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I lost my respect for Oshii after seeing The Sky Crawlers...

Should be renamed "Final Fantasy: Whatever".

To be honest this looks like the kind of action film a ten year old would dream up. To a kid the idea of girls with lots of guns and wings fighting giant worm monsters sounds cool. Even I'll admit the idea sounds cool. But having a cool sounding idea does not make a good movie. We'll have to wait until it comes out to find out for sure.

What can say ... I'm in.

I'm pleased that the trailer already incorporates 3 out of the 10 elements of the perfect film:

1. Divine Warrior Angels
2. Megabeasts (or giant robots)
3. Hot Asians

The elements of film perfection that seem to be missing include (but are not yet limited to):

4. A Man on Fire
5. Nudity (of any kind)
6. Mauling by vicious animals
7. A calm villain
8. A least one chilling musical cue
9. An ancient (albeit badass) weapon (sword, nuke, whatever)
10. A plan so crazy it just might work.

As you likely have guessed "Conan: The Barbarian" has been the only movie to score 10/10 on this scale. But I have high hopes for "Assault Girls."

@ Mitch

This movie also lacks the critical 11th element of cinematic perfection, the Nth element if you will.
It needs Pig Rodeo....PIGU LODEO!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, here come the Japanese trying to take some cues from biblical mythology. That's always good for a laugh.

Something like this might work for Anime, of course the women would have HUGE boobs and be wearing almost nothing.
What works for Anime, does NOT translate well to a live
action film.

What the hell is wrong with Japanese people?

@Bubba

Also, if this was an anime, the sandworms would have some very naughty tentacles, indeed.

GITS2: INNOCENCE was not "hilariously boring." Though your glib, middle-brow assessment is "hilariously presumptuous."

dacalicious — I must be mistaken, then. Which movie is the one where Batou and Togusa do nothing but quote Milton at each other for two hours?

I wouldn't be surprised if the movie itself consisted of exactly three minutes of action sequences, followed by 90+ minutes of questioning humanity's role on earth, the balance of nature, quotes you'd never hear outside of a college philosophy course, almost too-subtle criticisms of the entertainment industry, and musings on the military-industrial complex... with a basset hound thrown in for good measure.

To Mooseberry:
I gotta agree with you regarding "The Sky Crawlers". That film made my wonder two things:

1) If most of the praise was done out of sympathy, simply because he directed Ghost In The Shell.

2) Mamoru Oshii's arch-enemy must be "fun", because he tries to find every possible way to siphon it out of everything he's ever worked out (some examples include the-aforementioned GiTS & Innocence, Patlabor 1 & 2 and The Sky Crawlers).

Looks better than GI Joe and Transformers 2 combined!

Rob (who ALWAYS entertains me): Y'got sumfin agin Milton then, does ye?

What's with all the hate for Oshii? His stuff is gold compared to all the garbage this site covers and phrases.

@bubba:

Wait, it's live-action?

Have I become so bad at being able to tell CGI from live action ( or, vice-versa, have CGI become so good ) that I just assumed this was a CGI film ala Advent Children when it's not?

Hot Asian girls+ huge guns+ explosions+ sexy sci-fi/cyperpunk getup+ giant sandworms+ Oshii in the directors helm....count me in!

that does indeed make me cry for a *real* Final Fantasy movie...

The movie looks kind of bad, but that has to be the cutest Lucifer ever!

WTF, did Lucifer just flip us the chin? Fuggedaboutit.