Anime movies

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:00 pm

Anime movies (Jin-Roh, GitS, Akira, ...) have always been my fav and I'm looking for a few others (quite well-known please. Living in Belgium, I really can't find anime DVD very easily).
Sorry for the newbie question but it would be kind of you all to post a bunch of names and a one word description (action, drama, ...), thanks ^_^.

I'm asking this for my next AMV. I use anime movies only (way easier to work with one big file than a bunch of episodes) and I'd like to have a little list to choose in...

Lone Wolf · Post by **Lone Wolf** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:43 pm

Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Comedy, Action, etc.)

I'm not really sure because I've never seen this, but it must be like the series...

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:51 pm

Yep but I was speaking about stand alone movies, without any serie behind.

Wykith · Post by **Wykith** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 5:13 pm

You can watch that movie without touching the series. Actually it was the movie that got me interested in the series.
Try Vampire Hunter D and D Bloodlust.
Perfect Blue....(psychological thriller) as far as I know the only one of its kind
Ninja Scroll, ageless classic.
and AKIRA because love it or hate it, you suck if you don't watch it.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 7:17 pm

"Memories". I got to watch the first 1/3 of it, and it seems pretty good. And definitely "Knocking On Heaven's Door".

Metro · Post by **Metro** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:52 pm

"Grave of the Fireflies"
- nice and depressing
"Macross Plus Movie"
- I have only seen the ovas but I heard that the ending for the Movie is a little more well developed
"Spriggan"
- good action/adventure movie, reminds me of Akira
"Escaflowne"
- nice mech design, and I liked the bitter-sweet ending
"Death&Rebirth/End of Eva"
- love it or hate it, its Eva
"Metropolis"
- I severely disliked this one, but alot of people liked it
"Utena: The movie"
- I plan on watching this one after I finish the series (hmmm, i'm suddenly hungry for curry rice...)
"Wings of Honneamise"
- Another one on my too watch list, produced by the boys as Gainax, Critics seem to like it
Anything by Miyazaki
- always good time with these films

and this is just a small list, hopefully most of these films are well known enough that you can find them in Belgium,(hell, alot of these movies were at my local block buster ^_^)

you might want to check out http://www.animeondvd.com for a list of dvds available in your region. However, since you are in the same region as Japan, I don't know how helpful this will be.

-Metro

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:58 pm

Nomination seconded very heavily for Wings of Honneamise. It's amazing to drink in all the details; how entire cultures were redrawn from scratch to make 'em different that what we're used to. Very little things, like the rod-shaped coins, triangular frying pans, and a beautiful single-shot pistol. Oh, and the aircraft! So different than we normally see, and at the same time eminently flyable.

Wyverex · Post by **Wyverex** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 6:02 am

Thanks a lot all, I wrote them down. But keep 'em coming ^_^.

kthulhu> Yep, Magnetic Rose is one of the best anime I've ever seen. Check my last AMV (see sig)

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Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 9:39 am

Venus Wars (adventure), if you can find it subtitled, the dub of it sucks royally.

Escaflowne (adventure) the movie, I'ts basically a codensing of the series.

Kite and Mezzo Forte (Action) both done by the same animator good psychological action flicks.

Both of the Armitage movies (Action).

Dominion Tank Police (Action Comedys) good movies based on the manga by Masamune Shirow, the creator of GitS.

Wykith · Post by **Wykith** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 11:16 am

While your at it watch Midnight Panther and F3. You might like'em.