Director: Fuminori Kizaki (Afro Samurai)
Stars: Samuel L Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Deep Blue Sea)
Lucy Liu (Kill Bill: Volume 1, Charlie's Angels)
YesNoSoso: 2
It's just as good as the first Afro Samurai. I've said it before and I'll say it again: if the title alone doesn't make you want to see it, you're reading the wrong movie blog. If knowing it stars Samuel L Jackson as the voice of Afro and that the music is done by RZA doesn't make you GZA in your pants a little bit, close the browser and open up perezhilton.com. That is all.
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Showing posts with label Anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anime. Show all posts
4/14/09
Akira (1988)
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo (some Japanese anime shit I've never heard of)
Stars: No One (There are multiple different versions with different voices, none of which I've heard of)
YesNoSoso: 0
Akira is the Citizen Kane of Anime in that it fundamentally changed the artform. Before Akira, Japanese animation generally cut costs on the visual effects, animated just the moving mouths and not to the words they were saying (think the cartoon on the TV that Butch falls asleep to in Pulp Fiction). Then Akira came along and painted, for the time, illustrious visuals with complex moving parts. But by today's standards, the animation is crappy and combined with the rough translation, makes for an unenjoyable movie experience. Although reading the wikipedia synopsis of the plot made me want view it a second time (the plot sounds pretty cool), all I had to do was remember how I struggled through it the first time to curb that desire. If you are a movie buff and would like the cross "seeing the movie that made Anime" then see it, if not, don't.
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Stars: No One (There are multiple different versions with different voices, none of which I've heard of)
YesNoSoso: 0
Akira is the Citizen Kane of Anime in that it fundamentally changed the artform. Before Akira, Japanese animation generally cut costs on the visual effects, animated just the moving mouths and not to the words they were saying (think the cartoon on the TV that Butch falls asleep to in Pulp Fiction). Then Akira came along and painted, for the time, illustrious visuals with complex moving parts. But by today's standards, the animation is crappy and combined with the rough translation, makes for an unenjoyable movie experience. Although reading the wikipedia synopsis of the plot made me want view it a second time (the plot sounds pretty cool), all I had to do was remember how I struggled through it the first time to curb that desire. If you are a movie buff and would like the cross "seeing the movie that made Anime" then see it, if not, don't.
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3/18/09
Spirited Away (2001)
Director: Hazao Miyazaki (Ponyo on the Cliff, Princess Mononoke [I haven't seen either but I hear they are amazing])
Stars: Daveigh Chase (Donnie Darko, Artificial Intelligence: AI)
James Marsden ("Afro Samurii", "Blossom")
YesNoSoso: 2
This is a kids movie. If you can't watch a movie and appreciate it in spite of it not being your favorite genre then you will not like this movie. It doesn't include jokes only adults will understand like the Pixar movies do, but it is incredible none-the-less. Miyazaki has been enjoying immense popularity in Japan for some time now, and if you want further proof of his established reverence look and at the cast of actors that did voice work for the English version of Ponyo on the Cliff. If you can get past the cheesy Japanese-to-English, made-for-children dialogue, you'll be treated to a (and this is really gonna sound fanboy geek) an amazingly inventive world, as visually stunning as it is original.
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Stars: Daveigh Chase (Donnie Darko, Artificial Intelligence: AI)
James Marsden ("Afro Samurii", "Blossom")
YesNoSoso: 2
This is a kids movie. If you can't watch a movie and appreciate it in spite of it not being your favorite genre then you will not like this movie. It doesn't include jokes only adults will understand like the Pixar movies do, but it is incredible none-the-less. Miyazaki has been enjoying immense popularity in Japan for some time now, and if you want further proof of his established reverence look and at the cast of actors that did voice work for the English version of Ponyo on the Cliff. If you can get past the cheesy Japanese-to-English, made-for-children dialogue, you'll be treated to a (and this is really gonna sound fanboy geek) an amazingly inventive world, as visually stunning as it is original.
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2/19/09
Afro Samurai (2007)
Director: Takashi Okazaki (He was the creator, hasn't really done anything else)
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, xXx)
Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Looney Tunes: Back in Action)
YesNoSoso: 2
If the title alone doesn't instantly make you want to watch this movie than you should exit from this blog and go pick up a copy of Tiger Beat. Afros? Good. Samurai? Good. Awesome anime fight sequences? Good. Music by RZA? Great. Granted, it isn't really a movie (more of a TV miniseries) and the dialogue is a little anime style cheezy, but all the aforementioned "Good"'s more than make up.
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Stars: Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, xXx)
Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Looney Tunes: Back in Action)
YesNoSoso: 2
If the title alone doesn't instantly make you want to watch this movie than you should exit from this blog and go pick up a copy of Tiger Beat. Afros? Good. Samurai? Good. Awesome anime fight sequences? Good. Music by RZA? Great. Granted, it isn't really a movie (more of a TV miniseries) and the dialogue is a little anime style cheezy, but all the aforementioned "Good"'s more than make up.
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1/2/09
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Director: Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell 2, some other Japanese shit I've never heard of)
Stars: Its animation and I don't recognize anyone
YesNoSoso: 2
I was, I repeat was, one of those anti-Anime snobs who classified those who enjoyed the artform as super nerds on par with Star Trek (ed: only the trek is for losers, JEDI's 4EVA!). I softened my stance on it when I was exposed to the potential awesomeness of it in Kill Bill. The only other full length Anime I've ever seen was Spirited Away, which I thought was incredible, so I don't have much to compare it too. This movie was much more story than the child wonderment of Spirited Away. It was still very visually appealing, but with more of a plot.
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Stars: Its animation and I don't recognize anyone
YesNoSoso: 2
I was, I repeat was, one of those anti-Anime snobs who classified those who enjoyed the artform as super nerds on par with Star Trek (ed: only the trek is for losers, JEDI's 4EVA!). I softened my stance on it when I was exposed to the potential awesomeness of it in Kill Bill. The only other full length Anime I've ever seen was Spirited Away, which I thought was incredible, so I don't have much to compare it too. This movie was much more story than the child wonderment of Spirited Away. It was still very visually appealing, but with more of a plot.
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