Fuck yes! Finally something to look forward to

It looks like a good one too! granted, there's been real bad Lupin movies/OAVs in the past ("Return of the Magician" springs to mind), but those are rare and few.

The newer movies have in fact been really good, I'm hoping this will be as good as "Episode 0: First Contact", a special from 2002 which was rather well done.

Can't get the movie "Virus" out of my head...

A while back, we had Virus on TV. It's a 1999 movie with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland.

I'll try to make the plot real short:

Just after encountering a typhoon, a down on his luck tugboat captain comes across a huge russian ship that would be worth millions in salvage parts. As they board the ship, they become trapped on it and realize it's being controlled by an alien entity that is mass producing robots and cyborgs, and wants to use humanity for spare parts.

The rest of the movie is about the crew trying to not get killed and sink the ship, while the captain makes a deal with the alien and both try to stop the crew.

"Anyone with common sense would never walk in here, but that's why I'm captain."

It's a bad movie. If you check the wiki page for it, Jamie Lee Curtis says it's the worse piece of shit she's ever been involved in and did the movie for braggin rights. That's how bad it is.

I've seen the movie on TV a couple of times, and something always bothers the living crap out of me:

Donald Sutherland's character, the captain, is motivated by greed, but he's calm though the movie, way too calm seeing as they're chased by killer robots and cyborgs. You can see the gears turning in his head, he's constantly trying to figure out how to make a profit out of the situation. Granted the character seems mentally retarded at parts trying to deny the obvious, but that's movies for ya.

"Oh that's neat, all you need now is a head for that"

So this is what he does: He contacts the alien, tells it he will help and all he wants is to bring the ship safely to a port. And then lets the alien decapitate him and stick his body on a cyborg made with the torso of a russian crew member.

I'm sorry, what? What part of that plan even seems good?

And when you see the cyborg captain later on attacking his former crew, he seems very happy about the change, even sorta gloating. One could question that the Alien just forced him into it and he's had no choice, but because of that scene, I'm forced to believe he actually thinks that was a good idea and most likely was all for it.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for my genitals, have you seen them?"

The reasons that bothers me are obvious, but here goes:

• THIS WAS A PLAN THAT INVOLVED HAVING YOUR HEAD CUT OFF!
• From the start, the movie establishes that the captain is in debt and really needs money somehow, but from the point he becomes a cyborg, didn't he realize he couldn't re-enter society?
• Let's even assume he wasn't turned into a cyborg, how would he collect money while the human race is butchered by this alien for spare parts? what would he do with money then? would it make any difference?
• HIS FUCKING HEAD! SLICED OFF FROM HIS BODY!
• Forget the rest of his body, would a man really wanna go through any plan that involves losing his genitals?
  

I find it almost funny that he still has his hat on, nice touch.

The rest of a movie is always a blur to me as i spend the entire time confused as to what could possibly be the captain's motivation.

I just had to rant about this, It's been on my mind for days.

"New Fist of the North Star"

So yesterday i finally found out what the Hokuto no ken movies i hadn't seen were called. they're from 2004 and were called "new fist of the north star". 3 OVA movies 1 hour long each.

Events takes place after the 2nd series, and maybe because of that there really isn't anything that feels important about it. Kenshiro's pretty much just wandering around doin what he does, and that's it.

Kenshiro saves a guy, ends up being involved etc etc...

Art is nice, kills are excessively detailed and graphic, everything looks good, but personally i kept having the feeling it was just another Monday for Kenshiro, he barely seemed to care about the events himself.

Only thing a fan would enjoy is the brief fights Kenshiro is involved in, and how they have 2 variants of hokuto shinken in it and explain it by saying that they could had been created by candidates to b the heir of hokuto shinken who weren't chosen, had their "fists sealed", but still retained enough knowledge to teach part of the art to others. A variant is used for medicine, and the other for fighting.

I think that's the first time that it's addressed what happens to people who don't become the heir, but seems that as soon as they address it they find that it's been done twice. In the same week finding 2 variants of hokuto shinken seems pushing it.

If you're a fan, I recommend watching it once, it's not bad, just, all things considered it's meaningless.



Note to my friends, my character Brooke's anniversary is on the 30th.

Deathstalker I

I guess we do movie reviews too!

