Rob Kolstad, the listed contact on that page, is also the Head Coach for USACO, the US Computer Science Olympiad team, if anybody thinks that could possibly be significant.
I just think that their backstories were a little weak. Granted, there wasn't a great deal of time in a movie to fully flesh them out, but they didn't really seem to have any believable motivations. I know that token motivations were given, there just wasn't enough strength behind them. Their emotions just came off as forced - they had a whole "yeah, right" feel to them. "Yeah, so x happens, and all of a sudden I have to y."
Some more forceful motivations should have been given (especially for Electra.)
Beautiful movie though, don't get me wrong - just extended analyzation from an anime nut.
(sorry if this post is a tad vague, I'm trying not to ruin anything)
From what I can recall, he did - but others didn't. *refrains from mentioning spoilers*
However, I doubt that there will be another series... it's not really in anime style.
My only major dislike of the movie was that the two new characters (the villain and the chick associated with him) were a little underdeveloped - they remained a little unclear to me even after the third viewing. The movie had fantastic action scenes, though, far outweighing any in the series, and as the reviewer says, the art was fantastic.
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Rob Kolstad, the listed contact on that page, is also the Head Coach for USACO, the US Computer Science Olympiad team, if anybody thinks that could possibly be significant.
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I just think that their backstories were a little weak. Granted, there wasn't a great deal of time in a movie to fully flesh them out, but they didn't really seem to have any believable motivations. I know that token motivations were given, there just wasn't enough strength behind them. Their emotions just came off as forced - they had a whole "yeah, right" feel to them. "Yeah, so x happens, and all of a sudden I have to y."
Some more forceful motivations should have been given (especially for Electra.)
Beautiful movie though, don't get me wrong - just extended analyzation from an anime nut.
(sorry if this post is a tad vague, I'm trying not to ruin anything)
From what I can recall, he did - but others didn't. *refrains from mentioning spoilers* However, I doubt that there will be another series... it's not really in anime style.
My only major dislike of the movie was that the two new characters (the villain and the chick associated with him) were a little underdeveloped - they remained a little unclear to me even after the third viewing. The movie had fantastic action scenes, though, far outweighing any in the series, and as the reviewer says, the art was fantastic.