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I hate Sonic X in general, but I really hate its theme song

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Outlier:

Johnbobb: 135
Inviso: 103
Genny: 98
Karo: 97
Red: 85
Jona: 68
Charon: 61

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28. Fireworks

Johnbobb: 7
Inviso: 11
Jona: 22
Charon: 32
Karo: 34
Genny: 38
Red: 38

Total: 182

Johnbobb: I will fully admit, I'm a sucker for spectacle, and watching this really made me wish I had seen it in theaters, because holy shit some of those lighting and firework effects were just incredible. I couldn't help but read through some reviews online, and was disappointed to see people shitting on the story for being oversimplistic. Admittedly the characters aren't the deepest, but one thing I'm a sucker for even more than spectacle is magical realism, which this film puts out to the point that I was completely drawn in by the magical realities the film presented.

Inviso: On paper, this should have all the makings of a top tier film for me. Theres a cute, likable couple, theres a supernatural fantasy element that adds some spice to the story, and said element involves time travel shenanigans. Yet, for whatever reason, this doesnt QUITE land the way several other films do, hence why they rank higher. Dont get me wrong, Fireworks is a very good and enjoyable movie, and at only ninety minutes, there wasnt even a point where I was like How much longer until this is over? The whole concept is great: one day in this kids life, he has the opportunity to go back and make different choices to see if they make his life (and the life of his not-quite-girlfriend) better. Each change alters the world a little bit, so its not just his life that has changed, but the universe itselfall leading to a bizarre, timelocked realm of ripples in space.

This is all great and for the vast majority of the movie, its intriguing and fun, and it kept me on my toes as to where the movie was going to go next. The only flaws are as follows. One, the ending isnot great. There are plenty of movies on this list that have ended on cliff hangers, without providing proper resolution to the general story beats on display throughout the movie itself. This can work, particularly if the response the viewer is hoping for is implied, albeit not shown outright. But this endingtheres a big, emotional climax, and the ending is just that the two main character have completely vanished. I get that this is supposed to insinuate something about parallel universes and whatnot, but its unsatisfying to say the least. AlsoIm not the biggest fan of the main character. Hes FINE. Hes not detestable or anything like that. Buthes just written a little TOO immature to carry off some of the headier gravitas expected from this plot. Anyway, those are the only two issues I really have, and neither of them is so bad that it breaks the movie or anything. They just knock it down a few pegs.

Jona: Im a sucker for any mystery elements in this story. Sadly, the mystery doesnt resolve in a satisfying way but it was still quite the ride. I dont get why they showed a marble next to Nazunas dads body. Nazuna seemed like she knew more than she let on. Her having a big number felt out of place. Why does Yusuke ditch the date with Nazuna and then insult her when talking to Narumichi when he admitted to loving her when he saw a possible future with her in a shard? The relationship between Narumichi and Nazuna isnt developed too well although I did like the ending. Theres a bunch to not like about this movie but theres just something about this movie that I ended up liking it.

Charon: What is definitely going to be looked at as the poor man's Girl Who Leapt Through Time, I'm not really even sure this movie is that. The motiviations of the characters are all over the place; the biggest of these offenders is the character of Yusuke, the "best friend" of our main character. He initially "wins" his date, then bails on it and makes it seem as if he really wants to put Norimichi in the date. Yet when this reality comes to pass, he's upset and seems to long after a reality where he gets the girl. This is further confirmed later in the "alternate reality" nonsense fireworks segment. The movie is definitely beautiful, and it has a couple of moments I didn't hate, but it just seemed to me like someone watched a better film and tried to make their own adaptation of it. Oh, and the flat fireworks thing was really stupid and I never understood the reference.

Karo: What It Is:
Are they round? Are they flat? No, we arent talking about boobs.

What I Think:
Take like the most generic white-bread teen romance ever, throw in some arbitrary unexplained sci-fi elements, and add some lengthy romantic discussions about the fucking shape of pyrotechnic explosions and that is Fireworks in a nutshell.
The question isn't whether you should see Fireworks from the side or the bottom, it is whether you should see it at all.

Score: 50/100

Genny: This movie dares its viewers to ask the question "what if"... I'll gladly answer that call. What if the protagonist had even the semblance of a spine instead of being as fickle as fall foliage in a freak wind? What if the writers had bothered to give the deuteragonist any characterization beyond "Me like swim; me NO like move away"? What if, instead of wasting a fraction of the runtime on some inane discourse about the shape of fireworks, the titular alleged subject of the movie was actually relevant to the plot in some way rather than being used as an excuse for an ocular orgasm? What if a movie had no substance; could it get by on style alone? No it couldn't. Fireworks was nothing more than eye candy featuring the most generic cast of nothing characters I can recall in recent memory. You know a movie is going to be crap when the first scene (not counting the prologue) features your protagonist taking a crap (Shrek is the sole exception to this rule). You know a movie was crap when the best part is when the credits roll, but hey at least it gave us this bop: https://youtu.be/-tKVN2mAKRI

Red: A bunch of kids completely incapable of using google debate the physics of fireworks. Honestly, every character in this movie is generically generic. I dont care about any of the what ifs because Im never given much of a reason. Theres not much expansion on the plights of any of these characters, making the whole time rewind thing never seem as anything but selfish. They took what should have been an interesting concept and made it as boring as possible.

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Sirfetchd 4
Rhyhorn 3
Rhydon 5
Rhyperior 2
Treecko 4
Grovyle 5
Sceptile 5
Burmy 1
Wormadam 2
Mothim 4
Blitzle 7
Zebstrika 7
Gothita 5
Gothorita 6
Gothitelle 4
Karrablast 2
Escavalier 2
Chewtle 1
Drednaw 3

Galarian Farfetchd 5
Mega Sceptile 4

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Outlier:

Johnbobb: 114
Karo: 91
Genny: 88
Inviso: 86
Red: 75
Jona: 62
Charon: 57

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29. Liz and the Blue Bird

Karo: 12
Jona: 20
Red: 25
Inviso: 30
Genny: 31
Johnbobb: 32
Charon: 33

Total: 183

Karo: What It Is:
A lot of a really pretty almost-lesbians play musical instruments.

What I Think:
This beautifully animated movie is about two schoolgirls in the music club and their changing relationship as they grow up and move on with their lives.
There is a story within a story (animated in a different ghibli-esque art style) that is actually a metaphor for the relationship of the girls, and how one of them is being too clingy and needs to free the trapped bird if you will.
It is just very cute and simple and heartfelt and makes you feel good inside.

Score: 80/100

Jona: The simplicity of the movie is its greatest strength, with it just focusing on two characters who get a lot of development and relationship time. The movie started to feel too on-the-nose with comparing their relationship to the story of Liz and the Blue Bird, a book within the movie. I kinda hated how so much was explained and analyzed about this fictional story within the movie. The movie does all of this to set up the twist and I thought that was fine despite not being mind-blowing. I do like how the scenes of Liz and the Blue Bird in Liz and the Blue Bird looked though. The movie also felt really low-stakes even compared to other slice of life films. I wouldnt blame someone if they just thought the movie was boring and a waste of their time. The fact that this is also a spin-off did nothing for me and there were some cameo scenes that felt distracting. Despite all my complaints, I still enjoyed the characters and focus of the movie.

