Hm-m-m... Good or bad? Is it good or bad? Hard to say. There are its entertaining points, yet there are its boring points. Maybe watch it and decide for yourself. The only thing I can say is that sequels are not good for sure.
Here is some bad paintjob, the old man's mustache is his skin's color instead of being his other facial hair's color -
I watched this movie after I finished Death Note anime TV series and there were some discrepancies, but overall it doesn't affect the impression as it is rather a spin-off than a sequel it pretends to be. There are two prequel live action films which you can watch or skip before watching "L change the world", the connection is really weak between them.
Acting in this movie can be very different: from nearly perfect L's performance it jumps to a very ungainly FBI agents speeches, from very bad acting of dying villagers to a strangely well articulated lines and cold acting of K (reminds me a telecaster, who was invited for a role but doesn't actually know how to act). In other words it's a mixed experience.
I found one funny thing in the film. When L was standing on the ladder other guys were looking up at him as he was higher than them, but the boy was looking just in front of himself instead of looking up too.
I anticipated a lot from this series. Why? Because a long time ago I saw the opening sequence and the song from it and both looked and sounded very interestingly and good.
Upon finally getting to watch this anime I have discovered that it's very shallow and simple. It's dragging for a long time without any serious development of the plot. It doesn't make a good use of antagonists and enemy "mechas". It's a big let down after all, one of those titles where an opening sequence is much better than the anime itself.
I must warn you that there will be no such weapons and scanty costumes which were shown on the disc covers and in the opening sequences as well as there will be no red "tattoo" lines on protagonists in the actual episodes, so don't waste your time.
Neo Ranga raises some important issues of the modern world and life, but the way it does it is of no significant interest.
Another dislike point for me was a change of style of drawing characters closer to the end of the series. It's like some other studio and designers took over the work. Maybe it was so, but why did they do that, I don't know. I'd rather them not do so.
Hello. I finished the cycle of training with 6 kg dumbbells while dieting and losing fat at the same time. I lost not only fat but some muscle mass with it.
My meals became much smaller than before and I eat three chicken breasts on training days. I hoped it would give me enough of protein to still build muscle and lose fat at the same time. Unfortunately I am not some specially gifted guy for muscles thus I lost both.
What is good in all this is that I am starting to see my abs again. For now their top parts.
Almost at the end of this cycle I caught cold and had to take a break for 6 days, so in total I had 11 days without training.
This film can have different names: Ngai sing (the original Cantonese name), Call of heroes (international release name), or Wei cheng (Mandarin reading of the title characters which means "Dangerous town").
Summo-hung directed fighting choreography here, but I find to like his recent years' works less and less. He uses too much of wires and makes fighting scenes ridiculously supernatural or superhuman. Fighters do unreal flips in the air and possess strength of superhuman monsters. Everything is exaggerated and it doesn't do good for this kind of movies about seemingly normal people. I could understand fantastic moves and techniques in a film about super-heroes, but not about usual martial arts practitioners.
Many fighting scenes were shot under different angles and then edited to look terribly with constant camera jumps from one point of a scene to another making it very hard to appreciate a fight itself.
What is good in this movie is that the plot takes really unexpected turns. Unfortunately it's very predictable afterwards and once you've met those interesting twists in the story you won't meet any more of them.
I noticed a blooper, there may be more, it's just that this one was very obvious. One of the main characters naps in a chair waiting for a barber and he is wearing a pair of shoes of a particular design. In the next frame his shoes are different!
This is my complete routine of Sandow's system of physical training with dumbbells. During the course of training I added some exercises and in this video you can see all of them and how I do them all. It's the final version of it and I won't do any more modifications, I think.
I followed Sandow's principle of doing exercises until it aches or feels tiring and I tried to do at least the recommended number of repetitions. I did the recommended number of reps for bicep curls and the follow-up exercise for forearms and for the last body bends exercise - 75, 35 and 35 as those are day 6th recommended numbers of reps.
I had five 1 minute breaks between some exercises - arms to the sides kept horizontally while wrists rotate dumbbells, push-ups, pull-ups/chin-ups, squats.
What I added to the system are: the exercises for neck (pulling up dumbbells, hand resistance against head turns), weighted pull-ups/chin-ups (odd days - pull-ups, even days - chin-ups). Everything else is from the original system by Eugen Sandow found in his book "Sandow on physical culture" and "Strength and how to obtain it".
The video shows a complete non-stop routine including a warm-up recommended by Sandow. Day 6 of training cycle using 6 kg dumbbells.
At first I was excited to try this movie, because I thought it was a really good remake made by people who love the original RoboCop. Why did I think so? Well, randomly I skipped to somewhere in the middle of the movie and I got there the scene where some rapers catch a woman and RoboCop protects her. I thought the whole thing was like that. The reality occurred to be like a cold shower. The remake is a bunch of clips put together and not in a good seamless way, but in a sloppy jump-to-the-next-scene way. It doesn't help at all that all the different scenes were done by different directors and even actors, so sometimes you have to think hard who do you see now, a main character or someone else.
I understand that this is a parody but still, most of the clips are garbage-like and some are saved by their humor, yet some aren't and they are just a pain to watch, especially those cartoon ones. The jokes are of a very low level most of the time and sometimes they are almost repeated in some scenes.
I put together the best bits of this film for your viewing pleasure, the rest of it is not worth the time spent on making it nor on watching what came out of it.
I found a blooper too. In one of the scenes when there is a close-up on RoboCop he is shown to be wriggling while having his nightmare, but when we see the whole set the he is sitting calmly and not moving at all.
Last time I did 12 times with 10 kg and this time I tried to add the minimum possible weight I had so it became 10.25 kg. Apparently it's not enough because I still could do 12 chin-ups. More weight next time!
Experienced people suggest adding as little weight as possible but there is one problem with that - with the minimum added weight I can still be close to 10 repetitions whereas I should be near 6... Should I add like a couple more kilos instead of hundreds of grams?
I reached 11 times on my weighted pull-ups, and I actually almost didn't train for it.
The last time I tried I could do only 9 times and that was the day before yesterday. Before that I didn't do anything for 10 days because I was ill. And before that I did pull-ups once a day, then I did chin-ups the next day and repeated it like that. I incorporated it into my Sandow's training program. Next time I'll be adding weight since I did more than 10 pull-ups.
Hello. Going back to 5 kilos of dumbbells was almost a breeze, so I was eager to finish this cycle and start the next one with 6 kg dumbbells because I could feel that 5 kg was not enough. Confirming my premonition the end results showed that I was regressing with this working weight.
While doing the warm up sequence of free play exercises before the main exercises my daily routine became very long - 1 hour and 10 minutes on average. The lengthening was caused not only by the addition of the warm up but also because of the main exercises done until my muscles ached or felt tired making the repetition numbers higher than the table values from the book.
The results (all in cm) 20 days after beginning the 5 kg cycle:
