John Emerson (johnemersonsfoot)

Nowhere near as great as the first, and it's hard to judge it on its own merit due to the majesty of the first effort. This one was an individual creation, apart from the original plotting of the story. It was a risk to do so, and one that did leave ...(read more)me wishing they'd just gone to the unused story which was sitting right there. But in any case, it's still quite enjoyable once I put up a mental separation between it and the first.

One of the single greatest movies I've ever seen. I put it off for quite some time, I mean come on, a movie about Japanese kids stuck on an island until they give in and kill all but one of them off? Well, OK, describing that I'm not quite sure where...(read more) my trepidation came from. Now I wish I'd overcome it sooner. The violence was well done, but more importantly it was a movie about the bonds between friends, family, and the ones which society attempts to artificially insert into the core of society to control us.