It's really sad how hard it is to get good quality BDs of Kon's works in English.No, but i got the Australian one and like the original Perfect Blue BD, it looks very dated. There's also a UK release, which i think is derived from the same master.
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Is any of the money that's being made from this going to go help fund the completion of his last movie? Because seriously that needs to be finished.
For 4~5 years, I kept searching for a suitable director to complete Kon's work. Before his death, the storyboard and script, even part of the keyframe film was already completed. Then I thought, even if someone can mimic Kon's work, it would still be clear that it's only an imitation. For example, if Mamoru Hosoda took the director's position, the completed Dreaming Machine would still be a good piece of work. However, it's Hosoda's movie, not Kon's. Dreaming Machine should be Kon's movie, him and only him, not someone else's. That means we cannot and should not "compromise" only to finish it. I spent years, finally reached this hard conclusion. Instead, we should take only Kon's "original concept", and let somebody turn it into a feature film. By doing so, the completed piece could 100% be that person's work, and I'm OK with that. I also considered doing a documentary on Kon.
I saw perfect blue in theaters and I was wondering if this has anything like
I wanna bring my gf but I don't know if she'll enjoy it if it's in any way like that.some of the sexual violence
I saw perfect blue in theaters and I was wondering if this has anything like
I wanna bring my gf but I don't know if she'll enjoy it if it's in any way like that.some of the sexual violence
Also I was going to ask for opinions on whether to see the subs tonight or the dub next week but I guess no one has seen the dub since it's new!
Not at all; Millennium Actress is overall more uplifting in tone compared to Perfect Blue. The original DVD release was rated PG, IIRC.
Seeing this tonight; very excited!
Thanks!Perfect Blue is the other side of same coin of Millenium Actress
These two movies make much more sense if you see them as duology. dark/light
Saw this tonight. Great movie, of course.
This is an awful transfer. The "restoration" here has savaged the linework. Lines across the board in every frame are deteriorated, often impartial, sometimes small lines disappear entirely for a couple frames. Smaller, more distant faces become featureless blobs.
Kon's films are notable for their solidly constructed forms and strong lines. Here everything is made weaker by chicken-scratch outlines and corrupted, dancing details.
Now I don't know if this was the projection in my theater but everything was blown-out with crushed blacks. Dark scenes looked horrid.
I was so distracted by how bad the film looked projected onto a large screen. I know this is not how the movie was meant to look.
This is the new restorarion so this is the new home video version, as well. Honestly, it's insulting to the people who made this film and Kon's legacy. Saw this subtitled so can't comment on the new dub they are promoting along with the remaster.
Saw this tonight. Great movie, of course.
This is an awful transfer. The "restoration" here has savaged the linework. Lines across the board in every frame are deteriorated, often impartial, sometimes small lines disappear entirely for a couple frames. Smaller, more distant faces become featureless blobs.
Kon's films are notable for their solidly constructed forms and strong lines. Here everything is made weaker by chicken-scratch outlines and corrupted, dancing details.
Now I don't know if this was the projection in my theater but everything was blown-out with crushed blacks. Dark scenes looked horrid.
I was so distracted by how bad the film looked projected onto a large screen. I know this is not how the movie was meant to look.
This is the new restorarion so this is the new home video version, as well. Honestly, it's insulting to the people who made this film and Kon's legacy. Saw this subtitled so can't comment on the new dub they are promoting along with the remaster.
The soundtrack is some of Hirasawa's best work, I adore it so much :>
Everything is up to Sony at this point for Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika, but it seems like they're open to having Funimation take over from them, given what happened with Cowboy Bebop: The Movie last year.I saw this film for the first time and liked it a lot. Hope they continue showing Kon's work on the big screen.
I thought this looked pretty good. Certainly better than Perfect Blue.I wonder if Madhouse has issues with film preservation. Not that the film looks poor or anything, but it seems like a recurring problem with anime films from the late 90s-early 00s where there's clearly some kind of issue going on that has them using sources far removed from the negative, and as strange as it sounds, it may even be a situation where the negative may not actually exist anymore, which has been speculated a lot for Perfect Blue.
I will say that I didn't notice anything as extreme as HotHamBoy had at his screening, certainly not any issues with scenes looking too dark, but it does seem like that you really had to be there when it was first exhibited to get the most ideal experience in terms of visual quality.
If you're able to make it, I'm guessing your theater will be showing it dubbed on August 19th.I totally forgot I preordered tickets for this, missed much showing. Hoping for a blu-ray release afterwards, argh, kicking myself for forgetting about it, thought it was next Tuesday.
I have work the other days it is showing, Tuesday was my only time to see it. Ah well, I'll wait for a release hopefully shortly after.If you're able to make it, I'm guessing your theater will be showing it dubbed on August 19th.
Considering it's a brand new dub, I'm actually tempted to go see it again.
Oh! Excellent! This is the only Satoshi Kon film I haven't seen so I guess I can hold off a bit longer to go see it in theatres. I saw Perfect Blue for the however manyeth time when that was in theatres and it was ace.
The perfect blue transfer was also weak: it has intense wobbling for the first half of the film and is way too soft throughout. I wouldn't be shocked if MA had a similar fateI'm surprised to hear about the weak transfer - the film was remastered in 4K last year in Japan and I haven't heard any complaints about that version. I wonder if the US on is different? 🤔
Gotta talk to Sony for that one, or bug Funimation about it and see if they can get them to hand it to them like they did for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Is this going to use the same source as theatrical which had a bad transfer? :(Blu ray announced:
Coming November 19
Is this going to use the same source as theatrical which had a bad transfer? :(
Is this going to use the same source as theatrical which had a bad transfer? :(
I should watch this. Although Perfect Blue fucked me up back when it released.