I have once again lost my mind in a futile pursuit of something everybody else would deem as “not important”. See, I have this love/hate relationship with the concept of genre or should I say hate/hate, for the concept of genre is totally removed from common logic. A genre is defined as “a style or […]
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Aku no Hana (The Flower of Evil) is an anime that garnered a lot of controversies when it first aired in 2013. It would seem most people have forgotten about it over the years and that is a shame. Aku No Hana is one of the most unique, interesting, and best Anime I have ever
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Is the book always better? Can you ever adapt something fully? Why are people so obsessed with adaptations? Why are video game movies always so bad? All these questions and more will be answered in this post on adaptations where I will be laying out how to do it well, and how to do it
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What makes something generic? It’s easy to see when something is bad or good, but how do you identify what makes something generic? If people asked you about a particular movie you could say it was good or bad, but most often than not people would say “eh” or “it was fine” these are phrases
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There is so much to do and so little time! If you are anything like me (and I hope that you are not) you find yourself with a feeling of being overwhelmed by the many options in entertainment. This sinking feeling of dread and stress appears when you are faced with the realization that you
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Reviews are a strange phenomenon to me. There seems to be an abundance of them, and they garner a lot of controversies, yet also remain totally arbitrary and sometimes downright useless. This post is going to be about reviews both in a professional and amateur sense. I am going to look at why they exist,
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After finishing My post on Bioshock, I suddenly thought of making a post specifically about lighthouses. I know EXITING ISN’T IT? Now, it is going to be about lighthouses in media. I will be Exploring what role lighthouses serve in different kinds of media. I found Lighthouses’ aesthetically pleasing and beautiful, but I was interested
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We all know the feeling, all our friends have seen a movie and won’t shut up about how bloody good it is. When it is finally time for you to see it, you find yourself with a feeling of “that was not as good as promised”. Or maybe there is a new game being released
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I was blown away when I first got my hands on Bioshock Infinite back in 2013. The game instantly became one of my all-time favorites and has remained in my top 10 ever since. I remember playing it again immediately after finishing it the first time, my mind had been shattered due to the challenging
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