Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan: Beautiful Food Hunter Noriko 3D

I am currently in Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.
There I went to the Village and watched Beautiful Food Hunter 3D.
I was intrigued by the prospect of watching a Goku homage and impressed that it was a Fist of the North Star one as well.
The story was not really great nor realistic: it is a friggin action anime inspired by Goku and Fist of the North Star! The child ally seemed to be an homage to Rock Lee with his cries and haircut.
The concept art was probably inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender displaying combinations of animals. The fights are awesome.
There is something about a Giant Bunny and the kid's father I did not really get.
The actions and visuals were great though probably repetitive and unsurprisingly after a while.
The good guys win and the 3d does not last

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Top 10 Directors for an Neon Genesis Evangelion reboot

With the recent release of Evangelion 3.0/3.33 at New York Comic Con and the backlash fans from Japan AND the US are having now, I have a list of ten directors that could make a reboot of the franchise work.
(Boo! Reboots! Consider it though with this list...)

10. David Fincher He can get the emotions right between the underage characters having sex. He can make that controversy and fan service raciness work, while hopefully making a masterpiece on terms of Fight Club. Makes you wonder how 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will be.

9. John Hughes Breaking the fourth wall, Shinji or a narrator can bring a real dynamic to the storyline.

8. Alfred Hitchcock
It can be a psychoanalytic film of course. It can be a silent film. It can be black and white. It can be color. Rei will have dopplegangers. It will be a technical achievement and masterpiece.

7 &6. F.W. Munrau and Fritz Lang
Imagine what they did back then and what they can do now.

5. Carl Theodor Dreyer
No one can do religious imagery and relevance like Carl Theodor Dreyer except maybe..

4. Ingmar Bergman
Imagine Ingmar Bergman's direction of Death as a being in the Seventh Seal with his ability to work with actors in Scenes From a Marriage. The dynamic he can bring to the characters and see as their characters in Evangelion.

3. David Lynch Some have compared End of Evangelion with a David Lynch film. Imagine if he actually directing it. Rei Ayanami probably inspired the blonde wig used in Mulholland Drive.

2. Paul Thomas Anderson A film about religion starring Paul Dano with Daniel Day-Lewis playing his father with the psychadelicness of Punch-Drunk Love.

1. Stanley Kubrick It would be interesting to see Evangelion have a double narrative to the point of a Stanley Kubrick narrative. He directed Space epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Anno was obviously inspired by the Shining and 2001's Blue Danube sequence creating the twins. The pyramid is an illuminati image.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Let's Debate! The Best Anime Ever! Let's start with 45!

I currently have a list of anime of the top of my head that is really good. It includes films and List is pending please debate.
  1. Grave of the Fireflies
  2. Ghost in the Shell 2.0
  3. Ghost in the Shell
  4. Paprika
  5. Serial Experiments Lain
  6. Perfect Blue
  7. Z Gundam
  8. Yakitate Japan!!
  9. The End of Evangelion
  10. Neon Genesis Evangelion 
  11. Monster
  12. Samurai Champloo
  13. 5 Centimeters Per Second
  14. Mushishi
  15. Wolf's Rain
  16. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
  17. Tekken: Blood Vengeance (So Bad, It's Good. SOOO BAD!)
  18. The Wind Rises 
  19. Yu Yu Hakusho
  20. Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind 
  21. Cowboy Bebop
  22. Combattler V
  23. Getter Robo
  24. Sadamitsu the Destroyer
  25. Rurouni Kenshin
  26. Transformers
  27. Shin Getter Robo: Armaggeddon
  28. Speed Racer
  29. Astro Boy
  30. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
  31. Street Fighter: Alpha
  32. Beast Wars
  33. Sgt. Frog
  34. Code Geass
  35. Last Exile
  36. Samurai X: Betrayal and Trust
  37. FLCL
  38. Voice of a Distant Star 
  39. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  40. Berserk
  41. Fist of the North Star
  42. Dragon Ball
  43. Digimon
  44. Sengoku Basara
  45. Lupin III