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The Film Thread

USArsenal

Watched The Hateful Eight last weekend.. thought it was a great movie.. Funny as all hell, in the usual Tarantino style.

Savz

Akira is the greatest Anime ever created.

Qwiss

Its my favourite too but I've only seen a couple of dozen so its not something I could say with any great certainty.

banduan

Akira is a classic but there's plenty others, many of which can be considered better. Then again, I don't consider Anime a genre but rather a sub-category of the film medium.

Savz

What sub category? Animation?

Burnwinter

He's saying anime's a technical, rather than an aesthetic or fictional category. There are blurred lines but you can see his point, given there are anime westerns, anime noirs, anime science fiction, anime medical dramas etc.

QuincyAbeyie

Star Trek Beyond actually getting good reviews. Did not expect that from the trailers, guess I'll go see it.

Savz

So Anime is a technical and not a genre in itself. Riiiiiight.

Mirth

It's a fair point, given the biggest difference is the style of animation.

Cannon

Akira was good, but not exactly spectacular. Coincidentally i am about to start Cowboy Bebop. 🙂

Mirth

Cowboy Bebop is a treat.

Savz

I've heard that that's even better than Akira. I don't want to believe.

Burnwinter

It's sort of a strange consideration, like asking whether Wild at Heart is definitively better than Minority Report. They're both good.

To me Miyazaki's best films and stuff by Moebius (Jean Giraud) absolutely need to be mentioned. Trigun on the other hand is probably pretty minor, but I always liked it. Aeon Flux is brilliant.

Check this out:

Qwiss

Things I watched this week

Everybody Wants Some - great funny hang out movie. Almost zero plot but still a really good movie I'll probably watch again.
Batman The Killing Joke - Slow start but strong finish.
The Purge - had potential but didn't go anywhere with it
The Purge Anarchy - good fun bit of schlock, best of the trilogy
The Purge Election Year - pretty bad

Tony Montana

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Star Trek Beyond actually getting good reviews. Did not expect that from the trailers, guess I'll go see it.

Do I need to see the other star treks?

Claudius

The year of living foolishly continues. One of my best friends keeps saying "fuck the critics. watch Batman vs. Superman." So I finally succumbed.

In short: the worst edited big budget movie I have encountered. I got past the idiocy of the premise of Batman trying to fight a god, and thought I could enjoy myself. But when a third person (Lois Lane) is arriving halfway into a scene and explaining to Batman why Superman said something to him a minute ago, you just have to give up. The whole thing was like that.

One plus: Michael Wilksinson, the wardrobe designer deserves an oscar for dressing Gal Gadot throughout the movie

QuincyAbeyie

Tony Montana wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Star Trek Beyond actually getting good reviews. Did not expect that from the trailers, guess I'll go see it.

Do I need to see the other star treks?

It got rebooted in 2009, I have only seen the new ones (2009, 2013 and now Beyond).

Captain

Savz wrote:
Akira is the greatest Anime ever created.

Absolutely not. It has been handily bettered umpteen times.

(and cowboy beebop is a series)

Klaus

There was a Cowboy Bepop film too, but it's a bit pointless without the series.

Akira is interesting but also inconsistent and (out)dated today. Its biggest value is as a cultural symbol. Mentioning it in this context is a bit like starting to rip off the IMDb top 100 when you're asked to name your favourite films.

Cannon

Wasn't aware of Cowboy bebop the movie. I meant the TV series....

Meanwhile managed to catch 'Seven Psychopaths'. Avoid!

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