It's so bad, it's good? 
Yeah, these movies are the
Commando of the Berserk franchise. Only watch them to LET OFF SOME STEAM!

Of course a work can be so bad that it kills an entire franchise altogether but I don't remember any examples...
That's certainly part of my bitterness. Berserk's likely not going to get another adaptation, this was it's last shot for the the kind of recognition you were talking about, so it's a shame that it was wasted on
this. Considering the cult popularity of the crappy TV series, a faithful and halfway decent attempt could have been something special, but this was half-assed from the start.
Not justifiying the movie or saying that you shouldn't criticize it, far from it. Just saying that there's nothing wrong in seeing the silver lining and hope that 1 bad adaptation may lead to a better one.
A far more reasonable positive position. On that note, there's more reason to hope for better adaptations in the future is if more people
ask for one. If people squawk loud enough, hopefully Studio 4C hears it. Unfortunately, our valid complaints may be getting lost in the white noise of, "SHHHHH, DON'T SAY MEAN THINGS ABOUT TEH MOVIES GUYZ!!" We should have WWII-style propaganda posters, like, "Loose lips sink ships." =)
I'd still like to see The Black Swordsman done. Though, even if it's successful and they do everything right going forward, their adaptation of the series will feel incomplete as this trilogy will still be considered part of it. So unless they plan to revisit and make good on this part of the story sometime in the future, they've already left a bad mark on the whole thing.
Oh God no, I hope nobody ever touches Golden Age again (twice has been more than enough). If they do cover any Black Swordsman material, I hope they learn from their mistakes and from fan reaction (hint: not blind acceptance) and do a better job. If we could still get a decent Black Swordsman adaptation out of this, well... that's more than I can hope for honestly. Now I'm just torturing myself again. BerserkFL was right!
Dude anime has sucked for so long now what did you expect? Why did you expect it to be good? What indication did you have that it would be? Studio 4C produce something really great in the past I'm not aware of?
What's your point though? Like I said, bad is bad. It doesn't make a difference if we saw it coming (we did, and were sounding the alarm bells, and meeting such resistance, early). That doesn't mean we shouldn't dislike it for being bad, or more strangely you seem to be arguing that we should just accept it
because of that. I don't even understand your motivation, if you're so relaxed about it why bother arguing with someone that obviously
does care? It's like you just decided you don't like how seriously we take Berserk and are going to give us a piece of your mind, post some relaxed platitudes, set us straight and tell us to chill out. Well great, welcome to the skullknight.net: the definitive source for all things Berserk message board. You can relax now, and for the record my blood pressure is surprisingly low (seriously, I'm surprised by this =).
why exert energy pointing out what everyone already knows?
Apparently, everyone doesn't know it, or is in denial, and you're not helping. As for why, simple honesty is a fine enough reason, but if you want something more high minded it's the only way for fans to effect change, besides voting with their wallets. In the best case scenario a negative reception could cause Studio 4C to change their approach, but even if that's a long shot, it's better than just saying nothing. WWII-style propaganda slogan: Don't be a jerk, speak up for Berserk!

I've ranted plenty about movies that sucked and have a few long winded posts over at IMDB.
Ok, now it makes all sense. Nevermind!
