Appleseed: Ex Machina was a terrible movie and if you liked it you should be sad, Seriously. Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[DocTaotsu]

Just saw aforementioned movie, I enjoyed exactly one scene (the first) in that entire flick and felt that it squandered it's material in the most painful way possible. This movie is like the "Showgirls" of mecha/cyberpunk anime, it managed to take something I like (people with big guns shooting things, the difficult life a fully augmented person would live) and turn them into... boring.

I had to apologize to my girlfriend for making fun of her love of Bollywood films. Halfway through I was begging for a song and dance routine just to change things up a little.

The plot is predictable and cliche and the characters are so shallow they don't even rate being described as "Cardboard cutouts". They're like trading cards with nothing written on the back.

I'm about to rant and spoiler heavily although I think so poorly of this movie that I don't feel bad at all for "ruining" it for anyone.

Good god the whole "Lets unite under our happy go lucking one world total information government! Yayay!" made me throw things at the screen. Especially since the movie ends without showing the rest of the world stomping the living crap out of Olympus for oooh I don' t know BRINGING ABOUT A ZOMBIE APOCOLYPSE?!

No rousing speeches, no interesting fight scenes (oh look the epic final battle... it looks like someone else really liked the last Matrix movie.), and none of Shirow's trademark future shock exploration of technology and man.

BOOOOOOOOOO.

Yes, Yes I'm just a little bitter.

[PBTHHHHT]

I love the manga, and I try to like the appleseed movies, I really try and yet I can't. Maybe if they just made a tv series out of it and try to kinda follow the manga it might be okay. And maybe one day pigs will fly too.