Brains!

I'm watching Howl's Moving Castle, and I wanted to mention that I read the book a while back, by Diana Wynne Jones. And although the movie makes no sense, the book is like 100 times worse. In order to enjoy fairy tales or science fiction or anything that doesn't exist in our own reality, is that you have to accept the reality that is presented. Everything has to fit together by following its own set of parameters. You have to accept that this is how things work in this universe and for this reasons, and then generally anything that happens after is believable.

Maybe if I give an example, hmm, oh so Tolkiens "middle-earth" would be an example of how one could go to the extreme of creating the faith that allows the story-listener to enjoy the universe. Everything from language, to maps, to songs, he even created his own mythology. In the Vampire books by Charlaine Harris, there are rules that every character needs to follow and exist by. If a vampire is older, then it inherently more powerful then other vampires generally, it is clearly explained, and followed and when there is an exception its accounted for. But her characters and vernacular details sometimes don't follow either, but I'm not sure if that can be blamed on bad writing or planning. And it doesn't even have to be fantasical. Pineapple Express, was completely ridiculous and impossible but I enjoyed it because I accepted that it was extreme and crazy and just enjoyed the insanity. Some movies follow the whole "its soooo bad its good" rule, such as Starship Troopers or Blood Sport, and the in the book genre this would include the Charlaine Harris books, but they also spill over into the next, stories that aren't really quality, like movies such as Just Married or The Replacements for various reasons, either character issues, dialogue, typical etc. But I them like anyway.

But back to Howl's Moving Castle fails to adhere to any set of standards or universal norms and regulations. There mention of parallel universes, and other such things, but its hard to figure anything out. I found I enjoyed the animated movie by Hayao Miyazaki immensely despite fact that I couldn't really let myself go within the story, because nothing followed a pattern I could figure out. Usually that kind of thing pisses me off, I guess I'm anal retentive about that sort of thing. Its probably why I don't like movies such as The Langaliers...no sense.

Anyways that was sort of an amateur written stint about my movie and book reviewing qualifications. Very rushed to say the least, and not well organized. Maybe one day when I'm older and better at explaining myself, I'll convey my ideas more clearly.