Board 8 > Gauntlet Crew Ranks Anime Movies II

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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 10:17:24 AM
#1:


The sequel to classic project arrives! The anime industry has been very prolific in the last 5 years, and we have a lot of new things to rank, plus a scattering of films passed over for the first project!

The Particpants:

Karo
Inviso
Genny
Charon
Johnbobb
Jona
Red

The Movies:

Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon (1963)
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Phoenix 2772 (1980)
The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (1981)
Angel's Egg (1985)
Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Memories (1995)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
Blood: the Last Vampire (2000)
Appleseed (2004)
Dead Leaves (2004)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Mind Game (2004)
Colorful (2010)
Welcome to the Space Show (2010)
Giovanni's Island (2014)
When Marnie Was There (2014)
The Anthem of the Heart (2015)
The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Miss Hokusai (2015)
A Silent Voice (2016)
In This Corner of the World (2016)
Your Name (2016)
Fireworks (2017)
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
Lu Over the Wall (2017)
Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
Napping Princess (2017)
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
Mirai (2018)
Okko's Inn (2018)
Penguin Highway (2018)
Children of the Sea (2019)
Promare (2019)
Ride Your Wave (2019)
The Wonderland (2019)
Weathering With You (2019)

Total Scores:

27
35
61
63
64
71
77
84
94
100
101
107
108
119
125
132
135
140
140
141
141
150
161
168
176
177
178
182
183
186
188
192
198
203
209
216
217
218
232
241

First ranking up soon

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GenesisSaga
06/15/20 10:19:07 AM
#2:


Hardest tag of my life

No trivia!?

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Inviso
06/15/20 10:22:05 AM
#3:


The top two are all alone together, it seems. Big gap between that next grouping.

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paulg235
06/15/20 10:28:02 AM
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List plz

Edit: Thank you.

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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 10:29:02 AM
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40. Phoenix 2772:

Jona: 26
Karo: 30
Inviso: 33
Johnbobb: 36
Red: 37
Genny: 39
Charon: 40

Total: 241

Jona: Im being quite generous with the ranking of this film because I really like how ambitious it is. The opening is great with having no dialogue and Godos journey is quite grand. Things get quite interesting when the Phoenix/Firebird gets focused on. Pretty interesting to see Black Jack and Rock in different roles for this movie. It can be boring at times and too much time can be spent on comic relief but there are different concepts that the movie is about that can be quite intriguing.

Karo: What It Is:
A film set in Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix universe (though not actually adapted from any of the manga), and like most of the other stories in the series revolves around characters hunting for the mysterious Phoenix in search of eternal life and generally finding only death.

What I Think:
It's an old, low budget anime that feels like it is way longer than it needs to be to tell the story it is trying to tell. There are so many extraneous scenes of pet kangaroo antics or robot transformation porn that the movie ends up clocking in at over 2 hours long. It is something that is in need of editing and in need of it very badly.

Score: 53/100

Inviso: My God, what the fuck was this movie even supposed to be? It tackled heavy subject matter, yet still felt it necessary to throw in a procession of annoying sidekicks, because otherwise kids wouldnt enjoy the weird cautionary tale about how Earth is dying due to overuse of its natural resources. This movie had like, FIVE musical interludes. Its two hours long, yet it felt the need to give us MULTIPLE silent scenes with the express purpose of highlighting the animation (poor quality at that, and I know I shouldnt judge given the era, but still) and doing nothing to progress the story. Every aspect of the plot feels stupid and pointless, and a large portion of the plot points that get introducedfall apart or wind up completely irrelevant. I dont care for ANYONE in the cast, and the only saving grace is that at least the main character didnt go out of his way to piss me off.

Johnbobb: That robot lady transformation scene was fucking terrifying. The choice to have the first 10 minutes or so without voice acting was interesting and paid off I think, so by the time you finally hear a voice it's striking. Really, most of the first third of the movie is pretty interesting. Not exactly my thing, but the story is compelling. It really starts to drag around the middle though, once it starts introducing characters like Pincho and that dice thing that seem to exist for no other reason than to be goofy and annoying. A not-insignificant chunk of the movie abruptly halts the plot to watch their antics and just kills the pace of the movie. By the end, it held true, this just wasn't my type of movie overall, but it was way more interesting than I expected.


