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Oroch

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"Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YAY!" , posted Mon 21 Jun 10:46

i need your reviews on a few movie

good bad or ugly

yukikaze

blood the last vampire

perfect blue

technolyze

vampire d:blood lust

heavy metal

tell me what youre watching also

真剣勝負

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Holiday

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"Re(1):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 11:04

Yukikaze
I prefer this over Macross Zero for some reason. Girls will like it too for the shounen-ai undertones? A love triangle between a man, his plane and his superior!
One of Gonzo's better offerings.

blood the last vampire
I liked the mood and animation. See Saya Slice Stuff! Pity it was so short. Like eating a nice meal and having the waiter take it away before you get to taste the best parts you're saving for last.

technolyze
I liked what I saw of it, but I've had problems getting the later episodes of Winny so I can't really rate it.
Starts of trying to make your head explode with Mostly Abstract Crap, but later on some of that crap actually looks edible.

vampire d:blood lust
I think I liked it? Can't really remember.

Stuff I'm following that I actually like (too many bad series I'm folowing for no reason (Hello Konomimi! Midori!), so I won't mention them here). O wait I just mentioned two.

Hanaukyou Maid-tai La Verite
Hi no Tori
Kenran Butoh Sai The Mars Daybreak
Koi Kaze
Melody of Oblivion
Monster
Keroro Gunso

Joe Randel
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"Re(1):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 11:04

Perfect Blue - Disturbing... yet I was unable to turn away. I recomend it.

Heavy Metal - Cult classic, Cartoon boobs, Nothing but rotoscope. See it just so you can say you saw it. Stay away from HM2 Fakk... pretend it doesn't exist.

I haven't seen the others...

As for what I'm watching, nothing really. I just watched Lost in Translation again.

Radish

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"Re(2):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 12:45

Just curious Holiday, but have you read the Monster comic or watching the show? I read it and I found the ending so lame that it ruined the entire thing for me. Maybe I'm missing something but I found it really bad. Any other opinions since I loved the series until the last book or so?

Holiday

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"Re(3):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 13:39

quote:
Just curious Holiday, but have you read the Monster comic or watching the show? I read it and I found the ending so lame that it ruined the entire thing for me. Maybe I'm missing something but I found it really bad. Any other opinions since I loved the series until the last book or so?

I wasn't crazy about the ending myself (I mean, the ending = ???), but on the whole, the series was so good that I was willing to overlook that fact.
Now go read 20th Century Boys :p

Mosquiton

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"Re(1):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 15:54

quote:
i need your reviews on a few movie

good bad or ugly

blood the last vampire - Worth watching, some cool scenes, but feels incomplete, like it's the first part of a miniseries. The animation seemed very distinctive to me at the time (a couple of years ago).

vampire d:blood lust" - I liked it a lot, with the exception of the terrible voice of D's hand (in the original English dialogue, which I believe might be the only one available to us here). It reminds me of a grown-up version of goddamn Piglet from Winny the pooh, or at least like some annoying motherfucker I'd like to punch in the face a few times. That hand completely ruined the ending for me with a cheesy line. Eat dirt and die piglet!!!

heavy metal- It's... one of those things that in this day and age you'd probably watch just for being able to be familiar with it and file it in your brain. I watched it nearly ten years ago and wasn't terribly impressed with it, although I distinctly remember a woman has consensual sex with a robot. I believe that's what really sets it apart from anime. :P

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Radish

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"Re(4):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 16:09

quote:
I wasn't crazy about the ending myself (I mean, the ending = ???), but on the whole, the series was so good that I was willing to overlook that fact.
Now go read 20th Century Boys :p

What's 20th Century Boys about?

And ??? pretty much sums up the Monster ending quite well since we're pretty much where we started (I'm guessing that's kinda the point) but with tons of people dead for no reason.

