Interstella 5555

Reviewers: G Evans, Becka
Genre: Music Movie
Sit Down, Thrown on a vynal, and sample some Item 9, and then watch this one folks. I am giving it 5 Blazing Leaves up on this one. This animated instrumental masterpiece plays along with the tune of Daft Punks visionary album Discovery. Each track is a short episodic animation.

Becka’s Review of Number 7.
her shoes were cool.

The lead female chacacter is an interesting mix of damsel-in-distress and powerfully
brave female, Her admirer-lover male-lead character is the hero of the piece who saves
the band from the Mental and Artistic Slavery under the villian of the piece. Their love
for each other is the most interesting part of the movie. In most stories where any type
love is depicted, it is the focus of the story. In this movie though it is a extremely
powerful and emotional tragic sidenote of the piece.
It is also interesting because it is introduced in the beginning in then it is sprung quickly
back apon you 7 or 8 songs in.

text is bothersome to becka’s braiin

In this piece the, for lack of a better term, costumes on the characters are interesting to me. The color themes are quite specific at times, the white of the main female characters dress in the hero’s fantasys with her in them symbolize her innocence and a romantic marriage of the two souls.
The history section of the story tells of a prophecy to take over the universe through the talent of countless other musical geniuses of the alternative universe which is the backdrop for the entire story. The band depicted is the 555 musical geniiuss to be harnessed in the 5th section of the book. (5555 from the title) In the depiction of the journey we recognize aliens being turned in characters like Mozart, Mama Cass, Jimi Hendrix and a few others that I recognize by look but can’t name.

In case you were wondering this has been thus far written over 4 different days. The whole meaning behind the beautiful universe depicted as the 4 main characters home land is this theme of music can form a beautiful world and has such an important role in our everyday lives. The action of our earth in our current universe in banding together to get this musical gift back where it belongs is a nice image of our humanity. Interesting in how much our human nature values its sensory pleasures. The cult characters portrayed at the end of the movie are extremely tragic characters.

Becka just brought up a good point that the 11 song is quite different from the others. She thinks that it is a bit less fantastical than the others. think there is an interesting distinction between each song. Each song has a different message to portray. 12 is interesting because it is one of the only songs that has full verses of words. This is probably because everything is revealed to the characters in one song. It is a very informational/action packed episode.

12 also reveals the name of the band is AAPEGIUS. In a very quick split second that unless you are looking for it or have watched in 7 times like I have you would miss it.

Becka:
For me the first 10 videos have been airy and almost space feeling. This video for me is to grounded. And I think the lyrics are screwing me up. Im trying to find the meaning in the lyrics and not paying attention to the vid..

13 part 1

Gary: dark side of the moon Is interesting

The band is such an essential part of the world it is almost as if the characters are the life force of the planet that its people worship and embrace. We see in the end their lasting effect on their short visit to our planet representing how music is an influential force. The end is quite shocking and different. Unexpected but completely appropriate. Overall this movie is a seamless done musical study of the effect that music has in our entire universe and is something worth watching under the effect of Item 9 or just watching with friends or hell even a parent if you can get them through it. It is downloaded in its entirety to youtube.com but I would recommend watching it on DVD. Interstella 5555 is a musical journey that is compelling, rich, and meaniful story worth viewing.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Directed by: David Yates

Written by: Steven Kloves

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and every other actor that currently resides in England. Seriously.

If there was an Academy Award for best Harry Potter adaptation, David Yates would win it, hands down. It's not because he tried to stay as true to the book as possible, incorporating as much of the action and dialogue as he could, because that would be close to impossible. An exact adaptation of the 672 page novel would run approximately 5 hours, something that the short attention span of America could not tolerate. However, Yates and Steve Kloves, the screenwriter, wove a tale of brevity (as much as can be had with a Harry Potter movie) and beauty that made those two and a half hours fly (It helped that I missed all the previews. THAT shit pisses me off).
Visually, the movie was stunning. Hogwarts, as always, was masterfully presented as a mysterious and epic, ever-shifting and endless castle. This was accented by transitions into the Penseive (the bowl that Harry dunks his head into), that were thrilling to watch. The mood created by the cinematography was futher developed by a moving score that rose and fell with the action, subtly envoking tons of shit. Can't even describe it all right now. But take my word for it. It was epic.
Anyways, onto the acting. When did Ginny get hot? Holy shit....I'm glad she was in it a lot. And I'm not even going to discuss Emma Watson. You're thinking it, I'm thinking it, lets move on. Thank you.
I love how this review started out so seriously, and now look what I've done. As I started out saying, the concise nature of the movie was brilliant. The movie said nothing, yet everything at the same time. The story was furthered greatly, giving insight to Voldemort's past and the key to defeating him. But it took so fucking long to explain. But it didn't seem like that long. Yates just mind-fucked the hell out of me, and I loved every minute of it. And Ginny. And Hermoine. Not Ron. Go see it

