Movies i should have/wanted to see in 2012 that I haven't seen yet

New year, new movies to see..... but not yet. Today I'm looking back on the 2012 movies I wanted to see, but didn't. I will get around to them, later.... I promise.....

Here is my criteria for movies that make this list: 1: If I heard about them, and wanted to see them, they're on there, 2: If I heard about them and didn't want to see them, but they got an IMDB Score of 7+ they're on there, 3: If I didn't hear about them, but they got a score of 7+ on IMDB, they're on there.

Here they are:

Norwegian Wood, Once upon a time in Anatolia, The Front line, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacret star of Milos, Flowers of war, Albert Nobbs, Agneepath, Perfect Sense, Big Miracle, Chronicle, Woman in Black, Turin Horse, In Darkness, Bullhead, Let the bullets fly, Boy, Being Flynn. The Lorax, Sound of Noice, Jiro dreams of Sushi, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, John Carter, 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games, The Lady, Cabin in the woods, Monseiur Lazar, Marley, To the Arctic, Raven, Wrath of the Titans, The Avangers, The Best Exotic Marigold hotel, Dark Shadows, Battleship, Arjun, The intouchables, Moonrise Kingdom, Men in Black III, Beasts of the southern wild, People like us, Ted, The Amazing Spiderman, Ice Age Continental Drift, Ichimei, The Dark knight rises, Zhao shi gu er, Ruby Sparks, Robot and Frank, Chicken with plums, The Awakening, ParaNorman, Teddy Bear, Little White Lies, Samsara, Xiao shi de zi dan, Long men fei jia, Lawless, Keep the lights on, The Master, Resident evil Retribution, The Perks of being a wallflower, Dredd, End of Watch, Pitch Perfect, Looper, Hotel Transylvania, Wuthering Heights, English Vinglish, Argo, Cloud Atlas, Frankenweenie, Seven Psychopaths, Holy Motors, The Sessions,  The other son, Flight, Wreck-It Ralph, A Royal Affair, Lincoln, Skyfall, Anna Karenina, Silver Linings Playbook, Rust and bone, Life of Pi, Rise of the guardians, Wu xia, Talaash, Killing them softly, Amour, The Impossible, Jack Reacher, Django unchained, Les Misérables



Safe to say, I don't often go to the movies. Maybe this year.....

Looking at my movie lists

Thursday again, and I'm looking at my movie lists. They're just as out of wack as before. I have to really crack down and look at some movies. I have been busy looking at old seasons of Hell's kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares lately. And playing Xbox360. I still haven't gotten around to my Let's Play Dragon Age project.... I have to get cracking.

My Sci-Fi TV series list only has 4 entries, and only one rating. The rating is for Once Upon a Time, which I have given a 9/10. This is TOTALLY UNFAIR! I rated on the first 4 episodes, mainly to remember it existed. I have since seen about.... 10 episodes.... I have to see the rest, I have to see the rest.... *muttering*. It's on my to-do list. I did like the episodes I saw, and I am a sucker for the concept. I wouldn't be surprised if I found an old note book somewhere here with the same idea. The other series on the list, by the way, were Firefly, Battlestar Galactica and Angel.

Drama TV-Series! I have to confess, I'm not a fan of the genre. If there is nothing more to it than the drama, it doesn't interest me. which is probably why I haven't gotten around to watching Mad Men yet, one of the 3 titles on the list. the other two are House MD and Game of Thrones. Don't ask me how that is, I have no idea how I've been thinking in putting things in these lists. House at least had a rating. 9/10. Now, I haven't seen the last season, but I think it's deserving. Sherlock Holmes meets Chicago Hope. Chicago Hope was my mothers favorite hospital series. I have often thought to see it but.... have to check if I can even find it. I doubt it. My mother would have loved House. Right up her alley. Unfortunately, she died a few months before it started airing in the US and in Sweden... we're slow...

