Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This film is about a little boy (Ren) who's just lost his mother. And with father out of the picture he chooses to live out on the street and grow hostile to everything and everyone around him. This creates a void within him that will later come to haunt him. While on the street he gets picked up by a beastlike creature who drags him through a little alleyway and lands him in a magical word filled with other half…
I saw this film, sweet coincidence, in an airplane on my way to Japan. I deemed it fitting and sat down to watch this little gem. (Later I found out that suzume is actually the name of a bird (a sparrow I think). In some arts and crafts center in a historic centre of a little town I bought a little wooden suzume from a local woodcarver. It goes into the christmastree every year.)
Then the film. The animation is,…
Allright! I had to wait a few minutes after the film was over to get my pulse back to normal. What a rush this is! It's about car racing, but then to the extreme. It's got cars, half spaceships, cars where the driver is integrated in the machine, it's in space, it's got warmongering robots, world destroying monsters that seem to be borrowed from Nausicaa, it's got skinny girls bouncing their enormous jelly breasts for all to see... And then…
What the **** did Ii just watch? I don't know if you're supposed to be high on something to fully appreciate this movie, but I wasn't and was totally taken by surprise. What a trip! The animation, the colours, the storyline everything is just totally over the top crazy. A guy get's shot in the butt, get's another shot at life after meeting God (in the shape of just about everything except a purple refigerator smoking an alligator for a…