Vetamur -> RE: The Isoroku Yamamoto Movie-Seen! (1/4/2012 2:24:57 PM)
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I had started a thread on this earlier (its currently on page 2).. here is what I said of it (By the way LoBaron it was released Dec.23rd..) Hi guys... most of you dont know me. I was a one time player of WITP whose life just doesnt let him play anymore because I cant be around to do turns consistantly enough. Anyway.. Im an American but I live in Japan.. 16 years now. I see some had mentioned the movie on Isoroku Yamamoto that was released here on Dec.23rd and thought I would chime in on it. The CG is pretty good..not seamless, but good to maintain your suspension of disbelief. The scene covering the attack on Pearl Harbor is brief considering its significance, but looks better for my money than anything Ive seen before. Fans of this game will like the battle scenes, and like me lament they are too brief (and that is saying a lot because Im not an action movie junkie by any means). Some things disappointed me. Modern Japanese just cant keep an enormous amount of contrived sappiness out of their movies. The death scene of Yamamoto is over wrought, unrealistic and rather cheapens the movie. There are some easy lapses into stereotypes. Some things that never happened are put in.. rather large events. And some scenes that seem meant for the big screen ..never happen. Yamamoto threatening to resign his position if the Pearl Harbor raid isnt approved is an important character note, a dramatic moment.. a real life dramatic moment that a capable director would love to set.. Inexplicably, this never happens in the movie. I dont know if the movie will get released on some level outside of the country.. but it is a must see for fans of the game just for the historical accuracy and small hints of how things are on the Japanese home front. It is MILES AND MILES above the awful "Otokotachi no Yamato" movie from 5 years or so back.. (Men's Yamato...dont know what it got called in English..the movie about the battleship Yamato). That movie made me want to punch someone. I enjoy living in Japan for the most part..but the acting and script writing..and directing in movies since the 1980s is just..bad.
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