2009-03-02, 22:37 | Link #62 |
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Horribly depressing, but in an extremely satisfying way...Thats what I'll go with as far as kneejerk final impressions from just viewing it are concerned.
One last note though...The aerial footage .especially with some of the larger formations was just fan-f*ckingtastic...wow...
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2009-03-03, 09:41 | Link #63 | |
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Btw, I'm a fan of GitS: Innocence to the point of raving. I think the movie features the kind of background imagery only Beyond the Cloud can match and no other animated feature came remotely close at matching. Getting through the story was easy after witnessing such visual delight.
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2009-03-03, 13:46 | Link #64 |
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This movie made me sad in a way that....it means these Kildrens will fight this meaningless and absurd war forever, looping again and again until the concept of being human has no meaning at all. It is depressingly bleak.
The commercialization of violence is also hinted here, people become careless with meaning of death since things is for sale, even human souls in Sky Crawlers. My head is spinning thinking on how inhumane on whole setting is. Spoiler for Spoiler for Kusanagi:
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2009-03-04, 14:34 | Link #68 |
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He is....his refusal to look at incoming pilots to the bar is a sign of his mental exhaustion. The sorrowful look with thousand yard stare of him is very compelling if you think further. Unlike the villagers who played ignorance, he did feel something is not right with the setup.
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2009-03-04, 15:32 | Link #70 |
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It is pretty tough movie to watch for me since the moral dissonance is so pungent. Mamoru Oshii just present the story as it is, so is the novelist... just the whole idea behind this movie just sickens me so much. Humanity is truly on the brink of moral bankruptcy in Sky Crawlers. Hence my empathy for the exhausted old man in the bar.
It is a good movie no doubt but it is hard to stomach for me.
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2009-03-04, 17:48 | Link #71 | |
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Make sure you watch it soon. It's one movie that should not be missed.
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2009-03-05, 04:11 | Link #72 |
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It's the typical Japanese War-is-horrible-pacifist bollocks. Clones of the Teacher to keep the fighting going forever?? I say it's just a convenient way for the writer to make the movie seem deep while having no real depth at all. All the different technologies mixed together with the WW2 setting is just an easy cop-out for forsaking research and creative thought that could have made a cohesive, original, fantasy-like setting or a series period-piece.
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2009-03-05, 05:18 | Link #73 |
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I don't know about this one. I *liked* it, but it sure as hell was not the best anime movie I've seen. FAR from it in fact...
For one, the dourness is typical in a Mamoru Oshii is there, but it sort of seems misplaced. Characters angsting out over cigarettes (I don't trust anyone who doesn't smoke! Give me a smoke. Got a smoke? Can I smoke? SMOKE-PLEASE?) was not only weird, but seemed just unnecessary. A lot of the dialogue was just there to make an 'adult' mood about things instead of focusing more about the theme of the story it seemed. And of course, the main plot.... oh where do I even begin.... it's like the entire reasoning for the pilots is like a deus ex machina. For one, we are magically supposed to assume that they're immortal due to medicines or something. Then we have two companies engaging in an OPEN HOSTILE WARFARE and the rest of the populace just sits around with this, all fine and dandy. And finally, they're in a Western European nation (let's just say.... The UK), and the pilots are all Japanese? HUH? It had some moments of good moments, but this movie just felt overlong and the plotdevices are either pointless or just came out of the thin air. Oshii wasted too much time with idle and mindless chatter and unnecessary moments (10 minutes of BOWLING? come on..) took away from what could have been more respectable as a film. TWO HOURS for such little substance as far as the plot and even characterizations? It could've been 1 hour and do everything the main plot set out to do. |
2009-03-05, 08:52 | Link #74 | |
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I can't blame anyone for disliking the slow nature of pretty much every scene in this film, though personally it's one of the parts that i loved so much about it. It's the fact that it didn't have to roll at a normal pace, i loved it for doing something that stands out --- something that Oshii is known for doing. As for the smoking, it was a good connection between the cast. Especially Kannami and Kusanagi.
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2009-03-05, 11:39 | Link #75 | |
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But for f*ck sake, at least have the courtesy to use spoiler tags where necessary. The movie has barely opened in few cinemas worldwide, R1 DVDs are not yet released, and though the torrent is out at your usual places, you can bet many people have not yet seen the movie. Have some consideration dammit. |
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2009-03-05, 13:25 | Link #76 | |
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2009-03-06, 03:32 | Link #77 | |
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2009-03-06, 07:30 | Link #78 | |
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And yeah, the smoking had a weird correlation with Kanami and Kusanagi.. weird in that Mamoru Oshii way. Also that weird Basset Hound fetish of Oshii's... |
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2009-03-06, 10:16 | Link #79 | ||
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When it comes to anime, movies or TV programmes, it's very hard to make a show that is both intelligent and entertaining. Usually, most go for the latter: It's easier to entertain people than it is to make them think. That's the exact same problem Oshii suffers as a film-maker. He makes intelligent, but extremely boring, movies. So, yes, I don't blame anyone for hating The Sky Crawlers for being a tedious show, because it is. It expects too much of its audience and it proves that, in the end, it's hard for a leopard to change its spots: Oshii remains very much a self-indulgent storyteller. Frankly, I do sympathise with you. It's not surprising that all you got from the movie is the message, "War is Hell!", because a lot of its plot is left unspoken; it's been delivered in those pregnant pauses first made famous by the late playwright Harold Pinter, and used frequently in Japanese shows, probably because it fits their stoic national character so well. At the same time, though, it also indicates that you had not watched the movie closely enough, to understand why quite a number of people think it's a critical — if not a commercial — success. Is that the film-maker's fault, or his audience's? In my opinion, both are equally to blame. The former for being inscrutable; the latter for not trying hard enough to see the few details that he does carefully reveal. Quote:
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Well, I'm looking forward to try see this flick because there's Kikuchi and Kuriyama doing VA roles but...
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In short, this flick will require me a huge mug of coffee.
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