So I love the concept of eyes of heaven. A multi part crossover of the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. But the game is lacking in a lot of departments i should know, I love video games and studying game design after all. Also I platinumed the game on the PlayStation. The UI is a nightmare, all the fighting moves are Jojo references/ quotes, sure the “Ora Ora” that Jotaro has is a given but excuse me for not remembering what “the hell is your problem” does for Josuke 8 in the middle of battle. The button maping is just horrible for some characters, mainly old Joseph he has a whole button that isn’t used and in order to use hamon breathing you need to hold down two other buttons. There are terrible tutorials, an unskipable one always acures when you open the game…
But one of my biggest gripes is with the story. I know that Jjba is mostly focused on fights and the crazy powers, but I would like the story to be more then just: our companions are being revived and being turned against us! Save them using a corpse Time travel to another part! Find and team up with the jojo, fight the characters of that part! Find a new corpse part, get in the Turtle. repeat until all the Jojo’s are here with corpse parts, oops! Have to reclaim them all again! Fight the remaining enemies, free our last allies, fight Dio over heaven, everyone in the Turtle gets brainwashed! Fight your allies again, it’s a trap, Jotaro and Jolyne fight Dio over heaven with des ex machina powers! Finally use the info from Funny Valentine! Win! Everything is better now.
I am oversimplifying the whole thing, it did have some great moments, with Jotaro and Jolyne, old Joseph in part 2, and the part 5 crew reacting to part 3 Polnareff. I do recommend checking it out. But I kinda wanted more….
So I came up with my own reimagining of the story! I would make a whole fan comic about it! But I have collage, other projects, and I keep shifting from thing to thing, I may be into Jojo now but in a few months I’ll be back focusing on something else. But it might happen! For now I have made a bullet point list of stuff I want to happen in the story.
Anyway here have some unorganized bullets on what will probably happen in the story:
An in depth look on what exactly happened in the reality where Dio won
An unclear beginning where no one knows what’s happening and no clear way to travel between time and other realitys, sure they will learn that time space is screwy but they will have a time figuring out how and why
OC’s; will they be new enemies or allies?
Every main jojo having a moment with each other
The world over Heaven redesign, Dio over heaven is cool but his stand is just an alt color palette of his original stand. When Puchi achieved heaven his stand changed to look completely different, why should Dio be spared a stand makeover?
Cameos from other fan works (Jota, Blood sun vendetta, but really really fast, Nathali monet (oc), Crimson Jungle, City living, the 7th stand user, ect)
Characters getting more dellvement/expanded backstory’s
Unlikely friendships
The zeppills bonding
(Mostly) Everyone getting one badass moment
Corpse parts are focused much less on. Seriously since when ever did they help travel though time in the main series? I mean I guess D4C and love train is sorta it. But that doesn’t make sense to work in this situation.
Dual heat attacks
Horror elements
Poses
Talking
Jonathan meeting old erna
Old man Joseph revealing why he had an affair to his younger self
Jotaro(part 3) getting hit by his future selfs (part 4 and part 6)
Josuke being a sweetheart and dealing with all the drama
Giorno not telling anyone about his relationship with Dio. He probably would be suspicious of his relationship with the Jostars after seeing their birthmark. That boy will definitely be skeptical after what he went though with the bio family he grew up with. He probably keep his linage a secret while trying to figure out where he was on the family tree. It will be revealed eventually.
Joylne bonding with the other characters(and tormenting part 6 jotaro about the stuff she learned from the part 3 gang mostly from their jotaro) as well as learning new tricks
Johnny meeting his future wife.
Johnny singing
Josuke8 doing something (I haven’t fished part 8 just yet…) but mostly being him self and hanging out with part4josuke
Part 9 somehow being involved (not enough story yet for me to make something solid)
More shenanigans
Fun with traveling ✈️
The hero characters will have to fight different opponents from what they already fought. We already saw heroes part 4 vs part 4 villains, swap it up! Put them in new situations. Already I have Old Joseph vs Naracha and Johnny vs wheel of fortune fight in mind, if they are an opponent the hero has fought before, they either have a new trick or in a different circumstance.
Jobros appreciation 👊🏻
A sacrifice so hope can live
New unseen threats
The Noble ones over heaven being the ultimate big bad. Dio wasn’t the only one who has the power over heaven, he would need some help rewriting reality entirely. He would reward the ones who were the most loyal to him. His right had man Pucci, and his stand White Snake Over Heaven will send down his commands down the line of nobles.
Bonding with family and friends 💕
Jokes
Dio over heaven being a different person from Part 3 Dio
The birthmark⭐️
Victorian England Sucking
Redemption
A$$es getting absolutely kicked
Feels 🥹
Over heaven squad being an active threat, always working towards something. As well as some serious messed up stuff not even the power of overwriting will fix.
