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Appleseed World Preview Minireview
darrellberry writes "We went to see the World Sneak Preview of Masamune Shirow's Appleseed at the ICA tonight. Complimentary sake and sushi, a loving but silly flipchart presentation from the producer about the politics of the world in which it is set, then the film. The animation is amazing the rendering of the city of Olympus is beautiful, the battle set-pieces are fluid and very well choreographed, and the fine line betwen genre conventions and attempts at hyper-realism is treated with respect. Although the first few minutes owe too much to The Matrix-meets-Avalon, and in parts (to my eye) the human characters suffer somewhat from traditional anime styling, Appleseed is something genuinely new in animation. Detail everywhere, lovingly rendered. Way too much exposition, in the style of some Russian epic from the 60s, and music supervision that was entirely wrong: it was nice to see Basement Jaxx turning up for the premiere, but their music and that of Oakenfold and the rest on the soundtrack made no sense thematically or emotionally. I can see that they are going for a big international release with Appleseed, but the music is just wrong. On the plus side, the motion capture-based character animation is very convincing, and the Mobile Fortresses out-scale any other city-stomping weapons platform I can remember. And lovely to see anime at a high frame-rate, not jumping in triples. Go see it at a big cinema with decent Dolby when it's on release next month, or get it on DVD (evidently on release in July) and turn up the sub-woofer." I don't know if we linked to the official site in our last story.
I was going to see this movie but since you gave away the frame-rate I might as well stay home.
Ahh, the Achilles heel of 640x480.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang?
Way too much exposition, in the style of some Russian epic from the 60s
What series isn't filled with way too much exposition? I mean... Have you ever seen Gundam W?
I currently have no clever signature witicism to add here.
It's funny how the Japanese appears on the site when you don't have the fonts installed. Looks like a fanboy forum. :)
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How dare you mock the one with the lowest SLashdot ID?! A little respect, please, for both his 14.4 modem and 14in monitor...
If you only watch the tentacle-monster infested Hentai titles, you will really miss the real beauty of this wonderful genre.
I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much.
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