It was if someone watched Gurren Lagann and decided to ape it without understanding the show, which is absolutely fucking baffling given the creators. What even was this plot? It feels like they had specific scenes and frames in mind and tried to shape the plot around it to draw those out without rhyme nor reason.
The fights were manic, the colors were gorgeous (at first, it became obnoxious later on), the music pretty good. If you like watching characters stand around and give plot exposition (because fuck actually writing), then this movie's for you.
Self plagiarism is a real thing. And Imaishi has basically been trying to remake Gunbuster with everything he's directed since TTGL.
Samuel Torres
I still haven't watched it anons.
Jason Cruz
It's definitely not awful like the OP says, it just doesn't have a good story. It's fun enough to be worth 2 hours of your time, but if it was a 24 episode series with the same writing I would tell you to skip it.
Bentley Perry
Yeah, the cartoon about an angel saying fuck getting horny was almost exactly like Gunbuster.
Grayson Anderson
Panty and Stocking is the one exception. For some reason I thought it came before TTGL.
Thomas Parker
>It was if someone watched Gurren Lagann and decided to ape it without understanding the show How?
Kevin Baker
You'd be surprised how many authors don't seem to understand what made their work work in the first place
Nicholas Carter
It felt like several hard headed idiots trying to force their will upon the story without the relevance of spiral power or the character of Kaimina's false bravado and Simone's inner strength.
Ian Thompson
>It's definitely not awful like the OP says It's fucking boring. It doesn't bring anything new or interesting in terms of storytelling or direction. We literally have characters stand and give several minutes worth of exposition over and over again because they don't know how to tell a story.
Chase Clark
sex with lio
Leo Miller
>this was awful. Yeah, I also think they used too much CG and almost none of the traditional Sakuga.
Logan Gomez
I think their use of computer graphics was really well done, it was just extraneous and was ever present, to the point where nothing stood out.
Leo James
Haven't watched it either and don't plan to. I find it funny how Yas Forums used to go mad over this when it had just been released in Japan and all they had were vague spoilers and tonnes of fanart.
Isaac Martin
BNA > Promare
Carter Bailey
It's the one thing Gunbuster was missing, horny profane angles.
Levi Mitchell
Copying shit can only result in shit, user.
Hunter Cook
Sadly I also found the film difficult to finish. Didn't have any interesting point, mystery, or playfulness in script. The action was filled with neat ideas, but no characters to make my heart beat.. it feels like they got money to make a movie based on something of zero substance, but forgot to add anything to remedy that. But most everyone makes a clunker now and then.
Robert Smith
It's a genuinely fun watch, ignore OP
Logan Thomas
>Holy shit this was awful. Nah, it was great. >It was if someone watched Gurren Lagann and decided to ape it without understanding the show, which is absolutely fucking baffling given the creators. Promare has little to do with TTGL beyond superficial nods. >What even was this plot? It feels like they had specific scenes and frames in mind and tried to shape the plot around it to draw those out without rhyme nor reason. What didn't you understand? >If you like watching characters stand around and give plot exposition (because fuck actually writing), then this movie's for you. This isn't the Kaijuu no Kodomo thread.
Benjamin Bennett
>They didn't even try Preposterous. Imaishi himself stated that it was the hardest thing he directed.
Bentley Fisher
>Imaishi has basically been trying to remake Gunbuster with everything he's directed since TTGL. Gunbuster is only one of the many, many influences on TTGL. Not to mention that Gunbuster itself had no original bone in its body and was a mish up of a bunch of stuff Anno liked, starting from the "Gainax" pose. And after TTGL he never even tried again that kind of storyline, with the wimpy underdog protagonist who mans up after the death of a companion, so I don't see what you're on about.
Oliver Stewart
>It's fun enough to be worth 2 hours of your time No it isn't. It's mind numbingly boring. And that says a lot, given how its centered around poorly choreographed action sequences. This flick practicially oozes artificial climaxes, which should have a detrimental impact on the audience's ability to enjoy. The animation has stand-out sequences, but isn't worth writing home about, either.
Colton Morris
>It's mind numbingly boring. There isn't a single boring moment in the movie. >And that says a lot, given how its centered around poorly choreographed action sequences. Promare has the best Imaishi action storyboarding to date. It isn't even close really. >This flick practicially oozes artificial climaxes >artificial climaxes Really trying too hard.
Hudson Young
It was okay but probably Imaishi's worst work.
Liam Bell
Because half of Yas Forums are women who enjoyed it for what it was: Fanservice, colors and fun action. The other half are the men catching up later expecting a masterpiece and being dissapointed that it wasn't. Not enough waifu fanservice either, further keeping them from enjoying it.
