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‘Appleseed: Ex Machina’ review coming out of HFF
Posted by Mack at 6:15am.
Posted in Film News , Animation, Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Asia, USA & Canada, Random Festival News.
Aw nuts. Ever have one of those days when you read something and you tell your screen, “Well I could have told you that!”, but you’re still disappointed? That’s how I felt when I read the review of Appleseed: Ex Machina coming out of a screening from the Hawaii Film Festival [which by the way would be an excellent venue for Twitch staff to be at… wink wink].
I’m not at all surprised by the review but still disappointed that despite all the glitz and glam of Japanese animation, and the involvement of Woo and Cheng, that it is the story that gets the low marks. Shame.
Pumped to the max visually but saddled with a shopworn story about futuristic man-machines threatening to overrun their human creators, “Appleseed: Ex Machina” should keep anime geeks entertained. But this third feature derived from Masumune Shirow’s 1985 manga will face a much stiffer task drawing in newcomers…
So far more emotionally engaging than many in the Japanese anime sci-fi stable, the story gradually shuffles human (and semi-human) dramas to the side as exhibitions of the latest 3-D software take precedence.
Dang it!!!
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JMaruyama 11/23/2007 @ 11:15am
Hey Mack, thanks for this post. I did cover some of the films at this year’s HIFF but wasn’t able to see “Appleseed: Ex Machina”. Since the first film was a bit of a disappointment for me, I wasn’t particularly keen to go see the sequel, and judging from the reviews I’ve read, I’m glad I didn’t. I’m a big Masamune Shirow fan and loved the original manga so I was definitely disappointed. Thank goodness the “Ghost In The Shell:SAC 2nd GIG” series made up for it.