Red: While there is a bit of enjoyable twist with the Blue Bird plot than you might have been expecting, this movie still suffers pretty badly from being, well, boring. We know the gist of where the ending is heading, we even know where the little blue bird intro is heading, but it feels like it takes forever to get there. The characters just arent interesting and their personalities are dulled to the point where they dont exist much beyond their attachment to each other.

Inviso: This movie was boring as fuck. Like, its less than 90 minutes when you remove the credits from the runtime, and it STILL felt like it dragged on for AGES. Part of that is the fact that I dislike BOTH of the main characters. Weve seen what feel like a lot of movies with the general theme of a socially awkward person kinda having to deal with life as a socially awkward person, and there may or may not be a social butterfly around to help them out. In this case, the social butterfly comes across as a flaky, self-centered bitch, while the socially-awkward girl comes across as a creepy stalker. As a result, Im not rooting for either one, and the big, transformative moment when the stalker realizes shes talented and is more than just the popular girls shadowfalls very flat. Additionally, the throughline of the Liz and the Blue Bird story does very little to add to an otherwise extremely flat and boring slice-of-life storyline, soyeah. Not great.

Genny: I don't have a lot to say about Liz and the Blue Bird other than I like the revelation near the end that the Nozomi and Mizore actually represent the opposite character you would initially think they embody in the fairy tale and musical piece. This is an inoffensive slice of life high school drama featuring peaceful classical music that is apparently a spinoff adaptation of a series I haven't seen, but I gotta say it doesn't do a great job at inspiring me to watch the source material. The animation is beautiful as I'd expect from this studio, but the atmosphere is way too subdued and serene for my tastes.

Johnbobb: I really love the opening music. It's just extremely pleasant, and kind of reminds me of something like Twilight Town. I'm torn because I both think this was beautiful and also dreadfully boring. It would've made for a fantastic short film, but it really feels like its stretching beyond its capabilities to hit that 90 minute mark. The subtlety in the writing doesn't work as strongly when the theme (which is interesting, but not all that complex) is overtly clear throughout the whole film.

Charon: This one is... I would say without fear of what it makes me seem like, this one made me uncomfortable. Not for the obvious reason, but just because I don't believe a character as awkward and strange as the main character here could really exist in reality. Her behavior is so strange and the obsessive nature of her relationship with her friend is very unhealthy and the movie doesn't really seem to want to paint her as someone who actually is in an unhealthy place mentally. The twist that the characters are actually in the inverse roles as the movie has you to believe their in also didn't set that well with me. I didn't find it very believable with the behavior exhibited by either of the main characters, especially the protagonist. It was a little hard to get through, and a little hard to find much enjoyment from.

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Leafeon13N posted...

From a sales perspective front loading your hype is probably ideal.

That is why leading off fighters pass 2 with Arms makes no sense from a business standpoint
This is the character that would have ended up being the E3 showing, the one to convince people to put down money for the full pass right off the bat

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Steins;Gate

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Outlier:

Johnbobb: 111
Genny: 86
Inviso: 85
Karo: 74
Red: 66
Jona: 53
Charon: 53

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30. Children of the Sea

Johnbobb: 3
Karo: 23
Jona: 25
Genny: 29
Red: 33
Inviso: 35
Charon: 38

Total: 186

Johnbobb: Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land, I don't understand
Ocean man, wait what the fuck is happening here, it's a real trip
Ocean man, you left all cohesion back at the shore
But I don't care anymore

Ocean girl, I'm lost in the wonder and amazement of this water world
Ocean girl, I can't take my eyes off the screen and my mind is a swirl
Ocean girl, any criticisms went straight out the door
And I don't care anymore
Ocean girl

Karo: What It Is:
A young girl befriends two boys raised by whales, and a lot of pretty animation and confusing mysticism ensues.

What I Think:
Beautiful as the visuals may be, it feels there is something lacking. None of the characters have much personality, and the story has little depth. Although it is true to the style of the manga, that means everyone looks like a derpy mouth breather and it is hard not to laugh when these fuckers are trying to spout off some bizarre philosophical nonsense ripped right out of some kingdom hearts game.
It is competent, but it is nowhere near being the anime classic that it wants so so hard to be.

Score: 62/100

Jona: What carried the movie for me were the visuals and soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi. Seeing Rukas relationship with Umi and Sora and finding what theyre about is intriguing. I ended up getting pretty lost though around the halfway point. The climax looked amazing even though I was unsure of what was going on. Has a lot of things going for it despite ending up confusing.

Genny: I've gotta say I was digging the first half of Children of the Sea a helluva lot more than the latter. While the animation is gorgeous the entire way through (aside from the eyes I just found a bit creepy), only the front end has a coherent plot. The back end devolved into what I can only describe as Fantasia 2001: A Sea Odyssey and after the point where Sora passes Ruka the meteor I just kind of mentally checked out as the movie only gets worse from there. Part of me wonders if that space rock was actually a mix of LSD, acid, and magic mushrooms; and I truly wonder if that "meteor" represents what the director, writers and animators took because that's the only thing that could really explain the movie from that point onward. I did not enjoy the movie throwing me for a loop every time I tried to guess where the plot was going, and if you told me existential acid trip after I had only watched the first half I would've called you a liar and maybe broke your nose because that's a perfectly appropriate response to being offended.

Red: This movie would have been fine but then it just goes off the rails at the end to the point it really just leaves you wondering why you wasted any of your time getting invested in the rest of it. You go from some weird story about the impending doom of the two fish kids to some pointless connection that I think was supposed to be the creation of the universe. There are some people surrounding it that are made out like they are going to be villains, but they are pointless. In fact, pretty much every single thing this movie introduces ends up pointless. Even the two fish dudes end up pointless. The movie just seemed intent to go completely off the rails, spit on everything it may have introduced at any point, and then mercifully it finally ends.

Inviso: First off, I hate the art style of this movie. I know anime tends to have exaggerated eye sizes, but my GOD this took it to a new level. It was like watching a cast of Funko Pops for fucks sake. Second, on paper, this movie SHOULD have worked. You have Ruka, who is kind of a weird, outcast tomboy on summer breakand she comes across these two boys that are human, but live within the sea. Thats perfect story fodder for a generic, but enjoyable coming of age tale that would make the bullshit ending to this film feel earned. Instead, this movie decides to try and be artistic and deep, and the last likethirty minutes before the ending all revolve around the boys vanishing and Ruka giving birth to a universe or something? None of it is properly explained, none of it is given a reason to happen, and that feels like the movie as a whole. Oh! And also, I should point out that theres a subplot about Rukas mom being estranged and drunkand then that just gets fixed up with one reconciliation scene between her and the dadand it again goes nowhere. This movie is nearly two hours longand its bullshit.

