I am so angry right now.
When something that looks so good could be so bad.
None of you quite know this, but some time ago I promised myself to get around to watching and reviewing Yatterman’s new live action movie last year. It’s a movie primarily aimed at children, so it of course contains many hi-jinks and nonsense.
And guess what? I hated it.
Maybe it’s because of Spoony’s ninety-five minute Impact vlog (entertaining, by the way), but I went into this movie with an all-time-low tolerance for nonsense and came out very, very pissed off.
You know what? Here’s what I’ll give it. I will totally forgive the following:
1. The protagonists are thirteen-year-olds who constantly foil a terrorist group. The police are nowhere to be found.
I have to give it this one. It’s the basis for children’s series. Gotta have kid heroes.
Sakurai Shou, cleanly shaven to as closely emulate the thirteen-year-old Gan-chan as possible. Just so you know, he’s twenty-eight.
2. Both the protagonists and the antagonists vie for pieces of a magical stone called the ‘skull stone’, which can grant wishes, etc etc.
Children’s series need such motivations. Also, the first Yatterman aired in 1977, when ‘Skull Stone’ was the most innovative, times-changing name to ever be conceived.
That crack
3. Every single character has to add a stupid speech motif at the end of their sentences, like -wan, or -da koron. Even the bigbad.
Just speak normally for god’s sake! Is it supposed to make somebody look cute?
Granted, Boyakki uses a relatively normal -de arimasu in mostly suitable context not very often, but still. No mercy.
However, even that I’ll forgive. Can’t fault these characters for speaking in whimsical ways. Catches the kiddies’ attentions.
4. No regard for physics.
Duh.
Their ingenious method of transportation involves hanging off the side of their dog robot, third world country style. No offense to third world countries, who still do this much more stylishly.
Something taller than it is wide, zipping along the ocean surface. Yep.
They even acknowledge it’s a dumb way to travel. Gan-chan can build Yatter-king overnight, but screw actually building a cockpit into the robot they’ve used for so long.
THEY RODE TO EGYPT LIKE THIS. Gotta commend them for that. True survivors.
Now you may ask, ‘but Ningyo! Then there’s nothing that threatens verisimilitude or any silly devices for you to pick at anymore!’
This man is teabagged and then sucked into the bigbad’s anus. I am not high at all.
Ohohoho. Oh, man.
It’s like a sad replay of Transformers 2. I cannot forgive this movie for its tasteless innuendo.
Wrap your head around this for a second. In the duo’s second confrontation with Doronjo and co., the evil trio’s giant robot, the Virgin Roader, trumps our heroes with boobie-machine-guns and boobie rockets. Of course, we’ve already seen those in Mazinger, among many others. Female robots always have mammaries, and these mammaries are always weapons. Japan’s like that, it doesn’t bother us anymore. But wait, there’s more.
Gan-chan feeds Yatter-wan his version of Popeye’s spinach, which allows him to create an army of tiny robots. In this case, ants. The ants devour the Virgin Roader, and the entire time, the robot groans in sexual ecstasy.
I kid you not. Neither is it my perverse mind convincing me so. The robot is literally saying “I’m coming” in English. The heroes’ Yatter-wan apparently becomes what cannot be explained as anything but aroused by this, mumbling “that’s hot, that’s hot” and approaches the downing enemy robot, pushing into it and smothering it with kisses until it finally explodes, taking Yatter-wan with it.
Going out with a bang, hyuk hyuk
That’s what happened to my head by the end of that.
I did not make any of that up. They even pretended to be sad and grieved for the dog-robot.
YOUR ROBOT SUICIDALLY MADE LOVE TO A MASOCHISTIC CLIMAXING ROBOT GETTING EATEN BY ANTS, AND DIED IN AN ORGASMIC EXPLOSION! THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND!
You can imagine I was pulling out my hair and screaming in woe to the heavens above.