I like crime TV-series. Who doesn't? The problem with them is that they often drag on beyond their life span. CSI has seemed very tired last couple of seasons, for example. In my list all I found was Criminal Minds at 10/10, which to me is totally deserving, because I like psychology, Bones at 9/10, I like anthropology, and NCIS at 8/10, because I like... well.... Crime Series, I guess. And Abby.... goodness what a woman... I'd love to have her as a sister.

My Yaoi list is miserably short. I just couldn't find anything. Well, I found 13 of the titles, but some are only bordering yaoi. again i think it was a matter of "japanglish"... or is it "englinese".... you know, what I complained about a while ago, a Japanese movie or series with an English title, spelling it like the Japanese pronounce it, instead of what it really is called. Ok... ranting again.... *deep breath*. Anywho, 13 titles, but in the shelves.... *counting*.... 30. And not a single rating. Giving a rating right now, on what's on top of the list, Gravitation deserves and 8. Again, a yaoi title on the verge of not being yaoi, at least according to some. I don't remember any full-blown sex, anyway, but some kissing.

Now I've actually gone through all my TV-Series lists, in this post and one previous. I have realized that I have a lot of things to watch. Autumn is a perfect time to get some watching in. No I shall have chicken for dinner, for once I'm not writing blog posts at 2 in the morning.


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Let's go to the movies......

I was looking through my movie lists today, and realized that I really have to do something about them. I have a LOT of movies in my lists, and hardly any ratings. and the ratings i have is WAY out of whack. Looking in my Fantasy movie list, I saw i gave Final Fantasy Advent Children a 9/10. I don't know if that is deserving. Now, to be honest, I saw both versions in both English and Japanese, and the English version SUCK! But then I knew that it would, because i have never seen a good Japanese to English dub. (Exception: Howl's moving castle, but that's just because i love Christian Bales voice..... when he's not growling) And in the US, if you want to see it in Japanese, you're out of luck. Not that it doesn't exist, but that if you don't know Japanese all you get is DUBTITLES! Dubtitles is when they take the dub, put it on screen for you to read and pretend that it is a subtitles. There are A LOT of things they say in Japanese that they don't translate correctly, so you have NO IDEA what the hell is going on. For example they translate titles into names. For example, just in the beginning, a young woman says "sempai, hurry" (how the hell do you translate "sempai" into English anyway?) and the translation for the dubtitles goes: "Reno, hurry". It messes the flow up for me when I see things like that. Now, my own Japanese isn't great, not even good, but that's just lame. Even I hear that she says Sempai and not Reno. And look at that, we're only 3 minutes and 33 seconds into the Complete version. This is fun! Wonder what more we can find! Nah, not doing that today. Anywho.

FFAC is probably not a film that would hold up on its own. I cant tell, because I dealt with BC CC and DC as well as FF7, so I know where they are, where they come form and so forth. (And yes, those are the REAL acronyms for the games; Before Crisis, Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus) FFACComplete miiight be able to stand alone, as it has more screentime and develops Cloud a little more. Oh, those names! Cloud... No, not Curaudo..... Cloud.... What is it with the english speaking people and wanting to NOT translate Japanese. Calling Cloud Curaudo or, for that matter, Death Note Desu nôto, is, in my humble opinion, DISRESPECTFUL! Clouds name is Cloud even if you can't pronounce it! And a Death Note is a Death Note... So, btw, if you dont find an anime on the big great database, try sounding it out and write what it sounds like i Japanese and not what it actually is named..... Blue Exorcist took me an hour to find.....

Where was i...? Oh, yes.... FFACComplete. This is a fan service orgasm, that's for sure. I'm not really supposed to be reviewing it, at least not today. Let me just say that if you're a fan of the franchise or just of reaaaally good 3d animation, take a look. I love the bike scenes..... and the fighting scenes.

