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| So I really really liked this movie and decided to check out the TV series since I liked it so much and I don't see the fuss with any sort of removed content so far. The stuff I've seen in the show that wasn't in the movie has never been anything particularly important, just random battles or interactions between the characters that aren't really necessary and just push already established ideas in the viewer's head more. The movie has told the exact same story but more efficiently. |
| "My tables-meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." |
| Felt too much like a summary. I enjoyed the production, the CGI wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. The characters had no time to develop because they had to hit all the main points of the series. Should have covered the same events in a 2 hour timeframe. |
Bluey said: What a steaming pile of shit, I went in with low expectations and it still managed to dissapoint me. Almost Zero character development, every character besides Griffith sounded like shit, the cg was god awfull and the pacing was horrendous. It's amazing how much stuff they managed to miss making this mess, the Anime missed a few things two, but at least it was good. The 90's art of the series looks 100x better then the shit that's in the movie. Terrible. I was actually pretty bored half way through, and that's as someone who was a huge fan back in the day. :( If they just had 30 more minutes, it could have been great. What's the rush to get the first 3 movies out anyway? I presume they've done it purposefully to get onto the post-Golden Age stuff, but it really shouldn't have been rushed. The first movie should have covered volume 1-3, with a longer development time. Everybody would be happy, I reckon. Or, these should have been released as OVA's. |
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| Well I wasn't crazy about the cgi, but the movie as a whole was good just not great. The animation parts looked really good, but I prefer the grittiness of the original anime. The only anime where I thought they did the cgi really well would be Black Rock Shooter, but they maybe to context. Anyway I looked forward to the other parts. |
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| not bad movie... but they cut a lot of :( |
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| It's still Berserk, even though I don't really appreciate the new look. Should be at least 30 minutes longer, it was way too short, lots of stuff was cut, a shame. Can't wait to see the rest, maybe there will be some improvements. |
| Nil Satis Nisi Optimum |
| The cgi was bad... the cgi was really really bad. Like I heard it was bad... but I didn't think it was this bad. Like to be completely honest the cg in the 90's video game was better at some parts than the cg in this anime thats made in 2010+. Dear studio 4°C, Please stop using cg in the Berserk movies. Sincerely, the majority of Berserk fans. but, seriously everything else was great, they rushed the story a bit, but I think the hit most of the important plot points. The regular animated scenes looked really great, especially the stuff in the castle and the fight scenes. Srsly that cg needs to stop though, or at least tone it down or something. |
 "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Re-watching, I noticed the hickup with the 3D animation was due to not using motion capture. The scene where Guts is paid for his contribution just after the opening credits clearly uses motion capture. The scene where Griffith walks down the hill to talk to Guts just after Casca tells him off is clearly not motion captured. So the CG wasn't the problem. The animation itself was the problem. Motion capped 3D scenes looked great, anything that wasn't motion capped looked stiff and/or unnatural. |
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| This movie was great! The CG was fine, and the animation in general was quite pleasing, in my opinion. Opinions across the board gave the impression that it wasn't up to par; luckily and thankfully they were wrong. Can't wait for the next movie! |
| Just watched it today (dubbed) & it was pretty good :D. In fact,the only thing keeping it from being a 10 is the story.As someone who reads the manga,I have noticed some scenes were skipped & made the movie feel.....incomplete (which is obviously something some one should feel since it's the 1st in a trilogy). The art is spectacular & the animation is great.And about the CGI,I don't see anything wrong.Sure,it's not the best CGI ever but it's at least well above average & get the job done (and I'm a gamer.I have experience with CGI).Compared to the CGI of the anime,Kingdom which took a while to get use to,the CGI in this is better by comparison. And since I've seen it dubbed as well,the dub is one of the best I've seen ever (1st Tiger & Bunny & now this,damn Viz). |
| My Devianart Oh & Space Brothers is still the best anime ever,in my opinion.Even when competing with Attack on Titan. |
| Fucking epic, too short though. But the pros are much more than the cons 9/10 The only thing though, in the intro Edit: Nevermind, found the answer for myself: "in September 2010, a wraparound jacket band on volume 35 of the Berserk manga announced a new anime project, which was later revealed to be a series of films intended to adapt the entire manga series..." |
sagdashinNov 4, 2012 2:09 AM
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| I really enjoyed the movie, but yeah I agree with other people here, they could've made it a little longer, and include more manga scenes, but Miura-sensei was there with them all the time, so if he said it's enough, then it must be enough. As for CGI, I didn't really bothered with it, saw some parts of it, and it looked ok in my opinion. Then again, this movie was just an intro, the good things are coming up in the 2nd and 3rd one (especially 3rd one). |
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| Bought the dvd and just finished watching it.. It was awesome. |
 Behold of my awesomeness~ controversial and/or sensitive topics likely devolve into the same repetitive, derogatory, abusive, and harassing comments can no longer be posted. But my feels. |
| Got it in blu ray. Awesome movie. It's really for the fans though. If you haven't watched the series and tried to jump in with this, you'd be lost lol. The CGI you guys keep complaining about really didn't bother me. It was different, yeah but it wasn't necessarily bad. I just wish Griffith's stare was more menacing. It startled the shit out of me when I first saw it in the series. Also, why did they change Casca's skin tone so much? Other than that though, I just wish it was longer. Some cool scenes got shortened or removed and some of the supporting characters didn't get enough development. 90-120 minutes would've been perfect. |
