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UNBELIEVABLY BORING!!!

posted 13 years ago by younggun555
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i usually HATE when people claim a film was boring. it usually just means they have a very short attention span. Iv watched all sorts of films and anime over the years and have stuck it through 3 r 4 hours films, etc.
But MAN, THIS WAS BORING. even the people voicing the characters sounded bored. nothing happened. everything looks dull and lifeless.
amazing also how the japanese can continue to draw beautiful machines, scenery, buildings and yet STILL draw the most unrealistic, lifeless human beings; THAT NEVER BLINKED, and often looked so frozen it was as if id paused the screen. VERY IRRITATING.

[–] imshadi 13 years ago

Kusanagi was clearly a homage to Motoko Kusanagi, the female android from Ghost in the Shell. You just made me wonder if the reason that she doesn't blink may have something to do with her being some kind of android, she also doesn't die even when shot down. Although that would leave a big question mark around the fact that she has a daughter.

The movie was heavily intellectual. I like the style a lot, the decision to make it soft paced during the dialogs was probably intentional, since even the characters state that they feel alive only when the fly and fight, and you get the same feeling from the lack of life of the situations on the ground to the intensity of the dogfights.

I can understand perfectly why you don't like it. I guess I have seen so many intense movies that I can deal with one not being so non stop. It's up to each person's preference. All I can say is that the lifelessness was there at least with a purpose and actually communicated something.

[–] younggun555 13 years ago

The female adroid of Ghost in the Shell was a far more beautiful, interesting and active personality. Infact, there really shudn't be any comparisons between the two. Ghost in the Shell is so superior there's no point...
The animation, as stated, was of two levels. The machinery etc all brilliant but the characters, all of them, the animation was very lazy. They, simply put, looked very badly drawn. I've been watching anime since I was 11. The drawings have, year upon year, nearly always progressed further and further each year, each film that arrives. This was a step backwards. The standards expected from any cartoon studio anywhere are and should be far greater than what is offered here.

You've got some good points but heavily intellectual? Is that why i couldn't like it lol? I don't think it was heavily anything lol, except boring. The plot was easy to follow and understand.
It was in every aspect, when you compare it to any other anime, for example - the obvious Akira or the simplistic Hayao Miyazaki works or the utterly compelling Wings of Honneamise (1987), just very lazy.

I have seen plenty of, as you put it, 'intense movies.' I used to be an online movie critic, now im studying to do it for newspapers.
And as for the lack of movement, emotion, facial expressions MAYBE it could be forgiven considering everyone is a clone etc etc (although, sorry, but no blinking was ridiculous. It looked terrible). But for two hours, the speech and dislogue was SO stinted. All the voices sounded similar and went at the same pace. It was unbareably boring. A gigantic step backwards for anime!!!

[–] sukotsuto 12 years ago

They used to have life in older animation, but daaamn somewhere along the line, it became a trend to animate lifeless, personality-less people and everyone thinks it's cool.

I also gave this movie a chance, and actually sat through from beginning to end just to see if there's something that can redeem it, like the ending. No it didn't, much to my major disappointment. It's like they're trying to pace the movie out like a Tarkovsky or Ingmar Bergman movie (which I love, and are known for being very slow-paced, dialog and cinematography driven, and compelling philosophical storylines), but Sky Crawlers was just... lame. I can't believe people thought it's mindscrew or heavily philosophical, seeing as stated earlier, it's relatively simple to follow - if anyone pays attention long enough not to fall asleep. Not that they should, since it's nothing special anyway.

I feel this is much better read than watched, so that the person reading it can make their own pacing instead of being forced to follow the crawl the director makes you go through. It was based from a novel after all.