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| If I remember correctly I believe I was utterly confused. |
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Touka said: Satoshi Kon you are awesome. He blurs fantasy and reality so well, I love his style. The soundtrack was a masterpiece, although all of Kon's movie soundtracks are. The animation was great, I especially loved the credits sequence at the beginning around six minutes in. Brilliant movie, couldn't have asked for anything better. Just watched it a second time and couldn't help but come back and mention the very last sequence. "One adult, please." Satoshi Kon sure knew how to end a movie perfectly. I love how the screen went black and the credits started rolling (along with the fantastic 'The Girl in Byakkoya' song in the background) as soon as the character had finished talking. Fantastic editing, fantastic film. |
SoulFlyy said: JuicyBuddha said: Very strange, but definitely fun to watch. I agree that they got the dream logic down in a lot of places. My only complaint is that the hot chick got together with the morbidly obese guy in the end. Gross. ? / 10 so you judge people by there cover & not there heart? I thought it was quite sweet actully it would of been boring & typical if the guy was slim & good looking have a heart you bastard! OR, it could have done well on its own without the whole romantic side bit, which I disliked as well. |
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| Tits man, tits. |
| I like it enough to relate it to inception, the concept is pretty similar if you think about it, and inception is the later :O nah not gonna take anything away from it both are great |
| I absolutely love the music! I loved the animation and style of the movie However I have to say I found it a bit confusing and am still a bit confused lol. erm probably a 7/10 from me. I think I will watch it again and hopefully I will understand it a bit better the next time I watch this. Very strange movie though lol Thought it was a bit strange she fell in love with Takita, not that I have anything against fat ppl lol |
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| Finally watched it! Glorious animation and art, music, characters and execution! Satoshi Kon never disappoints! Oh and of course! Tits. (Joke XD) Great story and very disturbing at that and i love mind games :)))) Inception got nothing on this :P Still when Atsuko said she liked Tokita i was " O_O...*facepalm*", unfortunately reality is not like that ;_; Well had a lot of fun and laughed through out the end of the movie, LoL... Thank You, Satoshi Kon for bringing such masterpiece's to us! May you rest in peace! - One Adult Please |
 Anyone knows where i would find beter quality picture of that? I would realy like it on my desktop |
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| 6/10 man that was boring ZZZzzzzzzzzzz |
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| Great movie, spectacular animation and soundtrack! Though I didn't care enough for most of the characters besides Paprika and Konakawa to get fully pulled in by the story. Also did I miss something? What was The Chairman/Mastermind's motive for what he did? |
MezziazFeb 26, 2011 8:58 PM
| What a journey! This movie started pretty WTF for me, but after a while I got into the mood of the film and it was one hell of a trip to the land of dreams! Believe it or not I can identify a lot with this. In some scenes I had this feeling of Deja-vu due to my previous watching of Inception... I guess Nolan took some ideas from this film. |
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| two words : fucking perfect! also i really wished for paprika to end up with konokawa...but either way, its perfect |
| Wow, was pretty good. The movie was kinda abstract, some bits reminded me of Inception as well. o_o |
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~ |
| First Satoshi movie to see. I ended up liking this movie due to the confusion it gave me through out the whole view. |
| Like many of the people here, I thought that this movie was really great! The fantasy worlds created with in this film were so cool!! I was blown away by the animation and applaud everyone involved with this film. *sigh* if only my dreams were that unbelievable. I wish a device siuch as the on in this movie actually exsisted. It'd be sweeeet. |
| can't say I liked the movie a lot but it was good nether the less Susumu Hirasawa always puts up good music and Madhouse animation was pretty nice to look at overall 8/10 |
| "Where will a newborn go from here? The net is vast and infinite" - Motoko Kusanagi |
| Wow. This movie amazes me. I'm glad that my big brother buys me one. xD The art is simply amazing~ with good characters. Not to mention the soundtrack - I LOVE IT. And yeah, some of the dreams freaked me out. >.< |
chiquit0621Jul 24, 2011 5:45 AM
"Perhaps the distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it."  chiquit |
| Very awesome, not quite as dark and deranged as Perfect Blue, but in this case it's a dream causing the line between reality and fiction to blur, instead of schizophrenia. Some crazy shit going on throughout the movie, and I loved the nonsense-talk. Found it amazing that the hot girl wound up with the huge mountain of genius. A dream for all the fat ronery otakus of the world I suppose. :) If Daru and this guy can do it, so can you! |
| fucking inception. what a ride this movie was. A lot of parts in the movie made me question whether it was a dream or reality. And I never guessed who actually was the culprit it was revealed. pretty good directing and animation in my opinion. |
| Confusing a bit, but was pretty fun. |
| That was a great movie!... i've already seen Inception and it has the same idea this movie is wayy more creative though x3 i'm going to watch Millennium Actress next :) |
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| Overrated, but not bad. The first 20-25 minutes of horrible exposition was a pain to suffer through, but the visuals and the music was enough to keep me watching. The romance part was unneeded and sticked out like a sore thumb. I liked the detective's character and Paprika/Chiba. 7/10. |
| I didn't like it! -_- The only good thing about it is the music and art. |
| Yup overrated, good to see where Inception got its ideas from lol. 5/10 |
