Comments on: Trigun: Badlands Rumble Movie Review

By: spamfromjapan

spamfromjapan — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:16:49 +0000

I remember Vash doing that in the series, but this time it seemed over the top. Something was off this time around, but it could well be my memory of the original.

By: TheBigMystery

TheBigMystery — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:01:40 +0000

Hmm about Vash following Amelia around…My theory is that he KNOWS that *spoiler* Amelia is Gasbacks daughter from the get-go. Its not the first time he would use that key instinct of his. And even at the end Wolfwood mentions about Amelia’s age, and Vash just flakes it off. There’s multiple scenarios to this: A.) He’s just saying how young she is, B.) How Vash was flirting with her (though this is my least possible reason, since he just does flirting for show), or C.), my choice, That he knew who she was all along, by age and or/looks alike. I actually could tell by looking at them…but thats just me.
OH GOD Trigun makes me think… o_O

By: spamfromjapan

spamfromjapan — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:03:45 +0000

Btw, if you have a blog with a KOT review on it, I’ll happily link to your post on my own review of the movie.

By: spamfromjapan

spamfromjapan — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:00:45 +0000

I love it when I get replies like this, so thanks! (Just in case you can’t tell my intent on the internet, I’m completely sincere.)

First off, I’ve never read the King of Thorn manga. That usually has a huge effect on whether people like an adaptation. Thing is, I love tv series and movies in the ‘mindfuck’ genre (for lack of a better description). The kind of ones that play with what you thought you knew about characters and their reality. I also liked the anime Gilgamesh for that reason, although I heard that it had been seriously changed from the manga too (perhaps more so, since I’ve heard of more angry Gilgamesh fans than I have King of Thorn fans). Oh, and I also liked Fight Club and The Usual Suspects. I’m a sucker for a twist, basically.

Since I’ve never read the KOT manga, I don’t know anything about the subplots. I still say that, despite a slow start, the ending made it worth it for me. Can’t say fairer than that. :) Thank you very much for your comment!

By: LeftyinSpades

LeftyinSpades — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:35:38 +0000

Yeah, I liked the Trigun movie, but I was a little disappointed and was hoping for quite a bit more. Anyway…

My main reason for replying here though, is my shock at your appreciation of the King of Thorn movie. They took a 9/10 manga and jail raped it into a 4/10 movie. In my opinion the Live Action abortion that Hollywood made out of the Dragonball series was better then the King of Thorn movie adaptation. They removed countless, important, key plot elements and replaced them with BS and angst, and the CG which makes up around 40% of the movie looks like a horribad episode of reboot. They even went as far as to completely re-write the ending, negating everything from Vol 4 onwards. I won’t even get into what they did to Owen’s character, that was just f#cking stupid. I realize you can only do so much with a movie as your medium, but this was inexcusable.

It was nothing less than a total insult to both the creator and the fans when some tool of a director says “A surreal scene that makes you question the sanity of the characters? Screw that. What the audience wants is angst and fanservice!”, and then proceeds to dissect the remaining plot into something meaningless and incomprehensible. The guy who directed this killed no less than 4 subplots in the interest of giving Owen more time to swagger invincibly around like some military twat. Also, for something with a movie budget, that CG was inexcusable. The art itself was clean and solid, but half the scenes are replaced with that awful excuse for digital animation and usually for no reason other than they didn’t feel like drawing it.

I say, if you liked the original story, stay FAR away from the King of Thorn movie and if you like a good anime movie, stay even farther away from the King of Thorn Movie.

By: spamfromjapan

spamfromjapan — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:05:43 +0000

Almost certainly you’ll get to see it, depending on where you live. For those who aren’t in America (or Japan), it may take longer, but you’ll get it eventually. :) Good luck!

By: dimpan

dimpan — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:58:14 +0000

wow! this is cool, i never thought there will be a movie on this. i hope i can watch it too.

By: spamfromjapan

spamfromjapan — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:00:47 +0000

Although I’ve yet to write it up in my blog (so many posts to write, so little time!), if you’re looking for an anime movie, I recommend Ibara no Ou/King of Thorn. I saw it last night and it was fantastic.

I guess if you like Trigun though, the movie is worth it. I just wasn’t amazed like the above-mentioned film.

By: Billy W

Billy W — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:10:34 +0000

I used to watch this on Adult Swim back in the US… It was always Inuyasha, then Trigun. Or Inuyasha, then Cowboy Bebop.

Completely forgot about it, but it was a fun show to watch.