Art Form in the true sense of the word
I believe that movies, animated or not, are all considered "art". Cinematography anyone? I might be misunderstanding the meaning of cinematography here but it IS considered as an art form.
Ironic that "live action" characters are so 2-dimensionally flat, predictable, and boring...while 2D characters have more depth and personality making them far more real and believable.
I sure need to watch more animes if it's truly the case. :S
With Hollywood movies and TV, live-action or animated, the villain is nearly always mindlessly evil, crazy, or both. The hero is always the really cool guy, or the geek who's on his way to being a really cool guy. In anime, heros and villains are often harder or nearly impossible to tell apart. The heros sometimes act in ways that make us doubt whether they're really heros, and the villains are usually quite convinced that they're the ones doing heroic deeds; they're not just doing bad deeds because the plot requires someone to do them.
I have the weird sensation that anime often uses the goody goody hero and the simply evil vilain quite often. *Thinks*
Must... put Togari on... anime series/ovas. A hero closer to the devil than the other protagonists.
And some more, unfortunately the only animes I've seen often have a hero too nice for his own good and all. Suggestions anyone?
Anyway, A lot of arguments here are valuable, I therefore choose:
Anime. Why? Because I don't know enough movies to compare them with animes. Although some Quebec movies (and some others I can't remember) are highly better than 98% of the animes I've seen. Unfortunately not enough to start going to the theaters more often.
I do watch more TV though, they are called Animal Planet and Discovery Channel with a hint of funny shows here and there.
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