The Tale of the Princess Kaguya review

Well... I didn't like it. Haha, I'll start off with that. (by the way, there're spoilers)
I usually like Studio Ghibli's animations. Mostly Miyazaki Hayao's work, but I like other ones made by them as well. When I saw the trailer, I had very high hopes for this animation. It looked like it had a very nice feel to it with a very distinct fairy tale theme which I like. I guess my problem was that I haven't heard of princess Kaguya before so I didn't know what to expect and when it actually hit me, it was a bit of an unsatisfying shock.
I know I didn't like it, but overall, it's a very good piece of film. It displays the various emotions princess Kaguya goes through vividly with their animation and I resonated with princess Kaguya's emotional conflict, feeling trapped, unresolved desires, joys, sadness, anger and many more emotional journey she went through. I very much enjoyed the first half of the film where it was mainly focused on the growth and development of the princess.
What I didn't like was how the movie ended. This wasn't necessarily a happy ending sort of movie. Most movies have a very general theme like, 'we endure sadness for the happy times' or 'keep working through issues and one day you'll get through them.' type of happy morals. This movie felt like it was more saying 'after happiness comes sadness' even though the songs and the speeches indicated that our lives goes round in circles, the ending was filled with unresolved problems and sadness. Kaguya never really found true happiness, always felt like a fake, she felt trapped in her own emotional conflict of wanting freedom vs making her parents happy or finding happiness the traditional way and after all that, she just left earth never even knowing what love between lovers feels like.
I think I didn't like it particularly more at this moment in life because I've recently gotten out of a relationship that wasn't very healthy for me. The man I was with had no job for more than a year whilst we were dating, stayed at home smoked weed all day and just played games. I felt more and more trapped being in the relationship having given up things I used to enjoy like dining out, going to the movies or just going out in general. In a way, a bit arrogantly I felt like I resonated with Kaguya's feelings. Her desires of freedom vs her desires to satisfy others was sad. Still being uncertain of my own choices to break up and move out I didn't like how the movie just ended with a "Hey, I have to go back to the moon now! Cya" type thing.
All and all, when my emotional issues have resolved, I probably would've enjoyed the movie and the movie itself is great, but right now, I'd probably give it something like a 6/10 haha

Over the garden wall review

Plot
"The central story involves Wirt (Elijah Wood) and Gregory (Collin Dean), two half-brothers who find themselves lost in a strange, magical forest called The Unknown."

Another mysterious setting with a nice magical adventure. I really enjoyed this short series.
It reminded me of the time I used to read a lot of fairy tales.

You know what? I'm horrible at explaining things. haha this wasn't really a 'review' I guess.

Blind 2007 Movie review

Plot from Wikipedia
"Ruben (Joren Seldeslachts) is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie (Halina Reijn) is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and along with Ruben shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness?"

I don't often watch foreign movies. Most of the time I find international film festival movies very awkward and hard to relate to since Europe has a different culture to mine. Not to mention how some of them have really visual sex scene that I'm not comfortable watching in a movie.
I found out about this movie in a joke website. I don't remember which one, but it was a site like 9gag or damnlol and it was one of those posts where it showed a clip of the movie to say how romantic it was. I saw the movie and I loved it.

I guess I'm just a sucker for romance and I've always liked the introverted sort of heroine since it resonates with me more. There was a nice build up of tension and that's always to be enjoyed.

I'm not really good at explaining things.

Aquaman 1960s cartoon review

haha oh boy, I didn't laugh so much in some time. I watched this with my friend which made it even funnier because of the commentaries we've made.

I've only seen the first episode, but I thought I might just write a quick review on it because I thought it was funny. 

Man, it was just one of those things where the olden days innocence are now just so ridiculous and weird. The characters are plainly built with very firm American sort of values. I don't even know what 'American values' are, but when I saw the blond haired protagonist aquaman, I just thought, it's just the word that came to mind.

The only episode I've watched was called Menace of the Black Manta and The Rampaging Reptile Men.

I don't think they were being deliberate (I mean, they might have?) but Black Manta just... made me think they were hinting at 'Black Man.....ta'. The evil reptiles as well... seemed like... they were trying to show some stereotypical Chinese men with their whisker moustache and their weird accent. I didn't care about the hint of racism but it was just funny as hell.

I have to say, growing up made me quite... dirty minded. There were just way too many moments where I just thought it had some strange sexual innuendos which probably wasn't intended.

Here are some examples,

Aquaman gets caught by pink seaweed

This one wasn't dirty, but I don't know... it was still funny.

That one scene where Aquaman says playfully "Alright clam... Open up."

And lots and lots of speedos.

Anyway, it was fun haha