Really Surprised!

As Good As It Gets

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This was a decent anime adaption of Masamune Shirow's manga but is boringly stretched out for too long. If you have seen this, then i don't have to explain the story. The Manga UK English dub is filled with colorful profanity scattered throughout the movie which can make sense giving the theme of the story. The music is catchy with the ending them song being sung by Risa Yuuki.I found the character designs to be quite nice which were drawn by Yumiko Horasawa, and have a good 'warrior' feel to them (for 1988 they were good).This is a anime film you are going to want to rent instead of buy because I found it somewhat boring and not really any good.I give Appleseed a 5/10.

This movie is (unintentionally) hilarious.There is more swearing than any other genre of movie I know (including Tarantino and Sam Kinnison concerts.)The 80's genre is crippling in its obviousness. It's all here: shoulder pads, jazzercize, and women with really big hair.Think of it as a cyberpunk NC-17 version of the original 80's Transformers TV show. The archetypes are ham-fisted and the character relationships are nebulous at best, farcical at worst. And the dialogue is on the nose the way a really angry 14 yo would write it. Appleseed (1988) So bad...it's good. May want to watch under the influence of something, however...In closing I leave you with this pearl excerpted from the scene where the villain is slain:BAD GUY: "What the f.ing hell?! Christ...The f.ing c..cksucker!" (move over Shakespeare... move the f.ck over!)

Pretty decent for his early work and no Kokaku Kidotai without it, and gets an 2 points extra for the easter eggs. For Shirow definitely a rung in the ladder. I am biased as a Shirow fan but this was a big step from Dirty Pair which was what I knew of him. Violent fun with a porno soundtrack! You cannot help but notice that. I know people appreciate him for Ghost in the Shell..but all of the deep spiritual overtones were dealt with in Appleseed. ESWAT killing terrorists, the struggle for humans to stay viable as bioroids phase them out, and Deunan staying thin despite her intake of junk food. Definitely like the characters even the traitor..and I do not know why.

Based on the manga (comic) of well-known artist Masamune Shirow, this animated feature was a slight disappointment to me.The story is good, but the animation is merely "OK" while it could/should have been mindblowing. The movie is IMO adequate, but seems somehow flat & uninspired, if you know what I mean. A wasted opportunity, if you consider that another work by Shirow, "Ghost In The Shell", is considered a classic in many respects. It set new standards for Japanese animation, and spawned, among other things, a brilliant series called "GiTS: Stand Alone Complex".I consider this worth a rental, unless you're a fan of Shirow and want it all. Do check out the original manga, which comes highly recommended.