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Postby eabaker » Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:33 pm

The whole nations of the world setting aside their differences thing is relevant to Japanese sci-fi, sure, but it's also relevant to a lot of other sci-fi.

The themes, the tone, the story structure, the pacing, the cinematography, the editing, the design, the performances, none of that stuff felt especially evocative of Japanese films or TV to me.

Not that I needed it to. This, again, is not a complaint on my part. It felt to me like a well-above-average American studio's action/sci-fi movie, but an American studio's movie just the same.

And I absolutely acknowledge that there were distinct influences from certain pieces of Japanese movies and television. Those influences just didn't define the feel of this movie, for me.

And (I keep editing this post, sorry) I never said that it didn't "get" the genre, I said that it didn't seem to "get" the genre in any special way that turned it into a more Japanese movie than American.
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