EvaUnit02 on 23/11/2009 at 14:46
Quote Posted by kidmystik101
Eh. Japanese mechs. Timber Wolves and Mad Dogs are much more awesome.
You're missing the point. Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor Movie 2 meditates on the ethical dilemmas involved in a military coup d'etat. Patlabor Movie 1 is mostly a detective thriller. Neither film has SUPAA ROBOTO ACSHION, what little action there is in the films is pretty grounded in reality.
Patlabor The Series can go fuck itself though.
Also fuck Macross. "THE POWER OF JPOP ENDS WARS."
Macross Plus is awesome though, since it's basically Top Gun via the director of Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo, scored by Yoko Kanno.
Matthew on 23/11/2009 at 14:53
Eva says it better than I could! Never watched Patlabor the Series though, thankfully.
Jason Moyer on 23/11/2009 at 14:55
Quote Posted by kidmystik101
Excluding Cowboy Bebop and Last Exile, agree.
Fuck
off lucky star.
Dunno Last Exile, but Cowboy Bebop is ok. I also don't really mind Vampire Hunter D, either, but shit like Ghost In The Shell can fuck right off. I also secretly love whatever the Japanese name for Starblazers was, but that probably has more to do with being around the age where I remember watching it every morning before school.
poroshin on 23/11/2009 at 15:04
Whoa, offtopic much? :eek:
Jason Moyer on 23/11/2009 at 15:07
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Also fuck Macross. "THE POWER OF JPOP ENDS WARS."
Is there any Shibuya-kei related anime? Because I'd probably actually be into it.
Edit: Ok, I take that back, I just watched some anime scored by Dmitri From Paris and it's fucking terrible.
Matthew on 23/11/2009 at 15:13
Quote Posted by poroshin
Whoa, offtopic much? :eek:
Bitches, this be TTLG.
Vivian on 23/11/2009 at 15:17
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Also fuck Macross. "THE POWER OF JPOP ENDS WARS." .
It was the early 80's, sheesh. Give em a break. I'll take a bit of pop-music evangelism if it comes with some incredible robo-rocket death action. Given its an 80s cartoon (effectively), about green space guys with funny heads blowing up the earth and features giant transforming jet fighters as a major plot element, it also has good pacing, some great use of silence and quite a few surprisingly effective moments of cinematic flair. The current incarnation of battlestar galactica owes a lot to the original macross tv series, I think.
