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the-antihero
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It really bothers me that if something references anime, suddenly anime fans get all YAY TAKE THAT WORLD!! WE RULE when the product itself, like Pacific Rim, was total rubbish.
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Chrno2
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I thought Pacific Rim as being interesting. Hell, at least he's giving praise to where his influence comes. Unlike some directors out there. But I don't think folks are that jaded. Look some either like him or they don't. The same could be said with Peter Jackson, and Quentin Tarantino.
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Hazinger Zeta
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Pacific Rim was great, we got enough character and plot for a 2 hour mecha movie and don't need their entire goddamn life stories (though I'd wish we'd gotten the worldbuilding and exposition that was in an earlier cut), del Toro clearly has the passion and knows his stuff-- Skyers 5, even though it aired in his home country of Mexico, is a pretty obscure influence to have.
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Xristophoros
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i always enjoy seeing interviews with del toro. he is a great, passionate and humble artist. i am not a fan of his english productions, however, as they never really worked for me and didn't live up to their potential. his best work is his spanish productions such as pan's labyrinth and devil's backbone which are both excellent. yes, he acknowledges his influences in many cases as being anime/manga related and i wish more filmmakers would own up to that as well. inception has paprika influences; interstellar has voices of a distant star influences; black swan has perfect blue influences, etc, but we rarely ever hear hollywood directors discuss them in any detail.
as for this next generation patlabor live action series, it does not look very good. like all of oshii's live action work, it will likely be terribly acted and make use of sub par special fx. he's on a budget, no surprise there. i wish he'd just stick to animation. Last edited by Xristophoros on Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:16 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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MarshalBanana
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He hasn't done anything in animation since The Sky Crawlers, back in 08. I think he has permanently moved on. Though he may go back and do another Patlabor amine one day. |
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EricJ2
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Well, he was creative director on one of the Halo Legends shorts-- And there was Fast Food Grifters, which was sort of animated film, and used a plot he thought he'd already used up in an off-topic Urusei Yatsura episode. |
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Rahxephon91
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Pacafic Rim was amazing. One of the best mecha things in a long while.
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Xristophoros
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yea, i hope you are right about him coming back to animation. ever since 2001 when he got his feet wet with the live action avalon film, he has developed an interest in the medium. to be honest, i haven't really enjoyed any of his work since the first ghost in the shell film. i also love the first two patlabor films and appreciate angel's egg for the bizarre trip it takes you on. i think jin-roh is also an amazing film but he is only credited for writer on that one... it really does feel like an oshii movie through and through  as for his later work, i respect but couldn't really get into gits 2 or sky crawlers. i should probably re-watch them some day to see if my feelings on them have changed at all.
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