Opinions: Memories and Metropolis

Just saw Metropolis and Memories on DVD, quite good.

I had actually seen Memories years ago in 1995 on VHS, didn't understand a word of it and loved it. It was nice seeing it subbed in English, but at least with Magnetic Rose you can derive the story almost entirely from the visuals. These kinds of 'anthology' films are nice, people that liked this will almost certainly enjoy Robot Carnival and Neo-Tokyo, though I can't think of many more like it.

In particular I liked the darker and more thought-provoking atmosphere of Magnetic Rose, is there anything else like this? The other two segments (Stink Bomb and Cannon Fodder) are perfectly good in their own right but are really overshadowed by the first one.

Metropolis is an example of superb execution of a completely plain and overused plot. The computer effects blends in seamlessly with the traditional animation, and is used to show the world of Metropolis in amazing detail, probably something that would have been difficult to draw out by hand. Along with the fitting music and interesting array of characters, it's a pretty solid flick despite the inane plot - given the background for when the film's concept was created, it probably would have been groundbreaking at the time.

The characters do look a little cartoony (to fit with Osamu Tezuka's style, but it makes it hard to take the villans seriously) however everything else is done to such perfection that you can overlook these minor flaws.

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I didn't get the ending though. Did Kenichi open up a shop to spend the rest of his days amongst the robots of Metropolis, but without Tima who is assumably dead? The shop sign mentions '& Tima' so is she still alive?

magnetic rose was overdone and slightly too pretentious

stink bomb was 100% pure entertainment, excellent and fun

some of the best time you will ever spend watching animated stories from japan..... stink bomb - memories ep 2

i didnt like metropolis.....

Stink bomb is awesome, but I liked Magnetic Rose too. But I didn't quite like the ending of Magnetic Rose where she begins singing, that felt a bit odd. The rest was very good, though.

Metropolis is a showcase for Shuichi Hirata. The man is God. :3

i liked magnetic rose, it was perhaps trite but not pretentious, that cannon fodder crap was pretentious.  stink bomb was quite entertaining.

yeah i wasn't thrilled with metropolis, apparently the original is good but i don't think i can deal with a silent film...

Oh yeah, I wanted to see those I think.

you think?
you dont even know what you want?
i reckon your one of these 40 year old fags that fingers his ass in the bath, wacks off over kids and often has the need to sexualy harass barnyard animals?
close was i?...... I think so!