It's the end of the week and another month. Today is the last day of August and fall is just right around the corner. Also means school is starting again. New seasons of TV shows will be starting and oh yeah it's finally going to start cooling off again. As for last week well thankfully it was a rather mundane SSDD week with nothing major or important going on. It also means the car is still doing great as well.
And we all know that is a great thing. But like I said pretty mundane week in which I still didn't watch the Super GT races (now it's at three races that I haven't watched). I did get my HDDs back at the end of the week but I haven't gotten around to getting them set up, been a bit lazy about that.
Managed to go get along to another MoNAC anime club meetup on Saturday and was glad that I still had some ducktape and the plastic window in my car as it started raining while I was there. The intense thunder and lightning storm that happened after I got home was awesome though. Heavy rain and just a ton of thunder and lightning to the point that you could feel the rumbling and just stepped outside to watch and enjoy the storm, of course it doesn't help that it did knock out the DirectTV connection for a little bit.
I did watch some racing though, I recorded and watched later the latest round of the American Le Mons racing series from the fastest course in North America. Enjoyed that race since there was some series competition going on among the different classes. I do have to get my but in gear and watch those three episodes of the Super GT series now, no excuses.
And that was pretty much my week. Didn't exactly do a lot but it was damn nice not having to work on the damn car this week. For this week's image lets go with another lovely Race Queen to remind me that I need to watch those dang races this coming week.
Before you start thinking lame live action movie from 2007 that featured a hot babe some killer cars and some of the worst acting this side of a B-movie I'm actually talking about the new Redline animated movie that was just recently show cased at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. A killer racing anime from Madhouse by director Takeshi Koike that is a wild cross between Speed Racer and Death Race.
The first time I saw the YouTube trailer for this movie was some weeks ago when it popped up on my subscription list as a new trailer and after that first initial viewing I was really trying to find out what the heck it was but with the trailer info in Japanese it was hard to figure out what it was and I quickly forgot about as other stuff got in the way. Then I happened upon a new trailer at twitch with a title and yet again I became very interested and with a title it became a bit easier to figure out what was going on.
After some digging around I finally found out more about what Redline was about other than a frenzied mix of music, mayhem and some of the best animated car chase scenes that I've ever scene. It just takes your breath away watching the trailer filled with action that a plot seems like a secondary notion so that you can explain to people what it is they just saw. Anyways I found this article that gives some hint to what is actually going on in the movie a sort of do or die race held every 5 years to see who the best of the best is and intertwined in that craziness of the race is a love story between old friends. All I know is that it every time I check out the trailers or find a new one I find myself watching it several times and drooling over how awesome it is.
Currently it's making it's way through the film festival circuit so I have no idea when it will be either licensed for an American release, which considering this is aimed squarely at the Western Market should be soon, or fansubbed when it's released on DVD in Japan. Either case I'm watching this as soon as I possibly can no ifs ands or buts about it. This movie would actually be worth the overpriced cost of a Fathom Events ticket.
It looks and feels a lot like Dead leaves has a style like Afro Samurai and it just looks like it'll kick all sorts of ass, don't believe me just check out the trailer below.
The first time I saw the YouTube trailer for this movie was some weeks ago when it popped up on my subscription list as a new trailer and after that first initial viewing I was really trying to find out what the heck it was but with the trailer info in Japanese it was hard to figure out what it was and I quickly forgot about as other stuff got in the way. Then I happened upon a new trailer at twitch with a title and yet again I became very interested and with a title it became a bit easier to figure out what was going on.
After some digging around I finally found out more about what Redline was about other than a frenzied mix of music, mayhem and some of the best animated car chase scenes that I've ever scene. It just takes your breath away watching the trailer filled with action that a plot seems like a secondary notion so that you can explain to people what it is they just saw. Anyways I found this article that gives some hint to what is actually going on in the movie a sort of do or die race held every 5 years to see who the best of the best is and intertwined in that craziness of the race is a love story between old friends. All I know is that it every time I check out the trailers or find a new one I find myself watching it several times and drooling over how awesome it is.
Currently it's making it's way through the film festival circuit so I have no idea when it will be either licensed for an American release, which considering this is aimed squarely at the Western Market should be soon, or fansubbed when it's released on DVD in Japan. Either case I'm watching this as soon as I possibly can no ifs ands or buts about it. This movie would actually be worth the overpriced cost of a Fathom Events ticket.
It looks and feels a lot like Dead leaves has a style like Afro Samurai and it just looks like it'll kick all sorts of ass, don't believe me just check out the trailer below.
Who hasn't seen the classic scifi novel The War of the Worlds turned into any number of movie, radio or TV program. A classic alien invasion tale that ends rather lamely when the aliens all die due to bacteria infections. When it was first broadcast on radio it caused mass panic among the people listening to it for the first time. Now it's just become a go to alien invasion franchise to be milked dry. Well guess what, it's back once again getting a new lease on life this time in the form of an animated movie. But this time it looks freaking bad ass.
War of the Worlds: Goliath is next in line for the War of the Worlds franchise but unlike many (almost all you could easily say) of it's predecessors it actually looks interesting and bad ass from the initial trailer. This time around the story is being turned into an animated movie that looks to take place a little after the initial invasion and Earth has been able to adapt to the Alien's technology. The time frame for this one looks to be right around WW1 but thanks in large part to stealing the alien tech the WWI military tech is slightly more evolved including a giant carrier Zeppelin, three legged mecha tanks and hello plasma (I think it's plasma) weapons abound. It also gives off that nice touch of Steampunk scifi as well. I found this little snippet that gives a better idea of the plot.
It looks like it'll be out on DVD some time in 2010 and I'll be eagerly awaiting it's arrival. In the mean time you can check out the awesome trailer below.
War of the Worlds: Goliath is next in line for the War of the Worlds franchise but unlike many (almost all you could easily say) of it's predecessors it actually looks interesting and bad ass from the initial trailer. This time around the story is being turned into an animated movie that looks to take place a little after the initial invasion and Earth has been able to adapt to the Alien's technology. The time frame for this one looks to be right around WW1 but thanks in large part to stealing the alien tech the WWI military tech is slightly more evolved including a giant carrier Zeppelin, three legged mecha tanks and hello plasma (I think it's plasma) weapons abound. It also gives off that nice touch of Steampunk scifi as well. I found this little snippet that gives a better idea of the plot.
It looks like it'll be out on DVD some time in 2010 and I'll be eagerly awaiting it's arrival. In the mean time you can check out the awesome trailer below.
