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dcudney:
This movie left me feeling "Meh" about it.

A lot of hype over this, and if it was more so put on the quality of animation over the plot/script then i'd have to agree.

Thats not the case so....meh  :-\

bobjoe:
I don't know what is going on in this thread. When I saw it, most of what I had heard about it was that it was boring and frustrating, not that it was the best movie ever, and you know what I thought when I saw it? "That was almost the best movie ever"

I was teetering on the edge of full blown tears (and I haven't ever actually cried to an anime so far in my anime career) since the end of the first section, and if there had been one single actual tragic event, I would have been absolutely sobbing. Now, all of us who saw it know that Shinkai didn't choose to take the "soap opera tragedy" route, so it ended up just being melancholy and not pound-you-in-the-heart tragic, but it still manages to give me goosebumps every time I think of it.

I'm just rather surprised that so many people didn't get it. At least we can all agree when it comes to the beautiful art...

tl;dr, it was by no means perfect, but it is still one of my favorites.

dbml:
I hated it. The amazing art doesn't make up for everything that it lacked. It was deadpan as hell, I didn't feel any emotion whatsoever. I wouldn't even call it light drama, it was completely flat. And I couldn't feel anything for the characters because of it.

lStealtherl:
My favourite Makoto Shinkai work. Most of his work has little dialogue, and if you like spectacular characters and stories, no doubt you will find it boring. All of Makoto Shinkai's works can be described as visual poetry, and it's the insignificant matters and small nuances that create emotions (as opposed to a war going on in both Voices of a Distant Star and Beyond the Clouds. Those are arguably the "bigger matters", but what creates emotion is the "petty bond" between two people. Nothing has changed with that in 5 cm/s, it's just that the sci-fi setting doesn't exist anymore. If you enjoyed his previous works because of this element I'm in awe :o). Because I didn't find it emotionless at all, quite the opposite. I was sucked in pretty quickly, and it ended before I noticed.

Of course people can find it boring because nothing on a bigger scale ever happens, but I found it very good, and it's among my favourite movies/OVA (rated it 9/10).

Havoc10K:
l for once liked it, artwork is great, sound is perfect, and the story is interesting, altough l don't like the ending l understand the whole story completely, if it ended differently it would be a waste, really, you have to check if yo uactually watched it from the correct point of view, you guys probably expected something romantic and cute, but this is a melodrama with a really interesting point in the world.

btw, who was the VA for Akari ? l have this weird feeling l heard her quite a lot.

in over all this is a great story, presented in a great way with superb artwork. you have to grow some life experience to actually be able to understand it and enjoy it a little,

my favorite episode however was the first one, but l belive tha tif the story would allow, and they persisted, (click to show/hide)they would eventually be together.
(click to show/hide)if i understand correctly, Akari was to be wed by arranged marriage ? it seemd that way to me, not like she does not accept the fact, l think she gave up on him some time ago, but still loves him, it's kinda sad they wanted to be together but Fate itself threw every possible log at their feet.
if youre mature enough l recommend this movie :]

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