Friday Five

[got_quiet]

Little late but I've lost the plot this month.

1. Your favorite book? Kokoro. I don't tend to reread books but I've reread this one a number of times. I'm due for another read soon I think. I want to try it in Japanese someday.

2. Your favorite movie? I tend to say Laputa, but I don't know that I really have one. I'm not a massive movie watcher. The only movie I got super fannish about was Inception, so maybe that one? But I also don't think it was the best movie I watched, just the one that created the most interesting playground.

3. Your least favorite adaptation of a book to a movie? Les Mis was pretty bad, but Phantom of the Opera hit me at a time when I wasn't jaded enough to endure it, so I'mma go with that one.

4. Your least favorite adaptation ever of anything to a movie? The Dragon Ball Z Movie was certainly the worst one I'd ever experienced personally.

5. Your first ever novel/comic book/movie character crush? Well my first cartoon crush was Puck from Gargoyles. I also had a thing for Shawdowspawn from the Thieves' World series.

Comments

[vriddy]

Laputa is such a wonder, one of my top 3 Ghibli as well! (It's too hard to pick just one...)

[autumndaze]

I wish we had more of Puck! He was so fun :3 I'm gonna rewatch Gargoyles at some point in the hopefully near future with a friend who's never seen it, and I'm looking forward to it so much T-T I still need to pick up the recent comic run.

[got_quiet]

Yeah, there are so many bangers and they're good in their own special ways! Laputa wins for me because it's the one we had a VHS of when I was a kid and I think we used to watch it weekly.

[got_quiet]

I hope your friend enjoys it! It's definitely got a kids show feel but I still have had fun with it in rewatches.

[autumndaze]

I first watched it in full when I was like 18-19, so I think it holds up just fine XD (I saw bits of it on TV when I was younger, but only got around to watching the show in full in college). If nothing else, it's fun for Star Trek fans, because so many of the actors are on there. And I reference Xanatos gambits all the time lol