REDLINE

[RegalSin]

My opinion...........

Commercial rubbish. The moment I read Redline, I thought about the auwsome film that did not have cars. Instead you showed us an animation which features pop-art simular to viewtiful, but with no shadows ( note the skin textures ), and characters that scream F-zero. In fact was their not a F-zero animation already??? I know their is a comic out their somewhere. Did I mention it is probably a prodigy of the same film that had cars, but being animated could have nothing to do with it.

It reminds me of the recently animated "Level E". The comic was released around the same year as "Men In Black". Same exact world but they have a differnt story. I bet it is a prodigy of "Redline" the racer film.

It is nothing in comparison to Akira. Akira was Present Day. Akira even had a whole entire series behind it. This thing does not even touch Tri-gun.

Speaking of Redline, this is the auwsome film I was thinking about
That is Redline

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Not even looking at the FF7 preview, because it is going to be bleh.

[SignOfZeta]

To your average shithead, it's just as good as Akira. That guy up there who only like Ghost in the Shell, one of the greatest and most cerebral scifi epic series of all time, because it has "boobs Nd guns" or whatever...to guys that that, this is just as good.

I can totally get behind superficial anime (Birth, 5555, Five Star Stories, Iczer, MADOX) I'm just saying that, for those that choose, there is more to it than that.

[Burnt Lasagna]

To your average shithead, it's just as good as Akira.

Okay guys, I’m sorry I compared this to Akira/ brought it up in the first place.
Didn’t think it would cause so much controversy.

[Ji-L87]

MADOX.

YES. Yes.

It's all kind of pointless, stupid even, but I love it.

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, MADOX was basically a real of really cool animations strung together with zero plot. It never for a second pretended to be anything else, and I love it for that. A lot of OVAs were like that. "I want to see cool shit happen, but nobody will front the funds for a film or TV series. Also, we will need 10x the money per cut than usual." This is how we got Megazone and Bubblegun Crisis and stuff like that. People would shell out 9800 yen for a half hour and get something awesome as hell.

[Ji-L87]

People would shell out 9800 yen for a half hour and get something awesome as hell.

Yeah, which reminds me that Japan's pricing for anime has always been pretty aggressive. Their DVDs & Blurays are still mad expensive. Speaking of which, I think I saw BGC released for Blu-Ray on Amazon jp or something the other day. Was very temped, but I'd rather collect the series on LD first  :-"

I would love to further derail this thread talking about sweet OVAs but I will try to return to the subject a little bit.
I will admit not having watched too many anime movies (many that I should see, I know) but it feels a bit like, I don't know, the anime movie has more in common with all those bad ass OVAs and such than all recent TV series. I know I'm repeating myself from the first page by saying this, but I feel that the anime industry has managed to paint itself in a corner. And can really REDLINE change that in any way...? 

...probably not. There's not just enough of "those kind of fans", I think. If you've watched Otaku no Video, you know that guy who got worked up about how real the animation was, who managed to secure actual animation cells and design documents - that's the kind of fan who would love, for example, MADOX or BGC. But right now, most fans seems to be the guy wearing the Fate-chan t-shirt, sitting in his Fate-chan decorated room filled with Fate-chan merchandise.

Gee, I think I derailed it again. Oops.