So that’s why the PS4 version has even worse timing than the PS version. Might also be digital delay, but emulator’s going to mess with it too since the game is so goddamn picky about hitting the right frame.

I think you are having a disconnection with how the film is trying to present things. The film is not about connecting with the children. It’s okay to feel a dissociation with them, in fact the film might even be trying to create that in certain people as it reflects how American’s had to view the situation in order…

You’re not a monster, just someone who makes wrong takes and uses shitty sources to justify them.

I like the movie and was emotionally effected by it but I see what you’re saying entirely. You could sub in another set of kids entirely, one an outgoing school and athlete and the other a ditzy daydreamer and the result would be the same.

If you think the scenes in GotFF doesn’t involve character development, I think you’re completely incapable of recognizing it if it hit you square in the face.

You don’t need character development or ‘good characters’ (not sure what that is suppose to imply) to say something is a good movie.

“Interestingly, this poster shows the b-29 while it’s at the bottom of my screen, but it gradually disappears as I scroll down, till it’s almost completely blacked-out at the top of the screen.”

Wouldn’t making those kids exceptional or special in any way kind of negate the point of the film? I think it was purposeful that they made them serve more as the ‘every child’ than some heroes or exceptional children that could imply that their death was, somehow, more tragic than all the other lost lives?

I think…

You must not be familiar with the concept of the Intentional Fallacy.

They definitely have personalities, the main character has a bad personality that gets him and his sister killed and in real life the author hated himself for letting his sister die.

Ugh, can you please take your head off your arse. Yeah, we get it. You have a different opinion and you want to show others online that you have what might be considered a different opinion than what is the general consensus. Since we can’t wait to hear what else you have an opinion on, why don’t you do us a favor and…

I’d counter that with saying that you are conflating “good storytelling” with “nuanced storytelling” when they aren’t necessarily the same thing. You can tell a story using very broad archetypes, for instance “Knight rescues Princess from Dragon” without embellishing it in any significant way and it can work totally…

Or, you could look at the actual historical figures that are responsible and reflect on the nature of fascism/authoritarianism, ideas about who wages and who actually fights wars, and the collateral damage done to civilians in the name of jingoism.

Naw, I’m fine, I already found _two_ villains in this very thread. Not very compelling, though :-/

You quoted the review of a person, which stated,

> It says something about you that you apparently don’t need character development or good characters to say something is a good movie.

I think Seita and Setsuko aren’t special because they weren’t made to be special. They are two among a million orphans in the same exact situation, and that’s the whole message, for me. The beginning of the movie even shows Seita among a number of other kids just like him on the train station.

Trump would just call the kids losers, applaud how the kids refused to participate in State handouts, and say the kids just should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.

Gamers can’t figure out that life isn’t a fucking game. Hope they see some serious jail time.

So a guy is now dead over half the price of a small coffee and the people actually responsible are all washing their hands of it because they don’t understand how consequences work?