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| so i see people here crying this movie sucks ass and boring but when i see their favorites then again they are pretty generic.. imo this movie is excellent!! the way it tries to represents the interesting ideas, different scenario and present them on screen which isn't easy considering this movie is of 1980's time. i think characters and plot could have been much more complex but it is what it is. overall pretty close to being masterpiece. 9/10 |
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| Lol, did the author have something against Tetsuo's girl or what? Poor girl's screen-time only consisted in having her getting beaten, sexually assaulted and killed off in the most grotesque way possible. Anyways, pretty good movie overall. A visual masterpiece without a doubt but it's also true that it has its flaws in the writing department such as Kei's character being reduced to a mere love interest for Kaneda and the origin of Tetsuo's powers being poorly explained. But that said, story was so engaging, visuals so stunning and OST so immersive that one can easily overlook those aspects and some others while watching such impressive piece of media. 8/10 |
| Akira, one of the biggest anime movies of our time and one of the first anime movies I ever saw as a teenager and probably one of the first non Ghibli films for me. This is a film where it’s glory, violent and has a lot of body horror in it, amazing soundtrack and beautiful looking visuals. It was just so fast paced from start to finish, the dystopian future setting is so vibrant and appropriately desolate for what they were going for at the time. Kaneda, Tetsuo and the rest of the cast were fantastic as well. Though that being said, it can be confusing for somebody who hasn’t seen it before especially towards the end and it is a film that will probably need a couple of rewatches to understand what’s going on but given the fact that I haven’t seen this when I was either 14 or 15, I actually did well on that front. It’s once again beautiful visually speaking, pretty much wasn’t a film like it back then and I can see why it made it’s mark on the western world. And for that, it gets a 9/10 from me. |
| The plot made no sense. I had to read supplementary info to understand what happened at the end. Dull and boring characters with 0 personality. The only thing that saves it is the atmosphere and animation. Overall 8/10 for the 80s cyberpunk, animation and historical impact. |
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| I really did not like this movie lol I can't help but feel like it might be just slightly overhyped. The plot just felt like a mess, and while the animation is pretty cool at times, I'm not really a fan of it. I know it was pretty big back when it came out since it would've been really new and unlike anything out at the time, but I really just didn't like this. By the end I just wanted the movie to end already :( |
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| Well that was a movie. Honestly, if I hadn't read the manga first, I definitely wouldn't have liked this movie at all. I mean the manga isn't even that good and for the first hour and a half of this movie, I actually thought it was better than the manga. The ending wasn't too bad but honestly, this series gets so much hype and love you'd think there'd be more to it than just fluid animation and a cool setting. |
| A story of friendship, grudges and why the military shouldn't try that create gods. My favorite part was the corrupt council having more evidence of corruption then they could get rid of, it all not even being able to fit into a suitcase! That was funny. Totally sucks how poor Kaori got undeservedly brutalized twice in this movie. How unlucky it all was for her.... |
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| Just rewatched this at an IMAX-like studio. It was a different experience altogether. BTW Anime > Manga |
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| Not my cup of tea. The animation is nice, I give it that. |
 She got him back. If you understand the characters well enough, you'd know she did! |
| I watched this cause of the memes and the countless references of that bike. But this movie is nothing special. 6 |
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Reply to MadRoosterr
Got half the people who like this pretending to understand it and the others who ignore the terrible plot because of its animation
| @MadRoosterr That's usually what it's like with anime such as these. Either people smelling their farts and saying we're too dumb to understand shit, and the others that just like the flashy stuff. |
| Eh... I do respect how influential it was. Similar to Princess Knight where I didn't really care for the manga or anime, but I do respect how it influenced my favorite series. I get the message. Ethics in science, political corruption, etc. It was just a mess overall. Akira himself was lackluster and had no presence. |
Reply to LuxuriousHeart
@MadRoosterr That's usually what it's like with anime such as these. Either people smelling their farts and saying we're too dumb to understand shit, and the others that just like the flashy stuff.
| @LuxuriousHeart You must be feeling really butthurt to quote a 10 year old post just to find support for your Akira hate-post. |
Reply to JoeChip
@LuxuriousHeart
You must be feeling really butthurt to quote a 10 year old post just to find support for your Akira hate-post.
You must be feeling really butthurt to quote a 10 year old post just to find support for your Akira hate-post.
| @JoeChip In a literal discussion post btw. A comment that I happened to agree with. But you tried. |
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