Quick Picks 12/03/09

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Oh god Vexille! XD Now being a sci-fi geek at the very core of my love for all things nerdy and geeky, this was so bad to watch but in a really kind of awesome B-movie style way. Don't get me wrong the production value is fantastic and it looks really amazing but if you are looking for a good and original story I'd look elsewhere. Since the thing with Vexille is  the actual movie just rips so many bits and pieces from other famous sci-fi novels, movies and television shows and tries to cram them all into this dark take on the consequences of robotics and cybernetics with a romance subplot that is never explored in any depth, which just comes off as really poorly put together and the dialogue in the film is just as cringe inducing as the overall plot and the ridiculously schizophrenic soundtrack that changes from dark and moody to crazy techno mixed with wailing guitars to quiet for 20 seconds and than moves to the club with some trance music sometimes when nothing is really even happening.

It's weird to since when I first heard it was the people behind Appleseed I was so excited but than after about 20 minutes in I realized how when it comes to creating an original story instead of an established IP they end up falling apart.

I'd go into detail about the problems with the plot and how it's just a copy pasting of a bunch of worn out clichés in storytelling mixed with character and machine designs or references that are ripped from RoboCop, Mad Max, Ghost in the Shell, Dune, and Star Trek being the big ones and just generic sci-fi in a couple spots that stick out but I'm sure I'm missing a few. However it would be pretty spoiler heavy (in case someone actually cares about the story) and probably equivalent to a thousand word rant. Oh there is even a scene ripped straight from the ending of Resident Evil that is at the end of the movie. (the one with just Jill and Chris in the helicopter) 
 
Also I should note it's not exactly that it has this really poor plot it's that the movie takes itself seriously and as a Geekachu says almost like a drama with it which doesn't work when the level of storytelling is so poor.

Suffice to say that if you're looking for a really gorgeous 2D and 3D animation mix and can stand the really terrible story that is so bad it's good (keeping in mind I watched it with a room of about 15 other people and we all made fun about how terribly bad it was in a hilarious B-Movie kind of way) and a soundtrack that has absolutely no awareness of what is actually happening on the screen than you'll probably enjoy watching this movie. I would recommend making sure to get some other people to watch it with you and being of the mindset to not expect a lot from the story at all except for an excuse for big dumb action sequences that look really badass. 
 
Anyway so did anyone else burst out laughing when the video showed some picture of a yaoi manga called Stallion?

"@Konanda: Interesting-- you should post this as a review :)  Oh, Stallion. If you ever wanted a Cowboys vs "Injuns" yaoi, well, there it is. ;) I will say that Studio Kosen's art is probably my favorite of the global yaoi creators I've come upon. "