[QUOTE="dawso0n"][QUOTE="Chloroformality"][QUOTE="Hinata237"][QUOTE="Chloroformality"] It's not that anime is weird, it's just that the talented artists who have been lucky enough to grace the market with a bugeted picture are crappy storytellers.
Anime suffers from having poor stories. However, seeing as how they're still considered "cartoons," the easily impressed public dismiss the bad storytelling for the pretty imagery.
Nobody expects cartoons to be life-changing, really.
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Dude, it depends on the anime, some animes have wonderful stories. Blood+ is a beautiful anime with a amazing story thats realistic. Depends on the person.
Some people are easily impressed by what they think is a truly thought-out story, but most animes suffer from cliche elements and themes when it comes to story. That, or they think literature is considered as "experimental" as a medium such as animation and tend to go overboard with the plots, dialogue, etc. In the end, they dish out cliche mixed with a bit of over-exaggeration.
Literature has a lot more rules to it than almost every other medium around. Why? Because not only does a good story have meaning, is relative, and interesting, but it also has restrictions that keep it from being too "in your face."
Anime breaks those rules constantly.
....actually, Japanese storytelling has broken those rules since they entered their now-admirable common era.
The last Japanese story I read that actually made sense and was good was The Tale of Genji..... but..... none of that coming from Japan anymore.
Again watch a real anime before you judge i agree 80% of anime is generic crap but most anime has more story than you give credit i understand anime is not for you but calling the story in your face is just stupid quintin taranteno breaks all your rules everyone loves hime why beacause to make cake you have to break a few eggs now please leave this thread as you are seriously close minded
Again, my point is that MORE story isn't good at all. If someone has to watch a movie twice, just to catch all the loose ends, it hasn't done it's job right. If people have to read a story twice just to understand it, it has downright failed.
I never even said Tarantino was good. I actually can't stand his over-exaggeration with his films. His dialogue tends to be good, but his stories are a little too simple for the sake of visual stimulation. Yet.... like you said.... everyone likes him, right? That MUST make him good.
Seeing as how 50% of America purchaced a George Forman Grill, I don't tend to base the quality of something off of its popular demand.
However, I can see why someone like you would like him, his movies are very action oriented.... like an Anime. However, most of the people your age didn't know who the hell he was until Kill Bill (very Anime like) was released.
Yeah, I do like SOME anime, but when they keep their depth on a lower level and keep their action and story as two different variables.
A lot of action (an Anime favorite) is acceptable among the general public because we're basically monkeys who clap their hands at the first firework we see, which is why so many people like both Anime and Tarantino.
We're either of them books, I'd burn the crap out of them.
OK first thing first the foreman grill is GODLY!!! secondly the first Tarantino film i saw was Resivour Dogs Thankyou!
Now Mononoke is a MASTERPEICE beacsue it has so much depth to it you simply have to watch it over and over to see so many angels to this one amazing tale, a real faliure is a simple one dimentional film which within one watch i can see every little narrative device that seems like a 8 yearold wrote it (MI3 anyone???) anime isnt just action although i guess one major reason is anime can visualise most things without needing a superhuge budget.
From what you write it seems to me you like non-action simple minded films like lady killers or other really simple minded fimls like that so i think me and you are to opisits to the same extreme
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