I also recommend the manga more than the movie, as it is a more detailed and complete story.

I read the manga and watched it multiple times and I am still not sure what anyone was trying to say with the movie other then “Look at all the cool shit we can draw”

This was my first Anime back when originally released on VHS in the UK. I was spoilt. After that other Anime felt flat and lifeless, I still haven’t made it all the way through ghost in the shell SAC for example.

Actually there *was* a pandemic in Akira, although it wasn’t the major problem going on — it was just in the background as a dystopian feature — one panel in the original comic (not in the film) shows a protestor holding a sign complaining about the poor treatment of “the pandemic” by WHO.

society’s repugnant tendency to value money over human lives

All of that. My biggest beef with Returns is that it feels like a late stage Burton movie. Stuff like Charlie and Alice that are just incredibly self indulgent to the point of putting style over substance.

I just remember loving that Val Kilmer actually looked like he could be Batman. He didn’t have a Ben Affleck physique but he looked way more physically imposing than Michael Keaton. His Bruce Wayne was much more comic book accurate too.

I hated Returns too! I don’t even know why exactly. It just didn’t work for me for some reason. I know other people love it though.

Oh, I can’t even force myself to sit through Batman & Robin, but Forever is underrated. I can’t stand Batman Returns either though, so he’s pretty much neck and neck with Tim Burton in my eyes.

I loved Forever and loathed Robin, so his tenure pretty much equals out to “it was fine” to me lol

Fuck the haters. Batman Forever is awesome (#ReleaseTheSchumacherCut). And Joel Schumacher in general always seemed like a pretty kind man.

Good old USA. Still creeping up on the 21st Century by degrees.

I’m in the UK, I’m being bombarded by Barclays ads, they are making revenue from us ‘foreigners’. Celsius should be implemented.

Celsius makes far more sense. Nought is freezing, a hundred is boiling. Even without knowing all the way markers inbetween, in Celsius it is easy to understand where a temperature falls on that scale. Does any other country on earth apart from America even use Fahrenheit on a regular basis anymore? Everywhere I’ve…

Can we just stop using Fahrenheit, please. It is unscientific, and it is obsolete. Celsius is so much better.

Yeah, I still can’t really get a grasp of Fahrenheit despite most of my news coming from America-based blogs. I need to convert it myself every time.

The metric system is entirely reasonable but you can pry farenheit out of my cold, 32 degrees farenheit dead hands.

Zero degrees very cold, one hundred degrees very hot. It’s a very simple system.

Yeah, I guess Dern in Silent Running could be considered more than a “blue collar” worker. Yet even though he was USAF, his actual “work” did seem to fall under that umbrella.

The only thing I didn't like about Trent was that he never had a conversation with Tiffany. That would have been amazing. And if it happened when Trent was in a particularly lazy mood, it would have lasted the entire episode.

Why did everyone on San Angeles sound like they were on Thorazine?