Charon: Welcome to anime 2001: A Space Odyssey! I was shocked by this film because it really felt as if we were getting another coming of age story, perhaps with a love triangle, and some light supernatural elements to play in the background while a larger "slice of life" sort of film unfolded in the foreground. No. Instead this is a bait and switch of the worst sort; it devolved into existential acid trips. I just hate movies like this, and I guess if anyone remembers my feelings on the aforementioned 2001, this isn't a shock how I ranked this film. It's such a shame too because unlike that film, I was actually interested in these characters and to just have it go off the deep end with some faux high-brow mindtrip just didn't set well with me. The more I think about this movie, the more and more I hate it. It's fallen a few more spots as I write this.

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Bayleef 5
Meganium 6
Cyndaquil 5
Quilava 6
Typhlosion 6
Sentret 3
Furret 8
Togepi 3
Togetic 2
Togekiss 4
Hoppip 4
Skiploom 4
Jumpluff 6
Swinub 3
Piloswine 4
Mamoswine 3
Corsola 5
Cursola 5
Stantler 5

Galarian Corsola 5

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Outlier:

Johnbobb: 87
Genny: 85
Inviso: 80
Karo: 67
Red: 63
Jona: 48
Charon: 45

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31. Mirai

Karo: 16
Johnbobb: 16
Charon: 26
Red: 27
Jona: 31
Genny: 34
Inviso: 38

Total: 188

Karo: What It Is:
A spoiled child meets his baby sister from the future, learns some life lessons, and possibly wanders into a witch labyrinth.

What I Think:
Hosoda's usual themes of familial bonds are on full display here but there is something missing this time around. It doesnt help things that Kun is this obnoxious little fucker who needs a very late-term abortion. I know that his brattiness is a major story element, but it is just so unpleasant to watch.
Though the movie gets stronger as it approaches the end, it never quite reaches the level of his earlier works.
It seems to further confirm that Hosoda has long passed his apex as a director and that is quite a shame.

Score: 71/100

Johnbobb: Mirai is the ultimate test of "how long can I deal with this annoying-ass piece of shit garbage child in order to get to the excellent film underneath." The answer is "exactly this long and not a single goddamn moment more because jfc this kid is just the absolute WORST. The surreal, magical way the film is told, however, absolutely manages to make up for it. Imagine how high this film would've gotten if that kid was so horrible!

Charon: This is another one of those film's where the main character is an annoying jerk and I find it hard to really get invested in the general plot or care much. Yeah I know he's a very young child, but he's still a brat. He's in the same sort of vein as a lot of child protagonists that we've seen over the years of doing these projects I guess, and even if he does reform by the end, it's still a movie filled with him being selfish and cruel throughout the course of the journey there. I think the character I liked the most was the great-grandfather, who was technically dead before the movie actually began so there's also that. I dunno. The kid's mean, the dad's a wuss, the mom is also pretty much a bitch. Even the future versions of Kun and Mirai are stereotypical "moody teenage youth" and "peppy young girl". I didn't see the hype here I guess.

Red: A spoiled brat with bad parents incapable of properly caring for a child is blessed with seeing the future and talking to his dog for no apparent reason. Im not exactly sure where they were going with this, as everything kind of happens abruptly and the connection from him being a spoiled brat to not is never properly made. He learns about his past, his future, but the things that made him be a jerk are all still there. A whiny kid learning about things he has no business learning about to ultimately be able to wear a different pair of pants simply doesnt resonate particularly well with my brain. Maybe the parents should have just kept better tabs on their kids.

Jona: It feels so strange putting a Mamoru Hasoda film this low. Kun and his constant tantrums are just so annoying. The movie is also pretty repetitive with its structure involving Kuns tantrums and time travel shenanigans. Despite those faults, the movie is still very charming as expected from this director.

Genny: Let me preface this by saying that I love kids (aged: 5-12). What I despise is babies and toddlers. Mirai did nothing more than validate my preexisting notions in what it might be like to be a parent of a very young child that is not yet what I would define as a "kid". In other words this movie made me want to get my tubes tied and adopt a child at the age I'm willing to begin tolerating them. I'm unsure of whether this is a film designed to entertain or a propaganda designed to discourage Japanese people from contributing to overpopulation because holy cow this was rough to sit through at times. The animation was quite nice however.

Inviso: Of ALL the anime produced in 2018, THIS is what becomes the first non-Ghibli anime nominated for an academy award? REALLY?! This movie sucked and I had to fucking drag my feet through watching it, despite it being shorter than several other bad movies Ive had to watch. First off, this was BORING. It is LITERALLY just a slice of life movie that tries to act like its interesting by interspersing fantasies and dream sequences into the plot. This does not help, because the main character is an obnoxious little shit, who spends the entire movie being cute and precocious, only to realize hes been a shit at the LAST possible second, thus making me not care about his change in any way. Basically, this movie is almost 100 minutes of the Japanese equivalent of a prolonged Rugrats episode. It has the fantasy worlds of a brat, dealing with the fact that he hates having a little sister. Weve seen this plot before, and it almost always sucksbut at least theres a CHANCE of it being somewhat interesting. This movie is not interesting in any way.

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I'll of course be up for anything disney too

be it songs, movies, characters, whatever

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pokemon gym leaders and their equivalents

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GenesisSaga posted...

Do you guys not think short films count as movies?

No, they are movies. But when you are writing a story slated for a much longer format and then suddenly hack most of it off it is gonna feel incomplete and illegitimate

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32. Blood: the Last Vampire

Genny: 15
Johnbobb: 19
Inviso: 21
Charon: 30
Red: 32
Jona: 37
Karo: 38

Total: 192

Genny: The advantage a short film like Blood: The Last Vampire has over a movie with a say, 2+ hour runtime is that you're forced to glean whatever information out of the cast of characters through their interactions with each other as opposed to being spoonfed exposition via flashbacks, narration, clunky dialogue and other trite narrative devices. As a result I personally feel much more vested in Saya's plight to destroy vampires than I did for D, and I'm more interested in the finer nuances of their personalities than the protagonist of my #40 film because frankly he's on screen for far too long. Returning to this film though, it has some of the fastest paced action in this entire set. It throws you right into the plot and trusts you'll be able to keep up with the many events that unfold before you. Its already narrow cast of characters for the most part ultimately end up being meaningless aside from two, and the movie outright challenges you to care about anyone else. What I like most about this film is that its concept is exciting enough that I'd be intrigued to check out the subsequent spinoff anime series. Ergo, Blood is a franchise starter done right.

Johnbobb: Honestly, I'm surprised by how into this I was. There's something to be said for action movies that don't waste time. When I saw the runtime, I immediatley assumed this would be more akin to like an extended episode of an anime series, but this really held it's on for me. It's fairly simple, but it's exciting, and the dynamic between Saya and Makiho was interesting, with Makiho's reactions to the situation coming across as realistic.

