A Somewhat Negative Post

You may have noticed, dear reader, that this blog tend to skew more towards the positive side of things, which is exactly how I want it. You see, as fun and enjoyable it can be to watch or read a review that tears a bad work of fiction to pieces, I personally prefer to focus on the stuff I enjoy and if I happen to make other people interested in checking out said stuff, than that's an added bonus. That said, for the sake of variety I thought I'd write a bit about two things I watched recently that I did not like. Here we go:

First out we have BlazBlue Alter Memory, a twelve episode anime series. This show was my first foray into the BlazBlue universe. Prior to watching it, here's what I knew about BlazBlue as a whole:

*Its a series of fighting games that are quite popular.
*There are two characters named Hazama and Relius. They are villains and one of them belongs to the manipulative trickster school of villainy.
*There's a girl who is some sort of half-human half-squirrel hybrid. Maybe she is supposed to be a reference to Marvel's Squirrel Girl or something? I honestly don't know.

Anyway, where was I? Ah, yes, the show itself. Well, I watched the first three episodes out of twelve and I won't be watching the rest. Why? Well, to be honest, it's because I found BlazBlue Alter Memory to be utterly fucking terrible: The characters are cliched and annoying, the plot is vague and failed to capture my interest and to top it of, the fight-scenes are unexciting, which is a pretty big flaw for an anime based on a fighting game. Maybe it gets better, but there's simply nothing about the show that makes me want to stick with it and find out if that's the case. Frankly, there are plenty of other anime out there that I'd rather spend my time on.

As for the actual games. Well, I haven't played them (obviously) but they have to be better than this. At any rate, I can hardly see them be worse.

Next we have Tetsuo: Iron Man, a Japanese cult-film from the 80's. Now, this movie actually starts out promising, being grotesque and creepy in a way that really made me sit up and take notice. Unfortunately, the length of the film work against it. Had Tetsuo been a short-film, at about 20-30 minutes, my impression of it would likely have been much more positive. Unfortunately, this is a full-length film and after awhile, I found myself bored with it, wishing for a movie that offered a more substantial story and characters that were actually interesting.I'm sure there are people out there who find this brilliant, but I'm not one of them.

So, there you have it. To end things on a more positive note, I recently began watching Agent Carter and so far, its been really good. Here's hoping it doesn't get cancelled.