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[Great Rumbler]

Like i said i'm not telling anyone not to like it, all I said is that it (anime) does not follow structured story telling which usually amounts to garbage IMO. You guys all agree that Lain goes way outside the structure of story telling and is trying to be very different.

So every single movie should tell stories in exactly the same way? I'll agree that there are certain things that must be done in order to make a good movie, but if no movies or series ever tried to do anything different it would get really boring! Maybe you're reffering to something else though, but that's not what it sounds like.

For instance: You made reference to flash-backs and acted as if this were a bad thing. In some ways, yes, if it relied on too much as opposed to relying on the actions and emotions of the characters in the present. BUT, a certain anime [Millennium Actress] which tells almost the entire story through flash-backs. However, it's one of the most beautiful anime movies that I've ever seen. It starts out with a reporter talking to an old woman who used to be a famous actress and she tells him her life story through flashbacks interspersed with scenes from her movies. It's really a wonderful movie.

Oh and the way you talk about Lain seems to suggest that it tries to be different and fails, but Lain doesn't fail at all! It tries to be different and IS. Yeah, there are movies and series that try so hard to be different that they fail utterly, but Serial Experiments Lain is not one of them.

However on the imdb message boards people talk about how there are shots where the camera does a slow... really slow pan across the girl's face to show her emotion as she deals with the idea that she's dead and they said it's really overly dramatic and borderline goofy. *shrugs*

IMDB is one of the largest groups of idiots and retards that I've ever seen. Very few people on there know ANYTHING about good movies or what it takes to make a good movie. And people on there constantly bash EVERYTHING. It doesn't matter how good something is [or even how bad] there are people who will bash every aspect. The vast majority of people there have no idea what they're talking about, or will at least act like they don't.

As for these shots they're talking about, yes there are a number of close-ups of Lain's face but I don't think they're unnecessary. Oh, and Lain is most certainly NOT dead.