Inviso: This is going to sound like an odd criticism, but this movie doesnt feel like, well, a MOVIE to me; this feels like one episode out of a longer anime series. Dont get me wrong, Im not going to complain about one of the films on this list going under an hour for its runtime, but I just feel like this limitation prevents me from garnering the maximum enjoyment out of the film. As an animated action short, sure, its pretty solid. The animation is good, and I appreciate the fact that, while the movie starts out by painting Saya as an unstoppable badass, she at least shows weakness when the demons start to overwhelm her, which amplifies the intensity of the danger shes experiencing. That being said, I just wish wed gotten a little more time to breathe. Were thrown into the middle of the action, in the middle of a story in which weve already been thrown into the middle of the action. It would just make things more interesting to me to get a LITTLE more in terms of backstory. Thats all.

Charon: I hate to rank this low because I have a feeling I'd enjoy the deeper lore of this series as a whole, however I can't in good faith rank a film of less than 50 minutes very high. There's just not a lot of time to develop any of the characters, the world or the lore. You just sort of get thrust into things immediately and you have to hope you can keep up, yet there's clearly a ton of stuff that's underneath the rug in this movie's story that we just never really get to see due to its length. I think if you want to make a film that's based on an anime, or in this case, a film that's going to launch an anime series, you need the film to still feel like a film and not just a long episode of a TV show which is unfortunately just what this felt like. It's cool, I like it, but as a movie I'm just not going to rank it super high.

Red: Honestly not sure how we can even classify this as a full movie. The best way I could describe this is like a tech demo for a real movie or something. The plot was pretty much nonexistent, she likes to hunt monster things with swords, I think shes a vampire or something, and she has some sort of human organization assisting her. Oh but she begins the movie killing a human and we are just never going to touch on this again because this isnt a real movie.

Jona: That wasnt a great first episode but Im sure the series will have better action and develop the characters more as we go further into the series. Wait, that was a movie?

Karo: What It Is:
A horror anime that was originally intended to be a three episode OVA series, but then they decided to scrap episodes one and three and release episode two in theaters for some reason.

What I Think:
This 'film' will be incredibly confusing to anyone watching, little is explained about who these characters are and why the world is this way. The disastrous decision to chop off two-thirds of the narrative tosses us right into the middle of a story that was meant to be much bigger, with all world-building and emotional involvement thrown out the window so we can have some derp-faced babe kick vampire ass for 48 minutes.

Score: 32/100

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Tentacool 3
Tentacruel 4
Azurill 5
Marill 5
Azumarill 6
Wailmer 3
Wailord 4
Relicanth 1
Luvdisc 5
Finneon 3
Lumineon 4
Oshawott 6
Dewott 7
Samurott 5
Basculin 2
Sobble 5
Drizzile 5
Inteleon 4

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Outlier:

Genny: 65
Inviso: 62
Johnbobb: 59
Red: 59
Karo: 46
Jona: 43
Charon: 38

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33. Angel's Egg

Genny: 5
Karo: 27
Charon: 27
Johnbobb: 28
Jona: 32
Red: 39
Inviso: 40

Total: 198

Genny: At only 42 lines of dialogue (by my count) Angel's Egg manages to tell a more coherent and more compelling story than other movies can with hundreds. Now when it comes to Amano's artwork I can leave it far more often than I take it, but here it actually works. His washed out color palette, smooth edges, and somber expressions (or lack of expression altogether) all suit this dystopia far more than they would suit, for example, an energetic role-playing game protagonist. In this setting what would be dull, minimalistic designs elsewhere manage to become hauntingly beautiful and help to bring this world alive. I'm not going to get into all the symbolism because there's enough there to write a thesis on, but suffice it to say this was a labor of love that I for one appreciated.

Karo: What It Is:
A bizarre surrealist anime where little girls lay eggs and everyone looks like Final Fantasy concept art.

What I Think:
This movie is quite a trip, and you likely will be just as confused at the film's end as you were at the start.
Basically there was an apocalypse or something and characters with questionable motives wander through a haunting, shattered world searching for a point (they don't find it).
The film is visually and atmospherically beautiful, which is honestly the only reason to give it a look, everything else is pointless fluff.

Score: 56/100

Charon: This is probably as high as I can rank a film where the writer/director admitted he had no idea what the film was about when he asked. There's certainly a lot of "art of the sake of art" going on here, at least in my opinion. I will say that Amano is a lot better here than he is when he's working on Final Fantasy, even though his style is very obvious from the onset. I don't know; it's weird, but I do like the world and the atmosphere. I find myself frustrated at it however because I can't learn more about those things or experience a deep, storytelling experience inside that world with that atmosphere. It's great for what it is; I just don't usually hold stuff like this in super high esteem.

Johnbobb: Don't know how to talk about this one. I appreciate it and what it does, but I also didn't really enjoy it.

Jona: Usually Im into movies that do nothing intentionally. It gets me interested to see the meaning behind the nothing. This movie was far too much for me though. The movies got a great atmosphere though and a slow, deliberate pace. It feels too slow though and its tough to tell the difference from when the slowness is deliberate or padding. While its intriguing and engaging, it can definitely be too incomprehensible.

Red: Im sure there was some sort of deep meaning hidden in this movie, but if I am that bored of it by the end my brain lacks any sort of will to care to decipher it. This movie is pretty much completely devoid of dialogue that I can remember aside a very brief sequence of a character having a needlessly complex literal existential crisis. In my mind, this movie felt like some weird Kojima game except all the potentially interesting characters you play for despite the weirdness had all their dialogue ripped out and you were just left confused at all the weirdness going on. With no hook to keep your brain interested and everything being needlessly convoluted, you are left confused, bored, and uninterested.

Inviso: Fuck this pretentious, artsy bullshit. Despite clocking in at only seventy minutes, this movie still felt like more of a waste of time than the vast majority of films weve watched for various projects over the years. There is literally no point to this movies existence. You would think that an artistic movie like this would have some deep message to convey, but I didnt get anything out of it, and upon checking the Wikipedia page, even the creator says he doesnt know what it means. Im sure thats a bullshit quote meant to inspire people to think hes deep and brooding or something, but it sucks. Nothing HAPPENS in this movie for the first 57 minutes. Then the male character breaks an egg and the girl commits suicide? Its hard to tell, what with the horrible animation, and the MULTITUDE of long, still images that the camera lingers on FAR beyond their usefulness (said usefulness is approximately zero, but still). This sucked. This really, really sucked.

