These are opinions, not facts.....so take them for what they are.

[doc_drew]

Question posed by dolmadez, so I thought I'd post my response here. It's also a question I'll ask y'all:

What is overrated, in your opinion?

MY answers:

- baseball (What a dreadfully uncreative and boring little sport. I hate it when folks ask me if I'm a Red Sox or Yankees fan....I don't care, people

Comments

[emosauce]

Oh man... Akira. I hate how anime fans are all "omg Akira is teh bestest movie everrrr!!!!11111 if you don't like it you're not a real anime fan!!"

-_- It was a stupid movie.

[doc_drew]

I can understand if someone who's never seen anime before would be blown away by it. My friend Shannon (spoonroo), who's a bit of an anime veteran, claims that the other big anime fans he's met over the years don't like it all that much, either.

But than again, I'm not much of a fan of Japanese animation unless the name "Miyazaki" or "Kon" is somehow attached to it.

[ivanareason]

the harmonica is such a horrible instrument... i mean, i'm sure somebody, somewhere can play it well but i've heard so many songs by various artists that i would just love if only they'd left that piercing, cliched harmonica solo out.

[doc_drew]

There have been many harmonica solos I've enjoyed; on various Alanis Morrisette songs, on Weezer's "My Name is Jonas", Tom Petty's "You Don't Know How it Feels", to name a few. It can be done decently.

Bob Dylan: great song writer, bad harmonica player and singer. Plays guitar okay. That pretty much sums up my feelings towards him.

[regisjr]

I so agree with you on that list. As for Akira, I am still trying to understand that ending and what that girl had to do with the original Akira, they never reaveal the real facts.

[doc_drew]

Thank you! There are times when I'm at awe at the number of folks who sing that movie's praises. When will people learn that confusing doesn't necessarily equal depth? The characters in that movie are flat, period. And the violence and gore isn't as fun as in, say, a Quentin Tarantino flick.

Akira just leaves a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, by the end. Not fun.

[regisjr]

Only thing I really liked about that movie was the bike.... The rest was like WHAT IN THE HELL?! There so much they needed to answer and didn't. The violence and gore was just there for sickening reasons not plot.

[doc_drew]

I accept that I might not understand everything that is going on. Many anime directors leave this ambiguity in intentionally. Miyazaki, for example, doesn't explain everything that's going on in Spirited Away, and yet, you realize the world Chihiro is in has rules and boundaries all its own. However, for many, this ambiguity is seen as a source of frustration in following the plot (the guy I'm dating, Rashad, is one such person).

Akira, though...no. I heard the manga explains everything, but....the movie should be a good self-contained work by itself. Nausicaa is, and the movie only covers not even a quarter of the whole story.

[beraht]

Baseball is the most boring sport ever. EVER.

[comicsfan]

Took the words right out of my mouth.

[doc_drew]

Happily thirded.