I love Darkside Blues. It's so random and bizarre. And bluesy. Yes, the storylines were seldom connected and the characters sometimes seemed as if they were spliced in from totally different animes, but, to me, it all blended in together and created a world and a mood and an idea that encompassed so much more than just the weight of each individual character and plot. It did away with the usual format and gave us something above and beyond and between. I loved it.
I must admit Baccano would like to have a word with you on the notion that we need a "main character". Really, it opens up with a discussion on the subject. However I do get your point. We focus on people for prolonged periods of time that have little to do with the events going on, and few people if any grow as a person. This is unlike Baccano where you could argue almost everyone that we focus on grows in some respect.
I caught myself thinking @ 7:07 "How is the chick that's being turned into gold still alive and able to breathe as... the flying... horses... FUCK IT!"
He really does fit into a Neil Gaiman role. Because in every book he's ever written there's at least one plot crucial character wearing jet black, and being a stone cold motherfucker. Seriously. Dream, Shadow, Silas, Septimus, Cat, himself, it never stops.
I meant the heavy metal / langoliers/ possibly it and the one where weird space radiation makes everyone smart ps love the film adaptions of the green mile and the shining in case you think I'm a hater Also cause the libel law works differently in the UK you insult somebody or they feel defamed you have to prove you didn't In the states you can state something as opinion and only have somebody sue if untrue or malicious I heard he drank during the seventies and did cocaine on RU-vid but I got from comments on here and didn't want to defame a good writer with untrue or seemingly malicious comments Just thought knowing the figure is tall and bespectacled like king and gaunt ( talk and thin) he could almost be a caricature like the character sage nicknamed Neil gaiman
Oh, I see. You can also add Cujo to that. He's stated in interviews that he was really high on cocain when he wrote it, to the point that he's said, "It's tense as hell. I wish I could remember writing it." I'm a fan of some of Stephen King's work. When he's good, he's good. When he's bad, it's like having teeth pulled.
cheezemonkeyeater i admit ive only seen the film adaptions of the green mile and the shining so im not able to criiticse his literary work but in reponse to his adaption of it some of the people who watched the nostalgia critic review suggested that and other adaptions such as heavy metal and the langoliers were kinda awful and the source material itself might be flawed in part with one commentator mentioning apparently king himself apologised for the sheer craziness in it eg elements that seemed out of place
This is just a classic tale of trying to shove a series of books into the time frame of a theatrical film. I don't hate it, and I love Hideyuki Kikuchi
Except it’s not. It’s actually adapting a two volume manga, and does so perfectly. The issue is that said manga was basically just an inversion of Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Demon City series… and basically just achieved the same end result through opposite means.
If you're still wondering about that frame at 5:32, here's a tip (for those on a computer or laptop): pause then press , or . on the keyboard. This moves the video frame by frame, so there isn't anymore worrying about missing a hidden message.
The only time I remember anyone ever doing the whole "13th hour" thing right was in Castlevania Nocturne/Symphony. The clock is normal, everything is normal, the hands turn and point normally, the bell tolls normally... but one too many times.
Used to see this when Encore Action used to have an anime section along with such titles as Tokyo Babylon. I can admit it wasn't always the best but in that time you had to take what you could get. It was the 2000s then.
I bought this video about 20 years ago from a dying video store thinking, "I have no anime". That was the last anime I bought, thinking after I watched it several times, "I guess I'm too dumb for anime." Well, anime, the score is even now.
I saw this show long ago, along with A Wind Called Amnesia (which was also confusing as hell} and completely forgot I ever watched it. What set off mymemoru was the guy strolling in with the Horse and Carriage. You know a movie is bad when you forget all about it as soon as you watch it. Shows the impression it left.
having watched it (I worked at a video store with a sizable anime section, back when video stores existed) it's more like the insane ramblings of the Ultimate Warrior comics.
2:14 The nail in the hand Jesus thing is probably more accurate but I get the feeling that Roy is so desperate to feel anything that he's willing to do anything. But I'm probably wrong.
Yeah when I bought this on VHS (still got it) I was disappointed by the lack of any plot after watching it. The parts I recall enjoying was the song and the red headed assassin flirting with Darkside. I think the tag on the cover said something about the first Vampire Hunter D movie and boy, should I have known better.
Ah, this ones giving me flashbacks to my college's anime club back in 2001. Yeah, watched a LOT of bad, bad stuff back then (surprisingly little of which involved DBZ!).
To answer the Blade Runner question, I thought of the juxtaposition of one character who's hand is in a great deal of pain wishing to alleviate the damage to his hand while the other is purposely wounding his hand in order to feel pain. One is suffering due to his humanity while the other wants the very thing the other wants to rid himself of. Also, if the good guys can shoot down a damn satellite with a MISSILE MADE OF TIN AND CARDBOARD, and has a guy that can REDIRECT RPG SHELLS WITH A KNIFE, HOW IN THE HELL ARE THEY BEING RULED OVER BY PERSONA??? The fucking A-Team would call bullshit on that, and they pulled off a prison break using lawn chairs, trash bags and hair dryers! What the actual fuck?
Yeah early animes were a mess for plots especially this one. Remember seeing this in early 2000's on Encore Action channel. Kinda liked it but knew something was missing.
its more like he took the already tied up physics of the world from the anime that shall not be mentioned, and then decided to have his way with even more than the other guys did with it..
Oh wow you managed to make a 25 minute video on Darkside Blues. Making something from nothing there. I bought that stinker and watched it and just assumed it had to have been a mangled retelling or extended special episode with extra shit stuffed into it. Also thank the powers on high for frame by frame stepping.
That part where he says "check this shit out", is just a guy putting two fingers through his pants zipper and pointing them at Sage. It's kind of weird though that the fingers are white, but his arm is black.
While I will freely admit that there is not much plot in Darksider Blues, I still question one of your criticisms that you have brought up multiple times in this review: Why does it need a main character anyway? What if all the characters are the main characters?
Thrano It's possible to do it, Game of Thrones does it, but your story actually have to have a point, and each character on it need to have some relevance to what's going on.
While that is possible, there still needs to be some kind of story being told. You can have multiple characters be the MC, but they all have to contribute either to the main story as a whole, or their own personal story that has meaning to them. That way, the audience has something to attach their interest to, and thus feel for and enjoy. This....abomination doesn't even have a coherent enough main story to care about. In the words of Lyle McDouchebag "Every character is just some guy and nothing even matters."
I watched Apocalypse Now for the first time last night, wake up this morning to see a new video by you, within the first minute there is a scene from the film.
I remember watching this on Stars-Action "Anime Saturdays". It was a trip when I saw it when was between 10-13. (in fact a large number of Anime you review I saw on that or that Sci-Fi Saturday morning Anime blocks) I even thought for real that you can just buy land from the U.N. cause of this Anime!
The way to look at this movie is every event is seen from a security camera or a third person. Definitely one of the more avant-garde anime movies. It would be third person limited, because the characters no more than the audience kind of like just one part of a Quentin Tarantino movie.
