Excellent Movie

[ALPHA]

If you don't like Anime...Ignore this

A really good war movie ...based in Russia.. Anime + CG ...You can tell it was made during the infancy of CG...as it is not prevalent through out...but the merge is clean....the story line excellent
The story encompasses how the Germans attempted to use the occult and how everyone else experimented with Psychic ability ...
The Moral to which I found is..........."it is the Pure Inner Spirit and Desire....that determines the outcome of a situation

Comes with the ability to watch in three languages...Russian Japanese w/eng sub ...and English 5.1 or 2.0

Watched it three times ...still don't think I've absorbed everything


ALPHA

[Scrub Tanker]

Havnt watched any anime in years, might have to give this a watch.

[ALPHA]

I was kind of skeptical at first....I didn't notice the company that released it in the auction I got it from...when it arrived found it was distributed by Manga...they are an ok company...but sometimes do editing before distribution....but there was no evidence of it on this story...the Russian dialog was actually very well done...not cheesy like some anime I've seen...Even the english was not bad

The story and artistry were the gems....

ALPHA

[43rdRecceReg]

Never really explored the Anime and Manga genres..yet, but have a couple of anime films on Blu-ray. I can recommend this 1959 german take on the war though. As a kid, I thought the war must have been fought in monochrome, in a sense, just like the Great War. I was actually shocked the first time i saw colour pictures of the carnage. Thus this film recalls and cements that 'black and white' perception for me.. The movie is in German, with English subtitles, and deals with the 'futility' of war, I suppose; but the unknown actors give credible performances at a time when memories of the war were still
open wounds...

[ALPHA]

Is it this 43?

Spoiler: show

ALPHA

[43rdRecceReg]

Ja, das stimmt, Herr Alpha!.".Und nun, zu etwas völlig unterschiedlich/ anderem" (Monty von Python)....Maybe not. A few of my favourite war films:- 'The Red badge of courage' (1951, Audie Murphy is surprisingly good); Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory' (1957, with Kirk Douglas acting his jodhpurs off); 'All quiet on the Western Front' (Lew Ayres version, 1930); 'The Thin red Line' (1998); 'A matter of Life and Death' (Powell and Pressburger, starring David Niven..with hallucinatory dream/coma sequences); 'Cross of iron' (1977, with James Coburn at his best, and with a frenzied Maximilian Schell looking for an eponymous iron cross), and finally,'Ice Cold in Alex' (1958, With John Mills as the boozy burnt-out Captain Anson)...Just a few gems

[jarndice]

I have little affection for "War" films, but there are two I can watch repeatedly and never be bored, "The Cruel Sea" Not a Tank to be seen, indeed not much in the way of fighting ships with two exceptions, but a top notch cast who brought home the price of war even when viewed from the winning side and "Das Boot" the same sense of futility from the opposite side,
Highly recommended.
shaun.

[43rdRecceReg]

Yep, Mr J., I never tire of those two titles as well. I love Stanley Baker's insistence on eating all the breakfast 'snorkers' before the other officers can get a whiff of them, and the scarcely concealed joy in the wardroom, when Stan develops an ulcer. Stanley Baker was also brilliant in 'Zulu'. I agree that 'Das Boot' is top notch. A triumph, in fact.The special effects have not 'aged' one jot with the passage of time; unlike Ray Harryhausen's much vaunted (but crappy) paper mache jerky monsters, and mythical figures. It also amuses me to see how the the subtitles soften the lewd and vulgar 'Schimpfworte" of the crew... (How 'Scheisser becomes 'Oh, damn" etc..,and 'Hau ab/ Fuck off becomes 'go away'!)