Hey guys?
It's later.
And I finally went to see it.
I loved the visuals. I loved the physicality of it all.
But I feel like they copped out on the story line.
Now, I get that sometimes you wanna forge your own path. Really, I do. But if that's your aim, then aping the story line from the only-somewhat-more-obscure OVA is not what you do.
I thought that it was just going to be borrowing a few elements from the OVA.
Nope.
It's more like they used everything from the OVA, and just borrowed elements from the manga to fill in a few gaps.
It's honestly disappointing, really, because they've pretty much screwed themselves for the possibility of sequels. Because from this point onward, NOTHING FROM THE MANGA WILL APPLY.
They did get the looks right. And they got the basic feel of everything right. The humanity of it all. This is the part the Yukito Kishiro loved. And now, having seen the movie, I think that he said what he said about it because, if nothing else, they at least nailed that part.
But I guess I'm nowhere nearly as forgiving. Because if they do any future movies - and they will, because this was hugely successful and they left pretty much as big of a plothook for the next one as you can have without going like this:
Anywho, if they do any future movies, it's going to be with a story that is completely new.
And there they run the very real risk of losing their way with this.
It's later.
And I finally went to see it.
I loved the visuals. I loved the physicality of it all.
But I feel like they copped out on the story line.
Now, I get that sometimes you wanna forge your own path. Really, I do. But if that's your aim, then aping the story line from the only-somewhat-more-obscure OVA is not what you do.
I thought that it was just going to be borrowing a few elements from the OVA.
Nope.
It's more like they used everything from the OVA, and just borrowed elements from the manga to fill in a few gaps.
It's honestly disappointing, really, because they've pretty much screwed themselves for the possibility of sequels. Because from this point onward, NOTHING FROM THE MANGA WILL APPLY.
They did get the looks right. And they got the basic feel of everything right. The humanity of it all. This is the part the Yukito Kishiro loved. And now, having seen the movie, I think that he said what he said about it because, if nothing else, they at least nailed that part.
But I guess I'm nowhere nearly as forgiving. Because if they do any future movies - and they will, because this was hugely successful and they left pretty much as big of a plothook for the next one as you can have without going like this:
Anywho, if they do any future movies, it's going to be with a story that is completely new.
And there they run the very real risk of losing their way with this.