Oh yeah

[marlowe1]

One of the cool things about Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is how much it rips off American genre movies (detective, westerns - hell there's even a scene where High Noon is playing in the movie theatre) and treats them with more respect than American filmmakers would. It's like a negative image of The Last Samurai where anyone familiar with Akira Kurosawa movies must be think "ok this is cool, but where's that one drunk samurai. What the fuck is a Samurai movie doing without that token comic relief drunk? And how the hell is Sergio Leone going to steal the plot and make it into a cowboy movie?"

Comments

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

I dunno about cowboy bebop - the movie. It was pretty good, but, for my money, I'd rather just watch any four episodes back to back.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should see the show itself as well. I don't watch a lot of anime just because much of the anime that my friends recommend to me is pretty damn awful.

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

Good lord, man. See the show at the first possible opportunity. I used to have them all burned on CD, but i have no idea where most of them are anymore. Cowboy Bebop is about the only anime I think it's okay to watch with english voice overs. They did a damn good job with the translations and voice talent.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

It's sad. I'm even watching this DVD in the Japanese with the subtitles because I just find Japanese the ultimate language if you want to sound either very cute or very annoyed.