The Dark Knight is fucking intense. GO watch it but leave the kids at home.

The Joker (Heath Ledger) might scare them. If not then Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) will scare them shitless towards the end.

Just forget you have kids and watch this movie. Leave them in the car or at Grandma’s. You don’t want to be thinking about kids when you are watching The Joker and Batman tear each other apart with the batmobile (more like a tank) and a truck. OR when Harvey Dent goes psycho!

I have a habit of rooting for the villains instead of the hero.

BTW: When did Commissioner Gordon have a son? I thought he only had Barbara (future batgirl!)

Josie

Apparently the rumors where true. Dragonball is going live action.

Okay I’ve seen the first Death Note movie in Live Action and it was pretty good. I wouldn’t have cared if the live action movie sucked or not. But I grew up watching Dragonball Z (I didn’t watch Dragonball until I was 13). I remember how I would run home after school just to catch it on Toonami (and Sailor Moon). This show stole my childhood. I could have been playing outside getting some exercise or studying for my future. Instead I was inside watching Goku go head to head against Freeza. Watching Gohan training to be a Super Saiyan. I even felt sympathy for Android #18 when she was absorb by Cell and how Kuririn was in love with her. So you can understand how attached I am to this anime right? If anyone was to ask me what I can remember the most from my childhood is television. Every show I watched, every fad I was into (pogs, pokemon, digimon, gameboy color, fresh prince, spice girls, hell even Britney Spears was my idol) I was into it. Dragonball Z was just a good portion of it.

Just so we’re clear the movie isn’t based on Dragonball Z but on Dragonball the first anime. DBZ is the sequel and Dragonball GT is the third series (but I think it sucked).Now that we got that covered let’s move on to the actors.So it worries me that Justin Chatwin (Weeds, War of the Worlds, The Invisible) is playing Goku and James Marsters (Smallville, P.S. I love You) is playing Piccolo. Emmy Rossum(Phantom of the Opera) will be playing Bulma, but I’m not so worried about her. I think she would look cute with blue hair and hopefully nail Bulma’s personality. Jamie Chung will play Chi-Chi Goku’s future wife and future mother of Gohan and Goten. I can’t really form an opinion of her acting skills since i have never seen her act in any of her guest appearances on television shows (Veronica Mars, Days of our Lives, CSI:NY) but she is from the Real World. I never watched the Real World (I don’t enjoy reality shows) but she must be good if she’s landing acting jobs (even if they are small roles).

It’s not that I have a problem with Chatwin and Marsters playing the two main characters in the movie it’s just well…I was expecting the movie to be in Japanese and played by Asian actors. I only assumed since it was an anime that Japanese studios would handle making the movie and the U.S. would be lucky to have it subbed and released on DVD. Well I was wrong and in August (if they don’t change the date) when I watch the movie I’ll give a full review.

I’ll let you form your own opinion on these actors and the outcome of this movie.In the mean time I’m going to take a nap, just knowing that Dragonball is being made into live action is giving me a headache.

Enjoy this fan made video. And just pretend you know Japanese.

Peace

Josie

P.S. Links: Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Dragonball movie wiki, Dragonball movie IMDB

So with all the hype of Juno this little korean film is finally getting notice. I watched it a year ago and loved it and still do. Don’t worry it’s not like Juno where the pregnant teenager gives up the baby. No this is where two 15 year old kids stick it together and try to keep the pregnancy a secret.

The Good: Jenny and Juno’s love is so innocent and pure even if they did the dirty deed. Jenny’s actress (Park Min-ji) is great as a pregnant woman while Juno’s actor (Kim Hye-sung) is the boy most girls would kill to have. Mainly the movie centers around their love and their decision to keep the baby.

 The Bad: Jenny never looks pregnant! Not once. In one scene her girl friends from school take off her night gown revealing her stomach. At this point one can assume she’s at least six or seven months pregnant and she has the stomach of a belly dancer!!

 Overall: I enjoyed it and sometimes it lagged a bit but my favorite scene would have to be when Jenny and Juno were playing a some nursery rhyme (the tadpole turns into a frog) with little kids in yellow sweaters. A great movie to watch on a Tuesday night.

Watch it here