(e.g. Akira)
Of course, in the case of Akira, which I've read in its entirety, is even more of a mind-fuck in print.
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
'Shindig'
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Sean K - Sep 17, 2005 8:10:22 am PDT #7396 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
DebetEsse - Sep 17, 2005 8:25:10 am PDT #7397 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Yes, but was it a coherent mindfuck, is, I think, the question?
Sean K - Sep 17, 2005 8:26:31 am PDT #7398 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
but was it a coherent mindfuck
Much more so than the movie was.
Jessica - Sep 17, 2005 8:26:59 am PDT #7399 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I had no trouble with Akira. Not that I could explain it to anyone else, but watching it, I wasn't lost of confused. Ditto both Ghost in the Shell movies.
[eta: I will admit freely that I only saw Akira relatively recently, and I have it on good authority that the current DVD release has a much more coherent translation than the original English subtitles.]
Sean K - Sep 17, 2005 8:29:48 am PDT #7400 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I still haven't seen GitS2 yet. I very much want to. The first one rocked my world.
DebetEsse - Sep 17, 2005 8:43:43 am PDT #7401 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I hit the point, with Akira, that I just started watching it as a sensorial experience, rather than a story, as such. I don't know which translation it was, but, probably, the old one.
Sean K - Sep 17, 2005 8:46:56 am PDT #7402 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I love the older dub. The voices in that, particularly of the Colonel, just crack me up. And since that was the first one I saw, whenever I see one of the other dubs, the voices just sound WRONG to me.
erikaj - Sep 17, 2005 9:43:16 am PDT #7403 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
In an unrelated topic, I'm getting annoyed with some of my fellow netflix renters, who apparently decide to use discs as coasters and spill stuff on them before they send them back. And it always happens after I've spent an hour on the movie already...just, grr. Brings out the George Costanza in me. "We're in a *society* people."
askye - Sep 17, 2005 10:49:26 am PDT #7404 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I'm currently miffed about the turn around time with Netflix. I sent back 2 dvds. They both got back on the same day, I was notified to expect Jerimiah the next day, Tuesday. It got here Tuesday. Tuesday I got an notification that Fake (anime) would be here on Friday. Except it's now Saturday and it's not here, so maybe Monday.
Eddie - Sep 17, 2005 10:53:21 am PDT #7405 of 10002
Your tag here.
askye: personally, I'd blame the USPS.