2009-09-28, 00:25 | Link #282 |
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
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I just rewatched the movie recently. It is possibly one of the most complete movies I have ever watched (Especially of those like anime). The movie was even better for me on the 2nd time than the first.
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2009-10-30, 23:00 | Link #283 |
Cake lover Cookie ninja
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: UK
Age: 33
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just finished watching it
Loved every single second of it - the emotion, characters, plot that kept me guessing, turns and twist that had me literally muttering "ah that's how it is". The humour is very well put, visuals are simply beautiful, I became attached to the characters 10mins into the movie. HOWEVER, the ending......I was speechless at the end. Never in my life have I felt so unsatisfied. "KISS damn it! Screw your future the girl is more important!" - that was what going through in my mind near the ending. I never really understood the value of fanfic before watching that film. Ah well I guess it was a good reality check, however I would have prefer a happy ending even if it meant it would have gone off track from becoming an anime masterpiece. It was a masterpiece.
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2009-10-31, 17:38 | Link #284 |
Son of God
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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I agree, it's a film which grabs you and doesn't let go for a moment. When watching a film at the cinema it's often an immersive experience, but this is the only film that did the same thing for me sitting at home watching the fansub on my computer.
There's a lot of clever misdirection, clues are thrown out and then immediately covered up before we twig them, this makes rewatching the film a great experience, spotting the clues hiding in plain sight. Like Chiaki's true identity. He hesitantly wants to ask Makoto a question. We know what he's going to ask, and so does she. He's going to ask her to go out with him, like he did in an earlier scene. But then: "Are you time leaping?" WTF? Here like at every point in the film we are virtually in Makoto's shoes, feeling what she feels, thinking what she thinks. The implications of what he says should be obvious, but her instant panicked time leap prevents mmediate analysis and before we can mull the matter over, Kousuke sails past on the bike and we're off on a new tack, so that when Chiaki turns up shortly after and his true identity is revealed it comes as a surprise despite the obvious implication of his earlier question about time leaping. Looking back over it, I feel we were in the hands of a master story teller who knew exactly what to tell us and when to tell it. Everything had an immediacy that left no real time for reflection, we were always alongside Makoto sharing her experiences and, like her, unable to spot what was coming.
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2009-12-10, 21:24 | Link #285 |
Mommy on a Bender
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: East Coast USA
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This movie took me by surprise and just blew me away. It's been quite some time since I bawled like a baby while watching anything. Everything from the animation to the plot and characters and music was spectacular.
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2009-12-11, 16:27 | Link #286 |
100Shots100Hits LuluLaLu
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Inside your heart...
Age: 35
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Amazing film, The characters and emotions were well thought out and explored. Most of the plot was unpredictable and satisfactory.
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2009-12-22, 14:59 | Link #290 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Moscow, RU
Age: 35
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2009-12-25, 21:08 | Link #292 |
耳をすませば
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Age: 34
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This movie was incredibly gripping right up until that scene where the main character's friend is about to be killed because of her playing around with time. I thought the tension that the story had built up right there was fantastic, and I waited with bated breath as that scene unfolded....and then we got the whole thing about there being another time traveler, about her friend being from the future, and somehow that second part of the story just never worked for me. I was left wishing that the tone of the first half could have kept going.
Anyone else feel this way or is it just me?
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2010-02-06, 22:09 | Link #294 |
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Umm... if i may, over all these pages of this thread when this particular movie's conclusion happened to be discussed and debated for fans' need for closure, which summed up meant --
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http://www.mangafox.com/manga/toki_w...c000.2/50.html? In sum, does it (not) show that Spoiler:
Is that desperation behind the becalmed, exuberant face when the following line runs by the skies' facade? Spoiler:
And yes, this state of affairs has had so many other noteworthy precedents in the history of fiction. Last edited by goutamania; 2010-02-06 at 22:42. Reason: for more clarity |
2010-03-01, 20:58 | Link #295 |
ドジ
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In a house
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Goutamania, maybe what you intend to say has a point, but it's just not getting across to me.
Excuse my triviality... but after sitting through so many screen hours of tsundere, yandere, yamato nadeshiko girls and all the other boring anime tropes you can think of... don't you think that at the end of the day, it's a whole lot more fun to hang out with girls like Makoto? (Or for that matter, Tsukishima Shizuku, the girl in Theowne's sig, from Whisper of the Heart. She's a bit too young though!) |
2010-04-07, 00:05 | Link #297 |
Djungarian Hamster
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Excellent movie with good artwork and most importantly, plot -
Wait, wait... one thing. How on earth can Makoto run towards a distant future without dying of old age, or at best becoming a hunch-backed granny? So yeah, of course she'll die. Or what is "the future?" Does Chiaki go forward, recharge his two-digit tattoo, and jump back into a "past" slightly ahead of Makoto (i.e. Makoto's future?) Somehow that sounds a bit too much like wishful thinking. Still, we only have two options: (1) Makoto turns into an old granny and/or dies, or (2) Chiaki comes back before that happens. Makoto's statement of running towards the future would mean she's happy about either option (1) or (2). But she was just crying over (1), wasn't she? Wouldn't it seem weird to be comforted if something you were just crying over was confirmed? If (1) was confirmed with the additional knowledge that Chiaki liked Makoto, I would think she would've cried even harder - though of course it's hard to analyze the character's psychology beyond this point. I can safely say, though, that (1) can be somewhat possible if she felt better just by the fact that Chiaki liked her, but (2) is more likely to be supported under the conditions that this was not the case. Anyhow, Chiaki's self-imposed exile for the sake of "not allowing others to know" is moot since Makoto knows anyways. Either way, if Chiaki only stays in the future without coming back, that would mean he's a complete idiot. And I hate anime couples where the guy is an idiot, and I refuse to believe that this awesome anime has an idiot for a supporting character, so there. A happy ending in my mind. xD Last edited by Akeii; 2010-04-07 at 00:32. |
2010-04-09, 13:51 | Link #298 | |
Me, An Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 33
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Anyway, I just saw this film now and it was awesome. Easily one of my favourites.
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