Remember Conan the Barbarian played by my governator's Arnold Schwarzenegger? Well I do and it was one of the best sword and fantasy flicks I recall seeing. However, being a lover of cheesy B-movies I picked this gem up in the bargain bin at a local video store for a dollar. Best investment ever. What or who exactly is Deathstalker?

I am glad you ask. To answer that I will go over with you the first 10 minutes of the movie.

We first begin our movie with some thug who is apparently gonna rape (a popular theme in this movie) an innocent girl. Unfortunately, this is monster territory and they want their loot and girl back. The guy pretty much gives up the girl without putting up a fight and makes a run for it. Being chased by the monster, he approaches a hut where he sees a horse and decides to steal it.

Oh shit, this dude pops out. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Deathstalker (Rick Hill). He quickly and firmly tells the thief that is his horse. And the guy apologizes. By now the monster catches up and sees Deathstalker and says that their fight is not with him. Deathstalker then, without warning, does the most logical thing.

He slaughters everyone. The last guy alive is the thief, and upon seeing what Deathstalker did begins to barter for his life.

The conversation goes something like this:

T: Thanks buddy!
D: ...
T: Erm, how about I give you half of the treasure I found?
D: ...
T: Uh, I mean you can have it all! The loot and the girl!
D: I intend to.
T: ...wait wha!

Holy mackerel! This dude just killed him! I guess he had it coming. It was his horse after all. Plus now he gets a girl and money! Win for Deathstalker!

The girl is of course terrified of Deathstalker. Who wouldn't be? The dude the massacred a group of goblin things and a thief without effort.

By now you're probably thinking. This dude is a hero just like Conan or the Beastmaster. Well I can definitely tell you he is not. Here he is putting his rape face on. That's right folks, Deathstalker is gets his game going and the girl seeing how futile it is to resist just goes along with it.
That is until this old geezer pops up and interrupts his fantasy sword swinging skills. Irritated Deathstalker asks what the old man wants. "Your name!" he coughs up.

This guy just murdered a bunch of living things, is proceeding to screw this chick, and this old man has the nerve to interrupt his session? I thought Deathstalker was going to kill the dude, but instead he just tells him to wait outside while he finishes polishing his newly acquired treasure.

Seeing an opportunity because the old man distracted the raping brute, the girl manages to slip away. Deathstalker decides not to pursue out of pure laziness.

Outside we meet this king sitting in the middle of a forest. WTF right?

Well Deathstalker thought the same thing and says to the effect that what kind of king does not even have a castle or an army. Even Munkar has a castle. "But Munkar was my magician!". "Whatever" thinks Deathstalker. The king then tells Deathstalker that he needs to get back his castle and position. Deathstalker tells him he needs an army and the one he currently has, Munkar could wipe out by just pissing on them. The king then proclaims that they need a man. Deathstalker scaffolds and states he needs a fool. Debating against him, the king replies that he needs a hero. DUN DAHN DUNNNNNN. In a last sales pitch, the king also claims that Munkar has his daughter.

With a douche attitude and real-life thinking, Deathstalker gives "Oh well sucks to be you" speech. And then Deathstalker leaves. That's right. HE LEAVES.

That's the first 10 minutes!


Deathstalker eventually does heads to Munkar's castle but not in accord to the king, but for two selfish reasons: (1) He gets more boobies and (2) he becomes ultimate power. That's it. He also joins up with three other companions.

Oghris (Richard Brooker) who is completely gay even though he sleeps with women. I mean look at his vest armor! It would be less gay if he was shirtless. There is even a scene where he fights his "friend" Deathstalker in the bedroom...literally!

Salmaron(Augusto Larreta) is perhaps the most compassionate useless companion, but he does give Deathstalker his sword which makes him invincible. He eventually gets some 'action' as well.

Kaira (Lana Clarkson) is my favorite of the companions. She's a warrior women who, for most of her short screen time, battles bare chested. Not only that she stakes Darkstalker as her own personal sex object, but she also can kick some serious butt. It really is a shame that she dies pretty quickly, however she gets her own spin off The Barbarian Queen.

