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mbarkerI know, it's old and was heavily panned - but it just made it to Japanese TV, and I watched it.
I thought it got bogged down in trying to be romance, character, let's build up some kind of mystical background - and lost track of the action in the muddle. In the middle of all the other stuff, the story is a revenge story, starting with the death of the heroine, and her resurrection/transformation. But then we've got a slow, slow flashback filling in her life and times, setting the stage for the evil empire that is pushing addictive, untested cosmetics. Yech, pooie - cut out all the atmospherics, socio-economic posturing, and focus on the special effects of her new lifestyle and the revenge plot, and this might not be bad. Of course, that would cut three-fourths of the current film, but . . .
The point for the writer, I think, is to keep a tight focus on the plot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327554/ has all the details.
I thought it got bogged down in trying to be romance, character, let's build up some kind of mystical background - and lost track of the action in the muddle. In the middle of all the other stuff, the story is a revenge story, starting with the death of the heroine, and her resurrection/transformation. But then we've got a slow, slow flashback filling in her life and times, setting the stage for the evil empire that is pushing addictive, untested cosmetics. Yech, pooie - cut out all the atmospherics, socio-economic posturing, and focus on the special effects of her new lifestyle and the revenge plot, and this might not be bad. Of course, that would cut three-fourths of the current film, but . . .
The point for the writer, I think, is to keep a tight focus on the plot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327554/ has all the details.
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Re: And one from you to us
Date: 2008-02-24 03:25 am (UTC)My theory is that we've got more and more channels trying to fill 24 hours a day, so almost anything is likely to turn up somewhere. Lots of stuff that in the past wouldn't make it now seems to be coming back as filler.