Stand By Me - Blog Posts

they were each other's first crush, idc

*Yes, Karen. Boys can be friends with each other without having romantic feelings*

It's not their case, though

The background was picked on Google, btw

Me eating up every movie/show where a group of teenage boys (12-18) ride bikes and kids are going missing/dying and there are usually kids named Finn, Eddie, Mike, and Robin and it’s set somewhere in the 70’s-80’s or 50’s

Rewatching “Stand By Me” and wishing i had a friendship like Gordie and Chris

Shout out to dysfunctional teenage friend groups from 80s movies, gotta be one of my favorite genders

i never had any friends later on like the ones i had when i was twelve. jesus, does anyone?

Graphic design is my passion and 80’s movies are my vice

idk what kind of drug they put into 80s movies but we need to bring it back

“Fuck you, my child is completely fine”

Ma’am your child is obsessed with decades old crime movies with homoerotic undertones

Review: Doraemon: Stand By Me (2014)

Rating: 7.8 of 10

Doraemon was a long running children's manga and anime series (first published in 1969!) that had been accompanying the lives of children all over the world. Doraemon was everywhere, on every lazy Sunday morning, everyone loved him, and there's just no way to review this film without nostalgia glasses of a former 6 year-old. It's just physically impossible. That said, here it is.

The movie started at the very beginning, from the first time Doraemon popped out of that desk drawer and introduced himself to Nobita. It was just such a thrill to see the whole thing from Doraemon's perspective and it doesn't count as a spoiler because it literally happened in the first 5 minutes)! The rest, for the ones who are familiar with the weekly premise of a Doraemon show, is history. Nobita found himself in some kind of trouble, cried for Doraemon's help, Doraemon gave him some advanced 22nd century gadget, Nobita exceled for a while but ended up in another kind of trouble. It is also no secret that the film ends with Doraemon having to say goodbye to Nobita and yes, there were tearjerking moments. I was sad for a while.

I have however, some issues with the movie, with time being the main one. In summing four decades of show history into just 90 minutes, there'll always be some things missing. Of course, the basic story of Doraemon was always deceivingly short and simple, but we grew up with him week-in and week-out for years and it's hard to beat that kind of familiarity. We were friends with Doraemon for 45 years, but Nobita (in this film) had just met him so why did he care? The gadgets and characters were familiar but there were just not enough time to explore the full extent of their friendship, and not enough time to soak it in, that the whole thing just felt rushed. Doraemon never felt like part of friends or family (Nobita's parents' reaction when they found out Doraemon had to go was basically, "Oh? OK."), and that is not good. Secondly, I don't think the character development was clear enough. Of course I don't want Nobita to suddenly turn into Dekisugi, but in the end I'm not even sure if Nobita learned anything at all because a lot of things revert back to status-quo. And the last thing (possibly nitpicking), I found the whole make-Shizuka-likes-Nobita mission is just a liiiiiiitle bit creepy. Just a little bit. I swear.

TL;DR But all in all it was fun, full of familiar characters and gadgets, undeniably heartfelt, and rightfully tearjerking. It was a shame that it felt so rushed.

Afterthought 1: The new 3D animation is only weird for 45 seconds. You'll get used to it.

Afterthought 2: I just find it refreshing to have time-travelling story with absolutely no paradox. Having seen plenty of time-travel movies, most of them have some issue with paradox, but not in Doraemon world!

Afterthought 3: I really, really wish this movie would skip the introduction part and begin right at the end (Pacific Rim-style) when Nobita and Doraemon have been friends for years. I think that would solve most of the problems this movie had, but I'm not a movie director for a reason.

Afterthought 4: The only reason I didn't cry during this movie was because I tried hard not to.

.imagine

Northern lights flicker over the sky, and down from the north sea blow a frozen wind... meanwhile on the northern train that is howling like a wolf under the moon light, going into a city. And the late night walks while the city sway in the cold. It’s when the great melancholy rolls in...what is love? can I feel it again?

Does anyone want to go on a Stephen king coming of age adventure with me?? We can fight a clown or we could find a dead body?? Your choice, I'm not picky

I watched Stand By Me last night and it gave me ALL KINDS OF ED EDD N EDDY FEELS. 

So, of course, I had to do a crossover. xD