It was like watching some cheesy j-rock video. it's just as bad as any hollywood remake of an older tv show and/or movie.
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You may not have liked the story of the visuals. But to compare it to the Hollywood crap is almost a sin. Hollywood will NEVER produce somethings as risky, as alternative and as fresh! Hollywood only produces formulaic crap. Always the same formula, alwways the same tone. All commercially "safe". Hollywood doesn't make art, they make commercial poo. This movie, like it or not, is a piece of art.
By the way, the fx and backgrounds were meant to be 2D (and not 3D) in order to look like an anime. They wanted to make a live action anime and they got as close as possible to it without it actually being a cartoon.
If there is one category of entertainment that rivals the formulaic tendencies of Hollywood, it's anime, and Casshern is no exception to the rule. There is a lot to like about this movie but it shouldn't be deified as some kind of high art that "Hollywood" could never match. This movie has a whole lot in common with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow which was released less than five months later. Although they use different techniques, both are somewhat flawed films that still manage to leave a pretty good impression thanks to nice visuals. Sky Captain had a much more coherent but much less interesting story, and both relied heavily on genre conventions for their basic construction.
Personally, I don't think formulas are a particularly bad thing anyway. For hundreds of years, the evaluation of art has been based on its ability to exploit a specific formula, so I've never quite understood why the word itself has become such a damning insult in recent years. If a film makes its use of a formula terribly obvious it can be detrimental, but in that case the problem isn't the simple presence of a formula, but the clumsiness of the execution.
As you suggest, this film is an attempt to apply the conventions (i.e. formulas) of anime to a live action setting. I have to say, I fail to see how that is an especially risky or alternative or fresh approach in the anime crazy land of Japan. Overall though, Kiriya certainly has a visual flare that makes this film a joy to watch. I'm looking forward to Goemon as hopefully Kiriya has refined his craft and tightened it up after the experience of making Casshern.
exactly. there was nothing special about this film to me.
im chinese and i watched a lot of many different asian films. This was just your typical CGI infused film that tried to have a deep meaning. It really didn't.
When a film of this genre (sci-fi, action, blockbuster wannabe) tries to be deep, it takes away from its overall quality and entertainment.
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the thing I discovered about asian films is that they do try to emulate a lot of the Hollywood flash. They are so CGI infused that its just rediculous sometimes, especially since their technology or budget is no where as strong as Hollywood, which dominates.
Hero, House of Flying Daggers, they focused more on story telling and cinematography and I loved it and was moved by it.
Internal Affairs (The Departed) was just a good old cat and mouse movie.
Dont try to do too much at once if you cant handle it.
seriously? i'll give you Hero, but House of Flying Daggers is better than Casshern? Andy Lau not dying in a bamboo forest for 30 minutes is good storytelling? ROFL.
perhaps every movie should spell out everything like how in mainland China, they force cuts during movies with a narrator describing what happens in detail, like storytellers during a puppet play.
"so, that worm like thing sticking out of the belly is an alien baby, oh, look, it slithered away..."
OMFG, it's the most retarded thing i've ever seen on TV.
it's no wonder they have to repeat the line "so fast the sword!" in Hero ten thousand times.
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This movie is the equivalent of Hollywood going through with Frank Miller's Batman movie. The one were he was a bum drug addict.
shareWatching this right now at the 49 minute mark, and I can't help but think this scene was almost directly copied in Hellboy 2.
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