REDLINE

[Burnt Lasagna]

http://www.sneakpeek.ca/2012/01/redline-races-on-roboworld.html


Has anyone here seen this yet? If not I recommend you do!

It's probably the best thing to come out of anime since Akira and is also the best looking animated film to come out since...well, Akira!

You can see the trailer for it here on youtube.

You can also rent it from youtube for $4.

[geise]

Hell yeah MADHOUSE!  Thanks for sharing Burnt!

[SignOfZeta]

This looks a lot more sensational and simplistic than Akira. Not that I'm a huge Akira fan, I'm not. There is way better stuff, IMHO. I'm just saying that this looks like mindless action stuff whereas Akira was a lot more than motorcycle chase scenes and violence.

It does have a nice look to it. It isn't maids, and it's a theatrical release, so I'll give it a shot.

[Burnt Lasagna]

I'm just saying that this looks like mindless action stuff whereas Akira was a lot more than motorcycle chase scenes and violence.

It does have a nice look to it. It isn't maids, and it's a theatrical release, so I'll give it a shot.

I meant more along the lines that both movies are big budget anime movies with a light main stream appeal and beautiful animation.
It was only in theaters for a very limited amount of time and in select theaters. It's out on blue-ray now which is what I saw it on

[Tatsujin]

It looks cool, kinda east meets west style, but there where many many animes post Akira which put this one into the dust bin.

[SignOfZeta]

It looks cool, kinda east meets west style, but there where many many animes post Akira which put this one into the dust bin.

Ghost in the Shell, Porco Rosso, the three Zeta Gundam compilations, Jin Roh, Patlabor 1&2, Memories...

[munchiaz]

looks pretty neat. I've been out of the anime loop for awhile now.

[_Paul]

Finally something worth buying.

[geise]

From a pure animation standpoint this is some of the best I've seen in a long long time.  MADHOUSE has always been one of my favorite studios.  Very fluid animation.  I love the style they're going for as well.  I miss all the anime movies there used to be.  This is one more reason I'm into this.  It's a movie and not a series.

[Burnt Lasagna]

I miss all the anime movies there used to be.  This is one more reason I'm into this.  It's a movie and not a series.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

I miss films like this where it's less about what they're doing and more about how they do it.
Essentially it doesn't matter how simple the plot is, it's the style in which they tell it that makes movie.

[Ji-L87]

I've heard good things about it and should probably pick it up as well. Either when it comes here or through import or whatever. The saddest thing is though, was it released on LaserDisc, I would've have an even easer time to pick it up :p

But yes, this sort of thing is just what the industry...or rather, we need. They should go on about releasing original OVAs and stuff like that again. I suppose there is some (or rather, I'm sure there are - just can't remember them) but the industry can only take so much late-night anime turned censor-free DVD releases before it loses all originality and becomes a miserable pile of moe clichés and stereotypes. Some of it is fine but there's just too much now.

_{Dang, I feel really bummed out about missing out the whole shabang with fansubs on VHS tapes and the like...}

[majors]

I liked it but a buddy that I was watching it with fell asleep. I knew going in, it was Madhouse- all hand-drawn, so I was more interested in the style/art of it than story.

Shit blew up and it had boobs...the two things I look for in anime, like Ghost in the Shell

Check out Cat Shit One, no boobs but cool CG and shit blows up real good. It's like Metal Gear with gerbils. (trust me, it sounds weird but it works visually very well)

I also liked the first part of Freedom (the second half was ass). It had some cool racing scenes also.

[Retrocool]

I may be hated for this, but I really did not like Akira at all..... it kind of bored me to death.  Tho' this one looks pretty sweet and I am now looking for it....

[Ji-L87]

I may be hated for this, but I really did not like Akira at all..... it kind of bored me to death.  Tho' this one looks pretty sweet and I am now looking for it....

