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[gothwalk]

We watched Ninth Gate and Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion last night. Ninth Gate was good, excellent even. And Johnny Depp looked so much like mr_wombat it was scary.

But the other one. Man. It was this weird combination of Hebrew mythology, science-fiction, Japanese pop culture, Freudianism and animism. It blew my mind, sidways. I understood the first half or so, but the end, the last 45 minutes? I was sitting there, wondering what the hell was going on, for most if not all of it. Now I want to see the rest of Neon Genesis Evangelion, if only to reassure myself that I wasn't seeing things.

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[yendi]

You really should catch the other parts of Evangelion first. It's just an amazing build to that ending (starting so simply, too).

Gotta say I disagree about Ninth Gate. I really thought it blew, not just as an adaptation, but in its own right. The ending alone took off about two stars.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

How odd. I thought Ninth Gate's ending was excellent. Subtle, understated... like much of the rest of the movie, really. It wasn't what I was expecting at all.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Mind you, I saw it at about 2am after watching the Virgni Suicides, so I went to bed both disturbed and utterly depressed. What a ride.

[magiien.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Ninth Gate. I really didn't like that one too much. I thought the book was much better. Check it out if you get the chance; it's called The Club Dumas.

[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for Ariane to see pirates of the carribian and to start asking me to wear a pirate hat all the time.
The other movie star I supposedly look like is Nicholas Cage (in face of in particular) when I'm lacking the beard and 'tache. I don't see it myself but a lot of people mentioned it back in college.

Ninth Gate though, good movie - it actually scared me, something movies almost never do. It and the ring (japanese version) basically hold that accolade.

[crowyhead.livejournal.com]

I gotta agree with yendi -- I really liked Ninth Gate, up until the last five minutes. I thought the ending was bizarre, felt tacked on, and didn't give any kind of sense of closure to the film. Too bad, too, because it could've been a great movie; instead it's just a pretty good but disappointing movie.

[dangerdean.livejournal.com]

Though I was disappointed in the ending, and the fact that it ignored a major storyline, I enjoyed the Ninth Gate enough to add it to my collection.

Although I was visualizing an Alan Rickman type as Corso I was impressed by Johnny Depp...he pulled off the character much better than I expected.

[(Anonymous)]

When you come to Finland, you gotta come over to our place - we have the complete Neon Genesis Evangelion series on DVD. :) It'll probably all make more sense then. Probably. :\
Of course, the series is more light-hearted than the movie - at least in the beginning - and concentrates more on making the action cool than blowing your brains up with confusion, and it's even humorous in many places. But obviously, by the end it gets a whole lot heavier. But it's a very good series, at least in my opinion. :]

-Riikka-

[yrthilian.livejournal.com]

Ninth Gate great movie loved it

Neon Genesis Evangelion: well if you want i have a friend who has the wole thing i can check to see if he is willing to give me a lend of it.

:)

Your 'take' on.....

[springinautumn.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in your Pagan 'take' on all this trying-to-reach-the-presence-of-Satan thing... as in "Ninth Gate." Is it kind of amusing...?

Re: Your 'take' on.....

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Portrayals of Satan are often amusing, because no image really does justice to the fire-and-brimstone images in my mind that I seem to have picked up despite a very mild-mannered teacher for my first eight years of religious instruction, and almost no instruction at all thereafter.

Ninth Gate, however, seemed to dodge all that by never showing him, and as such was much better. The notion of "collect the whole set and meet Satan!" is kind of funny, though - I'd expect it to be either far easier or far harder.

Satan's existence is a firm tenet of Christianity, though. On that basis, it's not so much funny as strange, I suppose, as many aspects of say, Catholicism are to me.

Re: Your 'take' on.....

[springinautumn.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting that you had a traditional basis in Catholicism. Duhhhhh... Maybe it's because I like you and don't want to think of it happening to you, too. :)

I'd love to know of your progress, from 'then' to 'now.' You *_could_* add this to your Spiritual Journal..... I check in there, once in awhile. And "nope." "Nothin' new." :(