I first saw Avatar 13 years and three days ago and never went back. Nobody talks about it. It raked in huge amounts of cash, but it hardly made the zeitgeist. Nobody wanted four sequels. It was just James Cameron wasting his career on a disappointing pet project. But – this film is a blast.
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Is this better than Train to Busan? No, probably not, but it’s close in its own way. It’s better than Seoul Station, which was OK, but Peninsula is a must-see.
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A feature-length, non-theatrical anime from Toho and Netflix, which forms the first chapter of a series in three parts. This was good, mostly. The CGI-hybrid style of animation was equal parts stunning and distracting. It’s obviously computer-rendered, but shaded in a way that simulates the flat look of hand-drawn. It can sometimes look weirdly cheap-looking, to my eyes at least, …
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There’s no real need to make pastiche good/bad movies when bad movies like The Ninja Squad are so, so good.
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The joke about this film was always that, historically, humans meeting dinosaurs and Raquel Welch’s salon-perfect hairdo are both naively inaccurate. Which kind of misses the point. This is a fantasy romp.
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