The Sky Crawlers [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of The Sky Crawlers [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Great production, interesting story, worth it.
Summary: 4 Stars
I love an anime that is well drawn. A well produced anime is rare. The Sky Crawlers is one of those artistic gems. The rendering of the sky, the airplanes, their dog fights was breathtaking. I simply did not think it was possible for an anime to come to rival that of an action film, but it did. Holy gerbil, you got to see to believe it.
The animation of the people, on the other hand, pales in comparison. The story, although engaging, is a bit slow and dull at times.
Overall, watch for the beautifully rendered aerial dog fights and the wonderful propeller fighters/bombers. Skip the rest if you like.
Movie Review: The theme song by Ayaka is gone..
Summary: 4 Stars
The other people's review pretty much said about everything of this film.
The only thing that i feel upset is the theme song by Ayaka is cut out of the US version... :(
FYI:
The theme song title is "Konya mo Hoshi ni Dakarete," and it was meant to be at the end credits, but was replaced by other soundtrack. The song is great and I think the music is part of the movie, so it is a big deal for me :)
Movie Review: The Sky Crawlers - Blu-ray Info
Summary: 3 Stars
Version: U.S.A / Sony / Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / AACS
Running time: 2:01:14
Feature size: 31,260,284,928 bytes
Disc size: 44,461,794,536 bytes
Total bit rate: 34.38 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 23.57 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio Japanese 1532 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1532 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1506 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1506 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Dolby TrueHD Audio Portuguese 1523 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1523 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Subtitles: English (SDH), English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Number of chapters: 16
#Animation Research (HD -31 minutes)
#The Sound Design and Animation (HD - 32 minutes)
#Sky's the Limit (HD - 15 minutes)
#HD Previews
#BD-Live enabled
Movie Review: As brilliantly drawn/rendered, as it was anticlimactic.
Summary: 2 Stars
I watched this in a newly renovated HD theater room in my friend's Park Avenue luxury rental. Even in a perfect acoustic/screen setting, it still couldn't keep any of us interested. My friends and I are not/no-longer huge anime fans like when we where teenagers, but it takes quite a beating to actually bore one of us to sleep. Hay! We were awake through the whole watchman movie! Take about endurance in comparison if you need one to gauge!
The hand-drawn "simple character face, complex background" nostalgic style made world famous by Miyazaki was GREATLY appreciated, but the story of this firm cannot be more fragmented and thrown-together as can be! It felt as if they took a 20 volume comic, truncated it to a feature length in DVD, AND took all the relevant/exciting part out of it.
Not to give the storyline away, what's the deal with introducing a race of pilots that doesn't age with a one-liner and not follow up with it? Moreover, the last 30 minutes leading up to the main character in recon flying off of formation to have a vis-à-vis for a "Darth Vader" moment which was again, interjected by the main character's one-liner, and lasted an anticlimactic 30 seconds if even sans substance? Ugh!
I loved the style and the depth of SOME characters they were able to introduced that made you care for more than the next guy that you know "oh yeah, he's going to die next", but this is truly one of the most boring anime I have seen in quite some time!
If you can afford a calm night over a semi-fine bottle of wine over this on a rainy night, this might perhaps be your second choice if there's nothing else of interest to watch, and you are of mature audience that could appreciate a fine piece of work as far as rendition goes. Yet, I could not recommend this film to any ordinary fans, unless I know they have a penchant toward this sort of slow-as-slug films. To illiterate, this film moves so slowly that if the character said he's going to get out of his chair and kill me at the end of the table of where I sit, I could afford to leave, taxi home, walk my dog, call my wife and hear her complain about JFK's flight delay, have another snack, THEN taxi back to the bar, the guy will still be about 10 feet away trying to encircle the table to get to me.
Side note, I have been off anime since coming out of school for quite some time, but what happened to the anime world? When I was but a child the size of a peanut living in Asia in the late 80s' ... city hunter, saint seiya, fist of the north star, touch, orange road, crap, EVEN the endless tirade of gundams. I could say with ease the last quality anime I watched was Evangelion, and that was more than 10 years ago! I was barely out of high school!
PS: For the ones whom liked this film, I understood, and I am not stepping on your taste. This film is like a fine bottle of white whiskey from Romania (which taste like rice wine), if you like it, you like it.
Back to work after a short break, on sunday of 2:30am ...
Movie Review: Beautiful art direction, boring, staid, and depressing story
Summary: 2 Stars
The art direction on this movie was quite stunning, with an excellent mix of traditional cel-shaded animation and CG rendering. Unfortunately the story was quite lacking, it never progressed beyond the depressing, it rambled and never quite made sense until almost the end. Very little plot was present, instead you see the almost mindless amblings of the main character who never really understands who he is nor what the real purpose of their lives might be. Most of the story (what there is) is very slow paced, while some character development does occur, you never really empathize with those characters nor feed connected to the events in their extremely narrow lives. Attempts to create the back story to the conflict are lacking and never really define why, what the command system is doing to those in the field, and how it's effecting the civilian population, except as a audience for propaganda. All in all little more than a rental, much better anime titles are available (try Howl's Moving Castle, or Spirited Away).