Appleseed the movie

[cerusee]

I tried to watch the Appleseed movie. I got all of twenty minutes into it before I was forced to choose between turning it off or stabbing my eyes out with with the pens I use to hold my hair up in a bun. I wish a lifetime of pain on whatever wretch decided 3D animation was the wave of the future. The animation was hideous. It was like have your eyeballs painted with Barbie dolls.

And why do movies made from Shirow works have no sense of humor? Do they hire scriptwriters to sift through the source material and strip every remotely humorous line of dialogue or visual joke? I think I knew I wasn't going to be able to sit through the movie when Deunan sleeping on the floor was played for pathos. (In the manga, it's funny, dammit. Cynical and used to indicate that she's cautious to the point of paranoia--you can take the soldier out of the war zone, but you can't take the war zone out of the soldier--but funny.)

If not for GITS SAC, I'd think Masamune Shirow was the Alan Moore of Japan: doomed to have no really satisfying cinematic adaptations of his works. Except with cyperpunk instead of occultism and literary references.

Comments

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think I might not be a movie person.

What do you want for Christmas?

OT

[octopedingenue]

FYI, last weekend I put in the special order for the PSoH artbook (with the $45 price limit attached). I'll let you know when I hear back. :)

Re: OT

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Yay! I will try to budget accordingly.