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Sky Crawlers Movie
muthafucka:
Thora just released it, now you can enjoy the movie is amazing quality and very competent subs.
Gregar:
Its up The Sky Crawlers <-- Link
Frohike:
About half-way through... It's alright. The production is extremely polished and the dogfights are amazing.
The characters are oddly vacant and non-sympathetic. Lots and lots of "significantly empty" stares in this movie. I'm sure they're supposed to be significant in some way, but they all come off as robotic. And the writing is really stiff, which makes it hard to get a feel for personalities.
I'll withhold judgment until I'm done, but this isn't grabbing me so far. Too cold.
muthafucka:
I said it already in the torrent comment section, watch it a second time, you'll appreciate the depth of the screenplay. The stares as you put it that make no meaning will make much more the second time, same thing goes for a lot of the dialogue. This is actually one of the finer Oshii films, not so much philosophy quotes copied and pasted like, well let's be honest all his work, more like a fine study of humanity. Reminds me of the older sci-fi novels.. well it is an adaptation of a novel perhaps that's why.
Frohike:
After completing it, I agree. This definitely warrants another viewing, which is curiously (and I think rather purposefully) appropriate considering the theme of recursive lives. It definitely had me thinking...
The Camus reference at the beginning of the film is very indicative of the tone this story, by the way, which I think shares more than a few resonances with The Stranger ;)
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