I took my father-in-law to see this movie in Saga, Kyushu on Dec, 29th. He is from Sasebo ( a Navy base) and is a military enthusiast. We both came out of the theatre in tears--this is a really emotional bit of cinema. It focuses on human relationships with the battleship Yamato as a backdrop. Of course the battle scenes are fantastic, dramatic, but what you come away with is the human condition. Well done Toei!Highly recommended...
sharedoes anyone know how many action scenes their are and how good are the specical effects and cgi
shareThere is a lot of action towards the end of the movie and as far as I can tell the CGI looks great.
shareThe SFX? If you've seen GODZILLA flicks, you'll be right at home with this one.
Anyways there's alot of yelling and grunting, and quite honestly -- patriotic hogwash.
All the bloodletting, guts and valor just to buy the audience's sympathetic reprieve -- only reminded me of Gibson's Passion if anything. A heroic stance in some views, harkening to the Bushido code of yore; quite laughable to others, as the director presents a typical death scene with: a guttural 'BANZAI--' then his face explodes in gobs.
Meh. And there's lots of yelling.
After reading your review, I checked out the trailer. No offense, but the battle scenes look like something out of a medium-budget, if that, TV movie. Certainly not awful, but not "fantastic."
sharethe cgi are poor, there are occational eye candies where the ship is seen from an overview perspective, but otherwise it looks like a video game. the only other thing is that its pretty bloody. the actors scream WAY too much, even if they r getting slaughtered
the acting is ok, but as i said above theres alot of screaming and really no other expressions. the dramatic portrayal is not ok however, most of the emotions and dare i say 'human condition' are pretentious and cliched at best.
give this a miss.
I don't see anything wrong with the CGI to be honest, but then again, I've never been too concerned with absolute perfect graphics...
Personally, I loved this movie. The acting was excellent, the "dramatic portrayal" was excellent, the music was excellent.
An all-round good movie ^_^
I concur. Just saw the DVD (R-2 European version) of the film and I really liked it. I highly recommend this movie to all of you military/naval history buffs out there.
shareI really like to see it soon :o
I think it's a great war movie :)
Those reviews you find at http://www.foreignwarmovies.com.
A decidedly average movie I thought. The acting wasn't special, the CGI lacked effort, and the premise was dubious. Is anyone aware that the Yamato, while being the biggest Battleship ever built (along with it's sister ship Musashi) was functionally useless? It didn't do a thing of note during the whole war apart from being sunk. At least Musashi was in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, where she was overwhelmed by US Carrier Aircraft like Yamato.
Yamato was a total waste of valuable men and resources. Without a doubt, there were outstanding individuals on board, but for her purpose, an all powerful fleet battleship, she failed miserably. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) would have been better making more Aircraft Carriers than Super Battleships that were too valuable to lose, and thus too valuable to risk, that is until they had no other option. But by then, where it could have been used (in support of a large combined fleet action), there was no other IJN capital assests to put her with. The "Battleship Mentality" was dying before the war and dead after Taranto and Pearl Harbor. Unfortuantely, the construction of Yamato and Musashi persisted. The 3rd Hull, Shinano, was converted to a Fleet Aircraft carrier, and was the largest Aircraft Carrier in the world until the building of the US Forrestal class. Unfortunately, like Yamato and Musashi, it didn't achieve much, aside for killing a lot of Japanese sailors, as it was sunk on its maiden voyage by a US sub.
Bottom line is: Yamato was a very impressive achievement of Ship Design and Building (lovely shallow draught) but was totally outdated in concept and thinking and it had a rather pointless detrimental (to the IJN) existence.
Otoko-tachi no Yamato is a poor/average movie, relying on cheap soppy sentimentality rather than true empathy and acting skills. The patriotic sentiment of the film is actually far-right revisionist taint.
Unfortuantely for Japanese cinema, there seems to be a dearth of decent films lately as well as individuals who can handle subject matter such as Yamato and the war in a objective, truthful manner. I wish we could bring back Kurosawa......
hear, hear.
shareJust seen it - without dubbing or subtitles unfortunately, still impressive to watch. So what if the CGI isn't quite Hollywood - you get the feel of fear and duty in the men and the build-up is easy enought to follow.
So what if Yamato was a floating lame duck - still makes for an impressive spectacle and that's the important thing in a movie. They'll never be making one about HMS Coventry/Antelope/Exter in the Falklands despite their heroic actions defending the fleet and their tragic demises... because they look
boring and other vessels were doing all the 'glamourous' work of war.
Goofee - you are so correct
This was an excellent Film - if you go on Ebay - you can pick up English subtitled DVD's on this Film ( I got mine a month ago ! )
Heartily recommend you take the effort - sell the old DVD on Ebay
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I would rather watch this Film a hundred times ,
than watch a rubbish Hollywood Film -
look at Pearl Harbor - not remotely as good as Tora ! tora ! Tora !
and so poorly made and the unbelievable plot ..
Yank saves us in Battle of Britain ...
then is on board American Carrier for Doolittle Strike
with B-25's against Japan - rescued from China
then look at American Film about US Capturing Enigma , a right turkey