Then there’s the facial expressions. Silly, exaggerated faces, unsurprisingly too. But this too is a part I hate about children’s movies. Why do the actors have to make expressions that are so debasing to them? You don’t see Disney’s family flick live-action actors making half the fools of themselves! They’re probably paid well for it, but it still doesn’t stand well for me. I’m not watching any film for the stupid faces actors constantly and purposely are told to make. It’s a movie, not a house of mirrors. Watching such actors as Fukada Kyoko contort her face hurts my manhood. Sakurai Shou too, as Gan-chan, would probably look much better if he wasn’t forced to look constipated all the time.
The dancing, too. You had a beautiful Fukada Kyoko playing Doronjo, and you had her do a retarded dance along with the other two blokes that showed how jiggly her tricep muscles were? Why? That musical was downright lame, as was the live-action adaptation of the Yatterman duo’s victory dance. Kids in the 70′s maybe, but kids today would have definitely thought it lame. Why not change the dances into something slicker and edgier? Isn’t that the look they’re going for in the remake? They changed the Yatter-duo’s iconic eye-mask into something sleeker anyways, why not go the extra mile? An important extra mile?
Exactly! If you’re going to sex things up anyway, then use your biggest asset right! And they still didn’t do this enough!
Alright, I know that censoring kids’ films is pointless. Sex is what’s funny for kids. I’ve laughed at my fair share of dick jokes in the past as well. But no, this isn’t somebody implied to have been kicked in the testicles, this was full-on robot sex. Some of this was just uncouth. Could they not be funny without being crude?
Thank you, TL-note. We are all enlightened now.
Don’t even ask.
Perhaps here, the disparity in culture shows. A children’s movie such as Disney’s Bedtime Stories is hilarious compared to this. For the first time I will commend an American construction over a Japanese one; Bedtime Stories I’m sure managed to make me at least chuckle at some point without having to make any penis or climaxing jokes. Isn’t anyone afraid of exposing children to the wrong kind of sexuality? I’m sounding like a North American soccer mom, but some of this humor is just derisively stupid!
The Virgin Roader yelling ‘I’m coming!’ while getting eaten by a swarm of ants is no more enriching to anybody’s experience than were the giant robot testicles in Transformers 2. Maybe a robotic appendage that seemingly looks like a penis, which causes Gan-chan to do an ‘oh crap’ routine and fix it, that I can accept. But this? Do Japanese children really find it that funny? I realize kids can easily stay around a little and watch the latest episode of Kanokon without their parents notice, and be furiously aroused. Does straight humor not work for kids in Japan? We’re talking about little kids here. Even I’m having trouble defending Japan’s love for sexual innuendo.
*Ningyo moves a little closer to the screen*
Just sucking out some poison, nothing to see here…
Wasn’t it just sucking out poison? What, besides her wanting to have Gan-chan’s mouth on her thighs as well, could this expression possibly imply?
How could the company that headed Casshern screw up so badly? That was a good movie! Sure, it was a mess of plot points and there was rampant ‘philosophy’, which was just confusedly wording simple ethical themes to become very complicated and incomprehensible, but it was Casshern! Laying waste to armies! Who cares!
Aha, and that’s where the problem lies. Entirely different directors and dev. teams aside, why is it I liked Casshern so much more than Yatterman?
Yatterman was directed at kids, those who wanted a good comical action flick that gave them the right amounts of cute imagery and laughs. It was also directed at old fans who perhaps watched Yatterman in the 70’s, and wanted to relive a portion of their childhood, made sleek with modern technology.
I’m alienated from both these groups.
Casshern is for adolescents, adults, thinkers; people who think they’re really going a ways with the life philosophies presented by the movie, people who want a dark, edgy sci-fi action movie with all the right colors and cinematography. Anyone who wanted to see the Casshern of their childhood was gravely disappointed, but they were targeted too.
I probably fit into all of those.
Media concept number three of my Media Studies course, firmly hammered into my mind: All media have an intended audience that negotiates meaning.
