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This is the most criminally underrated movie of all time


Goddamn, how can someone in this world dislike this film????? Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick and Genndy Tartakovsky would be proud if they watch this film, because it captures perfectly their vision with their films (Blade Runner, 2001: Space Odyssey, The Clockwork Orange and Stalker).

Most people when praise Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis they often mention the art direction and forget to mention the vision this movie shows to the public. The way it criticize the future, the human nature and the terrible fate mankind's awaiting is simply genious. What I liked the most about this movie is how the 'villain' became the savior in the end and how he was the hero since the beginning. Rock knew what would happen if the Duke Red gave Tima the control of the ziggurat and tried to stop it. This Rock's quote is mindblowing: "It's you (the Duke Red) who should sit on the throne."

He means if the world is meant to be conquered, it should be controlled by human hands and not something you can't control. This theory reinforces the Terminator 2 one as well (Skynet became conscious and destroy the world). But here, Rock knew since the beginning that the human must control themselves, not a machine, not someone who can't speak for the human race.

The no-heart Tima is brilliant as well. Tima is an innocent, cute little girl who don't know the power she have on her hands, she even believe herself to be a real human girl. In my opinion, her innocent personality indicate the innocence and the impossibility of human race to control such huge power when is 'pure and docile'. Like saying: "When human race is fine with itself, they don't need this power." Rock says: "How can a baby like you sit in the throne?", referring to the 'docile' personality of Tima, knowing that she can't control such power because she's pure and innocent and don't have the coldness and ambition to rule the world.

When she became 'conscious', she lost her heart and turned back against the humans who created them. This is a metaphor on the human race when they become greedy and power-hunger (just as the members of the party are), they lost their humanity (heart) in exchange for domination and control.

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Of course, the ending is a piece of art. Yes, this theme was used before in 2001: Space Odyssey, Terminator series and Matrix series (machines turning back on humans), but here it's on another level. The sheer brilliance of the scene with the Ray Charles song and the meaning of it. Mankind reached the climax of it's technology superiority with the ziggurat but in the end all did wrong and fall down. Unlike Terminator and Matrix, the machines didn't conquered the world and both human's and machines's tools of domination were destroyed. Or... it could be a metaphor from a robot uprising foiled by human hands.

But what makes Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis so unique is the mythology that Tima and Rock create and the 'what if the machines didn't conquered the world' ending that many Terminator and Matrix fans certainly thought about on it. I consider this as one of the best movies of all time. Osamu Tezuka would be proud if he was alive at the time, unlike what the producers told, because this fits perfectly his vision not only on this original manga work, but in his other works.

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Great review there, and I agree completely. What I loved the most about this film was the song "I Can't Stop Loving You" played over all the destruction at the climax. Who ever thought of that was a genius!

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Couldn't agreee more. And like Wastedyute the use of 'I can't stop loving you' was inspired.

Life isn't a rehearsal, so make this one your best performance

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It is abosolutely gorgeous, and I saw this movie when I was 11. A good friend of mine gave it to me for a christmas Gift that year, and I can say happily that the movie is a great treat to the eyes and to the senses, as well as its sentiments on the future.

and BTW, I truly enjoy your signature, My thoughts exactly.

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Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick and Genndy Tartakovsky would be proud if they watch this film, because it captures perfectly their vision with their films (Blade Runner, 2001: Space Odyssey, The Clockwork Orange and Stalker).
Did Genndy Tartakovsky make Stalker before or after Samurai Jack?


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My bad, it's Andrei Tarkovsky actually. LOL!

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I agree 100 %!

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Really glad you wrote this review! I really love this film, after I have watched it as a child, I have always recommended it to friends.
The one scene always stuck with me, the scene when Tima realizes who Kenichi was, but it was too late.
And the song is at the end is so heartbreaking and basically sums up the whole experience of the movie nicely.

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Saying you don't like anime is just as silly as saying you don't like American animated movies or European live-action. A generalization, nothing more.



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You obviously don't have a clue about anime, and are judging thousands of anime movies and shows on the couple you have seen. Like I said, it's a generalization, nothing more.
You even admitted to liking this one, so what makes you think there aren't any other anime like this out there?



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I can't stand when people make dumb generalizations. It's just as stupid as people saying they don't like USA animated movies. Exact same thing.



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An uninformed, simple-minded opinion, but yeah I guess that still counts. Have fun generalizing.



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And like I said, I don't have a *beep* problem with people who didn't think the way I think. I have a problem with people making retarded generalizations, like you. ''Anime is *beep*, ''old music sucks'', ''action movies are dumb''. It's all the same. Those mindless, dumb generalizations are what I can't stand. I don't give a *beep* if someone dislikes some movie I like (like I said plenty times before now, but you don't seem to get this).



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Yeah. Well have fun with movies like Chicken Little and Space Chimps then. You don't seem to care about quality, just as long as it's from the US. Better leave movies like Spirited Away and Paprika to people who recognize quality, no matter what country it's from.



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That's what you said, you think anime is *beep* and you think American animation is great.
But anyway, this is getting pretty boring. Go generalize something else.



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I do accept other opinions, as long as they are informed and make sense. I don't accept dumbass generalizations made by uninformed, ignorant people who don't know what they the hell they're talking about.
Keep on misreading my posts, and keep on generalizing. You're doing a great job so far.



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Losing the argument and then accusing the other of being a ''troll''. Classic stuff. You made a dumb generalization, simple as that. Don't know why you keep denying this or keep acting as if I don't accept other opinions.



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Wow, you keep misreading my posts for some reason, or maybe you're just a really dumb person. I don't know. I'm not ''making the claim'' that you must like anime. I'm saying don't judge hundreds of anime movies and series you HAVEN'T SEEN by the couple you have. Judge every movie seperately, after watching, just like you would with live-action. I mean it's like watching Catwoman and Battlefield Earth and then assuming all American movies must suck. It's idiotic.


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You're fcking retarded.



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^Simple-minded moron who keeps making up silly stories about me for some reason. Amuses me greatly. He must be a really sore loser.

Funny how you're calling me a troll, when you're the retard who keeps spamming pointless crap.



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I explained it a couple of times, actually. You must've missed all of those posts.



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Your trolling is getting really boring. Bye retarded person.



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I don't know if I should admire you or think you're a fool when I see how long you've held that exchange, I would've given up after the second reply. Anyway some people just hate a whole genre of cinema, I've met people who hated sci-fi altogether. I believe it's their absolute right, just as it's my right to think they are extremely narrow-minded. Case closed, no need to give yourself a headache with a million replies mate.

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Hah, yeah you're right. I don't like those long, pointless arguments, but I guess I must've been bored. Never again though. :P




If you've heard of it, it's already too mainstream for me.

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I've seen it a few times, but it's a little scatter brained in terms of story telling. The scope of the film is huge, but the overall story is hard to follow at times.

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