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| Neat little movie from 1986. Very nice animation by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko who also directed Crusher Joe: The Movie and worked on the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy. Highly recommend to any fan of Greek mythology! |
Klonoa7HFeb 6, 2021 2:55 PM
| I actually did not enjoy it. There were several scenes that made no sense to me at alll. I could name quite a few actually. How did he go from a grieving psychopath to a courageous warrior leader? And all of the deaths seem pretty random, not just extras, but those that actually mattered like Poseidon, or that old man from the island cave, or even Athena -- and especially Athena. Like, she went from someone who was seeking vengeance over the death of her brother to lusting over a levitating homosexual and even beat up an innocent little girl for that lol. And to top it off, I could keep going on, but I can still admire many other aspects positively. Most notably, it's animation. I loved the attention to detail each frame had and some scenes were directed very cinematically. I may have not enjoyed its story, but I do appreciate its effort :) |
| Where to start? ... I would like to apologize ahead if my post would look a mini review (or long winded and incoherent one) with lots of rambling thoughts. Man, this thing has a lot of twists (IMHO, a good thing), the pretzels would be put to shame so I will only mention two. First was that people-rousing speech of his, if they were hearing his reasons, the people he was rallying are sick and twisted as well. The greater evil was Zeus but the little evil is rescuing the sister (which was of course noble) with incest in the heart of it! O_o Unless of course the people knew all along they weren't blood related in the beginning. Ethos was about to confess...but he fell and was blown away! >_< In the end, it turns out she wasn't really her true blood sister after all. Hooray! ^.^ Then there's Seneca... he's gay! O_o I don't hold it against him, it's just that he suddenly confessed, it came out of nowhere and it blind-sided me for a bit. At the siege, it turned out she was a girl after all! O_O The characters? Oh boy... Arion, I'll let Alipio say it... Alipio said: By rousing speech with the clear intent on incest! X_X How did he go from a grieving psychopath to a courageous warrior leader? Zeus looks like wizened old man...err cry baby wizard, prone to whining to other powers to help him stay on top of the order. Athena is a sexually frustrated, workaholic military woman jilted by Apollo. Apollo is a power-hungry narcissist (come to think of it narcissism had something to do with Apollo anyway, LOL) biding his time. Ares thankfully is still rash and dumb barbarian who got himself killed midway along the movie. Finally, Gaia/Mother Earth is a bitch! ^_^ Save Demeter and Prometheus, LordCustos3's MAL review pegged it right, LordCustos3 said: the Gods of Olympus were a bunch of sociopathically spoiled douchebags Olympus looks dreary, Lord of the Rings trilogy film's Barad-dûr in Mordor comes to mind or any other Big Bad's dark castle in any fiction. It's not filled with light, little cupids, unicorns (LOL) like Disney and other media portrayed it. Of the weapons, I was surprised the ancient Greeks really did have a crossbow, the gastraphetes. I thought they were Roman or Chinese thing, something new everyday. XD The rockets is another thing though, as it was used in the siege of Olympus, the ancient Chinese need to sue the ancient Greeks! (In the present time, the Chinese are copying everything so I guess that would even out somehow. ROTFLMAO) Then there's the thunder tube, it was a friggin' laser focus! The entire setup was a small version of the 'Archimedes heat ray' but it's so efficient and effective, it fires like Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery walker from the Clone Army in Star Wars. In the beginning and midway through the movie, it feels like a tragedy worthy of Oedipodean standards; murder, patricide, incest... then it lost me to rescue-the princess-and-down-with-king-thing. O_O WTH! Suddenly it became cheap somehow. In spite of all that, I still got entertained after almost two hours, and I loved the sketch art in the flashbacks/nightmares scenes with Demeter. 7/10 |
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| I thought this was gonna be good at the beginning, but after a while, I noticed that they skipped around way too much, like how he knew some of the people he met. The climatic scenes were underwhelming as well. This may have meant to be watched with the knowledge of ancient Greek mythology, too bad I haven't searched up those information before I watch this, and even if that's the case, it still doesn't excuse the jumping around. |
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| It was a fairly entertaining action movie recycling the greek myths pantheon. A personal drama against the end of the "gods" era. On one hand, I found the animation decent but on the other hand, it seemed rather simple compared to the gorgeous movements of Venus Wars. Still, the drawings themselves were very good and the overall pictures were often quite well made. The tempo was at times mishandled but I wouldn't say it was as bad as it sounds on this page. I was never lost, the movie making a point in showing you that the time passes in a few different ways. But for the adaptation of a short manga who was created by Yasuhiko only to justify his movie project (and be funded), it looked indeed a bit too compressed. The music never stood out but it was efficient. I must say I was expecting more from Isaishi after hearing him on Venus Wars (his work there being interestingly different than his deliveries for Miyazaki). Enjoyment: 4/5 Score: 6.5+/10 (rounded up because it looks crafted with care