no but seriously, other than the animation tell me how this movie was good at all

forgive if someone has already mentioned this, but I didn't see it anywhere sooo

We Are the Strange is a movie made by Mdotstrange, one of the coolest peeps on youtube. the movie just looks really cool, it's pretty original and inspirational!

idk your criticisms are pretty terrible tho.  like

"but the rest of it is pretty much ANIME"

how does this even make sense?  did you even watch the movie?  because.........surprise!!!............it is nothing like anime at all and it is essentially the product of a movement that is very anti-anime and this is obvious to anyone paying attention.

"the story blows"

why?  the story is absurdist/surrealist and you've given no justification for why it blows.  it starts out with some random loser getting shot in the ass and killed, meeting a  constantly-changing god, coming back to life, saving the day and having to run away, then getting eaten by a whale with a guy living in it where he spends the bulk of his time doing crazy shit until he escapes!!! later on only for the viewer to witness a legitimately not-terrible plot twist that none of this even happened and it was just the one guy from earlier having some weird fevered dream that made him question his life.  aside from being kind of an absurd and hilarious premise, the subtext itself is good and, like jamicus said earlier, life-affirming.  guy gets killed, realizes none of the shit he used to worry about was important at all, does what he wants to do.  likewise, witnessing all of this shows the guy who dreamt it that he should just do whatever the fuck he wants to do.

"the characters are shit"

again no justification!!!  why are the characters shit, exactly?  they were kind of supposed to be caricatures that represented concepts and this is more or less what they accomplished.  the main one is some sniveling pussy who cannot do anything, the love interest is just TOKEN HOT GIRL HE DESIRES, the old man is some creepy old good who regrets the way his life has gone.  they're exaggerated personifications of the actual qualities that are in most people, and these qualities are significant.  although the hot girl is more like an exaggeration of the perception the main character would have of her than it is of an actual woman, i think.  a lot of it is from male perspective tbh


"BRA CONSTANTLY FLASHING"

this is good because it makes it pretty obvious that the movie just went over your head.  as i mentioned earlier, it's the creation of a guy/group of people who are very disenfranchised with japanese pop culture, and as a result, many things in it are satires.  the bra is constantly flashing because, and really this should be obvious if you are going to act like you are equipped to judge the movie in its entirety, the character is a parody of BUXOM ANIME BROADS in japanese media.  this makes sense because in a way, the main character is also something of a parody of sniveling japanese manboys that play lead in a lot of anime/other stuff and in such shows and movies, there is usually a hilariously perfect character like hers as the romantic interest the guy is lusting after who is kind///gentle///incredibly large-breasted (always these three).  none of it is serious dawg; they are both mocking the anime nerds//dream girls that are so prevalent as characters in japanese culture.  why don't you complain about how the onion's political cartoons are too conservative, too?


"uninteresting"

lol

basically i haven't watched a real anime since like middle school and the last ANIME movie i watched was princess mononoke or some shit and i could really care less about anime so i guess i don't really know what i'm talking about unlike sensei panda-kun so i'll give you the anime thing. wait no, does cat soup count as anime? i recently watched that and it kicked ass. anyway i have finals now that i should be studying for and i could care less about arguing MIND GAME so basically: go suck a dong.

yea man i sit around watchin anime all day.  I. LOVE. ANIME.  ahaha i just realized that is in my xbox live info but for anyone who has missed this argument lemme paraphrase: dude says a movie sucks when really it just clearly went over his head, gets schooled by yours truly heh, makes some excuse to not respond while at the same time mocking me for being an anime-loving loser when i a) vocally hate anime, and b) have not watched any in several years, just because i am not as shamelessly ignorant as he is, and leaves.  flowerpower you are getting an early start for best member 09

why does everything in this forum lead to anime fights?

well this isn't a fair question.  nothing here leads to anime fights!  this is the only time in recent memory i have even talked about it i think.  tbh i was just in the mood for ANGRY INTERNET ARGUMENT.  i am not the only one who does this so i imagine this is why many things on gw lead to senseless arguing.  it is fun sometimes, pretending to be a dick/ultra angry over some dumb shit, especially since this topic is kind of boring if it is just HERE GO WATCH THIS.  also it really was a dumb post so that helped lol

how do you quantify "anime-ish" though, really?  i think people often do not distinguish enough between what is anime and what is culturally japanese.  i am not saying you've done this because you haven't really made any definitive statements, but my perception of the movie after reading about the director and the movement as a whole is that any similarity it has with anime is a parody of sorts.

really? you don't think the art is anime based? anime is generally categorized by exaggerated features/expressions and low quality animation (ie only mouth moving while the rest of the screen is just a single image). i'm pretty sure that movie does all that...



also, i watched tideland last night. it was HORRIBLE. wow. i'm so disturbed i actually had a nightmare about that decaying dead guy attacking me.

i don't think i would consider that visually stimulating.. maybe nausea stimulating or nightmare stimulating.




...i did like the all white house though

oh you were talking about the art.  yeah the art itself is p clearly influenced by anime for the most part, although!!!! i think it is a lot more creative and the way they integrate other non-anime styles makes me feel like the anime thing is somewhat downplayed.  i thought you were referring to the tone and content though, which i didn't think was very ANIME at all (this might not actually be a proper adjective anywhere but gw).

also i can't believe you had a nightmare about tideland.  that's funny

you can watch it on youtube fully, actually. Mdot posted the entire full movies, with sub-titles in many different languages(including 1337 speak).

I haven't gotten around to watching it all yet, but from what I've seen it's a great piece of work!


here you go! :imaginarygwa:

hey that looks kind of interesting!  this topic is good because i had not heard of some of these movies and they look like they are worth watching.

what do you mean by the content being non-anime? isn't there an anime for every genre and type of movie?

yeah i thought this would be unclear.  idk there is ANIME and then there is NOTANIME and 99% of anime watches like it is anime, and the other 1% does not.  that's what i meant.  you watch something like INU YASHA!!! or idk, love hina or something and all you can think is "man this is so fucken anime", but this was never a thought i or the other people i talked to had about mindgame.  it has a distinctly different tone/aesthetic i guess?  idk it just WATCHES DIFFERENTLY.  it's a little hard to explain.