A whole basketball stadium of Haruhi cosplayers eh?
Sounds scary.
Nate (post: 1354196) wrote:The movie will be 1 hour and 15 minutes of a still picture of Haruhi, slowly fading into darkness.
Not really, but it'd be pretty hilarious if it was. It'd probably be hailed as a great work of art though, I mean, Empire is hailed as a great movie and culturally significant and all it is is eight hours of a single shot of the Empire State Building.
For an art class we took a trip downtown to a local gallery. Among more traditional portraits and sculptures was a 24-hour reel of a man lugging around a giant wooden elephant on wheels around suburbia.Bobtheduck (post: 1354225) wrote:I think the only thing Andy Warhol had to offer was that art is whatever the crap you want it to be, and doesn't have to be personal even. Art can be mass produced, it can be somewhat thoughtless, talentless... But I digress.
Can't wait for the movie, except I don't know when it will hit a form I can watch...
japanator.com wrote:Hosoda Mamoru to direct Haruhi film... NOT!
Every time I come across a news story like this, I lose a little more respect for KyoAni and Kadokawa.
Many Haruhiists are hotly anticipating the upcoming Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie, viewing it as a chance for KyoAni to make amends for the Endless Eight disaster. Recently, director Hosoda Mamoru claimed that he had been asked to direct the Disappearance film. This seems like a match made in heaven... Mamoru has already directed two popular anime films, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, both of which are very similar in tone to Haruhi. Furthermore, many critics have hailed him as the next Hayao Miyazaki. Doesn't he seem like the perfect choice to revitalize the Haruhi franchise?
Apparently, KyoAni doesn't think so. Mamoru said that, even after he had accepted the offer, the producers decided to scrap him, apparently in favor of their own in-house directors. Meanwhile, Mamoru is already in the planning stages for his next film.
Regardless of how Disapperance turns out, a nagging question will always stick in the back of fans' minds: what if Hosoda Mamoru had directed it instead?
blkmage (post: 1387327) wrote:So, Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. I destroyed my eyes watching a horribly low quality version.
Since Haruhi is a series that generates a lot of ire, regardless of whether or not it deserves it, I feel like I need to preface my thoughts on the movie with some remarks. I watched Haruhi not too long after it aired back in 2006. At the time, it was a show that was very different from other shows at the time, in terms of both production quality and story. Yeah, some people like it and that causes them to be annoying. I'm not going to hold those people against the show, which is good.
At the same time, Kyoto Animation itself has gained some ill feelings directed towards it. Other than the second half of Clannad After Story, 2009 was not a very good year for KyoAni and their standing with people. Munto wasn't very good, K-ON! did really well but made a bunch of people rage anyway, and LOL at Haruhi's second season. I'm not going to hold this against Disappearance. To be quite honest, I'm more upset that 2009 has pretty much poisoned any conversation I try to have about the rest of Haruhi.
Now then, Disappearance is based on the fourth volume of the Haruhi light novel series. It is also the story that a lot of people consider the peak of the series, although I'm not so sure I agree. It's definitely where a lot of things really start for the series though and it is very, very good. If you enjoyed the light sci-fi stuff and were getting tired of high-school shenanigans, Disappearance will please you. Because it's not just wackiness all the time like the majority of the show, it has a different air to it.
And this is where I can understand why a lot of people are mad at Kyoto Animation. People aren't just mad that KyoAni is working on K-ON!. People are mad because KyoAni is really good at what they do and are doing things that are wasting that talent away, and this movie shows it. Instead of the action or comedy that we got in the show, we now have suspense. And so a lot of the movie is in its atmosphere.
The movie is pretty substantial, clocking in at about two hours and forty-two minutes. The first half of the movie will be most familiar, as Kyon is gathering just what's going on around him. For anyone who hasn't read the fourth volume of the light novels yet, the second half will likely surprise you. It's a fairly different take on the usual supernatural shenanigans and the cause of it will likely surprise you too.
Disappearance is really good. It's always been regarded as an excellent story and the movie is an excellent adaptation as well as being an excellent movie in its own right (unlike, say, the first Eden of the East movie). The thing is, I don't know whether I would have liked this as part of a second season of Haruhi or not. Now that I've seen it, it works really well as a movie and I can't really imagine it as a string of six or seven episodes.
And I really like Disappearance because I finally have something I can point to and say that this is the stuff in Haruhi that I enjoy. I am very glad that the stuff that we saw in the first and second seasons is mostly a dry well at this point and the remaining material is in the vein of this movie. So yes, Haruhi is very much back on the map for me, given KyoAni's excellent work. I'll be looking forward to finally seeing my favourite parts of the series in animation.
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