Oh I thought you meant they probably filmed a lot and then cut it all out.
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Rurouni Kenshin - Live Action done right.
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Nah, if they did they probably wouldn't have done the Megumi story the way they did. They completely removed any connection between his past and her job. That was kinda lame imo.
Angelus Errare
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Man I still can't get into Japanese movies, so damn melodramatic. Like damn it people these are not theater plays! post production would be great. I have a few favorite Japanese movies and the one thing I almost immediately notice is blown out lights. My girlfriend complains about the framerate but I don't see the problem. Edit: To be cleat RK doesn't really suffer from the issues I usually associate with Japanese film (well they do over act everything, but for the most part cinematography wise it's much better than vast majority of films that come out Japan). I feel that Japan has been slightly regressive in their cinematography when comparing them to the 80s and 90s. While Korea on the other hand is just flat out amazing in this regard. They started increasing their fim budgets, abandoning the cheap simplistic recording, introduced proper post production, musical scores the complete package. The difference in Korea and Japan's approach to movies is pretty stark, not to say Japan is devoid of good movies, I have quite a few movies from Japan that are my favorites of all time, but in terms of foreign cinema I don't particularly look for anything from Japan unless someone gushes about it (Shinobi while being good suffers from the issues I complain about...and man is the CG hella cheesy). In many ways parts of RK remind me of Korean cinema (the office scene in the beginning)
Same. I also missed Wolf Children, and it was right down the street from me!!
Midway through the Megumi stuff in the manga and I'm liking the adaptation a bit less now that my memory's been refreshed. The movie makes a coherent story despite combining a lot of separate things from the manga at least. Of course, that was the fear ever since the characters were unveiled - that they were putting too many things in and wouldn't have time to flesh all the characters out.
That looked awful. Cutesy, glossy, overly clean, false, disjointed. Music, characters, look and feel. Just terrible. I'd be surprised if this was actually any good.
Wow this movie turned out great! The action was really impressive. The way they lifted things from many different arcs of the manga and put it all into one story was impressive. I was a little bit upset they combined Han'nya and Aoshi into that one ninja guy and also that Saitou Hajime wasn't as badass as he could have been (that Gatotsu was bad lol).
Otherwise as a huge fan of the manga, someone who thinks RuroKen is one of the best series ever made, this movie is pretty darn good. They pretty much nailed the "Welcome home Kenshin" scene too, I was grinning so much at the end.
(Also actress for Kaoru is beautiful)
Otherwise as a huge fan of the manga, someone who thinks RuroKen is one of the best series ever made, this movie is pretty darn good. They pretty much nailed the "Welcome home Kenshin" scene too, I was grinning so much at the end.
(Also actress for Kaoru is beautiful)
I'll bring the plate of crow for you after you see it.
He was spot on. I can't believe how somebody can say the movie was any good. So much bad acting and awful hairdos. First 10 minutes looked kinda awesome but everything after that was more or less lame. I guess the
police station fight was kinda cool
had little to non screen time so I was completely underwhelmed when they were defeated since I had no way telling if they even are any good at fighting. Then again the 1:1 fights were all bad, even the last fight
They should have made it into two parts or cut down 30 or 40 minutes out of it. Make it more basic.
KidA Seven
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I don't think that's going to happen.
DrForester
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I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Wish they hadn't brought in revenge arc characters and kept Aoshi's crew. Guess they didn't want to leave any lose threads in case they didn't get the sequel.
HalfBakedProphet
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this makes never want to see this. Saito is one of my favorite characters, my expectations would be way too high
DrForester
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Saito was acceptable, but I agree, he could have been "cooler"
Shouta
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Eguchi was fine as Saitou. I think the lack of a extended fight scene was kind of the thing as he was mostly being the atmospheric presence character he was up until that fight in the anime.
Movie was quite good overall actually. The revenge arc characters being in there wasn't all that needed but it made the fights amusing to watch. Sano's fight was a lot of fun. A bit less of Kanryu would've been nice but I see why they structured it the way they did. Even the Akabeko characters and the old neighbor guy got into the film which was great.
Movie was quite good overall actually. The revenge arc characters being in there wasn't all that needed but it made the fights amusing to watch. Sano's fight was a lot of fun. A bit less of Kanryu would've been nice but I see why they structured it the way they did. Even the Akabeko characters and the old neighbor guy got into the film which was great.
HalfBakedProphet
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what was wrong with his Gatotsu?
pants
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He flew and he performed it against an unarmed chandelier. The whole scene was stupid
However outside of that Saito was perfectly fine and there is a lot to work with going forward.
HalfBakedProphet
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Wtf? Does he use it at any other point?
RuroKen is favorite shonen manga by a good, green county mile. The littlist of details could really sour me on this
RuroKen is favorite shonen manga by a good, green county mile. The littlist of details could really sour me on this
pants
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No this is the only time he used it, it looked straight out of crouching tiger hidden dragon if the budget for that was $20, pocket lint and some left over gum. It's just not the execution of the move that is silly, it's that it would have been easier to just hit the grounded enemy with it. But whatevs really, his persona in the film was great acrobatics aside.
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