| and i thought that i've seen bad CGI before? pff |
Do pop-up headlights really endanger pedestrians that much? |
| i have a funny feeling, that all people who said that CGI was good, didn't played games since like 1994. |
Do pop-up headlights really endanger pedestrians that much? |
| wait, did they even show gambino here? i didn't watched it, just skimmed through it for a friend, seems they missed of huge chunks... |
| Does anyone else need a doctor to confirm that someone without a head is dead? |
| Bazuso huh? Sounds kinda weird for a warrior. I knew he didn't stand a chance against Guts though. Griffith on the other hand.... The violence was more than I thought but then again, I expected it from Berserk. The animation is pretty good though just as I had expected. >Have no fear. Go Griffith! Well, if anything, I smell a conspiracy going on with that ending there. Final scene:  7/10 for this film. I'll look forward to the next one! |
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| The assassination scene was done so much better, it clearly showed that guts didnt know what he was doing... And this animation is just perfect ! |
| Also he carried a normal sword and not a huge-ass one. |
| The animation was different but not horrible though it looked shifty at times. It portrayed the arc pretty damn nice. |
| I couldn't make it past the first episode of the series but I really enjoyed this. A lot of that's probably because the sword doesn't look so ridiculous. |
| It was just average for me (5/10). It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either. The CG animation was so bad at times, it was distracting. |
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| not a fan of CGI at all... it was tolerable though good refresher of a masterpiece nonetheless... Will rate all 3 as a whole.. |
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| Haven't seen the series and picked 'Berserk' up straight from this film. I found it really enjoyable and I hope that the other movies are able to deliver just as well. |
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| Definitely a movie for the fans. The animation style wasn't your typical kawai no desu japanimation....but that's never a bad thing ever. The near entirety of the English cast returning was a really nice touch too. |
Emperor_Palputin said: and i thought that i've seen bad CGI before? pff i always bitch about too much CGI in anime but i have seen far worse (kingdom). thank god its not all CGI. |
| Pretty good,except for the CGI :/ |
SaskeeApr 16, 2014 9:27 AM
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| Pretty good summary of this part of the story, they kinda skipped over Guts' childhood and fitting into the Hawks, but overall it was fine. They toned down the blood and gore which was kinda understandable but how much are they going to edit with the endgame? CGI was also a bit jarring but I got used to it, but it could see some improvement. 6/10 |
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| lol I don't understand you people who complain about the CGI when the original adaptation wasn't even 'animated' at all, seriously. I actually liked that they skipped out so much from the manga, those parts were bad - good choice from the director. Though it still is Berserk, meaning that the actually story is no more than average. You get your poor characters & this & that & yada yada .... |
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| It was good, but I didn't like the use of CGI. |
| I've really enjoyed it but I have no idea how good it would have been without reading the source material. Also, the CGI and low frame rate of the animation annoyed me but it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. |
| your waifu is shit |
| It was a really awesome movie but what i really want to know if it is story related to the anime or is it a remake because i haven`t seen the anime.. |
| Love the Manga and the original series, so I was super excited to hear they were releasing these films, but only to be as equally disappointed with the quality they put out...ugh |
| When I saw Puck and other characters after the time skip in the opening sequence, that threw me off. I wasn't sure what to expect at first since I thought these movies only covered what the television series covered. Actually, there was nothing from after the time skip, even though the anime had some of that in the first and last episodes. Anyways, holy crap that scale. It's no Lord of the Rings, but there's the feel of a large-scale war in this film. Just as violent as ever too. I must say though, with the amount of stuff the film is cutting out, I honestly can't remember much of what is missing, and I had just watched the television series last month, so this is an odd experience for me. Beyond that, I'm enjoying it so far. There aren't really any changes as far as the story goes, but scenes are rewritten and are better for it. One that stuck out was the flashback sequence after Griffith beats Guts at the beginning. The erratic still shots coupled with Guts' vision going in and out was fantastic. Even better is how the dialogue is jumbled and intelligible. It really gives a sense of disorientation and dementia. Great stuff. |
| Griffith's evil grin when he heard Julious was assasinated wasn't even 50 % cool as the manga one, c'mon.. |
| I liked it, CGI was shit, but pacing was good. |
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| This is where Guts joined The Band Of Hawks. I remember reading the chapters :D Caska and Guts moments ♥ daww Brings me back... Fighting Zodd :D |
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| It's too bad the CGI is distracting to the point where it takes away from the 2D work, which looked fantastic I think, even though it's a bit too clean looking considering it's Berserk, but the details in the characters' faces were impressive. I was actually ok with the CGI being used in the large scale battles, it's much easier to portray the scale of a battle using CGI, and the lack of details on each soldier is hidden by the number of moving people on the screen. Pretty satisfied even though it was rushed. Felt like they should have just skipped the entire "Gut's childhood" dream because it was way too confusing and vague like this |
| As some who haven't watched the old version I really liked it and I can't wait to see other parts as soon as I'll have some free time. My favorite scenes are Guts vs Griffith v2, Guts training with his sword and Casca realizing that Guts killed this nobleman and his soldiers. Moment when Guts killed that little kid was really powerful in my opinion, a little bit shocking too. Great starter movie. |
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