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Inviso: 55
Johnbobb: 54
Red: 53
Jona: 42
Karo: 40
Genny: 37
Charon: 32

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34. Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters

Genny: 14
Charon: 20
Inviso: 27
Karo: 32
Jona: 35
Red: 36
Johnbobb: 39

Total: 203

Genny: Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters is honestly my favorite adaptation of the Godzilla mythos in the last decade, beating out 2014 Godzilla by a hair due its lessened focus on a bland human cast. While Planet of the Monsters is no exception to the trend of following human characters in a kaiju movie, Sakaki, the main character, is anything but "bland"! His grudge against Godzilla, his distrust in authority, and his conviction all make him a well-rounded individual who I cannot help but root for despite his constant angst face. I must mention that the animation for the scenery and for the human and alien races is absolutely breathtaking. I was very surprised to learn it wasn't done by Studio Orange because the facial expressions are eerily reminiscent of Beastars. On the other hand when it came to the kaiju... the animation was more reminiscent of something I left in the toilet this morning. The animation of the monsters left a lot to be desired to say the least. Nevertheless I was hooked enough to want to watch the other two films in this installation, though I would've loved if the entire film had been more like the last 10 minutes or so: nothing but the king of kaiju wrecking face.

Charon: Planet of the Monsters: Surprisingly good for what it is, I think this film does a swell job with a standalone launch of a Godzilla film. There aren't too many people out there who haven't heard of Godzilla, so I appreciate this isn't another origin story. There's a slight Attack on Titan vibe to the fighting and action scenes, well, from what little I've seen of that show I guess. The animation is nice looking and while I think the story could be a little better, it is again, good for what it is. I had little expectations heading into this film so to come away liking it a fair bit was a welcome treat. The characters aren't too fleshed out really, but I do like the main character's drive and what he stands for. He's an easy protagonist to cheer on.

Inviso: This was an extremely generic action movie. The characters almost all feel completely underdeveloped, with one-note personalities, and there is FAR too much technobabble and military strategy for me to enjoy such things. I mean, dont get me wrongthe movie managed to keep my attention for most of its runtime, and it was never off-putting to the point where I just wanted it to end. But I cannot see myself thinking back on this as a memorable addition to this list. It mostly ranks as high as it does, more because of the flaws I found in other films, rather than anything it did especially GOOD. Also, theres a cliffhanger, but likeI cant really think of where you can go with this franchise. Youve wiped everyone outthey got fuckin WRECKED. I doubt you can Avatar the ending without coming across as extremely contrived and poorly written.

Karo: What It Is:
A take on the classic Godzilla franchise by Gen Urobuchi, which of course means everyone dies horribly.

What I Think:
I am beginning to think that Urobuchi is just not up to telling a story in the time constraints of the film format. In Expelled from Paradise, he tried to cram so many things into an hour and half that we ended up with a world that was underdeveloped and stillborn. Here, he does the exact opposite and spends so much time crafting this future kaiju world that we get a movie where pretty much nothing happens. You can literally summarize the entire plot as 'people travel to earth and fight Godzilla'.
Yes, there are two more movies set in this world, and maybe things happen in them, but if you are hoping to see Urobuchi deconstruct the kaiju genre the way he did with magical girl superheroes and crime serials, don't hold your atomic breath.

Score: 52/100

Jona: I have not actually seen a Godzilla movie before this but I do have some base knowledge on what to expect: A lot of talking and then a bunch of action with Godzilla. Its pretty much what I got. The main character is the only character to really stand out and with this being the first part of a trilogy, the story leaves a lot more to be desired. The action is pretty great when the movie gets around to it but I dont think it was worth the wait.

Red: Another movie on this list with blind devotion to the Earth somehow. A bunch of suspiciously human like species show up to earth to kill some monsters, fail, they leave, and then, very abruptly, its time to go back. There isnt a whole lot of point of this, and they could have just skipped the leaving thing, hovered in the earths orbit for awhile, tried to come back, and you wouldnt have changed the movie much at all. They fight a poorly animated Godzilla, some people die, Godzilla dies as planned. But oh wait it was the bad ending all along. Nothing about this movie is satisfying.

Johnbobb: Man, I just... really don't care much about Godzilla. I feel like pretty much every Godzilla movie (and hell, most Kaiju movies) are one of two things
1. Goofy B-movie Monster v. Monster schlock
2. More often, 80 minutes of humans trying to figure out what to do about the monster and 10 minutes of them finally doing it at the end.
Planet of the Monsters unsurprisingly went headfirst into the 2nd category, and OF COURSE it ends with the bait-and-switch "oh that wasn't even the real monster, guess you need to see the sequel!" Impressive monster animation doesn't make up for a boring-as-hell movie leading up to it.

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Tangela 5
Tangrowth 4
Elekid 3
Electabuzz 6
Electivire 4
Numel 2
Camerupt 5
Barboach 3
Whiscash 5
Turtwig 4
Grotle 4
Torterra 6
Klink 3
Klank 3
Klinklang 3
Comfey 5
Arrokuda 2
Barraskewda 3

Mega Camerupt 5

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Outlier:

Red: 51
Johnbobb: 50
Inviso: 48
Jona: 41
Karo: 38
Charon: 17
Genny: 17

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35. In This Corner of the World

Jona: 23
Johnbobb: 26
Red: 28
Karo: 29
Inviso: 29
Genny: 37
Charon: 37

Total: 209

Jona: The movies slow pacing helps you get attached to Suzu. While Suzu has an intriguing life where she tries to adjust to her new home, its obvious where the movie will go due to the setting. It still has its shocking moments though. Just a good slice-of-life film.

Johnbobb: Objectively, this is a really good and a really important film. Did I enjoy it? Sure, from time to time, though the romance that takes up much of the runtime never grabbed me nearly as much as the survival efforts in pre-bombing Japan. I have a lot of respect for this film and everything it does excellently, but I also don't have much desire to ever watch it again.

Red: Never really been one for movies that are all doom and gloom, and this one ends up no exception. Doesnt help that the main character is a girl that to the end will never make much of an attempt to stand up for herself. Shes simply low on emotions and her basically arranged marriage, despite working out, definitely begins in kind of a creepy fashion. We know from the time period things are going to get worse. They do and it is predictably just as much of a downer. The ending kind of sort of tries to provide a happier moment but our dulled emotion of a main character mostly just survives rather than show much growth.

Karo: What It Is:
A slice-of-life that takes place during WWII and focuses on a girl who lives in a city near Hiroshima, and focuses on her day-to-day activities during the war.

What I Think:
These kind of stories are so so dependent on the characters in them, and unfortunately that is where this film takes a big swing and a miss.
The heroine is a dull character with zero personality and presence, she just smiles and nods no matter how badly others treat her and pretty much has no ambition other than to be a perfect little geisha. This is not the kind of person I want to watch a movie about, and her role in the story could have been replaced with an inflatable sex doll and I dont even think her husband would have noticed.

Score 55/100

Inviso: Based off my enjoyment of Grave of the Fireflies, I expected to enjoy ANY anime film in which the setting was World War II, being told from the perspective of the Japanese people. This movie proved that theory wrong, by being boring as FUCK. First off, a good 75% of this movie is just generic, slice-of-life bullshit, with a main character whoand I know this is gonna sound really mean, given how the movie ends for heris too ditzy to live. Seriously, spending the entire film dealing with a backdrop of wartime Japan, through the eyes of a dullardits not fun to watch. And worse, it makes the emotion turn the film tries to take towards the end THAT much less impactful to me. I know weve watched bittersweet movies with happy endings before (Barefoot Gen, for example), but this justit feels like the writers wanted to just do a fluff movie, and threw in some abject hardship at the end just to make it feel like it meant something. Also, this is a personal preference, but I hated the animation. Wasnt my cup of tea at all.

