On Jan 27, 8:02 pm, Derek Janssen
nospam.verizon.net> wrote:> Terrence Briggs wrote:
>> Animation Comes of Age:
>> Interesting letter from South Carolina to the Roger Ebert web site,
>> citing Persepolis (not playing within a 500-mile radius of SC),
>> Miyazaki, and Grave of the Fireflies.
>
> And because some overambitious fanboy made Roger Ebert sit through
> "Grave of the Fireflies", Ebert now makes US sit through it. >_<
Pipe down, hater :-)
I have read several exit polls from Joe Average GotF viewer over the
years, and you're STILL the only one who hates it. After a while, it
seems less like Ebert pressuring audiences to sit through it and more
like curious moviewatchers being genuinely moved by it.
This isn't Haggis' Crash or anything, where the howls of discontent
from average filmgoers at least made for a vocal minority.
> Hence the annoyed anime-fan referring to grim, humorless and/or
> pointlessly inscrutable Sony theatrical anime imports (with no remote
> knowledge of any TV anime on DVD) as "the Ebert List".
TV anime's a bastard to recommend. The viewing commitments are
usually longer, the budgets are usually smaller, and the franchises
are usually harder to follow. (Did he recommend Shadowskill the OVA,
the movie, or the TV series? Did Stephen Hunter pimp Samurai X: The
Movie or that Ruroni Kenshin series that Cartoon Network aired? Did
Wesley Morris love the ANIMATED Transformers movie, or the live-action
one? Etc.)
> Oh, the emergency-room spin-doctoring we *real* fans had to do after
> "Paprika"...It was like "Metropolis", all over again. :/
Could be worse. *Real* fans could be recommending mecha melodramas
and comic cutie-pie parades, like we USUALLY do. I believe the Latin
is, "Otaku nos culpa."
> Derek Janssen (and let's not even get into the "Persepolis is sorta like
> anime 'cuz it's SERIOUS!" fans...At ALL.)
> ejan...@
verizon.net
Heh. Just had an Armond White flashback. Dude referred to A Scanner
Darkly as "Linklater's anime":
http://www.nypress.com/19/27/film/ArmondWhite2.cfm
Maybe he's buying into the French etymology of the word.
Terrence Briggs, noting that Avatar STILL isn't anime.
Peace to you...