Holiday

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"Re(5):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 22:35

20th Century Boys is Naoki Urasawa latest work after completing Monster.
It's the story of Kenji as he fights to save the world from the mysterious "Friend" who aims for world domination using a plan that Kenji came up with as a child. The "Friend" is apparently one of Kenji's childhood playmates, but the reader is still left to guess who it is.

As for the ending of Monster:

Spoiler (Highlight to view) -

Yeah, we won't know if Johan will just disappear from the world or go around killing again. I guess we have to wait for the Monster novels to find out.

My guess is this:
Johan's full monster was brought out due to him absorbing Nina's experiences with Franz plus the constant feeling that he is unwanted, which was brough about by his questioning of his mother's decision as to whom to give away for the experiment.

Because he felt that he didn't deserve to exist, he wishes for the "perfect suicide". Because the monster inside of him was fully brought out, he knew how to bring the monster out of other people as well to accomplish his goal.

In a way, he did get what he wanted, with the exception of some people whom he felt deserved to be spared because of what they've done for him (Tenma, Nina, Runge in a way?). But now that he knows of his mother's existance, who know's if he's satisfied with his current condition as he still blames her for becoming what he is now (hence the question he asked Tenma in the last chapter).
So my guess is that he's after her now.

I stil feel that the real monster in this story is Franz Bonaparta and not Johan, but I think the manga also wants to say that there's a potential monster inside everyone of us.

And I was a bit disappointed that they didn't reveal he twins' real names :p
There was a lot of emphasis placed on the importance of names, so I was looking forward to it in a way.

End of Spoiler

sabo10

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"Re(1):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Mon 21 Jun 23:04

In this thread, I was hoping to find a review of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Welcone
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Please give me the Jesus advent

Ishmael

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"Re(1):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Tue 22 Jun 07:51

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blood the last vampire

I liked that the heroine was sullen, didn't take anyone's shit, and was everything a typical anime heroine is not. The problem was the high concept idea of telling different aspects of the story through manga, anime, games and whatnot didn't work and made everything feel diluted. An interesting failure.

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vampire d:blood lust

A great look and non-stop silliness which made for entertaining viewing. Sweater boy ruled.

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heavy metal

A conglomeration of stuff that was running in the Heavy Metal at the time and it certainly feels like a lumped together adaptation. Features a large amount of SCTV cast members for some odd reason. Worth seeing if for no other reason than it's a Western non-Disney cartoon that doesn't have Ralph Bakshi's greasy handprints all over it.

Sano

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"Re(1):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Tue 22 Jun 09:07:

quote:
i need your reviews on a few movie

good bad or ugly

yukikaze

blood the last vampire

perfect blue

technolyze

vampire d:blood lust

heavy metal

tell me what youre watching also

Blood the last Vampire - The Movie's like a half hour and you get to see one black dude die and another black guy try to pick up a fat white chick so here's yet another lesson on how people of color are not depicted correctly in Anime, with the exception of Cowboy Bebop, and even that's not perfect. (could of done without the watermelon episode...)As for Blood, Animation's nice, Movie's Garbage.

Perfect Blue - Now you're talking! You won't know what's real or what's fake the same time the main character doesn't know what's real or what's fake. Critics call it the Hitchcock of Anime, and they are right! A classic.

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - A gagillion times better than the original which was also good. Lots of cool monsters and beatiful artwork also makes this a must see for any monster fan.

Heavy Metal - Another classic.

[this message was edited by Sano on Tue 22 Jun 09:08]

Oroch

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"Re(2):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Tue 22 Jun 16:34

quote:

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - A gagillion times better than the original which was also good. Lots of cool monsters and beatiful artwork also makes this a must see for any monster fan.

bleh ill have to import D if its got english dialog

has anyone read the original novels? are they any good?

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Ishmael

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"Re(3):Movie Review Time! With Uncle Oroch! YA" , posted Tue 22 Jun 17:51

quote:
bleh ill have to import D if its got english dialog

While I think there is a Japanese language track floating around out there, the original language track is the English one. All hail the power of the foreign markets!