Ending Spoiler:
It would be dumb to say that this is a spoiler because the movie is just darn old (1983). But Deathstalker eventually confronts Munkar and takes the items that gives him power so he may become the power. However, in a strange and out of character moment Deathstalker gives up all the power and destroys the items including his super sword. Munkar is still alive and crying like a baby. Now in most cases the hero would finish off the villian, but Deathstalker is no hero. Instead we see him snap back into character and lets the town folk kill Munkar for themselves. Deathstalker just watched and did not show any real reaction. And that is how it ends, but not for the series. Nope. Instead we are given 3 more Deathstalker sequels.

Movie verdit: Do watch!

Suspention of sense of disbelief

So I'm sick and watching TV, and i caught "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" like maybe 10-15 mins in, Also known as Jurassic Park 2.

When people watch a movie like that, they need to suspend their sense of disbelief in order to immerse into the movie's plot and world. I've seen the first Jurassic Park, i could that for most of that movie, but the Lost World? no, i couldn't.

It wasn't the special effects, i was kinda OK with those for most of the time. In fact, most of the time i can't suspend my sense of disbelief in a movie was the reason i couldn't do it in this one: Rampant illogical stupidity.

No i'm not just bitching as usual, i want you guys to consider this.

In movies there's stupid actions, reactions and decisions that are plausibility stupid, in the case of the lost world there are a couple of situations that would fit into that, such as:

• In a scene a T-Rex silently sneaks into a camp of around 30 people, and starts sniffing a vest inside a tent (you know... that does sound pretty fucking implausible...), Jeff Goldblum's character, Dr. Ian Malcolm, sees this, but pretty much stands still as to not alert him. the part that seems plausible is when one of the hunters/mercenaries wakes up, sees the rex on the other side of camp, and screams his head off. It's dumb as fuck, but i could see someone doing that.
• This is the scene right after the guy screams, everyone gets up startled by the screaming idiot, and all decide to start running all over the place to look more appetizing to the T-Rex. In fact i think they all actually started running right after Dr. Ian Malcolm told them "Don't run" or "Don't move".

You would think that if u take a group of armed men in a jungle on a remote island infested with dinosaurs, you'd take well trained soldiers, if not, you'd at least teach these fuckers the basics?

But u know what, it's dumb, but i could sort of accept that it could happen, but there's limits:

- Displays of abysmal stupidity

Death by Latino Walkman
In a scene where the group takes a break in the jungle, a guy goes take a dumb, he lets know another guy where he's going, as the camera turns, we see the guy he talked to has a headset on and is listening to a Walkman. Seriously? In a jungle full of dinosaurs is when that guy thinks it's appropriate to listen to generic Hispanic greatest hits? wouldn't you want to, oh, i dunno, be aware of your surroundings so that you don't get eaten? It's not like he was in the middle of the group either, he was alone in an edge!

Oh and the guy who talked to him ended up dying cause when he called for help, the idiot obviously didn't hear.

Dr. Sarah Harding.
There's this scene that just made me facepalm. i caught the movie at the point Dr. Sarah Harding, for god knows what reason, kidnaps a T-Rex baby to treat it's leg. Why? i don't know but she's not very smart as you'll see. The baby gets some blood on her vest, They're attacked by 2 T-Rexes that push their vehicles off the cliff and our heroes survive by "not very believable" luck. Then there's this convo between Dr. Sarah Harding and some geek from the hunting group about how T-Rexes can smell blood from miles away. And they all Move out.

The next day, she walks around with the bloody vest all day, the leader of the hunting group notices blood on the leaves from brushing against Dr. Sarah Harding's vest and calls a break, and actually asks her if she's ok, and she actually says it's not her blood, it's the baby's blood. The leader of the hunting group nods and is ok with that. Let's say it wasn't even the baby's blood, is it really ever a good idea to leave a trail of blood behind u in any jungle?

"Blood? oh that's ok, it's a plot device to get more people killed."

What kills me is how surprised she is when the T-Rex sneaked in her tent in the middle of the night to smell the vest, and ONLY then she's like "OH SHIT! THE BLOOD!". This isn't like, she didn't have time to think about it, she had literally 24 hours to consider that the blood would attract the T-Rexes, She couldn't had been distracted all day, and the subject was fucking brought up! SHE BROUGHT IT UP FIRST!

At that point i was just calling bullshit on all the crap happening to them, She went to college, she has an education, she's smart. So how can she b so stupid? As you watch the movie u just know that's gonna come back to kick them in the ass, and u had like 5 mins to figure out that, she had 24 hours and it never occurred to her or anyone that knew about that.

