The Shade
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If Megs in Gun mode looks too realistic, it still won't get sold in the U.S. of A.
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I just finished watching it. Is it just me, or did the plot feel a little dragged out (about 4-5 eps too long) and did they seem to waste a lot of the ideas they seemed to be aiming for during the last 2 eps?
Also, I'm sensing a pattern here. So far, we haven't really had a GitS sequel that has really been totally satisfying (comic, movie, TV series). Is this some sort of curse?
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The sets that always confused me were the mass TV show sets, for example, I saw the X Files, all 9 seasons on Ebay for about 100 bucks on the average with shipping. Its mass packed with 69-70 dvds in the set.
Nearly all the long running completed US shows have them on ebay now, Sex and the City, Buffy, etc.
Whats unclear to me is are these just direct rips from US dvds? Or these are made by some small bootleg group? Or is this bootlegging on a massive professional scale?
To elaborate on what I was saying earlier, I will give additional info on the 2 anime series I borrowed from a friend (who thought they were legit btw). The 2 series were Trigun and Escaflowne. Both came in 3 DVD boxed sets. Both actually had the original R1 DVD menus, just modified to list more eps per disc (I know they're the actual menus since I've bought the legit versions of both these series). Both sets were printed by FX. The box artwork was first rate, the disc artwork also.
So, how to know if it's a legit release or not? I would say check out the website of the distributor/owner, whether it's Bandai, ADV, 20th Century Fox, etc. If they list the item you saw on Ebay, you're ok; if not, I would say you're looking at a bootleg.
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I've noticed a trend lately on Ebay. The sellers are getting very vague about what they're selling. They don't always list the region code, just leave it blank.
Oh, and I've also seen bootlegs of some series that are direct rips of the region 1 DVDs. Often, the only way to tell legits from bootlegs is to look at the number of episodes per disc. A 26 episode series crammed into 3 dics is almost certainly a bootleg.
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You can have absolutely fluid CG animation with plenty of inbetween frames, yet completely missing all these vital details. It happens a lot. Also, oftentimes you'll have CG animation that looks clumsy, as if the CG characters or robots were puppets on strings, the motion never looking quite right.
You can get around this, but it often takes as many animators as it would to do it in 2D, and since most people seem to use CG as a cost cutting tool, they're not willing to do that when most people will happily ignore the flaws and allow themselves to be wowed by the CG itself.
The problem mostly with CG today is that it's too fluid
especially if you compare it to it's background (Mac Zero)
it simply doesn't blend in
in a 100% CG animation (FF Spirits Within, Reboot -come to mind) it's not an issue
but looking at mixed celshaded/CG images it's just horrible
Ah, but most CG you see is really designed to be noticeable. The creators want you to know that you are looking at CG. CG is "hip" with today's "fans", and the more CG you can show, the better.
A few months ago, I had gotten really tired of the whole CG thing, and wanted to watch an anime movie with no CG at all. This lead me to watch Patlabor the Movie 1. A simple police story with animation designed to serve the story.
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I don't think most of us qualify as anime fans. I would say that we are more quality entertainment fans. Sure we all like some anime, but we are always discussing any form of entertainment. I've found that the people's taste here are mostly like mine.
An example of an extreme anime fan I know: at my local comic shop, one of the clerks is always trying to get me to watch some crappy anime he's heard of or thinks that hentai is the best thing since sliced bread. Arrgghh!!
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Whew! MW is back. I can finally stop shaking.
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Another year of so-so movies, another year of hearing the MPAA complain that movie revenues are down again. sigh.
Seriously, are there any good movies coming out in August at all? Even July only looks so-so.
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I was hoping for an explanation of the whole Yoda/Obi Wan disappearing trick when they died (it was probably one of the deleted scenes, grumble grumble).
My take on the emperor's face was that what you were seeing was only make-up and the lightning removed it and showed his true face, but this is just a fan boy's explanation.
Anaking killing those kids was in character. It showed how far he was already gone.
Anakin's scarring wasn't as dramatic as what I was expecting. I always thought that he had fallen in some lava, not helplessly burned at the side of a lava river. Oh well.
The Obi-Wan/Anakin lightsaber fight scene really was awesome. Fast paced, brutal, desperate.