and isn't extremely very common) No idea why Yasuhiko "disowned" it. Special applause to Kazé for its DVD (France): translation sometimes doubtful, missing dialogues lines, and a video you could imagine coming from a VHS ! Strange when Venus wars whose DVD creation in Japan was also blocked thanks to its creator received a sublime DVD version in France. Mention spéciale à Kazé pour son édition DVD: traduction par moment douteuse, lignes de dialogues ignorées, et une vidéo telle que l'on pourrait croire que l'on regarde une VHS. Etrange quand on voit le niveau de soin des images du DVD fr. Venus wars qui n'a lui aussi reçu aucune édition DVD au Japon (refusé par le créateur). @Largo93 In terms of directing? Indeed, I found a lot of scenes compositions pretty good (you can see this in Venus Wars as well, or in his several manga). February 7, 2021 @AC9123 You will dislike it then : it is not Greek mythology, it is its own story (the fall of gods) casting greek mythological figures (and bending them to the author's desires). Especially if you're a die-hard fan of the "original" myths. |
Rei_IIIFeb 7, 2021 2:49 AM
| More or less a good movie with a very interesting setting. I was hoping for a stronger emotional response at the end, but it was still fine. |
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| Hm.... I found out about this but haven't watched it yet. I was hoping for this to be about a horse but I guess not. As a fan of Greek Myth I'll either cry at how bad it is or cheer because it's Greek Myth from what I hear... I wonder. |
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| Arion (1986) Divine hero Arion embarks into a colossal saga towards the Olympus for his star-crossed love Resphoina, amidst an all out war among the gods. This action romp pulps ancient Greek mythology in a blender, then molds an epic, aimless fan fiction story out of it. (4/10) |
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| It's better to have no knowledge of Greek myths because this movie uses the source material poorly. Basically it doesn't really change anything in a meaningful way and instead they just butchered things for the most part. The movie look's and sounds good, but otherwise it's really forgettable. |
| Rather disappointing. The animation and concepts were good, but many plot beats often made no sense. This was based on one of Yas's manga so I wonder if something was lost in the transition from page to screen. The rapid pacing and bizarre developments might be due to squeezing in all the material into a movie. |
| Those final 20 mins ruined the fucking movie. Everything prior though slightly fast pace was great. It was a pretty solid adventure series that was covering alot of grounds. Admittedly I don't know enough about Greek mythology to question accuracy but I was enjoying the setting of this. But then everything from the point Prometheus revealed himself sucks. Lesphoena goes full on Newtype, kills Gaia, Zeus gets killed, Apollo get killed. Arion & Lesphoena are reunited, the end. It ends in such an anticlimactic manner. Edit: Apparently Yasu was forced to adapted this against his will which might clear up some of the off beat feel of the movie. https://wavemotioncannon.com/2017/01/31/interview-with-yoshikazu-yasuhiko-on-gundam-the-origin-animage-june-2015vol-444/ |
VanishingKiraAug 8, 2022 8:31 PM
| I really liked it, the scenes all hand drawned was awesome. It has incest yes, but thats coeherent with the greek mithology. It shows for no reason the boys dick at the start of the movie and boobies, that made censoring the movie hard, cause it would ruin the soundtrack. I get it why its obscure right now, since its politically incorrect in a lot of scenes. Dragon Ball has scenes where people dicks(goku) was around for no reason, so its a product of its time. I didnt get very well if despina is half sister of arion or no sister at all. The movie would have to be longer to explain things like Despina power to kill gaia, why Zeus was not strong at all, and why poseidon and hades were so fragile being killed by a sword. And whats that sword anyway? Im satisfied, the manga had several volumes(5 tankobons, like 50 chapters, i guess) so i already guessed it that the movie would be rushed, its like the Akira movie where not everything makes sense. I cant read it since no one translated online to portuguese. In the end watch it, it has a lot of memorable action scenes. |
| Better than I expected, it was a fun adventure movie! Great animation, creatures, and a nice soundtrack too. 9/10 I'm only slightly familiar with all the Greek gods but I don't get everyone's hang ups with them twisting their original personalities, it's not like this is a biopic! And they all did some messed up things in their myths. Perhaps it was fleshed-out in the original manga, but I don't understand how Arion ended up alone with Demeter while Resphoina with Athena, even though she's Demeter's daughter. VanishingKira said: Those final 20 mins ruined the fucking movie. Everything prior though slightly fast pace was great. It was a pretty solid adventure series that was covering alot of grounds. Admittedly I don't know enough about Greek mythology to question accuracy but I was enjoying the setting of this. But then everything from the point Prometheus revealed himself sucks. Lesphoena goes full on Newtype, kills Gaia, Zeus gets killed, Apollo get killed. Arion & Lesphoena are reunited, the end. It ends in such an anticlimactic manner. Edit: Apparently Yasu was forced to adapted this against his will which might clear up some of the off beat feel of the movie. https://wavemotioncannon.com/2017/01/31/interview-with-yoshikazu-yasuhiko-on-gundam-the-origin-animage-june-2015vol-444/ Yeah, I didn't like Super Saiyan Resphoina suddenly saving the day, either. Thanks for the link! |
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