Grim... wrote:
throughsilver wrote:
kalmar wrote:
Donnie Brasco isn't bad. Most mafia movies do pale next to The Sopranos though, like kissyfur said.
Donnie Brasco's beauty makes me cry. Top 20 on
my Flickchart.
Akira is an interesting choice. Better than Appleseed or Ghost in the Shell, you reckon?
Appleseed (the original anime) was shockingly bad. I've not seen the posh new one. Ghost in the Shell was pretty, but left me cold. Shirow adaptations largely suffer because they're so poor compared to his ludicrously dense manga. Granted, Akira is the ultimate in weighty manga tomes, but they managed incredibly well in making it 124 mins. Dominion is actually my favourite Shirow adaptation. This is partly because it was allowed more time, and partly because the source material was relatively shallow and... convenient, for want of a better word.
Rivals for anime glory would be Mononoke (natch, as well as Ponyo and My Neighbour Totoro from Miyazake), Project A-Ko and Paprika. I never did see Wings of Honneamise or Patlabor.
But yeah, Akira is better than most things: in danger of being the first film I have bought on VHS, DVD and BD.