Posted: 10/23/2005 6:37:45 PM EDT
| I watched this last night with the gf last night. Needless to say.... it was quite an odd film. From what I know, most anime fans own this movie but I would actually recommend it for general watchers. I didn't think it was as good as Heavy Metal, but still a good movie to watch if you like cartoon flicks. |
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It was one of the first Anime's i watched. Primarily because of the graphics. Very impressed then - watched it a few years back. Some other Anime titles with way cool graphics are AppleSeed and Ghost in the Shell. As always, the story lines are a bit "complicated".  But the graphics are great! Check out the "tank" with the mini-gun scene in AppleSeed. 
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Gasaraki Is a decent one for the art. I never watched the whole thing... it was subbed and I hate reading subs. The Mechs in this one were pretty cool and a little more believable than say something like Neon Genesis, which is cool in its own right. Vampire Hunter D was cool, although I think it's a little dated now. The sequel sucked, much like the follow-ups to Ghost in the Shell. Akira was cool, but I've seen it so many times I'm pretty well sick of it. I always like the Guyver series of anime cartoons. More a TV show than a movie. Seems like Anime is really getting played out now that that manga style of art is used in so much of what you see on Cartoon Network and such. |
You said it Path. It is the graphics / artwork that usually catches my eye. Reading through the subs on the sometimes "far out" story lines can be an effort.  I got to watch Vampire Hunter when i got one for the wifeys nephew. The storyline was more "normal" and understandable.  I bought him this other one ... can't recall the title but it was something like a "samurai" flick. Not Samurai X. Got really surprised when they had an ugly dude raping a sexy girl on it!  . Told the wifey to be sure to warn the mom of the nephew about the x scenes!
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"Samurai champloo" (2004) ? Ninja Scroll? I always liked Wicked City. Pretty bizzare. |
I will check that out. Just watched AppleSeed again. Really great graphics and artists concept of the guns, robots and especially the C130 cum osprey. |
There's the 1980's Appleseed with crappier animation, and the 2004 one with vastly improved animation. Ninja scroll is pretty funny. |
I think I saw the 80's one then because I saw it in like 94 or so. Yeah, I seem to recall it being a letdown because the box art was pretty awesome but the actual animation art was fairly lame. Doesn't the newer version have a lot of computer animation in it? |
Back in high school I let my 10th grade government teacher barrow my copy of Akira. After he watched it he decided to show it to his classes. I remember at the part where they light that guy up using L85's all the the girls in the class made this funny eek noise all at the same time  I cant remember why exactly he wanted to show it anyway eehh oh well 
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Ok ... now I get it. I always simply associated Japanese Cartoons for ANIME. Now that i've read its "history", I now understand that the term "anime" is more of a description of the style or method of the animation. And to answer Path's question .... Yes, it was CGI. |
Yeah. I've never been an animation "purist" when it comes to CGI, but I really prefer hand/computer drawn cell animation over full-fledged CGI. It is much less jarring to see a less detailed drawn animation vs a CGI that tries to look photo realistic (and fails). It was a good show, however! |
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Good Stuff.... SCIFI Stuff: Neon Genesis Evangelion (Really freaky stuff...need to be on something STRONG to hable) Armitage Dual Matrix (1st movie) Armitage III:PolyMatrix (2nd Movie) Ghost in the Shell (1st Movie) Ghost in the Shell:Innocence (2nd Movie) Ghost in the Shell Series Full Metal Panic Series RahXephon Series Fantasy/Horror Stuff: Escaflowne HellSing Series uh......... drawing a blank now.. i'll have to add more as I think of them. |