Case in point: The elderly watch Transformers 2, and think it’s the most derogatory drivel ever, with anomie-inducing sexuality and dizzying robot nonsense. My Canadian high school friends watch it, and call it the best movie ever. If you ask them what they remembered about it, they’d answer “Megan Fox’s ass”.
A film is directed at a certain group of people. Said group enjoys the film. Makers of the film commercially benefit from this. The film has served its purpose.
I’m made to think that if you don’t like a movie, it’s because you weren’t targeted by it. Is it over simplification to say ‘those who liked the movie were among the ideal audience, and those who criticized it weren’t meant to see the movie’? Probably, but if so, I’m at a loss. The more I write about this the more I confuse myself. People liked Yatterman. I read a review somewhere that said it was slick, looked great and was smart. I hated it. People liked Gundam Unicorn. I lapped it up like I’d never tasted anything better. Some who liked Zeta Gundam didn’t like Gundam Unicorn.
Not that I want anybody to think otherwise, because then there’d be all the more Marida for me.
Is it more correct to say that this was due to their personal tastes? Or is it more correct to say ‘the makers of Gundam Unicorn were going for a new, modern taste, targeting a different audience versed in contemporary styles, and that everyone who doesn’t like these styles weren’t part of the scheme in the first place’?
After all, movie critiques don’t make a box-office total of twenty-nine and a half million dollars. What’s more important here? Does it even matter? Is anything sacred in film anymore? Was anything in film ever sacred? What does it mean to like a film? What does it mean to hate it?
And the main question: is there even any merit to criticizing anything? Do one’s opinions somehow disprove how arousing Megan Fox’s ass is to some people? What are your thoughts?
For the record though, Miike Takashi, the director of the movie, also directed Ichi the Killer. Holy crap. Better not bash on Yatterman too hard. Also, I don’t like Megan Fox at all. Maybe if her eyes were bigger and her head the breadth of her shoulders.
The verdict probably is, I would’ve enjoyed it a lot more as an anime. Well, let’s hope the Gatchaman movie does better. Ken’s in it, after all.
Ningyo
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March 2nd, 2010 at 2:34 am
There are reasons why I avoid live action adaptations of anime… You seem to have listed all of it. I think the last live action anime adaptation that I half-liked was Love Com.
I wonder what kids remember most when they see this movie… “Giant metallic boobs” as oppose to Transformers 2′s “Megan Fox’s ass”? So really? This is for kids? It’s kinda close to softcore (borderline hardcore) pr0n… I think there are just some things kids shouldn’t see just yet ^^; Maybe it’s like showing South Park to a bunch of 8 year olds.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:44 am
LMFAAAOOO.
Those screen shots look so quirky. xD
If this is what they’re showing kids…. I bet real Japo explict-ness could be verging on scary, in the nudest sense of it.
SHUUDDERR. Oh well, looks like I’d have a laugh-fest if I ever did watch that movie, despite the robotic orgasms. xD
Loves.
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:00 am
LOL god, the sex crap is kinda weird but then very hilarious. Well comon shouldn’t they be more mature about the entire thing and not even show up in a little kids movie?
Yeah i agree that most anime adaptations are crap, like most of them just come out so bad maybe because of the extreme defying fantasy of the anime itself or its just the choice of actors and script. Take a look at dragonball the movie, it’s a white actor as goku , like WTF. to piccolo an indian guy.
-sigh-, somehow these movies make me gag, but hey, they’re adaptations, so what can you expect when they make it look like it’s the actual anime/manga, but a crappier and downplayed version?
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:21 am
nice kinda nostalgic need to catch Up soon
Casshern like that the most *_*
ps I like marida too but don’t turn into freaks fanboy -_- I am trapped with between marida freaks fanboy/fangirl at all forrum X_X hard to get correct info about her
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:25 am
ORZ screw that transformers 2 X_X crap WTF at least better that G-saviour lol
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:36 am
I saw the nipple gun robot and I thought, “oh dear.”
