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Gravitation (1999)
A common misconception.
A common misconception about Gravitation is that if you are a male, you have to be gay or bi to enjoy it. This isn't true. The relationship between Shindo and Yuki is only half of it - the music is also a huge part, and it's very good. The voice acting is excellent, especially by the last few episodes. Just don't watched the dubbed version. The "gay" part is VERY tame (especially compared to the manga).
Though the storyline gets off the track of the original manga, it basically stays on track, even though some of the characters have different parts (in the manga, Noriko comes in way before K-san and has a much bigger part, the scene with Aizawa Taki is a lot more drawn out and intense, et cetera). The ending to the anime is well done and it doesn't seemed rushed or dissatisfying. This is good not only for people who like shounen-ai, but people who like a lot of colour and Japanese club music.
Hakkyousuru kuchibiru (2000)
This is not a horror movie.
Don't pay attention to the comments on the front of the cover: This is most definitely not a horror movie. In fact, I don't think it has a genre.
When I picked this movie up, I expected to be scared. Instead, I was mildly disgusted, mildly amused, and mostly disappointed. If you like cheap, tasteless humour, then you'll like this. People say it's bizarre, but all they did was try to see how many shocking things they could put in an hour and twenty minutes. It almost reminds me of hentai (Anime porn), since nearly every time they rape one of the girls, they end up liking it. The necrophilia/anal rape scene was probably the worst. It was fairly pointless. If this film had a plot, it wouldn't fit.
The funniest thing about this film was probably Lucy. That and the fact that every character was randomly a martial arts expert at the end. I wish I were that skilled with a heavy axe. Just when you think one character is sane and has a personality (the main character), she spits out "Nii-san (brother), I'm pregnant with your child!" All together, this is both a failed attempt at humour and horror. If you do decide to get it, don't expect a plot or anything. This is nothing like Takashi Miike or any other thing you've probably seen.
Elephant (2003)
A waste of time.
I think America does a good job with movies based on real events, so I was looking forward to watching Elephant. I was incredibly bored. Many of you are saying that people who are bored did not look deep enough into the film to see that it wasn't based on character development and that it was portraying a realistic day in High School, but I do realize that. What you all don't understand is that a story needs characters or it is nothing (as Elephant was), and nobody wants to see a realistic day of American High School. It is boring, and most of you live it, so why watch it through a film?
Though the shooting did have a disturbing quality, they waited too long to bring it into the movie. (And it was not disturbing enough for me to laugh at the stupidity of the students who ran in the opposite direction of the door to outside.) I came very close to taking it out before it came up. The homosexual scene in the shower was uncalled for as it had absolutely nothing to do with the slimmer of a story line that was forming and made it very clear that the director was doing nothing more than attempting to make it fit the story of the shooting at the American school Columbine.
The only memorable moment in the film is when the shooters enter the library and the boy with the camera takes a picture of them. Other than that, it is mostly watching a person's head as they walk around the school.
The director went too far with the realism of this movie (though I doubt even in America you can get a gun shipped from the Internet) and it is a waste of your time and money to watch.
I apologise for any English errors I might have made.