What really get me with a lot of anime (not the Hentai/Tentacle porn stuff) is that it’s what Hollywood should be. Great, “Adult” stories, plots as deep as the ocean, characters you can forget are nit real with the greatest of ease...
But over there, they don’t write to the lowest common denominator like we do here. At least not to the same degree. Sure they do the wild and wacky stuff and the porn. But their GITS style stuff is better than most anything we have done for a long time.
“What really get me with a lot of anime (not the Hentai/Tentacle porn stuff) is that it’s what Hollywood should be. Great, “Adult” stories, plots as deep as the ocean, characters you can forget are nit real with the greatest of ease...”
Preaching to the choir, dude. Think about what Pixar should be doing along with the general family stuff.
Take a franchise like Robert E. Howard’s Conan. Awesome American stories that have never been put on the big screen as they should. Although the first Conan is a cool Swords and Sorcery movie, it is an aweful Conan movie. It cries out to be animated, like Frazetta come to life with a budget, uncut. They had an awesome chance with ‘a Princess of Mars’ and blew it. Although ‘John Carter’ isn’t completely horrendous, it isn’t what I picture from ERB and a studio like Pixar should have been able to get close.
Imagine Pixar doing a straight up episodic take on Jack Vance’s the Dying Earth or Planet of Adventure. And they are episodic picaresque stories anyhow.
I thought Samurai Jack might be the best thing cartoon network ever did, might be the best western cartoon in recent years. Adventure Time is pretty cool too, though.
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