You really mustn’t subject yourself to these things. It seems like you watched the whole video start to finish.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:14 am
lmao, I must just watch this for the sake of hilarity alone XD
I heard praises for Casshern. Maybe I should jump on the bandwagon and see what it was all about.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
Well, at least the song for this movie is good.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
I’ve seen breast missiles and breast cockpits before, but those erect metallic nipples are just downright uncomfortable. Seriously, it’s bad enough for the robot to pleasure itself while raining death from its lifeless globes, to have ants crawling all over them? Surely even children would be repulsed by this image? Evidently I overestimate the taste of children and underestimate their appreciation of freaky sexual play.
With regards to the question of intended audiences, I find it strange that the film seems to neglect the parents. Sure, Yatterman is a kid’s movie, but ultimately the parents are probably the ones who will end up forking over the money for the tickets. Western Hollywood films are very aware of this and actively cater to the adult audiences with witty/sarcastic jokes, pop culture references and universally appealing stories to keep the parents happy. Never mind my bewilderment at the apparent fact that Japanese parents are a-okay with masturbation jokes in movies their kids watch, I am having a hard time imagining parents walking out of the theater entertained by this movie. Seriously, it’s not hard to entertain kids. Stick in some flashy visuals, catchy songs and cheap jokes and they’ll lap it up. There’s plenty of wiggle room to accommodate a wider audience with little to no cost to the sufficiency enjoyment by the kids, and I believe a failure to do so is a valid point of criticism.
On a side note, those pink-and-black skull toenails are fucking AWESOME.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:28 am
What… the hell is this? xD
Really, I don’t have much to say to after seeing these screenshots except, “lol, japan”.
I am clearly not in their target audience ^^;
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:41 pm
It’s not even innuendos anymore… It’s pretty blatant sexual display.
Btw. perfect use of screenshots + subtitles.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:34 pm
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Yatterman looks creep and chessy and WTF that I never want to see it.
And Ron just told me to watch it today. orz”
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:34 pm
creepy*
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:58 am
Everyone: J mentions a point that’s been on my mind; that the movie, and Yatterman in general, has a spanking theme song. Some of you may have even heard it in your childhood before, without even knowing what it was. I sure did. It’s a great song, but since it’s pro-Yatterman, I omitted it from the post. I was planning on putting it in my reply comment, but J said it before I did, so without futher ado:
@rob
Which reminds me, I’d better watch Cutie Honey soon. I most possibly will be rolling in pain to that as well. It’ll be awesome.
Yes, but those kiddies are getting really precocious nowadays. As a kid I knew I was precocious and didn’t want adults interfering with my coarse pleasures, but as a grown person now with precedence over kids (kind of) I’d like them to remain pure without such ill-mannered outlooks on sexuality. Such is the way of maturity. All I know is, I’d hate to deal with a totally messed up kid like myself.
People are thinking Doronjo popped many an underage boner in this movie…
@ramono
You know what, I’d have watched this with you if I could. You’d have made it hi-larious.
The Japanese do have some strange things here and there. I once watched one where… Doubtless it is to say, it was very psychedelic. I think I should write about Japanese porn someday. The ideas are gathering in my head now. It’ll be meaningful.
@mat
Now that I think about it, I should’ve watched this with friends, you guys, it would’ve made the pain much more bearable >.>
Right, anime should probably stay anime – at least, not move to live-action adaptation. Hardly ever works. Dragonball is an especially fun example. I suppose what’s interesting about them is that one can see how animated characters could perhaps look in real life… That’s probably the live-action selling point. That said, I’m still looking forward to Gatchaman. Ken the Eagle! Call me someone who never learns.
@moemoekyun
Have you perhaps watched Yatterman in the past? How was it?
Hey now, don’t lump me in to those weaksauce ‘fans’. Are they hardcore practicing their Kshatriya in GvG every day? Did they fill their PCs and PSPs with Puru doujins? Do they intensely stare at an un-opened HGUC Kshatriya every day, not building it in fear of a single misstep that would make kit imperfect? Mine is not pathological, mine is devotion.