As I said, i gave this a nine, but I'll push it down a notch. As a movie, it has problems standing on it's own. Or maaaybe i should give it a ten, just for Sephiroth. And as my own avatar is Vincent..... *Final Fantasy Fan Girl Mode Activated*



On to my Cartoon TVseries list, I find that I DON'T HAVE A SINGLE RATING! What's wrong with me, am I too busy, or......? Now, I separated Cartoons, meaning mostly Disney toons, and animé, or this list would have been HUGE. One exception; The Moomin animé from 1990. I think the reason it ended up among the "Cartoons" instead of the "Animé" is simply that it was aired on Swedish and Finish television when i was a kid and there was a total of 4 tv channels in sweden. Ok, not strictly true, if you had a satellite disc you had like a gazillion. but no one in my neighborhood had that. So when i was i kid we had 2 channels public service + Finnish YLE and, a bit later Swedish TV4. Ranting again..... *deep breath*. So Moomin was actually an animé, and i don't think ANYONE is aware of this. Simply because we never thought of it as kids, or rather, weren't aware that such a concept existed. The general understanding in Sweden was either it's 2d animation, or it's live action. That was all knowledge of movie making we had. Exception., of course, the movie buffs. Now, I've always loved Moomin, I grew up with the books and the animé and that scary Christmas Calendar. Not scary for any other reason than it was live action, big people in big costumes and for some reason it scared the sh!t out of me. Maybe because they had to make the people wear big costumes as well... I mean, if humans have to wear human costumes, something is just wrong. Anywho, one thing I don't like about the cartoon is that in Japan it's 1 SEASON LONGER! What happened, guys? Why didn't you dub that last season and air it in Sweden? Well, too late now, and I have still to find it in Japanese. Giving this series a score is kinda hard, and almost unfair. I haven't seen the whole series, partly because of that last season, partly because i haven't seen all episodes that actually aired. And i don't want to buy the Swedish DVD releases, because they're totally out of order. you know, it's the kind of release where they throw a few episodes on a DVD that are not cohesive and one of the episodes are actually a two-parter, but only the last part is on the DVD..... or worse, the FIRST.... and its like episode 1 29 37 and 40 or something... I hate it when they do that. And they will never ever ever release a whole season in a box, because then they wouldn't make any money or something. RCP sounds like a good idea on this point....


Ok, third and last for today, or this will drag on forever, my animé TV-series list..... And the first thing i see is: Vanpaja naito.... gah, it sounds like a cartoon about some scary circus clowns. Scary pretty like the jigsaw puzzle i have waiting for me, Misty Circus Carousell. No, the animé, and the manga it's based on is called VAMPIRE KNIGHT! See, much cooler, you get an idea what it is about, it doesn't sound like a two year old translated it. Moving on... I notice that this list has no ratings either. I could rate Vampire knight, but.... I think I want to see it again before I do. So I don't mix it up with other vampire things I've been watching. And ANYONE saying the word TWILIGHT out loud gets shot by Zero. There! Looking down this list, I realize there are no yaoi on it, but it turns out i'm just forgetful. I have a YAOI LIST. Yay me. Wonder how long it took me to get all that on a list. Crosschecking, most of the titles on the yaoi list miiiight have been able to go on the animé list, as the titles i apparently found was rather tame, on the shounen-ai end of the yaoi scale, but still yaoi. I don't really know what else to say about my animé list, mainly because there were a lot of titles i haven't finished watching. I mean, ok, i got sailor moon, i got Vampire Knight and Black Butler and Death Note and hack.//SIGN, but I'm watching a bunch of others, so it's hard to keep things apart sometimes in my messy brain.

Ok, as usual a long-ass rant about things no one knows, and now i'm tired. I'll go through three more lists in a week....


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Confessions of a Female Otaku....

Yeah, yeah, yeah..... I confess....

