^^I appreciate the passion involved in the replies following my post, but it sounds like,to me, u guys don't really follow exactly what I'm getting at.
I'm not assuming that any of you guys are jumping on me, but MouthForWar has generalized my previous post and somehow made the assumption that I'm facilitating HIS OWN attitude that Americans can't deal with unrealistic movies. I think I accounted for both sides of the dicotymy he insinuated by describing at short length my own highly varied tastes. That said I don't really share his black and white view of American tastes, nor would I assume that most other Americans nessesarily do, though I may assume that his lack of grasping the full meaning of my post may suggest a trend on his part to cope with the subtletites of my conjecture by utilizing a 'this vs that' mentallity... basically the same crime he's accusing the rest of this country's movie-going public of.
Dang, this doesn't sound very delicate, does it?
I have to appreciate his opinions on stop motion, and I appreciate the fine top-of-the-craft Godzy movies that he cited, though the zealousness of his delivery doesn't necessarily lend anymore legitimacy to his opinions... and maybe I'm just trying not ot be rubbed the wrong way.
Jrichreturns, I'm in accordence with your view on style... I went on about that exact thing in my prior post.
Robo, I don't know where or how or why GINO would have to be included in all this as the END ALL of the 'realism' line of thought.
That's what you seem to be suggesting anyway: 'it failed with G'98, so it will always be as big, if not a bigger, failure'. Uh, WHY?
That's not a far cry from saying: "It rained the day I went to invest some money in a 401-K, ergo, God doesn't want me to have a very secure financial future." OF COURSE it can be done very VERY well. Tsuburaya wanted that realism, Honda wanted it, Tanaka wanted it. Don't delude yourselves into
thinking otherwise... the interviews are out there, I suggest you read them, guys, before you start to sound like you don't know what your talking about.
I'll spare all of you by not re-stating everything I already have in the previous post(s). In life, and certainly any Asian way of thinking, growing is a BIG O' part of the cycle. One-sided rants are all too western (i.e., American).