Don't know whether I should've put it in anime or here but:
Steamboy:
Just watched it on crackle. Gotta admit, I loved this. I love the whole steampunk vibe it has(I think that is my favorite era of time to look at, especially with how far it's taken in movies like this). Though kinda wish somehow this was a tv series. I feel like i need more steampunk anime now...
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bogusmeatfactory wrote:Ever feel like a wild gazelle in the wilderness?
MrPopo wrote:I totally read that poster as saying that Steamboy will save the future from the director of Akira.
You know what i never noticed the Akira part....I thought something about it looked awfully like something else I've seen before. But that is a interesting way to read the poster XD I feel like I need to see other stuff this director has worked on now....
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My systems: NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, original gba, gba sp(001), ds lite, 3ds, vita, psp, PSone(101 model) ps2, ps3(320gb model), ps4, retron 5, and Dreamcast.
bogusmeatfactory wrote:Ever feel like a wild gazelle in the wilderness?
Been meaning to watch Steamboy for some time. At one point, they DID have a DVD copy for sale at Food Lion, along with FF7:AC on DVD, but neither was in the system at the time (WTF?) and I couldn't buy them at the time.
I've never seen Steamboy and don't have much interest in it. Yeah, Katsuhiro Otomo directed it, but I don't think I've heard anyone tell me it's anything seriously amazing. There was a lot of buzz when it was first released but doesn't seem to be a title that folks are talking about 12 years later. I remember the nerd-club I was in in college attempted to show it around three times and each time there was some technical glitch or scheduling conflict and I take this as the universe's way of saying that I don't need to watch Steamboy.
But thinking about it, I've seen bad movies by interesting filmmakers before. I should give it a chance! MAYBE 2016 WILL BE THE YEAR I WATCH STEAMBOY.
Ack wrote:
Nemoide wrote:I guess you'll have to watch Eraserhead or Tetsuo: The Iron Man next. If you thought THX-1138 was hard to follow...
Eraserhead is a man struggling to deal with relationships and coping with marriage and fatherhood.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a man struggling with his homosexuality until he finally embraces it.
(Out of fear of having my film-snob credentials questioned, I feel the need to point out that I am well aware that those are the themes. But in terms of movies with straightforward Hollywood-style narrative-plotting, they don't really have that!)
Nemoide wrote:I've never seen Steamboy and don't have much interest in it. Yeah, Katsuhiro Otomo directed it, but I don't think I've heard anyone tell me it's anything seriously amazing. There was a lot of buzz when it was first released but doesn't seem to be a title that folks are talking about 12 years later.
I remember there being a lot of hype behind it due to a long production time and whatnot - basically, trying to raise the bar from Akira with regard to animation. I didn't watch it when it was new though, and when I finally did get around to seeing it, I wasn't all that impressed. It's visually great, to be sure, but the actual story is maybe okay-ish. 'course, that's likely true of quite a lot of anime
