Lithrael
Remember, always hold your apple tight
Finally saw it. They left out so much...
It was frustrating to watch some of these long drawn out scenes with no dialog when there was so much important dialog in the book. Agree that adding things like any of the cut parts of Guts & Casca's scene would be shutting the barn door after the horses ran away during the first two movies... Nevertheless I would have been so much happier with it if they'd tried.
The movie looked much better than the last one, but kept breaking its promise by putting more awful CG on the screen every time you start to really feel immersed. When we see the actual drawn version of Carcus during the eclipse, I don't know how anyone unfamiliar with the story would even know it was him; up til then, 90% of the time he was an awful CG puppet.
Removing so much dialog and plot also made things a lot slashier than the source material. Casca never brings up Charlotte as the reason there was no room for her as Griffith's woman, for example. It ends up sounding like the reason she couldn't connect with Griff, was Guts and only Guts.
Though I knew we would never see it in this stripped adaptation, I still missed Charlotte's scene during the rescue, when she steps up to mislead the guards. I'd held out a little hope, since she seemed to be one of the characters that was still getting to be in the story a little.
So many scenes I missed. I know there wouldn't have been time for all of them but we coulda included one or two and cut Griffith's trippin' scene.
Lots of scenes I preferred the anime version of. The biggest one that sticks out is that I liked the anime's version of Griffith's vision of the creatures coming out of the wall. The manga gives me the impression of stillness and quiet, and the anime stuck with that; in the movie he's shivering like crazy, and it just didn't feel right to me.
There were a few scenes I liked as well. Pretty much, the ones that were most like the manga and had the least CGI in them, and also the least unfortunate music choices.
I'll have to check out the dub at some point and see if I like it any better, too, because there was a LOT of voice work I did not like at all in this movie. Way too many stereotypical shonen anime voice trope type choices. Especially the gathering apostles all having the 'bad guy comedy flunky' voice at the beginning of the ceremony. Like for REAL? THIS is how you build atmosphere? And Zodd is just a guy just going 'groar!' ?
All the colors and backgrounds were great, up til the Eclipse at least.
I found it completely bizzarre that they ended the thing by ripping off the anime's ending. I mean that.. that isn't in the books at all; like at ALL.
To clarify; the manga also ends with Guts walking away but the tone and lead-up are completely different. The anime and movie both end with a shot of Godo's furnace and Guts taking the DS and leaving without a word.
It was frustrating to watch some of these long drawn out scenes with no dialog when there was so much important dialog in the book. Agree that adding things like any of the cut parts of Guts & Casca's scene would be shutting the barn door after the horses ran away during the first two movies... Nevertheless I would have been so much happier with it if they'd tried.
The movie looked much better than the last one, but kept breaking its promise by putting more awful CG on the screen every time you start to really feel immersed. When we see the actual drawn version of Carcus during the eclipse, I don't know how anyone unfamiliar with the story would even know it was him; up til then, 90% of the time he was an awful CG puppet.
Removing so much dialog and plot also made things a lot slashier than the source material. Casca never brings up Charlotte as the reason there was no room for her as Griffith's woman, for example. It ends up sounding like the reason she couldn't connect with Griff, was Guts and only Guts.
Though I knew we would never see it in this stripped adaptation, I still missed Charlotte's scene during the rescue, when she steps up to mislead the guards. I'd held out a little hope, since she seemed to be one of the characters that was still getting to be in the story a little.
So many scenes I missed. I know there wouldn't have been time for all of them but we coulda included one or two and cut Griffith's trippin' scene.
Lots of scenes I preferred the anime version of. The biggest one that sticks out is that I liked the anime's version of Griffith's vision of the creatures coming out of the wall. The manga gives me the impression of stillness and quiet, and the anime stuck with that; in the movie he's shivering like crazy, and it just didn't feel right to me.
There were a few scenes I liked as well. Pretty much, the ones that were most like the manga and had the least CGI in them, and also the least unfortunate music choices.
I'll have to check out the dub at some point and see if I like it any better, too, because there was a LOT of voice work I did not like at all in this movie. Way too many stereotypical shonen anime voice trope type choices. Especially the gathering apostles all having the 'bad guy comedy flunky' voice at the beginning of the ceremony. Like for REAL? THIS is how you build atmosphere? And Zodd is just a guy just going 'groar!' ?
All the colors and backgrounds were great, up til the Eclipse at least.
I found it completely bizzarre that they ended the thing by ripping off the anime's ending. I mean that.. that isn't in the books at all; like at ALL.
To clarify; the manga also ends with Guts walking away but the tone and lead-up are completely different. The anime and movie both end with a shot of Godo's furnace and Guts taking the DS and leaving without a word.