wolfx Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/skycrawlers/ Mamoru Oshii of Production I.G (that's GITS guy to most of u) will be the director of this film. Based on some Japanese light novels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Crawlers Should be interesting. Quote
Radd Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 Too bad the teaser doesn't show anything except the cloudscape in a slow zoom. Still, Oshii? Production I.G.? Alternate history? Dogfighting? I like what I hear so far. Quote
wolfx Posted June 26, 2007 Author Posted June 26, 2007 From the small images of the novels u can see abit of the fighters....looks cool. Quote
eugimon Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 Nice, while i'm a fan of Oshii's GitS movies, I hope these turn out a little less obtuse than GitS 2. Quote
EXO Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 Mamori Oshii sucks donkey balls. All his films are pretentious and boooooooring. They always seem like they're playing in half the speed so we can be in awe of the amazing animation. I rather have an IV dripping with ether than watch his so called films. Even the title sounds slow... Quote
Sumdumgai Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 I didn't like Avalon that much, didn't bother to watch GITS2, and I'll wait to watch a trailer that has stuff besides clouds... Quote
lord_breetai Posted June 27, 2007 Posted June 27, 2007 I didn't like Avalon that much, didn't bother to watch GITS2, and I'll wait to watch a trailer that has stuff besides clouds... What time period is this alternate history? Be it steampunk? Quote
ShadowerV2 Posted June 27, 2007 Posted June 27, 2007 Mamori Oshii sucks donkey balls. All his films are pretentious and boooooooring. They always seem like they're playing in half the speed so we can be in awe of the amazing animation. I rather have an IV dripping with ether than watch his so called films. Even the title sounds slow... I watched his Live Action movie Keberos Panzer Cops: Stray Dogs. Holy hell that put me to sleep. Quote
T.V. Posted June 27, 2007 Posted June 27, 2007 (edited) Consider me interested. I'm probably one of the few that relishes Oshii's laid back style. I'm a fan of slowly unfolding exposition and bird flock scenes. Edited June 27, 2007 by T.V. Quote
konimon Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 (edited) I've read somewhere that this is the first Oshii movie that he didn't write the script by himself. I wonder how this is going to turn out... Edited June 28, 2007 by konimon Quote
wolfx Posted February 27, 2008 Author Posted February 27, 2008 The teaser is out. Looks promising. http://sky.crawlers.jp/index.html http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-...-movie-streamed Quote
Renato Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 I wish Oshii would just stick to writing his essays and stuff because I'm sure he has important things to say but I hate the way he (mis)uses the animation medium by hardly having any actual "animation" in them, in order to say them. One of his films is called "Talking Heads" -- well, they should ALL be called that, because he is the ruling king of overly long-winded motion-less dialogue scenes. As much as I enjoyed Patlabor 1, I'll never get back the time I spent watching his last movie, "Tachiguishi-Retsuden". Even the presence of Shoji Kawamori playing a curry expert (!) couldn't save me from indescribable boredom, the likes of which I wouldn't wish on Satan's dog. Heaven forbid I actually see this thing. By the time the movie ends I would probably end up looking like Oshii himself. To paraphrase Michael Moore: "Yawn to you, Mr. Oshii, yawn to you". Quote
wolfx Posted February 27, 2008 Author Posted February 27, 2008 I wish Oshii would just stick to writing his essays and stuff because I'm sure he has important things to say but I hate the way he (mis)uses the animation medium by hardly having any actual "animation" in them, in order to say them. One of his films is called "Talking Heads" -- well, they should ALL be called that, because he is the ruling king of overly long-winded motion-less dialogue scenes. At least he had dialogue. Remember the infamous scenes in Evangelion in the lift and Kaworu's death scene. But noted, i don't really like Oshii's abuse of the anime medium either. But Sky Crawlers looks stunning in the animation department at least and its a love story....there's really little where he can go wrong....or maybe i'm speaking too soon? Quote
Scream Man Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 i think it looks cool, other than the fact the planes look kind of like Devestators from Crimson Skies. Quote
Vifam7 Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 Judging by the cockpit panel and silhouette of the aircraft in the trailer, I'd say the alternate timeline would be somewhere around late 1945 or 1946-ish. The aircraft silhouette looked like that for the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden Quote