Actually, I wouldn’t be so quick to judge between Transformers and G-saviour. The latter had its choice of hilarity as well, and it’s definitely a lot less brusque than Transformers.
@2DT
That I had indeed done.
I tried to quit about three times, but each time I ended up going back. If that’s not masochism, I don’t know what is.
@klux
Then I will tell you what I tell anybody going into Casshern: Watch the live-action movie first, because that pretty much has nothing to do with THE Neo-human Casshern. You’d only be vexed if you’re looking for Casshern there. But if you don’t know anything about him, you’d think it to be the sleekest movie.
Next, watch Casshern Sins, but only the first quarter/half. That’s when it did the best job setting up the settings and mysteries of plot. The rest of the series is such abhorrent pacing, where nothing happens for very long periods of time, and the same idea is rehashed for episodes on end… Where finally, the ending cumulates in a rushed, meh finale. It’s like, the series does an excellent job setting things up, making you really want to know the truth and what happens, but by the time you sit through it all and see the ending you’ll be like ‘Eh? That was the truth? That was kind of anticlimactic/boring’. So watch the first quarter/half, then write your own awesome ending.
@J
Looks like we’re doukan on the song. Or songs in general. I assume you meant the theme, but otherwise their other songs are good too. My main point was to explicitly bash the movie though, so I left out the song-coverage.
So how long have you been lurking around Baden Baden Lily, J?
@Chag
We are totally on the same page, man. You wonder what I wonder, are repulsed at what I am repulsed at, and first and foremost, appreciate Fukada’s awesome toenails.
Perhaps because I was still a child very recently (I probably still am, actually) the sexuality in Yatterman still slightly resonates within me. The ill-mannered and dirty have always been attractive to children – I can’t help but think should I be six years younger, I might’ve thoroughly enjoyed how risqué this was.
You’re right though – what did the parents think? They couldn’t possibly have stood well with such insane imagery? Surely they didn’t want their kids kissing one another while feeding themselves to ants…? My only speculation is that these parents were part of that 1970s era when Yatterman first aired, and are somehow getting some nostalgic value out of this.
Yes, it definitely isn’t hard at all to entertain kids – yet the movie seems to cater to them entirely. But the movie was a box-office success! I’m beginning to fear something now: that the witty jokes, pop-culture references and universally appealing storylines to the Japanese parents IS the sex humor. In an apparently rather sexually open culture, these parents probably grew up to similar themes…
@anonymous_object
Your guess is as good as mine :/
I think that’s the best reaction to take, actually. Just shake one’s head and move on. Sadly, I’m unable to be so passive about it and ignite in a pointless burst of criticism.
@Yi
Thanks. I made sure to get all the unsuitable things they said, or at least the ones I wanted to highlight. That’s why I usually prefer subs screencaps over raw screencaps; so that my readers can know what’s going on in that particular scene.
@Momo
It is appropriately cheesy for a kids’ movie, but in terms of how appropriate it is in everything else…
You could give it a try on his recommendation. What if you end up liking it, right? Hehe.
We adolescents who have neither seen the 70’s Yatterman or are kids are alienated from the movie, at the very least. As such, we’d be hard pressed to enjoy it. Did Ron like it? He seems the good spirited type who can get by without attacking every other series like I do.
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:06 am
Omg this is hilarious, mecha sex, orgasms death, nipple missles wow. More like a soft porn to me base on the screen shots. Probably i’ll watch this just for laughs. But letting children watch this, really no way I am letting them touch this!!
Lol they can’t even design a cockpit…i’ll probably sleep and fall into the water during the night…
I got to know casshern through the live action movie. That is one of my favorite live action movie :D
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:47 am
It’s the same effect with Cutie Honey live… I find anime has a spot that super heroes would not do things like that in real life but totally acceptable in anime. Casshern was also mediocre imo but is situated much better than Yatter-man as it tones to a much more serious atmosphere.
