did anyone see "metropolis"....

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:13:35 GMT

The praising New York Times review of this movie also mostly focuses on the visuals. I guess there's really no point in going on more and more about how incoherent the story is, because apparently that's not what anyone thinks is good about the movie, anyway. Roeper, on the Ebert and Roeper show, didn't like the movie. He didn't care about the story, either, and (like me) wasn't even that impressed by the visuals.

And, as I said, the visuals slow the movie way...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:23:21 GMT

One of the challenges of art, particularly in a movie setting, is to tell a story without actually telling it. "Show, don't tell" is the phrase associated with that. Far too much of the dialogue is spent explaining stuff. Another example I thought of is when the leader of the human rebellion says that families live three or four to a room in the slums. Why not actually show it? The general idea I got is that the director wanted to show a lot of neat visuals but doesn't think...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:57:18 GMT

Might as well keep the complaint train rolling.

-Why would the whole city celebrate the Ziggurat if only Duke Red and the president know what it's for? It's not like America tried to get the whole country to celebrate the atomic bomb or something before it was used.

-How can the detective not know anything about Metropolis? Doesn't television (or newspapers) exist in this world? I've never been to New York City, but I have some idea of what it's...

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feeds@yuku.com (Amagons brother) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:31:13 GMT

Wow, reading this it sounded vaguely familiar (but not glaringly so), so I went through my stuff and found that I'd bought the anime a few years ago and still haven't gotten around to watching it. Doesn't sound promising.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:42:38 GMT

Of course, Ebert gave this movie four stars. It doesn't surprise me. It seems he doesn't judge animated films by the same standards that he does others. If this was a live action movie, I'm sure he would've noticed some of the problems.

His review is almost entirely focused on the visuals. Well, okay, but Blade Runner had better visuals, was better all around, but Ebert complained about that one.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:19:15 GMT

I remember Akira being very similar in style and deliverance to this movie:

1. Some kids end up running around through sewers under a huge city. They meet up with others from time-to-time. There are chases, they get shot at.

2. The climax of the movie is a scene where all hell breaks loose and this technique is used to build suspense, but I have the same problem with both scenes in both movies. While this shit is happening, you have no idea what it's building up to,...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:57:34 GMT

I'm sorry, but this movie was REALLY bad -- one of the worst I've seen in a while.

FO mentioned the clunky dialogue. Example, Rock calls Duke Red "father", and Duke Red replies, "You idiot! I'm not your father! I just found you as an orphan after the war!" He's not saying that for the benefit of the person he's talking to; he's saying it for the benefit of the audience.

Then there's a robot detective who has no personality...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:27:07 GMT

We saw the Metropolis anime tonight.

It has an interesting art style, but that's about the only really positive thing I can say about it. There's too much expository dialogue and absolutely no emotional attachment to any scenes or characters.

It's also confusing in the sense that characters seem to just happen to be in the right place at the right time a lot. (Example: When the detective finds out where Rock is hiding with the girl.) It's especially...

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feeds@yuku.com (sethrashnoo) — Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:31:37 GMT

I've never heard of either of them, but it sounds interesting.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:04:16 GMT

I must have missed this thread when it first came around...

Anyway, Roger Ebert reviewed Metropolis (the b&w) movie in his "Great Movie" series. Some of the film is still missing, but I recall reading that huge parts of it have recently been restored.

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feeds@yuku.com (James FP) — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:52:51 GMT

It also sounds a lot like Aladdin...

"Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of ranch and creole? Me do!
For we shall take over ze world! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!"
DEATHAMSTER'S NEST!
Featuring James & Junus and...

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feeds@yuku.com (HiRider) — Thu, 23 May 2002 23:27:26 GMT
Hmm... The Subplot of that is the Main plot of the Anime.

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feeds@yuku.com (jupTheSecond) — Thu, 23 May 2002 05:21:48 GMT
I don't know anything about the anime, but the original B/W film was very well done and original...for it's day. The plot seemed to be somewhat complex...up until the last few minutes worth. (Where the film becomes almost impossible to follow, due to the massive amounts of film footage that has forever been lost in the sands of time.) If I remember right, it's all about a society that lives on a floating city in the clouds. And, this society is split into two classes: The small Upper Class...

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feeds@yuku.com (Vincent 2004) — Thu, 23 May 2002 05:06:33 GMT
the anime..

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feeds@yuku.com (HiRider) — Tue, 21 May 2002 23:49:29 GMT
I saw the Anime not to long ago. I liked it.
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feeds@yuku.com (TailsTheFox) — Tue, 21 May 2002 15:45:07 GMT
The old silent movie, or the anime? I want to see both.

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did anyone see "metropolis"....

feeds@yuku.com (Vincent 2004) — Tue, 21 May 2002 13:23:03 GMT
what do you think??..it is not bad to me..