The Sky Crawlers: Mamoru Oshii's New Film Unveiled!

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The Sky Crawlers: Mamoru Oshii's New Film Unveiled!

Postby Roy Mustang » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:01 am

Follow the link from Production I.G web site.

The Sky Crawlers


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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:36 pm

Ok, I'm gonna bump this then...

How's Sky Crawlers content wise?
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Postby blkmage » Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:04 pm

It's about flying and what few aerial battles there are are pretty cool. But, the entire thing just serves as a vehicle for Oshii's philosophical rambling so the characters are essentially his mouthpieces. It's supposedly a metaphor about how terrible and uncreative the animation industry is and how terrible its fans are for continuing to support the crap they shovel out and so on. Also, the engrish has a very uncanny valley feel.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:26 pm

I meant, what inappropriate content does it have XD
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Postby rocklobster » Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:35 am

Oh come on, it's Mamoru Oshii. The guy is a genius!
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Postby Fish and Chips » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:20 am

rocklobster (post: 1329094) wrote:Oh come on, it's Mamoru Oshii. The guy is a genius!
So it Michaelangelo, but I don't stare at the Statue of David for long periods of time.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:33 am

Fish and Chips (post: 1329127) wrote:So it Michaelangelo, but I don't stare at the Statue of David for long periods of time.


lol

So is anyone gonna be able to help me here?
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Postby ilikegir33 » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:53 pm

Shao Feng-Li (post: 1329129) wrote:lol

So is anyone gonna be able to help me here?


I will.

Violence: It's typical air combat, mostly bloodless save for one scene in the beginning when [color="Black"][spoiler=opening scene]a pilot ejects from a tattered aircraft and another aircraft (unfortunately) shoots him with machine guns. There is some blood.[/spoiler][/color]

Sex: [color="Black"][spoiler]A brief implied sex scene with some minor nudity.[/spoiler][/color]

Language: Surprisingly, none, unlike most of Mamoru Oshii's other films (and PG-13 films in general.)

Bad Religion: Also none.

Overall this is pretty clean as Mamoru Oshii movies go, and I thought it was pretty thought-provoking, too. I give it 3 stars.
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Postby Cloud500 » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:57 pm

I rented the DVD a week or so ago so I might be able to offer some help.

As far as the violence goes it is pretty tame. What ilikegir33 mentioned is the worst that I remember.

The only bad language I remember was one character taking God's name in vain.(This was in the dub[which I thought was well done] so I don't know what the subtitled version said)

For the sexual content: ( I'm not sure if these would be considered spoilers but I'll do so anyway)[SPOILER]Two of the characters go to a brothel, one apparently goes on a regular basis. At the brothel there is a scene that take place after the fact: one character(a male) is shown sitting in a bed shirtless, while the prostitute character is shown wearing just a revealing robe. Then there is another scene where sex is implied(a character quickly unbuttons her shirt, though nothing is shown)[/SPOILER]

The only religious issue was the mention of reincarnation:[SPOILER] Though the Kildren(sp.?) are artificial humans/genetically created or something and when they die new memories/ personalities/identities are given to them.(Don't quote me on any of this, I was watching the movie at 2 a.m.) But it didn't seem to be referencing anything spiritual as far as I could tell.[/SPOILER]


I hope that helps. Overall I still thought it was an excellent movie and the animation was great.
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Postby ilikegir33 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:18 am

Cloud500 (post: 1329272) wrote:I rented the DVD a week or so ago so I might be able to offer some help.

As far as the violence goes it is pretty tame. What ilikegir33 mentioned is the worst that I remember.

The only bad language I remember was one character taking God's name in vain.(This was in the dub[which I thought was well done] so I don't know what the subtitled version said)

For the sexual content: ( I'm not sure if these would be considered spoilers but I'll do so anyway)[SPOILER]Two of the characters go to a brothel, one apparently goes on a regular basis. At the brothel there is a scene that take place after the fact: one character(a male) is shown sitting in a bed shirtless, while the prostitute character is shown wearing just a revealing robe. Then there is another scene where sex is implied(a character quickly unbuttons her shirt, though nothing is shown)[/SPOILER]

The only religious issue was the mention of reincarnation:[SPOILER] Though the Kildren(sp.?) are artificial humans/genetically created or something and when they die new memories/ personalities/identities are given to them.(Don't quote me on any of this, I was watching the movie at 2 a.m.) But it didn't seem to be referencing anything spiritual as far as I could tell.[/SPOILER]


I hope that helps. Overall I still thought it was an excellent movie and the animation was great.


Thanks for the additions. I only saw Sky Crawlers a couple months ago, so I didn't really remember all of it.
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Postby rocklobster » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:16 pm

Just saw it today. Kinda boring for the most part, definitely not nearly as good as Oshii's other works. I give it a C.
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Postby Fish and Chips » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:32 pm

rocklobster (post: 1329973) wrote:Just saw it today. Kinda boring for the most part, definitely not nearly as good as Oshii's other works. I give it a C.
But...he's a genius.
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Postby m12specops » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:43 pm

just saw the movie... it was weird. It kind of left me hanging and sort of expecting a sequel. Overall very good though.
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