daily slice-of-life blog of a Gen-X dad
Beautiful color palette and fantastic story. Suzume is a must-see!
There’s one short (a few seconds only) cloud-lapse sequence that blew me away. It was awesome.
The Japanese movie Call Me Chihiro was #1 on my recommendations on Netflix and so I decided to give it a go. What a slow and thoughtful story. I enjoyed it quite a bit! Definitely my type of movie.
Today I rewatched Lilo & Stitch. I hadn’t seen our kids were small, but I didn’t realize how great a movie it is. I found is way more emotionally moving that I remembered. And I also paid close attention to the colors in the backgrounds. So beautiful! I am going to use them as references for the painting I am working on. I know it’ll be hard to recreate them, but it’s nice to have something to shoot for.
Oh, and before I forget, I really liked the Mulan poster in Nani’s room! (Lilo & Stitch was made by the same team that made Mulan)
I went to see One Piece Film: Red with my son this evening. He’s a huge fan of One Piece so I was obligated to take him! It was a fun movie, but since I am not too familiar with One Piece, I didn’t understand all the intricacies. I know the general plot and characters so that was enough for me to follow along. Enjoyable and some great songs!
Tonight my good friend Mikey and I went to watch Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island at the Alamo Drafthouse. I don’t know anything about Gundam besides them being giant soldier-robots, so I didn’t know what to expect, but I was interested and it’s a perfect movie to see with Mikey. (when an anime is showing at the theater in Austin, Mikey and I will most likely go see it together)
It was a fun show! The battles were pretty cool, although there weren’t as many as I thought there might be. I liked all the characters and there were some funny jokes scattered through the story. I don’t think it will win any awards, but it was entertaining, nonetheless, and made for a nice evening!
