Author Topic: Sky Crawlers Movie (Read 4511 times)

ghostjacker · « **on:** December 09, 2008, 06:43:29 PM »

Just watched this excellent new movie directed by Mamoru Oshii. The Aircraft designs are excellent. Just a note to anyone who is going to watch this in a cinema. Stay till after the credits end. A brief last scene follows.

Chiyachan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2008, 06:52:44 PM »

Out finally? When's it being subbed? My friend has been asking for AGES.

loyal · « **Reply #2 on:** December 10, 2008, 04:46:57 AM »

I have a poster for Skycrawlers somewhere, I had to cancel going to a screening at the last moment and got the poster as a consolation prize.

muthafucka · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2009, 07:13:23 PM »

I just saw the raw get released by QTS, anybody knows which groups will be working on it?

ailailou · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2009, 07:18:52 PM »

THORA made a post on their blog mentioning that they require a translator for the movie. The post was deleted several day ago. I can't remember what source they said they were going to use. I don't know why they would delete the post. There were some user comments, and someone offering to do it, so maybe, they deleted it because they got what they wanted. I may just be speculating though.

macros74 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2009, 07:23:52 PM »

I did see a release today from 今日のSUBS....

dragon191 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2009, 08:45:12 PM »

Quote from: ailailou on March 01, 2009, 07:18:52 PM

THORA made a post on their blog mentioning that they require a translator for the movie. The post was deleted several day ago. I can't remember what source they said they were going to use. I don't know why they would delete the post. There were some user comments, and someone offering to do it, so maybe, they deleted it because they got what they wanted. I may just be speculating though.

I think they got what they wanted judging from comments in IRC:
[18:02] <Vito> adenozin_ecchi, did you manage to get a tl for sky crawlers?
[18:03] <adenozin_ecchi> aye

So I guess we can start looking forward to it :3

HazukiChan · « **Reply #7 on:** March 02, 2009, 06:04:05 AM »

Ohhh I really want to see this.

muthafucka · « **Reply #8 on:** March 02, 2009, 07:25:11 PM »

I was also in the KAA channel, when one of them mentioned if he should grab the raw or someone else already did.. good news, if only DB would get their hands on it it would be even better

muthafucka · « **Reply #9 on:** March 04, 2009, 05:40:09 AM »

Apparently a group called KyouNoSubs just released it. check it on anidb

muthafucka · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2009, 06:54:23 AM »

Thora just released it, now you can enjoy the movie is amazing quality and very competent subs.

Gregar · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2009, 07:53:59 AM »

Its up The Sky Crawlers <-- Link

Frohike · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2009, 05:02:46 PM »

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 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2009, 09:25:14 PM »

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 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2009, 02:08:39 AM »

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

dbml · « **Reply #15 on:** March 13, 2009, 04:50:03 AM »

I just finished watching Sky Crawlers... now I understand why it needs to be viewed a second time. At first, I absolutely hated the ending. But after thinking about it for a bit, I'm beginning to appreciate and understand it more. It's very thought provoking... I guess that's the point. Not sure if I'll be able to watch it again anytime soon, but I certainly will at some point to get the full effect.

quekmeister · « **Reply #16 on:** March 13, 2009, 09:46:44 PM »

The Sky Crawlers is a superb effort by Oshii, and after the convoluted (but pretty) mess that was Innocence, I'm glad he chose a more straightforward way to direct this allegorical tale.

I've just finished watching it, and I was avoiding any threads linked to it like the plague (sorry Camus pun). It is an amazing film, I haven't been moved like that in a long, long time. I really wish I had more to say, at this point, but I'm still feeling a bit dazed from the strength of this movie. I'd say it's the best film of any kind released in quite a while.

wolkec · « **Reply #17 on:** March 13, 2009, 09:57:29 PM »

i didnt like it tho, its much like pandemonium

Lemonking · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2009, 03:16:01 PM »

good news for people that liked this movie

Sky Crawlers' Oshii Plans 1 Anime, 2 Live-Action Films

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Mamoru Oshii, the writer and director known for the Ghost in the Shell films, the Patlabor franchise, and Avalon, has revealed his upcoming film plans at a Friday event to mark the DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases of The Sky Crawlers war romance anime film in Tokyo. He has two live-action feature film plans on standby, which he projected will be released one after another as soon as this fall. He indicates that one of the projects will be aimed at film connoisseurs and will have a penny-pinching budget. The other live-action film project will be an action-adventure epic of "eroticism and violence." Oshii also just started work on a new anime film that, if feasible, he will open in the 2011 timeframe.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-03-13/sky-crawlers-oshii-plans-1-anime-2-live-action-films

quekmeister · « **Reply #19 on:** March 14, 2009, 04:44:33 PM »

Quote from: Lemonking on March 14, 2009, 03:16:01 PM

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The other live-action film project will be an action-adventure epic of "eroticism and violence."

Now how is that different from any of the movies he's done so far? I'm looking forward to it.