1: I'm not a blogger. I hate blogging. Ok, HATE is such a strong word, but still. I'm just not good at it. Which is probably why this blog hasn't had any update in like a month. I mean, what do people blog about anyway? To me, it seems like the blog topics, at least for women, are clothes and feelings and clothes and family and clothes and children and clothes and food and clothes and the occasional movie review and clothes.... ok, fashion....Me, I hate clothes, uh, I mean, fashion, clothing stores, even on the internet, gives me panic attacks. I cant blog about children and family, cause I have none of those, all I really have is my ototo and  onee-chan (honorary family member), and a very small number of friends that are busy with lives of their own. And feelings, well.... I've never kept a diary, EVER! I hate writing about my own feelings, maybe because all I ever dealt with was my parents feelings about my mother getting breast cancer when I was eight. Don't take me wrong, I love my mother. She died waaaay to young. Food.... well, everyone needs food... so, maybe some food blogging... yaoi-related, of course. Is it just me, or are people in manga always eating? Or talking about food, or cooking? Movies.... ok, I'm not a movie critic.... usually, I like movies others hate, or at least dislike. For example, take a look at the movies that got a 10 from me at the big great database... (In no perticular order):  Fanny och Alexander, The Fellowship of the Ring, Schindler's List, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, The Lion King, The Return of the King, The Green Mile, Beauty and the Beast, Rosemary's baby.  Inconsistent? Very. Good movies? Very. All deserving a ten? According to the sites rating, no.... closest we get is Schindler's List and  The Return of the King with an 8,9 tie, Closely followed by the Fellowship at 8.8. Honorary big fail mention: Queen of the Damned which I gave a 3.... and the audience:  4,9. My rating movies seems to be in the 6-10 span rather than 1-10.... I gave Bambi 2 an 8 for heavens sake... something is wrong with me.... Also, I have a hard time focusing on the movie itself, as I am one to Loooove source material and side material. and for that reason, i actually happen to kinda like the Star Wars Episode 1 movie. So, shoot me! I see where they're coming from and what they're going for, because i read all the books around the move. I even read the book The Phantom Menace. Sure, it was written with screen play in hand, but in my humble opinion, Terry Brooks did a good job with it.Ok, ok, ranting movies.... moving on....

2: This is supposed to be a fan fiction yaoi blog, but you know what? Well see what happens with that. Fact is, I write by HAND in a NOTEBOOK..... ok, like 20 notebooks, but whatever. I simply think better when lying in bed at two in the morning, wonder what time it is and why I'm not sleeping yet. Same way i take my books, thank you very much. So having too write things twice.... meh! Maybe, well see... But I'm always thinking about doing it. Yeah, I hear you! "Why not just write on the computer, you obviously have one." Well, the reason for that is that IT'S NOT A LAPTOP! I cant have my stationary computer in bed with me, too cumbersome. I am thinking about buying a laptop for the soul purpose of writing on it, but that seems like an unnecessary cost, especially when one's not as rich as one wishes.

3: I'm a nerd... Ok, that we already knew.... let's see.... Oh, yes! I AM NOT A BLOGGER! And on top of that, I have no sense of aesthetics. This will never be a pretty blog, unless someone takes pity on me and helps me out. And that's not likely to happen. EVER! *Cries a little.* Anywho, I guess it is what it is. I don't really care anymore. I've surrendered to the fact that i can barely draw a stick figure, but that's it. That's where my skills in the fine arts end. I can write and I can sing *she confessed reluctantly*, but that's it.I FAILED art class when I was in school (Swedish equivalent to junior high). I mean... who FAILS art? Honestly? Ok, there was this whole other thing going on in my life making me not care, but WTF, if you excuse the language. So, now you know why this blog looks like it does.... and yea, I also have no camera, not even on my cell phone, cause that phone is from the last millennium. I'm not kidding. It's from 1999.... or 2003, but still!

Now I'm done ranting. I'm going to kick of my two big new projects that are probably going to last for a year or so, IF I really do it. I'm going to do my very own "Let's play..." series with the crap video games others has already done... but through the eyes of a girly yaoi otaku of course. First out: Dragon Age! All of them....  Secondly, and this I have been on a while, making VERY slow process: I'm going to read EVERY SINGLE book I own. Even the once I inherited from my grand-mom. Even the once I inherited from my grand-mom that are in Hungarian! Nah, skip those, it's mostly tourist book over museums that don't exist anymore anyway. The 1960's come and gone loooong ago.... I wasn't even born then. First out among those? I have NO IDEA, we'll see once I've blogged about the once I've already read.


And in the immortal words of Pippi Longstocking: Please leave now. If you don't go home today, you can't come back tomorrow.