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Big time recommendation from the folks at my local Blockbuster for this one. I tried a search and really didn't come up with anything on this board. Your thoughts on this one, please! Thanks!
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My kids LOVE that one. I CAN'T STAND it.
You decide.
Randy
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
try the reviews at www.imdb.com.My opinion? a good animation. It worth at least a rental.
You can also try Blood the Vampire and Metropolis, much better IMHO that Princess Mononoke, also recommend by James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator2). Remember Astro the Robot, well Metropolis is a prequel (in production, it's a sequel) to that TV anime series,
I really didn't care for Blood the last Vampire all that much. Saya looked like a carp, we never got the novel that went with the Japanese edition (kind of helps if you know what is going on) and some of the animation looked too plastic (except the train scene where they worked to hide the fact that it was CG). Try Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust for some good CGI (lol the scene where D catches the arrow and that one of the rooms in the castle near the end were great).If you like slow political intrigue / human nature films, try Jin Roh (have no idea what the dub is like since I watch things subbed).
For historical type pieces, try Samurai-X Trust and Betrayal (watch subbed, the dub is sort of painful).
Armitage Dual Matrix is okay but very dark and the CGI car chase scene was good, though I thought the more traditional animation of car chase scenes like in City Hunter surpassed it. Overall, I liked the original OAVs better but they won't be available on disk 'til the end of the year.
David Spear, who's an inmate and lives in Japan, recommended this series to me. I only have the first disc with four (out of 13) episodes, but they're pretty cerebral and certainly qualify as dark.I also have Ghost In A Shell, which along with Akira, is pretty action packed.
Haven't gotten around to watching my copies of Jin-Roh, Armitage: Dual Matrix, Metropolis, Blood: The Last Vampire, Princess Mononoke, or Ninja Scroll. Doing the Sopranos 3rd, lately.
Chris
Yeah, Lain is pretty strange. I rather like the unusual starkness of some of the art. The opening song "Duvet" is pretty good too. BOA had a CD called "Tall Snakes EP" (don't know if it is still available, I wound up importing it from Japan). It has 3 versions of Duvet on it... the regular opening version, a Cyberia mix (really nice dance version of it) and an acoustic mix (sounds fabulous on my maggies)Ninja Scroll, has a few cool parts but I wasn't that impressed by it. The Rurouni Kenshin OAVs are better. Also, if you like samurai stuff mixed with some legend and a touch of magic, try The Hakkenden... the artwork varies from janitorial staff (must have been short on cash at a few points) to beautiful to sort of a realistic manga style (reminds me of Blade of the Immortal). Based on an 18th-19th century novel that took 28 years to write and came out in 106 volumes. Friend of mine has a brother-in-law who has a professorship in the novel. I'd love to read it, but it has never been translated into English, though I've heard that it has recently been translated to modern Japanese (was written in the classical style). Here's a site about it http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~opaku/shogun/index.html Naturally, the anime version can't do justice to it and gets a bit confusing in places but this site should help http://members.tripod.com/~muromachi1333/main.html
I remember the recommendation for that one on the board. I did start with Seven Samurai and have been moving forward since with some movies. I have not been able to find Lain and I'm not willing to buy movies and start a collection. I have only a limited budget and I'd rather only rent what I can find.BTW, I did not like Ghost in the Shell. I started watching Metropolis last night and only got through the first hour. Not sure it is my cup of tea but I'll watch the rest since it is a 1 week rental. Akira will be next up when the person who rented it from Blockbuster returns it.
GiTS is noted for it's CGI and its philosophical questions, rather than its entertainment value. Doesn't really do justice to the manga either (that has a whole section on the components to build an artifical consciousness)... a lot of cybernetics and sci-fi blue-skying that really doesn't translate well into video. Mostly ideas about our concept of humanity, what forms this thing we call "identity" and what will happen when medical technology gets to the point that most of our bodies can be replaced (already have artifical hearts) and we become cyborgs, and if cybernetics gets to the point where machines can become self-aware, what would distinguish us from them, etc.
Not sure how many movies I'm going to be able to rent since Blockbuster doesn't carry all that many. I was able to get this one fortunately. Blockbuster has "Akira" which has been recommended to me recently but it has been rented out. Guess I could reserve it. I also now have a copy of Metropolis I rented and I plan to watch that movie very soon.I really want to see Chinese Ghost Story and I may have no choice for that one as no video stores have it that I've tried. B&N and Borders both have it for $24.99.
Akira is a strange one. I like it, but can't explain why, though I don't think it is as great a show as some would have you believe.I haven't seen Chinese Ghost Story, but I want to see The Ring. Am checking with my Japanese friends to see if Onmyouji (‰A—zŽt)is any good (has English subs so I can neuter one of my players and import a copy). Say, if you like chambara (sword-fight), sci-fi, monster, sorcerer stuff set in medieval times, you might like Makaraga / Moon over Tao. I'd class it as a grade-B sci-fi but it's fun and I enjoyed it a lot. Anyway, here's the stuff I've got so if you want to know about anything just ask
I'm sure there are plenty of US movies that I need to see but I was curious and started to watch some of the Japanese films, Seven Samurai and Ran. I also tried some of the anime but I don't think I'm going to found all that much for rental, animated or not unfortunately. I don't want to deal with netflix, that's for certain!Someone on the Hi-Rez board posted a list of Japanese films they thought were the better ones. It all started when someone asked what folks do for entertainment while waiting for SACD and DVD-A recordings to be released in full force instead of constantly listening to the same ones.
You might check Madadayo. Sort of an endearing story about a college professor and his students as they grow old, and follows him from WWII onward. Think it was Kurosawa's last film. (the title means "no not yet" and comes from the professor's memories of playing hide-and-seek on a farm when he was a boy).
That link was bad (guess they don't want you getting in before you testify that you're 18 /_-) Try this one. Click proceed and then on the next page click the word "title" to sort the listing.
...every other anime seems to have a quote from him saying it's the new era in digital animation or whatever blah blah blah
cheerio:P
Definitely worth the rental, it's a classic Japanese anime; I'm sure you'd enjoy it
Eric
Tokyo
Try searching under "Mononoke Hime" Pretty good film. Am thinking of importing "Sen to Chiciro no Kami Kakushi" as the Japanese disk has english subs, but it should be in a few theaters here in Sept. under the title "Spirited Away"
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