29th August 2005, 10:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 29th August 2005, 11:04 AM by Great Rumbler.)
Quote:-High visual value
That's not exactly a down side.
Quote:-Little to no character development
If you call Lain's quest of self-discovery through a global network [and breakdown in the physical world] where she is forced to face the reality of her existence, little to no character development, then I suppose yes. Several other characters get some time as well, but most of them are purposefully distant to show how isolated Lain was in the "real" world.
Quote:-Over the top action sequences and/or plot in place of actual story content
Lain features virutally NO action scenes ANYWHERE, and if you think the series is just a bunch of random scenes thrown together with no cohesion you don't really know that much about it.
Quote:-Me-too cookie-cutter bullshit that is directly comparable to any anime that was ever made and continues the tradition "Isn't this cool?" without actually having a real story progression
You can't just read a short summary of a series and then pretend to know exactly what it's about and what happens in the series. I've seen it twice so don't try to tell me what Serial Experiments Lain is.
Also a lot of that was a summary of the first DISC and some is the first EPISODE. The entire series is 12 episodes, the first disc has four.
Quote:GR you have not been through film school so while you can argue the validity of anime's good points to me you cannot continue a debate with me based on the more advanced understandings of film making to include direction, motivation, writing and structure. Yes, there are exceptions to every rule, yes some anime is just damn cool. But it is all, in comparison to any good movie that obeys the guidelines of story telling, convoluted trite bullshit that only makes sense to children who dont have any grasp of what an adult is and how the adult ID is formed. Perhaps, anime is trying to be experimental in that sense, but it comes off as ridiculous hyper-visual krap with little character development.
I would not presume to know a lot about cinematography or set design or anything like that, but I've seen many of the highs and lows of anime as well as the highs and lows of many of the different decades and eras of American and international cinema so I feel at least somewhat qualified to tell if something does or does not have a good story or good character developemt. So, I WILL debate the qualifications of anime with you at anytime you want.
Oh, and if you're looking for good reviews of ANYTHING for the love of God DO NOT go to Amazon.com.
One more thing, I seriously doubt a child could understand what Serial Experiments Lain is really about.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.