“You are way Out of your league…. And that is just a gross oversimplification.”
Legends, myths and fairytales 📖
AU’s
Kids being kids and people just having a good time
Hair insults, roasts and more.
Alcohol 🍻
Trivia
⭐️EYES OF HEAVEN ⭐️
Anyway, that’s probably it for now…. I could honestly keep writing on this list, got a lot of story beets and the ending in mind already. I ultimately would love and see this be the ultimate tribute to JJBA and its community. Hope you got some good ideas from this. Feel free to let me know what you think/what you would like to see in something like this. It’s still a big project that I may not even start but I wanted to share this idea with all of you. Have a great day/night or whatever.
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Art Mania: Red Velvet's "Feel My Rhythm" by mera
Video Transcript by CCKN is under the cut
[0:00] Theater kids are going to be manifesting in my house tonight, huh?
[0:03] Red Velvet are my go-to group for creativity
[0:06] and I am in love with the melange of
[0:08] intense and varying art inspirations in “Feel My Rhythm”.
[0:11] This era includes references to different styles of illustration and drama,
[0:16] portraiture and painting, architecture and fashion, music and dance.
[0:20] K-Pop has a few notable ballet concepts,
[0:21] but I love this provocative ballet
[0:24] and references to the psychedelic theater.
[0:26] Costuming, effects, set design, movement,
[0:28] even the lyrics paint this picture of art
[0:30] colliding in a euphoric mania.
[0:33] I love songs that celebrate music
[0:35] and this release has it lyrically, sonically, and visually.
[0:38] Soaring between classic violin, dance pop beats, and the rattling metal
[0:42] of a carousel,
[0:43] “Feel My Rhythm” is sweet like a “Velvet” title and
[0:46] vibrant like a live performance of “Masquerade” from Phantom of the Opera.
[0:49] I love the second couplet of the chorus where the members trickle down their vocals in a ribbon as
[0:53] as the wave of violins and viola rolls to the front.
[0:56] The song ends a little suddenly like a music box snapping shut,
[1:00] rather than winding down
[1:01] but I love the fragrant vocals and the contrasting musical influences.
[1:05] Elegant orchestral strings, bursts of carnival game beats,
[1:08] and lofty vocals suddenly buckling down into chants and talk singing.
[1:12] “Feel My Rhythm” is surprisingly bracing,
[1:14] shiny black spikes poking through lace,
[1:17] frosted all over with Bach’s “Air for G-String”.
[1:19] “Feel My Rhythm” speaks of music as if it were bottled and personified into five women,
[1:24] five muses of art, each with her own season and stage.
[1:28] The lyrics and arrangement never stay still for too long.
[1:31] The members seem to trade dialogue and rebuttals from the constant switch-ups,
[1:35] and then suddenly ride into the heavens as one.
[1:37] At parts they stare into the audience as one Greek chorus and at others they're training secrets
[1:41] or cutting each other off with interjections,
[1:44] a lot like play characters and a massive ensemble song putting in their own perspectives.
[1:49] In my mind there are a handful of songs that deserve to be openings for pop musicals
[1:53] like “After School” by Weeekly
[1:55] where everyone gets a personal actionable line that builds into a big centerpiece.
[1:59] “Feel My Rhythm” feels like a one-thirds mark threshold song,
[2:03] where the play invites you, the audience,
[2:05] to leave the known world behind and enter the story.
[2:07] I'm always a little on the fence when it comes to K-Pop sampling classic orchestral pieces.
[2:12] Sometimes you get a really over-starch song like “Hands Up” by Cherry Bullet
[2:17] but I think “Feel My Rhythm” uses “Air For G[-string]” more like perfume than costume
[2:21] and it works in their favor
[2:22] “Feel My Rhythm” has some just classic Red Velvet moments
[2:25] a lot of moments both visually and
[2:27] musically reminded me of “Cool Hot Sweet Love” or “Cool World”
[2:31] These creamy, sensual, emotional touches that Red Velvet does really well.
[2:35] We haven't seen them do black box dancing since like “Automatic”.
[2:38] The video also has these classic collage pop scenes,
[2:42] these extremely cinematic death of glamour scenes,
[2:44] and a good blue jeans moment.
[2:47] And I think it works because this song is about the manic collision of art into celebration.
[2:52] I love art that celebrates art,
[2:53] I'm a huge sucker for it,
[2:55] and when you put Red Velvet vocals on it, you're gonna make me happy.
[2:58] After listening to the album three times,
[3:00] here is my initial ranking of the songs
[3:02] according to my preference.
[3:03] Number one: “Bambaleo”.