Snake? Snake??? SNAKE!!!
This is just... ugh...

Ok, there's this scene where a few remaining guys managed to run from the T-Rex, they're hiding under a waterfall, the Rex is poking his head in barely not reaching them although he does manage to lick Dr. Sarah Harding, and a guy notices a snake that just finished slipping inside his shirt.

I'm not even gonna ask where the snake came from, let's assume that the snake was somehow hanging from the wet rock surface of the underside of the waterfall, when the guy realizes the snake got in his shirt, he immediately runs out straight towards the T-Rex's mouth. in a fucking straight line too, not panicking or turning upon himself, fucking ran out and straight into the T-Rex.

I'd scared of snakes too, but i think if i had a T-Rex in front of me, I'd b more afraid of the T-Rex.

Let's wait for it to crash into us

So later in the movie they capture a T-Rex and decide to bright it to San Diego. Just saying that makes it sound like a terrible idea. Anyway, the ship the Rex is in is not responding and heading towards the peer at really high speed. 2 things bother me with that scene, but it'll start with the stupidity.

They have the ship on the radar, they know it's coming in too fast, chances of it crashing into the fucking harbor are like 90%, and what do they do? they don't warn anyone and stare into the fog.

I'm sorry, what? that's like knowing there's a train coming out of a tunnel, knowing how far it is, and still standing in front of the fucking tunnel in disbelief until you see it come out. It's too stupid to be accepted as plausible human behavior.

I'll catch that baby T-Rex with my bare damn hands!
so by the end of the movie, Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Sarah Harding are trying to lure the Rex back tot he ship using the baby as lure when Peter Ludlow, who knew about this plan (and if he didn't, honestly, anyone with half a brain would had figured it out), sees them running past his car, and goes chase after them on foot. they run to the ship's cargo bay, ditch the baby there, and jump in the water.

Peter however decides to ignore all concerns for his own life and goes try to catch a fucking baby Rex unharmed and by himself. That by itself already sounds like not a good idea but when u remember that there's an adult looking for that baby, it really seems like he didn't plan this at all.

"There's an adult T-Rex after this baby, I'm going to chase the baby so i get eaten!"

I'm surprised no one blames Dr. Sarah Harding for anything. like 75% deaths are her fault.

Aside from all the stupidity, there was a lot of stuff that just didn't seem right...

- Displays of  "how the fuck?"

Let's wait for it to crash into us - part 2 - wait, how the f...
Not stupidity related, but the other thing bothering me with that is that, even though the Rex is trapped in the cargo bay, he slaughtered the entire crew someone, which just baffles me, seeing as some of them were in places the damn Rex couldn't get in. i mean, no one survived, and he was still trapped, then, how?

Have u seen the inside of a ship lately? those narrow halls, everything made out of metal, it's not a fucking raft, there would had been places to hide from the damn thing. i want to know how the T-Rex got the cook! srly! was everyone out for a smoke at the same time by the cargo bay?

No, they're weren't all, cause we see the dismembered hand of the captain still on the wheel, so at least the captain wasn't out for a smoke, but how did the Rex get him? If his arm is still there, that means that either he saw the Rex coming for him and did not move, or it was a fucking sneak attack again. But he was inside the ship! the structure of the ship is still intact and the still trapped Rex couldn't had possibly fit though the tiny door!

It's like i passed out and missed 5 hours of movie time.

Puddle shake!
Not stupidity related either, but there's a Rex loose in the city, and somehow, no one in the city notices it, damn those things are so sneaky...


Solid Rex sneaks into a backyard looking for water, and it finds a pool, what ticked me off in this scene was how in the entire movie, a Rex far away, walking slowly does the trademark wavy impact thing on all water surfaces, be it a glass of water, a puddle, or anything like that. in this scene where the Rex is going for the pool, the pool's water does not respond at all.

It really kills it for me when the visual and sound effects don't seem to match and/or have the effect they would in real life.

Run Ian, Run!
Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Sarah Harding run off with the the baby and in the scene they ditch the car, the T-Rex was awfully close, spitting range close. Yet somehow,by the next scene, they outrun it by miles and the Rex is nowhere to be seen! same Rex which in an earlier scene caught up with a moving bus.

