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Kamen Rider...

Thank goodness someone else stood up and defended Returner. I rented it just a day ago, and after watching it with some close friends(who completely judged it from its DVD cover and labeled it "gay"...), we now love it.

Returner is awesome. It seems as though I was taken back to being a little kid again and watching The Terminator for the first time. Returner really reminded me of the simpler, more fun, more overly dramatic stuff that has been lost in recent cinema.

I can tell the people that trash the movie are the same folks who think every movie nowadays has to be "ubercool". I pity them, and myself sometimes, because I know I get into that mode of thinking every now and again.

But Returner is just too loveable, too fun.

Ever see Hobgoblins? Until you see that "movie" you have no room to talk mister. I bought this movie and love it.

I finally got the dvd couple of days ago and it was worth the money. While not spectacular, the movie is still very enjoyable, and Kaneshiro's performance made it worth watching for me.

It does borrow a lot from other movies, but how many movies are original these days? I'm a big Matrix fax, but even the bullet time was first seen in Blade. Now who thought of it first is a completely different thing, but we can't know that can we?

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You should read my review on the movie then, it's on the review pages. The reason I mentioned Lost in Translation was because I rented it along with Returner, and I had high hopes for the film and thought Returner was gonna be a waste of time but thought I needed something to watch anyway.

It's funny you said "The characters aren't even likeabale at all, I dont understand how the audience are supposed to find their plight engaging in any sense" yet defend LiT, cause that movie is FAR worse when it comes to character development. The characters float there in space and never move on from point A to point B, and the hollow dialouge never evolves as well. And most of the film is just a bunch of random amaturish shots of certain places in Japan, giving the impression of abandonment in a foreign land of course but don't really make me feel any type of emotion for the characters.

It was more like "Hey, i'm a girl that just married this dude but i'm so lonely!" and "Hey, me too! I'm a washed up actor making liquor commercials in Japan"!.....and that's it. Great idea, poorly executed. I heard Sophia was a great director, but this really did NOT convince me one bit. Maybe i'll see the Virgin Suicides to see if it really is good, maybe it has REAL acting and a REAL script and story to follow.






"hmmm and the Matrix, Terminator and even Back to the Future are not sci-fi/action films? On top of that it was badly executed. Compared to the Matrix which built a whole universe and used sci-fi elements to deconstruct and construct a whole new world, comparing this piece of crap movie you'd have to be blind to not see which is better."

I guess I was too excited with I wrote the "(more SCI-FI-ish with Action blend)" part, cause I just recently watched the movie when I wrote it and I really enjoed it myself. But I still stand by everything else. It's a B movie with a big budget, pretty much. Of course if you compare the ORIGINAL Matrix to almost any other Sci-fi film, it's gonna beat out the competition. But I thought this film was enjoyable for what it was, big budget or not. I doesn't have to be COMPLETLELY original and absorbing to be enjoyable (unless that's what you expect, then films that you probably like are probably very limited to just stuff that came out last century).


And Terminator wasn't that great to begin with. It just has Ah-nold, the cool T-model robots and really cool catchy phrases, that's it. Everything else is just....nah.



"The fact that The Returner is actually one of the better Japanese movies to come out lately is just tragic. Outside of anime, Japanese movies are a waste of time. Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi are rolling in their graves for what these new japanese movie makers are doing. And please stop lumping the entire asian cinema with Japan. Hong Kong and Korea are doing very well with their movies and to lump their work with crap like "the Returner" is just insulting."


I guess you've never seen Kikujiro, Fireworks, and a bunch of other really interesting Japanese films (which are FAR superior films to that of Lost in Translation, they have the heart and loveable characters that film will never have). It's really funny you say all Japanese flicks are like Returner or Versus. It's like saying all American movies are like XxX and Stealth, lmao.

Anime isn't the only thing that's great in Japan, you know. And Chinese/Korean movies can be VERY cheap as well and have some great gems at the same time (with something like Beijing Bicycle and Crouching Tiger being awesome and stuff like Once Upon a Time in China and House of Flying Daggers being....bleh, crap). To me, if a movie with cheap and overused elements somehow makes the whole thing seem like a breath of fresh air, then that's a pretty big accomplishment. I seriously don't know about you, but the Returner did that for me and I liked it because of it.


Think you need to go out and see there's a big ol' world out there that's not full of sh!t movies. I recommend you check out the Fine Art films and Psychotic Thrillers.

Stuff like this reminds me of "Movie Poop Shoot.com" from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

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