mini-reviews of a series of anime films, big and little

[timepiececlock]

Perfect Blue ...really creeped me out. Icky.


Princess Mononoke ...made me want to have a wolf as a pet and plant some trees.


X ...was an hour of my life I really, really want back. Seriously. I want that hour back.


Spirited Away ...was so amazing that I wrote my final paper in my Film 01 class on it, and got 100/100.


Macross Plus ...was great. Yoko Kanno, I'd go lesbian for you.


Castle of Cagliostro ...was the first Lupin III thing I watched, and made me all kinds of happy. Hayao Miyazaki is the shiznit (as you can tell by this list.)


Grave of the Fireflies ...I haven't finished yet. I stopped half way, and have been avoiding it since because I just *know* it's going to make me cry if I keep watching.

Ranma 1/2 movie 1 ...Eh. Alright.


Ranma 1/2 movie 2 ...Funny. And romantic.


Neon Genesis Evangelion the movie ...I have not watched due to my utter disgust with the conclusion of the series. Once I'm burned, I don't go back.


Inu Yasha movie 1 ...Didn't like it. Weird animation. Nothing exciting about the plot.


CB: Knockin' on Heaven's Door ...trippy. A little slow and a lot improbable, but trippy nonetheless. Excellent character development. And music. And pretty, pretty animation.


Escaflowne: A Girl on Gaea ...I hate you. I really, really hate you. You are not that magical, moving, ambitious and beautiful television series I loved. You are massively disappointing money-making franchise excrement, and ohhhhhhhh I hate you.


Naruto movie 1 ...when will you be out? I want to see you!


FMA movie ...waiting for you is the most exquisite of torture. If you go the way the Esca movie did, I will be not only heartbroken, I will be catatonic.

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ETA: WARNING: comments now include spoilers for end of The Vision of Escaflowne, the series.

Comments

[flickums.livejournal.com]

Grave of the Fireflies has reduced to tears everyone who was forced to watch the film by me.

I haven't watched Escaflowne: A Girl on Gaea yet but after reading your review, I am too worried to do so. :-/

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'd say don't watch it at all. Because if you've seen the television series and loved it (which I did) then this will be very, very disappointing. If you've never seen the series then it won't be quite so torturous an experience because you won't have the expectations, but it's a badly done movie.

[araceli-maura.livejournal.com]

X ...was an hour of my life I really, really want back. Seriously. I want that hour back.

Dude, I just don't even want to talk about that movie. I think I weep nightly, actually, for the loss of that hour. Not to mention being tied to a chair and forced to watch half the series. Now THAT is a time I shall never get back. Ever.

And I agree with the Escaflowne comment. GOD that was terrible. Guh.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Not to mention being tied to a chair and forced to watch half the series.

I've heard that the series is not nearly as bad as the movie, that its actually pretty good. I haven't seen it myself. You didn't like it, huh?

[scathachdhu.livejournal.com]

Perfect Blue...let me put it like this. There are two movies my friends like to threaten me with to get their way. One is the Fast and the Furious. The other is Perfect Blue.

I saw 20 minutes of X the movie on cable and decided that not even 24 hours of no sleep and an industrial strength New Year's vodka and green apple soda could make me continue.

[helga-b.livejournal.com]

::whispers:: I didn't think the Escaflowne movie was that bad. And yes, I know I'm the only person on the planet who thinks that.

But the first Inuyasha movie sucked so much I haven't bothered watching the others.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I saw Perfect Blue at my first con (Fanime) and I had no idea what it was, except that it was "some kind of murder mystery." I almost fell asleep a few times because it has such a slow start, but about halfway through I was watching going "WTF? What kind of anime did you say this was?" and my little group was all kind of traumatized. It wasn't so much downright SCARY as it was creepy and weird and made me want to go do something happy and sincere, with lots of bright colors.

I saw 20 minutes of X the movie on cable and decided that not even 24 hours of no sleep and an industrial strength New Year's vodka and green apple soda could make me continue.

I rented it. I was staying home by myself (I think this was 9th grade, maybe 10th), and I decided I'd rent anime instead of a regular movie. I didn't even know what it was supposed to be about, I only knew it had been in a local theater briefly. I saw it, and I just...hated it. No amount of pretty animation could save its terribleness. I felt totally jacked out of my $3.50.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

yes you are. but it's okay; the rest of the planet still likes you.

I haven't bothered to watch them either.

[flickums.livejournal.com]

Sadly I have seen the series and loved it (How could Hitomi choose Vaan over Allen?) so maybe I'll either give it a miss (a friend let me borrow it) or save it for a night when I'm too drunk to notice such an atrocity to animation.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

How could Hitomi choose Vaan over Allen?)

Because Allen wasn't really in love with her. Because the entire series was one, long, perfectly done love story for Hitomi and Van. Even with the traditional sad ending all true love stories have.