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| Very strange, but I enjoyed it. |
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| Wow I really liked it 9/10 ^_^ |
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| My first Kon Satoshi film. I came into Paprika having seen Inception already, hearing that some said was similar. Aside from the fact that they are both about dreams, these two are worlds could be world's apart using similar concepts. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. With a decent budget, an amazing director, and it seems anime movies really do truly have the limitless potential to weave whatever it spins in the head of its director. This was one example of that. While the ending was kind of nonsensical, (like wtf she just ate the guy and problem solved? IM MISSING THE ANALOGY HERE), the imagery and commentary about dreams, society, and people throughout the film was great. Dialogue was relatively dry however, but there was a tension in the film that kept it going (plus I did sleep only 6 hours the previous day which is very low for me). Konakawa/detective shines here. His whole subplot about his persistent nightmare, friendship, and movies reminds me of the movie Midnight in Paris for some reason; the idea that the director talks about movies itself within a movie. Romance was a bit off, but I like the take on it and wasn't just some side event. It contributed to the story and development of its characters. Too bad Konakawa didn't end up with Atsuko. I would've liked to see that instead. Oh, and liked the theme song. Pretty fun to listen to. |
TachiiJul 11, 2012 12:43 PM
| Not as mindblowing as I'd been led to believe. Fun and kept me interested the whole time but funnily enough, I was left with the same underwhelmed feeling as with Inception, when I wanted to be overwhelmed and have to use my brain more. Like, a genuinely multilayered plot not a simple-ish (but confusing) plot just occurring in multiple layers. Too many pointless and undeveloped plot strands basically! They kept making winks at "murder mysteries" and noir like they didn't even care about setting up a real concealed antagonist properly. Also, it kept niggling in my brain that they just took the style and concepts of GITS and used them as genre conventions rather than trying to push them to another level. Good stuff anyway, weirdness is always good. |
| Lovely film. |
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| The romance towards the end just felt a little cheap and wrong to me, like they put it in there just because they thought every anime has to have some aspect of romance. It didn't make sense and truthfully bothered me, the movie seemed a bit, uhhh to me too. I don't like, or understand how the dream world managed to blend in with reality. But that ending song was really nice, for some reason it makes me feel nostalgic, it's powerful. |
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| Damn. I was sitting wide-eyed and mouth agape for the whole duration of the movie, my mind trying to catch up and make out a somewhat coherent idea of what was going on. Without a doubt one of the most mind-fucking (or, put in a nicer term, psychological) movies I've watched. The plot kept me on edge throughout the film, and the merging of dream and reality was amazingly done. When I sat down to watch it, I wasn't expecting big things (believe me or not, I hadn't really heard about this movie until today), so boy did I get a surprise! And a good one at that! I have to admit though, that the romance at the end felt off. It's like suddenly Atsuko realizes her love for Tokita and BAM! End of the movie. It's too sudden, and though I know it sounds judgmental, I don't see how Atsuko can love him. I mean, she herself points out his numerous faults (one of them being his weight). But at least it added to the stack of surprises. This movie is definitely getting a 10/10 from me! |
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| another piece of shit will give 3/10 just for the boobies |
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| Incredible, just incredible. I'm still not quite sure what exactly happened... but I know that I like it! Vibrant doesn't even begin to describe what I just watched. My only complaint is who ends up with who at the end of the film. I guess that says something about my personality, more than anything the movie did wrong at least. |
| Let this be our little secret, no needs to know we're feeling HIGHER AND HIGHER AND HIGHER! |
| I really don't get the point of the story but it is still fun to watch. It is really like a dream and the effects as well as art is awesome! |
| It's really hard to follow the logic of this movie. Paprika just seems to enter dreams whenever she wants but there is this one time her other self has to go to sleep before she can do that. Also, the movie doesn't seem to like giving a synopsis of some of the characters. I had a hard time keeping up with the movie while trying to make sense out of pure interpetation what was going on, but it wasn't too bad. The movie was a lot of fun to watch. It had some deacent characters, amazing visuals and a great atmosphere. It's a 6/10 overall. A good film, but there was a lot of potential that wasn't used and it suffered a little from not fine tuning itself. |
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| You know it's a great movie when someone gets fisted! |
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flaxman85 said: another piece of shit will give 3/10 just for the boobies You're too kind. ^_^ |
 There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value.  Persona anime are good. Deal with it. |
| IMO if you don't understand the movie you didn't actually watch it and pay attention...yeah there are some plot holes, but some of the questions you yourself could have answered if you had just paid attention to it the whole way through. 7/10 not too bad |
 "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" |
| I've watched this movie multiple times (had it on dvd) and came to the conclusion that it is pretty overrated. Liked it though. |
 3nvy said: that eoten be eatin the pizza pi Does anybody know a way that a body could get away? |
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