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zingy
College Boy Z
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 Akira Akira Quote: Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film. It was written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, who based it on his manga of the same name. The film is set in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. The film's plot focuses on Shotaro Kaneda, a biker gang member, as he tries to stop Tetsuo Shima from releasing Akira. While most of the character designs and basic settings were adapted from the original 2182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga. The film became a hugely popular cult film and is widely considered to be a landmark in Japanese animation and film making in general.
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publicenemy#1
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Location: San Diego
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Very dissapointing... I love anime but this was a mess, just like Ghost In The Shell. Maybe I need to rewatch those 2.
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| Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:47 am |
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Gulli
Jordan Mugen-Honda
Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 9:53 am
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Probably the only occasion where I've watched a movie twice and still remained completely clueless as to what the hell was going on. It looked nice I suppose but as for everything else a big WTF!
C+ (even this grade is at best a wild guess)
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Inny Binny
The Incredible Hulk
Joined: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:24 pm
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Location: New Zealand
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Re: Akira i enjoyed the shit out of this tbh, i don't know if it achieved what it aimed to but it was awesome to watch.
84/100, A-
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am
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Re: Akira I'm not entirely sure what they were trying to say with this movie. At first it seemed like "unchecked capitalism and militarism will lead to Japan being destroyed over and over." Yet ... then the movie kind of has you rooting for the capitalists and military by the end. Literally anybody who can stop Tetsuo from destroying the city is welcome. Maybe that is the point? That no matter how bad you think the people in charge are, there is always someone worse?
I read that this diverges pretty heavily from the Manga, and in a way is actually a commentary on the original story in the same way that Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One was. True/false?
Despite my confusion about the thematic material, I thought the story was engaging. The last 40ish minutes are very exciting, and I didn't want any of the characters to die in the explosive finale. So I'll give it a B+.
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publicenemy#1
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Re: Akira Um holy **** at that review from me being 17 years ago, and me calling Ghost in the Shell a mess! Wow.
I still need to rewatch this but I liked GitS a lot more when I saw it in IMAX last year.
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