[thechat] sharks (was: rationality)

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 6 21:18:01 CST 2003


> From: Ben Dyer <ben_dyer at imaginuity.com>
>
> >zentraedi, shurely ... i really should watch a lot more of that show
> >- I didn't realise, but amazon.co.uk have all four eps of Macross
> >Plus and the Movie all in one DVD set for 19 quid
>
> You really only need one or the other (unless you're a huge fan), the
> movie is just the four episode OAV repurposed to movie length.  Only
> one or two new scenes if I remember...

i was so disappointed with Macross Plus... is the movie Do You
Remember Love? that was a gorgeous movie, even if the original
english dub was pretty monotone... the budweiser can that flies out
of Fokker's valkyrie as he flies into Dolza's ship is pretty funny...
lots of those 1-frame gags...

> I caught the first episode of Macross Zero yesterday (actually, maybe
> it's an OAV, too)...absolutely gorgeous.  An almost perfect mix of CG
> and cel animation.

where?  dinna even know it was out...

> >  - I just got the DVDs of Princess Mononoke
>
> An excellent movie.  Everyone thought this would be the movie that
> catapulted anime into mainstream...then they thought Spirited
> Away...maybe the Cowboy Bebop movie in April??

nope, Akira did it, Ghost in the Shell helped it... as far as i'm
concerned, that's about as mainstream as it's gonna get... i remember
people making that same comment when Gainax released Honneamise, and
that didn't happen... there are others that stand a better chance...

> >and Metropolis (the Rintaro/Katsuhiro Otomo anime adaptation of
> >Osamu Tezuka's manga adaptation of Fritz Lang's cinema classic!)
>
> An okay movie.  Looks beautiful to be sure, but something was
> missing...alas, probably Osamu Tezuka himself...

it was gorgeous, despite the abundance of way too cartoony
characters... the plot, though, was a little stretched for me...

> >delivered this morning, so my anime purchase meter is kinda depleted
> >right now :(
>
> I completely understand.  I'm about to be bankrupt with new preorders:
> Noir, .hack//SIGN, RahXephon and Mahoromatic all being released R1 in
> Q1...Noir on preorder, .hack is next...plus keeping up with Kare Kano,
> GTO, Excel Saga...

wow, apparently i'm way too old school...

doesn't anybody lament the end of great series like Dirty Pair,
Bubblegum Crisis/Crash, Lupin, Project A-ko, etc?

i'm really not so into the mixed CG and hand anime...

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