Genny: This movie didn't actively offend me like my bottom three, but In This Corner of the World passively offended me with how sinfully dull it was. I could literally put this movie on in the background whenever I want to go to sleep except that I was unfortunately wide awake whenever I watched it, and unfortunately this had to be broken into two sittings because the movie decided it had ample time to pad its 2+ hour duration with recipes I will never use and boring interactions between characters I will never care for. This movie is like Peanuts, but only if every character was Charlie Brown aside from one Lucy; however by the 3rd act she transitions into just another Charlie Brown as well, and no Snoopy ever emerges to break up the monotony.

You would think a period piece from one of the most interesting periods in history might be I dunno interesting, but you just keep waiting for the *metaphorical bomb to drop and it never does. There is actually a scene near the end of the first act where Suzu has an opportunity to be an actual character instead of a cardboard cut out, and cheat on her husband with her childhood friend she has a real connection with, and the movie teases the possibility that something interesting could happen before yanking the carrot it was dangling in front of its audience away in favor of more recipes you can use to stretch your rations further WOW THANKS! If ever there was a life I did not want to sample a slice of, it is Suzu's. The only events of actual interest occur in the last 45 minutes of the film, and the director even found a way to make Suzu losing an arm, a family, and a niece boring somehow.

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Charon: As tragic as the atomic bombing of Japan was, this film about the ordinary life of an ordinary Japanese girl just doesn't do a good job of being interesting. Granted I realized it isn't supposed to be exciting, but at the same time when a film is over 2 hours long you really need the structure of a film in place, and this is more of a period piece that doesn't follow those guidelines. For example, I suppose the "climax" of this film would be the death of Harumi but it is a good ways into it and the time before that is filled with very mundane events like how to ration your rice. I remember two different "recipe" segments that took several minutes a piece it seemed. It just isn't a fun experience, and the lasting impression it left me with was that of being so bored and tired of watching this movie we had to tackle it in two sittings.

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Outlier:

Red: 44
Inviso: 42
Johnbobb: 41
Karo: 32
Jona: 29
Charon: 15
Genny: 15

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36. Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon

Red: 21
Johnbobb: 27
Jona: 29
Genny: 32
Karo: 35
Charon: 35
Inviso: 37

Total: 216

Red: A child-god decides that he cant accept the death of his mother and hes going to go smash whatever he has to find her and bring her back. Except his adventure is abruptly stopped when he realizes he can just slay a big 8 headed dragon thing and run off with a girl instead. His quest to not accept death is interesting enough to keep you entertained, and Im sure somewhere in the back of my mind Im probably forgiving this movie inadvertently by virtue of it being made in the 60s, but it definitely beat my expectations by not being horrible like a movie that old could have been.

Johnbobb: Fuck whoever did the voice acting for Taro's crying, jesus christ that was hard to listen to. That being said, I definitely want to see Taro in the next edition of Mercs, because the kid kicks ass. I wasn't thrilled by the beginning of the film, but as it went I really started getting into it. The art style is excellent, at its best very reminiscent of early Disney stuff like Fantasia. The story was also intriguing. It played out just like a classic epic, sort of like The Aeneid for kids. Fun subplots as part of a longer journey of self-discovery. It was definitely better than I expected going in.

GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK!

Jona: The movie has quite the unique artstyle and pretty good action that still holds up today. You definitely can see that Samurai Jack was inspired by this movie. While there are dull moments between the action scene, its still interesting to learn about Japanese mythology and learning about names I only heard of through Persona 4.

Genny: For me personally, old films do not automatically equate to bad films. That said I did not have a lot of hope for the oldest film on this list, thus The Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon managed to surprise me a bit. The art style is unique and gorgeous with its detailed painted backdrops and thin outlines that lend to the illusion that there are none at all. It makes me wonder if this was one of Genndy Tartakovsky's inspirations in Samurai Jack's general aesthetic, and that's not an insulting comparison to say the least. If only the characters had been as interesting as the animation I might rank this ten spots higher at minimum. Unfortunately the only character I didn't find to be completely insufferable, utterly unmemorable, terribly unhelpful, or some combination of two of the three, was the god of crystal who's like a combination of Elsa and Sesshomaru. On that subject there's basically deities of ice, fire, and light, and, considering his parents formed the islands that make up Japan from a drop off the tip of a spear, you can assume they're deities of earth and water. So why doesn't Susano have an element or designation? What is he the prince and/or god of: strength, death, brats? I'll go with that last one considering his stance towards casual animal abuse.

Karo: What It Is:
It is an early anime film based on Japanese mythology. It has been cited as inspiring both the animation of Samurai Jack and art style of Zelda: Wind Waker.

What I Think:
For all its visual uniqueness, it was still made in 1963. It is incredibly dated in absolutely every aspect, and to put it frankly, the efforts of the japanese animation industry in its infancy just didn't really get the job done.

Score: 44/100

Charon: The oldest animated film I can recall watching in quite some time, I suppose since the original Disney list (actually having checked, it seems like Man Called Flinstone was from the 60's), I always have trouble ranking older films against a list that is made up of mostly ones from the last decade. It isn't a knock on older movies in general, but I'd be lying if I didn't point out that I usually don't favor them. This one isn't much different; in tone and style, one can definitely feel the age of the film if you watch it today. I can sense a lot of Disney's influence on this as well, since anime in Japan hadn't really taken hold yet and there wasn't much to be inspired by at this time in Japanese history in terms of previous animation works. I think this film more than any other feels like an American product, though I can see eastern influence in some of the art direction, there's not this "this is obviously anime" feeling that most every other film on this list exhibits. I don't know; it's a simple film with a simple sort of plot. We follow the main character around while he goes from place to place. It isn't offensive or anything, but I wasn't all that interested in it either.

Inviso: I did not enjoy this. I know you always have to account for some jankiness when it comes to the older movies we watch, but cmon. At this time in Disney, we already had 101 Dalmatians. This is just shitty and unacceptable. But Im not gonna bag on the animation TOO much, because I do understand that its a time thing. Instead, Im gonna be pissed at the movie itself. This follows the Pinocchio formula of being not a good enough movie to have a strong plot that can carry it from start to finish, so instead, the writers weave together a series of unrelated vignettes. Our douchey lead fucks up the ice kingdom, fights some fire dudes, fucks up the light kingdom, and NONE of this is in ANY way related to the titular Eight Headed Dragon. No, it takes 2/3 of the movie to get to the title conflict.

