Pfaugh!
Apparently Netflix cannot be trusted to correctly label movies. After being impressed with The Cold Equations, I put a few more film adaptations of sci-fi classics into my queue, including A Boy and His Dog and 2001: A Space Odyssey. So what did I get when I ordered A Scanner Darkly?
A fucking cartoon! Nothing on the Netflix page for the movie suggested it was anime, at least not until you get all the way down to the bottom of the page, where they have the “member reviews” section — and who the hell reads those?! I wanted to see the film adaptation of a sci-fi classic, not a bunch of talking drawings moving on a screen. So I’m moderately ticked off and disgusted that I wasted a spot in my queue on that crap.
I may have rented some gawd-awful movies in the past (Roar comes to mind, being total and utter shite) but at least they were not cartoons. At least with Roar, I could tell that the acting was horrible and the storylines were garbage by watching real people. Cartoons have no substance, no subtlety or nuances, no chemistry between individuals, and no real interaction with the settings or circumstances of a scene. Face it, there’s a reason that cartoon characters don’t win Best Actor Oscars!
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I was going to post tonight about why I love watching cartoons but got too caught up in the last few episodes of Nanoha A’s and now it’s too late for writing. Go figure, eh? *wry grin*
January 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Even then, anime is a certain type of animation, which A Scanner Darkly /is not/. Calling it anime gives anime a bad name (and there’s some bad anime shows out there).
There’s a name for the live-action turned into animation type of filming, but I can’t recall what it is.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I loved A Scanner Darkley. It was Rotoscoping though, not a traditional cartoon. Animation on top of film.
For the record. I -still- hate anime