A friend of mine told me about this around 6 months ago and I've only just gotten round to seeing it. I thought it sounded...idiotic, boring, ridiculous. It might be idiotic and/or ridiculous, but honestly, I should have figured out by now that everything Leiji Matsumoto has been involved with in the last 30 years has had a premise that just screamed "DOOMED." And it's been just about impossible not to love everything the man has done in 30 years.
I'd heard Daft Punk, of course, but never associated the music with the name. I'd seen and liked a lot of Matsumoto's stuff, but the two just...I didn't have the imagination to put the two together mentally.
This is an awesome movie. Visually and aurally, it is a thing of beauty, that rises above the occasional cheesiness in design, the occasional visual or narrative cliché, and the occasional track which would really not be terribly listenable on it's own. The synergy here is tremendous.
I'd heard Daft Punk, of course, but never associated the music with the name. I'd seen and liked a lot of Matsumoto's stuff, but the two just...I didn't have the imagination to put the two together mentally.
This is an awesome movie. Visually and aurally, it is a thing of beauty, that rises above the occasional cheesiness in design, the occasional visual or narrative cliché, and the occasional track which would really not be terribly listenable on it's own. The synergy here is tremendous.