The Sky Crawlers [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of The Sky Crawlers [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Not as good as I'd hoped
Summary: 2 Stars
I was a huge fan of Ghost in the Shell. That film, along with Cowboy Bebop, was what got me into anime.
So imagine my disappointment with Oshii's Sky Crawlers. I wasn't expecting a movie all about air combat, as implied by the title and the excellent opening shootout, but I was expecting something that would hold my attention like a pair of meathooks. What followed was an interesting, but slow-paced and ultimately boring film with a fairly predictable conclusion. If it could be called that.
Oshii's Ghost in the Shell was an intelligent balance of style and substance, action and thought-provoking dialogue. It was one of those movies that stayed with you, gave you something to think about.
The Sky Crawlers attempts to create this same feeling, but I don't feel like it quite made the cut.
Movie Review: Plot Crawlers
Summary: 2 Stars
Sky Crawlers has some interesting Dog Fights and imagery, but little else interesting.
Chris
Movie Review: Slow!
Summary: 2 Stars
This is as slow of a film as I can remember, and then it ends. Save your money.Movie Review: Horrendously Abysmal
Summary: 1 Stars
Here is a movie toted as being the best film by this oh so famous anime creator since Ghost in the Shell, but what we have is a shell of a movie.
It attempts to have a huge meaning, but fails miserably, as the plot just drolls on for most of the movie and barely scrapes the surface of what's going on until the very end. Yes, you do get some clues about the big shocker in the movie, but they are so few that it's hard to piece together anything concrete. To top it off, one character that seems to just be thrown in to try to give the movie an ending drops almost all of the plot right at the end. That's the cheapest route to make an ending when you hit a road block. Insert an odd, out of place character who observes and makes some comments for most of the film and then spills the beans of everything right at the end. When everything was lain out in front of me, I was thinking, "Seriously? This is the best he could come up with?"
The only thing remotely inventive about the plot is what the characters are. And their big enemy? Umm... I'm guessing he watched Star Wars too much, as their enemy is their former teacher. Ooooooh! How "un"predictable.
After watching this movie, all I could think was about how much I was ripped off, and about how there is no doubt in my mind that people would do what happens in the movie and not think anything of it. Yes, Sky Crawlers does have a philosophical plot, but it gets beaten out by single episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig and Hamtaro.
The end seems rushed and it never goes anywhere. Though Oshii claims the characters have changed, the don't change one bit during the movie, only before, and then they revert back to what they were before.
Here's a hint, Oshii: If people decide to do something drastic, there's a high chance they'll do it again as they have already done it before.
The animation is good, except the CGI stands out and takes you out of the movie. The characters are horrible. Oshii tries to make it look like they change while they don't change at all. The dogfights are cool, but the movie is horrendously abysmal.
Sky Crawlers is a good name for this movie, as the movie is crawling ever so slowly to it's demise.
If you want to watch this movie, you should smack yourself in the back of the head and say "No!"
If you want to watch a movie where you also will think "Given the circumstances, people would do this and not care about who (or what) gets hurt," just watch Michael Clayton. It's a much better film, and it's probably cheaper on Blu-ray, too. (Though it doesn't have any dogfights, it does have an exploding car.)
Movie Review: Slow and Boring..
Summary: 1 Stars
Oshii, he specialized in slow movies and obsessive on his passion for the dogs. The movie is a circle without an ending and does not develop. The character is very traumatic and the only way to survivor is fight against peace, a peace that will never come. A rival plane who's impossible to destroy and at the end he will destroy any one who come across his way. The movie did not really impress me; this is "Oshii styled", slow and boring. This movie is nothing like Ghost in the Shell's. The plot does not save the movie at all! I also don't like the design of the characters. I prefer the characters design from the Ghost in the Shell and Jin Roh, Hiroyuki Okiura.