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What didn't you like about it?

posted 7 years ago by leyenda61
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This isn't a hate thrrad, more of a why certain elements left you scratching your head" thread. I am getting that anyone here nitpicking genuinely wanted to love the movie. I am one of those who waited with great anticipation.

1) the animation was too clean. I like the jerkiness of older stop-motion. This looked so smooth that i often forgot it wasn't cgi. I like the jerkiness cuz it reminds me of the painstaking details the creators applied in bringing the film to life.

2) the emotional arc. I thought it felt too underdeveloped. The Beetle was just oddly written and felt too western and distracting from the Eastern story.

3) the ending did not feel "unfolding". Felt more like left field story points just "happened".

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[–] Koji_Kabuto 7 years ago

I had A probleem with the Japanese setting and the characters behaving the opposite of how Japanese do behave (actually very much American).
So why not set it into and American fantasy world...?

[–] Therru_Babayaga 7 years ago

????

Please do tell us what is so "American" and so "un-Japanese" in this movie.

[–] neonaoki1 7 years ago

-basic, predictable story (on top of the twists being painfully obvious as they are, there's so much foreshadowing that it makes me wonder how anyone could have not seen it coming)
-plot holes (why did the sisters fight separately? how did the kid find all the relics so fast and easily when his father, a grown, trained warrior and mother, basically a god, couldn't, even though they were so conveniently close to their location? etcetc)
-cringey/awkward/unoriginal dialogue (why did the monkey even scold the beetle right after he had saved them all? makes no sense)

probably #1: missed opportunity
it's really beautiful and I liked the kid's powers, not something you see every day, but the story was just weak and felt like a wannabe fairy tale with a dubious 'moral of the story' ("don't be evil"? "don't hate people"? "it's about the journey, not the mcguffins"?)

it could have been really cool but missed the mark

[–] PreachCaleb 7 years ago

-plot holes (why did the sisters fight separately?

That's not a plot hole.

Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

[–] mrhyde0019 7 years ago

The sisters fought separately because one was at the helmet and one was at the armor. They split up...that's why they flew in different directions