It takes around 3 full minutes for the Rex to reach the ship after Jeff Goldblum carrying a huge baby dino did. Just how fast and fit is Goldblum?

Paper Shortage

Yeah, I'm currently out of the white stuff, so Tof suckered me into playing "Pictionary", which I guess is Portuguese for "force Zach to draw random stuff with a mouse because he has no paper". So look! Slimer!


Oh lord. The less said about this the better...But it could've been worse...

...And now weird, disproportionate Bunnygirl Daisy. Before anyone blames me for having some stupid bunny-girl fetish, please go play Super Mario Land 2 and get the carrot. I had good reason for doing this, numbskulls.

Highlander - the search for vengeance

just a cool anime movie i saw recently on TV.



actually found all of it uploaded on Youtube, made a playlist for it.

It caught my attention instantly cause i recognized the art as being from the same guys who did "Vampire hunter D: bloodlust", and possibly "Ninja scroll". The quality of the art and animation alone make me want to watch anything these people do.

Sorry i haven't been posting much, but I'm finishing up my internship. it all ends on Thursday.

"There she is" series by SamBakZa

Many many people are familiar with the 1st flash movie of this series.

It's about how a lil rabbit girl falls in love with a cat boy, and how their society is against inter-species relationships.

The author, SamBakZa, meant the first movie to b the only one originally, but it grew and evolved into this mini series.

Click pic for direct link to the movie page

Part of my interest in this series was from the fact that i also was going for a sort of "taboo love because of society" deal with Tof and Bliss, and this reflected a lot of what i wanted to do. I could never pull it off that well to be honest, so i admire these movies.

I had seen the first and 2nd movie years ago, i was a lil surprised when i happened to browse Newgrounds and by chance look at a link that mentioned the finale of the series. I had not seen 3, 4 and 5.

I must say this is a work of art, there's a plot running along the last 3 movies that gets pretty dark and dramatic, and even though not a single word is spoken through all the movies, this feel well written and produced.

A must see, i highly recomend it to anyone.

My most horrid nightmare given form

No words can express the horror...

All that i held sacred has been crushed and destroyed... a King of Figthers movie... My soul is bleeding...

The horror...

Librarian are the Shiznacks.

Let me get this straight: I do not watch too much television, but once in a while I might flip through some of the other channels and get something nice to watch. Normally I avoid the Turner Network Television TNT because there is nothing really good on that network, but one day I happened to stumble upon a cheesy ass movie called The Librarian. Now the first thing that popped into my head was Indian Jone Clone, but upon watching it, I fell for the quirkiness the show brings. To sum it up real quick for those who do not know the movie series, the main character Flynn (Noah Wyle) becomes the Librarian whose job is to protect and seek rare magical artifacts. The story is pretty much standard fare: Guy meets girl, bad guys, some kind of doom, resolution, kissing scene. Standard but good fun watching.

I had missed the airing of the second movie, but I got it on DVD. It was not as good as the first one, but most things are not better than the sequel. Then upon random chance when Liz's cat Mr. Pickles stepped on the remote it changed to TNT and long behold an ad for the third one was shown! All I can tell without going online is that Noah Wyle, Bob Newhart, and Jane Curtin reprises their roles. I'm not going to read about the story because, well it's a silly fictional world with movie twisted logic...but in the end that is what makes it entertainment.

http://www.tnt.tv/movies/librarian/

Coraline

For those of you who do not know me, I'm a huge fan of traditional animation. While the new 3d CG ones from Pixar, Dreamworks Animation (Kung Fu Panda), and Walt Disney Animation Studios (Bolt) are fun to watch, there's something inherently more compelling about traditional works such as hand 2d animation and stop motion. I personally think that because of time constraints on drawing and stop motion it gives writers more time to flesh out and make the story that much better, but that is not always the case (just pick any pokemon movie).

I'm excited as I recently found out that Henry Selick (the director of Nightmare before Christmas and James and The Giant Peach) is finally bringing us a new stop motion film, Coraline (that's right Coraline, not Caroline). I have been anticipating for this one for a VERY long time, ever since it's announcement years ago. None of you probably read the book by Neil Gaiman that it is based on so you can check that out as well. Currently it is schedule to release on February 6, 2009.

http://coraline.com/




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Lupin Movies - Part 2.

again, spoiler warning.

