Does Lexx have a Japanese influence?
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
I’d have to agree with JJ, I liked the Final Fantasy movie. But I’ve never played any of the games, and I can’t stand anime. True figuring ou what those thigns were was frustrating at first, but I thought they put a nice twist on two already cliched topics.
I wouldn’t say Final Fantasy was totally devoid of a story, only that the story played little part in the movie, most of it made little sense, frankly it was lame.
It reminded me of the pointless plots of the later Godzilla movies, where they did have a plot, but the main push was to see Godzilla in action.
Final Fantasy was amazing in terms of the way CGI can now pull off a human being, but the story had no depth and no emotion, and was confusing for the best part, worst of all was the ending, it kinda just stopped without explanation, it was kinda like over in no time,, and seemed to say ‘Right we’ve saved the day, let’s go home’.
I agree with Aleck on the first Godzilla movie, it was sinister and dark, they certainly wanted to make it a piece based around the guilt of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It was amazing that in 1956, when there were so many silly UFO movies, the director of the original Godzilla could pull off a geniunely frigtening monster movie, in it’s day it would definitely have warranted an R rating.
I kinda hoped Emerich and the other guy made their Godzilla in the same fashion, but it was just comical, they missed an opportunity to portray Godzilla as a legend and explore the myth, which is what Toho went on to do.
I feel the same way about Lexx in some ways, the movies were done with a certain seriousness (although, it was tongue in cheek), and they have failed to captivate the darkness of HDS, but then I suppose they never really tried after that.
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