Still, I can’t stop laughing at the amount of images children are seeing and the amount of sex related items that are visible in the anime… from boob machine guns to panty shots and event thigh sucking… surely parents would not allow their sons/daughters to watch it.
Also, started playing Blazblue on the PSP since I see a lack of coverage on this game on your side ^_^
I do agree with J that Yatter-man’s theme is quite well done ^_^ I can’t wait for Gatchman the live action!
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:19 pm
@chubbs
Many people seem to be considering just watching it for lulz now because of my review ^^;
Which is fine and all, but keep in mind it’s a lot less lulz and a lot more hair-tearing ‘WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT’ yelling.
I’d probably fall into the water regardless of how awake or what time of the day it is.
Yes, I think the live-action movie is a good gateway to Casshern. I didn’t like it all that much at first, but it had some solid Casshern eye candy action.
@martin
Right, live action just can’t maintain some of the cartoonish-charm only anime can have. Casshern was mediocre, with its flimsy plot and rampant sophistry, but us fans lapped that stuff up. Casshern mowing through an entire army with his intense strength and glorious CGI? Orgasmic. That’s pretty much what I meant by the targeted audiences.
Well, that’s what we of the ‘cultured North American society’ think, but Yatterman was a box-office hit, so I assume many parents took their kids to see it >.< I suppose the moral standard is just different…
Gatchaman live action will be awesome.
Yes, BBCT! Unfortunately in my humblest of opinions the hi-def BB just shouldn't be ported to a portable. It just looks so bad. I have scraped the surface of the PSP game, but PSP controls for a fighter is awkward for me, I'm a bit more used to a fightstick. So that's pretty much why I never quite mentioned it. I will play it once in a while though. So you're going to that convention on the 20th, right?
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:46 pm
yes I watch some eps old yatterman can’t talk a lot around 10 years ago forgot lol
well I don’t have such a devotion just wait till bandai released trading figures(gachapon) for marida(want PVC actually but I doubt about it ;_;) ^^;;;; and I am retired as gamer for HGUC khsatriya @_@ dunno will wait for MG maybe
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Ah yes, Cutie Honey live… I thought it was ok, but that’s that. It wasn’t super horrible, but I didn’t like it. Probably more digestible than Yatterman movie. I’d say it would be better if you watch Gunbuster than that… Same director anyway.
And yeah, I guess I was quite a precocious kid as well. I figured the less would be better ^^; My parents were liberal enough to just let me be, so that was cool.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:05 am
ahaha, well what can you expect, the director is a guy named Takashi Miike. Typically known for his ultra sexual pervertedness or extreme violence. Even reading one of his movie’s synopsis scares the crap out of me already, so that’s pretty dangerous-_-
March 4th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Got to catch my breath, laughing so hard at the boob guns. I do want to see this myself and need to get my hands on it. I have this on my watch list and know that my expectations need to remain “low” on it.
I find it ironic that this is aimed at kids, yet has so many adult themes in it. gotta love Japan!
March 4th, 2010 at 10:57 am
I can’t believe how fun it is to read your post about something you totally hate. Not that I want you to run into bad movies o_o
March 4th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Ron barely attacks series. XD Idk, still looks weird to meeee.
March 5th, 2010 at 4:36 am
@moemoekyun
Aw, PVC Marida would be glorious ;-;
I’m not too sure about an MG version, even. That’d be really big, and I wonder if the Kshatriya is popular enough for them to go along with that… The HGUC Kshatriya box is large as an MGs. Then again, they do make MGs out of anything.
@rob
Really? Same director? Well, the only reason I’m going for Cutie Honey is for the bewbs, anyhow… In retrospect, my parents were pretty lenient too. Really lenient, actually. I mean, they let me keep my Reimu dakimakura around, for godssakes. They did stop me from hanging up a rather mizugi-filled Strike Witches poster though :p
Maybe it’s because of their lenience that my development was so… free.