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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 10:29:06 AM
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Red: Everyone eat your vegetables or the entire earth will explode. Making any semblance of sense is not this movies strongsuit. They go search for a phoenix who after killing everyone decides to have mercy, takes them to what I assume is her home planet, and then sends him home to earth with vegetables. Then everybody dies again. Despite Earth being nothing but horrible to the main character, somehow he has some sort of extreme built in loyalty to the planet for no reason. The plot is nonsense, the movie teeters on the edge of boring, and the ending reminds you the whole thing was just dumb.

Genny: Phoenix 2772 was an ordeal to watch not because its availability as it was actually easy to find, but because it was exhausting to sit through both in a literal and figurative sense. We had to break it into two sessions due to its ridiculous nigh two hour runtime, which could've been forgiven if that time was spent with meaningful characters, engaging plot and/or setting, or clever dialogue (preferably all of them), but Phoenix 2772 contained D) None of above. There are a few movies on this list I watched twice of my own volition just to compare the subtle differences in both the subtitled and dubbed versions, but you couldn't PAY me to rewatch this one. Here is a list of things I would rather do than watch this film ever again:

1) Eat drywall
2) Drink bleach
3) Damn near anything else

This wasn't the worst movie I've watched for one of these ranking projects, but it certainly makes a case for the worst anime*.

*Edit: Hot damn I almost cannot believe there was a worse movie on this list, but I stand corrected. This can't be the worst anime when my #40 exists just to insult me.

Charon: I won't say that I ranked this film last just because the English version is terribly dubbed, though it definitely is by far the worst dubbed film we ended up watching on this list. Even ignoring that though, the plot here is hard to follow and the characters rather hard to care much about. The protagonist spends most of the film being selfish and instantly falls in love with a girl for no discernible reason. He alone definitely wouldn't have made this film last though; it's those awful supporting characters. I mean the interactions between that cleaning obsessed thing and the dice thing are the stuff of nightmares. It's shockingly awful how long it goes on and just how unlikable these characters can be. And then the terrible musical numbers they subject us to for no reason at all. It's unfortunate these guys didn't actually die, though their mere existence probably still would have guaranteed this film the last spot, at least I wouldn't have had to look at them one last time at the end.

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Johnbobb
06/15/20 10:29:29 AM
#7:


Yeah

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Inviso
06/15/20 10:31:56 AM
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I agree with Genny/Charon. The English dub was HOLY SHIT terrible. Soulless, emotionless voice acting across the board there.

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pyresword
06/15/20 10:39:39 AM
#9:


Tag even though I haven't seen a lot of these but let's go A Silent Voice.

Liz and the Blue Bird is a strange inclusion to me. Can you watch that without watching the TV series first? If so I may have to go ahead and do that >.>

Wanting to watch the movie was a major factor in me deciding to finally watch the Hibike Euphonium TV series, because I thought I needed to do that first, but then I stopped halfway through >.>
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Inviso
06/15/20 10:41:24 AM
#10:


There's a TV series?

...how?

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profDEADPOOL
06/15/20 10:41:30 AM
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Tag
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GenesisSaga
06/15/20 10:42:37 AM
#12:


I can't believe two rankers placed that overlong mess outside of their bottom 10. As someone who only put 2772 at 39th that ranking still feels too high! While Olga and Godo were mostly inoffensive the addition of the side characters (other than the old man) was so unnecessary that it was grating whenever they were on screen. Those horrid musical interludes served no purpose and I don't know why they were included because no child would voluntarily watch that movie. And that dice dog is the worst supporting character in this entire project hands down. I think its name was Jack or Jacque or something, but it should have been Jackass instead. Terrible.

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profDEADPOOL
06/15/20 10:42:44 AM
#13:


Inviso posted...
There's a TV series?

...how?