On an artistic note, at the very end of the movie, Owen & Beru Lars holding Luke while the suns were rising was an interesting way to show the audience that there was indeed light at the end of the tunnel (we all knew it, but still a nice touch).
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Waited in line for 6 hours in order to get a good seat (never again). Overall, a good movie, much better than the last 2. The scenes were kept short, nothing seemed to drag on. The dialogue was also much better, not as cornball as Ep 2.
Minor spoiler:
Being a John Williams fan, I loved the inclusion of the Leia theme and Luke theme at the end. It seemed to musically bridge the gag between the prequel trilogy and original trilogy.
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Spare part???
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Whew! We're back. I was getting so desperate for my Macross fix, I had acturally visited RT.com. (shudders at the thought now).
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It's like shaw cable wants to charge me for a faster connection, but they don't want me to use it.
Rogers has begun implememting a similar kind of "scare tactic". Their bandwith limit is set at 60Gb. While that would have been an enormous amount five years ago, today, that's nothing. It's like you say, they want you to pay extra for high speed, but only want you to websurf: yep, $45 a month, but it should only used it to make webpages load 5 seconds faster and not use it for anything else.
I've found that I've been reducing my bandwith usage since this new limit was set in place, but I think that has more to do with my fiancee paying the cable bill. I just don't want to risk her wrath.
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Looks like that Clint Eastwood flick "Firefox".
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I just checked mine. Discs 6,7 & 9 each have a crack, and mine aren't from the original 9 disc set, but from the 3 sets of boxed sets. I don't think this is a result of poor handling, but rather, as Opus stated, a result of second rate manufacturing. Eventually, it would seem all our sets are goint to crack in the center.
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A correction has come out regarding the release. Each disc will be 125 min, not 250. Still pretty good though. I may check out this one.
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All the Robotech music you hear in the 2 disc OST they packaged a few years ago was made from scratch by HG and Co. And yes, it is very different from Macross. The music was changed in order to have musical continuity with all 3 RT chapters, while the 3 original series all have different music from each other (since they were unrelated).
Personal observation: I always thought the music in RT sounded more American, and the Macross music sounded more Japanese. Anyone else ever have that feeling?
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If you're asking these questions because you plan on copying/pirating them, I"m afraid you won't find any help here. Most of us paid top dollar for them and they were worth every penny. Pirated versions would just be inferior.
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This is already being reported elsewhere, but since it didn't appear here, I thought it only fair to warn everyone planning on buying the GitS 2 Innocence DVD (Region 1) about the issue of the English subtitle track.
First off: the DVD contains only a Japanese Language track (DD 5.1 & DD 2.0). OK, so most of us will be watching it with subs on. Here's the catch. The English subs are really Closed Captioned subs. That's right. You will not only read a translation of what the characters are saying, but you will also read *music*, *scream*, *vroom*, etc...
For us fans in Canada who speak French, the French Language track in the Canadian release is a real subtitle track. But the English subtitle track is the same as the USA release.
If you thought things couldn't get worse, the English subs on the extras are CC also.
If you want to read a preliminary statement from Dreamworks, you can read it here .
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Ask and ye shall receive.
Me, I already have the first version that Manga released (english DD 5.1, Japanese Dolby Pro Logic II), but I'm still going to keep it for now, at least until someone on this board gives me a reason otherwise.
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Um, I think this really is a matter of interpretation, but it always looked like a spiral galaxy to me.
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The article also doesn't mention that McFarlane lost the rights to the Medieval Spawn and the Angela characters to Neil Gaiman, who had co-created them when he wrote the script for Spawn #8. Both characters had starred in various spinoffs series and mini-series. Neil Gaiman was looking for royalties for those characters and wasn't receiving them, so he sued and won. Yay Gaiman!
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I dunno, I like the Dogfight bgm more that the Breakout one, even though I first saw the English dub. I guess this is just the purist in me liking things more the way they were originally done than having to watch later modifications.
Oh, and wasn't Manga's improvisation due to their having lost their master tape for the background sound for ep 4. Wasn't it a fire or some sort of carelessness?
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Not to pull this thread off topic, but are the Japanese forums experiencing similar negative feedback for the whole GSD ending, or is it a bit more civilised over there?