[3:05] I am in love with this super sweet, falsed-out chorus.
[3:10] “Bambaleo” is the song that evolved the most the more I listen to it.
[3:13] You start in the city with the quiet synth and funk
[3:16] but as you drive out into the night, a spotlight from outer space
[3:19] begins to lift you up into the sky.
[3:21] Parts of the song suggests some sort of vacation to paradise
[3:25] but the synth scratch adds some pulp from b-sides like “Look”.
[3:28] The cocktail of cocaine-high singing, psyched-out soundscapes, and retro dance in the middle of it all,
[3:34] feels like drinking distilled hallucinogens,
[3:36] but in a nice way, I really love it.
[3:38] Number two: “Beg For Me”.
[3:40] Whooo, baby!
[3:42] A Red Velvet b-side in the taste of Irene and Seulgi's Monster album.
[3:45] Absolutely delicious.
[3:47] “Beg For Me” starts as this very low menacing club song
[3:51] that breaks into a red demanding mantra.
[3:54] They are yelling at you about the good vibes,
[3:56] it's a little scary at points.
[3:58] I see this played in a vampire club right after you've been bitten
[4:02] and there's venom in your bloodstream,
[4:04] and the club matriarchs are like floating around,
[4:06] reminding everyone what an intoxicating time you're having.
[4:09] I love the tagline “dance for me, work for me, beg for me”
[4:12] and a vocal howl at the moon.
[4:15] This album has a lot of surprising tasteful talk sections.
[4:18] Number three: “Feel My Rhythm”.
[4:20] The chugging mechanical daydream sounds from “Zimzalabim”
[4:23] have been repurposed into something more musical
[4:25] but equally psychoactive.
[4:27] “Feel My Rhythm” has these rising sweet vocals,
[4:30] like braces of a cathedral rising up to a point.
[4:33] I really enjoyed the lyrics on this track.
[4:35] It's a love song, but it's not to a lover.
[4:37] It’s to music and the places where music touches other art forms,
[4:41] or in this case where arts are piled on top of each other with rapture.
[4:45] Number four: “In My Dreams”.
[4:47] Killing Eve's song,
[4:49] change my mind.
[4:50] Tell me this doesn't make you think of the two of them.
[4:52] I love the quiet patter of beat,
[4:54] and the high dots of notes
[4:56] as the song slowly dissolves into symbols and desperate singing.
[4:59] “In my dreams, you love me back”.
[5:02] It's a little too early my time to be having these emotions
[5:05] but I love how the chorus kind of bursts out of the speaker
[5:08] but then she loses her courage and has to deal with the words in the room.
[5:12] Number five: “Good, Bad, (and) Ugly”.
[5:14] Mapled and starched like an old photo,
[5:17] “Good, Bad, (and) Ugly” has a spotty rainy ambiance in the background
[5:20] that reminds me of phonographs and classy umbrellas.
[5:23] “Good, Bad, (and) Ugly” falls into that subcategory of Red Velvet b-sides that
[5:27] that play in film noir band bars.
[5:29] It's a little bit of a cafe song,
[5:31] and a little bit of draping yourself over the piano,
[5:33] and stealing the pianist's fancy black hat
[5:36] while you sing about your tragic but passionate love life.
[5:38] Okay, okay, apparently that is the description
[5:41] that I wrote for this song when I was listening to it.
[5:43] It's too late to change it at this point, whatever.
[5:46] And number six: “Rainbow Halo”.
[5:48] I appreciate the brass inclusion at the end,
[5:50] but I feel this song is a little too repetitive for my tastes.
[5:53] It's got some great moments but
[5:54] I feel I would like zone out way too easily
[5:57] while listening to the song and forget that I left the stove on.
[5:59] I really love how this era is soaked in art
[6:01] and the kaleidoscope of musical influences all over the album,
[6:05] let alone the single.
[6:07] There's so much passion for each medium,
[6:09] and you can tell that each crew member was like really excited to
[6:11] reference their favorite piece of art in the video.
[6:14] I might do a follow-up video
[6:15] specifically about each member's solo scenes
[6:18] because I think there's a ton to talk about there
[6:20] but for now I'd like to know what you thought of the era
[6:22] and what your favorite song off the album is.
[6:24] Okay, bye!
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Video Description: A bite-sized review of Red Velvet's "Feel My Rhythm."
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Personal Notes: This is probably one of the Red Velvet albums that I replay nonstop, also because my Spotify would always play the songs from this album on shuffle. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t gotten tired of Feel My Rhythm but it really is THAT song.
The album, The ReVe Festival 2022 - Feel My Rhythm, and the title track, Feel My Rhythm is available on YouTube, music streaming platforms, and to purchase as a digital or a physical album.
