1st September 2005, 6:48 PM
Quote:Thank you for repeating what I said.
Actually I took your quote and turned it back on you by showing that American film-making isn't really better than Japanese film-making. There are bad movies and good movies, if you focus on the bad it looks like there isn't anything good to watch [something a lot of people say about American movies], but really you just have to look beyond what's at the surface [i.e. what's popular at the moment].
Quote:ergo "Bad story telling". as a writer if you have to use a flashback to explain something, you're not doing your job. Though in his defense, the director could have chosen a flashback sequence to speed the film up and add a sense of intrigue on purpose. I dunno, but I know that the last thing you want to do is confuse your audience by introducing motives with no... motives and then try to fix it all with a plot hole band-aid (Aka 'flashback')
Well, I thought it worked well for what it was doing. The series had been building toward such a scene for several episodes, the sense of something big happening in the past had been bantied around for a while though none of the characters had been willing to discuss it until the middles of the series, when events made it relevant for the main character [and the audience] to know just what it was that happened. And instead of being "confusing" it actually made a lot of sense and revealed a side to character that had only been hinted at somewhat until then. I don't know, maybe you would have having that in there, but I thought it was important because it brought about on the key turning points in the series.
Quote:Read my post again. I only compared the ratio, not the content.
Like I said, it's the same in every region. You've also got to realize that anime is nowhere near as big here as American film-making so much of what does get over here are series or movies that the big companies believe are commerically viable so you end up getting animes that are popular with the kids but don't really have any redeming values for people looking for something of more substance. Now of course that's not to say that companies won't take chances with animes that for more niche audiences, but not as much as you might see with American movies given the number of movies released in a year. So if the ratio of bad to good animes seems unreasonably high compared to other things, you might want to take that into consideration. And as I've said before, the good animes are out there you just have to look for them.
Quote:Like I said, agree to disagree, I really cant continue the discussion on the level that I want to take it to.
Don't worry, lazy, if you say something that I'm not intelligent or educated enough to comprehend, I'll simply ignore it. :)
Sometimes you get the scorpion.