Basically, the prince is upset about his mother being dead, but everything is a fucking metaphor in this universe and no one tells him hey, shes dead and instead his father gives him the your mother went to a farm upstate treatment. So he goes on a journey in search of her, has some pointless adventures, and finally arrives at a village where humans are sacrificed to an eight-headed dragon. We then get a twenty-minute action sequence in which, despite being animated, the direction of the fight scene is as choppy and poorly-edited as I would expect from a Ray Harryhausen movie, which at least has the excuse of blending stop-motion with live-action. Here, we get twenty minutes of a kid flying around on a horse, swinging his sword ineffectively at a series of similar-looking dragon heads, until finally he slays them all and finds out that his real mother was the friends he made along the way.

This was just bad and unpleasant to sit through. Nothing about it intrigued me, and its not a great way to kick off a new list.

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Cleffa 4
Clefairy 6
Clefable 6
Porygon 2
Porygon2 3
Porygon-Z 2
Unown 1
Girafarig 6
Baltoy 3
Claydol 4
Bidoof 4
Bibarel 4
Sigilyph 1
Solosis 5
Duosion 6
Reuniclus 7
Type: Null 1
Silvally 3
Indeedee 7

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Outlier:

Inviso: 41
Johnbobb: 32
Karo: 31
Red: 29
Jona: 22
Charon: 14
Genny: 11

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37. The Fantastic Adventures of Unico

Red: 23
Johnbobb: 25
Karo: 26
Inviso: 32
Genny: 36
Jona: 36
Charon: 39

Total: 217

Red: Honestly the way people were talking about them I thought most of the older movies were going to be way worse than I was expecting, but most ended up like Unico, kind of inoffensive to the ears and eyes. We get to see a bunch of somewhat naive characters learn a bit about themselves and find their place in life and it all gets topped off with Unico going full horn smash on some weird creepy formerly almost rapey monster thing for the finale.

Johnbobb: Now THIS is cinema

Karo: What It Is:
A movie based on a children's manga by the great Osamu Tezuka about a big-eyed marshmallow pony who solves problems with the power of friendship yet isnt from Equestria.

What I Think:
Unfortunately, the producers of the film made some really weird changes that were very disrespectful to the original work such as turning Count Ghost into fucking Satan (in the manga he is just a psychopathic nobleman with no magic powers), and putting the chapters out of order. The first place Unico goes in the movie is actually from the final part of the manga because I guess someone really liked the little imp character.
If you like cute things as much as I do you will be marginally entertained, but once stripped of Tezuka's depth this adaptation ends up feeling a bit blah.

Score: 58/100

Inviso: It says something about the quality of certain films on this list that Unico outranks them in my eyes. For the firstlets say 60% of the movie, this was terrible. Its just high-pitched kiddy bullshit that feels reminiscent of the movies based on childrens cartoons list we did. Namely, anything to do with Care Bears or My Little Pony. You know, the kind of mindless, saccharine crap that stupid little kids watch because theyre unable to process anything more than flashing lights and soft music. However, for whatever reason, the back half of the movie just felt more coherent and enjoyable.

I think the front half is just establishing the bullshit of the world, which results in stupid little kid Unico whining about how lonely he is. Beezle is tsundere and annoying. Katie is okay as a cat, but she becomes obnoxious when she becomes a girl. All of this, however, leads to Katie becoming human and getting roofied by a demon, and suddenly the plot is a bit more interesting, and Unico feels like less of a whiny douchebag, because he actually has to fight a genuine threat in order to save his friend. Of course, the ending is total B.S., but Im still willing to accept this as far better than it had any business being.

Genny: Please read the following in Mrs. Puff's voice: "Oh Karo... why...?" No really, why, of all movies that deserved inclusion on this list in your opinion, did the less-than-Fantastic Adventures of Unico make the cut? I realize we needed some older films for balance, but wouldn't Jungle Emperor Leo have been more culturally relevant? This was truly abysmal to sit through to the point where drinking mildly diluted spiced rum barely improved it. None of the main characters were worthwhile, and the plot went nowhere, or to be more accurate the plot went wherever Unico needed to go only to take him somewhere else and that's literally the entire movie. Side note: I could not unhear Bart Simpson every time Beezle spoke or especially laughed (even though that was apparently Angelica Pickles' voice actress) and it impacted my enjoyment of the film- I cannot say whether the impact was negative or positive, but it was impacted nonetheless.

Jona: While this can be cute and charming, it doesnt stand out too much besides some cool parts with the villain. This was almost my 40 because despite not doing anything particularly terrible, it doesnt elicit any strong feelings from me.

Charon: If this film had appeared on Karo's last project, I wouldn't have batted an eye. This feels entirely at home in a bunch of awkward 80's films based on children's shows from that era. In terms of what else appears on this project, the movie feels totally out of place and is jarring to watch after almost any other film on the list. There's annoying singing, grating voices and the almost traditional anthology style plot where "episodes" take place featuring the main character interacting with new side characters. There's just very little actual joy I can find in this film, despite the titular character supposedly being able to create joy in all living creatures. For some reason there's a sequel apparently; the West Wind should have carried Unico away for good.

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Inviso: 36
Jona: 21
Karo: 20
Johnbobb: 20
Red: 15
Charon: 12
Genny: 10

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38. Miss Hokusai

Johnbobb: 23
Inviso: 25
Karo: 28
Genny: 33
Charon: 34
Red: 35
Jona: 40

Total: 218

Johnbobb: Miss Hokusai is a fine movie that would've done a lot better in a list where it could've stood out more, but this just unfortunately isn't that list. I can really appreciate some of the short segments and the fairly unique art style (in particular, it's one of the few post-Ghibli movies that doesn't act like it wants to be a Ghibli movie). I can't really say more for it than that though. A fascinating subject but not quite captivating enough as a movie.

Inviso: So this is a historical movie, based on the life of a real person. That explains why the plot is meandering and theres not a whole bunch of flow to the story. The main character is standoffish and seems to wander from plot point to plot point with little to no growth or change. I mean, the movie has fun moments, particularly when its using the main character to express disdain for her male counterparts and their tomfoolery, but mostly, shes just a dour stick in the mud. The little sister dies off-screen, and this gets brushed over within one scene of it happening. I justI question some of the creative choices involved in making this movie. I really do. Theres a spiritual element as well that gets introduced, but it never goes anywhere and theres no consistency. The art style is good at least, I guess. But its just pretty bland for something as incoherent in its plot as this was.

Karo: What It Is:
An animated portrait of late-Edo-era Japanese artist Katsushika Oi that is probably about as historically accurate as Disney's Pocahontas.

What I Think:
While this movie is far from being terrible, the fact that not a whole lot happens in the story and the way it is animated in a very uninspired art style really puts the film into the realm of forgettablilty. It focuses mainly on the everyday life of the titular Miss Hokusai, and while that can be entertaining at times a lot of it is very boring. It doesnt help that it takes place in not a particularly interesting period of japanese history, and I also question the wisdom of making an animated biography of someone we know so little about as Oi.