Belonging sort of in the same camp, but different. I saw it very late (some year ago) and after seeing all artwork with Kaneda and the iconic bike, I thought it would be focusing much more on that. The whole super natural spin didn't sit very well with what I was expecting and what I wanted to watch.
I still believe it's a real looker, it has me drooling in terms of actual animation but theme-wise, it's not my cup of tea.

In other news, my copy of REDLINE was shipped yesterday.

[Burnt Lasagna]

I may be hated for this, but I really did not like Akira at all..... it kind of bored me to death.

Yeah I can understand that.
When I said...

It's probably the best thing to come out of anime since Akira

I meant more in terms of it being one of the more main stream anime films to come since Akira. Which the whole industry is in dire need of (at least in US).

[RegalSin]

My opinion...........

Commercial rubbish. The moment I read Redline, I thought about the auwsome film that did not have cars. Instead you showed us an animation which features pop-art simular to viewtiful, but with no shadows ( note the skin textures ), and characters that scream F-zero. In fact was their not a F-zero animation already??? I know their is a comic out their somewhere. Did I mention it is probably a prodigy of the same film that had cars, but being animated could have nothing to do with it.

It reminds me of the recently animated "Level E". The comic was released around the same year as "Men In Black". Same exact world but they have a differnt story. I bet it is a prodigy of "Redline" the racer film.

It is nothing in comparison to Akira. Akira was Present Day. Akira even had a whole entire series behind it. This thing does not even touch Tri-gun.

Speaking of Redline, this is the auwsome film I was thinking about

That is Redline

....................

Not even looking at the FF7 preview, because it is going to be bleh.

[SignOfZeta]

To your average shithead, it's just as good as Akira. That guy up there who only like Ghost in the Shell, one of the greatest and most cerebral scifi epic series of all time, because it has "boobs Nd guns" or whatever...to guys that that, this is just as good.

I can totally get behind superficial anime (Birth, 5555, Five Star Stories, Iczer, MADOX) I'm just saying that, for those that choose, there is more to it than that.

[Burnt Lasagna]

To your average shithead, it's just as good as Akira.

Okay guys, I'm sorry I compared this to Akira/ brought it up in the first place.
Didn't think it would cause so much controversy.

[Ji-L87]

MADOX.

YES. Yes.

It's all kind of pointless, stupid even, but I love it.

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, MADOX was basically a real of really cool animations strung together with zero plot. It never for a second pretended to be anything else, and I love it for that. A lot of OVAs were like that. "I want to see cool shit happen, but nobody will front the funds for a film or TV series. Also, we will need 10x the money per cut than usual." This is how we got Megazone and Bubblegun Crisis and stuff like that. People would shell out 9800 yen for a half hour and get something awesome as hell.

[Ji-L87]

People would shell out 9800 yen for a half hour and get something awesome as hell.

Yeah, which reminds me that Japan's pricing for anime has always been pretty aggressive. Their DVDs & Blurays are still mad expensive. Speaking of which, I think I saw BGC released for Blu-Ray on Amazon jp or something the other day. Was very temped, but I'd rather collect the series on LD first 

I would love to further derail this thread talking about sweet OVAs but I will try to return to the subject a little bit.
I will admit not having watched too many anime movies (many that I should see, I know) but it feels a bit like, I don't know, the anime movie has more in common with all those bad ass OVAs and such than all recent TV series. I know I'm repeating myself from the first page by saying this, but I feel that the anime industry has managed to paint itself in a corner. And can really REDLINE change that in any way...? 

...probably not. There's not just enough of "those kind of fans", I think. If you've watched Otaku no Video, you know that guy who got worked up about how real the animation was, who managed to secure actual animation cells and design documents - that's the kind of fan who would love, for example, MADOX or BGC. But right now, most fans seems to be the guy wearing the Fate-chan t-shirt, sitting in his Fate-chan decorated room filled with Fate-chan merchandise.

Gee, I think I derailed it again. Oops.