Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends
Nov. 16th, 2014 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meteordustJust got back from seeing this. Random thoughts.
* Oh, that opening. One hell of an opening. Young Shinta digging all those graves by himself. Just as powerful as when I first saw it in the anime, and it's incredible to see all those scenes brought to life on film.
* Hiko! I love the whole sequence with him and Kenshin. How did they manage to get someone so cool to play him? The casting for these movies is so perfect.
* Every shonen series seems to have a section where the hero meets with defeat, finds their mentor, trains really intensely for a short time, and levels up. It makes me wish I could do that in real life.
* Okay, so the innkeeper Watcher - the Elder - survived that fight with Aoshi? But then he dies of his wounds anyway? Aoshi, I am glad I was not a fan of yours, because I would be frothing about the way your character comes across in this adaptation.
* At the execution, the roll call of Kenshin's crimes was a sobering moment.
* The directing, cinematography, and music continue to be awesome. The fight sequences are amazing. Especially the final battle when Shishio is fighting Kenshin, Saito, Sanosuke and Aoshi. To choreograph something like that, and then to execute it and film it. Amazing.
* Part of me couldn't help thinking, when your body temperature rises and you are burning up inside, it really does not mean you catch on fire. But whatever.
* I don't know how fiery swords are meant to work in real life, but they are pretty damn cool.
* It's all very well for Home Minister Ito to say that Battousai the Killer is dead, but most of Tokyo saw Kenshin being marched through the streets on the way to execution. His identity is blown, and his appearance is pretty distinctive. I'm not sure he can just blend into civilian life again.
* A satisfying conclusion, but I am glad to have come to the end.
* Oh, that opening. One hell of an opening. Young Shinta digging all those graves by himself. Just as powerful as when I first saw it in the anime, and it's incredible to see all those scenes brought to life on film.
* Hiko! I love the whole sequence with him and Kenshin. How did they manage to get someone so cool to play him? The casting for these movies is so perfect.
* Every shonen series seems to have a section where the hero meets with defeat, finds their mentor, trains really intensely for a short time, and levels up. It makes me wish I could do that in real life.
* Okay, so the innkeeper Watcher - the Elder - survived that fight with Aoshi? But then he dies of his wounds anyway? Aoshi, I am glad I was not a fan of yours, because I would be frothing about the way your character comes across in this adaptation.
* At the execution, the roll call of Kenshin's crimes was a sobering moment.
* The directing, cinematography, and music continue to be awesome. The fight sequences are amazing. Especially the final battle when Shishio is fighting Kenshin, Saito, Sanosuke and Aoshi. To choreograph something like that, and then to execute it and film it. Amazing.
* Part of me couldn't help thinking, when your body temperature rises and you are burning up inside, it really does not mean you catch on fire. But whatever.
* I don't know how fiery swords are meant to work in real life, but they are pretty damn cool.
* It's all very well for Home Minister Ito to say that Battousai the Killer is dead, but most of Tokyo saw Kenshin being marched through the streets on the way to execution. His identity is blown, and his appearance is pretty distinctive. I'm not sure he can just blend into civilian life again.
* A satisfying conclusion, but I am glad to have come to the end.
