Ginrai Posted March 30, 2009 Posted March 30, 2009 We have a new podcast up! http://www.destroyallpodcastsdx.com It's about Mamoru Oshii's latest film, The Sky Crawlers, where people who are permanently teenagers fly warplanes and try to kill each other! If you like incredibly detailed backgrounds and HD anime graphics, this is your movie! If you like alternate history stories about obscure World War II airplanes that only flew once in the real world, this is your movie! If you like ice cold girls who suddenly go crazy and drunkenly make out with you in a car while pointing a gun to your head, this is your movie! Quote
wolfx Posted March 30, 2009 Posted March 30, 2009 We have a new podcast up! http://www.destroyallpodcastsdx.com It's about Mamoru Oshii's latest film, The Sky Crawlers, where people who are permanently teenagers fly warplanes and try to kill each other! If you like incredibly detailed backgrounds and HD anime graphics, this is your movie! If you like alternate history stories about obscure World War II airplanes that only flew once in the real world, this is your movie! If you like ice cold girls who suddenly go crazy and drunkenly make out with you in a car while pointing a gun to your head, this is your movie! How about for ppl who like Basset hounds? I skipped through and noticed the damn dog is better animated than the humans. Quote
eugimon Posted March 30, 2009 Posted March 30, 2009 How about for ppl who like Basset hounds? I skipped through and noticed the damn dog is better animated than the humans. that's because he's more interesting than the humans. Quote
Renato Posted March 30, 2009 Posted March 30, 2009 I liked the song at the end of the podcast. But as I said before, there's no way I'm ever watching another Oshii film again. He ruined Patlabor with the second film, I hated GitS and Innocence and I will never, ever forgive him for Tachiguishi-Retsuden, the most godawful, boring film I have ever, ever seen. Ever. I've been on an Oshii boycott since then. One thing, though. I heard from my friend that in the novel, you don't know the actual gender of the protagonist until the very end of the book, which I thought was quie ingenious... I guess that aspect is out the window for the film, though. Maybe not? I dunno, I guess any answer would ruin the movie so don't feel like you need to reply to that point. Quote
Ginrai Posted March 30, 2009 Author Posted March 30, 2009 How about for ppl who like Basset hounds? I skipped through and noticed the damn dog is better animated than the humans. Some of the animation on the characters gets kind of crappy and low framerate a few times which was really odd and bothered us and that's why we complained about it on the podcast. Quote
Ginrai Posted March 30, 2009 Author Posted March 30, 2009 (edited) But as I said before, there's no way I'm ever watching another Oshii film again. He ruined Patlabor with the second film, I hated GitS and Innocence and I will never, ever forgive him for Tachiguishi-Retsuden, the most godawful, boring film I have ever, ever seen. Ever. I've been on an Oshii boycott since then. Well, half the time I totally hate Oshii and the podcasts on those movies are full of me screaming about how terrible he is (see the recent Angel's Egg, Stray Dogs, Red Spectacles, Dallos, et cetera) and half I really enjoy, even though nearly all of his movies are pretty slow. I also thought the second Patlabor was totally boring and crappy and was just a really dull movie about commuting to work. I like the first Ghost in the Shell, but Innocence infuriates me because everyone is totally out of character and all their dialogue is like their brains are connected to wikipedia and they are just spewing out the entries for various philosophers. Yuck. As for Tachiguishi Retsuden, I have only been able to find with a really rough engrish sub from some HK pirate release. Were you able to get it with a proper subtitle? I haven't been able to sit through it with that engrish sub. I actually really quite like Shin Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden, but it's a series of live action shorts and Oshii only directed two of six and the shortest ones. Kenji Kamiyama (director/writer of Ghost in the Shell/Stand Alone Complex) directed and starred in one and I don't know who directed the one about the snowcone seller in the cornfield but I thought it was totally gorgeous and brilliant. Oh, I had no subtitles at all for Shin Onna either but very little of it was dialogue-heavy and it really has nothing to do with the Tachiguishi Retsuden story whatsoever. The cowboy gunfight one was lots of fun too. The four by other people just have the loose concept of someone trying to get free fast food and Oshii's two have nothing to do with fast food whatsoever. I can see why you'd boycott Oshii. I've certainly been burned by him many times, but I am totally fascinated by the way he can make something I love and something I totally HATE and jump back and forth between these two states all the time. It's not like he just declined, it's like he has a split personality and you never know when EVIL Oshii will be in the driver's seat. One thing, though. I heard from my friend that in the novel, you don't know the actual gender of the protagonist until the very end of the book, which I thought was quie ingenious... I guess that aspect is out the window for the film, though. Maybe not? I dunno, I guess any answer would ruin the movie so don't feel like you need to reply to that point. No clue. I haven't read the novel. Is there some way to get it in ENGLISH? Not that it's much of a spoiler but you can definitely tell what gender every character in this movie is. It's not like it's The Crying Game or something. It doesn't ruin the movie in any way shape or form. And yeah, one thing about Oshii's films is that Kenji Kawai usually does the music and most of the time he is wonderful, with the exception of Red Spectacles that sounds like some crappy 90's direct to video action flick and Stray Dog which is boring Spanish guitar for two hours, but that movie is probably the dullest thing I've seen in my life. Edited March 30, 2009 by Ginrai Quote
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