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seryass
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 Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:43 pm |
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| Nagisa wrote: |
It's not an unfair generalization, it's simply what people mean when they say "American production values." Yes, we make low-budget films—we make a lot of them—but we're much more commonly known both here and abroad for breaking the bank on big Hollywood productions to a degree that few other countries are willing or even able to do (like, for example, Japan, whose biggest budget projects are still dwarfed by our own on a regular basis). And since big, flashy films are what we're known for and what our audiences tend to just expect out of movies by default, I think the reviewer is valid in placing Cutie Honey next to the standards the reader will likely know for big special effects action films and to remind them beforehand that it's not going to be quite up to that level.
Nobody was saying we don't make low-budget films, and to have to stop and point that out as an aside when most people already know better would've detracted from the respective points the reviewer and I were trying to make. The point in the review was that what our audience comes to expect out of most flashy, over-the-top action films—like Cutie Honey is meant to be—is going to far overshoot what Cutie Honey actually has to offer (and then the point in my post was simply to define the basic idea of "production values" and what the reviewer was getting at, since TheHTRO completely misunderstood). |
I agree, for the most part, with what you said but what you seem to be forgetting is that the majority of people reading these reviews will be familiar with Japanese films and anime in general and will not be expecting glorious special effects and a huge budget. Therefore the point of comparing the American production values of big budget films to this film is a moot point. |
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Mohawk52
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Location: Celebrating Lindsey Hawker murder suspect arrest, in Basingstoke, UK.
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If anything this points out, it is that this movie is yet another example of how difficult it is to transfer animation into live action without a major loss of quality and continuity which the live action Sailor Moon suffered from. No matter how bad the anime was, the live action version seems to be even worst.
It is because of these examples that I don't have much hope for the other anime titles that are suppose to have live action movies made of them like NGE and Battle Angel Alita. |
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