Month: August 2004

I watched “The Full Monty” on DVD. Somehow I missed this film when it was going in the cinemas and since than I wanted to see it. But every time I was updating my ToWatch List I miraculasly forgot about it. Today I finally remembered and since the rentals were still open, I grabbed it and… enjoyed it.

It is a nice comedy which is very realistic and routine, but that has a whole bunch of English humour. It changes paces all the time – at times it is slow and boring and at other times it is as fast and funny that you don’t have enough time to laugh through all the jokes.

It is does not fit into a family kind of movie, but it is great to have fun at during the slow and tired evening. I’ll rate it as 8 out 10 for a good average density of jokes.

“Akira” is a 16-year old animation we have seen today. There are some pretty neat drawing techniques which make it feel more like a movie and not an animation. The story is a somewhat usual Japanese twick with an almost executed global trouble. By “almost executed” I don’t mean something that almost happened. I mean that there was alsmot nothing left of Tokyo and that happened very fast.

I am not a huge fan of Japanese movies and animations. They are too sad and depressing for me. This one started off as something much lighter than I expected, so I decided to watch. Somehow it was getting bigger and bigger towards the end. And the result was as usual – I was unable to stop watching it and ended up with shocked and depressed mind. And I was feeling glad when the animation finished. For some reason I do feel glad every time I watch Japanese cartoon or film. Maybe I am broken…

Anyway, I’ll give a 7 out of 10 for the excellent graphics techniques.