Nobody actually likes this, right? The motivations and acting are unconvincing. The story is too simplistic and too stretched out.
Nobody actually likes this, right? The motivations and acting are unconvincing.
Nobody actually likes this, right? The motivations and acting are unconvincing. The story is too simplistic and too stretched out.
I like it, also you got filtered
the plot, narrative, characters, all of that are just background for a movie about Japanese post-WW2 anxiety and the fear of western economic influence destroying traditional Japanese culture and society and the likelihood of an adverse reaction/anaphylactic response from a ghostly history that’s been abandoned for the futuristic promise of obliterating an entire people to obtain infinite power. that’s why you have this booming, guttural, indigenous Indonesian-inspired music contrasted with the degenerated cyberpunk cityscape. unironically all of the parts of the movie that aren’t pure style are subsumed by the giant messy flesh baby (the underlying theme) that appears at the end of the film.
>tl;dr
>a movie about Japanese post-WW2 anxiety
is that the only theme any Japanese movie can have? I swear that's what everybody says every Japanese story is really about
Godzilla is actually about molesting little girls on the train, all that atom bomb shit is just made up by the west.
You can say that pretty much any 50s B-movie was about fear of war/invasion, or fear of science. It's practically what all sci-fi was built on during the gothic age. It's not unique to Godzilla, in fact Godzilla was grounded to the conventions pretty hard which is why it has a lasting appeal across the world.
those are predictably the only movies that get any play in the west. stuff like Woman in the Dunes and Kwaidan are well known Japanese classics that have nothing to do with WW2 commentary
Better than post 9/11 Hollywood
Do people really enjoy this shit? There is 0 heart and soul to be enjoyed in political-allegoryshit "movies"
No, most people don't enjoy pseuds regurgitating reddit-tier "actshully the film is a metaphor" bullshit.
what degree of autism possesses someone to samegay like this?
Cope
filtered gay
I like it, it's MC content.
Can you imagine unironically wanting your expectations subverted
>ngmifam
the first half shows cyberpunk potential but then it just goes for shock effect instead of story-telling
>he hasn’t read the superior source material which the movie only adapted 1/3 of
Cinematography and score is where it shines at.
Also but I would say more like 1/5.
I have. It is very good.
I hope they end up making the full adaptation like they announced a while back I believe Sunrise is doing it.
>they announced a while back
Which announcement? There have been a few... like the one where Leonardo DiCaprio bought the live-action adaptation rights...
>The only thing i've ever found to be confusing is why Tetsuo has a psychic awakening when he runs into the kid.
Best explanation I can offer is that Tetsuo slipped through the cracks of the secret governments population / Akira powers detection grids. Normally kids like Tetsuo get discovered younger, abducted by the secret government and either executed or given the "blue pills" to clamp their powers and frick up their physical aging.
When Tetsuo crashed into Takashi's power shield it triggered the awakening of his own latent powers.
They're doing an anime adaptation, Otomo is supposed to be involved.
If Otomo himself is doing his own remake based more accurately on the finished manga I am OK with that.
I've enjoyed most if not all of his animation. Roujin-Z is just fricking weird, and even that Cup Noodles sponsored min-series Project Freedom was good.
I thought the manga went downhill at curiously the precise moment that the movie diverts from it. I utterly despised that "King Akira" part which is the last 1/3rd of the manga and didn't care much about the big buff action lady either.
>that scene you see the buff lady naked
Unf.
I'm glad someone agrees with me on this.
the manga is imo obscenely overrated. it has all sorts of unnecessary absurdities that the movie rightfully did away with (tetsuo leading a bike gang, kaneda making the colonel look like a complete incompetent moron like twenty times) before driveling off into complete nonsense in the final post-apocalypse neo-tokyo act.
I will also note that the themes of growing social degeneration, political corruption, and civil unrest were significantly better portrayed in the movie than in the manga.
>I utterly despised that "King Akira" part
Why? I thought it was some of the best parts of the series. Completely destitute people have to bow down the the embodiment of a nuclear disaster waiting to happen, only most of them are completely oblivious to the fact. It was a cool setting with interesting dynamics.
