ghost in the shell 2, etc
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rivendellroseSo we went out yesterday with Neil and some of his friends to Thai food (mmmmm bean sprout supreme with beef!) and to see the premiere-thingy of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.
The movie was... interesting.
Beautiful, from a visual point of view - the backgrounds and city-scapes and all were gorgeous, the actual character animation was not my favorite style but still fairly appealing. And the music was haunting, eery, and lovely.
From a story standpoint... the plot was okay. The dialogue relied very heavily on quotations (which turned it into a game of "do I know that quote?" for me, at which I only really succeeded when they quoted from the first part of Milton's Paradise Lost), but otherwise seemed to be well-written from what little I could tell just going by the subtitles. Speaking of subtitles, there was one frustrating (and, I got the sense, highly important) moment when there was written text that the subtitler seemed to have forgotten to translate. Not nice, as it seemed to be a climactic moment and vital to understanding of the movie. Or maybe that was just my impression, since I couldn't read it.
From a full thematic standpoint, I felt that they took a really interesting, thought-provoking concept... and beat you over the head with it, essentially making it impossible to interpret the movie in any other way or add your own thinking to it. It also had a terribly creepy feel to it - I've never before had the experience of slipping out to the restroom and then feeling all creeped out in the empty restroom... although that probably has something to do with the fact that the Neptune is a creepy little theater anyway, and their bathrooms are tiny, ill-lit, and shaped very oddly. But anyway, very creepy imagery.
Also, there was (I felt) some distinct over-use of Naked Barely-Adolescent-Looking Female Androids Doing Martial Arts. Hello, Japan. Can you back off that kind of stuff PLEASE???
Long story short, it was weird, surreal, intriguing but perhaps a little too smack-you-over-the-head with the philosophical stuff, and I'm still not sure whether I actually liked it. There were moments of total awe over the visuals and music. There were moments of "what the fuck is going on???" And there were moments of "oh, quit it."
Oh, and one more thing. Do any of you anime type folks know if any of the voice actors from FMA were in this movie? I could've sworn one or two voices were familiar... Sadly, not Roy's voice actor. I looooove his voice.
The movie was... interesting.
Beautiful, from a visual point of view - the backgrounds and city-scapes and all were gorgeous, the actual character animation was not my favorite style but still fairly appealing. And the music was haunting, eery, and lovely.
From a story standpoint... the plot was okay. The dialogue relied very heavily on quotations (which turned it into a game of "do I know that quote?" for me, at which I only really succeeded when they quoted from the first part of Milton's Paradise Lost), but otherwise seemed to be well-written from what little I could tell just going by the subtitles. Speaking of subtitles, there was one frustrating (and, I got the sense, highly important) moment when there was written text that the subtitler seemed to have forgotten to translate. Not nice, as it seemed to be a climactic moment and vital to understanding of the movie. Or maybe that was just my impression, since I couldn't read it.
From a full thematic standpoint, I felt that they took a really interesting, thought-provoking concept... and beat you over the head with it, essentially making it impossible to interpret the movie in any other way or add your own thinking to it. It also had a terribly creepy feel to it - I've never before had the experience of slipping out to the restroom and then feeling all creeped out in the empty restroom... although that probably has something to do with the fact that the Neptune is a creepy little theater anyway, and their bathrooms are tiny, ill-lit, and shaped very oddly. But anyway, very creepy imagery.
Also, there was (I felt) some distinct over-use of Naked Barely-Adolescent-Looking Female Androids Doing Martial Arts. Hello, Japan. Can you back off that kind of stuff PLEASE???
Long story short, it was weird, surreal, intriguing but perhaps a little too smack-you-over-the-head with the philosophical stuff, and I'm still not sure whether I actually liked it. There were moments of total awe over the visuals and music. There were moments of "what the fuck is going on???" And there were moments of "oh, quit it."
Oh, and one more thing. Do any of you anime type folks know if any of the voice actors from FMA were in this movie? I could've sworn one or two voices were familiar... Sadly, not Roy's voice actor. I looooove his voice.
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Date: 2004-09-18 11:38 am (UTC)I don't know whether I liked it or not, either.
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Date: 2004-09-18 12:08 pm (UTC)Anyway, as for Roy's seiyuu, Ohkawa Tohru... he DOES have a really horridly retarded comedy role in the series Papuwa... I can show you some clips if you're ever interested. ^^ He's a really fairly new seiyuu tho, he hasn't done much yet. x_X Which is too bad because his voice IS so dreamy~
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Date: 2004-09-18 05:31 pm (UTC)That would be entirely too amusing, yes, please. His voice really is dreamy... and I don't usually use that word, but it's so very true this time. *Laughs*
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Date: 2004-09-19 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-19 10:26 am (UTC)