Akira!

Starslasher · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:25 am Post subject: Akira!

I just watched Akira on DVD last night. I remembered watching it on AXN, but the last half hour of it. Man, it was a very unwise decision of me to eat noodles while watching. I was getting naesous at the climax. But when i saw the same scene again, it wasn't so bad.

So, were you guys able to keep your stomachs from churning at the most graphic part of the movie?

Daniel Blackhand · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:06 am Post subject:

I watched Akira without any problems with it. IT is one of the oddest movies I have ever seen before but all in all I thought it was a very good movie.
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Axiose · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:32 am Post subject:

I first watched Akira when I was 9, and I was eating a jam donut at the time...not a wise move.

But I watched it the very next day and was fine. I think it's the initial shock of it, because at that time, there was never anything like that (in my realm of movies) but it opens a whole new world of movies after that. It also de-sensitizes you to pretty much everything else lol
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Starslasher · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:

You're right about the desensitizing part. Even though when i was 8, i was watching Saint Seiya and remembering people being burned in lavas, arms getting cut off and stuff, and it didn't bother me.

Celes Tilly · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:32 am Post subject:

I was a bit sickened out when I saw that part... urf. Good movie and stuff, just arrrrgh.
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Daniel Blackhand · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:

As I said before I loved Akira but for graphic violence I found Ninja Scroll much more graphic. Akira's graphics are more in the realm of total weird out factor which is part of the appeal to the movie.
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Arevus · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject:

When I was watching it, sure I was grossed out, but I couldn't figure out what was happening to him. Never really got a chance to ask anyone either. Would anyone bother explaining it? What was all the stuff coming out of him..?
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Stormbringer · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

I first saw the movie when I was about six or seven, and was emotionally scarred afterwards. The most disturbing part for me at that time was when his body was going nuts and the girl was inside of him...and yeah.
I recently saw it again with my friend and my sister, and I can say that it didn't seem as bad the second time around.
Did anyone else notice that the characters constantly scream each others names?
And at the end of the movie, did they die or did the children go off to another dimension type thingy?
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Starslasher · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject:

Yeah, i'm somewhat claustrophobic, and being crushed inside someone's body by their muscles is very disturbing. I know what you mean Stormbringer.

The shouting thing doesn't seem to be stragne to me. It's done in other animes, but most people tend to use that

" Kanedaaaaa!!!!!"/"Tetsuoooooooo!!!!!!"

bit a whole lot.

As for the kids disappearing, keep in mind that they got a whole lot of the energy that Kay (is that how it's spelled?) described. You know, about the energy that all things have and leads to evolution. Well, no one knows what exactly happened to those kids and Tetsuo, but an educated guess would bring me to say taht they were disperesed throughout the universe. Hence, the very last scene, you see the little speck of light and all and the last words: "I....am....Tetsuo...."
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Schala-Kid · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

it is Kai.

well, i watched on a day i was suffering from food poisoning. it didn't cause me to feel any more nauseated - i guess i'm old enough to know it is "just anime" so while it was a bit disturbing, i am in no way scarred or sickened by what i saw.

i'll have to watch it again to understand it, and i might as well - i own it!

Stormbringer · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject:

Well starslasher me and my friend just so happened to be _very_ high on caffeine and it was approximately 11 p.m. when we watched it, so the whole thing became sort of a joke-ish thing, to keep us up through the movie...you're probably right about the energy thing though. It's interesting to think about how this movie has human evolution set up and the limits to that power....of course that's just me trying to be profound :P
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