@mat
Yeah, he was also the guy who did Ichi the Killer. I’ll just straight out say that was a f*cked up movie. When you think about it, it’s quite dubious why he’s directing a children’s movie in the first place, and unsurprising that it contains so much strange material.
@bluedrakon
Now now, don’t give them too much credit. You just reminded me of the boob machineguns in Austin Powers though. Strangely enough it was actually funny used there…
Gotta love Japan indeed. Just a totally different world there, even in morals.
@Canne
Tsk, tsk. How many times do I have to tell you people that I’m a masochist? Anyhow, glad you had fun. At my expense. Because that’s what I’m here to do.
@Momo
You know, if you ask me, I’d definitely tell you not to watch it, so there’s your counteracting recommendation right there ;)
March 5th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
good news or bad news for female character toy maker always make garage or resin kit since I saw tons of haman,feldt,marina,sayla,lalah,fa yuiry,aina sharin.tiffa,puru,etc in resin or garage form @_@ but I dunno how to paint ORZ
March 6th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Lol what the hell is that .. thing anyway :)
It’s a shame that materials created for kids always tend to lack of common sense, why doing stupid stuffs only because it’s for kids.
They saw enough dumb shows on tv after all.
I remember to be a annoying child since when i saw something unacceptable in a comic or a film i just couldn’t stop for commenting and saying “Heyyyy he can’t do something like that !!”
Often i had only one answer : “But he’s the hero !!” lol, insufficient reason :D
Well dumb scenario and scenes are more acceptable in an animes ^^ With real actors it felt wrong very fast.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Hmmmm… the prospect of you writing about porn is intriguing. XDD NO, seriously, it is.
Have fun with that then (as if you need ANYBODY encouraging you on doing it). Will be waiting for it. xD
March 7th, 2010 at 7:32 am
@moemoekyun
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about garage kits! Yes, I’d totally screw up a garage kit as well, so the only option I’d have is to buy pre-made ones for extravagant prices…
@Katsura-chan
You’re right, it’s a little bit like adding more poison to the pot because it’s already poisonous anyways. Media directed at Children has always been a little lacking in intelligence, because, well, children wouldn’t understand what we with developed minds find profound. But yes, back then, the kids’ shows had morals of the day to be learned… Now it’s just stuff like this :/
That’s probably why I prefer anime so much more. Live action is just so ridiculous trying to emulate animation, and it never rubs me the right way.
@ramono
I know, I think it’s intriguing too, I don’t think anybody wouldn’t be intrigued in anybody reviewing porn >.>
Ehehe, I’ll still need to gather my thoughts for it, so it’ll be later. I can’t just go about blurting out the first things that come to my mind, after all.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I take it back… the ridiculousness of yore and all that. We’re still getting that nowadays. I don’t know what to say about this. This sort of humor is really meant for corny live action movies like Robo Geisha. Intended to make a fool of itself for the sake of it (that’s why we love those shows). Seeing that this movie is targeted towards children really makes me wonder what they were thinking when they produced this.
I personally find it ridiculous and funny, taken out of its context, but I would probably be infuriated with it if I sat down and watched this steaming pile.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:01 am
@radiant
Y’know, that’s actually really funny. For some reason I never made the connection of ‘hey, this is as stupid as things were thirty years ago’.
You’ve got me thinking here; I don’t inherently hate ridiculously bad movies, but I judge the ones that mistreat their demographics very severely. Ed Wood is charming; but if he was trying to market his orgies of the dead to children, I’d be all over him in a second.
That’s not an apt analogy at all, but I sorta wanted to say it.
You’ve got the bottom line right there; a B-movie is suddenly the greatest movie ever on a Friday night with friends and homemade popcorn.
May 4th, 2010 at 6:49 am
I have to disagree with your judgment of Casshern Sins, as it never really was a series about setting up a mystery and then playing it through from start to finish. If anything, I’d say it’s more like Galaxy Express 999, where, while the characters do indeed have a goal (get a robot body, live forever), what’s important isn’t the getting there so much as the people they meet and the lessons they (and the viewer) learn along the way.