Amber Midthunder and that cool looking alien deserved better.
This is an exceedingly dumb film with no tension, no atmosphere and is moralistic to the hilt (characters are all evil or do very bad things so they can be killed without the audience feeling any ambiguity whatsoever, except for one character and that one has to die so the heroine can be a heroine). They should have just followed Midthunder until the bear scene and THEN revealed the alien. We…
It meets all the criteria to be exactly what it says it is and it is probably more successful than I’m giving it credit for. But I think I’ve missed my time to enjoy this movie, a couple decades too late….maybe just a decade.
This is normally not my type of movie, but my ten year old and eight year old wanted to see this. So I spent a couple weeks watching all 26 episodes of the anime series, then getting to see my first subtitled, foreign film with my kids!!!
We had soooooooo much fun together.
I’ll never know if this is a good film or not because the incredible high feeling I have right now has very little to do with the film.
I believe that Zappa (this doc) is unique in a big way that has nothing to do with Zappa. It felt like an appetizer that fills you up. Like a summary with an arch. It touches spots and moves on without dramatizing them but you totally understand the complexities that are natural to any relationship. Not dramatizing everything out was ingenious because that would have made the doc a bit cliched. I became aware of this when they started talking…
