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jmays
ANN Associate Editor
Joined: 29 Jul 2002
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Location: St. Louis, MO
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:44 pm
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Quote: | "I took one for the team this week ... If your kid is a Yu-Gi-Oh fan, then God help you."
-- Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM |
I so hope that ends up on the back of the DVD case.
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R.G.
Joined: 16 Nov 2003
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:46 pm
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Miagi wrote: |
Quote: | "I took one for the team this week ... If your kid is a Yu-Gi-Oh fan, then God help you."
-- Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM |
I so hope that ends up on the back of the DVD case. |
It won't.
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Requiem
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:12 pm
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I'm not at all suprised that all of those reviews.... it's geared for the die-hard watchers of the show and something anyone else will pass up (especially me.)
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Sam.:
Joined: 25 Jun 2004
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Location: ANN WebSite.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:43 pm
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no matter how much you hate Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon and DBZ -- kids will always love it forever. There is no escaping it. Especially DBZ, which put japan's anime on the map world wide.
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Shiki MSHTS
Joined: 10 Jul 2003
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Location: NoVA
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:50 pm
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Miagi wrote: |
Quote: | "I took one for the team this week ... If your kid is a Yu-Gi-Oh fan, then God help you."
-- Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM |
I so hope that ends up on the back of the DVD case. |
Haha.
I hope so too. =P
I'll wait another 25 years before I have kids. Just so they're born FAR after this.
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ZODDGUTS
Joined: 27 Oct 2003
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:51 pm
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I hope this movie bombs big time. Really who wants 4Kids to make a bunch of money which they will later use to lincense more anime? The more money the movie makes the more movie they will have to spend try to lincense Naruto.
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aisasami
Joined: 24 Jun 2004
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Location: Waldorf, Maryland
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:34 pm
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I saw it today at the local movie theater with my siblings. And man, it was crowded (because a) we couldn't find seats that good and b) we missed like 5 minutes of it). It was an alirght movie to a pretty good movie. So, I give it a 3 out a 5 star rating. Its not really horrible if you vut the lame lines and insert the battles. (Although my brother was asking everyone to trade all his 3 cards for the the bigger Blue Eyes White Dragon).
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UltraManiac
Joined: 13 Aug 2004
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:28 pm
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I don't even like Yu-Gi-Oh. I wonder if they kept "old man" Yugi in there since Yugi is voiced acted by a 40 something year old man who can't change his "DEEP" old man voice. I won't ever see the movie.
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GATSU
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:35 pm
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I guess Ebert was too much of a snob to review it.
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GATSU
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:37 pm
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aisasami: I knew it was gonna be big. $20-$25 million weekend guaranteed.
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jfrog
Joined: 21 May 2004
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Location: Seattle
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:47 pm
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I'm sure that the man who wrote the screenplay for 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls' has no real sense of shame.
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AuraShadow
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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Location: Texas
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:51 pm
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I planned on seeing it today, but I didn't have time, so I'm going tommorow. I know that 4kids butchered it up, but I'm still a YGO fan regardless. I've known about this movie for about 1-2 years, so I know how it originaly is. I just hope they do what they did for the episodes and release it in japanese, or do a true translation.
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space clam
Joined: 11 Oct 2003
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:55 pm
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ZODDGUTS wrote: | I hope this movie bombs big time. Really who wants 4Kids to make a bunch of money which they will later use to lincense more anime? The more money the movie makes the more movie they will have to spend try to lincense Naruto. |
... We still complain about how Naruto might "get licensed by 4Kids, which will cause giant sunspots to erupt into huge X-class solar flares, sparking massive geomagnetic storms that will wipe out all anime on earth!..."? The review YGO got in my hometown paper I didn't see on rottentomatoes.com It wasn't much of a review, just a series of (mostly funny) questions: "Does anyone notice that Yugi's head looks like a purple marijuana leaf from behind?" and "Does an actor get an award for delivering lines like 'You may have destroyed my Dark Clown but I still have my Deck Virus trap!'?"
Reading such reviews, I see that all this film really accomplished is not much:
1) Ritalin substitute
2) Gasoline for 4Kids haters to throw on the fire
3) Pigeon-holeing all anime into "stupid, poorly animated kids' stuff that no one understands."
Hopefully some of these reviewers will get the chance to see Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence; maybe it will deaden the blow, so to speak. (Similar to how the Dow Jones "rebounds" 100 points after losing 600, or something like that...)
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Anime_Freak
Joined: 07 Dec 2002
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Location: Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:00 pm
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Answer this, if you please. Is this the Japanese YGO movie or is it like I heard earlier today I think it was, which is 4Kids made this movie themselves, so which is it, I'm confused?
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Animefan16
Joined: 24 Apr 2004
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:30 pm
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This is the 4kids movie but they didn't make it themselves. (I don't know how many times I explained this) They hired the Japanese companies including Kazuki Takahashi to write and animate the movie. 4kids maybe one of the dumbest anime companies but I don't think they're dumb enough to make a movie on their own, maybe a musical (Pokemon).
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