Yes, the sets are beautiful, the costumes are gorgeous, the references are very well done, and the casting is honestly great (David Hyde Pierce as the Tony Randall type is genius) but I must say what really makes this movie for me is how comfortable you get with the traditional 60s romcom story beats until they break down towards the end of the movie.
Not only is it genuinely smart and shocking, but it takes the movie to a whole…
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I started watching this anime knowing there would be a lot of outdated elements, after all it’s an adaptation of a manga from 2003 which itself is an adaptation of an Astro-boy arc from the sixties. So I’m largely going to gloss over the bigger elements of criticisms as I think most of them are slightly understandable, such as:
-The baffling logic behind the “artificial intelligence”
-The incomprehensible technology that’s both incredibly advanced and simultaneously behind the times
-A big…
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Are we allowed to send something like an LGBT missionary to Japan to enlighten mangakas so they can finally learn there’s this thing called being homosexual where you only like the same gender and there’s also other stuff like bisexuality? Because they sure as hell ain’t googling shit by the looks of it.
It’s like every gay anime or manga has to “invent” being gay like “omg what is this, we’re both guys” or “I’ve never felt this way about…
Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying this is literally just like The Room because it's bad, I'm saying it's literally just like The Room because it really is literally just like The Room.
Awful acting, hilariously bad dialogue that's barely coherent, insanely directionless sequence of events. There's even a scene where the main character played by Dafoe is talking to himself on a rooftop like Tommy Wiseau.
And don't even get me started on how pretentious the whole thing is.…
