You took time out of your day to write a combined essay in the hopes I'd read it. You truly are a sad individual if you go around bitching to people who have a different opinion than you, If you don't like my opinion, then f#ck off elsewhere. I couldn't give a flying f#ck what you think go suck off an overlord fan that'll dangle his meat In front of you, or better still, finish off your 150th essay targeted at another review, you sad, sad person. Don't like sao then why did you watch every season? And you have the audacity to call me braindead you s!upid degenerate. Then again you thought overlord 2 was a masterpiece 💀
Your comments remind me of Apple fans: Iphones are the best phones and if you have an opinion that disagrees, you should keep it to yourself because people who hate apple would use it as ammunition against the company and people who want to adopt Iphones would be dissuaded.
Sorry, but I don't share the feelings. I think it's fine to trash a weak product, regardless of the ecosystem or future prospects. I'm afraid it's Madhouse who's doing a disservice to Overlord by releasing a weak movie.
As you said, look at Frieren. They are capable, but they didn't put the effort into this movie. As for the budget, or time, the burden falls again on the studio, not the consumer. If they thought they didn't have the budget, it should have been delayed.
As for the confused reactions or my score being an outlier: I think that's fine. If everybody else enjoys it, good for them.
I hated the finale of Attack on Titan, and I've seen many similar opinions online. But if you look at the epilogue movie, it's one of the highest rated on this site. In the end, it's the aggregate of both camps (the people that enjoyed it and the people that disliked it) that will dictate the final score.
I think it deserves a 5 because it's average. I don't think it deserves a lower score because I enjoyed some parts of the movie.
But I can't give it a higher score because it's just not good enough: the story is cut poorly, and the animation is bad. If they had better animation, this could have been a 7 or 8 in my opinion. If it was 4h long (or split into 2 movies) it would have been an 8 or 9 (points for sticking to the source). And if they did both, I'd be praising it to high heavens and called it the best thing since the Peter Jackson Trilogy. But they did neither.
In the end, let's agree to disagree. You liked it, I didn't. The movie is out there, and it will stand on its own two feet if it's good, or crumble if it's bad. Neither of us can prop it up, or burn it down with a review.
I've paid to watch this movie in theatres, and I've read vol 1-14 of the light novel about 3 times over. Heck, I've even made an audiobook for vol 14 all by myself: youtu.be/X7HnGAuVk3M
I think that qualifies me as a fan.
My review is from the perspective of a LN reader. You'll have reviews from different perspectives on that page, and that's OK; that's why the score's an aggregate.
I focus so much on animation and fights because that's what an adaptation is supposed to offer. I can get the dialogue just fine from the pages. It's the action scenes that will shine through when bringing the story to screen.
I also expect a bit more from a movie. Maybe Suzume, or Kimi no Na wa, or Dawn of the deep soul, or even Promare have spoiled me with visual delight, but I don't think Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom should have had season 3/4 levels of animation. Maybe if it was a straight-to-DVD release, but not a theatric one.
I'm sure my point still stands: you won't be looking up any fights from this movie on youtube.
I still go back to the Ainz vs Shalltear fight. We could have had that in the movie at 2 occasions: Ainz vs Buser, and Ainz vs Evil Lord & Pleiades. Both of these fight scenes are described in detail in the books. But they're completely removed from the movie.
I think we should expect more of Madhouse. A sub-par adaptation does not deserve a higher rating just because it's the only game in town.
But that's just my opinion. There's 10 other reviews on it with more to come. I'm sure the average will accurately reflect the rating it deserves.
Because the only people watching the movie are the fans of the series and if you’re anything to base the fan base who’s voting on here off of then they’re just blindly meat riding the movie since it’s overlord and they like overlord. I’ve seen several reviews of people saying the movie was meh and there are a lot of things they would’ve liked to see improved but then they conclude with but it’s overlord so still solid movie 7/10 I enjoyed it. Which is completely contradictory to their entire review before that point. So yeah tldr stupid people are on copium and that’s why the score is high.
A true fan can admit faults with a series they like it’s not a fucking cult you aren’t getting paid to meat ride it. Also, as I’ve said several times all the seasons of overlord are good and faithful to the novels. This movie is neither good nor faithful it’s 2 steps above promised neverland season 2. I will not be paying to see another movie from them in the future as clearly they care more about making a buck than making a decent film. I will however continue to enjoy and support the series but I will never praise this sorry excuse for an adaptation.
Also you better never give your opinion ever unless you created said thing your opinionated on. I’m a fan who spent money and didn’t get what I wanted so yes I have the right to shit on it. Don’t know what dumb mf uses that as an argument on a site literally made to review things. Like why tf u even here then stupid?
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Sorry, but I don't share the feelings. I think it's fine to trash a weak product, regardless of the ecosystem or future prospects. I'm afraid it's Madhouse who's doing a disservice to Overlord by releasing a weak movie.
As you said, look at Frieren. They are capable, but they didn't put the effort into this movie. As for the budget, or time, the burden falls again on the studio, not the consumer. If they thought they didn't have the budget, it should have been delayed.
As for the confused reactions or my score being an outlier: I think that's fine. If everybody else enjoys it, good for them.
I hated the finale of Attack on Titan, and I've seen many similar opinions online. But if you look at the epilogue movie, it's one of the highest rated on this site. In the end, it's the aggregate of both camps (the people that enjoyed it and the people that disliked it) that will dictate the final score.
I think it deserves a 5 because it's average. I don't think it deserves a lower score because I enjoyed some parts of the movie.
But I can't give it a higher score because it's just not good enough: the story is cut poorly, and the animation is bad. If they had better animation, this could have been a 7 or 8 in my opinion. If it was 4h long (or split into 2 movies) it would have been an 8 or 9 (points for sticking to the source). And if they did both, I'd be praising it to high heavens and called it the best thing since the Peter Jackson Trilogy. But they did neither.
In the end, let's agree to disagree. You liked it, I didn't. The movie is out there, and it will stand on its own two feet if it's good, or crumble if it's bad. Neither of us can prop it up, or burn it down with a review.
I think that qualifies me as a fan.
My review is from the perspective of a LN reader. You'll have reviews from different perspectives on that page, and that's OK; that's why the score's an aggregate.
I focus so much on animation and fights because that's what an adaptation is supposed to offer. I can get the dialogue just fine from the pages. It's the action scenes that will shine through when bringing the story to screen.
I also expect a bit more from a movie. Maybe Suzume, or Kimi no Na wa, or Dawn of the deep soul, or even Promare have spoiled me with visual delight, but I don't think Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom should have had season 3/4 levels of animation. Maybe if it was a straight-to-DVD release, but not a theatric one.
I'm sure my point still stands: you won't be looking up any fights from this movie on youtube.
I still go back to the Ainz vs Shalltear fight. We could have had that in the movie at 2 occasions: Ainz vs Buser, and Ainz vs Evil Lord & Pleiades. Both of these fight scenes are described in detail in the books. But they're completely removed from the movie.
I think we should expect more of Madhouse. A sub-par adaptation does not deserve a higher rating just because it's the only game in town.
But that's just my opinion. There's 10 other reviews on it with more to come. I'm sure the average will accurately reflect the rating it deserves.