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1 rittoru no namida (2005)
Nice but the TV series is way better.
Contrary to what at least one person has said here, I think the TV series is way better than the movie. And this is also supported by the higher ratings the TV series has against this one (8.7, comprising of 2.5k evaluators against a score of 7.8 and 1.3k evaluators). The acting is better, the story and the script, the drama, the soundtrack... Basically everything is better, more detailed, poetic and dramatic. Don't know if the movie is indeed more faithful to the true story or not but who cares? Who said it has to be? It is not a documentary and arts doesn't have to be faithful to reality. The point is that the TV series delivers a way more powerful/ impactful message than the movie. If it was possible I would rate this movie 6.5 instead of 7 but 6 I think is not fair so I rated it 7.
Puzzle (2018)
Wow! Just wow! Is this really a Hollywood-made movie? I wish there were more!
This movie is way better than this mediocre score it's got here. When I saw the trailer it looked a little bit boring but things made me to give it a try. First is that I read many comments here stating how good it was and second, when I was a teenager I used to do a lot of puzzles with my family, puzzles with many many pieces, like hundreds and thousands so I saved it on my "watch list" but it took me some time to finally watch it. My only regret is for not having watched it before. Nowadays unfortunately there are extremely few western movies like that. This isn't not just a movie about a woman getting into a hobby and going into puzzle competition, it's way more profound than that. You will have to watch it to find out. But if you are the kind of person who is not able to enjoy anything other than super hero movies or cars getting crashed/ exploded every few minutes or some jumps due to scary scenes like the majority of the low IQ people then you won't be able to enjoy/ appreciate/ understand this movie. It's such a shame that Hollywood doesn't make more movies like that nowadays but I can't blame moviemakers after all it is not their fault. If there is no demand and majority of humans are not able to appreciate true arts then why waste money on something that will not give financial return to them? Only debts. Sadly that's the reality of the world that we live nowadays. TIP: If you like movies like this then you should be watching Japanese movies.
Gantz (2004)
The three movies are way better than this anime series with annoying characters..
The characters of the series are so annoying that doesn't really make us to root/ sympathize with them apart from the main character Kurono Kei. They have a really annoying attitude of just watching or doing nothing but being like a sissy scared sheep. When they are fighting they also often stop to chit-chat to listen the enemies and as a result they get killed for their stupidity. The three movies (Gantz; Gantz: Perfect Answer and Gantz: O) are way better than this series. I watched the movies first then since I liked all (gave scores of 7-8 to them), I was thinking that I would enjoy the series also, only to find out that I was unfortunately wrong.