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City Hunter: .357 Magnum 1989
City Hunter is my favorite anime TV-series of the 1980s. But the Letterboxd people haven't added the TV stuff to the site yet, so I finally watched the first CH movie, just so I could put on record my love for the show, I guess.
I had read that the movies and specials were just like long episodes, and that the show's style of writing didn't play well with long running-times, so I was not in a big hurry to…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
This is just not for me.
For one thing, I've grown quite estranged from the super-hero genre (in the usual sense of guys wearing costumes) for over a year now. I really have no use for this story and characters.
For another thing, the sensory overload is not for me. Lately I enjoy more sedate stuff than this frantic editing. And the flat comic-booky visual cues felt tacked onto the 3D-ness of it, like the filmmakers couldn't make up their…
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Yakari: A Spectacular Journey 2020
This is a French movie about a little Sioux kid who can talk to animals. It's based on a popular French (Belgian-French?) comic-book from the 1970s which might still be going on. It had already been adapted to animation as a TV series in the 1980s and again the 2000s.
I just read a review here stating "Is it still OK in 2020 for French people to make a movie about Native Americans?". The same thing occurred to me, and…
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Mercenary 2005
I haven't done the research, but could this be the very first CG feature film in the world to do the "fake hand-drawn" (trying to make the CGI look like traditional 2D animation) thing?
This movie was one of the handful of Spanish animated feature films that were released in the span of 2 or 3 years, like a late consequence of Disney's newfound 1990s success in animation (I'm guessing when these projects were greenlit they hadn't noticed Disney's box-office…