Lupin the 3rd - movie 3: Legend of the gold of Babylon

This one was PAINFUL to watch.

The animation was shit, art isn't that good, the story is ridiculous bullcrap and a lot of it felt out of character. everything in this movie felt halfassed and there's shitloads of cartoon physics, which don't really fit the Lupin series.

Soon after the intro, Zenigata shows up and starts chasing Lupin on bikes through a weird giant billboard in Broadway, meanwhile the New York mafia wants Lupin dead. (yea that's how much sense it makes in the begining.)

The bike scene really set the feel of how shitty the movie was going to b, and it lasts a good 7 mins.

Meanwhile this drunk old lady called Rosetta keeps showing up randomly throughout the entire movie and sometimes starts to strip for Lupin and one time goes as far as to tell him to "take her", which makes he go "DO NOT WANT" and cling to the ceiling everytime, she keeps telling him she loves him and whatnot.

So this crazy old bitch tells him a story about the gold of Babylon and that ends up being the quest for this movie, finding the gold from Babylon. The retarded part is that they find clues and tablets about it in FUCKING NEW YORK.

The Babylon tablets in question have been found around Madison square garden.

Bunch of boring shit happens. Goemon cuts a lightning (SERIOUSLY JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT). Zenigata tails Lupin and pals with a bunch of models officer chicks. (u know what, don't try to figure it out)

Ok this is a crap story, just know that the golden tower of Babylon is under Madison square garden, the old lady was actually an alien and all the bad guys die.

do NOT watch this movie.

rating, 3 out of 20.

Lupin the 3rd - movie 4: Farewell to Nostradamus

This movie was decent. Art and animation were good again, and the story wasn't utter cockflutes.

Lupin finishes a job in brazil where he stole a huge diamond or something and hid it in a doll. while flying back, a lil girl on the plane just walks up to him and takes it! (seriously what the fuck?) Whenever Lupin tries to take it back she makes a scene by yelling he's a pedophile. So Lupin doesn't quite know how to proceed.

Turns out she's with Fujiko, and soon after, the plane is taken by terrorists. A bunch of crap goes on and The lil bitch is kidnapped by a dude in a chopper. She's seriously stupid as fuck...

Meanwhile a sect of Nostradamus is gaining power and influence worldwide by saying they have the book of Nostradamus, predicting event and saying only they can save people from doom.

Fujiko explains the kid is the child of a multimillionaire dude who owns the giant earth tower, which has 200 floors. Just so u get the idea, that thing has trains inside it and enough stadiums to host the Olympics and winter Olympics. it's "epic" huge.

Lupin wants to raid the vault on floor 200, but only 1 person ever made it in, his uncle Phillip.

So while Lupin is snooping around in the tower to find a way out, and falling constantly into traps, he calls it the day and prepares to visit his uncle, meanwhile Fujiko is taken by the kidnappers as well.

Anyway, Lupin gets caught and sent to the same jail his uncle is in. As soon as he arrives, he sees volunteer women from the Nostradamus sect, and surprise, Fujiko is among them. Lupin makes contact with his uncle and they plan to later exchange the info Lupin needs. However, he's killed soon after that convo.

Lupin escapes carrying his uncle unaware he's dead. Zenigata shows up and both get attacked and end up in the sea. while there, Lupin notices his uncle is dead, he takes the capsule with teh info he needed, and a fake eye as a keepsake.

Goemon and Jigen arrive in a chopper to rescue Lupin, Zenigata climbs first, as they're escaping they're being shot at and Lupin falls into the shark infested sea. They beleive him to have died.

Lupin made it to a tropical forest, a lil kid finds him and takes him to his place. a brainwashed Fujiko saves his life by getting into bed with him (his body was frozen). He finds that she's been living in a monastery with lil bitch, and he gets captured.

Jigen and Goemon look up the kidnapper who they believe is responsible for Lupin's death. they find him and Jigen had a good 10 secs to shoot him but didnt, (so cliche and lame...).

finally they reveal the kidnapper works in fact for the Nostradamus sect leader, and their goal is world domination (ugh... so cliche...), Lupin takes Fujiko and lil bitch and escapes to the amazon river.