Click here for the YouTube playlist version of the album. As for the physical albums, either check your local stores, K-Pop and not, near you or you’ll have to look online to find any available. I’ve listed a few down below but I do recommend to look for anywhere else if you don’t prefer these sites:
SM Global Shop (It’s all sold out as of writing and posting this but I do recommend checking every once in a while to see if they’ll restock again)
KPOPTOWN (I mainly showed the search results in case you want either the ReVe version or the Orgel version or both)
Catchopcd (The ReVE version is out of stock as of writing/posting this but I do recommend checking back every once in awhile to see if they’ve restocked it)
SubK Shop (I mainly showed the search results in case you want either the ReVe version or the Orgel version or both)
KAVE SQUARE (I mainly showed the search results in case you want either the ReVe version or the Orgel version or both)
Kpop-shop (for those in Ukraine)
It’s all sold out as of writing and posting this but I do recommend checking every once in a while to see if they’ll restock again
If there are any other sites that sell Red Velvet albums, you can reblog or tag or comment below. Spread the knowledge.
That’s about it on my end. I’ll catch you all on the flip side.
-CCKN
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Reservoir Dogs (1992) - Movie Review / Fancast
I watched Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs for the first time tonight. (By the time I finished this, it is actually DAYS later) Remember all of the things stated in this review are my PERSONAL opinion.
Let's talk about Reservoir Dogs, because I enjoyed this film much more than I thought I would.
So, being completely transparent, I accidentally spoiled myself ten minutes in when I went to search which color Tim Roth was playing. Regardless, I enjoyed the film.
I thought the latter half of the movie was more entertaining, with the inclusion of Joe and Eddie and the more in-depth looks into White, Blonde, and Orange.
I'm not very good at serious movie reviews and don't take movies all that seriously anyways, so I am comfortable admitting that Mr. Orange was a big selling point for me. I very much enjoyed the close-up of him smirking. It really felt like a tragic love story at some parts, I was rooting for Orange and Mr. White.
Now on to the more entertaining part, let's recast. Pictures at the end.
We'll start with Mr. White. Originally played by Harvey Keitel, I think Jason Bateman would be an exceptional recast. He does serious, as Ozark proves, he does comedically dramatic, he is dilf material, and I don't think they look UNALIKE... there are some similarities that caught my eye. Honorable mention goes to a man of the same name, Mr. White, Bryan Cranston.
Mr. Pink feels like a no-brainer. Originally played by Steve Buscemi, who else other than Bill Skarsgard. Mr. Pink is slimy and he has awful posture and, for some reason, that reminded me of the very handsome Bill Skarsgard. He will never escape the typecast. For as long as I can remember, Roman Godfrey to Pennywise to that dude in Barbarian... they're all shady as fuck.
You know who else is shady as fuck? Mr. Blonde. Michael Madsen is the original Mr. Blonde and he brings such a specific energy to Blonde. I found it hard to find a good match. Looks-wise, Richard Madden. Though, in general, I think Vincent Cassel would be a very creepy, very sexy Blonde and if you've seen that scene in Ocean's Twelve, you'd know the "Stuck In The Middle With You" scene is in good hands.
I reluctantly add this next one. "Nice Guy" Eddie, played by Chris Penn, is being recast to probably my least favorite actor of all time, Jonah Hill. Fuck, it just works so well.
You know that cop, Martin whatever? Yeah, he's now Rami Malek. This is payback for being in Amsterdam.
Tim Roth, the reason I knew the plot of the entire movie before watching it, I fucking love your face man. Mr. Orange is now fan-cast as Andy Bean. Completely self-indulgent. Though, past Gee apparently thought Joesph Gorden-Levitt was a good contender because his name is very bold in my notes. Also, self-indulgent.
Randy Brook's Holdaway would be brilliantly played by Brian Tyree Henry. If you've seen Bullet Train, he is fucking incredible.
For Joe, originally played by Lawernce Tierney, I give thee Brian Cox of the Logan Roy variety. Or Vincent D'Onofrio of the Marvel supervillain variety.
Moving on to Mr. Brown, I could not decide. Give my dude Jake Sim a couple of years and he's perfect. I also have Michael C. Hall, Matt Berry, and Mark Sheppard. I don't guess it really matters as long as they can deliver an entire speech about Madonna's Like A Virgin and make it as disgusting as possible.
Before researching, I had wanted Edward Bunker's Mr. Blue to be Danny Trejo. Here's a fact I learned while researching for this review, Bunker and Trejo actually served jail time together. Small world. Oh, and Bob Odenkirk was the runner-up for Mr. Blue. I love that man.
Shit, I think that's it. Now I have to go make a collage of all these actors.
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