- Reviewed by Greg Parker

Apocalypse Now

Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, and Laurence Fishburne

Written by: John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola. (based on the novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad)

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

I'm scared.

Transformer's 2: Revenge of the Fallen

Starring: Shia Lebeouf, Meghan Fox, Josh Duhamel,

and Tyrese Gibson.

Writers: Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Ehren

Kruger.

Director: Michael “Mothafucka” Bay

I’m proud to announce the extremely fitting Transformers 2 as the inaugural entry on Guanga Cinematic.com. I recently went to see this film under the influence of an extremely potent cookie. Now I never liked Transformers. My freshman roommate and I actually got into a massive fight because I refused to watch anymore after Shia Lebeouf stated, “In fifty years when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to say that you had the guts to get in the car.” Blah! That was me puking on myself in case you were wondering. However after watching the new one last night, I finally get it. I left stating to myself, that movie was horrible. It lacked any kind of human characters, contained stilted dialogue, and was one of the most punishing movies I had ever watched, yet I loved every second of it. (Quick question before I begin though. Where the hell was Anthony Anderson? I mean Scorcese gets it. It’s not a movie until you get Anthony Anderson.)

Michael Bay’s makes the ridiculous mistake of never knowing when to say stop. Everything about this movie was 10X bigger than it should’ve been. The action was 10X too much. The colors were 10X too bright, and the sound was 10X times too loud. The small house attack that happens ten minutes into the movie results in half the Witwicky’s house being blown up. Optimus Prime was 10X too badass. Meghan Fox was 10X too hot. Both which I was actually totally ok with. The comic bits were taken 10X too far. I mean Shia Lebeouf’s mom eats a goddamned pot brownie on move in day. The CGI was 10X too good. The robot fights were tough too watch because they had nothing to focus on. Colors moved so fast I struggled to understand what was happening. That also might have just been a result of the cookie. I mean I actually zoned out for like five minutes. Does anybody else know how Megatron and Optimus’ fight ended up in the woods, cause I don’t. But I digress.

Acting was top-notch terrible. Of course who can do a good job when Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Ehren Kruger are writing incredibly stilted and stereotypical dialogue for you. And Michael Bay’s asking you to deliver the lines to a fucking giant imaginary robot warrior, all while the buildings are exploding around you? Who indeed. Well the answer to that question in Shia Lebeouf. That’s right, the movie is so terrible and flawed that Shia Lebeouf is the goddamned standout. Maybe I was just really high, but for once in my life I actually found Shia Lebeouf’s nonstop ranting kind of funny and welcoming. All the other actor’s do a reasonable job. Even the actor portraying Galloway, Michael Bay’s thinly veiled attack at liberals, is bearable.

The editing greatly helps the actor’s job, cramming drama and emotion down our throat. Sam’s fight with his father at the climax of the movie was so emotional, thanks to the music and pace of the scene. Forced as it may have been I was moved. But then again I suppose maybe that was Michael’s Bay’s concept. “Let’s rape the fuckers!” Well let’s just say, the movie reminded me of extremely hard sex. It was dirty, painful, exhausting, and I hated myself for loving the racist robots that were voiced by the same guy as Spongebob Squarepants. But I loved every second of it, and I would do it again any day of the week. And if you’re still not convinced, they drop a 2 ton silhouetted alien robot carcass out of a moving Cargo Plane 100 feet in the air with the most American music I’ve ever heard playing in the background.