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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2008-01-12 07:25 pm

Why Are There No Action Figures Of Pyramid Head?

As [livejournal.com profile] eva_kasumi is dropping briefly into the UK, I met up with her today (after probably-not-terribly-surreptitiously walking past her several times in the tube station, thinking ...is that her? She has got an American accent, but there are many Americans in the world. I NEED TO STOP MEETING PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY VISUAL REFERENCE, having previously severely unnerved some poor girl who was waiting for her boyfriend by staring and wondering whether she was the one I was supposed to be meeting), and we spent many enjoyable hours wandering around London and chatting about videogames. She spent some time explaining Shadow Hearts: Covenant, which sounded like a really rather bizarre game ("So she makes you fight a boss, and this boss is a giant, fluffy pink kitten called Andre..."); I retaliated by telling her about Girls and Corpses, the rather alarming magazine we discovered in Forbidden Planet during a [livejournal.com profile] topgearslash meet. (I couldn't actually show it to her because all of the copies were sold out, which I think may be the most frightening thing of all.)

We also watched Enchanted, because she hadn't seen it; it was the second viewing for me, but I did not mind at all because Enchanted is made entirely of lunacy and happiness. For evidence, watch this clip, which is just one of the best things I've ever seen. And the ending still almost makes me cry, because I am ridiculous.

But I do wish I hadn't written that paragraph immediately after the Girls and Corpses one, because now I am thinking of Enchanted with zombies, and that would have made it a much less happy film.

James Marsden is still John Barrowman, by the way.

[identity profile] th-esaurus.livejournal.com 2008-01-12 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
HAHAHA I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE BOUGHT GIRLS AND CORPSES. You can so easily picture what that guy would look like, and it ain't a pretty sight.

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[identity profile] rhosyndu.livejournal.com 2008-01-12 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Your post makes me think of the confusion Pyramid Head would have meeting a friend he only knows over the internet.

It would possibly look like this:
Image (http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z38/rhosyndu/icons/?action=view&current=pyramidheadwannabe-1.jpg)
Or maybe it wouldn't.

[identity profile] denorios.livejournal.com 2008-01-12 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I still haven't seen Enchanted. :( That clip is awesome though. I really must see that film!

[identity profile] dots.livejournal.com 2008-01-12 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, I just went and found the So Close scene. It makes me weepy every time when he actually starts singing along to it.

[identity profile] the-funmonkey.livejournal.com 2008-01-12 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god that clip still makes me ridiculously happy. I remember being in the cinema and actually pulling this face :D when it went all BIG DISNEY MUSICAL NUMBER.

And, er, yes, I cried too.

[identity profile] dracothelizard.livejournal.com 2008-01-13 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
...That's one of those ridiculously happy movies, isn't it?

WHERE ARE THE HAPPY FLUFFY ANIMALS TO BE COMIC RELIEF, HMM?

(Also, Enchanted with zombies would involve Zombie Piers Morgan, somehow.)

[identity profile] averillovessev.livejournal.com 2008-01-13 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I want to see Enchanted so bad, lol. I was just on an international flight and I was like cross my fingers let it be on the plane and it wasn't and I was so honestly upset. Bah, so pathetic, but seeing that clip make me so much more upset that I haven't seen it yet and I probably won't til it is on dvd. Oh noes. Lol.

I just brought Torchwood the first season *squees a bit* I hope it's as good as I think it'll be.
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[identity profile] wolfenkahlon.livejournal.com 2008-01-13 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm trying to work out the target audience of that magazine...

1. Zombies

2. some sort of semi-necrophiliac bisexual, "into dead guys and live girls."

3. female necrophiliacs

4. Those creepy guys who would torture bugs, and stopped coming to school after a while...

[identity profile] hopeh.livejournal.com 2008-01-13 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Enchanted = ♥

[identity profile] eva-kasumi.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
after probably-not-terribly-surreptitiously walking past her several times in the tube station, thinking ...is that her?

I am guilty of this as well, and we might have ended up going round the station in circles for several minutes if not for your bravery. =D I am so weird I have on occassion considered the option of calling to see what person in the area picks up their phone. Also also! I am sorry because I realized we did not get to go to your ukelele store! Buuuut we did go to many other awesome places and Enchanted was the most wonderous wonderful thing I have seen in many a long month, and I have been singing "How Does She Know" under my breath ever since.

And yes, if you ever manage to find a copy of Shadow Hearts: Covenant, I do think it would be entirely worth your while to get it as it is the sort of game that makes me think of you. And I am certain that it must contain zombies somewhere, and I just haven't gotten far enough yet. For reference, the above icon is the vampire superhero wrestler "le Grande Papillon." This is him agreeing to join your party. I think his body language speaks for his motives. (Also, you asked if you should get yourself Shadows of the Colossus if you see a copy, and the answer is YES, definitely, as it is a superb, powerful, and amazing piece of craftsmanship -- though entirely lacking the crack of Covenant... thankfully.)

My favorite part of that magazine cover you linked is the content title of "Zombie Eating Contest." Is that a contest for zombies, or a contest where one eats zombies? And does eating a zombie not make one a zombie, in more ways than one?

*having terrible, mindboggling images of John Barrowman wearing giant pouffy epaulets*

[identity profile] eva-kasumi.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, here (http://moonsheen.livejournal.com/94558.html#cutid1). Because it makes so much sense.