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| Appleseed Ex Machina (Single-Disc Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Shinji Aramaki
Actors: Ai Kobayashi, Koichi Yamadera, Yuji Kishi, Kong Kuwata, Shinpachi Tsuji
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  109 reviews
Sales Rank: 12748
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD120064D
UPC: 085391200642
EAN: 0085391200642
ASIN: B0010358CQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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 Unwatchable March 11, 2008
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
Much like the last installment, this movie has a couple big action sequences that may excite the small child within you followed by an hour and a half's worth of pandering, formulaic writing you'd have to actually be a small child to sit through without rolling your eyes. It's like they took the first Patlabor, added a couple of subplots from Star Trek, tacked on some insipid romance dreck and then threw in a re-creation of JFK's funeral just in case they'd still failed to evoke any semblance of emotion. This fails on more levels than I could even hope to count, and the already weak story's progressive disintegration into "techno-zombies are very slowly attacking the city!" is just painful to watch.
Shirow clearly had little to no involvement in either of these films, which is a shame because the original story (as he wrote it) was actually fairly interesting. All this is is a committee designed licensing agreement and you can pretty much shut it off after the first 8 minutes without fear of missing out on anything important. The packaging is nice at least.
 Disappointing - save your money March 14, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
Truly disappointing in so many ways it's hard to know where to start.
Dialogue - The worst aspect of this movie is the unbelievably horrible dialogue; so bad it will make you cringe.
Story - As others have noted, you get the feeling there were multiple writers for the story and they kept getting fired and only using half of the previous writers work; a few almost interesting points are brought up in the movie and then abandoned before they can be explored. It should also be noted that the movie steals (without adding or improving) quite a lot from other movies, the matrix, the borg cube, etc.
Animation - While it's admittedly a nice clean HD transfer, the actual CG animation used looks like it's from one of the straight-to-video Barbie movies; half the time the characters move in a very unnatural, stilted way.
My recommendation: instead of purchasing this, just watch the previous Appleseed movie again, it wasn't that great either, but much better than this.
 Correction March 1, 2008
4 out of 20 found this review helpful
correction to Mr. (The Bandit King) this is the blu-ray format and not the HD-DVD, so have fun everyone this one is a great movie.
Looks pretty but this is not the same Appleseed March 12, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
This looks very good. The visuals are amazing on an HDTV. I am about 30 mins into the movie and I have to say that the story, acting and animation is horrible.
First the actors from the first do not lend their voices to this one.
Some of the characters seem to be different than from the first movie. The acting is pretty stiff and cliche (the tough cyborg guy is annoying).
Some of the fights are just stupid for stupids sake. I mean does Duenan and Briarious need to spin and do cartwheels while shooting? It doesn't even look cool, just stupid.
Why did they go with CGI models 100% this time? Did the old animated cells not work anymore? It sure looked a LOT better.
The events from the first movie don't even seem to play a part at all which is a shame.
I loved the first movie but I wouldn't consider this deserving of the same name. I will be selling this shortly as I regret buying it.
2 stars just because if you mute it, it looks very sharp.
This movie will define HI-DEF Animation March 12, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ok, first of all, if you're not an anime-fan, you'd feel a bit lost on what's the big deal with this.
If you don't know Shirow Masamune, then you'd definitely feel lost.
If you know John Woo and had followed his work...then this will catch your attention. thumbsup.gif
Imagine, Mission Impossible 2, Face Off, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow 1,2,3, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Target in animation.
If you like The Matrix cyberpunk story, this is for you, except its not dark to hide its flaws. This movie actually celebrates details. And details are abound in here. Even if its a close up in the eyes, the mouth, the lips, the jawlines.
If your a gamer that starves into details; who spends $500 on a videocard so you can see the textures of those leaves in Crysis, then this movie is definitely for you. This movie does not cut any corners in textures and details. If a character is wearing a leather jacket, you'll see leather. The CGs in this movie is tremendous. I've seen it twice in a 24hr-span I'm still seeing things I've never noticed in the beginning. The motion capture technology is simply amazing.
Ok, but does it have a story?
Does Jason and the Argonauts have an interesting story?
Is it really ground breaking? When Gene Roddenberry introduce the communicator, he brought in the cellphone.
Shirow Masamune introduced a theory in sci-fi, brings a story into this, but continues by illustrates it also.
It tackles a love story, technology available now and the future, politics, ethics, ideology, and the dilemma that each brings into the story. If you look closely at the armor protections, paddings and vest, you'll see them in current Blackhawk vest, and those riot gears worn by cops worldwide. Even the the FN PN-90 resembles one of the Seburo PDW
With all talks about eye-candy, then maybe perhaps this is a guy movie. The hero in this movie is a woman.
The people in power are women. The women here are powerful in the sense of strength, character, and conviction.
This Matrix with Trinity as the center of the movie.
Is this a date movie? Was Open Water a date movie? I thought so, since it deals with emotions on both the joy that a relationship brings and the love of separation, of acceptance. Bioroids/synthetic body parts/cyborgs may seem cold, but the emotions in each character are delivered. Despite one of the major character, Briareos Hecatonchires faceless facade, his body language are enough to say or deliver his lines.
There are topics that discusses the nature of being a human vs a clone. Would you continue to have feeling towards someone who is a clone? Would you let someone go to save your own?
I bet the ladies will notice the style and textures differently from guys.
The guys in these forum will love the shooting gallery scene
Shirow Masamune's mind something to be admired and ponder. Here he writes a story about the future, yet he discuss are slavery towards technology like the Bluetooth earpiece. I know ppl who seems to sleep, shower, and have sex with a Bluetooth earpiece. Politically, he shares the idea a utopia where everything flows like clockwork and smoothly, yet vulnerable to terrorism, as we are now. He brings the technology in medicine that allows us to continue life and existence, yet prone to the devices that makes the delicate-geniuses-in lab coats criminally insane.
If there is a movie that deserves to be in HI-DEF, this is that movie.
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