Score: 56/100

Genny: This was a bizarre one for me. At times I found myself engaged and at others bored out of my mind. I think it wouldn't have been so jarring if this had been solely a period piece or a fictional account of fantastical encounters, but instead it's this odd anthology of both and tonally it's all over the place. It's difficult to feel much of anything when O-Ei's little sister passes after so little time is spent getting to know her as a character and some of that time is spent in between telling ghost stories and visiting a gigolo- it just doesn't mesh well together. In addition that epilogue was a fucking downer and I'd have liked Miss Hokusai twice as much if it weren't included.

Charon: Just a bit too episodic for me. I had some hopes with the first of these episodes, with the possibility of some supernatural elements to the film, but unfortunately nothing ever becomes of that. For someone that isn't a fan of this film's format, ranking it along side more traditional movies with a beginning, middle and end is rather difficult. Honestly, would could have a ranking project featuring movies more in line with this genre so films like this get a bit more fair treatment from someone like me perhaps. Because there are definitely interesting moments to be had here, it's just that the disjointed nature of things brings causes me to be natural critical of that style in a group of films that mostly adhere to flow.

Red: A woman cant paint because she isnt having enough sex and at the end of the movie she still apparently cant paint and everything ends abruptly. Nothing in this movie ever attempts to be the slightest bit interesting and one of the things that most surprises me is that I was able to watch the entire thing without falling asleep. The characters dont grow, the old painter dies and at some point I guess we were supposed to care about some of it. Theres some weird spiritual elements in the middle that also go nowhere once resolved.

Jona: The most interesting part about this movie is the format, with it being episodic and having the different plotlines spread throughout the movie. The biggest problem of the movie is that the characters dont develop at all and by the end, it really feels like nothing happened despite the one plotline involving O-Ei and her sister. Most of the plotlines never had me really engaged. O-Eis relationship with her father felt like it was going to be the main focus of the movie, but it just doesnt pan out and nothings changed between them from start to finish. The epilogue is not great with the deaths of the characters just being told to the viewer. The setting is nice with it taking place in 1814 Edo but the soundtrack can be inappropriately modern at times which really took me out of the movie. There are some interesting aspects of this movie, but I just ended up being mostly bored.

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Jirachi 7
Deoxys 2
Dialga 2
Palkia 3
Darkrai 4
Arceus 4
Victini 7
Keldeo 8
Genesect 6
Tapu Koko 5
Tapu Lele 7
Tapu Bulu 1
Tapu Fini 6
Magearna 5
Marshadow 7
Zeraora 10
Eternatus 2

Deoxys Attack 2
Deoxys Defense 2
Deoxys Speed 2
Keldeo Resolute 7

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JONALEON1 posted...

Here's how the first anime rankings went if anyone forgot or wasn't around then.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQNgGUQFOLpqDp8V05hboUY6szS7mXL7qhAqSE6FPRyvUiEXc1ugkbE-Tk/pubhtml

Ah yes, Inviso's savage beatdown of poor Makoto Shinkai. I remember it well.

How did things go this time around? Stay tuned

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Outlier:

Inviso: 23
Jona: 19
Karo: 10
Red: 12
Charon: 8
Johnbobb: 5
Genny: 5

that shook things up a bit

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39. Appleseed

Inviso: 23
Red: 30
Charon: 31
Jona: 34
Genny: 35
Karo: 39
Johnbobb: 40

Total: 232

Inviso: This movie feels like one of those films thats going to eventually mark a dividing line in this list, where I dont HATE the movie, but I dont particularly LIKE it at the same time. I dont know. There are some decent enough action sceneswhen the film tries to make action scenes. But far too often, it just feels like a lot of poorly-handled emotions and clunky dialogue. Everything is so on the nose, and theres a whole segment early in the movie that feels like exposition dump: the scene. Its vexing. I just dont know how to really classify this movie. It didnt frustrate me as much as some of the films below it, nor did it bore me, but it just doesnt feel like a high-quality film overall. The one positive Ill highlight though, is that I appreciate the constant twists of having the humans be the bad guys, only for the clones to turn out to be the REAL bad guys. And the real villain? Racism. Yeah, thats all. This isnt a great movie by any means, but whatever. It couldve been a lot worse.

Red: Well, some of the combat scenes are pretty exciting, so I guess this movie has that going for it. Beyond that, there isnt much going for it. You have some I guess they are robots that dont like humans and a plot of human sterilization or something that never makes sense because the two species(?) dont really seem to differentiate from each other all that much in the first place. But lets be honest, whatever plot there is merely exists to distract you from the fact that there is even a plot at all. If that line doesnt make sense, it means I succeeded in getting my point across.

Charon: A very basic, uninspired take on post-apocalypic science fiction. The story is overly complex, which makes it on screen appear as shallow and poorly structured due to the fact it tries to do too much and introduce a lot of characters you can barely remember the names of because they're all named after mythological gods. There's taking a theme a little too far, and there's Appleseed. The action sequences also weren't really that good and I felt they dragged on quite a bit in some segments. There's just not a lot of memorable things to say about it.

Jona: This movie looks great, has stylish action and a pretty sweet electronic soundtrack but everything else is just forgettable.

Genny: Imagine for a moment trying to set a PSX era RPG plot line to PS2 FMV level graphics and you pretty much have Appleseed. There's not a lot to say about it other than that it tries a little too hard and ends up coming across as a bit pretentious to me. There was definitely potential there for this to be a truly unique sci-fi experience, but it fails to connect on an emotional level so when 'x character betrays y' (which happens like three goddamn times in this movie) or when 'y character admits they have romantic feelings for z out of nowhere' (twice) I just do not care at all.

Karo: What It Is:
It is the first anime movie fully rendered in CGI animation. Because this was the mid 2000s and all that was needed to draw attention was a lot of polygons, people actually cared about it for some reason.

What I Think:
Whenever I hear the words 'first' and 'CGI' in the same sentence I know to duck and cover, because holy hell does this look awful. Everyone looks (and moves) like blow-up love dolls, and the environments look so unnaturally shiny that this society must consume 11 metric tons of windex each day just to function.
What little that is intriguing about the setting is quickly lost in idiotic action scenes that seem directed by a 12-year old boy, complete with ear-raping music, a million camera cuts a second, and enough explosions to make Michael Bay wet himself in ecstasy.
Stitching all this bullshit together is a confusing narrative filled with arbitrary betrayals and random plot twists, with all consistency thrown to the wind just so the writers can say 'gotcha' some more.
The protagonist's backstory changes so often it is nigh incomprehensible by the movie's end, and my understanding of what the hell is up is about equal to my level of caring about her or any of the other stilted, wooden characters. Which is to say about nil.
This is one seed that should have never ever been allowed to sprout.

Score: 21/100

Johnbobb: Man, everything about this movie was just unappealing. The story was boring as all hell. The characters were bland. The visuals and animation were (I assume) good for their time but man this is the exact type of animation that hasn't held up. Now everything just looks like a sub-par PS2 cutscene rather than an actual animated movie. Character models in particular are downright gross to look at half the time. I just really wasn't into this at all.

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