yellowlightman Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 Reminds me a bit of Royal Space Force. Oshii is really hit or miss, but I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. If nothing else, it looks gorgeous. Quote
PetarB Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 I'm lucky enough to have met Mamoru Oshii at a film festival a few years back. Very charistmatic nice guy, and got a lot of laughs, even through a translator. But a lot of his film underwhelm me, really hit and miss, in my opinion. Moments of poetry... and moments of yawndom. Quote
TSP Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) Double post! Sorry! Edited March 1, 2008 by TSP Quote
TSP Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) Judging by the cockpit panel and silhouette of the aircraft in the trailer, I'd say the alternate timeline would be somewhere around late 1945 or 1946-ish. The aircraft silhouette looked like that for the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden I thought so too first. But the interior is a lot more modern than in the Shinden. Edited March 1, 2008 by TSP Quote
gerwalk25 Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 From what I've seen it has a little Crimson Skies elements in the mix. Quote
TSP Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) Kotobukiya announced they're making a kit of the plane seen in the 2nd trailer. Platz Hobby also show interest in this movie and it's designs. New kit announcement Edited March 1, 2008 by TSP Quote
electric indigo Posted March 2, 2008 Posted March 2, 2008 2008 = year of aircraft kits overkill for me. Macross F, Sky Crawlers, and the two new Platz kits from Yukikaze - IF they ever are released... Quote
Warmaker Posted March 2, 2008 Posted March 2, 2008 Mamoru Oshii's hit or miss with me also. For one, he has been a big player in some older shows that I loved, like the Patlabor series and OVAs. On the other hand, stuff like the Ghost In The Shell movies were yawntastic to me, despite the nice animation. So I'll wait and see from a distance on this. Quote
wolfx Posted March 29, 2008 Author Posted March 29, 2008 Trailer From Tokyo Anime Festival http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvLAFL0Kg8 It has good potential since it looks beautiful.....but god....oshii.... Quote
Mr March Posted March 29, 2008 Posted March 29, 2008 Not much to go on, but looks interesting. Oshii is fantastic, so I'm definitely curious. Quote
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 SHINDENS! Hopefully this is good, the only exposure to Oshii's work for me is the first GITS, which I liked but it was long. Quote
Ginrai Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 (edited) God I'm so glad people agree with me about Oshii. Everyone acts like he's some unassailable genius. I think he's capable of some really beautiful filmmaking, but he's also capable of boring me to sleep. He needs an editor or a producer or someone like that with a firm hand to control him. When he works with someone else who keeps him from doing things like that, the works are brilliant. See: Patlabor, Jin-Roh, et cetera. The difference between Jin-Roh (riveting) and Stray Dog (incredibly boring) is amazing. Even so, maybe this will be one of the good ones. Edited March 30, 2008 by Ginrai Quote
Gubaba Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 I haven't seen as much of Oshii's work as I should have, but I love Beautiful Dreamer...it's weird, it's slow, it feels like it's twice as long as the running time states it is, but it works! I'll definitely be checking Sky Crawlers out. Quote
Ginrai Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 I like Beautiful Dreamer and Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor, but I hate Dallos and Stray Dogs and some of his other works. It's definitely hit and miss. Quote
Gubaba Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 I like Beautiful Dreamer and Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor, but I hate Dallos and Stray Dogs and some of his other works. It's definitely hit and miss. Beautiful Dreamer and Patlabor are awesome...I thought Ghost in the Shell was good, but I couldn't get rid of the nagging feeling that Manga Entertainment gave Oshii a bunch of money and said, "We want another Akira." Ihaven't seen Dallos or Stray Dogs. I tried to watch Talking Head...but it was raw, and my Japanese simply isn't good enough to keep up. I can't imagine I'd like it much better subbed, though... Anyway, Oshii is definitely an auteur, and like most auteurs, his output can be really inconsistent. God bless 'im when he's good, though. Quote
electric indigo Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 It looks like Bandai will cover Sky Crawlers in their EX models line http://www.geocities.jp/hobby_show_album/j...ka2008/0225.htm So we have actually competition between Kotobukiya, Fine Molds and Bandai. This will be interesting. And I love the Shinden and Focke-Wulf redesigns. Quote
electric indigo Posted May 21, 2008 Posted May 21, 2008 Fine Molds revealed a prototype for a 1/48 Sanka Mk. B http://www.hlj.com/hlj_gallery2/v/shizuoka...G_0027.JPG.html Quote
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