The main two in the film are supporting chars in the TV show, tho as I've not seen either I'm not sure of the exact timeline.
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pyresword
06/15/20 10:43:21 AM
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The two main characters of Liz and the Blue Bird are side characters in the TV series.
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Johnbobb
06/15/20 10:46:40 AM
#15:


Also surprised wickle didn't submit a list in an anime ranking of all things

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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 10:48:08 AM
#16:


pyresword posted...
Liz and the Blue Bird is a strange inclusion to me. Can you watch that without watching the TV series first? If so I may have to go ahead and do that >.>

Wanting to watch the movie was a major factor in me deciding to finally watch the Hibike Euphonium TV series, because I thought I needed to do that first, but then I stopped halfway through >.>

You do not really need to watch the series first

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GenesisSaga
06/15/20 10:49:58 AM
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Johnbobb posted...
Also surprised wickle didn't submit a list in an anime ranking of all things
Two female protagonists on this list have moles so he'd just rank their films 39th and 40th respectively.

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profDEADPOOL
06/15/20 10:52:49 AM
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PrinceKaro posted...
pyresword posted...
Liz and the Blue Bird is a strange inclusion to me. Can you watch that without watching the TV series first? If so I may have to go ahead and do that >.>

Wanting to watch the movie was a major factor in me deciding to finally watch the Hibike Euphonium TV series, because I thought I needed to do that first, but then I stopped halfway through >.>

You do not really need to watch the series first

Yeah I think Viso not even understanding how there's a TV series shows that it's definitely not necessary to watch.
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Inviso
06/15/20 11:09:03 AM
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Johnbobb posted...
Also surprised wickle didn't submit a list in an anime ranking of all things

Wait WHAT?

We JUST talked about this last night, Wickle. >_>

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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 11:39:14 AM
#20:


Outlier:

Jona: 14
Karo: 10
Inviso: 7
Johnbobb: 4
Red: 3
Genny: 1
Charon: 0

in a unusual turn of events, Jona takes outlier lead for what may well be the first time in gauntlet crew ranks history

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Raka_Putra
06/15/20 11:46:24 AM
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Tag!

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06/15/20 11:47:22 AM
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Tag

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VengefulKaelee
06/15/20 12:25:18 PM
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Tag

Sorry I didn't participate this time around, but by the time I remembered it was a thing I needed to do, it was too late. Still looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

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GenesisSaga
06/15/20 12:59:04 PM
#24:


PrinceKaro posted...
Outlier:

Jona: 14
Karo: 10
Inviso: 7
Johnbobb: 4
Red: 3
Genny: 1
Charon: 0

in a unusual turn of events, Jona takes outlier lead for what may well be the first time in gauntlet crew ranks history
After yet another promising start I can hardly wait to gradually take the outlier crown as my fellow rankers' terrible opinions begin to manifest!

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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 2:26:13 PM
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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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v_charon
06/15/20 2:28:42 PM
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Inviso
06/15/20 2:29:41 PM
#27:


And that write-up is for my number 23/40. This was a bumpy fucking ride.

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Johnbobb
06/15/20 2:30:10 PM
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man inviso I really don't know how 17 movies were worse than that trash

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Inviso
06/15/20 2:36:22 PM
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Johnbobb posted...
man inviso I really don't know how 17 movies were worse than that trash

We've already seen one of them listed. And recalled the stark difference of opinion we had with regards to "Bjork Can't Act: The Musical". >_>

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06/15/20 2:38:40 PM
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Inviso posted...
We've already seen one of them listed. And recalled the stark difference of opinion we had with regards to "Bjork Can't Act: The Musical". >_>
I believe the title of that was "Bjork has emotionally traumatized me for life: The Musical"

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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 2:40:58 PM
#31:


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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JONALEON1
06/15/20 2:53:22 PM
#32:


I'll admit to being a bit disappointed that not more people participated in the rankings considering how many participated last time.

PrinceKaro posted...
in a unusual turn of events, Jona takes outlier lead for what may well be the first time in gauntlet crew ranks history

I don't know why I get this false narrative thrown upon me. There's been other topics where I've topped outlier.

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JONALEON1
06/15/20 2:58:02 PM
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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

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PrinceKaro
06/15/20 3:20:38 PM
#34:


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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GenesisSaga
06/15/20 3:23:33 PM
#35:


Inviso posted...
We've already seen one of them listed. And recalled the stark difference of opinion we had with regards to "Bjork Can't Act: The Musical". >_>

Johnbobb posted...
I believe the title of that was "Bjork has emotionally traumatized me for life: The Musical"
Excuse you both, but I believe that film was actually called Bjork Can't Act to Save Her Own Life (Literally) yet Still Somehow Managed to Emotionally Traumatize Me Despite That: The Movie: The Musical

On the subject of THIS last ranking I find it hilarious that two of us mentioned Appleseed looking like PS2 era FMVs because that's oddly specific. I also found it hilarious that some rankers praised the action sequences while others tore it apart, and everyone but Jona thought the CG looked like obsolete trash.

