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    Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts

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    Image of disatess disatess
    08/31/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Mamoru Oshii `s Assualt girl looks badass ,but I`m a fan of his work , esspecially his animated stuff , Electric Girl looks pretty good as well . now if only I could see them .
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Question: what's with Japanese people and feathered "angel" wings? After 20 years of watching Japanese media products I can state that they are obsessed with them.

    I think that they should stop mocking Western culture, they are losing their identity as a people and, above all, they look ridiculous and many Japanese [specially the old and proud] agree with me in this.

    I don't get this fashion because angels are judeo-christian mythological creatures and, as such, the Japanese's typical fenotypes don't allow them share any differential silent visual traits to the winged entities depicted in Western religious imagery.

    Tom Cruise in Samurai was the Caucasian equivalent to this but he didn't wear the samurai hairdo because the art designer knew he couldn't carry it with honour and, above all, Western sex-appeal.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    08/31/09

    @prometeum:

    I've been wondering about that myself for quite some time now. It's a good question.
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    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    08/31/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    The animated sequences in Electronic Girl remind me of the French sci-fi film Renaissance from a few years ago.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    08/31/09

    @Srynerson:

    That they do!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/31/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    No mention of the awesome River Tam? This post is TOTUL FALE!!!
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    Image of Manuel Jaime Diaz Manuel Jaime Diaz
    08/31/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Being a Spaniard myself, I feel obliged to defend Cyclops against all odds :) I agree it looks like your run-of-the-mill future cop story, but you must also know it has been shot during 4 years on a literal shoe-string budget (the cops' uniforms are just skater gear sewn together! a friend allowed them to paint his basement green for the green-screen shootings!). Can't wait to see the complete 10 minute version, and what could they do with 'just a little' more cash.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Cyclops will be something that will really have to win me over. Im not that convinced. Assault Girls on the other hand looks like great fun. Its like Power Rangers on crack. Another really really good live action film thats been out for a while, that I cant recomend enough is Cashern. Its visually stunning and the story and action is top notch. Check out the trailer. Sorry its slightly low in quality, but its the best subtitled one I could find.....
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    Image of finalxnoodles finalxnoodles
    08/31/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard):
    casshern live action sucked, it didnt have enough killing robots
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    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) promoted this comment finalxnoodles was starred finalxnoodles was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    08/31/09

    @finalxnoodles: Clearly we dont see eye to eye on this one!!
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    08/31/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Funny, I was thinking of CASSHERN myself when I watched the trailers. Very similar styles with the mixture of live action and animation.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Meisa is gorgeous. (She is Japanese and Brazilian btw.) I am going to watch this just to see her!

    Thanks Meredith for posting these clips! =)
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    Image of Anekanta - Space Hippy! Anekanta - Space Hippy!
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Please do keep us posted on these. They all look reasonably awesome. Anti-Cyborg cops (at least that's what I think was going on in Cyclops), anime chicks with assault weaponry, and stylized animated violence in Electronic girl...

    Dark Lurking you can keep (don't really need another survival-horror gorefest), but these others look pretty cool.
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    Image of kosai kosai
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    These look amazing especially Assault Girls, but Dark Lurking looks terrible if that scene is anything like the rest of the movie. I think you have a thing for some cheesy special effects Meredith.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Okay. Assault Girls looks very impressive.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    What I like about all of these is that directors in other countries aren't completely ensnared by the lie of CGI. It seems like all of these use more practical effects and miniatures than CGI.
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    Image of EthanRing EthanRing
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    yeah, robot slavery makes so much sense. It's not like human slavery hasn't proved to end with human masters justifiably murdered by their victims.
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    08/30/09

    @EthanRing: wait, that's why slavery is bad?
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    Image of AshThePirate AshThePirate
    08/30/09

    In reply to Oshi's Winged Female Hunters Slay The Futuristic Graboids, And Our Hearts
    Are sand whales related to sand worms and trout?
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    CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) promoted this comment AshThePirate was starred AshThePirate was unstarred
    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    08/30/09

    @AshThePirate: Yes. And the Japanese prefer sand whale over worm.

    Especially raw.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    08/05/09

    In reply to The Orphanage Gets an English-Language Remake — But Why?
    NNNOOOOOOOOO!!! they`ll screw it up !!!
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    08/05/09

    In reply to The Orphanage Gets an English-Language Remake — But Why?
    I don't know why anyone is surprised, everything in hollywood is a remake these days. They've remade Japanese/Korean horror so why not this one?

    Heck, even "The Magic Roundabout" which was an animated cartoon from the UK (and was in english) got dubbed (and renamed "Doogal") just so it would sound American.
    Its ridiculous.
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