Tomorrow we get Sword Art Online the Movie -Ordinal Scale- in a one night special event presentation. I had to include one more trailer for it, since this one is different than the others. When we hit Friday Kong: Skull Island, with what appears to be the biggest King Kong ever put in a movie. I had to include that trailer as well, because I think both movies are going to be a lot of fun.
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This time around we get Moana, a quality animation telling one of the stories of the transpacific culture that spans a range of islands from Tahiti to Hawaii. They have been some of the most successful explorers the world has ever known, and have an artistic and musical tradition unique on the planet. As near as I can remember, this film is the first sympathetic treatment of that culture to receive world wide distribution and major box office success. Also out, Bad Kids of Crestview Academy, what you wold get if they filmed The Breakfast Club in the Nightmare on Elm Street neighborhood, a comedy/horror. About the only thing we get in Anime is the S.A.V.E. edition of Wanna Be the Strongest in the World!, which has both the complete series plus the OVAs. I am not certain that that one is even genre, but being a series about an Idol who becomes a Pro Wrestling Diva I am going to call it Fantasy, if only so I don’t have to skip the Anime entry altogether.
OKAMOTO’S formed in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan in 2006, and got their major record label deal in 2010, when they signed with Ariola Records Japan, an affiliate of Sony Music Entertainment. Everybody in the band is a fan of world renowned artist TarÅ Okamoto, so when they chose stage names they all went with his last name. Their music is kind of acid garage band, with a lot of energy. The first track is the Google Translate version of their hit Lagoon posted about 4 weeks ago, the second is 2015’s Waratte Waratte, and the third is Sing A Song Together, also from 2015. If they sound familiar it might be because their debut hit single Shout Out Your Desires was the 18th ending theme of Naruto: Shippuden.
The LEGO movie team are on a roll, and on September 22nd we get another one: The LEGO NINJAGO Movie. It is Master Builder Lloyd aka The Green Ninja vs. Evil Warlord Garmedon aka The Worst Guy Ever, in one hysterical battle for supremacy. I really like what they are doing with this franchise, and I hope they will keep cranking them out.
One week from today we get Sword Art Online the Movie -Ordinal Scale- on the big screen all across North America. Since production on the movie pushed season 3 back by a year, this is really our only shot of new Sword Art Online stories for the time being. I for one have no intention of missing it.
Another trailer for the live action GHOST IN THE SHELL, and it looks even better with each new iteration, certainly from a visual perspective. Of course, at this point we know they have made a few changes with her backstory beyond just dropping her name, Motoko Kusanagi, and just using her former rank to identify her. But I am not going to worry about that. I will judge the movie on its own merits when I see it for myself. It is launching at the end of this month, and you can believe I will be in the theater on March 31st.