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Johnbobb
06/15/20 3:49:02 PM
#36:


GenesisSaga posted...
I find it hilarious that two of us mentioned Appleseed looking like PS2 era FMVs because that's oddly specific
where's the lie though

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WickIebee
06/15/20 5:11:28 PM
#37:


Inviso posted...
Wait WHAT?

We JUST talked about this last night, Wickle. >_>

For the fun fact, I mentioned the list. I never did mention whether I submitted or not. Which I hadn't, nor had even finished a single movie as of last night.

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GenesisSaga
06/15/20 6:04:40 PM
#38:


One more ranking! One more ranking!!

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v_charon
06/15/20 9:30:05 PM
#39:


I think we need more participation... I'm glad people are still around but we used to have almost double this amount of people in the olden days. While it may not seem like it at the time, I think the lively discussions and arguments that happen were always what made Gauntlet Crew even when it was just gauntlet based. Those disagreements and arguments were always what kept things exciting I think.

PrinceKaro posted...
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.


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Mr Crispy
06/15/20 9:53:54 PM
#40:


I could have sworn I saw some of these ranked before, but I'm probably mistaken.

that's most of the recent standalone animu movies I can think of besides Hell's Angels, though I haven't watched too many recent animu movies so I'm not really familiar with them.
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PrinceKaro
06/16/20 11:03:08 AM
#41:


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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Inviso
06/16/20 11:05:46 AM
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Okay, I'm not gonna complain about this being as low as it is, because as I stated, a good half of the movies on this list were bad (plenty of good, but half were very bad)...but there are some films that DEFINITELY deserve to be lower than this. Even as far as boredom goes...there are some EXTREMELY boring movies on this list that looked a LOT worse than this and had a LOT less actually happen during their lengthy run times.

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PrinceKaro
06/16/20 11:06:49 AM
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Outlier:

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

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GenesisSaga
06/16/20 11:15:06 AM
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Inviso posted...
Okay, I'm not gonna complain ...but

XFD

No, but seriously I feel you. I know at least one of the movies you're talking about and it absolutely deserves to have been #38 far more than Hokusai

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JONALEON1
06/16/20 11:21:05 AM
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Pleasantly surprised by this. Didn't expect my 40 to go out this early.

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GenesisSaga
06/16/20 12:10:31 PM
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It's most unfortunate, but I don't expect my #40 to go out in the bottom 10. If you guys have any good sense or mercy at all it'll go out in the bottom half at least.

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Johnbobb
06/16/20 12:19:03 PM
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I dig Miss Hokusai to a certain extent, but I get people ranking it kinda low.

The only ranking I don't get is JONA's because while Miss Hokusai is flawed, there's some films on this list that absolutely should've fallen below it

The worst of which was Appleseed though

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pyresword
06/16/20 12:19:29 PM
#48:


Oh, Miss Hokusai was actually a movie I'd thought about watching myself. Guess I can...uh...cross it off the list.
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GenesisSaga
06/16/20 2:21:43 PM
#49:


pyresword posted...
Oh, Miss Hokusai was actually a movie I'd thought about watching myself. Guess I can...uh...cross it off the list.
Yeah... If you're really into history give it a shot. Otherwise I'd skip it.

PrinceKaro posted...
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.

How rude btw. I wouldn't go this far. For the most part the movie tried to keep itself grounded in reality, but I think that ended up working against it. Just give me the more fun version where the characters only recount their supernatural encounters with geishas whose necks stretch at night, dragons, and haunted paintings and leave the handsome gigolo and the epilogue out. Seriously, "and then these characters you just watched for over an hour all died miserable and alone. The end!" There's such a thing as too historically accurate and that straddles the line.

Also I agree with Inviso. Whenever O-Ei wasn't with her little sister she was kind of a wet blanket. She wasn't a very fun protagonist, but there are much worse on this list.

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Leafeon13N
06/16/20 2:32:44 PM
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We are down three 40s in 3 spots.
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