Now starts getting stupid, the sect uses the Brazilian soccer team to plant time bombs all over the giant earth tower, the bombs being in soccer balls. they guards see them planting the damn things all around but dismiss it (wth?), Goemon freed all the soccer players from their mind controls but they had already planted all the bombs.

Nostradamus sect leader announces that the earth tower will fall (big surprise), panic is spread and the building becomes empty. Sect leader deceives lil bitch's mom to gain access to the vault, but the kidnapper betrays him and heads for the vault before him.

Gets a lil confusing at this part, but everyone gets to the vault one after another, bad guys die, tower is destroyed, lil bitch is reunited with her parents. watch the movie if u wanna know how it went.

i would had liked the movie more if that lil bitch wasn't in it at all. they try to make her look sweet halfway, but i didn't go for it.

Because u get to see Fujiko naked, I'll rate it 14 out of 20.

Lupin Movies - Part 1.

A while ago, before i started working, i had some time to kill and was in the mood to check some Lupin the 3rd movies. Some were good, some were horrible.

spoiler warning btw.

Lupin the 3rd - movie 1: the secret of Mamo

This movie was pretty good art wise, simplistic and old, but good. there's a delightful feel of vintage out of it.

however, the plot is complete bullshit...

Cutting right through most of the plot Mamo is a guy that claims to b god, threatens the world of a nuclear strike if his orders aren't followed. Lupin becomes involved when he steals the philosopher's stone which Mamo wants because it's suposed to contain the secrets of life.

Lupin ends up being chased by choppers, giant trucks, misc goons, until he is captured and taken to an island that makes no sense, it's like a greeks city with historical figures walking around such as Napoleon and Hitler. Then it's revealed that Mamo discovered cloning 10000 years ago or something, and has been cloning himself and all the historical people on the island.

Mamo plans to reset humanity by destroying it all and taking the most relevant humans with him to a planet where no one ever dies, or something like that. but he wants to take Fujiko, so Lupin gives chase and kills Mamo, only ot find out that the original Mamo is a HUGE brain in a jar mounted on top of a rocket.

Lupin eventually defeats the guy, but the story is such bullshit... might as well not watch this one.

if i had to rate it, out of 20, I'd give it a 7.

Lupin the 3rd - movie 2: The castle of Cagliostro

This is probably the best Lupin movie ever, shows a side of Lupin u wont see anywhere else.

Art is great, i dunno who the artist is but i've seen a lot of his work as a kid. It's really good and well animated stuff.

The story on this one is rather good as well, Lupin and Jigen rob a casino taking a truckload of cash, however while escaping, Lupin is able to tell the money is all fake. "Goat bills" to b exact, which come from a legendary counterfeiter suposedly in Cagliostro, a famous legend in the underworld. Lupin decides to find it.

On their way there, they see a young woman escaping some goons, they decide to help help, when Lupin saves her, he's hit on the head by a branch and falls unconscious, she leaves him a ring and starts running as a boat arrives seaside to give her chase, she is captured and "taken back".

Meanwhile, from the ring Lupin figures out who she is, Lady Clarisse, and learns that she is being forced to wed an evil count so that he can solve the mystery of the rings and get a "treasure".

The count is a real heartless asshole, and as Lupin finds out, has had hundreds of people killed for snooping around. Lupin decides to get inspector Zenigata involved so he can use him to his advantage.

Lupin manages to reach Clarisse, and promises to her that he'll help her escape, but Lupin is captured and ends up in a basement with a thousand corpses. soon after he finds that Zenigata has been there as well left to die. they decide to pair up.

While escaping, the both of them find the world's largest counterfeit operation ever assembled in the basement. They almost manage to free Clarisse, but lupin is shot and she trades her freedom for his life, before the count double crosses them, Zenigata and Fujiko escape with unconscious Lupin.

After the escape Zenigata reports the counterfeit operation to his superiors, who want to keep it hush hush. meanwhile Lupin is recovering from his injuries and planning to rescue Clarisse.

Lupin, Fujiko and Zenigata all work in a plan to both expose the counterfeiting and free Clarisse, the first part works nicely, but not the later, after some running and fighting, the count is killed and Clarisse is free.

The treasure turned out to b an ancient roman city submerged in the lake next to the castle.

If i had to rate this movie, 17 out of 20.