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The Boy and the Heron - 6/10 (fine) borderline 7/10 (good) New Ghibli film by Hayao Miyazaki. High production values but doesn't have any super spectacular scenes. Has a forgettable soundtrack which is a first for a Miyazaki movie. I was surprised to learn that Joe Hiashi actually composed the...

After John Wick 2 I was looking forward to seeing the ending. Then the filler movie that was John Wick 3 happened and dampened my enthusiasm. I've heard that John Wick 4 finally gets around to the ending that the second movie promised, but from what I'm reading it wasn't very satisfactory.

I have finished Babylon 5. I find it bizzare that Sheridan doesn't seem to have made more close friends during the 20 years after the show takes place. At the end he only summons a half dozen people from his stint on Babylon 5. Also feels conspicuous that all of them survived the 20 years. Even...

Babylon 5 season 5 episode 16 I find the "let's go to war!" scene to be rather incredible. Sheridan plays a video file of the attack, and the ambassadors just accept it at face value and start crying out to go to war against the Centauri. You'd think that they would have adjourned for at least...

Babylon 5 - S3E17 "War Without End part II".

Code Geass was entertaining enough for me to finish it, but I'm in the "it's overrated" camp. The first season is good up until around episode 22 or 23, when the plot was effectively resolved and the writers had to asspull a way for the story to continue. The second season has to retcon away...

Finished Babylon 5 season 1 It's hard to root for the Earth Alliance when every EA officer that comes to Babylon 5 is an asshole (except for Jeffrey Combs). Sheridan's actor has a nice smile. However, I don't like the main character being recast. I am already loyal to Sinclaire, and it's...

I dropped it. Wouldn't recommend. If you want more mecha anime, then I would recommend watching a few Gundam shows. Gundam: War in the Pocket is a 6 episode OVA and requires no prior knowledge of the setting. The Vision of Escaflowne (tv show) was made by the same studio and features mecha in a...

I mostly liked EoE. Incredible art and animation quality and very bombastic. One of the best fight scenes in anime. The scene of everyone inside NERV being gunned down and flamed sticks with me. The heroes failing to save the world was a refreshing twist, but by after everything is said and...

I have started Babylon 5. Why is the shady black market preying mantis guy allowed on the station? Surely station security knows he exists and is able to locate his hiding spot? Or do they allow him to stay as their point of contact to the criminal underworld?

I thought that the first 3 episodes were okay but after that it became a slog. Almost everyone became unlikeable (I still liked Victor by the end but apparently he ) and the story was moving at a snail's pace, and by the end of the season they were a dozen different plot threads that had been...

Top Gun Maverick - 6/10 (Fine) The raid sequence in the last half hour of the movie is really good. Sadly the rest of the movie isn't. The Penny subplot is awful. The helicopter CGI at the end was pretty bad. Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms 6/10 (fine) The Final Fantasy Tactics...

To be fair (don't know about the tactics used in the actual battles the movie is based on), just because one army learned that lesson doesn't means other would have learned it at the same time. The US learned how bad warfare out in the open with modern rifle capabilities was, but it Britain...

What about shows that explicitly frame the villain protagonist as evil and you're hoping he eventually faces his comeuppance, such as Death Note?

Watched the first Fullmetal Alchemist live action movie. It was... well it started off okay. Then it was getting decent in the middle. Then the last hour of the movie was a literal snooze. fell asleep during the climax. It was that boring. The costumes are okay. Ed's outfit sorta looks like a...

Saw the first 5 episodes of Pacific Rim: The Black First two episodes weren't good, but were passable. Then episode three happened and the show outted itself as The Walking Dead but with Kaiju, where everyone is unlikeable and the real moral is about how humans are the real monsters and blah...

I thought the Castlevania cartoon was pretty mediocre. The protagonist was downright unlikeable. A character doesn't need to have a "flaw" like alcoholism. Most alcoholics can't function as seen in fiction. That doesn't endear the audience to the character. A flaw could be something as simple as...

The first movie is fantastic. I can't put my finger on why, but I don't like the second and especially the third movie anywhere near as much.

Kyoukai Senki/AMAIM The current Sunrise mecha show of the season. It's going for that fairy tale feel that Gundam SEED went for during the latter half of that show. The heroes are "terrorists", which translates into not committing any actual acts of terrorism, but instead doing Boy Scout...

What does the remake offer that the original doesn't? Is the only difference the aesthetics? Are there new arcs? Or does the remake have interesting directing and/or cut out the sophistry that bloated the original series?