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Oh. My. God. [Feb. 27th, 2008|06:09 pm]
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Last night they played X the movie on the scifi channel. 

It was so horrible it was awesome. 

Like...watching a train wreck. In slow motion.

And I watched the whole thing in it's horribly dubbed, badly censored, poorly edited glory. I think I may have died alittle inside.

I-I couldn't look away...The dub is absolutely the worst thing EVAR. (Well, Arashi's was pretty good, but that was the only one.) And scifi was soo stupid with the commercial-cuts. (right in the middle of a scene? I mean, come on.)  

I don't think too highly of the movie to begin with, (i've seen it before) because it tries to cram a whole lot of story into 97 minutes. The pacing is really bad, and if you don't have at least rudimentary knowledge of the manga, you're totally lost within the first five minutes. It isn't successful as a movie if you have to do your research before watching the damn thing. A movie is something you should be able to go into blind (so to speak) and still be able to follow the story. With the X movie, you can't. That said, it could have been some really cool symbolic surrealistic movie, but it fell flat. Very flat. And no, I'm not just biased against it 'cause Seishirou and Subaru died within the first five minutes BUT THAT CERTAINLY DOESN'T HELP MATTERS ANY. Generally you, as the audience, are supposed to feel empathy toward the characters, but again, I only felt a twinge when they all died because I know them from the manga. (Which, incidently, is the only canon I accept. Meaning, X has no ending yet. and possibly never will if CLAMP doesn't get off their collective ass finish it.) One thing I can't stand is a movie having so much potential to be awesome and it just...doesn't happen.  And I was willing to watch it again, despite all that, so what does that say about me? *sigh*


But at least the animation is pretty?



Well, the movie's still better than the TV series.

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[User Picture]From: [info]mistressnashya
2008-02-28 04:36 am (UTC)

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*echoes your comments*

;;_______________;; BUT latest volume of Tsubasa totally has some X stuff going on in it now and KAMUI is just so damn emo-sextastic XD! When they get back to X it's gonna look DAMN sexy XD!
[User Picture]From: [info]dusky_rue
2008-02-29 06:46 pm (UTC)

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It just... upsets me when animated adaptations don't do the manga justice. Or any film version doesn't do the original book/comic/tv series justice because a lot of people will judge something based on the movie. D:

Haha yeah. I remember reading the Tsubasa scans waaaay back when and being all excited when Kamui and company showed up ♥♥♥

I haven't been following TRC for a while but lately I've been thinking about jumping in again.
[User Picture]From: [info]inque_splotch
2008-02-28 05:16 am (UTC)

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God, I remember back in the day that being like the coolest movie EVER!!!

Now the only thing remotely cool is when Kamui(spelling? I don't know and too lazy to look it up) falls down across the Coca-Cola billboard. THATS THE ONLY THING!!! and it isn't really that cool. Wow, that is just sad.
[User Picture]From: [info]dusky_rue
2008-02-29 06:50 pm (UTC)

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But! At least the animation is pretty?

And the character designs in the movie > the character designs from the tv series. :\
[User Picture]From: [info]inque_splotch
2008-02-29 08:31 pm (UTC)

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I haven't seen that movie in years that I really don't remember the animation, but I'm sure it's pretty.

Also I have never seen the TV series. IN fact I didn't even know there was one!

We should start a petition to get CLAMP to finish X/1999.
[User Picture]From: [info]dusky_rue
2008-03-01 09:28 pm (UTC)

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We should start a petition to get CLAMP to finish X/1999.

Agreed. *shakes fist in Japan's general direction*