Re: Review: Appleseed: Ex Machina.

Justin Palmer(justin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Appleseed: Ex Machina

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>    And then it all starts to go wrong. One of the things I liked 
> about the manga was the character of Briareos, who might be a 
> special-ops trained ass-kicking cyborg combat machine, but one (I 
> always felt) with the heart of a philosopher. In the manga, he 
> always acted as a calmer counterpoint to the explosively impulsive 
> Deunan. It saddens me to see him reduced in this film to your 
> typical angry shouty punch-holes-through-walls bad dude.
> 
>     Don't even get me started on Deunan. In the manga Deunan is 
> the product of a more complicated biological history than malaria. 
> It would have been nice if  this could have been reflected just a 
> little in the choice of voice. I realise that shes never going to 
> sound like she does in my head [1] but then she never sounds like 
> a valley girl there.

Ooohh, I hate it when they change the character of the characters.

> This isn't to say the dubbing is bad - its actually pretty good. 
> Yet... its 2008, Warner Brothers. We have DVDs now? You may have 
> heard of them? You can have multiple language tracks now. Yeah, 
> thats pretty neat. So could we please have the Japanese language 
> track next time? 

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Er... According to AOD this DVD has English, Japanese, Chinese, ****tuguese
and
French languages and English, ****tuguese and Chinese subtitles.
http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/7002.php

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>     I know that this sounds like I hated Ex Machina - I didn't. 
> I'm just disappointed. If only as much thought had gone into the 
> story as those beautiful visuals, we could have that perfect 
> Appleseed movie. For now, we'll just have to settle for volumes 
> one to four.

I think the problem is that ****row puts so much detail and background into
the
storyline of Appleseed that it's going to be very difficult to do the
story
justice.  And sometimes I think that film makers are so keen to produce a
film
with awesome and stunning visuals that they completely forget about the
story.



== Peter ==
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