Anno making a half-assed statement about how the previous three were just new movie versions of regular ol' Eva and this one will be a shining sparkling ~new~ Eva

then again word order means fuck all in Japanese so maybe he just forgot

Well, it never struck me that way but I admit ymmv leeway here. Still, I don't think the scene was superfluous in any sense regardless. While establishing the hand deal was the main point the whole sequence is one of the key elements in setting up just how brutal and fucked up this world Ashita...

Oz#616895 wrote:The analogy still works because Eva doesn't sexualize the characters for the sake of doing so neither that is the only aspect of the series (a lot going on beneath the surface).

The comparison of Eva to the idol industry still works because Eva is...completely unlike the idol industry?

Inhuman power came from Ashitaka's curse - showcasing this was arguably point of the scene. While I don't deny that this is what the scene's about it's still pretty stupid and introduces a completely counterproductive slapstick element. The scene shows that Ashitaka can't contro...

This. I'm both surprised and disappointed by the huge number of people who draw shortsighted conclusions of idols based on random anecdotal evidence they have come across. It's even more infuriating when those people go around touting those conclusions without even checking whether there is...

Little Witch Academia : GOAT, AOTY, full series where, etc. Shingeki no Kyojin 01 : A lot more impressed with this than I was the beginning of the manga actually. Pleased that they kept the manga's desperate attempt to take itself somewhat seriously, all the "just wanna go outside" bi...

So yeah I can't really agree with Azathoth on the manga having nothing but the loathsomeness of enemies going for it (though that's indeed the biggest pull). It's not masterpiece or anything but :shrug: It's not that I think it's got nothing else going for it. As you say...

Spring Breakers was real good actually. Subtle it ain't but with Harmony Korine you should be glad his hands are made of ham instead of bacon.

MODULAR FORMS AND ALLIPTIC CURVES! INFINITE PHI REVOLVING AROUND INFINITE PARALLELS, FRACTALS OF INFINITE REALITY, EACH CASCADING, GLIDING IN AN INFINITE WHEEL! TELL ME THE TRUE NATURE OF MY REALITY :lol: Also because god knows I don't waste enough time on interminable old anime that I invariab...

Ebert died.

Xard#612738 wrote:Well yeah, but obvious there's generally speaking certain quality difference between seriously made, "normal" SF epochs and porn schlock due to the subject matters themselves.

wasn't aware one could describe Rance as "seriously made"

Space Jam . Every goddamn time I forget how good this movie is and write it off as just another piece of mid-90s corporate shillage that sliced across my demographic and, across the years, underwent a fiendish sort of bioaccumulation in the nostalgia-centers of our brains until we could not help bu...

Yeah, probably should've stretched. :shrug: sometimes it just makes you feel terrible at first, even if you stretch like a motherfucker. I don't lift these days (the dietary changes were what turned me off it, I have horrible eating habits; also gyms invariably take me back to middle sc...

nervshatter#611923 wrote:Will I have a blast watching this movie on magic mushrooms? or should I pass?

Honestly just watch the old Wizard of Oz movie, it's classic for a reason. Or if you want to freak the fuck out, Return to Oz is just shroomtastic in every way.

Nuclear Lunchbox#611702 wrote:Perhaps she's referring to something Zion-esque, Matrix style?

While I wouldn't at all be surprised if this is so, it still doesn't explain why Asuka uses the term Lilin. It's not even clear where she's learned the term.

Xard#611726 wrote:That's Azathoth's opinion on it as far as I know, not mine. For me that spot still goes to NGE, but the reasons for the order of two are pretty minimal.

In general, I consider better whichever of the two I have more recently watched.

Southland Tales is a lot better than Matrix Revolutions, although still nowhere near as good as Valhalla Rising. Southland Tales is a nonsensical clusterfuck born of the paranoia that only life as an American liberal in the mid-2000s could instill in you - a horrid disorderly mess of half-baked reli...

Because NGE is a generation old, and many of the people watching the new movies have never seen it (and quite possibly have no interest in seeing it, at least initially). If you expect people to understand your movie and maintain an interest in what's going on they should be able to get...

It was more about them leaving the birdcage that was Ohtori than anything. The outside world (whatever the hell it is) seems to be more symbolic than anything; they mention that they'll need to make roads themselves (obviously not literally), so while it is triumphant I don'...