Ethan Myers
>Really trying too hard. Call it whatever you want but Promare is virtually over flowing from poorly setup scenes, presented as if they were some sort of climax just to then go like >haha, nvm files.catbox.moe/arucho.webm
Eli Thomas
I was really bored with it, it's probably the weakest thing Trigger has done. I might've even like Kiznaiver more.
William Kelly
I'm with you on this. Individually there are a lot of well animated and well presented scenes, but when put together as whole sequence, it just lacks that certain excitement that say, TTGL movies had.
Ethan Ramirez
Is that really supposed to be your example? Nothing in that scene is presented as a climax, there isn't even any build up in the music. It's just a little burst of action to keep the flow going as it leads into the next scene. The actual climaxes of the movie are so massive and distinctive that you really have to be in bad faith to make this dumbass argument.
What premise? "Humans fight wars because people can't connect emotionally, so for world peace let's take these teenagers and connect their pain receptors"? It's fucking shit.
Jason Hill
Always hilarious when Triggerniggers try to accuse anyone else as "Yas Forumsermin". No self-awareness whatsoever.
Mason Nelson
Based
Kevin Long
>no argument >doesn't even dare to quote the post I accept your concession. Make sure to have at least a tenuous grasp on the subject you want to discuss next time.
>trignig calling anybody Yas Forumsermin Straight retarded and dishonest
Mason Evans
>concession Nobody concedes while arguing with Triggernigger. They merely realize that your lot isn't intelligent enough to have a worthwhile conversation with. If you unironically think what the guy is referring to is the use of 纏, then I'd suggest to have your brain checked.
Zachary Barnes
>no argument Looks like I win again. You lack the mental capacity for actual discussion. Once your shitpost gets blown the fuck out, you resort to as hominem to avoid the embarrassment. "The guy" (you or your Discord tranny pal) tried to argue about the aesthetic of the movie being videogame inspired, when it's actually entirely built around the connection between Edo period sculpture and painting and 20th century american minimalism. The aesthetic principles of the Matoi are osmotically consistent through the whole art direction. Try actually reading the link I posted and educating yourself, Yas Forumsermin.
>Imaishi himself stated that it was the hardest thing he directed. This might have something to do with the lackluster plot that (didn't) drive the story. I also remember some interview where he said they had to scratch so and so many great action sequences for the sake of pacing or whatever. It all points to the same problem: they refused to tell a story first and foremost, and instead just "wanted to have fun". You know. Girls just... of fucking course it would be a nightmare to piece this shit together (aka directing this bitch) if there's no plot that determines how things should be weighted and paced. My "they didn't even try" applies to this problem of refusing to plot exclusively, and that's also where their self-deprecating, self-aware "humor" came into play. And that fucking sucked. And that's why they failed to come up with a good movie. It was written like ass, resulting in all the lovely sakuga going to waste because it lacked impact, or how you faggots like to say: it lacked soul.
Jaxon Rivera
If anything Promare is pretty much the second half of Gurren Lagann but way less shitty.
Daniel Williams
The most I know about Promare is that my older sister has one of those ugly fujo purses, where you decorate it yourself, filled with the two main characters making out. Aside from gay guys, is there anything of merit to the film?
That's called an itabag, and your sister seems pretty cool actually, be grateful. At the very least the movie looks good, has good music and is just the kind of thing you watch to have fun and if you don't want to think too hard.
Isaiah Butler
>Trigger anime >is there anything of merit to the film Heh. Good one.
Oliver Carter
>my older sister has one of those ugly fujo purses, where you decorate it yourself, filled with the two main characters making out. Sometimes a man's burning soul is communicated with his fists. Sometimes with his lips.
Aaron Gray
I literally just finished watching it. Was alright.It knew what it wanted to be and carried that to the best of it's ability. Only slights I have against it currently: Kray's motivation, did he do all that shit just because of a god complex? And two, the chief needed more on-screen action.
Parker Phillips
>your sister seems pretty cool actually, be grateful. She's 34 years old, 250lbs, and owns an itabag. She's also prone to loud squealing in public if she sees her "baes". I'm not grateful for that.
How would you compare to Redline? While there were some plot issues, everything else more than made up for it.
I mean the first half of Kill la Kill was decent.
Are they legit gay or is it just ship faggotry?
Tyler White
>Kray's motivation, did he do all that shit just because of a god complex? It was his Burnish desire, that after being suppressed for years, grew to the point of subconsciously making him want to burn down the entire planet.
Anthony Sullivan
>Are they legit gay or is it just ship faggotry? Ship faggotry, but there is a CPR scene. There's zero actual sexual tension in the movie.
Brandon Cox
Ok nevermind then. I'm too used to normal well-adjusted fujoshi. I never watched Redline so I can't make that comparison, sorry.
Ryan Smith
They understood it fine, it's not like Gurren Lagann was good to begin with.
