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Toboe
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Hi, you're wrong. Cutie Honey was 90 minutes but it felt like 8 hours. The "intentionally campy" stuff wound up being really boring. Lame lame lame. |
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Shinji_PG
Posts: 5 Location: Portugal |
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This news has so many typos x.X
Anyway, the Kiichi guys must be drunk, because Casshern is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever saw and it lacks that stupidness/lameness that is present in almost any other japanese action movie (I have saw)  I wouldn't care too much for this wacky awards stuff, altough I feel that I have to comment this, because I just love the movie. Watch it and make your opinions, because I'm preety confident that it will be very different from that Kiichi thing.
ALTHOUGH, the one point that pisses me off is:
Plain crap. It doesn't even make sense. About Devilman or Cutie Honey... I haven't saw them
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Cheesemon
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WTF?! Casshern is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I'm pretty critical with movies. Granted, the first hour can get kinda silly, but the second has some of the most powerful and moving scenes ever filmed. Amazing, amazing ending too.
And I definitely did not see this for Utada. If it was about her, I wouldn't have seen it because the song was probably the only really bad thing about the movie . . |
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the_soultaker
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Ouch! Devilman i can understand, but Casshern? C'mon dammit.
As far as i know that's one of the best Japanese sci-fi movies ever. Casshern was ambitious for what it was and not some '2-HOUR MUSIC VIDEO" . And if you wanna get technical, alot of Japanese sci-fi films that i have seen are laced with cheesy acting and scnarios with B Movie production quality. (Can you say Gunhed,Returner,Versus,Junk and even the awesome Battle Royale?) I suppose those same judges/critics belived Lost in translation was the best "Japanese" Movie of 2003, eh? 
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sinistertaco
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Casshern was garbage.
Really pretty and atmospheric garbage, but garbage. |
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Isaaru
 Posts: 375 Location: the oppressed colonies in outer space |
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hey..thats your opinion. My opinion is not "WRONG." But you can disagree, because the movie was not for you. Just because you found the moving boring doesnt mean the movie sucks. For a movie to suck, you need 1). A bad script 2) lack of artistic style 3) lack of message 4)lack of character 5) terrible dialogue that doesnt fit the tone. 5) mismatched musical score Anyway, if anyone out there loved Cutey Honey, stand up! |
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Cowpunk
Posts: 168 Location: Oakland - near the Newtype Lab |
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If I worked for Dreamworks' publicity department I'd be so tempted to do a tongue-in-cheek press release.
"Cashern was the runner up for the Kiichi Awards! Come and see what all the excitement is about! (The Kiichi Awards are granted each year by a panel of 20 judges, consisting of movie reporters and film critics.)" Still for what I have seen of the movies I'll pass on Devilman and go to Cashern. |
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v1cious
 Posts: 6241 Location: Houston, TX |
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i'm guessing the lack of plot. it takes forever to get anywhere, and the ending's somewhat of a cop out. if you're willing to turn your brain off for awhile, it's a fun movie. |
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deathbringer
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It was definitely the best movie I saw last year. |
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wao
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I'd agree Casshern was pretty much garbage. Sure, they got across what they needed to, but the acting was god-awful, terribly terribly cliche'd plot, really made to much of a big deal about nothing, really confusing directing and most importantly, bored me to hell and back. Very good visuals, but now it's so easy for people to make relatively good visuals, a movie cannot really be good on that.
Of course, some people do enjoy this (hey, I admit to watching GSD...) but I totally believe it was a waste of my time. GOod thing to watch a few bad movies now and then, though. |
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ganzo
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hehe, I wonder what live action they going to do next, can't believe people like casshern and cutie honey, sailor moon one was horrible enough can't believe they then go make cutie honey.
how much money did they put into this, did they even try to make it good, or they just expect someone to like it because it is so bad. I cannot understand how people use campy to cover the fact that the movie is insanely horrible. Let me just put it this way, its simply trash. Casshern, you are going to the same category, overly coated with CG simply trying to please audience visually, nonsense action sequence that make them fly all over the place. These should not be the basis of a movie, yet it is the foundation of this movie. |
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abunai
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 Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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The original news story has: 受賞理由は「出演者があまりにもダイコン」と言う厳しいコメントが寄せられた。 Jushouriyuu wa "Shutsuensha ga amari ni mo daikon" to iu kibishii komento ga yoserareta. Rough translation: "As for the reason for prize-winning, 'The performers were too hammy', as the harsh comment summed it up." A daikon is the large white Japanese radish (Raphanus sativus), also known as Chinese radish. It's normally written 大根, but here it's in katakana. 大根役者 (daikon'yakusha) means "ham actor", so I presume that the meaning of "...too much like a daikon" here is "... too hammy". - abunai |
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Ryusui
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The quip about "radish-like" was meant as a joke, but thanks for elucidating the details...
With that in mind, the intended connotation might be less the same kind of "spirit" conveyed by the daikon from Spirited Away and more the comedic tendency to use a daikon as a bludgeon... "I..." *whacks a guy over the head with his daikon* "am going..." *whacks again* "to save the world!..." *whacks again* They can't help but beat the audience over the heads with...themselves. 
I also have to thank you people for explaining where the name of the awards came from. I encountered "kiichigo" in a Japanese game once: I was going to translate it as "tree strawberry" before I saw it here... |
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T0FFe3m@n
 Posts: 114 Location: Liverpool, England, UK |
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Im a bit confused myself... I though Casshern was fantastic.
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