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posted 22 years ago by scolio
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HOLY F UCK! This is the best anime ever. Don't even begin to compare this movie to Akira or Ghost in the Shell, those two movies didn't have a story. Metropolis on the other hand was rich in story and the dialogue was well thought out on the subject of artificial intelligence. The art is beyond my comprehension. MAD HOUSE is the best animation studio and proves it with this beautiful movie without being to over-barring with the art ( nudge nudge ....Titan A.E. ). Unlike Titan A.E. this movie actually blends computer and hand drawn animation seamlessly. Most of the scenes seemed very real......very..very real. DON'T EVEN HESITATE TO WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!

[–] dorlago 22 years ago

Seriously dude, don't say that Ghost in the Shell and Akira didn't have any storyline; that's just plain ignorant.

[–] comorbid 22 years ago

Yeah, especially since both Akira & GITS were based on their respective manga. I'm guessing Metropolis was also based on a manga (as anime tends to be), but really...all three of these movies have a story. And I really didn't like it that much anyway. I liked Akira and GITS, though I had to watch them a few times before I caught everything I needed to pay attention to, but it only took one viewing of Metropolis for me to just say "nope, sorry."

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[–] LittleMiso 22 years ago

A diss like that to Akira and GotS is totally intolerable. How dare you say Akira and GotS have no plot. They had plenty. If you don't have a mood for a good and complex plot, then why the hell did you watch this?

[–] Rising_Zan 22 years ago

I have to agree, both Akira and GiTS had plots, and good ones at that. The problem is the immense size of the story they were trying to tell. As i recall, just the section of the Manga for Akira that was made into the movie is over 1000 pages, and there are 1000s more afterwards in the Manga. I've never seen the Manga for GiTS but I believe its rather immense as well

[–] LittleMiso 21 years ago

a good and complex plot is what all of these had. Now, if you're ashamed of yourself for what you said, then go ahead, tell us. Because Akira and GitS HAVE plots, and they're good, great.

[–] lilali786 21 years ago

akira and gits were actually good and so was metropolis.
they make me want to go to Japan, i'm not kidding
lol

[–] silentium 21 years ago

This movie isn't based on a manga, it's a vague remake of the 1927 film 'Metropolis.' By Fritz Lang. (The director of M)

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[–] LittleMiso 21 years ago

Yes, this was based on a manga. Just look at the title, it says "Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis". Why? Because it was based on his 1949 manga, Metropolis. However, director Taro Rin and screenwriter Katsuhiro Otomo added some things to it, including the character Rock (believe it or not, he is NOT in the original manga)

Tezuka stated that he never saw the 1927 film Metropolis when he was writing the manga, but got inspiration for it when he saw the poster.

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[–] mega_bio_blaster 21 years ago

Actualy, Rock is taken from another comic by the same athore. It's called Phoenix and the've allready translaited it, so if you see it, read it.
It's even more of an epic than metropolis ever was. (allthough, not nessisarily better)

[–] LittleMiso 21 years ago

Okay, after reading the manga just a few days ago, I just discovered that the title "Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis" isn't really so accurate. Pretty much, you have the characters from the manga, but not anything else, really. The manga is so much different.

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[–] jsangspar 21 years ago

Akira and GotS have shortened, destroyed plots; due to the time limits of making a feature-length film, their coherency and quality was largely sacrificed as compared to the manga. The films by themselves are barely comprehensible, with Akira being the moreso of the two.

[–] brankoburcksen 21 years ago

Just for everyones iformation: Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator and director of Akira, wrote the screenplay for Metropolis.

[–] jsangspar 21 years ago

Akira is a fine manga, and Otomo only translated Metropolis to film. Akira and GitS's collective problem was that the mangas the films were adapted from were completely unsuited to being turned into a film- as a result, what we have are two catastrophes.

Otomo is skilled, though; not ragging on him. Trying to turn Akira into a film was just a mistake unless you were prepared to go with a 4.5 hour running time. Seriously- over 2100 pages of manga cannot be condensed into 2 hours without cutting willy-nilly. The length/scale is comparable to LOTR, which received a solid 9-hour three-film treatment- you could not and would not try to put all 3 books into a single 2 hour film.