn´t like the ending,and the ending of both versions are similar,but in the USA version,because of all the unnecesary elements they put it in(horses,bugs,nosebleeding,puting the son of Rachel in a six-sense context,etc) the ending seems more weak that in the japanese version.
Also,the face of Samara doesn´t scare at all,meanwhile the face of Sadako it´s complettly more frigthening,and when she crawl out of the TV is more convincing too. Overall,The Ring is not a bad film as it´s own,but saying that is one of the most spooky movies of the last years,again,just because the other USA horror films from the last years(Scream,Blair Witch,etc) sucks a lot that doesn´t neccesarilly make this one the "best" of all,just a little more good from the average,that´s all.
At first,i gave it 2 stars of 4,but now i really aprecciatte a lil more this version,and after seeing that the Japanese version is not worthy of all the hype(but also not a bad film),i will give it 2 1/2 stars to the USA version.
Pâfekuto burû (1997)
Forget.....
Forget everything you may heard or think about japanese animation,forget Dragon Ball,Pokemon or Sailor Moon,Perfect Blue is a whole different stuff.
Sadly a lot of people don´t give animated movies the credit they deserv or they think that is just for kids and that it has to be kiddie-stuff or in a Disney way where the characters had to sing foolish songs and said cheaps jokes.
Perfect Blue breaks all those myths demostrating the wide open and huge story-telling horizons that animation is able to bring.
An excellent anime,or better saying what it is,a great movie.
Xenogears (1998)
Great story,bad gameplay.
Xenogears have one of the most complex and greatest stories i had ever seen in a videogame,movie,comic,etc,BUT it also have a very bad and frustrating gameplay.
One thing i don´t understand is why you have to watch Fei and Elly on a chair narrating almost 2 hours of the story instead of making you to play those paras that they are narrating.Makes me think that when Square was making the game they were tire of so many nonsense random battles and they decided to put those narrating segments instead of figthing scenes so the programmers and the battle planers could take a break.
The music is superb,it could be repetitive sometimes but it has beautiful songs like "The Begining and the end",and so many others,Yasunori Mitsuda prooves again his talent as a composer.
Sure the story has it´s flaws and holes but,which story doesn´t have it?,until date i hadn´t know of any RPG that had a "perfect" story,"perfect" gameplay or "perfect" characters.
In a nutshell,Xenogears is a must have game,but lemme give you a good advice,don´t try to end it in a few days,give some breaks when you play it so that way you wont feel annoyed by the battles or other details of the gameplay.
8.8/10
Makai tensho (1997)
Well...
This is not the sequel of Ninja Scroll,the main Character has the same name of the hero of NS but it´s not the same guy.
Actually it really was a period in the feudal Japan where Cristhians were persecuted,this religion was prohibited in that time in Japan,of course the wars between sects wasn´t so bloody and insane like the ones showed on this anime.
I think Ninja Scroll is much better than this one,recommended only for bloody-gore movie fans.
Crossroads (2002)
Oh the humanity.
I wonder if there´s still any piece of dignity in Hollywood today or any kind of respect to the people that like to watch movies,this movie answers the question whit a tremendous NO.
Forget is a Britney Spears movie,we watch how a group of happy-ligthly girls travel with a guy that looks that he came out of some Calvin Klein promo,they discover the "true" friendship and discuss many brainy topics like the "meaning" of life.
Even a pack of milk has more sustance than this.
Funny movie?,nop,Enterteining?,nop,even good just to pass the time?,hell no.
If after you watch the movie you had the desire of going to your home and hang yourself from the roof it will not be a surprise.
zero stars.
Y tu mamá también (2001)
Not so bad,yet no so good.
Just let me tell you that not all teenagers are just a bunch of horny dumb-ass that want to be vere intellectual talking about "serious" topics.
The sad part is that,in one way,is a little truth that a lot of teenagers of these days had such mediocry thoughts and topic discussions.
The Movie is a boring road movie with no plot,just two guys and a woman smoking,having a lot of nonesense talk and having sex,is that what makes a movie smart?,you got to be kidding.