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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.
but, really... what *is* a wookiee doing on a planet with two-foot ewoks?
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Can we just poke and choke each other without it always turning into a goddammed hissy-fit??
Come on people, just look at my wide-open mouth and can-do attitude.
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cool! excellent! awesome!
/., it's not a Mac story hiding in there is there?
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I'll touch you in the junk you coward, you bitch. You fucking faggot! Come up and take me on you scared coward. You white bitch. You ain't man enough to fuck with me, bitch! There ain't no-one in the room big enough to take me on. You're just scared like a little white pussy. I'll touch your junk till you love me, you faggot!
My mouth is toilet compliant.
Sounds like something to check out... but on a side note, PLEASE use the "Read More..." link! That writeup eats an entire page on my browser, I thought the Ruskies dropped the bomb when I first loaded the page.
Anybody know where I can download the movie?
people this is fine jerkcity rip off humor! do not mod down!
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Someone greatly offends the hero, so much so that he'll pursue his offender right into the adventure. (Note that this usually means that the offender is a minion of the Master Villain. You'll have to decide whether the minion offended the hero precisely to bring him into the adventure, or just as a side effect of his ordinary villain activities.) Ways for the NPC to offend our hero include: (1) He can injure or kill someone well-liked or loved of the hero. This is best done when the hero isn't around, or simply isn't in a position to pursue the villain. (2) He can steal or destroy some important property of the hero, such as a magical weapon or a family heirloom. (3) He can cheat the hero. This is fun and requires some role-playing time, as this villain, pretending to be a legitimate merchant or professional, convinces the hero to buy some wondrous thing property, a title, a magical potion of irresistible attraction - and then makes off with the fortune paid by the hero before the hero realizes he's been had.
OH..MY..FUCKING..GOD..
You are such a gay nigger.
that supporTs market. Therefore bunch of retarded to survive at all diseases. The a dead man walking.
Amen brother. I don't understand the appeal of this crappy Japanese animation. Of course I don't understand the appeal of most TV shows, either. Animation: Give me Simpsons, Futurama & Family Guy. Drama: Give me Kubrick.
Troll? Nerds are a stereotype. Some people fit that stereotype. Some nerds have no interpersonal skills and bitch about weird ass shit as they review things. Right on. With posters like you, who needs enemas?
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