In other news, I finally saw Summer Wars tonight, 5 years after its release. That was some seriously good stuff. I really dug the different animation styles between the cyber world and real world, and the various characters were very well-realized. Fan-service was also largely limited, which I appreciated as a dad since the heroine is a high school student. Also enjoyed the bilingual pun of the AI's name, "Love Machine."
I liked the movie, too. I should probably watch it again, though hearing Dean Venture's voice makes me think that it's all some weird experiment his dad came up with.
I was hoping the Japanese copy would at least have English subtitles; a few of them do, surprisingly; but it was Japanese audio and Japanese subtitles, so I tried to keep up with the language, and mostly vigorously read the subtitles through the whole thing. Probably watch it again with them off, now that I understand what's going on.
Watched Totoro with my daughter today. I got emotional a few times while she hugged me, laughed, roared and smiled.
The BGC hard suits were pretty awesome, and the world was visually aping Blade Runner pretty well, but I can't recall a damned thing about the story.
In other news, I finally saw Summer Wars tonight, 5 years after its release. That was some seriously good stuff. I really dug the different animation styles between the cyber world and real world, and the various characters were very well-realized. Fan-service was also largely limited, which I appreciated as a dad since the heroine is a high school student. Also enjoyed the bilingual pun of the AI's name, "Love Machine."
Likely a better movie than Transcendence will be.
Time to watch Wolf Children and cry BIG DAD TEARS.
Holy shit I was teary eyed.
Yeah, my whole family watched
Wolf Children a couple weeks ago; it was really impressive, and we were torn up by it. It was fascinating to watch the children grow and change.
Great Rumbler's other recommendations, I haven't seen, so I'll line them up!
Man, I have seen
Totoro with each kid SO MANY TIMES NOW. I never get sick of it, but it went from emotionally supercharged to unfortunately a little flat for me. It's pretty super though.