I went on a Mycocaine bender recently and watched that, the Italian Job, What's It All About Alfie? etc. he was a load of fun in the 60s.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
a... "mycocaine bender"?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
all the kids are doing it
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol thats not even on google, what are you talking about dude
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
think phonetically
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
say it out loud, lol
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
genius
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
homonyms yo
xp
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh jesus
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ thats not even on google
What's It All About Alfie? etc.
Did you just watch Alfie or pull out all the stops on the theme a la Cilla Black and Cher?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's a helluva drug
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
i was assuming "mycocaine" was some sort of streaming video site, lol
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol just the movie. abortion subplot was a bit 0_0
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/akira.jpg
#51
AKIRA
Katsuhiro Otomo1988Japan(225 points, 8 votes)
the comic helped but the film was huge, i remember seeing it with a friend and then afterward the two of us deciding we would get 'tetsuo' and 'kaneda' (sic?) vanity tags (we were fifteen, very very ready to drive, and had heard vanity tags were only like fifteen bucks more and hence couldn't figure out why EVERYONE didn't have vanity tags) and then arguing who whould get what. i haven't seen it since high school so i have no idea how well it's held up but it was huge at the time.
― j blount (papa la bas)
i agree that it's a plus when anime doesn't take itself too seriouly. i've lost my tolerance for retarded cosmology and convoluted hierarchies in my shit. i just want laffs n dope animation, maybe a wee bit of the old ultraviolence. which reminds me--watching Akira last night on dvd it was significantly gorier than what i remember from my youth.
― ian
Akira: Classic Or Dud?
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
the music in akira is so dope
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fVhJC.jpg
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the akira sdtk is one of my all time fav albums period
its an incredible movie too. one of only a few anime features i wouldve voted for
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
lol xp
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
only animated movie i voted for
been way too long since i voted for it
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
i mean saw it
basically not one week goes by where i dont say KANEEDDAAAAA HEELLLPP MEEEEEEE out loud to someone
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
like if i told you this was from an action movie and played it w/o showing you what it was from you'd want to see that movie no matter whathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-wv4pFodIQ
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I have never stayed awake all the way through Akira. :( Think I've tried to watch it 3x?? I should try again w more caffeine.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
love akira
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
akira looks and sounds as dope as blade runner which is about as high praise as i personally can give a movie
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
in some ways I feel like the best action movies are animated, cuz you can control how the action occurs in exact detail
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
thats cheating tho
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol akira
― (_()_) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, shit. I don't think Akira would've ever occurred to me if I were making a list of favorite action movies (didn't pore over the noms thread or vote in this poll), but...absolutely. It's more akin to something like Pixar/Ghibli than to trad anime in terms of being a lean, story driven movie that utilizes animation as a tool rather than relying upon it as a genre. If that makes sense. I would LOVE to see this on a big screen.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
yah, but you compare the street fighter animated movie w/ the real life action one, and maaaan
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
I love Akira but i didn't even consider voting for an animated movie in this poll
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Akira is amazing on the big screen
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
naw, there's something visceral about seing REAL SHIT HAPPEN, some gut reaction, that animation or non-perfect CGI can never replicate imo
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
action rockism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oruNL3TXmlc
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
I think you mean AKIIIIIIIRAAAAA
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
I used to love the hell out of that movie. Every once in a while I run a quick calculation in my head to see if my kid's old enough to watch it yet. Still gonna be a while I think.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
aaaaaa that one goole just posted
so fucking good
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
the way tetsuo starts killing people at the end is so uncomfortable
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
i'm done for the day on this but i'm going to try to roll out 20 one of the next two days. if i can't, i think the top 10 will have to wait til monday. i've got limited windows of opportunity and during those i don't want to flood the thread with new films too quickly....
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:29 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark
its a double edged sword though, because its harder to connect with, your not seeing real people sweating and scrapping and tumbling, and the animes that get really over the top with exaggerated kinetic movement are even more distancing because you're just looking at it thinking 'what is this retarded crap'
akira's approach is highly stylized, but also selectively stylized - its more controlled than a lot of anime which crank the knob past 11, so the unreal moments are more effective
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
your a prince, omar
i'm no judge of anime (don't much like it tbh) but akira seems like a huge amount of care was put into moments that go by in real-time, rather than say, stretching something out in slo-mo or w/e
when i first saw it, it was with a group of devoted fans (seeing it on a laserdisc for the first time, maybe? ha) and they kept pausing it and doing slow mo to see details that go by in seconds.
when the first motorcycle slams into tetsuo you can see, in like one frame, the explosion break around him in a perfect sphere as he unconsciously protects himself. that kind of thing.
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:51 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
yah this is def true. but now we are seeing 'exagerrated kinetic movements' in real action movies too via cgi :(
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, matrix 3 comes to mind
― bnw, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
i'm no judge of anime (don't much like it tbh) but akira seems like a huge amount of care was put into moments that go by in real-time, rather than say, stretching something out in slo-mo or w/ewhen i first saw it, it was with a group of devoted fans (seeing it on a laserdisc for the first time, maybe? ha) and they kept pausing it and doing slow mo to see details that go by in seconds.when the first motorcycle slams into tetsuo you can see, in like one frame, the explosion break around him in a perfect sphere as he unconsciously protects himself. that kind of thing.― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:58 PM (7 minutes ago)
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:58 PM (7 minutes ago)
i first saw it with a serious anime head who kept pointing out how accurately the character's mouths are animated to correspond with the (japanese) dialogue, something he kept pointing out as exceptional for an animated film
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
you guys are gonna think i'm foolin', but this is seriously one of my fave action movies. should have given it a write-in vote. its like a trance film. you can watch the whole thing on youtube too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqyWuN7D0Kc
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link