>didn't care much about the big buff action lady
she was cool but a bit boring
>manga went downhill at curiously the precise moment that the movie diverts from it
that's almost instantly though
i like the animation but didnt care about the story
You don't watch it for the plot
the story, characters, and emotions are great. no clue why it filters some people so hard.
>acting
they're drawings
he saw the english dub and thought "damn those japs are cringe with their dialogue"
Don't worry anon, in about one or two years there's gonna be a live action netflix adaptation filled with Black folk and cgi action scenes so you can enjoy it and pretend you're smart for understanding its simple, dumbed down storyline.
If your main intention when watching Akira is to really dwelve into the story, you're an idiot. Akira is a masterpiece of animation and composition, but the story is really forgettable. Watch Ghibli movies or Colorful if you want a movie for a story.
>The story is too simplistic and too stretched out.
that's bait?
the movie is an adaptation of a manga series
the story isn't too simplistic or stretched out, on the contrary it's cut too heavily and full of holes
I still like the movie for what it is
I'm kinda stunned that Akira did surprisingly well in the UK, the land that historically never got or cared about any anime and probably was not advertised hardly either. But this is also the land that hardcore watched all of 80's Disey's films (including the famous bomb Black Cauldron), so maybe it's a supply issue.
>UK
>Not liking anime
Pic related would like a word, and we also had tentacle movies like urotsukidoji and wicked city on the Sci-fi channel at night.
It's just that the UK has patrician anime taste and only liked the gritty seinen stuff.
Manga UK produced the best dubs in the history of western releases. The 90's release of Patlabor 2 may still be the most nuanced and mature English dub ever produced.
Sad since the original voices are still more natural and convincing
The only thing I never fully understood was the ending, a fricking nebula or some shit stating "I AM TETSUO"
Is it just a really poor way of telling us that Tetsuo ascended and became one with the cosmos or something?
It was literally a test sequence for calibrating the cameras but they thought it looked cool and added it to the movie with a voiceover to show that akira had thrown him into a new universe to protect the original
KANEEEEEDAAAAA
TETSUOOOOO
KANEE-
Wait.
Testuo the Iron Man or Tetsuo Shima?
Plotgays get filtered as always
OC
>Szyyyyyyslaaaaaaak
>story is too simplistic and too stretched out
Prove your claim and explain it. You got filtered so you can't so you won't.
i genuinely don't know what people get so hung up on in regards to the plot of this movie.
The only thing i've ever found to be confusing is why Tetsuo has a psychic awakening when he runs into the kid.
>what if 2001: A Space Odyssey but also Easy Rider?
Its okay I guess. Should have been two movies, following more closely to the manga, but even the manga has weird structural problems that could be ironed out.
The Akira anime was infamously made before the Manga finished and the plot is therefore kinda janky. You aren't wrong about it being subpar, the Manga is much more extensive and better.
It was only popular because it was shilled to hell and back in magazine ads when it first came out on VHS in the west. Now the boomers and millennials who grew up with it shill it as the best anime ever because they're blinded by nostalgia. Same with many garbage shows that aired on toonami.
it's overrated trash that got popular because westard critics knew jackshit about anime.
its the nirvana of anime.
The soundtrack is one of the greatest OSTs in all of world cinema
>it's another Cinemaphile hates a good movie because it's actually good thread
Tired of these.
>beginning of the film promises cyberpunk kino about a gang war with some subplot about city politics
>then random blue magical alien kids show up and ruin the movie with some fantasy bullshit
i hate anime
>getting filtered by entry level anime
do anons really?
It is very good animated. I do not even care about story i will watch anything that looks great out of sheer respect for people whio draw it by hand.
A real pity japs stopped making stuff like that. It's all shitty melodramas now. Woah muh processed real life photos of scenery with shitty 3d!
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>widely regarded as one of the best anime filma ever
>"does anybody actually like this?"
Does anybody actually like the Godfather? or Citizen Kane?
TEEETSSUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
CANADAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>too stretched out.
nah, I think it's too cramped up. it was obvious they were trying to fit all the 485959494 episodes of the manga into one movie that's why everything feels so rushed and some characters just pop out of nowhere with zero background
the music and animation are superb. you're just a homosexual.