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Forum - View topicREVIEW: Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
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Nerv1
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I was hoping for this to be an alternate retelling, but since its just a shortened version of the show's second arc, I'll have to pass.
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Shay Guy
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Well, same plot points, but they happen differently. The absolutely insane revamped final battle especially, like the review said, is really worth it all by itself. (Plus a certain extra scene in the battle against the Cathedral Terra.
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ArsenicSteel
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Thanks for at least finding a way to grade the sub. Even though comments about the sub were not included in the review.
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Son-kun
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The last few episodes of Gurren Lagann, while awesome, were also seizure inducing. I don't think I ever got a headache as much as watching those last episodes, so thinking that the movie outdoes even that, is pretty surreal.
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Splitter
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I liked the movie well enough, but "hey, remember that huge battle finale? Let's make it BIGGER!" doesn't equate to more epic, meaningful, and/or potent than the original. It's just bigger. |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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From the sounds of it, the ending will still leave me feeling depressed. While I love Gurren Lagann (I'm currently watching it again, as a matter of fact), the way it ends always leaves me with an ache in my heart.
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belvadeer
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Wouldn't be the first time I've seen something as big as the universe. In fact, I've seen bigger X3 |
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LagannImpact
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It would seem that way, although maybe the reviewer just decided to be vague about that? We'll see... |
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mckg1
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I also thought the ending was sad. i liked the show alot but i dont know if i should buy this or not.
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configspace
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If you've seen the TV, can you just skip right through to the ending then? If so, about where? last quarter or so?
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DarkCyradis
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Dude, excellent review!
Mr. Santos, I am impressed. Glad that ANN (and anime in general) has some excellent review writers who write well and really "get" what elements are really important in reviewing the anime and manga genres specifically, rather than as live-action films or American graphic novels. thanks for the review! |
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gwern
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That's what she said. |
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MaxSouth
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(I have not found specific thread for this anime, so review's one if perfectly enough to make a comment; no point to create new separate thread for that.)
This anime with its over-the-top sound, visual effects, transformations, poses, flashes, super-moves, cutesy mole and cheesy scenes is childish. Pony-tail guy turned out to be spoiler[hideous person. To pronounce the drill-guy guilty and even sentence him to death is one thing, but to have a honest intention to actually kill him as an execution of sentence is another. "Care for humanity" can not be en excuse, because there was no need to actually kill drill-guy as pony-tail wanted to. Yet authors basically make no big deal of that and expect viewers to go along with the whole "pony-tail is still actually good guy" nonsense.] There is also fake drama and heroism with spoiler[eyebrows guy, who went to destroy gravitation mechanism in a subspace of bad aliens. His transformer was the most resistant one so there was no other choice, and if he would not go then he would die anyway as whoever else who would try to do the job would not succeed due to lack of transformer's resistance. That said, it brings even bigger issue of whole "sci-fi"/"mecha" genre: the need of a pilot -- which is ridiculous nonsense in the first place.] Whole concept is not believable within given settings, because spoiler[Spiral king would explain to the underground people like drill-boy why they are underground, so the boy would not actually want to kill the Spiral king, and the boy would not get support from any sane person even if he still would want to do with suicidal-for-humanity action.] That said, this is still an fine anime overall. |
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